Janice Gallagher

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Assistant Professor
Dept. of Political Science
Rutgers University-Newark
janice.gallagher@rutgers.edu
https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/janice-gallagher
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. 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.

In my book manuscript, "Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared" I argue that the sustained mobilization of the families of the disappeared have been the key catalysts for legislative and judicial advances, and under certain political configurations have  poked holes in the near blanket impunity for serious crimes in Mexico. I center the roles and voices of the people affected by human rights violations, and seek to understand how, why and to what effect they mobilize.

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.

I teach courses related to international relations, comparative politics, social movements, human rights, Latin American politics, and research methods.