{"id":47329,"date":"2023-09-14T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=47329"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:52:28","slug":"maria-chavez-2","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/maria-chavez-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Ch\u00e1vez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maria Ch\u00e1vez<\/strong> (she\/her) is a professor of political science at Pacific Lutheran University specializing in American government, public policy, and Latino Politics. 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