Matthew Ingram
Matthew Ingram (PhD, University of New Mexico), who joins the Institute for the academic year, is assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He studies the role of judges and courts in emerging democracies.
His book project, “Crafting Courts in New Democracies,” examines judicial reform at the subnational level in Brazil and Mexico. Drawing on 22 months of mixed-methods fieldwork, he seeks to explain the varying strength and uneven process of change within local legal institutions in Latin America’s two largest federal democracies.
Previously, Ingram was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, a visiting researcher at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, and a visiting researcher and consultant for the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He holds a JD from the University of New Mexico and worked in law enforcement before pursuing graduate studies.
In the spring, he will teach a political science course on comparative justice systems.
Activities & Lectures
Organized the panel “Politics in Space: The Importance of Territoriality for Concept Formation and Theory Development”
Presented: “Parties, Federalism, and Democracy: Conceptualizing Congruence in Two American Democracies” (coauthored)
August 27, 2011
Annual meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research, Iceland
