Edgar Franco Vivanco

Edgar Franco Vivanco is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. He received a PhD in political science from Stanford University. His research interests lie at the intersection of the political economy of development, comparative politics, and history. He holds a master in public policy and educational policy from Stanford, and a BA in economics and political science from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM). He was born and raised in Mexico City.

Current Work:

Edgar Franco Vivanco is a political scientist with a focus on Latin America. He is a collaborator with the Poverty, Governance, and Violence Lab at Stanford University, and with the Digging Early Colonial Mexico project at the University of Lancaster. In his research agenda, he explores how colonial-era institutions and contemporary criminal violence shape economic under-performance. His book project Strategies of Indigenous Resistance and Assimilation to Colonial Rule examines the role that Indigenous groups have played in the state-building process of the region since colonial times. His examination of contemporary development challenges focuses on criminal violence and policing. In this collaborative project (with Prof. Beatriz Magaloni), he draws on extensive fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to explore the problems of crime, social order and policing.

Research Area Keyword(s):

Historical political economy, Latin America, criminal violence and policing, indigeneity, educational policy