Bio is current as of 2025.
Peter Cummings is a political scientist with an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, a PhD from MIT, and more than a decade of experience related to democracy, international development, and social movements. In the academic space, he has conducted original field research in Chile and Brazil and published research on political protests, democracy, and education policy. In the practitioner space, he has applied his research skills to consulting at Tironi in Chile and to domestic and international development at FHI 360 and Eurasia Foundation.
John J. Kennedy Prize for the best senior essay on Latin America (2014): "Democracy and Student Discontent: Chilean Student Protest in the Post-Pinochet Era"