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Guillermina Seri Department of Political Science 113 Lippman Hall 807 Union St., Schenectady, , 12308 [email protected]

CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS Fall 2015- Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Director Fall 2013- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Union College Fall 2007- Spring 2013 – Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Union College 2006-07 Visiting Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University 2005-06 Postdoctoral Fellow, Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University

Two last positions in Argentina: 1997-2000. Professor, Master in Social Sciences. National University of Catamarca 1997-2001. Assistant Professor. Political theory. National University of Entre Ríos

EDUCATION Ph.D. Political Science, University of Florida. August 2005 (Double Major: Comparative Politics and Political Theory). Dissertation: “Policing and Democracy: The Influence of Narratives on Police Discretion.”

M.A. Social Sciences (Major: Methodology), FLACSO, Buenos Aires, 1998. Thesis: Acerca de los usos estatales del terror. Una indagación en el contexto argentino [On state uses of terror: An exploration of the Argentine case]

Licenciada en Ciencia Política (5-year program, 36 year long courses in Political Science), Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina, 1986.

FORTHCOMING/WORK IN PROGRESS: -(Forthcoming) (co-authored with Mary Rose Kubal): “How Policy Fields are Born: The Rise of Democratic Security in Argentina,” Journal of Latin American Studies. -Police Abuse in Democracy (Book, co-edited with Michelle Bonner, Mary Rose Kubal, and Michael Kempa) (Manuscript under review). -(co-authored with Jinee Lokaneeta): “Police and State. Governing Citizenship through Violence.” (Book chapter, in Police Abuse in Democracy). -For the Common Good: Unlawful Governance in Democracies – (Book manuscript; Expected completion: Winter 2018).

PUBLICATIONS: Book: Seguridad: Crime, Police Power, and Democracy in Argentina (Continuum, 2012, ISBN: 9781441145789) Paperback: Seguridad. Crime, Police Power, and Democracy in Argentina (Bloomsbury: 2013) http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/seguridad-9781623564193/#sthash.CqrJjklj.dpuf 1

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Book Chapters -“‘To Double Oppression, Double Rebellion’. Women, Capital, and Crisis in ‘Post-Neoliberal’ Latin America,” Scandalous Economics. Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises (Jacqui True and Aida Hozic eds, Oxford, April 2016). -“Argentina: Revisiting Police Corruption and Police Reforms in a Captive State,” Police Corruption and Police Reforms in Developing Societies (Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr., ed.), CRC Press, September 25, 2015. -“‘All the People Necessary Will Die to Achieve Security'" Anti-Security (Mark Neocleous and George Rigakos eds; Red Quill Books, 2011) -“Discrecionalidad policial como ley no escrita. Gobernando en el estado de excepción,” Mirada (de) uniforme. Hacia una crítica de la razón policial (Gregorio Kaminsky and Diego Galeano eds) Teseo/Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, 2011. -“Vicious Legacies? State Violence(s) in Argentina,” State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years (Esparza, M., Huttenbach H. & D. Feierstein eds; London, Routledge, September 2009). -“Police Discretion as Unwritten Law: Governing the State of Exception,” Police Discretion and Law (Radha Kalyani ed.), AMICUS, ICFAI University, Hyderabad, India, 2009. -“On the “triple frontier” and the ‘Borderization’ of Argentina: a Tale on Zones,” Sovereign Lives. Grammars of Power in an Era of Globalisation (ed. by Jenny Edkins, Véronique PinFat, and Michael Shapiro) Routledge, 2004. -(with Philip Williams): “The Limits of Reformism: The Rise and Fall of Christian Democracy in El Salvador and Guatemala” Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts (ed. by Tim Scully and Scott Mainwaring; Stanford University Press, 2003). -(Translated into Spanish): “Los límites del reformismo: el ascenso y la caída de la democracia cristiana en El Salvador y Guatemala” La democracia cristiana en América Latina. Conflictos y competencia electoral (Scott Mainwaring and Timothy Scully eds) (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City, 2010). -“Ajuste estructural y políticas terroristas: ¿una relación contingente?” Algunos desafíos políticos internacionales de nuestra época (ed. Arturo Fernández and Silvia Gaveglio). Homo Sapiens, Rosario, Argentina, 1998.

Journal Articles -“Metáforas policiales, elisiones, y calidad de la democracia en Argentina y Uruguay,” Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político, August 2009 [“Police Metaphors, Elisions, and Quality of Democracy in Argentina and Uruguay”]. -“Terror, reconciliation, redemption. The politics of memory in Argentina,” Radical Philosophy 147, January/February 2008. -“Terreur, réconciliation et rédemption : politiques de la mémoire en Argentine,” Revue internationale des livres et des idées, Numéro 3, janvier-février 2008. 2

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-“Police Discretion as Unwritten Law: Governing the State of Exception,” Critical Sense 13 (2). -“Portiers and Gatekeepers. Sovereign Formations,” Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence Issue 1, No 1, Fall 2003, Milan. -“LatinOamericans and Globalization,” Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence Issue 1, No 1, Fall 2003, Milan. -(with Alejandro Horowicz) “Zapping: ¿un modelo de afasia ?”. Revista de la Red de Teoría Social – Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina, 1999.

Encyclopedia -“The 1969 Uprisings in Córdoba and Rosario, Argentina.” Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution in World History (Immanuel Ness ed., Wiley-Blackwell, April 2009). -Associate Editor (Editor for the section of Argentina), International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. 1500 to the Present (Wiley-Blackwell, April 2009): Invited, edited and/or translated eighteen articles on Argentina.

Book Reviews -“Claudia Aradau, Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics Out of Security,” Radical Philosophy 50, July/August 2008. -“Mark Neocleous, The monstrous and the dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism. Millennium: Journal of International Studies 36 (2). -“Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853 by Osvaldo Barreneche.” The Latin Americanist 50 (2), Spring 2007. -“Giorgio Agamben's The Open. Man and Animal.” Politics and Culture Issue 3, 2005.

Book Textbox -“Generation X in Argentina: a one person’s snapshot,” Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion, edited by Christine Henseler (Routledge, 2012).

Conference Proceedings – Digital Book (CD – Rom) -“Metáforas policiales, elisiones, y calidad de la democracia en Argentina y Uruguay”. Ernesto Bohoslavsky, Lila Caimari and Cristiana Schettini (eds). "La policía en perspectiva histórica: Argentina y Brasil" (http://www.crimenysociedad.com.ar/files/).

Media (Invited articles) - “El blues del mal menor,” [“Lesser Evil Blues”] Pausa, October 8, 2016 - “Sobre la libertad que viene” [“On the Freedom to Come”], Revista Cronopio 48, March 2014. -“El poder de los policías,” [“The Power of the Police”] Argentina, October 6, 2010. -“Una oportunidad histórica única,” [“ ] El Diario, July 11, 2011.

Other articles (published as teaching materials for high school teachers) – Board of Education, Entre Ríos, Argentina: -“¿Repensamos nuestra relación con el conocimiento?” (“Rethinking our Relation to

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Knowledge”) and “Acerca de la noción de fetichismo” (“On the Concept of Fetishism”), 1998. -“El proceso de formación de los Estados Nacionales: la constitución de una nueva territorialidad" (The Process of Constitution of Nation States”), March 1996.

RESEARCH POSITIONS Colgate University Peace and Conflict Studies 2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Department of political science Fall 2001. Research assistant (Dr. Leslie Anderson. Work on the Argentinean Congress) Spring 2000. Research assistant (Dr. Philip Williams. Work on the Christian Democratic party in Central America).

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS APSA 2017 (American Political Science Association), San Francisco, August 31-September 3. -Paper presentation: “Por la Patria Grande: Legitimizing State Abuses under the ‘Pink Tide’ (1999-).” -Discussant in the panel “Populism and Human Rights: Assessing a Complicated Relationship.”

WPSA 2017, Vancouver, April 13-15 -Paper presentation: “Unlawful state action and (social) media: Making state abuses visible in democracies.” -Paper presentation (co-authored with Jinee Lokaneeta): “Police as State: Governing Citizenship and Rights through Violence.”

Capital at 150, Hofstra University, April 6-7, 2017. -Paper presentation: “Primitive Accumulation and Rights Exclusions: Making Sense of the Present in Light of Capital.”

WPSA 2016 (Western Political Science Association), San Diego, March 24-26 -Roundatble: “Political Theory and the Crises of Police Violence: Debating Methods and Epistemologies.”

“Police Science in the 21st Century” Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, September 26- 27, 2015. -Presentation: “Police Science and the Crisis of Policing.”

APSA 2015. September 3-6, San Francisco -Paper: Unlawful Police Governance in Democracies: Normalizing Identities and Reproducing State Bonds.”

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WPSA 2015. (Western Political Science Association) – Las Vegas, April 2-4, 2015 -Paper: “Unlawful Governance in Democracies. A Conceptual Discussion.” Panel: "Security, Governance, and Violence: Policing in Political Theory.”

APSA 2014, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2014 -Paper: “Democracy and Rights in the Digital Age.”

IPSA 2014, Montreal, July 19 to 24, 2014 -Paper: “For the Common Good”: (De)Legitimizing State Illegalities in Democracies.”

LASA 2014, Chicago, Il., May 21-24 -Paper: “The media, (de)legitimizing the illegal violence of Latin American democracies.”

ALACIP 2013, Bogotá, Colombia, September 2013 -Paper: “Por el Bien Común”: La legitimación de acciones ilegales en democracia.”

LASA 2013 (co-authored – presented by Mary Rose Kubal) “Elite Stories of Police Reforms and Public Security Policies in Democratic Argentina.”

IPSA (International Political Science Association), 22nd World Congress of Political Science, 8-12 July, 2012, Madrid -Panel (Convenor, chair, and presenter): “Politics, Security and Policing: Between Protection and Violence (II: Theories of Police Power and Police Governance)” -Paper: “Police, Prerogative, and the State.”

Latin American Studies Association 2012, San Francisco, May 23-26, 2012 -Paper: “National v. “Citizen” Security: Two Doctrines, the Same Casualties?” Panel: “Toward a Third Century of Political Policing in the Americas.”

“Mini Security Conference,” ESS Eastern Sociological Society, New York, February 23-26, 2006. -Paper: “Democracy and Security: Interrogating a Puzzling Governing Rationale.”

NECLAS 2011 Annual Meeting, Dartmouth College, November 5, 2011 -Panel (Chair and presenter): “The Practice and Rhetoric of Democratic Security in Latin America” (Chair and presenter). -Paper: “From National to Citizen Security.”

ISA Northeast Conference 2011, Providence, Rhode Island, November 4, 2011 -Roundtable: “Peace and Conflict Studies (P-Con) at Colgate University: Notes from Teaching an Interdiscipline.”

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American Political Science Association Conference, Seattle, August 31- September 4, 2011 -Discussant for the panel “Secrecy, Transparency, Truth and Politics.”

SAAP (Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político) – 10th National Conference, Córdoba, Argentina, July 27-30, 2011. -Paper (co-authored with Mariana Galvani (UBA); presented by Galvani): “Policía, gobierno, y subjetividad desde los bordes de la gobernabilidad democratica.”

Historical Materialism, NYC, May 7-9, 2011 – The New School for Social Research -Paper: “Revisiting State and Capital: The state as (the) Police.”

Latin American Studies Association 2010, October 6-9, 2010,Toronto, Canada. -Paper: “Policing As a Dimension of the Form of Regime,” "The Police: Why Political Science Must.” -Panel discussant: “Interrupted Transmissions of Past Violence: Looking Beyond the Latin American Memory Boom.”

Canadian Political Science Association, 82nd annual conference, Montreal, June 1-3, 2010. - Paper: “Police and the Political: Exploring Democracy’s Regimes,” Workshop/Atelier: Politics and Policing / La politique et la police : Policing, Democracy and Political Economy: Neutrality, Domination and Fairness. -Discussant for the Workshop/Atelier: Politics and Policing / La politique et la police : Representing Policing: Media Discourses, Uses and Abuses in Latin America.

International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 17-20, 2010. -Roundtable: "Beyond a Politics of Security.” -Paper (co-authored with Eduardo Estévez) “Beyond Police Reforms: The Case of the Bonaerense, an (Un)Democratic Police Puzzle

NECLAS (New England Council of Latin America Studies), Schenectady, October 3, 2009 (paper and roundtable presentation).

American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009. -Short-course (Co-Sponsor): “Studying Governance on the Ground: The Police Borders of Democracy,” -Working Group (Co-Organizer): “Police Practices and Their Impact on Citizenship.”

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, June 11-14, 2009. -Paper: “Domesticating Leviathan: Metaphors, Narratives, Government, and Police Practices.” - Chair and Discussant. Panel “La policía como objeto de investigación en ciencias sociales: reformas, modelos institucionales, experiencias históricas.” Surveillance Societies: What Price Security? Macaulay Honors College, NYC, April 24-26, 2009.

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-Paper: “Police Ontology as Constituting (Policing) Bodies: Revisiting Enrique Fentanes in Buenos Aires” (with Diego Galeano).

New York State Latin American History Workshop – Friday, April 24, 2009, SUNY Albany. Discussant. Paper: Ray Craib, . Title: “Subversive Santiago: Categories of Persecution in Chile, 1920.”) International Studies Association, New York. Workshop “Dismantling Security.” February 14, 2009. La Policía en perspectiva histórica: Argentina y Brasil. Buenos Aires, August 28-29, 2008. Paper: “Metáforas policiales, elisiones, y calidad de la democracia en Argentina y Uruguay.” 3rd International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis. Democracy, Governance, and Methods. University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 19-21 June 2008. Paper: “Police Metaphors, Elisions, and the Quality of Democracy in Argentina and Uruguay.” American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 29-September 2, 2007. Paper (with Ruchi Chaturvedi): “"Grassroots accounts on the rule of law: Comparative evidence from Latin America, India, and the UK.”

19th Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, St. Bonaventure, NY, October 19-22, 2006. Paper: “Recuperating people's governance of policing: Improving the prospects for peace?”

Gender and Democratization in Societies at War. An International Workshop at Colgate University. Discussant in the panel “The Latin American Context.” Hamilton, New York, October 6 and 7, 2006.

American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-September 1, 2006. Papers: -“The Power of Stories for Police Reform: Elite and Police Narratives on Public Security in Democratic Argentina.” -“Typhon overcomes Leviathan? Interrogating the philosophical foundations of police prerogatives.”

“Spaces of Dissent: The Borders of Transnational Dreams,” MRG, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 30-April 1, 2006. Paper: “Order Beyond Borders.” University of California, Berkeley. Thinking the Present: The Beginnings and Ends of Political Theory. Paper: “Police Discretion as Unwritten Law: Governing the State of Exception,” 2728 May 2005.

Florida Political Science Association. March 12, 2005, Tallahassee. Panel: “Deliberating Democracy and Discussing Empire.” Chair and Discussant.

Northeast Political Science Association. November 11-13, 2004. Paper (co-authored with Leslie E. Anderson; Presented by Anderson): “Obedience and Defiance: Military Adherence to Civilian Authority in a New Democracy.”

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Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 7-9, 2004. Paper (co-authored with Leslie E. Anderson; Presented by Anderson): “Obedience and Defiance: Military Adherence to Civilian Authority in a New Democracy.”

American Political Science Association. Chicago, September 2 - September 5, 2004. Paper: “(Un)Democratic Exclusions: When Politics Disappears into Policing.”

“Catastrophe Now: The Wreckage of Utopia,” MRG, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 25-27, 2004. Paper: “A Parasitic Tool of a Parasitic Class?: The Police in Karl Marx and the Left.”

International Studies Association. March 17-20, 2004. Montreal. -Paper: “Policing the Political: an Inquiry on the Theoretical Bonds Between Politics and Policing.” -Discussant in the panel “Nationalism and Globalization: Contested Hegemonies?”

Southern Political Science Association Conference. January 8-10, 2004, New Orleans LA. Paper: “Police Narratives on Uses of Discretionary Power: A Comparative Inquiry on a Challenging Aspect of Democratization.”

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, March 27-29, 2003. Paper: “On Borders and Zoning: The Vilification of the ‘Triple Frontier’.”

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington, September 6-8, 2001. Paper: “Beyond National Security: Public Security in a Democratic Age.” Washington, U.S.

“The Future of Those Who Make It: Revolutionary Speculations.” MRG, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 30- April 3, 2000. Paper: “Beyond Impunity of Political Genocide: The Case of H.I.J.O.S ‘Escraches’ in Argentina.”

Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES). II Conferences on Ethnography and Qualitative Methods – Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 1998. Paper: “The possibilities of dialectics for methodological integration: a reference from Juan Samaja’s work.”

III Meeting of the Network of Social Theory. Paper: “Zapping: ¿un modelo de afasia ?”. San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina, November 21-22, 1997.

III SAAP (Argentine Society of Political Analysis). “Democracy, Economic Reform, and Social Question” Mar del Plata, Argentina, November 5-8, 1997. -Paper: “Ajuste estructural y políticas terroristas, ¿una relación contingente ?” -Paper (co-authored with Adrián Scribano and Enrique Jiménez): “Los cortes de ruta : visibilidad social en el contexto del ajuste.”

II SAAP (Argentine Society of Political Analysis). “Globalization, between conflict and integration.” ( Paper presentation). Mendoza, Argentina, November 1-4, 1995.

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First Meeting of Scientific Communication of the National University of Entre Ríos, Argentina: Presentation of research on politico-institutional characterization of business associations in the Entre Ríos Province . October 6, 1989.

TEACHING Union College, Schenectady, NY Department of Political Science Spring 2017. Introduction to Political Thought Human (In)Security Winter 2017. Challenges to Democratization in Latin America Theories of Peace and War Spring 2016. Latin American Politics Police, Security, and Biopower Winter 2016. Introduction to Political Thought Unlawful Governance in Democracies Spring 2015. Challenges to Democratization in Latin America Winter 2015. Introduction to Political Thought Human (In)Security Fall 2014. Theories of Peace and War Populisms in Latin America Spring 2014. Introduction to Political Thought Latin American Politics Police, Security & Biopower Spring 2013. Populisms in Latin America (Union College Term Abroad in Montevideo, Uruguay) Winter 2013. Theories of Peace and War Latin American Politics Fall 2012. Introduction to Political Thought Spring 2012. The Lives of Sovereigns (political theory seminar) Challenges to Democratization in Latin America Winter 2012. Police, Security, & Biopower Fall 2011. Latin American Politics Introduction to Political Thought Winter and Spring 2011 (Junior sabbatical leave) Fall 2010. Latin American Politics Prudence Spring 2010. Challenges to Democratization in Latin America Police, Security & Biopower Fall 2009. Introduction to Political Thought Spring 2009. Populisms Winter 2009. Prudence (political theory seminar) Human (in)Security in Latin America (comparative pol. seminar)

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Fall 2008. Introduction to Political Thought Spring 2008. Challenges to Democratization in Latin America Police, Security & Biopower Winter 2008. Introduction to Political Thought Fall 2007. Latin American Politics

Union College Buenos Aires Mini-Terms (2010-2011) - Leading the Union College MiniTerm in Buenos Aires during November-December 2010 and 2011.

Thesis Advising Fall 2016 – Winter 2017. Advising six students from the Department of Political Science, working on social exclusion in Latin America, accountability vis-à-vis state crime, Haitian politics, state abuse, media and politics, corporate mercenaries, and corruption in Latin America. Fall 2015 – Winter 2016. Advising four students from the Department of Political Science, working on education in Latin America, the political identity of Puerto Ricans, the plight of Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S., and on the progress made by women in Latin America in political terms. Fall 2014 – Winter 2015. Advising three students from the Department of Political Science, working on crimes of foreign policy, police abuse by the NYPD, and a fictionalized account of human rights violations during the 1970s military dictatorships in South America. Spring- Summer 2014. Advising one student from the Department of Political Science, working on the militarization of policing. Fall 2012 – Winter 2013. Advising three students from the Department of Political Science, working respectively on political identity formation in the Dominican Republic, the politics and policies of human rights in Latin America, and the 1970s Operation Condor. Fall 2011- Winter 2012 Advising five students from the Department of Political Science, working respectively on the US embargo on Cuba, on a comparison of constitutional design in the US and Argentina, on the US involvement in human rights violations under the Operation Condor in the Southern Cone, on the role of social media in recent protests in Madison, Wisconsin (Political Science-Computer Science double major), and on the assessment of best policies regarding the informal sector in Latin America. Fall 2009 - Winter 2010. Advising eight students from the Department of Political Science, working respectively on organized crime and political conflicts on the US-Mexico border, Mexico, and Colombia, on the political implications of the use of torture and the emplacement of detention camps such as the one in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on the philosophical rationale of security, on the possibilities of participatory democracy to infuse environmental politics, and on the alternative strategies of coffee production in Costa Rica. Fall 2008 - Winter 2009. Advising eight students from the Department of Political Science, working on environmental conflicts between Argentina and Uruguay, on the environmental challenges of NAFTA, on a comparison of Presidential styles between Chilean President Salvador Allende and Bolivian President Evo Morales, on the identity of former Ford workers in Lorrain, Ohio, on a comparison of the political dynamics leading to the destruction of

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Guillermina Seri – CV the train station and the preservation of Proctor’s Theater in Schenectady, NY, on the politics of the Christian Right in the United States, on Germany’s current immigration policies regarding people of Turkish origins, and on the police treatment of immigrant battered women in New York City.

Fall 2007 – Winter 2008. Advising five senior Theses, including one on the politics of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, other on the role of executive prerogatives in the United States after 2001, and a video project on the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.

-Worked with Summer Research Students in 2009, 2011, 2015, and 2016, and with a Union College Scholar in 2015-2016

Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Peace and Conflict Studies Program Visiting Assistant Professor Spring 2007 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Human Security Fall 2006 Introduction to Peace and Conflict (2 sections) Theories of Peace and Conflict Fall 2005 Theories of Peace and Conflict Spring 2006 Human Security

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Department of Political Science. 1999-2005 Developing my own syllabi for Introduction to Political Thought, Introduction to Comparative Politics, and performing as a TA also for courses in Latin American Politics, Central American Politics, Introduction to International Relations, and Introduction to Comparative Politics (Teaching website at the University of Florida: http://plaza.ufl.edu/gseri)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS -FRN (Faculty Resource Network) NYU scholar-in-residence, Fall 2013 -SUN Advance Visit Here or There Grant, Summer 2010 (used over the summer 2012) -SUN Advance Faculty Development Grant, Fall 2009. -Two Union College FRF (Faculty Research Fund) grants (requested and granted as part of the conditions of my contract; the funding has been strategic to support additional fieldwork, interview transcriptions, and editing services for my manuscript) -Colgate University internal grants for research travel (Summer 2006) and to support student research assistants -Ruth McQuown Scholarship. University of Florida. Spring 2003. -McLaughlin Dissertation Fellowship. University of Florida. Spring 2003. -Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, 2003. -International Center. College of Liberal Arts & Sciences 2002 and 2003 Awards, University of Florida.

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-Barbara Noreen Roth Memorial Award 2002, University of Florida. -Tinker Summer Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Summer 2001.

INVITED TALKS, SHORT SEMINARS, PRESENTATIONS, AND PANELS Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, September 30, 2014. Invited Lecture: “Unlawful Governance in Democracy: Lessons from Latin America.”

Campus Action presentation: “The Police Limits of Democracy” - Union College, February 28, 2012

Universidad Católica de Córdoba, School of Political Science and International Relations. Seminar (12 hours): “Seguridad, policía y gobierno,” August 30 and 31, and September 1, 2010, Córdoba, Argentina.

UCALL – Union College -Presentation on Argentina, April 22, 2010. Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, NY. St. Bonaventure University’s Visiting Scholar Speaker. Monday, March 15, auditorium of the William F. Walsh Science Center, 7 p.m. Talk: “Every Form of Government Needs Policing: Police, Governance, and Regime(s) in Argentina.”

Radio show; Invited to radio show (“60 Watts en el País”; Host: Alejandro Horowicz, FM Identidad, Buenos Aires, September 2, 2008)

Monohansen High School. Invited participant in the Public Policy Forum on Torture, June 9, 2008. Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina. Summer 2007. Invited to discuss my paper “Police Discretion as Unwritten Law: Governing the State of Exception” with a group of researchers. Colgate University. “9/11 International Perspectives on Peace & Security 5 Years After.” P CON Faculty Forum, Monday, September 11, 2006. Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina. Invited to present at the workshop, “Actualidad y estado de la cuestión en seguridad ciudadana” together with Professors and specialists in problems associated with social violence, state institucional policies, security, etc. December, 2003. Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos. School of Education. - “From Police Democracies to a Democratic Police,” October 30, November 11 and 12, 2003. -“Problemas teóricos en torno a la noción de seguridad: una relectura a partir de Homo Sacer de Giorgio Agamben,” August 2001.

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Department of Pedagogy of the National University of Entre Ríos. Lectures on Knowledge and Truth. Invited panelist in a special panel on Violence. Paraná, Argentina, December 6, 1997.

Latin American Council for the Social Sciences (CLACSO). Workshop on “Punitive practices: new approaches to criminal questions”. Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2627, 1997.

Other Invited Presentations at Union College: -Black Law Student Association: Invited participant in a discussion on immigration, Union College, January 19, 2012 -Haiti Campus Action Event. Invited panelist. Beuth House, February 11, 2010, 5pm. -Faculty Multimedia Fair. Project: "Grassroots Voices from Latin America," March 6, 2009. - Participant in faculty-student debate “Beyond the Mirror. Issues of Race and Identity in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Diasporas,” organized by Las Hermanas Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority. Blue House, April 21, 2008. -Responsible for organizing and running the LACS Fall Film Series at the Beuth House -Invited to give class presentations about Argentina by Profs Lori Marso, Teresa Meade, and Victoria Martinez.

WORKSHOPS ON PEDAGOGY (Attendance) - Workshop on Creativity, Union College, September 16-7, 2011 -Faculty Workshop on Service learning and Civic Engagement (Edward Zlotkowski and James Trostle), December 3, 2008, Union College. -International Center on Non-Violent Conflict and : “People Power and Pedagogy: A Workshop for Educators.” Colorado College, Colorado Springs, June 4-7, 2006. -“Three Pedagogical Changes that Can Make a Real Difference in ANY Classroom” by Dr. Craig Nelson (Indiana University-Bloomington). UCET (University Center for Excellence in Teaching). University of Florida, Gainesville, January 17, 2004.

PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC COMMITTEES -Union College. Third Year Reappointment Review Committee member, Spring 2016. -Union College. Political Theory Search Committee member, Fall 2012. -Union College. Political Theory Search Committee member, Fall 2008. -Colgate University. 2005- 2007. Peace and Conflict Studies. P-CON Fellowships. Participation in the selection of candidates awarded with fellowships for Summer internships with the Campaign to Ban Landmines.

-University of Florida. Department of political science. Fall 2002. Member of the search committee for a position in political theory in the Department of Political Science at UF.

-Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Workshop for the definition of lines of research on violence, crime, and public security in Latin America for fellowships. Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 11-12, 1999. 13

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-Universidad Nacional de Catamarca. Master in Social Sciences Program. Member of a Master Thesis Committee. San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, December 15 1998.

INVOLVEMENT AT UNION COLLEGE: -Pi-Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor Society) faculty adviser, September 2011 to present - LCOSA (Liaison Committee for Study Abroad) – Fall 2012. -LACS (Latin American and Caribbean Studies), Advisory Board member (2007-) -Minerva Fellows Selection Committee member, February 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2015. -Co-responsible for the design and organization of a new Union College Term Abroad to Montevideo, Uruguay – Spring 2013 -Co-responsible (with Cherrice Traver) for the design and organization of a Union College miniterm focused on the Flor de Ceibo Program in Montevideo (including a 10-day trip to Uruguay to meet the authorities of the University of the Republic, visit schools, and meet with faculty, researchers, and students (March 21-28, 2010); -Co-Chair, Women’s Commission, Union College, NY, 2008-2009. -UCID (Union Coalition for Inclusion and Diversity), Union College, NY (attended meetings and participated regularly until the Spring 2009).

SERVICE IN THE PROFESSION -New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS), member of the Executive Committee (2011-2013) -Reviewed articles for the American Political Science Review, Polity, Political Research Quarterly, Policing & Society, Citizenship Studies, and The Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. -Book manuscript reviewer for Lynne Rienner, Lexington Books, and the University of Michigan Press. -Project reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (Past and current) -American Political Science Association (APSA), Western Political Science Association, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), International Political Science Association, NECLAS, Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP), Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político.

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