Distinguished Fellow
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Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon Jr.
Ambassador Shannon is a Senior International Policy Advisor at Arnold & Porter. Prior to joining the private sector, Ambassador Shannon spent nearly 35 years in the Foreign Service and served 6 U.S. presidents and 11 secretaries of state.
Ambassador Shannon served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. During his tenure as Under Secretary, he was in charge of bilateral and multilateral foreign policymaking and implementation, and oversaw diplomatic activity globally and in U.S. missions to international organizations. Prior to his 2016 appointment by President Obama as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador Shannon was the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2005-2009), Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council (2003-2005), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Department of State (2002-2003) and Director of Andean Affairs (2001-2002). From 2000-2001, he was U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, with the rank of Ambassador. During his career, Ambassador Shannon served in the U.S. Foreign Service at embassies in Guatemala, Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela.
In Residence: Predoctoral Students
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Guadalupe Chavez
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford Department of Politics & International Relations
she/her | Email | @Chz_guadalupe | LinkedIn
Research Project: Back to the Homeland? The Politics of Return Migration in Mexico (1930 to 2018)
Residency: Sept.2023 – May 2024
Research Interests: International migration, qualitative methods, comparative government, social movements
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Yaredh Marín Vázquez
Ph.D. Candidate, El Colegio de Michoacán
Research Topic: Practicas de partería en México y la frontera. Material analítico de formación para y por
parteras profesionales en casas de partería. // Midwifery practices in Mexico and the border. Analytical
training material for and by professional midwives in casas de partería.Project Title: Germinar y sostener la vida en pandemia. Experiencias reproductivas y de
cuidados de mujeres en México.Residency: Sept. – December 2023
Research Interests: Sexual and reproductive health, midwifery, migration, violence, pandemic, futures (dystopias/utopias)
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Cordelia Rizzo
Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
she/her | Email | @cordeliarizzo | LinkedIn
Research Topic: Performing Touch as Political Resistance in Militarized Mexico
Residency: Jan. – June 2024
Research Interests: Theories of performance, qualitative methods, decolonial feminisms, critical phenomenology
In Residence: Professors
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Antonella Bandiera
Assistant Professor, ITAM
she/her | Email
Research Topic: Migration and Human Trafficking in Mexico
Residency: Sept. 2023 – June 2024
Research Interests: Comparative political economy, comparative politics, Latin America, development
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Ciro Murayama
Professor of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Project Title: Democracy, Demography and Economy: Mexico in the XXI Century
Residency: Sept. 2023 – June 2024
Research Interests: Democracy, economics of welfare (health economics, economics of education, labor economics)
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Alejandro Olayo-Méndez
Assistant Professor, Boston College School of Social Work
he/him | Email | @OlayoMendez | LinkedIn
Research Topic: Migrants' Digital Practices, and Perceived Health, Mental Health, and Social Support Needs along the Migration Route and in Border Towns in Latin America
Residency: Fall 2023
Research Interests: Humanitarian assistance, refugees, migration, mental health
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Sandra Rebok
Researcher and Historian of Science, UC San Diego
Research Topic: West of The Revolution: Epistemological Processes in the American Southwest and Their Role In U.S. Expansion, 1776-1848
Residency: Sept. 2023 – June 2024
Research Interests: Exploration voyages (18-19th century), science and empire, intellectual networks, science diplomacy, entangled history, global history, U.S. westward expansion, New Spain, Southwest
Non-Resident Fellows: Predoctoral Students
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Angie Torres-Beltrán
Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University Department of Government
she/her | Email | @angietorresbel | LinkedIn
Research Topic: Three Essays on Gender, Violence, and the State
Residency: Jan. – March 2024
Research Interests: Gender, violence, political behavior, institutions, justice, state development
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Caitlyn Yates
Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia
she/her | Email | @yatescait | LinkedIn
Research Topic: Migrantship: Trans-continental Mobility Strategies to Navigate Illegalization and Otherness in the Americas
Residency: March – June 2024
Research Interests: Human security, transit migration, organized crime, migrant facilitation and borders in Mexico and Panama
Non-Resident Fellows: Postdoctoral Scholars and Professors
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David Barkin
Distinguished Professor, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitnana
Research Topic: Builidng New Worlds
Research Interests: Radical ecological economics, post-capitalist societies
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Hannah Baron
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR)
she/her | Email | Site | LinkedIn
Research Topic: Lynching and the State in Mexico
Residency: 2021 – 2023
Research Interests: Criminal violence, political violence, vigilantism, human rights, research ethics, democratic backsliding
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Rebecca Bell-Martin
Assistant Professor of Political Science, el Tecnológico de Monterrey
she/her | Email | @rbellmartin
Research Topic: Violence, Empathy and Civic Engagement in Mexico
Residency: Sept. 2023 – May 2024
Research Interests: The politics of criminal violence, democratization and political participation in Latin America, political behavior during violence
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Alejandro Díaz-Bautista
Professor of International Economics and Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Research Topic: Economic Integration Between Mexico and the United States during NAFTA and USMCA
Residency: Sept. – Dec. 2023
Research Interests: International economics, industrial organization, energy economics and economic growth, with special interest in the United States and Mexico border regions
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James Gerber
Emeritus Professor of Economics, San Diego State University; and Non-resident Scholar, Rice University Center for U.S. and Mexico
he/him | Email
Research Topic: The Economic History of the U.S.-Mexico Income Gap
Residency: Sept. 2023 – March 2024
Research Interests: U.S.-Mexico economic relations; the economics of the U.S.-Mexico border
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Matthew Ingram
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Gail Mummert
Researcher Professor, El Colegio de Michoacán
she/her | Email
Research Topic: Entanglements: Transnational Families and Nation-States Across Continents
Research Interests: Gender dynamics in migrant families, transformations in intergenerational relationships, longitudinal and life course methodologies
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Gabriela Torres-Masuera
Professor, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superios en Antropología Social
she/her | Email
Research Topic: The Neoliberal Afterlife of Ejido Communal Lands: Revealing the Spectrum of Privatization
Residency: Jan. – March 2024
Research Interests: Anthropology of property and development, landgrabbings, rural studies, judicialization of politics, governance of commons