Deborah J. Yashar Explained

Deborah J. Yashar
Thesis Title:Demanding democracy: reform and reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s
Thesis Year:1992
Discipline:Politics
Workplaces:Harvard University
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Deborah Jane Yashar (born 1963) is an American political scientist. She is a Full Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her research interests involve politics of children and immigration in the Americas.

Early life and education

Yashar was born in 1963[1] to parents of Iranian and Ukrainian descent.[2] She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and her Master's degree and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[3] She received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Guatemala.[4]

Career

After earning her PhD, Yashar became a Junior faculty member in Harvard's department of Government and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.[3] In 1996, she became a Fellow at the Kellogg Institute For International Studies at University of Notre Dame.[5] She also republished her dissertation "Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s" through the Stanford University Press.[6] Two years later, she accepted an Assistant professor position at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[3] [7]

In 2005, Yashar published "Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge" through the Cambridge University Press, which examined how Latin American indigenous populations have mobilized.[8] The book earned her the 2006 New England Council on Latin American Studies Best Book Award.[9] A few years later, she was promoted to Full Professor of politics and international affairs.[10] In 2009, Yashar, Atul Kohli, and sociologist Miguel Centeno received a grant from the Princeton Global Collaborative Research Fund for their research project "State-Building in the Developing World."[11] She also co-edited Parties Movements and Democracy in the Developing World and Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics.[12]

In 2018, she published "Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America," a book which focused on the high and uneven homicide rates of Latin Americans.[13] She was awarded the American Political Science Association Comparative Democratization Section 2019 Best Book Award.[14] Yashar later became the Chair of the Editorial Board for the political science journal World Politics.[15] [16]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yashar, Deborah J. 1963– . encyclopedia.com . February 13, 2020.
  2. Web site: Greenstein . Jennifer . Yashar analyzes complex issues of citizenship in Latin America . princeton.edu . February 13, 2020 . June 18, 2007.
  3. Web site: Deborah J. Yashar . ias.edu . February 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190530114448/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/deborah-j-yashar . May 30, 2019.
  4. Web site: DEBORAH J. YASHAR CV . scholar.princeton.edu . February 13, 2020.
  5. Web site: Deborah J. Yashar . kellogg.nd.edu . February 13, 2020.
  6. Gudmundson . Lowell . Review of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s . Canadian Journal of History . April 28, 2016 . 33 . 2 . 335–337 . 10.3138/cjh.33.2.335 . February 13, 2020.
  7. Web site: Reappointments . pr.princeton.edu . February 13, 2020 . 2001.
  8. De La Peña . Guillermo . Review of Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge . Nations and Nationalism. July 2006 . 12 . 3 . 542–544 . 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00255_6.x . February 13, 2020.
  9. Web site: MARYSA NAVARRO BOOK PRIZE . neclas.net . February 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200214035350/https://www.neclas.net/marysa-navarro-book-prize . February 14, 2020.
  10. Web site: Six named to endowed posts . pr.princeton.edu . February 13, 2020 . June 18, 2007.
  11. Web site: WWS faculty receive grants for Global Collaborative Research Fund projects . princeton.edu . February 13, 2020 . June 9, 2009.
  12. Web site: Deborah J. Yashar . scholar.princeton.edu . February 13, 2020.
  13. Durán‐Martínez . Angelica . BOOK REVIEW Homicidal ecologies: Illicit economies and complicit states in Latin America . Governance . October 2019 . 32 . 4 . 824–826 . 10.1111/gove.12448 . 211410795 . February 13, 2020.
  14. Web site: Morgan C. Tucker . Two Woodrow Wilson Faculty Named Winners of APSA Book Awards . princeton.edu . February 13, 2020 . June 10, 2019.
  15. Web site: World Politics editors . cambridge.org . February 13, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200214011517/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/information/editorial-board . February 14, 2020.
  16. Web site: Yashar and Tudor-Block reflect on gender and the editorial process . piirs.princeton.edu . February 13, 2020 . June 14, 2018.