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Guillermo Trejo

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Education

PhDThe University of Chicago, Chicago, IL2004
M.A.Columbia University, New York, NY1994
B.A.(Honors)School of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City1992
B.A.Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City1991
Areas of Experience

I specialize in comparative politics (social conflict, religion, ethnicity and democratization) and Latin American politics and society. My primary research analyzes the impact of religious competition and multi-party politics on the dynamics of social protest, rebellion and inter-communal violence among ethnic minorities in Mexico. I am also working on state repression and human rights violations of political dissidents and religious minorities during the Mexican transition to democracy. My work combines quantitative methods with analytic process-tracing and case studies.

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, September 2005 - present
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. (CIDE)
Founder and Director of the Diploma on Modern Political Analysis, Division of Political Studies, September 1999-July 2000
Coordinator of the Collective Action Section of the Diploma on Modern Political Analysis, Division of Political Studies, September 1999-2005
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Division of Political Studies, August 1997-September 2005
Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE)
Political Consultant, 1998-1999
Assessment of the organization of federal elections in indigenous areas in Mexico
Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo A.C. (CIDAC)
Research Associate, 1991-1992
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Mancur Olson Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Field of Political Economy, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association, August, 2006
Honorary Mention, Gabriel Almond Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association, 2005
CIDE's grant for pedagogical innovation in the area of quantitative methods, 2004
Hewlett grant for data gathering, CIDE, 1999
Hewlett grant for dissertation fieldwork, University of Chicago, 1998
Melon grant for pre-dissertation fieldwork, University of Chicago, 1997
Ford Foundation scholarship for graduate studies, 1992-1993
Fulbright grant for graduate studies, 1992-1995
Professional Service

Faculty Computer Liaison
Faculty Advisory Committee, Religion and Politics Theme Field Exam, January 05, 2006 - present
Dept Committees
Teaching Course Reduction (2-1) Committee, September 15, 2006
Faculty Advisory Committee, Race and Ethnicity Theme Field Exam, September 01, 2006 - present
Qualifying/Preliminary Exams Committee/Comparative Politics, September 15, 2006 - September 30, 2006
Dept Services
Faculty Member in Charge, bi-weekly seminar of CIDE's Division of Political Studies, 2003-2005
A&S Council
Center for Latin American Studies, Summer Grants Committee, April 30, 2006
University Committee
Faculty Advisory Committee, International Comparative Studies, September 30, 2006 - present
Center for Latin American Studies, Graduate Student Fellowship Committee, March 02, 2006
Duke-UNC Council on Latin American Studies, Book Translation Grant Committee, February, 2006
University Services
Member, Academic Advisory Board for the Master's Program in Political Sociology, Instituto Mora, 2002-2005
Member, Academic Advisory Board on Student Dissertations for CIDE's B.A. program on political science and international relations, 1999-2001
Member, Academic Advisory Board for CIDE's B.A. programs (economics and political science and international relations), 1997-2002
Member, Academic Advisory Board to redesign CIDE's B.A. curriculum on political science and international relations, 1997-1998
Special Projects
Faculty co-coordinator of the Grassroots Politics in Latin America Working Group, Consortium of Latin American Studies, Duke-UNC, January 15, 2006 - present
Faculty Member of Duke's Human Rights Initiative, January 15, 2006 - present
Other
Member, Editorial Board of Politica y gobierno, CIDE's Political Science Journal, 2001 - present
Reviewer, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico, and the Oñati Internatonal Institute for the Sociology of Law
   Centro de Investigationes y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS), Mexico and the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISJ), Spain.
Journal Referee
   Latin American Research Review, Revista Mexicana de Sociologia, Politica y gobierno
Member, Professional Affiliations
   American Political Science Association (APSA), Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

Publications

Books

  1. G. Trejo, Indigenous Insurgency: The Breakdown of Religious and Political Monopolies and the Rise of Multiculturalism in Mexico (To be submitted in 2007).
  2. G. Trejo with Claudia Jones, Contra la pobreza: Por una estrategia de politica social (1993), Mexico City: Cal y Arena and CIDAC (In Spanish.).
  3. G. Trejo with CIDAC reseachers, Educación para una economia competitiva: Hacia una estrategia de reforma (1992), Mexico City: Diana and CIDAC (In Spanish.).

Chapters in Books

  1. G. Trejo, Etnicidad e mobilizacao social. Una revisiao teorica com aplicacoes a quarta onda de mobilizacoes indigenas na America Latina, in America Latina hoje --teorias e interpretacoes, edited by J.M. Domingues and M. Maneiro, (December, 2006), Rio de Janeiro: Civilizacao Brasileira.
  2. G. Trejo, The Political Foundations of Ethnic Mobilization and Territorial Conflict in Mexico, 1975-2000, in Federalism and Territorial Cleavages, edited by Ugo Amoretti and Nancy Bermeo (2004), Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  3. G. Trejo, Social Conflict and the Mexican Transition to Democracy, in 24 Años de Desarrollo Social en México, edited by Rubén Aguilar et.al. (2004), Mexico City: Banamex (Spanish.).
  4. G. Trejo, The Changing Nature of the Chiapas Conflict, in Chiapas: Interpretaciones Sobre la Negociación y la Paz, edited by Cynthia Arnson, Raúl Benítez Manaut and Andrew Selee (2003), Mexico City: CISAN, UNAM and The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Spanish.).
  5. G. Trejo, Poverty and Inequality in 20th Century Mexico, in Gran Historia de México Ilustrada, vol. V (2003), Mexico City: Editorial Planeta DeAgostini (Spanish.).
  6. G. Trejo and José Antonio Aguilar, Ethnicity and Democratic Consolidation: The Organization of Federal Elections in Mexican Indigenous Regions, in Dilemas de la Democracia en México: Los Actores Sociales Ante la Representación Politica, edited by Aline Hémond and David Recondo (2002), Mexico City: CEMCA and IFE (Spanish.).
  7. G. Trejo and Claudio Jones, Political Dilemmas of Welfare Reform: Poverty and Inequality in Mexico, in Mexico Under Zedillo, edited by Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio (1998), Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner (A slightly modified version of this chapter appeared in Spanish as "Social Policy Under the New Economic Model: Political Dilemmas of Welfare Reform," in Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio (eds.), México en el umbral del nuevo siglo. Entre la crisis y el cambio, Mexico City: Porrúa and CIDAC, 1999.).
  8. G. Trejo, The Politics of Educational Reform in Mexico: Ambivalence toward Change, in The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico, edited by Riordan Roett (1995), Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner.

Journal Articles

  1. G. Trejo, Redefining the Territorial Bases of Power: Peasants, Indians and Guerrilla Warfare in Chiapas, Mexico, International Journal on Multicultural Studies, UNESCO, vol. 4 no. 1 (2002) (Special issue edited by Juan Diez-Medrano.).
  2. G. Trejo, Mobilizing Ethnicity: A Theoretical Review with Applications to the Fourth Wave of Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America, Politica y gobierno, vol. VIII no. 1 (January-June 2000) (Spanish.).
  3. Robert R. Kaufman and G. Trejo, Regionalism, Regime Transformation and Pronasol: The Politics of the National Solidarity Programme in Four Mexican States, Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 29 (October, 1997) (A preliminary version of this article appeared in Spanish in Politica y gobierno, vol. III, no. 2, June-December 1996.).

Papers Submitted

  1. G. Trejo, The Price of Challenging Hegemony: Human Rights Violations and the Mexican Transition to Democracy, in Accountability and the Rule of Law in Mexico, edited by Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Beatriz Magaloni (under review), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Papers In Preparation

  1. G. Trejo, When Protest Becomes Rebellion: Cycles of Contention, Repression, and the Logic of Preventive Uprisings in Chiapas, Mexico (2006).
  2. G. Trejo, Religious Competition and Ethnic Mobilization: Why the Catholic Church Promotes Indigenous Movements in Mexico (2006).
  3. G. Trejo, The Logic of Government Repression in Electoral Autocracies: Evidence from Mexico, 1982-1997 (2006).
  4. G. Trejo, Fear as a Mechanism of Institutional Change: Protest, Rebellion, and Electoral Reform During Mexico's Transition to Democracy (2006).
  5. G. Trejo, Electoral Cycles and Social Protest in New Democracies: Evidence from Mexico, 1976-2006 (2006).

Book Reviews

  1. G. Trejo, Hechter, Michael. Containing Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, Politica y gobierno, vol. IX no. 2 (2002) (Spanish.).
  2. G. Trejo, Gill, Anthony. Rendering unto Ceasar: The State and the Catholic Church in Latin America, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998, Politica y gobierno, vol. VII no. 2 (2000) (Spanish.).
  3. G. Trejo, Lichbach, Mark. The Rebel's Dilemma, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996, Politica y gobierno, vol. VI no. 2 (1999) (Spanish.).
  4. G. Trejo, Gilly, Adolfo. Chiapas: la razón ardiente: Ensayo sobre la rebelión del mundo encantado, Mexico City: Era, 1997, Politica y gobierno, vol. V no. 1 (1998) (Spanish.).
  5. G. Trejo, Montemayor, Carlos. Chiapas: La rebelión indigena de México, Mexico City: Joauín Mortiz, 1997, Politica y gobierno, vol. V no. 1 (1998) (Spanish.).
  6. G. Trejo, Cook, Maria Lorena. Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1996, Politica y gobierno, vol. IV no. 2 (1997) (Spanish.).

Other

  1. G. Trejo, Why Poverty and Inequality Hinder the Functioning of Democracies, Derecho y Cultura no. 6 (Summer, 2002) (Special issue on poverty, democracy and development. Spanish.).
  2. G. Trejo, Why democracies need alternation in power, Nexos (June, 2000) (Spanish.).
  3. G. Trejo, Why social protest increases during electoral years, Nexos (April, 2000) (Spanish.).
  4. G. Trejo, Why democracies are more intelligent than philosopher kings, Nexos (March, 2000) (Spanish.).
  5. G. Trejo, Why competition and conflict, rather than consensus, promote better public policies, Nexos (February, 2000) (Spanish.).
  6. G. Trejo, Why democracies function without democrats, Nexos (January, 2000) (Spanish.).
  7. G. Trejo, Nine actors waiting for Godot: Some notes on the Chiapas peace process, Bien Común y Gobierno (June, 1998) (Spanish.).
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