CV

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Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Temple University, 2025
• M.A in Political Science, Temple University, 2025
• M.A in International Relations, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2019
• B.A in International Relations, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2016

Appointments

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology (current)
• Previously taught at Macalester College

Research interests

Organized crime governance, economic development, state capacity, and political violence in Latin America. Methods: fieldwork, process-tracing, panel data, spatial econometrics, causal inference.

Publications

Decapitation and the Visibility of Violence: Leader Removal in Brazilian Criminal Organizations

Paving the Way for Violence

Ribeiro, Felipe. "Paving the Way for Violence." Revise and resubmit, Latin American Politics and Society.

Teaching

Government and People in Latin America

Comparative Political Violence

Blackness in the Americas

Don’t Call the Police: Criminal Violence in Latin America

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Latin American Politics

Politics of Identity in America

Languages

• Portuguese (fluent)
• Spanish (fluent)
• French (in progress)