Mauricio Benítez
Assistant Professor of Political Science

Licenciatura, El Colegio de México; M.A. University of California, San Diego; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Professor Benítez specializes in comparative politics, with emphasis on public policy, territorial politics, political parties, and research methods. His specific area of substantive expertise is the politics of Latin America, particularly Mexico. Professor Benítez holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Chapman in 2009, he was a Visiting Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.