Deborah J. Yashar
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Yashar is professor of politics and international affairs and codirector of Princeton University’s Project on Democracy and Development. Her research focuses on the comparative study of democracy–with publications on democracy and authoritarianism, citizenship, ethnic politics, social movements, party systems, and globalization. Her new book project is entitled "Violence, Citizenship, and Public Security in Post-Authoritarian Latin America."
Her books include Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala (Stanford University Press, 1997) and Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which received the 2006 Mattei Dogan Honorable Mention, awarded by the Society for Comparative Research.
Yashar was a 1996 visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute and has received fellowships and awards from Fulbright, the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the United States Institute of Peace, and Princeton’s Class of 1934 University Preceptorship, among others.
She earned her PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
