Igor Acácio

CIPR Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Office Address
7025 Freret St.
7025 Freret St.
Stone Center Departments
CIPR
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tulane Affiliation
Researcher
Visiting
Region
  • General Latin America

Biography

Igor Acácio is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University’s Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside. He is interested in the study of democracy and civil-military relations, and defense and security issues, with a geographical focus on Latin America. His recent work has been published in outlets such as Comparative Politics, Democratization, the Journal of Democracy, Armed Forces and Society, and Public Opinion Quarterly. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.

 

Courses

Violence in Latin America, Armed Forces & Society

Research

Democracy and Civil-military Relations, Military Missions, and Defense and Security Issues 

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, Political Science, 2022
  • Fulbright Visiting Graduate Student, UC San Diego 2016
  • M.A., State University of Rio de Janeiro, Political Science, 2013
  • B.A., Fluminense Federal University, International Relations, 2011

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Instructor of Record, Tulane University, 2023-2024
  • Instructor of Record, University of California, Riverside 2022
  • Teaching Assistant, University of California, Riverside 2016-2022
  • Teaching Assistant, State University of Rio de Janiero 2013

Distinctions

  • Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship, Notre Dame International Security Center (NDSIC) 2022- 2023
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA), 2021
  • IGCC Dissertation Fellowship University of California, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) (San Diego, CA), 2021
  • Departmental Award to attend the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR, Syracuse University), University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA), 2019

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • French
  • English

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Argentina
  • Uruguay
  • Mexico
  • Colombia

Selected Publications

  • 2024. "The role of the military in the response to natural disasters and pandemics". (with Anaís Passos). In: Pion-Berlin, David and Aurel Croissant (Eds). Research Handbook of Civil-Military Relations. Elgar Edgar Publishers.
  • 2024. Limitações aos mandatos presidenciais sob o regime militar: Uma solução para as divisões políticas dentro das Forças Armadas". (with Octavio Amorim Neto). In: D’Araújo, Maria Celina and Lucas Rezende. Manual Forças Armadas e Política na História R
  • 2024. Não é só uma gripezinha? Respostas Governamentais Militarizadas à Pandemia de Covid-19. In: Villas Boas, Pedro, Carina Gouvea and Isabela Bezerra (Eds.). State of Exception, Populism and the Militarization of Politics in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Rec
  • 2023. "Armed Forces in Public Security in Brazil: The military point of view". (with Celso Castro, AdrianaMarques and Verônica Azzi). Rio de Janeiro: Editora FGV,
  • 2023. "Military Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Latin America: Military Presence, Autonomy, and Human Rights Violations" (with David Pion-Berlin and Anaís Passos). In: Armed Forces and Society, 49 (2).
  • 2022. "Explaining Military Responses to Protests in Latin American Democracies” (with David Pion-Berlin). In: Comparative Politics, 52 (2) 2022.
  • 2022. "Military Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis in Latin America: Military Presence, Autonomy, and Human Rights Violations" (with David Pion-Berlin and Anaís Passos). In: Armed Forces and Society
  • 2021. "The Trump Election and Attitudes toward the United States in Latin America".(with Miguel Carreras and Giancarlo Visconti). In: Public Opinion Quarterly, 85 (4)
  • 2021. "The militarization of responses to Covid-19 in Democratic Latin America". (with Anaís Passos). In: Brazilian Journal of Public Administration (RAP). 55 (1): 261-271