Degrees:
Ph.D., Harvard Univ.
M.A., Harvard Univ.
M.A., Univ. Torcuato Di Tella
B.A., Univ. de Buenos Aires
Belén Fernández Milmanda holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. She researches how economic elites influence policy making in Latin America with a focus on distributive and environmental politics. Her book manuscript, Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America (under contract, Cambridge University Press), studies the strategies (electoral and non-electoral) that agrarian elites employ to make democracy work to their advantage.
Professor Fernández Milmanda has also studied the political determinants of forest protection in the Argentine Chaco Forest. In her new research project, she explores the challenges that tackling climate change creates for democracies in the developing world.
She holds a MA in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and a BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires.
Her work has appeared in World Development, Politics and Society, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Latin American Politics.
At Trinity, Professor Fernández Milmanda teaches courses on Latin American politics, environmental politics, political economy, the politics of inequality and qualitative methods. |
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Comparative Politics
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Latin American Politics
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Environmental Politics
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Political Economy
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Qualitative methods
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Latin American Politics
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Interest Groups Politics
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Political Economy
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Environmental Politics
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Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- 2022. “Harvesting Influence: Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Brazil,” Politics and Society (on line first)
- 2020. “The Multilevel Politics of Enforcement: Environmental Institutions in Argentina,” (with Candelaria Garay) Politics & Society, 48(1), 3-26.
- 2019. “Subnational Variation in Forest Protection in the Argentine Chaco Forest,” (with Candelaria Garay) World Development, 118, 79-90.
- 2012. “El Nuevo Liderazgo Sindical en la Argentina Post Neoliberal: el Caso de la Federación de Trabadores Camioneros,” (with Enzo Benes) Desarrollo Económico, Vol. 52 N° 205 (April-Jun 2012), 31-61.
- 2010. “Moderación Reivindicativa en el Nuevo Contexto Macroeconómico post 2001: El Caso del Sindicato de Comercio,” (with Enzo Benes) Revista SAAP, Vol. 4 N°1 (Jul-Dec 2010).
- “La CGT Disidente frente a la Crisis y Salida del Régimen Convertible,” Realidad Económica N° 250 (Feb-Mar 2010), 75-104.
Book chapters:
- 2020. “A Multilevel Approach to Enforcement: Forest Protection in the Argentine Chaco.” (with Candelaria Garay) In D. Brinks, S. Levitsky, & M. Murillo (Eds.), The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America (pp. 183-207). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2019. “Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America after the Third Wave,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics.
- 2013. “Cuellos no tan Blancos. Los Trabajadores de Supermercados y su Desafío al Viejo Modelo Sindical Mercantil,” in C. Senén González & A. del Bono (Comp.): Revitalización Sindical en Argentina. Heterogeneidades Sectoriales (pp. 151-176), PROMETEO-UNLaM, Buenos Aires.
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- Samuel P. Huntington Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2018.
- Summer Research Travel Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2017.
- Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowship, Committee on General Scholarships, Harvard University, 2016.
- Graduate Student Associate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2015, 2017.
- Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, Committee on General Scholarships, Harvard University, 2017.
- Pre-dissertation Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2014, 2015, 2016.
- Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship for International Students, Argentine Fulbright Commission (declined), 2013.
- Graduate Studies Fellowship, CONICET (National Council of Research, Argentina), 2011.
- Torcuato Di Tella University, invited to be student speaker at the graduation ceremony (for having attained the highest GPA among all the University graduate students receiving their diploma that year), 2012.
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