Eduardo Moncada
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I am a scholar of the politics of crime and violence in Latin America. My research contributes to our understanding of the political dynamics and consequences of criminal violence. Latin America is among the most violent regions in the world: home to eight percent of the world’s population, but accounting for one-third of the world’s annual homicides. While rooted in the politics of crime and violence, I contribute to broader areas of research in political science, including subnational comparative analysis, urban politics, and Latin American politics. At the same time, my research has an important interdisciplinary component that bridges political science with debates in urban studies and criminology.
In my first book, Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 2016), I analyzed how the relationships between city mayors, business interests, and criminal organizations shape the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. In my second book, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2022), I tackle the following question: Why do victims resist similar forms of criminal victimization in contrasting ways? In this book I use the widespread but understudied phenomenon of criminal extortion in Latin America to introduce resistance to criminal victimization into the emerging research on the politics of crime.
Resisting Extortion received the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), the Best Publication of 2022 from the Defense, Public Security and Democracy Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Honorable Mention for the 2022 Giovanni Sartori Book Award from the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Honorable Mention for the 2023 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and was the Co-Winner of the 2022 Best Book Award from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC).
I have conducted extensive fieldwork in Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico and other parts of Latin America, as well as South Africa.
- Ph.D - Brown University
- Master of Arts in Latin American Studies - University of Miami
- Bachelor of Arts - Long Island University
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Comparative Politics of Urban Development in Latin America
- Government and Politics of Latin America
2022 Distinguished Scholar Award, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation ($26,800 for Year 1)
2022 Distinguished Scholar Award, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation ($10,000 for Year 2)
2018 Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) ($40,000)
2014 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation/National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine (Alternate)
2011 Drugs, Security, Democracy Fellowship, Social Science Research Council/Open Society Foundation ($22,000)
2011 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
2011 Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (Declined)
2010 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation ($19,000)
2008 Predoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation/National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine ($120,000 over three years)
2008 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays ($28,000)
2008 Dissertation Fellowship, American Society of Criminology ($5,000)
2008 World Politics & Statecraft Grant, Smith Richardson Foundation ($7,500)
2008 Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, United States Institute of Peace (Declined)
2008 Grassroots Development Dissertation Fellowship, Inter-American Foundation (Declined)
- American Political Science Association
- Latino Caucus of the American Political Science Association
- Latin American Studies Association
- Urban Affairs Association
Paper presenter, “Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence,” School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, October 2014.
Paper Presenter, "Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America," American Political Science Association (APSA) Short Course on Urbanization and Local Politics in the Developing World, Washington, DC, August 2014.
Paper Presenter, "Building Order Amidst Markets and Democracy: A View from Latin American Cities," APSA, Washington, DC, August 2014.
Paper Presenter, “Subnational Research in Comparative Politics: Achievements and Prospects,” APSA, Washington, DC, August 2014. (with Agustina Giraudy and Richard Snyder)
Roundtable Participant, "Subnational Comparative Research," Roundtable at the 2014 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, IL, May 2014.
Paper Presenter, "Urban Regimes and Violence in Latin America: Crossing Geographic and Scholarly Borders," Columbia University, New York, NY, April 2014.
Paper Presenter, "Private Interests and Public Security: A Political Economy of Urban Violence," Seminar on Security, Citizenship, and Violence in Latin America, Instituto Tecnólogico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, Mexico, November 2013.
Paper Presenter, "Urban Regimes and Violence in Latin America: Crossing Geographic and Scholarly Borders," Faculty Research Workshop, Rutgers University, October 2013.
Paper Presenter, "Urban Regimes and Violence in Latin America: Crossing Geographic and Scholarly Borders," Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, New York, NY, October 2013.
Panel Organizer and Chair, "City Politics and Negotiating the Social Contract in Latin America," LASA, Washington, DC, September 2013.
Paper Presenter, "Urban Regimes, Cities, and Violence in Latin America," LASA, Washington, DC, September 2013.
Conference Co-Organizer, Conference on Subnational Comparative Analysis: Lessons Learned and Future Trajectories. Brown University, Providence, RI, May 2013. (with Agustina Giraudy and Richard Snyder)
Expert Participant, "Global Thematic Consultation on Conflict and Fragility and the Post-2015 Development Agenda," UNDP, Panama City, Panama, January 2013.
Guest Lecturer, "Politics, Violence and Citizen Security in Latin America," Seminar on US-Latin American Relations, Queen's College - City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, November 2012.
Paper Presenter, “Clientelism, Business, and Violence in Latin America,” Conflict, Security and Development Speaker Series, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, School of Law, New York University, September 2012.
Paper Presenter, "Securing the Private Sector: The Role of Business in the Politics of Urban Violence," Conference on Drugs Wars in the Americas, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, April 2012.
Paper Presenter, "Sector Privado y Seguridad Ciudadana," Conference on Violence in Neighborhoods in Latin America, Centro de Estudios en Seguridad Ciudadana, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, October 2011.
Conference Co-Organizer, Violent Cities: Challenges of Democracy, Development and Governance in the Urban Global South, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 2011. (with Richard Snyder)
Workshop Discussant, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 2011.
Paper Presenter, “Politics, Business and Violence: Urban Security in Colombia (1988-2008),” Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 2011.
Publications
1. Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America. (Cambridge Studies in
Comparative Politics Series, Cambridge University Press, 2021).
• Honorable Mention, Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association
• Honorable Mention, Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section, American Political Science Association
• Outstanding Book Award, Division of International Criminology, American Society of Criminology
• Best Publication Award, Defense, Public Security and Democracy Section, Latin American Studies Association
• Co-Winner, Best Book Award, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime
• Reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Latin American Politics and Society, Perspectives on Politics, and Choice Reviews.
• Invited for “Author Exchange” in American Political Science Association’s Democracy and Autocracy Section Newsletter.
• “Author Meets Critics” panel at 2022 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association.
2. Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America. (Stanford University Press,
2016).
• Reviewed in Journal of Politics, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Politics & Society, Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, and Perspectives on Politics.
Edited Volumes
1. Giraudy, Agustina, Moncada, Eduardo, and Snyder, Richard. Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Note: Authors listed in alphabetical order and contributed equally.
• Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics.
• “Author Meets Critics” panel at 2019 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association.
“Urban Violence, Political Economy, and Territorial Control: Insights from Medellin.” Latin American Research Review. Forthcoming.
“The Politics of Urban Violence: Challenges to Development in the Global South.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 48, No. 3. 2013, pp. 217-39.
“Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Colombia.” Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol. 48, No. 3. 2013, pp. 308-30.
“Counting Bodies: Crime Mapping, Policing and Race in Colombia.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 33, No. 4. April 2010, pp. 696-716.
“Toward Democratic Policing in Colombia? Institutional Accountability through Lateral Reform.” Comparative Politics. Vol. 41, No. 4. July 2009, pp. 431-49.
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