I am an assistant professor of political science and Latin American studies at Dickinson College. For the 2021-22 academic year, I am a Cisneros Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. 

My research focuses on social movements and parties in Latin America and has appeared in journals including ​Politics & Society, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Democracy, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Latin American Politics and Society. In addition, my work has been featured in academic blogs such as The Washington Post's Monkey Cage, Foreign Affairs​, The Conversation​, and American University's AULAblog.

My first book, "When Movements Become Parties" (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series, 2018), examines the origins, evolution, and organizational models of parties formed by social movements. I am currently working on my second book, co-authored with Ken Roberts, which explores the interaction between social mobilization, polarization processes, and regime dynamics in Latin America. My other on-going research project (with Candelaria Garay and Jessica Rich) focuses on how social movements shape policy trajectories.

You can contact me at: anrias@dickinson.edu or on Twitter @AnriaSantiago

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