Eric Gonzalez Juenke is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University, and 2025-2026 Good Authority fellow. He specializes in racial and ethnic politics; U.S. federal, state, and local elections; legislative and bureaucratic minority representation; immigration politics; and democratic theory. His recent book The Presidency and Immigration Policy: Rhetoric and Reality (with Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha and Andrea Silva) examines how U.S. presidents talk about immigration. His current book project (with Paru Shah and Bernard Fraga) focuses on the election of racial and ethnic minority candidates to state legislative office in the United States.