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While at DukeFavorite Courses
Development, Security, and Violence—Natalia MirovitskayaSchool & Social Policy—Helen LaddIndigenous People & Development—Rosemary FernholzPoverty Reduction—Phyllis PomerantzLatin American NGOs—Jerry VanSant
Site Coordinator DukeEngage ChileSocial Policy Learning Games
The Chilean State & MapucheConflicts: Strategies to Address Structural Factors & Polarization
Thesis
Upon GraduationTravel the U.S. and return to Chile to work on
social policies to improve vulnerable communities
While at Duke
Favorite Courses
The Amazon with Paul BakerCreative Communities with Miguel Rojas-SoteloModernidades Brasileiras with Gustavo FurtadoPortuguese with Madga SilvaThe Darwinian Revolution with Jon Shaw
Thesis: Transforming Globalization--From Deterioration to Regeneration
Academic Year FLAS FellowshipGraduate Liberal Studies Research GrantCLACS Field Research Grant
While at Duke
Disser tation:Journalists, Scandal, and the Unraveling of
One-Par ty Rule, 1960-1988
Favorite Professors: Jocelyn Olcott and Pete Sigal
• Katherine Goodman Stern Dissertation Fellowship• UCSD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Predoctoral Fellow• Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, U.S. State Department• Multiple Duke research awards
Upon Graduation
Dar tmouth Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship
Tenure-track faculty position University of Washington
While at Duke
Favorite Courses
Poverty Reduction with Phyllis PomerantzFiscal Decentralization with Roy Kelly
• Future International Development Leaders Program in Udaipur, India
• Fulbright Scholarship
• Co-President Sanford LAC
Public-Private Partnership in Peru: Peru’s Experience of the Works for Taxes Law
Thesis
Upon Graduation
Consulting with governments to provide more efficient delivery
of public services
While at Duke
• James B. Duke Fellow• Academic Year FLAS
Fellowship • Summer FLAS Fellowship for
Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro• CLACS Travel Grant
Feeling America Otherwise: Ground as an Earth that Quakes
Favorite Professors
Richard Rosa, Walter Mignolo, Fredric Jameson, Wahneema Lubiano, Nathaniel Machey
Dissertation
Publications
“El espectro descolonial de la izquierda Argentina, 1955-1976” In Pensamiento Argentino y la Opción Descolonial. Ed. Zulma Palermo. Buenos Aires. 2010
“Spatializing Sexuality in Jamie Hernandez’s Locas” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 2009
While at DukeFavorite Courses
Global Development with Gary GereffiAssistant Development with Anirudh KrishnaGovernance with Phyllis PomerantzStorytelling with Catherine AdmayBehavior Economics with Dan Ariely
• CLACS Grant for the Chilean Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
• SEAD SAC Member• MIDP 1st Year Representative• Internship at the World Bank
Fostering Innovation: Moving from Star t-up to Build-up Entrepreneurship in Chile
While at DukeFavorite Courses
Environmental Law and Policy with Jim SalzmanOcean and Coastal Law with Steve RoadyRisk Regulation with Jonathan WienerEnergy Law with Jonas Monast
Fieldwork conducted in Mexico (Baja California, Mexcaltitán)
Conferences at Cornell and University of Vienna
World Wildlife Fund Scholarship
Dissertation
Beyond Area-Based Ocean Management
Upon Graduation
Publish disser tation as separate law review ar ticles
Find work in an International Organization or NGO in the Washington, D.C. area
While at DukeFavorite Courses
• Policy Analysis and Development, Security, and Violence with Natalia Mirovitskaya
• Capacity Development with Frank Webb
Thesis: Bringing Peace to the Brazilian Amazon
Outreach to Durham public schools to teach about peace building policy
around the world
While at Duke
Thesis: Increasing Protection and Resilience of Unaccompanied Children
Favorite Professors
Phyllis Pomerantz, Cory Krupp
Rotary International Scholarship
Internship in India
Duke-UNC Consor tium Conference
While at DukeThesis: Food Insecurity Among
Small Family Farms in Guatemala
Internship in Costa Rica with FUNDESDCID Training program in HaitiSanford Scholarship
Phyllis PomerantzFrank WebbRosemary FernholzFernando Fernholz
Favorite Professors