CAMILA VERGARA

Columbia University • [email protected] • +1 917 346 8934

• Training in political theory, law, philosophy, history, economics & media studies • Experience as lecturer at pre-college, undergraduate & graduate levels • Research interests: republicanism, constitutionalism, critical legal theory, freedom of speech, corruption, populism

EDUCATION

2012 – 2019 PhD Political Science MPhil Political Science MA Political Science Major: Political Theory Minor: Constitutional Law (Honors) Dissertation: Assembling the Plebeian Republic: Popular Institutions against Systemic Corruption & Oligarchic Domination Supervisor: Nadia Urbinati Examiners: David Johnston, Bernard Harcourt, John McCormick, Jeremy Kessler

2016 Queen Mary, University of London Summer School in Intellectual History

2008 – 2012 New School For Social Research MA Politics Major: Political Theory Minor: Comparative Politics (comprehensive exam passed 2011) MA Thesis: Principles and Charisma: Refounding Liberal Democratic Republics Advisor: Andreas Kalyvas

2006 – 2008 University MA Latin American and Caribbean Studies MA Thesis: Women to Power. A Gender Perspective of the Crisis of Representation in Chile Advisor: Patricio Navia

2005 Graduate Certificate in Publishing

2000 – 2004 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile BA History BA Thesis: Women’s Movements During the Transition to Democracy in Chile (1987–1990) Supervisor: Alfredo Riquelme

1997 – 2000 BA Media Studies

1 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016 – 2019 Columbia University, Pre-College Program Lecturer Courses: Constitutional Law Understanding Democracy

Teaching Assistant, Political Science Department Courses: Introduction to Political Theory Modern Political Thought Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy Theories of Justice Power, Rights, and Social Justice Old/New Forms of Political Protest

2011 – 2015 New York University, Liberal Arts College Lecturer Courses: Modern Political Thought Theories of Socialism Theories of Democracy Latin American Politics

2008 New York University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecturer MA Seminar: The U.S., Latin America & the Media

PUBLICATIONS Edited volumes

2017 Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict, co-edited with David Johnston and Nadia Urbinati. University of Chicago Press

Book Chapters

2020 ‘Representing the People-as-Plebs: Populism as a Form of Plebeian Politics’ Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule, and Politics, edited by Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännström & Panu Minkkinen. Edinburgh University Press.

2020 ‘Crisis Government: The Populist as Plebeian Dictator’ Mapping Populism: A Guide to Understanding and Studying Populism, edited by Amit Ron and Majia Nadesan. Routledge.

Under Review ‘Lenin and the Materialist Critique of Law,’ The Futures of Lenin, edited by Alla Ivanchikova and Robert Maclean (book out for review in June)

Assembling the Plebeian Republic: Popular Institutions against Systemic Corruption & Oligarchic Domination, book manuscript under review at Press

2 ‘The Materialist Constitutional Thought of Rosa Luxemburg’ at Historical Materialism

‘Populism as Plebeian Politics: Inequality, Domination & Popular Empowerment’ at Journal of Political Philosophy

‘On Systemic Corruption: Structural Political Decay From Plato to Machiavelli’ at Philosophy & Social Criticism

‘Republican Constituent Power’ at European Journal of Political Theory

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2019 ‘The Populist as Plebeian Constitutional Dictator’ APSA (August)

‘Republican Constitutional Thought: Elitist and Plebeian Interpretation of the Mixed Constitution’ to be presented at the conference Republics and Republicanism, Venice International University (May)

‘Lenin and the Materialist Critique of Law,’ Historical Materialism, New York (April)

‘Populism as the Discursive Performance of Emancipation’ Colloquium Discourse Theory: Ways Forward, Brussels, Belgium (February)

‘The Materialist Constitutional Thought of Rosa Luxemburg’ The Political Philosophy of Rosa Luxemburg. A Critical Assessment, Berlin, Germany (January)

2018 ‘Condorcet’s Popular Sovereign as a Network of Political Judgment’ In the Name of the People, Pamplona, Spain (November)

‘On Systemic Corruption: Structural Political Decay From Plato to Machiavelli’ APSA (August), APT (October), NPSA (November)

‘Empowering the People-as-Plebs: Populism as Plebeian Ideology and Politics’ PSA Populism Specialist Group Workshop, University of Bath, UK (April)

2017 ‘On Plebeian Thought’ Republicanism in the History of Political Philosophy and Today, Prague (November)

‘Machiavelli on Corruption and Renewal of the Republic’ Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict, University of Milan, Italy (June)

‘On Constitutionalizing Popular Power’ Workshop Constitutional Responses to Oligarchic Democracy organized by IDEA International, The Hague, Netherlands (May)

2016 ‘Corruption, Inequality and Constituent Action in Machiavelli’ MPSA (April)

3 2015 ‘Epistemic-Democratic Justifications for Free Speech: Spinoza and Mill in Comparative Perspective,’ MPSA (April)

2013 ‘The Radicality of Speech. Freedom of Expression in Spinoza’s Theory of Democracy’ MPSA (April) and Radical Democracy, NSSR (April 2010)

2010 ‘The Perplexity of New Beginnings: The Will and the Foundation of Freedom’ PPSA (March), International Conference of Philosophy, Athens (June), NYSPSA (November)

EDITING & PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE

2018 Proofreading of manuscript. Dawn Teel. Forging the Franchise. The Political Origins of the Women's Vote, Princeton University Press.

2017 Proofreading of manuscript. Joshua Simon. The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought, Cambridge University Press.

2013 Copyediting of manuscript. Louise Walker. Waking from the Dream: Mexico’s Middle Classes after 1968, Stanford University Press.

2010 – 2012 Book review section coordinator at Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2016 – 2019 Columbia University, Political Science Department Research assistant for Prof. David Johnston

2010–2012 New School for Social Research, History Department Research assistant for Prof. Louise Walker

2007–2008 New York University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research assistant for Prof. Patricio Navia

2006 Harvard University, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Research assistant for Prof. Maria Frías

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2013 – 2017 Paper discussant for Jodi Dean, Héléne Landemore, Philip Pettit, Charles Beitz & Filippo Del Lucchese

2015 Organizer conference Fascisms Across Borders, Columbia University (April)

2013 Organizer conference Liberty and Conflict: Machiavelli on Politics and Power, Columbia University (December)

4 AWARDS

2013 – 2019 Dean’s Fellowship Columbia University

2008 – 2013 Dean’s Fellowship New School University\

2007 Tinker Travel Grant

2006 – 2008 Fulbright – Chile Fellowship NYU GSAS Fellowship Beca Presidente de la República, Chile World International Fellowship

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Spanish: Native

English: Proficient (C2 CEFR scale)

French: General Professional Proficiency in Reading (R-3 ILR scale) Columbia University proficiency exam passed 5/2016

Italian: Limited Working Proficiency in Reading (R-2+ ILR scale) Journalist, Political Economy

REFERENCES

Nadia Urbinati Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory Columbia University +1 212 854 3977 [email protected]

David Johnston Professor of Political Science Columbia University +1 212 854 3955 [email protected]

John McCormick Professor of Political Science University of Chicago +1 773 834 4353 [email protected]

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