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| | 20-21 CISSR Faculty Fellow Angela S. García recently received two book awards for her 2019 book, Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law. For this work, she received the Komarovsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and the Thomas & Znaniecki Book Award from the American Sociological Association. Professor García examines the lives of undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S. and how their lives are shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. In the book, she writes that many undocumented Mexicans attempt to accommodate restrictive localities and avoid immigration enforcement by presenting themselves as “legal”. Combining social theory on immigration, race, place, and law, Professor García demonstrates how contemporary immigration laws coerce assimilation as “legal passing” becomes habitual and embodied.
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CISSR is accepting applications for Dissertation Completion Grants!
CISSR seeks to support doctoral research on international, transnational, and global questions through Dissertation Support Grants. Now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 academic year, this grant provides funding and office space for doctoral students who have completed most of their fieldwork and are at the write-up stage of their dissertation. To learn more about our past Dissertation Fellows, click here.
ELIGIBILITY & REQUIREMENTSUniversity of Chicago doctoral students in the Division of the Social Sciences who have defended their dissertation proposal and collected most of their data/empirical evidence may apply.
APPLICATIONSSubmit applications via InfoReady no later than 11:59 pm on February 26, 2021. To access the application, click here.
FINANCIAL SUPPORTThe CISSR award is a residential fellowship, in which fellows are provided shared office space in Pick Hall 102 and a $5,000 research allowance that can be used for travel, computing, books, or conference costs. Applicants are encouraged to learn more about CISSR and the Dissertation Support Grant by visiting https://cissr.uchicago.edu/research/doctoral/cfp. Please read instructions on our website if you have questions regarding travel restrictions.
Application Deadline: February 26, 2021
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| | February 9Northwestern University Center for Latinx Digital Media, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Latin America and Caribbean Studies Unwanted Witnesses: Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America 5:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | February 10Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesberg 11:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Princeton University East Asian Studies Program Chasing Colonial Ghosts: South Korean Attempts to Bring Closure to Pro-Japanese Issues 3:30pm, Live Stream
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| | February 12Brown University Watson Center for International & Public Affairs The Pedagogy of Economics and Caste in India 9:00am, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Karma Masters: Ethical Theory and Complex Personhood in Thailand 9:00am, Live Stream
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| | Northwestern University Department of Spanish & Portuguese Beyond an Isthmus: Diaspora, Aesthetics, and Post-War Identity in Central America 3:00pm, Live Stream
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| | February 15Northwestern University New Directions in Middle East and North Africa Series Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia 12:00pm, Live Stream Registration is required
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| | Michael Albertus publishes new book on the consequences of the property rights gap
Please join us in congratulating 2020-2021 CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus on the publication of his new book Property without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap. In the book, Professor Albertus shows that land reform programs are most often implemented by authoritarian regimes that intentionally withhold property rights in order to gain coercive leverage and exert social control over rural populations. Using wide-ranging original data, he examines the consequences of these reforms for productivity, urbanization, and economic inequality. The book also examines the conditions under which subsequent governments close property rights gaps, usually as a result of democratization or foreign pressure.
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| | Demography Beyond the Foot
CISSR Director Jenny Trinitapoli has contributed to Population & Development Review’s essay collection COVID-19 and the Global Demographic Research Agenda. Trinitapoli reflects on the challenges that demographers currently face in enumerating the COVID-19 crisis, underscoring the moral dimensions of mortality estimation and comparing the data compilation challenges of today to The Bills of Mortality written more than 300 years ago. “A population perspective is crucial for enumerating our current crisis and ensuring the quality of our estimates. Demographers need to keep beating the same drum we always beat: principles of representative sampling, careful definition of the populations at-risk, and correspondence between numerator and denominator.” You can read Trinitapoli’s essay here and access the full PDR collection here.
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| | Benjamin Lessing on criminal governance in Colombia
The conventional view on criminal governance maintains that gang rule provides protection when states do not. Yet in a new paper, 2019-2020 CISSR Faculty Fellow Benjamin Lessing, Christopher Blattman, Gustavo Duncan, and Santiago Tobón contest this assumption, arguing that this view overlooks the ways that criminal rule helps keep police out and foster civilian loyalty. Moreover, after running a 2-year field experiment in which they intensify city governance in select neighborhoods in Medellín, they observed no decrease in gang rule. You can read the full paper here...
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| | Sana Jaffrey on Myanmar’s Feb. 1 military coup
For the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2017-2018 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Sana Jaffrey reflects on the consequences of Myanmar’s recent military coup for its democratic stability. The coup occurred on February 1 after ten years of democratic reforms in which the military established power-sharing arrangements with elected leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi. As the National League for Democracy grew in popularity, generals may have sought to hit the “reset” button due to concerns about the staying power of constitutional safeguards on military dominance. You can read more here...
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| | Darryl Li on U.S. hegemony during the War on Terror | |
| | 2019-2020 CISSR Faculty Fellow Darryl Li recently appeared in the podcast In the Context of Empire to discuss his book The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. In conversation with hosts Jonathan Lancaster and Matthew McKenna, Professor Li discusses the limitations of viewing world affairs through the lens of the nation state and the dark realities of U.S.-led “humanitarian intervention” abroad.
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