Jaime Arredondo

Ph.D. candidate in global public health, UC San Diego

Research Project: Police and Public Health: Decriminalization on the ground with the Tijuana Police Department
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Claudia Chávez Argüelles

Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural/activist anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Research Project: Beyond Legal Truths: Impunity, Memory and Maya Alternative Justice After the Acteal Massacre
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Alejandro Brugués

Professor of economics, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Binational Industry Clusters

Jose Luis Burgos

Assistant professor in global public health, UC San Diego

Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Binational U.S.-Mexico Global Mental Health Training

Eduardo Torre Cantalapiedra

Ph.D. candidate in Population Studies, El Colegio de México

Research Project: Mexican Families in Phoenix Facing the Arizona's Anti-immigrant Policies: Permanence and Interstate Migration
Residency: March – May 2016

Salvador Espinosa

Professor of public affairs, San Diego State University

Research Project: Regulatory Harmonization, Bond Market Development and Strategic Cross-Border Infrastructure
Residency: January – June 2016

Noe Aron Fuentes

Professor of economics, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Binational Industry Clusters

Andrea Giralt

Consultant

Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Analysis of Cali-Baja Economic Growth and Global Competitiveness

Laura Gutiérrez

Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego

Research Project: A Constant Threat: Deportation and Return Migration to Northern Mexico, 1918-1965
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Romeo Guzman

Ph.D. candidate in history, Columbia University

Research Project: Transnational Citizens: Mexican Migrant Families and Youth, 1920s to 1940s
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Tania Islas Weinstein

Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Chicago

Research Project: Common Sense, Uncommon Worlds: The Politics of Art and Representation in Contemporary Mexico
Residency: January – June 2016

Anthony Jerry

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego

Research Project: Politics of Race and Citizenship on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Residency: September 2015 – August 2016

Lucia Martinez Moctezuma

Alejandro Monjaraz

Ph.D. candidate in economics and international relations, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California

Research Project: Transnational Political Participation: Migrant Associations in Los Angeles and their Involvement in Mexican Electoral Processes
Residency: September – November 2015

Magnus Pharao Hansen

Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, Brown University

Research Project: Learning Nahuatl: The Significance of Indigenous Language Education in Mexico
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Victoria Ojeda

Associate professor in global public health, UC San Diego

Nonresidential visiting fellow
Research Project: Establishing a Binational U.S.-Mexico Global Mental Health Training Program

Ulices Piña

Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego

Research Project: Rebellious Citizens: National Reforms, State Formation and the Practice of Local Governance in Jalisco, México, 1914-1940
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Rocío Rivera Barradas

Ph.D. candidate in international studies, University of Miami

Research Project: The Role of State Capacity in Mitigating Organized Crime in Mexico
Residency: September – December 2015

Rosalba Fabiola Rodriguez Ceron

Ph.D. candidate in global development studies, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California

Research Project: Transborder Dynamics of Technological Transfer and Cooperation in the Medical Device Industry in Baja California
Residency: October 2015 – March 2016

Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor

Professor of history, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa

Research Project: An environmental history of Mexico
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Deborah Watkins

Ph.D. candidate in economics, UC San Diego

Research Project: North-South Trade Liberalization and Innovation: Evidence From NAFTA
Residency: September 2015 – May 2016

Daniel Abraham Adrian Osorio

Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana | Email

Residency: Summer 2015
Research Project: Evaluation of Economic Integration of Mexico in North America
Research Interests: economic integration, open macroeconomics, economic policy, trade liberalization and international finance

Daniel’s research focuses on growth and economic integration, incorporating regional data and national analysis to calculate the impact of economic policies implemented by the Mexican government on macroeconomic variables.

Daniel has worked as an infrastructure valuator for the Ministry of Public Works for the government of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, as well as on valuation projects for the Board of Science and Technology for Yucatán. He also was a visiting researcher in the Mexican cities of Monterrey, Tijuana, Juarez and Mexico City.

A native to Merida, Yucatán, Daniel earned a degree in economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and a master’s in applied economics from COLEF.

Cheryl Álvarez Torres

Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana | Email

Residency: Summer 2015
Research Project: Democratization and Development in Latin America: Democratic Capacities of Young Women in Sub-national Governments
Research Interests: democratization, regional development, human development, youth and gender studies and citizenship

Cheryl’s research focuses on democratization and development processes, particularly the building of democratic capacities for human development and political inclusion at the regional and local level in Latin American countries. Her study centers on the participation of young women in citizen participation initiatives and in collaborative public management mechanisms from a comparative perspective in Mexico and Brazil.

Previously, Cheryl worked at the Science and Technology State Board of the Ministry of Economic Development and as an adviser for the Ministry of Education. She currently is participating as an analyst for the Electoral Observatory for Gender Equality in Baja California, Mexico.

She has a master’s in regional development from COLEF.

Helí Hassan Diaz Gonzalez

Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana | Email

Residency: Summer 2015
Research Project: Knowledge, Capabilities and Regional Systems: The Case of Software Industry in the States of Guanajuato and Baja California, Mexico
Research interests: regional development, knowledge economy, regional intangible capitals, technological capabilities and software industry

Helí’s research focuses on territorial learning processes and the creation of local capabilities. Specifically, he is examining the software industry in Guanajuato and Baja California, Mexico. He currently is a member of the Regional Studies Association and the Urban Research Web.

Helí also is an alumnus of COLEF. He earned a master’s in regional development from the school and holds a bachelor’s in territorial development from the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua.

Maciel Garcia Fuentes

Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana | Email

Residency: Summer 2015
Research Project: Cross-Border Regional Innovation System and Global Value Chains: Spinoffs in Baja California (1994-2014)
Research interests: regional innovation systems, global value chains, technological startup companies, institutions, learning and innovation

Maciel Garcia’s research focuses on academic and corporate spinoffs, cross-border regional innovation systems and multinational companies located in the region of Baja California, Mexico. His study has shown that academic, research-based and corporate spinoffs are the product of organizational learning, innovation and the circularity of norms, standards and institutions in contexts of global value chains and cross-border regional innovation systems.

Maciel Garcia also is engaged in a research program funded by ECOS Nord, formed by researchers from Aix Marseille Université and COLEF. For 10 years, he has tutored and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on organizational economics, regional development and business management at Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior.

He holds a master’s in economics from the Universidad de Guadalajara.

Chantal Lucero Vargas

Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana | Email

Residency: Summer 2015
Research Project: Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adolescents, Public Policies and Human Rights
Research Interests: unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents, human rights, vulnerability, citizenship, immigration policy and national security

Chantal’s research focuses on the respect and protection of human rights of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents who are under the jurisdiction of the Mexican State. It analyzes if Mexican immigration policy focuses on respecting human rights or whether it is focused on national security.

Chantal holds two master’s degrees. She earned a master’s in constitutional law from Universidad de Sevilla and a master’s in human rights and democracy from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.

Gabriela Pinillos Quintero

Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana | Email

Residency: Summer 2015
Research Project: Asymmetrical Borders and Survival Strategies in Tijuana: Exclusion, Precariousness and Social Exclusion
Research Interests: border studies, regional development, poverty and social exclusion and homelessness

Gabriela’s research relates to borders, human development, poverty, exclusion and marginalization both from a qualitative and quantitative approach.

Her professional experience comprises managing databases, calculating indicators and community work for projects with universities, government and civil society organizations in Colombia and Mexico. Specifically, Gabriela has worked as a teacher at Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander and the Fundación Universitaria los Libertadores, as well as the Universidad Autonóma de Baja California.

She completed her graduate studies in development and regional integration at the Universidad de los Andes and undergraduate studies in economics at the Universidad Industrial de Santander.

Jaime Andres Vinasco Barco

Ph.D. candidate in social sciences, COLEF Tijuana | Email

Residency: Summer 2015
Research Project: Effects in Mexico of the Regulation of Cannabis in the United States: the Experience of the Border San Diego, California—Tijuana, Baja California
Research Interests: culture and drugs, cannabis studies, cannabis legalization, health and drugs

Jaime Andres’s research focuses on studying how the regulation of cannabis in California influences consumer practices of the Tijuana´s consumers that interact in California. Based on academic literature and through his research thus far, Jaime Andres suspects the inhabitants of Tijuana who have a constant interaction with U.S. society acquire certain patterns of drug consumption that are later replicated in Mexico.

He holds a master’s of culture and drugs from the Universidad de Caldas and a degree in nursing from the Universidad de Antioquia.

Matilde Cordoba Azcarate

Ana Alcazar Campos

Department of social work and social services, University of Granada

Social Work with Trafficked Women: Case Analysis in the Mexico-U.S. Border
Residency: March – May 2015

Maya Duru

Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC San Diego

Research Project: The Politics of Economic Risk: Electoral Targeting of Agricultural Insurance in Mexico
Residency: October 2014 – March 2015

Ana Isabel Garcia

School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Research Social conflict: Effectiveness, representation and accountability in democratic Mexico
Residency: September – December 2014

Micah Gell-Redman

Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC San Diego

Research Project: Political institutions and disease control: The case of malaria in Mexico and the U.S. South
Residency: September 2014 – March 2015

Victor A. Hernandez Huerta

Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Notre Dame

Research Project: Losers’ Compliance in Democracies: The Strategic Use of Electoral Justice and Protest as a Negotiation Strategy
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015

Alfonso Hernandez-Valdez

Professor of sociopolitical and legal studies, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente

Research Project: Federalism and Representation in Mexico
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015

Daniel Klooster

Professor of environmental studies, University of Redlands

Research Project: Trans-border communities and environmental governance in Mexico
Residency: September – December 2014

Anabel Lopez Salinas

Ph.D. candidate in public affairs and policy, Portland State University

Research Project: Exploring Transnational Economic, Social and Political Participation of Latino Immigrants in Oregon
Residency: March – June 2015

Victor Remigio Martinez Cantu

Professor of economics, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Research Project: Security and Prosperity: How to Build Leadership for an Agile and Secure Border Supporting Interchange
Residency: September – December 2014

Brian Palmer-Rubin

Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC Berkeley

Research Project: Mobilizing for Access: Interest Organizations and Development Policy in Mexico
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015

Magnus Pharao Hansen

Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, Brown University

Research Project: Learning Nahuatl: The Significance of Indigenous Language Education in Mexico
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015

Gerardo Rios

Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego

Research Project: Patria Chica, Infierno Grande: Tlaxcala in the Throes of Liberal Reform, Dictatorship, and Mass Upheaval, 1853-1929
Residency: September 2014 – March 2015

Jeffrey Rubin

Professor of history, Boston University

Research Project: Citizen Subjectivities Reconfigured: Social Movements, Business, and Religion in Latin America’s 21st Century Democracies
Residency: April – June 2015

Gema Santamaria

Ph.D. candidate in sociology and historical studies, New School for Social Research

Research Project: Lynching Violence in Twentieth-Century Mexico: State Formation, Vigilantism and Local Communities in Puebla
Residency: September 2014 – June 2015

Jasper Vanhaelemeesch

M.A. candidate in anthropology and development, KU Leuven

Research Project: The U.S.- Mexican border in the lime-light
Residency: September 2014 – January 2015

Carlos Vilalta

Professor of research methods, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas

Research Project: The better angels of our nature? Crime and fear of crime in contemporary Latin America
Residency: October 2014 – June 2015

Deborah Watkins

Ph.D. candidate in economics, UC San Diego

Research Project: North-South Trade Liberalization and Innovation: Evidence From NAFTA
Residency: October 2014 – March 2015

Danny Zborover

Ph.D. in archaeology, UC San Diego

Research Project: Sherds to Words: An Multidisciplinary Study of Mobility and Settlement Patterns in the Chontal Highlands, Oaxaca, Mexico
Residency: January – June 2015

Matilde Cordoba Azcarate

Department of Communication, UC San Diego

Research Project: Landscapes of Contemporary Yucatán
Residency: January 2014 – June 2014

Froylan Enciso Higuera

Ph.D. candidate in history, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Project: Made in Sinaloa: From the Regional to the Global History of the Mexican War on Drugs, 1909-1985
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014

Vanessa Freije

Ph.D. candidate in history, Duke University

Research Project: Printing Politics: Investigative Journalists, the Public, and Political Change in Mexico, 1965-1988
Residency: September 2013 – May 2014

Sebastian Garrido de Sierra

Ph.D. candidate in political science, UCLA

Research Project: Eroded Unity and Clientele Migration. Explaining Mexico’s Democratic Transition
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014

Kathy Kopinak

Professor of sociology, University of Western Ontario

Research Project: The Role of the Maquiladora Industry and Gender in Labour Migration from Morocco to Spain and Mexico to the US: A Comparative Study
Residency: January 2014 – June 2014

Michael Lettieri

Ph.D. candidate in history, UC San Diego

Research Project: Wheels of Government: The Alianza de Camioneros and the Political Culture of P.R.I. Rule, 1929-1981
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014

Morris Levy

Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC Berkeley

Research Project: The Effect of Immigration from Mexico on U.S. Local Public Spending, 1980-2000
Residency: September 2013 – March 2014

Casey Lurtz

Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Chicago

Research Project: Exporting from Eden: Coffee, Migration, and the Development of the Soconusco, Mexico, 1867-1920
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014

Marco Morales

Ph.D. candidate in political science, New York University

Research Project: Improving on Economic Voting Measurements: Evidence from Mexico, US and the UK
Residency: September 2013 – December 2013

Veronica Pacheco

Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology, UCLA

Research Project: Performing with the Sacred: A Study of Ritualistic Music among the Huastec Nahua
Residency: September 2013 – June 2014

Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye

Alexander Ruiz Euler

Ph.D. candidate in political science, UC San Diego

Research Project: Basic Infrastructure in Mexico: Political Dilemmas of Development in New Democracies
Residency: September 2013 – December 2013

Alexis Salas

Ph.D. candidate in art history, University of Texas at Austin

Research Project: Performing the Making: Uses of Public Spheres of Collaboration by Artists in Mexico City, 1993-2003
Residency: January 2014 – June 2014