Job title:
Assistant Professor of History
Department:
Department of History
Bio/CV:
Jaime Sánchez, Jr. is a political historian of the modern United States with a focus on the intersection of identity and democracy. His published and ongoing research explores a variety of topics such as the presidency, political parties, social movements, Latino politics, and the political representation of marginalized groups. Sánchez is currently working on a book-length history of identity politics in the United States, revealing how identity-based political appeals have come to dominate American presidential and party politics over the course of the twentieth century.
Sánchez teaches courses on the history of voting rights, race and politics, and presidential elections in addition to a broader survey of U.S. history after World War II. He is also the faculty lead for the American Political History Seminar (APHS) sponsored by IGS, which brings political historians to present their research on campus. Prior to Berkeley, Sánchez held a three-year appointment at the Harvard Society of Fellows and earned his PhD in American History from Princeton University.
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