Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Melanie Rae Perez is a PhD candidate in international relations at Florida International University. Her research examines the intersections of religion, politics, and global justice with a focus on transregionalism and imagined communities. Specifically, she […]

Geidy Mendez (she/her/hers) is a first-generation Guatemalan, born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey. Her family is from Flores Costa Cuca, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political […]

Raymundo Lopez is a PhD candidate in the department of political science at Michigan State University. His research leverages video-as-data from U.S. Congressional floor speeches to evaluate how members of Congress negotiate and perform their […]

Martín Gou is a PhD candidate in political science at Vanderbilt University specializing in comparative political behavior, with a regional focus on Latin America. His dissertation, “Who Draws the Line? The Interaction Between Horizontal and […]

Annabella España-Nájera is professor of Chicano and Latin American studies at California State University, Fresno. Her research examines democracy, authoritarianism, and political institutions in Latin America, with a particular focus on Guatemala and El Salvador. […]

Raisa Castro-Ávila is a second-year Ph.D. student in political science at Georgia State University, specializing in comparative politics and public law. Her research examines how Latin American courts define and adjudicate rape, with a focus […]