CURRENT POSITION VIRGINIA OLIVEROS Department of Political Science 420 W 118th St., 7th Floor lab NewYorlç NY 10027 vo2110@columbia.edu www.columbia.edu/ vo2llo Visiting Scholar, Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank, September 2012- August 2013 EDUCATION Ph.D. Program in Political Science,, New York (expected Spring 2013) Dissertation: A Working Machine: Patronage Jobs and Political Services in Argentina Advisors: Maria Victoria Murillo (chair), Timothy Frye and Isabela Mares M. Phil in Political Science,, October 2008 General exams in Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods M. Phil Paper: Socio-economic Status and the Peronist Vote in the 2007 Argentine Presidential Election M.A. in Political Science,, October 2006 L.A. (Licenciatura) in Political Science (Honor Diploma), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Political Economy of Development Comparative Political Institutions Elections Clientelism and Patronage Politics Latin American Politics FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS University Fellow,, 2005-2012 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Graduate Student Travel Grant, to assist to the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 23-26, 2012 Center for the Study of Development Strategies (CSDS) Summer Grant,, Summer 2011 1 off
Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) Tinker Summer Field Research Travel Grant,, Summer 2009, Summer 2010 and Summer 2011 Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Research Grant, Columbia University, Summer 2010 Brooks World Poverty Institute Fellowship, University of Manchester, to assist to the Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization, 2010 Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Methods Fellowship,, to assist to the Institute of Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), Syracuse University, 2009 Graduate School of Arts and Science Summer Fellowship,, Summer 2006 and Summer 2008 Fulbright Fellowship 2005/2006 (declined) Universidad de Buenos Aires Travel Grant Award to assist to the 6th National Congress on Democracy, Rosario, Argentina, October 2004 Argentine National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) Fellowship, 2004/2005 Graduate Argentine National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion (Agenda Nacional de Promocidn CientIjIcay Tecnológica) Graduate Fellowship, October 2002 - August 2003 PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH Economic Constraints and Presidential Agency (with Maria Victoria Murillo and Milan Vaishnav), 2011. In Steven Levitsky and Kenneth Roberts (eds.) The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, John Hopkins University Press. Electoral Revolution or Democratic Alternation? (with Maria Victoria Murillo and Milan Vaishnav), 2010, Latin American Research Review 45 (3): 87-114. IN SPANISH La Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Un estudio sobre las relaciones Ejecutivo-Legislativo en el nuevo marco institucional (1997-2000) (with Fernanda Araujo), Revista SAAP 3(2), June 2008: 353-393. Uso y abuso de las instituciones electorales. El caso de las internas partidarias y las fechas de las elecciones de 2005 (with Gerardo Scherlis) in Revista Res Publica Argentina, June- September 2007: 51-72. Reformas politicas: internas abiertas obligatorias y unificación electoral en las elecciones de 2005 (with Gerardo Scherlis) in Isidoro Cheresky (ed.) La poiltica después de los partidos, Prometeo, Buenos Aires, February 2007. 2 of 5
Entre lemas y neolemas. Las elecciones de 2003 en Ia provincia de Tucumán, in Isidoro Cheresky and Inés Pousadela (edsj, El voto liberado. Elecciones 2003: perspectiva históricay estudio de casos, Biblos, Buenos Aires, December 2004. LElecciones concurrentes o elecciones desdobladas?: La manipulación de los calendarios electorales en Ia Argentina, 1983-2003 (with Gerardo Scherlis) in Isidoro Cheresky and Jean-Michel Blanquer (edsj, ~Qué carnbió en Ia politica Argentina? Elecciones, institucionesy ciudadanla en perspectiva cornparada, Homo Sapiens, Buenos Aires, April 2004. WORKING PAPERS The Electoral Bases of the Peronist Party in Argentina Public Employees as Political Workers. Evidence from an original survey in Argentina Clientelism in Argentina (with Maria Victoria Murillo and Rodrigo Zarazaga) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2012 American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 30 - September 2 (scheduled). 2012 Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 23-26. 2012 Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12-15. 2011 American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 1-4. 2011 Fourth Annual Hamilton Graduate Student Conference on Political Economy, New York University, New York, May 11. 2011 Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, March 31- April 3. 2010 Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization; Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester; June 21-July 9 2010. 2004 Argentine 6th National Congress on Democracy, Universidad de Rosario, Rosario, October 19-22. 2003 Argentine 6th National Congress of Political Science - Argentine Society of Political Science (SAAP), Rosario, November 5-8. 2003 Second Meeting of Young Researchers, Instituto Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, October 2-3. 2001 Argentine 5th National Congress of Political Science - Argentine Society of Political Science (SAAP), Córdoba, November 14-17. 2001 First Meeting of Young Researchers, Instituto Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires, November 29. 3 of 5
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization; Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester; June 21 - July 9 2010 Institute of Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR); University; May26 - June 9 2009 Maxwell School of Syracuse ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, Professor Isabela Mares, November 2010 Research Assistant Professor Maria Victoria Murillo, 2006-2009 Research Assistant Professor Pablo Pinto, Summer 2009 Research Assistant, Professor Ernesto Calvo, Summer 2009 IN ARGENTINA Junior Researcher, Professor Isidoro Cheresky, Project: Political Institutions, Elections and Citizenship, Fall 2001- Spring 2005 Junior Researcher, Professor Miguel de Luca, Project: Institutions, political parties and electoral representation in the City of Buenos Aires (1983-2003). March 2004- February 2005 Project Research Assistant, Professor Isidoro Cheresky, Project: Political Institutions, Elections and Citizenship, 2003 Junior Researcher, Professor Miguel de Luca, Politics and government in the City of Buenos Aires (1994-2002), March 2002-February 2003 Research Assistant Professors Miguel De Luca, Mark Jones and Maria Inés Tula, NSF Project: Candidate Nomination in Argentina, October 2000- March 2001 Student Researcher, Professor Maria Inés Tula Project: Political Institutions and Representation: elections, electoral systems and partisan competition, July- December 2000 TEACHING EXPERIENCE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Preceptor,Senior Honors Seminar, Professor Fazal, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012. Teaching Assistant Introduction to Comparative Politics, Professor Tamas, Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant, Latin American Politics, Professor Murillo, Fall 2009 and Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant Introduction to Comparative Politics, Professor Huber, Spring 2008 Teaching Assistant Introduction to Comparative Politics, Professor El-Ghobashy, Fall 2007 Teaching Assistant, Latin American Politics, Professor O Neil, Spring 2007 4 of 5
UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES Teaching Assistant, Theory of the State, Professor Lopez, Department of Law, Spring 2003- Spring 2005 Teaching Assistant, Govern ability, Representation and Accountability in the Southern Cone, Professor De Luca, Department of Political Science, Summer 2004 and Spring 2005. Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Political Science, Professor Pinto, 2001-2002 OTHER RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE Junior Consultant/ Research Assistant, United Nations for Development Program (UNDP), Political Reform in Argentina (ARG/00/007), 2001 LANGUAGES AND SKILLS Languages: Spanish (native language), French (proficient), German (basic) Statistical Software: R, Stata SERVICE Co-coordinator, Comparative Politics Graduate Student Workshop,, Fall 2008- Spring 2010. Political Science Graduate Student Council,, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008. MEMBERSHIPS American Political Science Association (APSA) Latin American Political Science Association (LASA) Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Argentine Political Analysis Society (SAAP) REFERENCES Victoria Murillo Timothy Frye 212-854-4671 212-854-4377 mm2 l40@columbia.edu tmf2@columbia.edu Isabela Mares Ernesto Calvo University of Maryland 212-854-6513 301-405-4156 im2195@columbia.edu ~c~jyo@gpt.umd.edu 5 of 5