Jaime Dominguez

Jaime Dominguez serves as Associate Professor of Instruction in Northwestern University's Department of Political Science, affiliated with both the American Politics Workshop and Latino/a Studies Program while directing the WCAS Posner Undergraduate Research Program.

His academic credentials include:

• B.S. from University of California, San Diego (1991)
• Ph.D. from University of Illinois-Chicago (2007)

Professor Dominguez specializes in Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Urban Politics, and Latino Politics with concentrated expertise in Chicago governance. His foundational work as principal architect of the thirty-year Chicago Democracy Project (1975-2005) established a critical database measuring municipal policy outcomes, while his fellowship at UC Berkeley's Building Resilient Regions Immigration Consortium advances comparative analysis of immigrant integration frameworks.

His scholarly output reveals consistent focus on Latino political engagement in urban Midwest contexts, particularly examining electoral behavior in Illinois and immigrant incorporation strategies across Chicago's metro area. This research trajectory highlights evolving dynamics of ethnic political participation within metropolitan governance structures.

Through the WCAS Posner Undergraduate Research Program, Professor Dominguez mentors emerging political scientists while maintaining active research leadership. His media commentary for NPR, PBS, and Huffington Post demonstrates public engagement with contemporary political issues.

He directs the Chicago Democracy Project, a longitudinal initiative providing empirical infrastructure for analyzing five decades of urban political evolution in America's third-largest city.