Marques Zárate is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brown University. He is primarily interested in the role that race and identity have in shaping political attitudes and behaviors in the United States. For example, in previous work, he examined how Hispanic Americans use variation in the accent and quality of candidates’ Spanish-language appeals to judge the ability and willingness of that candidate to represent Hispanic voters. Much of his current work investigates how policy racial relevance, or beliefs about how a policy affects different social groups, structures policy attitudes in the United States. His research has been published in the American Political Science Review and Political Communication. Before joining Brown, Marques received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Rice University.