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Current Fellows

Meet the 2022-23 Fellows

  • Hannah Baron

    Hannah Baron

    Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, Brown University

    Research Project: In Pursuit of Justice: Vigilantism, Policing, and Rights in Mexico

    Residency: September 2021 – May 2022; September 2022 – May 2023

  • Rebecca Bell-Martin

    Rebecca Bell-Martin

    Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, el Tecnológico de Monterrey

    Research Project: “It could have been me”: Empathy, civic engagement and violence in Mexico

    Residency: September 2022 – May 2023

  • Moshe Ben Hamo Yeger

    Moshe Ben Hamo Yeger

    Doctoral candidate in Politics and IR, University of Oxford

    Research Project: Popular Mobilization in Criminal Wars: Explaining Collective Action in Mexico's Criminal Conflict

    Residency: October 2022 – May 2023

  • Erika Busse-Cardenas

    Erika Busse-Cardenas

    Professor of Sociology, Macalester College

    Research Project: Reconfigured Motherhood Amid the Securitization of the U.S.-Mexico Border:  The Case of DREAMers' Moms USA-Tijuana

    Residency January 2023 – May 2023

  • Jorge Choy-Gomez

    Jorge Choy-Gomez

    Doctoral candidate in Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

    Research Project: Humanitarian Violence: Care and Bureaucracy for Migrants and Refugees in Mexico

    Residency: September 2022 – May 2023

  • José Miguel Cruz

    José Miguel Cruz

    Director of Research at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University

    Research Project: Mob Rule: The Modes of Gang Governance in Central America

    Residency: October 2022 – December 2022

  • Alexandra Delano Alonso

    Alexandra Delano Alonso

    Professor of Global and International Studies, The New School

    Research Project: Towards an Alternative Politics of Migration: Transformative Practices of Migrant Solidarity

    Residency: September 2022 – May 2023

  • Lauren Heidbrink

    Lauren Heidbrink

    Professor of Human Development, CSU Long Beach

    Research Project: The Next Generation of Migrants: From crisis to the politics of possibility

    Non-Resident Fellow

  • Maria E. Lopez

    Maria E. Lopez

    Deputy Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research, London Metropolitan University

    Research Project: Sexual Violence and Femicide in Mexico’s Border Cities

    Non-Resident Fellow

  • Dulce Maria Mariscal Nava

    Dulce Maria Mariscal Nava

    Doctoral candidate in Economics and IR, UABC

    Research Project: Trayectorias migratorias de centroamericanos, haitianos y mexicanos en el campamento migrante de Tijuana

    Residency: September 2022 – December 2022

  • Maria Marvan

    Maria Marvan

    Professor of History, UNAM

    Research Project: Mexican democracy: Backwards or forward? (2000-2020)

    Residency: October 2022 – June 2023

  • Veronica Montes

    Veronica Montes

    Professor of Sociology, Bryn Mawr College

    Research Project: Reconfigured Motherhood Amid the Securitization of the U.S.-Mexico Border:  The Case of DREAMers' Moms USA-Tijuana

    Residency: January 2023 – May 2023

  • Juan Pablo Morales Garza

    Juan Pablo Morales Garza

    Doctoral candidate in History, University of California, Los Angeles

    Research Project: The nahua community reconstituted under the "ejido," 1870-1930

    Non-Resident Fellow

  • Sophie Morse

    Sophie Morse

    Doctoral candidate in Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

    Research Project: Implementing Policies Addressing Violence Against Women in the Mexican Health System

    Residency: September 2022 – December 2022

  • Madeleine Claire Olson

    Madeleine Claire Olson

    Doctoral candidate in History, The University of Texas at Austin

    Research Project: For the Greater Good: Catholics and Anti-Protestantism in Mexico, 1937-1962

    Residency: September 2022 – May 2023

  • Spencer Louis Potiker

    Spencer Louis Potiker

    Doctoral candidate in Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine

    Research Project: Cross Border Supply Chains and Mobility Regimes: Migration, Labor, and Urban Development in the San Diego-Tijuana Transfrontier Metropolis

    Residency: September 2022 – March 2023

  • Armando Rangel Colina

    Armando Rangel Colina

    Doctoral candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis

    Research Project: Welfare and competition in retail gasoline markets

    Residency: September 2022 – May 2023

  • Sandra Rebok

    Sandra Rebok

    Researcher, Historian of Science, University of California, San Diego

    Research Project: Between Science and politics: Humboldt and the knowledge circulation in the American Southwest (1776-1848)

    Residency: September 2022 – May 2023

  • Fernando Riosmena

    Fernando Riosmena

    Professor of Demography & Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio

    Research Project: Climate migration across contexts, gender, and the life course: an examination in contemporary Mexico

    Non-Resident Fellow

  • Carla Salazar Gonzalez

    Carla Salazar Gonzalez

    Doctoral candidate in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

    Research Project: Race and Gender in US immigration policy: Mothers seeking Asylum at the US-Mexico border

    Residency: September 2022 – May 2023

  • Benjamin T. Smith

    Benjamin T. Smith

    Fulbright Fellow, Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Warwick

    Research Project: Policing of Mexico in the 20th Century

    Residency: September 2022 – December 2022

  • Heidi J. Smith

    Heidi J. Smith

    Professor of Economics, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

    Research Project: Budgeting for Growth: State Legislation and Fiscal Responsibility in Mexico

    Non-Resident Fellow

  • Christina A. Sue

    Christina A. Sue

    Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio

    Research Project: Ethnic and Racial Classification, Inequality, and National Ideology in Mexico

    Non-Resident Fellow

  • Yuriko Takahashi

    Yuriko Takahashi

    Professor of Political Science, Waseda University

    Research Project: Political Attitudes and Participation of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.: A Study Using a Mixed-Method Approach

    Residency: September 2021 – July 2022; September 2022 – June 2023