Professor Armando Ibarra, Ph.D.
Armando Ibarra is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School for Workers, Department of Labor Education and holds a joint appointment with Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, and joined the UW in January 2011. Ibarra also holds a Master's in Public Administration, and a B.A. in Sociology and Spanish. His research and fields of specialization are Political Economy, working communities of Latin American descent in the U.S., social movements, community development, international labor migration, community-based participatory applied, and action research.
Prof. Ibarra is an acclaimed public intellectual who has garnered much attention for his work from peers and professional associations. His research is published in books, traditional peer-reviewed journals, as applied and action research public reports, and in popular news media. But if you want to find him, look in a classroom or a community space. He will be in these spaces teaching traditional and adult students on working-class history and contemporary issues these communities face. In all these endeavors, he models what folks say in solidarity circles: “We make the road by walking.”
