Loren Collingwood

Dr. Loren Collingwood is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of New Mexico. He previously taught at UC Riverside. He is the author of more than 40 peer reviewed articles, a dozen book chapters, and two books with Oxford University Press: Campaigning in a Racially Diversifying America: When and How Cross-Racial Electoral Mobilization Works; and Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge. Substantively, Loren is an expert in campaigns and elections, Latino politics, public opinion, immigration politics, and voting rights. Loren has served as an expert in many voting rights cases, election law, and redistricting cases around the United States, working in nearly 20 different states during the 2020 redistricting cycle alone. He is the leading author of the eiCompare suite of R packages (which also include bisg and eiExpand) that provide freely available software to people conducting and visualizing racially polarized voting analyses.