Frances Hagopian

Michael P. Grace III Associate Professor in Latin American Studies
Department of Political Science

Degrees

B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Profile

Hagopian studies the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, and the political economy of economic reform in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. She is the co-editor (with Scott Mainwaring) of The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (Cambridge, forthcoming); author of Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge, 1996), which was named a Choice outstanding book in Comparative Politics; and several articles on democratization which have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and other journals and books. She is a member of the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association. Hagopian has held fellowships from the University of Pittsburgh, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and Fulbright-Hays. She previously taught at Harvard and Tufts Universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the Kellogg and Kroc Institutes.

Contact Information

237 Hesburgh Center
631-8529
hagopian.1@nd.edu