Angie M. Bautista-Chavez

Welcome! I am the Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, I am part of the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and serve on the board of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.

In my book project, Exporting Borders, I explain how the U.S. externalization regime and the Mexican containment regime are mutually constituted and how the bureaucracy drove the latest U.S. imperial intrusion into Mexico. In my Immigration Bureaucracy Lab, we are building an archive to reconstruct the formation and rise of the post-9/11 U.S. homeland security bureaucracy.

Learn more about my research on (I) bureaucracy, borders, and migration; (II) Latinos, organizations, and collective action; (III) power-sharing methodologies; and (IV) policy briefs on DACA, TPS, and conservative base-building.

• Read: “Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State.”
• Read: “The Power-Enhancing and Power-Diminishing Effects of Digital Technologies: Marginalized People and US Racial Authoritarianism“

Through the Latinx Organizational Archives (LXOA) Project, our community-academia research collective is mapping the Latino organizational landscape in action amid exclusionary and repressive environments across the United States. Learn more about power-sharing methodologies in political science.

• Read: “Community-Based Leaders and Civically Engaged Research: Lessons from the Remaking of the Latinx Organizational Archives Project” with Dulce Juarez, Andrea Whiting, and Victoria Villalba

I teach research-intensive courses on the politics of migration and the expansion of borders. My APD courses on Latinos and the American political landscape revisit APD’s central questions through the experiences of Latinos.

I come from a family of women from San Luis Potosí. With fundraising, guidance, and support from educators and members of the Lockhart, Texas, community, I was able to attend Rice University as a first-generation college student. I graduated from Lockhart High School in 2009, earned my BA from Rice University in 2013, earned my PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2020, and served as an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University from 2021 to 2024.