Historian Amanda Waterhouse is a Kellogg Institute Postdoctoral Democracy Researcher who works with Kellogg faculty fellow Jaime Pensado. A specialist in the political and urban history of Latin America, particularly Colombia, Waterhouse has focused her research on state policy, social movements, and urban development, often examining how architecture and design intersect with protest and revolution. Her scholarship includes articles on Colombian student movements and urban protest, drawing on first-hand experience as a Fulbright-Hays scholar in Bogotá.
Until recently, Waterhouse served as assistant professor in the Department of History at Stetson University, where she taught courses in Latin American and global history, as well as the history of architecture and urban planning. She is an editor at the Age of Revolutions journal, and her forthcoming book, Designing Development: Colombia and the Architecture of Cold War Orders, is under advance contract with Columbia University Press.
At Notre Dame, her work continues to bridge scholarship and public conversation about democracy, informed by her deep expertise in Latin American history and her commitment to understanding how urban environments shape political life.
She holds a PhD in history from Indiana University.