Andrea Lara-Garcia

My dissertation project combines ethnographic, historical, and theoretical approaches to examine how real property ownership shapes the political landscape of the Arizona and Texas borderlands.

My undergraduate research at the University of Arizona examined housing inequality in Tucson’s manufactured housing communities and historically Mexican neighborhoods, especially through the mechanism of the tax lien. After graduation, I worked for a year as a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, contributing to research on the growth of political violence, police politicization, and far-right movements in the United States. My research has been supported by the Arizona Historical Society, Bancroft Library, Society of Woman Geographers, and several UC Berkeley fellowships.