CURRICULUM VITAE DIEGO A. VON VACANO, Ph.D - Political ...

L. PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITY
Conferences
Diego A. von Vacano
Organizer, “Immigration and National Identity: Lessons from/for Political Theory.” Texas A&M
University, 02/23-24/ 2007 ($25,000 Budget).
Participants:
Stephen Macedo and Alejandro Portes, Keynote Speakers (Princeton)
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia), Arthur Applbaum (Harvard)
Mathias Risse (Harvard), Joseph Carens (Toronto)
Amaney Jamal (Princeton), Michael Blake (Univ. of Washington)
Jorge Gracia (SUNY Buffalo), José A. Aguilar (CIDE Mexico)
Gaku Tsuda (Arizona State), David Hollinger (Berkeley)
Co-organizer, “Forging People: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in Latin American Thought”
with Professor Jorge Gracia at SUNY-Buffalo, 10/2007.
Article and Book Manuscript Referee
Journals: American Political Science Review, Political Theory, American Journal of Political
Science, Constellations. Books: Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Northern Illinois
University Press, Yale University Press, Lexington Books
Service outside of Texas A&M University
Political Theory Selection Committee, Western Political Science Association annual meeting,
Hollywood, CA, March 2013.
Chair and Organizer, “Reshaping Race: Immigration and New Racial Paradigms,” panel at the
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, August 2012.
Chair and Organizer, “Citizenship Theory from Latin America,” panel at the Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, August 2012.
Chair and Organizer, “Citizenship Theory from Latin America,” panel at the Latin American
Studies Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2012.
Chair and Organizer, “Forging People: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in Latin American
Thought.” ERIP (Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean)
Conference, UC San Diego, November 4, 2011. Paper presented: “Zarathustra Criollo:
Vasconcelos’s Nietzschean Approach to Latin American Racial Identity.”
Discussant, “Egalitarianism and Racial Inequality,” paper by Derrick Darby, University of
Kansas, Stanford Political Theory Workshop, 04/23/2010.
Chair and Organizer, “Race and Political Theory,” panel at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 08/2007.
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