Joséphine Lechartre

Joséphine Lechartre

Post-Doctoral Fellow- Center for Inter-American Policy and Research

Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
CIPR
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tulane Affiliation
Visiting
Region
  • Central America
  • General Latin America

Research

Political Violence, Indigenous Politics, Political Behavior, Migration, Rebel Governance and Extractive Economies

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Political Science and Peace Studies, 2024
  • M.A., cum laude, Sciences Po Paris, Paris, France, International Security, 2017
  • B.A. Political Science, Latin American Studies, Sciences Po Paris, Poitiers, France, 2014

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Instructor of Record, University of Notre Dame, 2021

Distinctions

  • Shaheen 3 Minutes Thesis Competition, University of Notre Dame, United States – Second place, 2024
  • Fellow (non residential), Civil War Paths, The Civil War Centre, University of York, 2024-2025
  • Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (spring 2023), Montréal Centre of International Studies (CERIUM). Université de Montréal, Canada, 2023.
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, University of Notre Dame, United States, 2022
  • Richard and Peggy Notebaert Premier Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, United States, 2018
  • Darby Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, United States, 2018
  • Visiting Fellowship, Sciences Po Paris, France, 2017

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Arabic

Overseas Experience

  • Guatemala
  • Mexico
  • Brazil
  • Colombia
  • France
  • Canada

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Who Has the Edge in Guatemala’s Presidential Race?” Featured Q&A, Latin America Advisor, The Dialogue, 11 April 2023.
  • 2022. Johnson, A. Lechartre, J. Mart, S. Robison, M. and Hughes, C. (2022). ‘Peace Scholarship and the Local Turn. Hierarchies in the Production of Knowledge about Peace’, Journal of Peace Research.
  • 2021. Lechartre, J. “La Juridiction Spéciale pour la Paix colombienne: juge impartial ou institution politisée?” Délibérée 9(1) – The Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia: impartial judge or politicized institution?
  • 2017. Lechartre, J. Linares, C. and Ospina, J.C. La participación de las víctimas en el Sistema integral de verdad, justicia, reparación y no repetición, Comisión Colombiana de Juristas, “Las víctimas en el centro del Acuerdo” series, Bogotá: Colombia.

Nicolás de la Cerda

Nicolás de la Cerda

Post-Doctoral Fellow- Center for Inter-American Policy and Research

Stone Center Departments
CIPR
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows

Research

Political Psychology, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Psychology, Latin American Politics, Public Opinion, Party Politics

Degrees

  • Ph.D., The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Political Science, 2024.
  • M.A., The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Political Science, 2020.
  • B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Sociology,2016

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019-2024
  • Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021
  • Instructor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2015-2018

Distinctions

  • Uhlman Fellow, UNC Department of Political Science ($3,275), 2023.
  • MPSA Graduate Student Travel Scholarship ($500), 2023.
  • James W. Prothro Award for Outstanding Research, Best Graduate Student Paper, UNC Department of Political Science, 2022.
  • Carolina Latinx Center Innovation Award, UNC Carolina Latinx Center, 2022.
  • Mellon Dissertation Award, UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas ($3,000), 2022.
  • Summer Research Fellowship, UNC Department of Political Science ($3,000), 2022.
  • Thomas F. Ferdinand Summer Research Fellowship, UNC Graduate School ($5,000), 2022.
  • Summer Research Collaboratory Program, UNC Department of Political Science ($5,000), 2021.
  • Graduate Research Award, UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas ($1,500), 2020.
  • Uhlman Fellow, UNC Department of Political Science ($2,250), 2020.
  • Pre-dissertation Field Research Grant, UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas ($1,500) [Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic].
  • John Frechione award support for lodging, Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference (LASPP) [Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic].

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Chile
  • Argentina
  • Peru

Selected Publications

  • 2024. de la Cerda, Nicolás, Jonathan Hartlyn, and Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo. “Ideological and Populist Bases of Partisan Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America”. Journal of Politics in Latin America. 16(2), 252- 271.
  • 2024. de la Cerda, Nicolás and Jacob Gunderson.“Are Party Families in Europe Ideologically Coherent Today?”. European Journal of Political Research. 63(3), 1208–1226.
  • 2023. Martínez-Gallardo, Cecilia, Nicolás de la Cerda, et al., “Revisiting Party System Structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions”. Party Politics. 29(4), 780-792.
  • 2022. de la Cerda, Nicolás and Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo. “Mexico: A Politically Effective Populist Pandemic Response”. Book chapter in Populists and the Pandemic... Lucio Renno and Nils Ringe, eds. Routledge.
  • 2022. de la Cerda, Nicolás. “Unstable Identities: The Decline of Partisanship in Contemporary Chile.” Journal of Politics in Latin America. 14(1), 3-30.
  • 2019. Bargsted, Matías and Nicolás de la Cerda. 2019. “Ideological Preferences and Evolution of the Religious Cleavage in Chile, 1998–2014.” Latin American Research Review. 54(2), 348–365.
  • 2013. Nicolás de la Cerda et al., “Participación ciudadana en las elecciones municipales 2012: diagnóstico y propuestas en torno al sistema de voto voluntario...” In Propuestas para Chile, chapter 1, pages 23–50.

Gonzalo Contreras Aguirre

Gonzalo Contreras Aguirre

Post-Doctoral Fellow- Center for Inter-American Policy and Research

Stone Center Departments
CIPR
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tulane Affiliation
Visiting

Research

Political Representation, Citizen Involvement in Politics, Political Participation, Clientelism.

Degrees

  • DPhil., University of Oxford, Politics, 2024
  • MSc. Oxford University, Politics Research, 2019
  • B.A., Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, Political Science, 2012

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Seminar Instructor, University College London, 2021-2024
  • Lecturer, Universidad Diego Portales, 2016-2017
  • Senior Adviser. Home Office, Chilean Government, Santiago, Chile. 2014-2018.

Distinctions

  • Excellence in Student Feedback Award. University College London, Department of Political Science. 2024
  • Virginia Gray Graduate Student Research Award for the APSA Annual Conference 2023, Los Ángeles, United States, in the Political Organizations and Parties section. 2023.
  • APSA Organized Section Support Grant for the APSA Annual Conference 2023, Los Ángeles, United States, in the Comparative Politics section. 2023.
  • APSA First Generation Scholars in the Profession Annual Meeting Travel and Accessibility Grant. Awarded by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs of the American Political Science Association.
  • APSA Graduate Student Member Support Grant. APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession.
  • Travel Grant funded by Ms Julia Poschinger-Bray, St. Hugh’s College alumna. University of Oxford. Grant to attend APSA Annual Meeting 2023.
  • Vacation Course and Travel Grant. St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. Grant to conduct fieldwork in Santiago, Chile. 2021.
  • Barbinder Watson Travel Fund. St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. Grant to conduct fieldwork in Santiago, Chile. 2021.
  • Marco Villani Graduate Research Grant Fund. St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. Travel grant to participate at CEISAL conference, Helsinki, Finland. 2022.

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Chile
  • United Kingdom

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Contreras, G. ”Outsourcing Machines. How programmatic parties include clientelistic strategies.” Comparative Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241271310.
  • 2024. Contreras, G. and M. Morales. “Masking Electoral Turnout. Invalid Voting and Class Bias When Compulsory Voting is Reinstated.” Electoral Studies (92): 102878.
  • 2023. Belmar, F., G. Contreras, M. Morales, C. Troncoso. 2023. “Demanding non-programmatic distribution: evidence from local governments in Chile”. Policy Studies, Vol. 44(2).
  • 2018. Contreras, G. and Morales, M. 2018. "Ethnic solidarity and the vote: Mapuche candidates and voters in Chile". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1371582.
  • 2017. Cantillana C., Contreras, G., Morales, M., Oliva, D. and Perelló, L. 2017. "Malestar con la representación democrática en América Latina". Política y Gobierno, vol. 24 (2): 245-274.
  • 2017. Contreras, G. and Morales, M. 2017. "Why was the voluntary vote approved in Chile? Reasons and arguments that drove the reform". Revista Chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política, vol 8 (2), 1-37

Daniel Friess

Daniel Friess

Cochran Family Professor- Earth and Environmental Sciences

School of Science & Engineering
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Additional Info

Number of Theses or Dissertations Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 4 

Research

Mangrove Forest Dynamics, Conservation, Restoration, Changes in Ecosystem Services Under Various Conditions, Ecosystems Services Policy, Habitat Restoration

Degrees

  • University Annual Teaching Excellence Award, Honour Roll, National University of Singapore, 2019-2022.
  • Dean’s Chair, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), NUS, 2019-2022

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Cochran Family Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2023-
  • Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Department of Geography, 2018-2022
  • Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Department of Geography, 2012-2017
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance & Biological Sciences, NUS, 2009-2011

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • United Kingdom
  • Singapore
  • Malaysia
  • China
  • Australia
  • Thailand
  • Germany
  • Philippines
  • Vietnam
  • Indonesia
  • Taiwan

Selected Publications

  • In press. Friess. The diversity of mangrove forests and geographical biases in their research. In press. Bulletin of Marine Science.
  • 2024. Friess et al., Mangrove forests: their status, threats, conservation and restoration. Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science 2nd Ed
  • 2023. Friess. Global mangrove mapping has gone mainstream. Science Bulletin 68, 2145-2147. [invited]
  • 2023. Friess. The potential for mangrove and seagrass blue carbon in Small Island States. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 64, 101324. [invited]
  • 2023. Friess, et al., Mangrove forests and climate change: impacts and interactions. In: Kennish, Paerl & Crosswell (Eds). Climate Change and Estuaries. CRC Press

Cynthia Ebinger

Cynthia Ebinger

Professor- Earth and Environmental Sciences

School of Science & Engineering
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Research

Geophysics, Rifts, Seismic Monitoring, Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics, West Africa

Degrees

  • Ph.D., MIT/WHOI, Joint Program in Oceanography, Marine Geology, Geophysics, 1988
  • M.A., MIT, Geophysics, 1986
  • B.S., Duke University, Geology, 1982

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Marshall-Heape Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 2017-
  • Professor, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2006-2016
  • Adjunct Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006-2010

Distinctions

  • American Geophysical Union Distinguished Lecturer, Tectonophysics Section, 2023-2024
  • NASEM Jefferson Science Fellow, Bureau of African Affairs and Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State 2022-23
  • Woollard Award, Geophysics and Geodynamics Section, Geological Society of America, 2021
  • Tulane Honors Professor of the Year, 2021

Overseas Experience

  • Ecuador
  • Peru
  • United Kingdom
  • Kenya
  • Uganda
  • Ethiopia
  • Australia

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Sullivan*, G., C. J. Ebinger, M. Musila*, M. Perry^, E.R. Kraus*, Kinematics of Rift Linkage between the Eastern and Ethiopian rifts in the Turkana Depression, Africa, submitted to Basin Research, March, 2024
  • In press. Murray^, K., C. J. Ebinger, Active deformation in the central sector of the East African rift zone from tectonic, volcanic and hydrologic processes, J. African Earth Sciences, in press.
  • 2024. Joseph*, D.Y., M. K. Savage, A. D. Jolly, C. J. Ebinger, Time-varying crustal anisotropy at Whakaari/White Island Volcano, Geophys. Res. Letts., https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106473
  • 2024. C. Ebinger, et al., ariations in subsidence along the Gulf of Mexico passive margin from Airborne-LiDAR data and time series InSAR, J. Geophysical Research - Earth Surfaces, 129,e2023JF007406
  • 2024. Ebinger, C. J.,M. Reiss, I. Bastow, M. M. Karanja* (2024), Shallow sources of upper mantle seismic anisotropy in East Africa, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Leslie Scott

Leslie Scott

Associate Chair- Department of Theatre and Dance

Associate Professor
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Research

Philanthropy & Social Change, Contemporary Dance, Dance for Camera, Non-Profit Development, Community Engagement through International Collaboration

Degrees

  • MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Choreography, 2016
  • BFA, Texas Christian University, Modern Dance, 2004

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Director, Creative Industries Certificate Program, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Associate Chair & Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance, Tulane University, 2021-
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance, Tulane University, 2017- 2021
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Dance, California Institute of the Arts, 2014-2016

Distinctions

  • Faculty Training Advisor - Service-Learning Course Development, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Tenenbaum Fellow – College Scholars – Tulane University, 2021-2024
  • Learning x Giving, National Philanthropy Organization – Faculty Fellow, 2021-2024
  • Mellon Fellow for community-engaged scholarship, 2020-2022

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil

Selected Publications

  • "hymn + them" - Santiago OFF! Festival, Chile, Jan 2025
  • International Dance Festival New Orleans, 2023-
  • "hymn + them" - dance premiere, Valdivia & Valparaíso, Chile, Jan 2022
  • “If Dance Counted”, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO) Conference Proceedings Oct 4-8 2018, San Diego, CA – Presenter, 2018.
  • “Quantifying Dance in a Capitalist Society,” Tafter Economic Journal, Italy N. 95 – LUGLIO AGOSTO, 2017

Watufani Poe

Watufani Poe

Assistant Professor of Activist Media- Department of Communication

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty

Courses

Cross Cultural Analysis, Special Topics: Theorizing the Black Queer Americas

Research

Activist Media, Afro-Latin America, Black Feminist Ethnography, Gender and Sexuality, Black LGBTQ+ identity in Brazil

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Brown University, Africana Studies, Designated Emphasis in Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021
  • A.M., Brown University, Africana Studies, 2018
  • A.M., Brown University, History, 2018
  • B.A. Swarthmore College, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies (minor), 2013

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 2022-2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Amherst College, 2021-2022

Distinctions

  • Center For Humanistic Inquiry Fellow at Amherst College, 2021-2022
  • US Fulbright Program Fellow (Brazil), 2018-2019
  • Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow, 2019
  • Tinker Research Grantee (Brazil), 2016-2017

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Dominican Republic

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Representação vs. Representatividade: Analyzing Black LGBTQ+ Identity Politics in Brazil,” Journal of Women Gender and Families of Color (Final Revisions Accepted 10/11/2022, Forthcoming Fall 2023)
  • 2023. “Black Gay Worldmaking of the Global 1980s: Brazil and the United States” Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura. https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/rebeh/article/view/14682/12262
  • 2023. “Homens Negros Amando Homens Negros: Militância Gay Negra dos Anos 1980 no Brasil e nos EUA” Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura. https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/rebeh/article/view/14682/12261
  • 2023. “Black Brazilian Media Producers and the Nomination of Marte Um,” Black Perspectives. https://www.aaihs.org/black-brazilian-media-producers-and-the-nomination-of-marte-um/

Martha Silva

Martha Silva

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of International Health and Sustainable Development

School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty

Research

Reproductive Justice

Degrees

  • Ph.D., 2005, Tulane University, International Health and Development
  • MPH, 2002, Tulane University, Health Information Systems
  • B.A., 1998, Macalester College, Psychology and French

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Master of Public Health Program Director, International Health and Sustainable Development, 2023-
  • Assistant Professor, Department of International Health and Sustainable Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, 2018-

Distinctions

  • Changemakers in Family Planning (Principal Investigator) $82,301
  • Tulane Newcomb Institute Faculty Grant – Advancing Reproductive Justice in Louisiana (Principal Investigator) - $3,000
  • Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant, Tulane University - Post-Roe Reproductive Justice Conversations and Policies in the USA and Mexico (Principal Investigator) - $7,000
  • Breakthrough RESEARCH, Population Council / USAID – Social and behavior change research in support of the Ouagadougou Partnership (Principal Investigator) – $615,420
  • Breakthrough RESEARCH, Population Council / USAID – Research and documentation in support of the USAID Zika Response In Latin America and the Caribbean (Principal Investigator) - $1,225,300

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • Guatemala
  • Uruguay
  • Honduras
  • Dominican Republic
  • El Salvador
  • New Zealand
  • Angola

Related Experience

  • Research Associate, Medicins du Monde, France, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2012-2015
  • Senior Research Fellow, Center for Health Services Research and Policy, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2007-2011
  • Research and Teaching Assistant, Dept. Of International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, 2000-2004
  • Development Instructor, Humana People to People, Denmark/Angola, 1999-2000

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Adetunji A, Silva M, Jani N, Adediran M. “Like a broom tied together”: social cohesion and its role in community capacity strengthening. PLOS Global Public Health. 3(10): e0002508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002508
  • 2024. Silva M, et al., Evaluating a youth-designed sexual and reproductive health mass and social media campaign in Côte d’Ivoire: triangulation of three independent evaluations. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 31:1.
  • 2024. Silva M, et al., Gender-Based Violence Narratives in Internet-Based Conversations in Nigeria: Social Listening Study. J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e46814. DOI: 10.2196/46814
  • 2023. Silva M, et al., Results From a Multi-Method Exploratory Scale Development Process to Measure Authoritarian Provider Attitudes in Democratic Republic of Congo and Togo. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2023;11(Suppl 3):e2200421.
  • 2023. Silva, M, et al., Methods and measures to assess health provider behavioral outcomes related to reproductive, maternal and child health: A rapid review. Global Health: Science and Practice. July 2023. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00407
  • 2023. Bellows N, Dougherty L, Nai D, Kassegne S, Nagbe R, Babogou L, Guede C, Silva M. Improving provider and client communication around family planning: Results from a cross-sectional survey. PLOS Global Public Health. 2023. 3(6): e0001923

Rachel Schoner

Rachel Schoner

Assistant Professor- Department of Political Science

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Research

Non-State Actors in International Relations, Human Rights, International Organizations, International Law and Courts, Political Violence

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of California-San Diego, Political Science, 2022
  • M.A., Emory, Political Science, 2015
  • B.A., Emory, Mathematics and Political Science, 2015

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 2022-2023

Distinctions

  • Best Graduate Student Paper, Law and Courts Section American Political Science Association, 2022
  • University Association for Contemporary European Studies Scholarship, 2020
  • International Studies Association Travel Award, 2020
  • American Political Science Association Travel Award, 2019
  • Prestage-Cook Travel Award, 2018

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. “Naming and Shaming in UN Treaty Bodies: Individual Petitions’ Effect on Human Rights” Review of International Organizations
  • 2023. “Empowering Your Victims: Why Repressive Regimes Allow Individual Petitions in International - Organizations” Review of International Organizations
  • 2023. Review of Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance by Andrey L. Comstock. Law and Politics Book Review 33 (5): 73-76.
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