Amalia Pallares serves as the Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and is a professor in the School of Transborder Studies. In her role as vice provost, Pallares provides leadership to advance the university’s charter. Pallares works to ensure that all students, educators and practitioners have broad access to the opportunities, assets, and benefits of ASU, and that all members of the campus community feel they belong and are supported in their success at the university.
Prior to ASU she was at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she served as a vice chancellor and professor of political science and Latin American and Latino studies. Her responsibilities at UIC included faculty recruitment and development, student belonging and equity, cultural and experiential programming and education, community collaboration and engagement, legislative advocacy, and strategic planning. Before this, Pallares directed the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at UIC from 2013 to 2018. Additionally, she served as associate dean for educational programming and interdisciplinary studies in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 2006-2008.
Pallares' research focuses on the political histories and racial and ethnic identities of social movements with an emphasis on immigrant and indigenous communities in the U.S. and Latin America. She is the author and editor of several books and other publications. She continues this line of research in the School of Transborder Studies at ASU.