Isabella Alcañiz

Dr. Isabella Alcañiz is Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland (UMD). Professor Alcañiz studies the politics of climate change, social inequality, disaster policy, and gender with a focus on Latin America and Latinx residents of the United States. Her research has been published widely, including in Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Water Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, World Politics, and the Latin American Research Review. Her books Environmental and Nuclear Networks in the Global South: How Skills Shape International Cooperation and The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-authored with Ricardo A. Gutiérrez in the Elements Series in Politics and Society in Latin America) were published by Cambridge University Press. Isabella Alcañiz received a PhD from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University and a Licenciatura in International Relations from the Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina).