Denia Garcia
Credentials: Assistant Professor
Email: dgarcia28@wisc.edu
Address:
307 Observatory Hill Office Building
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1211
About
Denia Garcia is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs.
Garcia’s work examines the role of space and organizations in shaping how inequalities are experienced and reproduced. She is writing a book about community and belonging in a diverse neighborhood based on in-depth fieldwork in a Chicago neighborhood.
Garcia also studies participatory budgeting, racial classification, and skin color in the United States and Latin America using quantitative and qualitative methods. The National Science Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy have supported her work.
Curriculum vitae (pdf) Pronouns: she/her
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Education
- Ph.D., Princeton University, Sociology
- M.A., Princeton University, Sociology
- BA, Northwestern University, Sociology, Psychology
Courses
Public affairs courses taught by Denia Garcia:
PA 200 Contemporary Public Policy Issues
PA 520 Inequality, Race and Public Policy
PA 974 Nonprofit Leadership and Management