Andreas E. Feldmann, PhD
Professor
Political Science and LALS
Contact
- Building & Room:
- 1511 UH
- Address:
- 601 S Morgan St.
- Office Phone:
- (312) 996-7270
Email:
About
Andreas E. Feldmann is a Professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies and Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He investigates topics at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations with a focus on Latin America. His research interests include terrorism, forced migration, criminal politics, human rights, and foreign policy. He is the author of Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War (Columbia University Press, 2024), co-author of Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and coeditor of the Routledge History of Latin American Migration (Routledge, 2022), and has published articles in journals including The Annual Review of Sociology, Forced Migration Review, International Affairs, Politics and Society, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, among others. Feldmann has received grants from the Ford Foundation and the International Development Research Centre and has worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, Estado de la Nación, Costa Rica, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously taught at the Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Universidad Católica de Chile and the Human Rights Program of the University of Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Notre Dame.