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Gisela Sin

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225 Coble Hall
Associate Professor

Biography

Gisela Sin is Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and  Associate professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois. She studies political institutions and how they interact with one another. She is the author of the award winning book Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and the coauthor of Congreso, Presidencia y Justicia en Argentina (TEMAS, 1999). Her research has been published in numerous journals and has presented her work at universities throughout Latin America and Europe, and was a scholar in residence at Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto Iberoamericano Universidad de Salamanca, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, and a Fulbright Scholar in the United States. She is one of the founders of the Women in Legislative Studies, and board member of Women Also Know Stuff. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Universidad del Salvador in Argentina. 

Education

  • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Ph.D. Department of Political Science, July 2008
  • Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaUniversidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina                                                                                                      Degree program in History, emphasis on Modern History. December 1999
  • Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina BA in Political Science (Licenciatura). December 1996

Grants

Department of Education, International and Foreign Language Education

  • 2022-2026. Primary Investigator, Latin American and Caribbean Studies National Resource Center grant ($1,086,800)

Department of Education, International and Foreign Language Education

  • 2022-2026. Primary Investigator, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) grant ($1,152,000)

University of Illinois, LAS-OVCDEI Collaborative Mentoring Network Grants

  • 2022-2023. Primary Investigator, “Collaborative Mentoring for Mid-Career Underrepresented Faculty”, with Erik McDuffie (History and African American Studies), and Gilberto Rosas (Anthropology and Latina and Latino Studies) ($8,000)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • 2020-2023. Extension Collaboration Grant, New Immigrant Foodways, with Teresa Barnes (History) and Margarita Teran Garcia (Medicine) ($60,000)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Political Science
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Associate Professor, European Union Center

Highlighted Publications

Sin, G. (2014). Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107270053

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Recent Publications

Powell, E. N., Schwindt-Bayer, L., & Sin, G. (2023). Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality. PS - Political Science and Politics, 56(4), 591-597. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096523000306

Cheibub, J. A., Moreira, T., Sin, G., & Tanabe, K. (2022). Dynamic party system fragmentation. Electoral Studies, 76, Article 102440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102440

Magar, E., Palanza, V., & Sin, G. (2021). Presidents on the fast track: Fighting floor amendments with restrictive rules. Journal of Politics, 83(2), 633-646. https://doi.org/10.1086/710015

Cheibub, J. A., & Sin, G. (2020). Preference vote and intra-party competition in open list PR systems. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 32(1), 70-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/0951629819893024

Harbridge-Yong, L., & Sin, G. (Eds.) (2020). Spotlight: Interviews, Reflections, and Advice from Women in Legislative Studies. PS - Political Science and Politics, 53(2). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519002038

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