Area of Expertise: U.S.-Latin American relations, politics in Latin America, immigration, democratization, Mexico, ethnic identity, survey research, indigenous rights movement, ethnic politics

Additional Information: Todd A. Eisenstadt is principal researcher of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Higher Education and Development Program grant: Uniting Law and Society in Oaxaca, Mexico: A Research and Teaching Program. He is finishing a related manuscript, “Indians by Choice: Traditional Societies and the State in Southern Mexico,” and is the author of Courting Democracy in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and articles in journals including Latin American Politics and Society, Democratization, Party Politics, and the International Political Science Review. A recipient of Fulbright and National Security Education Program “Boren” fellowships, he has been a visiting scholar at the El Colegio de México in Mexico City, Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Japan Institute for International Affairs in Tokyo, and the University of California San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Between 2000 and 2005, Eisenstadt directed the USAID’s Mexico Elections Project, which conducted academic research and trained hundreds of observers for local elections and other government processes in Mexico.

Foreign Language Fluency: Spanish 

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