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.