Kellogg Research Spotlight Presentation - Meet the Visiting Fellows & Dissertation Year Fellow
Please join the Kellogg Institute in our annual tradition that introduces research of our new Visiting Fellows and this year's Dissertation Year Fellow in an informative and inviting atmosphere. Learn firsthand why Kellogg has invested in the work of these fellows from brief research overview presentations then delve deeper during a Q&A session. A light lunch will be available.

Fabio Angiolillo
Fabio Angiolillo is a political scientist whose research focuses on political parties, democratic resilience, regime change, and East Asian politics...
Paola Bautista de Alemán
Paola Bautista de Alemán, a Venezuelan journalist and political activist, is director of the Institute of Political Studies FORMA and president of the Juan Germán Roscio Foundation, offering political education to members of the Primero Justicia opposition party...
Saloni Bhogale
Political scientist Saloni Bhogale specializes in comparative politics and political methodology. Her research examines the mechanisms by which deepening democracy can sustain the rule of law and drive human development...
Risa Brooks
Risa Brooks is Allis-Chalmers Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. Her primary research interests lie in questions related to U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, politicization of the military, strategic assessment and military professionalism...
Patrick Cunha Silva
Patrick Cunha Silva is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. Focusing on political representation and electoral dynamics, his work explores how institutional frameworks impact the representation of marginalized groups. He specializes in electoral rule reforms, using these shifts to study strategic interactions between elites and the electorate...
Manuel Meléndez Sánchez
Manuel Meléndez Sánchez is a political scientist whose research examines the roots of democratic resilience, backsliding, and breakdown with a focus on Latin America. Much of his work on these issues explores how organized crime, criminal violence, and public insecurity undermine democratic institutions...
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea is a researcher at the Instituto Riva Agüero, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She is a historian of nineteenth-century Latin America whose research examines how wars of independence, military institutions, constitutional politics, and political culture shaped the formation of early republican states and national identities in the Andean region...
Madai Urteaga Quispe
Madai Urteaga Quispe is a political scientist whose research is focused on the political economy of rural policies and state building in Latin America...





