Moises Arce

Professor - Political Science

Scott and Majorie Cowen Chair in Political Science
School of Liberal Arts
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  • South America
Moises Arce

Biography

Moisés Arce is the Scott and Marjorie Cowen Chair in Latin American Social Sciences and Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University. He received his PhD in political science from the University of New Mexico in 2000. Professor Arce specializes in environmental politics, conflict processes, democratic governance, and comparative political economy. He is the author of Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, 2024, with Takeshi Wada), Perú: Cuatro décadas de contienda popular (FLACSO Ecuador, 2023), The Roots of Engagement (Oxford University Press, 2022, with Michael Hendricks and Marc Polizzi), Protest and Democracy (University of Calgary Press, 2019, with Roberta Rice), Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), Market Reform in Society (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005), and numerous journal articles and book chapters. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Professor Arce has served as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2003) and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo (2014).

Courses

Latin American Government and Politics, Environmental Conflicts, Comparative Politics of Developing Areas, Third World Politics, Politics of Development, Poverty and Development, Comparative Democratization, Comparative Political Institutions, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to Political Analysis

Research

Environmental politics, conflict processes, democratic governance, and comparative political economy 

Degrees

  • Ph.D., 2000, University of New Mexico, Political Science
  • M.A., 1995, University of New Mexico, Political Science
  • B.A., 1992, Indiana University, South Bend, Political Science

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor and Scott and Marjorie Cowen Chair in Latin American Social Sciences, Tulane University, 2019 – present
  • Professor, University of Missouri, 2013-2019
  • Associate Professor, University of Missouri, 2006 -2013
  • Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, 2000 – 2006
  • Teaching Assistant, University of New Mexico, 1996 – 2000.

Distinctions

  • Shared Governance Award, University of Missouri Faculty Council, 2017-2018
  • Award for Excellence in Political Science, Indiana University, South Bend, Department of Political Science, 1992

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Peru
  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • South Africa

Related Experience

  • Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Department of Area Studies, 2014
  • Visiting Fellow, East-West Center POSCO Program, Hawaii, 2009
  • Visiting Fulbright Lecturer, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Lima, Perú, 2003
  • Summer Intern, Inter-American Development Bank, Sustainable Development Division, Washington, D.C., 1999

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “Informal, Legal or Illegal? Varieties of Artisanal Mining in the Global South,” co-authored with Zaraí Toledo Orozco, World Politics 76, 4 (October).
  • 2024. Popular Politics and Protest Event Analysis in Latin America, co-edited with Takeshi Wada. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
  • 2023. Perú: Cuatro décadas de contienda popular. Quito, Ecuador: FLACSO. https://doi.org/10.46546/2023-50foro.
  • 2022. The Roots of Engagement: Understanding Opposition and Support for Resource Extraction, co-authored with Michael S. Hendricks and Marc S. Polizzi. New York: Oxford University Press.