Tulia Falleti Documenting Dispossessions

Tulia Falleti, Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies: “Documenting Dispossessions of Territories of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas"

The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Internal Speaker Series (CLALSIS) and The Penn Development Research Initiative presents: “Documenting Dispossessions of Territories of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas" by Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Principal Investigator Penn-Mellon Just Futures Initiative “Dispossessions in the Americas", Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania.

Tulia G. Falleti (Ph.D. Political Science, Northwestern University, 2003; B.A. Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994) is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award to the best book on political institutions by the Latin American Studies Association; and, with Santiago Cunial, of Participation in Social Policy (Elements in the Politics of Development, Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is co-editor, with Orfeo Fioretos and Adam Sheingate, of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2016), and with Emilio Parrado of Latin America Since the Left Turn (University of Pennsylvania, 2018), among other co-edited volumes. Her articles on decentralization, federalism, authoritarianism, participation and qualitative methods have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Publius, Qualitative Sociology, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics among others.

The Penn Development Research Initiative is hosting a fall seminar series featuring PDRI faculty and students.

For more information, see: https://pdri.upenn.edu/event/pdri-fall-2021-seminar-series-featuring-tulia-g-falleti/