Latino/Latin American Studies Lectures

Indigenous Rights in Chile: 30 Years Negotiating What Is, What Was, What Could Be

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Presentation

Publication Date

10-24-2024

Sponsoring Department(s)

Latino/Latin American Studies (LLAS)

Abstract

Dr. Kelly Bauer specializes in identity and development politics in Latin America. Her research explores how states govern national identity as global trends challenge understandings of state sovereignty; recent work explored Indigenous rights and irregular migration. Her first book, Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy (2021), explored inconsistencies in how Chilean state officials navigated extending elite and neoliberal governance and citizenship through Indigenous land policy. Other work appears in the Journal of Agrarian Change, NACLA, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d’études du développement. Her research has been externally funded by the U.S. Fulbright Program, Inter-American Foundation’s Grassroots Development Fellowship, and APSA Centennial Center.

Her writing on higher education politics, political science pedagogy, and teaching careers recently appeared in the Journal of Political Science Education, New Political Science, Iberoamericana, Political Science Educator, and Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond.

Dr. Bauer earned a BA from Carthage College and PhD from George Washington University. Before joining GWU, she was an associate professor and chair of the political science department at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where her work was recognized with the Forum Committee’s Faculty Scholarship Award Presentation Award, Faculty Scholar Award, and the Margaret J. Prouty Faculty Teaching Award. She is a member of the Red De Politólogas – #NoSinMujeres, and has served on Fulbright National Selection Committees.

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