Biography
Carlos de la Torre is Director of the UF Center for Latin American Studies. He has a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He was a fellow at the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
RESEARCH INTERESTS Populism, democratization, and authoritarianism; racism and citizenship in the Americas.
GEOGRAPHIC EXPERTISE Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia
COURSES Global populism: what can we learn from Latin America? Racism and citizenship in the Americas
His most recent books are The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism, (Routlege, 2019); Populisms a Quick Immersion, (Tibidabo Editions, 2019), De Velasco a Correa: Insurreciones, populismo y elecciones en Ecuador, (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, 2015), The Promise and Perils of Populism, (The University Press of Kentucky, 2015), Latin American Populism of the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Cynthia Arnson, (The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013), and Populist Seduction in Latin America, (Ohio University Press, second edition 2010).
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