Meet the Faculty
Fernando Guerra, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies and Director of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Fernando J. Guerra, professor of political science and chicana/o latina/o studies, is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at LMU. His area of scholarly work is in local governance, urban politics, and racial and ethnic politics. Dr. Guerra has been a principal investigator in over 20 major studies on Los Angeles, leadership studies and electoral politics. Dr. Guerra has served on standing commissions, blue ribbon committees, and ad hoc task forces for the City of Los Angeles, the State of California, and regional bodies in Southern California. He is a source for the media at the local, national, and international level and has been cited and interviewed by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, KCAL9, KCBS, PBS News Hour, KPCC Radio, La Opinión, The San Jose Mercury News, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Business Week, The Economist, The Guardian and other media outlets in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.