María Paula Saffon is the Race and Ethnicity Fellow at Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. She earned her PhD in political science at Columbia University. She is also a summa cum laude graduate of the school of law of Universidad de los Andes in Bogota. Her fields of specialization are comparative politics and political theory, with an emphasis on the political history of Latin America. Her research interests include the history of institutions, land politics, ethnic and peasant groups, contentious politics and social movements, democracy, constitutional and human rights law, and transitional justice. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications on these subjects, including the articles “Latin American Populism: An Admissible Trade-off between Procedural Democracy and Equality?” (with Juan González Bertomeu), forthcoming in Constellations, “Procedural Democracy: the Bulkwark of Equal Freedom” (with Nadia Urbinati), which appeared in Political Theory, and the book Distributive Justice in Transitions (co-edited with M. Bergsmo, P. Kalmanovitz and C. Rodriguez).
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