Dr. Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto is a fellow at the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Aff airs at the University of Texas. Her research on political behavior has been widely published in scholarly journals and cited in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Time, and POLITICO. Soto’s research analyzes how social identities shape political behavior. She is currently working a book that looks at the integration of Latinos in the American polity.