Postdoctoral Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
About
Luciana Chamorro is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. She is a political and historical anthropologist who focuses on the Central American region and writes on revolution and its afterlives, populist politics, authoritarianism, affect, and aesthetics. Her larger conceptual interests are in political theology, inheritance, generational difference, political violence, and feminist and queer imaginaries of the future.
Luciana’s scholarship has been published in academic journals such as the Cahiers des Ameriques Latines, the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Democracy and Autocracy. She is currently preparing a book manuscript titled Afterlives of Revolution: political attachments in post-revolutionary Nicaragua, which examines the affective economies that underpin what appear as paradoxical forms of popular investment in the authoritarian political project of Daniel Ortega in contemporary Nicaragua.
Awards and Honors
- Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2019)
- Josephine De Kármán Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2019)
- Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life Fellowship, Columbia University, NY (2018)
- Elaine Combs-Schilling Award, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Columbia University, NY (2018)
- International Travel Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, NY (2016)
- Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fund (2015)
- Morton H. Fried Named Fellowship, Columbia University, NY (2015)
