Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor, Grace III Chair, Latin American Studies

237 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-8529
Email: Hagopian.1@nd.edu

Frances Hagopian is the Michael P. Grace II Chair in Latin American Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Professor Hagopian received her BA from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studies the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization and the political economy of economic reform in Brazil and the Southern Cone. She is the author of Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1996), which was named a Choice outstanding book in Comparative Politics, co-editor of Advances and Setbacks in the Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), as well as several articles on democratization and political representation which have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and in other journals and books. Her current research focuses on economic liberalization and political representation in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. She has held fellowships from the Center for Latin American Studies and the Howard Heinz Endowment of the University of Pittsburgh, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and the U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright-Hays). Hagopian is a member of the Council of the American Political Science Association, and the editorial boards of PS: Political Science and Politics and Latin American Politics and Society. She is also a member of the Latin American Studies Association, and has chaired its nominations committee. Before coming to Notre Dame in1999, she had previously taught at Harvard and Tufts Universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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