Marco Durazo

Dr. Durazo teaches Latinos Politics, Social Movements, Research Methods, the department’s non-profit seminar, and policy courses on drugs, community policing and immigration enforcement. He has been featured in local and national media, providing analysis on Latino voting behavior, immigrant rights, and the impact of executive actions on immigrant communities. These outlets include KTVU, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, NBC/Telemundo.

His expertise in Latino voting, immigrant rights, and civic and political engagement has enabled him to build deep-rooted partnerships with nonprofit organizations, elected officials, academics, and grassroots leaders across California.

His book manuscript: 'The Few, The Proud, The Deported: Race, Military Service, and the Politics of Immigration Enforcement’ is under review.

Dr. Durazo holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA, with graduate training at MIT and Harvard, and an undergraduate degree in Politics from UCLA. He loves teaching and mentoring future leaders, lawyers, professors and change makers.

• Immigration enforcement

• Race
• Immigration
• Military
• War
• U.S. Foreign Policy

• Distinguished Teaching Award Committee (2025-26)

• UCLA, PhD in Political Science, 2024

• Lecturer, UCLA, in Political Science and Chicano Studies

• Latinx Faculty Member of the Year Award (2022)

• ''The Young Lords: Revolution, Feminism, and the Pursuit of Emancipatory Politics.' Review. Journal of International Feminist Politics (2022).
• ‘Latinos, Youth, and Military Service.’ In the Encyclopedia of Military Science (2014).