DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Program Area(s):  International Relations; Comparative Politics; Methods

Regional Specialization(s):  Latin America

Research Interest(s):  State Formation, State Capacity, Historical Sociology, Regional Orders & Hierarchies, International Systems, and Comparative-Historical Methods

Conference Presentation(s):

• “Ordering Wars: A Typology of the Relationship between War and International Order”, American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, September 2024
• “Moving between Orders: Latin American Wars of Independence and the International System” Latin American Studies Association Conference, June 2024
• “The Autonomy Trap: The Dilemma of Latin American Status-Seeking Strategies” International Studies Association 65th Annual Convention, April 2024
• “Fighting for recognition: the international dimension of Latin American wars of independence” International Studies Association 65th Annual Convention, April 2024
• “Framing Orders Through Bridges: the concept of International Order and metatheories of International Relations” IPSA 27th World Congress of Political Science, July 2023
• “Moving up the ranks: MaterialCapabilities, Defense Industry, and International Status in the cases of the US, India, and Brazil" International Studies Association 64th Annual Convention, March 2023
• “Framing Orders Through Bridges: the concept of International Order and metatheories of International Relations” International Studies Association 64th Annual Convention, March 2023
• “Building Order from Chaos: war and regional order in Latin America”, Latin American Studies Association Conference, May 2021
• “The effects of war on the formation of the Latin American regional order”, International Studies Association 62th Annual Convention, April 2021
• “Regional Order in South America: changes and systemic causes (1810-2010)” Latin American Studies Association Conference, May 2019
• “New Regionalism and it’s structural meanings” International Studies Association 60th Annual Convention, March 2019

Publications:

• Ana Luiza Vedovato, Igor Castellano da Silva "Brazil’s Lost Pathway to Hegemony: Structural Changes in the South American Regional System (1810-2010s)” in Colombia Internacional 111: 171-199. 
• Ana Luiza Vedovato, Igor Castellano da Silva “The state as the unit of analysis in regional systems: effects on the systemic structure of South America” in Revista Debates, 13(1):195-222. (in Portuguese). 

Honors and Awards:

• Minar Summer Research Award, Political Science Department, 2024
• Summer Research Grant, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Cluster (LACS), Summer 2024
• Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Comparative and Historical Social Sciences (CHSS), 2022-2023