#  Edwin Ackerman 

Visiting Fellow Spring 2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Syracuse University

 

 

 



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Dr. Edwin Ackerman uses comparative-historical methods to understand how political identities form and become operative. He has studied this process in two contexts: political party formation in Latin America, and the historical trajectory of debates over ‘illegal’ immigration from the global South to the U.S. His works has been published in *Ethnic and Racial Studies*, the *Journal of Language and Politics,* and *Contexts,* and has been featured in *National Public Radio* (NPR), among other media outlets*.* He is currently working on a book manuscript that focuses on how mass political parties form and consolidate, developing a comparison between post-revolutionary Mexico and Bolivia. Edwin is a former MFP Fellow and Ford Fellow. He received his PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley.

 

 

 





 

 

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     [Immigration](/subject/immigration) [Political Parties](/subject/political-parties)
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     [2018-2019 Visiting Affiliates](/people/2018-2019-visiting-affiliates)
- ## Era/Date
    
     [20th Century](/filter_by/20th-century)