Janice Gallagher

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Associate Professor
Dept. of Political Science
Rutgers University-Newark;

[email protected]
https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/janice-gallagher


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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark, where I teach classes on Latin American Politics, Social Movements, Human Rights and classes in both the MA in Political Science Program and the PhD in Global Urban Studies. 

My first book, "Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared" (2023, Oxford University Press) was awarded the 2024 Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book Award in the Social Sciences; and three awards from the American Political Science Association: Best Book in Human Rights; Honorable Mention for the Giovanni Sartori Book Award for Best Book in Qualitative & Mixed Methods; and Honorable Mention for the Luebbert Best Book Prize in Comparative Politics.

This study is part of a larger research agenda of state-civil society relations, specifically how informal institutions, relationships and mobilization shape judicial and human rights outcomes.

In AY 2021-2022​ I was a Visiting Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University.  Prior to joining Rutgers, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Cornell University in 2015, and earned an MA in Teaching from Brown University, and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Swarthmore College. I have conducted extensive fieldwork in Mexico and Colombia, and previously worked as a human rights accompanier in Colombia. My research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, the Fulbright Garcia-Robles program, and the Social Science Research Council.