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

Diego A. von Vacano
Workshop participant, “Resurgent Populism in the Andes,” United States Government,
Arlington, Virginia, 03/07/2007.
Workshop participant, Immigration and Citizenship Conference, European Academy,
Otzenhausen, Germany, 10/09-11/2006.
Chair and Organizer, “Machiavelli and Power,” panel at the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 08/2006.
Chair and Organizer, “Regulating Race and Ethnicity,” panel at the Annual Meeting of the Latin
American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 03/2006.
Chair and Organizer, “Comparative Political Theory in Global Perspective,” panel at the Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 09/2004.
Workshop Participant, Annual Meeting of the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellows National
Convention at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 06/2003.
Workshop Participant, “Small States in World Markets,” Gothenburg University, Sweden,
09/25/2001.
Media/Commentary
Los Tiempos newspaper, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Interview. May 6, 2012.
NY1 News, New York City, “Constitutional Reforms in Latin America.” Television program
‘Pura Política,’ July 3, 2009.
The Washington Post, op-ed, ‘How He Can: Obama and the Latino Vote,’ February 6, 2008.
New York Times, letters to the editor: ‘How did economists get it so wrong?’ September 20,
2009; ‘The second plane,’ May 11, 2008; ‘Praxis makes perfect,’ May 4, 2008; ‘The games and
athletes’ beliefs,’ April 6, 2008; ‘The case for contamination,’ January 15, 2006.
The Battalion Student Newspaper, Texas A&M University. Interviewed and cited for article
“Immigration issues strike close to home,” January 30, 2008.
Miami Herald, op-ed, “Bolivia, Morales, and Soccer War,” June 13, 2007.
Council of Foreign Relations, interview on the nationalization of gas in Bolivia, May 10, 2006
CNN, “Panorama Mundial” interview about politics in Bolivia on “CNN en Español,” live
international broadcast, June 9, 2005.
Jornal do Brasil (Brazilian daily newspaper), Op-ed, “Levante gradual da esquerda” (Rise of the
Latin American Left), December 12, 2004.
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