Academic Positions

Junior Visiting Scholar

2009

Nuffield College, Oxford University

Education

Ph.D., Political Science

expected

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science

July 2010

Dissertation:   “Deporting Democracy: The Politics of Immigration and Sovereignty”

Abstract: My dissertation examines the politics of immigration through a joint analysis of sovereignty and democratic politics. It explores how anti-immigration rhetoric and action present a static conception of membership and a homogenizing view of the political community. These developments, together with the institutional transformation of immigration regulation, seek to deny the inherent instability of democratic conceptions of membership and sovereignty, closing spaces of democratic renewal.

Committee: Susan Bickford (co-chair), Jeff Spinner-Halev (co-chair), Michael Lienesch, John McGowan, and Andrew Perrin.

M.A., Political Science

May 2004

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilll, Department of Political Science

Fields: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology

 (M.A. Thesis: “Party Decay? Electoral Effects of New Issues and Cleavages during Neoliberal Reforms,” winner of the James B. Prothro Award for Best M.A. Thesis)

Ph.D. student, Political Science

2002-2003

Duke University , Department of Political Science

Graduate coursework in Public Policy, M.A. Candidate

1999-2001

Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina

B.A., Economics and Political Science

1994-1998

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Research Experience and Employment

Research Assistant to Professor Jeff Spinner-Halev

Summer 08/

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Spring 2009

Research Assistant to Professor Cecilia Martinez Gallardo

Fall 2008/

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Spring 2009

Research Assistant to Professor Evelyne Huber

Summer

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2003

Research Assistant to Professor Anirudh Krishna

Fall 2002/

Duke University

Spring 2003

Honors & Awards

Ford Foundation and University of North Carolina Center for Latin American Studies (Doctoral Research Fellowship)

2006-2007

Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Best M.A. Thesis Award)

2005

Tinker Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Institute of Latin American Studies, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Various Summer Fellowships)

2003, 2004, 2005

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science (RA/TA-Fellowship)

2003-2009

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation & San Andrés University  (M.A. Research Grant)

2001

ENARGAS (National Office for Natural Gas Regulation) (M.A. Fellowship)

2000-2001

Fundación Mediterránea (Education and Training Fellowship in Macroeconomics)

1996

Research Interests

• Political Theory: Democratic Theory, Citizenship, Immigration, Sovereignty, Feminist Theory, Post-colonialism

• American Political Development: Citizenship, Democracy, Immigration, Militarization and State-building, Latina/Chicana Feminist, Representation of Race/Gender in Film and Political Discourse

• Comparative Politics: Critical Development Studies, Globalization

Teaching Interests

Graduate

• Political Theory: Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, Modern Political Thought, American Political Thought,   Democratic Theory, Kant and Contemporary Political Theory, Sovereignty: Modern and Contemporary Approaches.

Undergraduate

• Political Theory: Democratic Theory, Modern Political Thought, Feminist Theory, American Political Thought, Film and Politics, Latino/a Politics, Classic Political Thought.
• Comparative Politics: Introduction to Latin American Politics, Latin American Politics through Film, Critical Perspectives on Development, Globalization.

Referee Work

• Journal Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fellow/Instructor of:

• Feminism and Political Theory ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2008)

• Critical Perspectives of Development in Latin America (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Summer 2008)

• Transitions to Democracy ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2006)

• Latin American Politics Through Film ( Elon University, Winter 2005 and 2006)

• Introduction to Latin American Politics ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2005)

• Introduction to Economics (co-taught with Alejandro Catterberg) (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Spring and Fall 2001)

Teaching Assistant at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

• Modern Political Thought (Professor Stephen Leonard, Fall 2007)

• Global Issues (Professors Sandy Smith-Nonini and Eunice Sahle, Fall 2008 and 2004, in charge of developing special section taught in Spanish)

• Introduction to Latin American Politics (Professor Evelyne Huber, Fall 2003 and 2004)

Course Development and Teaching Training:

• Languages across the curriculum, University Center for International Studies (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Award for developing and teaching a section in Spanish in the course Global Issues (Fall 2004 and 2008)

• Future Faculty Fellow at the Center for Faculty Excellence ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Training program for designing and teaching courses that emphasize critical thinking and higher-order learning (Summer 2006)

Presentations:

• Spring 2008 LAC Workshop Series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Language as an Instrument of Critical Thinking," Chapel Hill April 4, 2008

Conferences, Talks, Workshops (with paper presentations)

2010

• “Fencing, Detaining, and Mass-manufacturing: The Productive Spatiality of the Border,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. San Francisco, April

2009:

• “ State Building by Other Means: American Democracy and the War on Illegal Immigrants,” (with Desmond King) Workshop of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy. Oxford, UK, November

• “ Hospitality, Publicness, and the Regulation of the Borders of
  the Public Sphere,” European Consortium of Political Research. Berlin, Germany, September

• “ Secularism or Veiled Exclusion? Muslim Women and the French State ,” (with Hollie Mann) Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Toronto, CA, August

2008:

• “ An Alien Consciousness? A Critical Reading of the Philosophical Construction of Citizenship and Borders,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Boston, August

• “ Film, Identity, and ‘Culture,’ Watching Latinas on Film,” Annual Women’s Worlds Conference. Madrid, Spain, July

2007:

• “ Global Justice in a Postcolonial World,” (with Jeff Spinner-Halev) Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, August-September

• “The Dieting Body: Food, Health, and Sexuality,” Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality and Culture in Society. Lima, Peru, June

2005:

• “Economic Reforms as Collective Action Problems: An Ontological Obstacle?” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April

(Also presented at the Comparative Politics Workshop, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

2004:

• “Party Decay? Electoral Effects of New Issues and Cleavages during Neoliberal Reforms,” Annual Latin American Studies Association Meeting. Las Vegas, October

• “New Issues and Cleavages Under Neoliberal Reforms: A Study of the Argentine Case,” Workshop on the Analysis of Political Cleavages and Party Competition, Duke University, Durham, April

Personal

• Languages : Spanish (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (fair), Portuguese (fair)

• Interests : film, yoga, contemporary art

• Volunteering : Interpreter at the Durham Latino Health Fair (Nuestra Fiesta de la Salud), 2007, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School Immigration Clinic, 2009-2010

References

Jeff Spinner-Halev

Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics

Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Phone: 919-962-0411

Email: spinner@email.unc.edu

Susan Bickford

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Phone: 919-962-0420

Email: bickford@email.unc.edu

Desmond King

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Political Science and Professorial Fellow

Oxford University ( Nuffield College)

Phone: +44-01865-277342

Email: desmond.king@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Michael Lienesch

Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Phone: 919-962-0447

Email: lienesch@email.unc.edu