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Deborah J. Yashar
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Academic background
EducationB.A., 1985, Brown University
M.A., 1986, PhD, political science, 1992, University of California, Berkeley
ThesisDemanding democracy: reform and reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s (1992)
Academic work
DisciplinePolitics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Websitescholar.princeton.edu/yashar/home

Deborah Jane Yashar (born 1963) is an American political scientist. She is a Full Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her research interests involve politics of children and immigration in the Americas.

Early life and education

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Yashar was born in 1963[1] to parents of Iranian and Ukrainian descent.[2] She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and her Master's degree and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[3] She received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Guatemala.[4]

Career

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After earning her PhD, Yashar became a Junior faculty member in Harvard's department of Government and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.[3] In 1996, she became a Fellow at the Kellogg Institute For International Studies at University of Notre Dame.[5] She also republished her dissertation "Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s" through the Stanford University Press.[6] Two years later, she accepted an Assistant professor position at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[3][7]

In 2005, Yashar published "Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge" through the Cambridge University Press, which examined how Latin American indigenous populations have mobilized.[8] The book earned her the 2006 New England Council on Latin American Studies Best Book Award.[9] A few years later, she was promoted to Full Professor of politics and international affairs.[10] In 2009, Yashar, Atul Kohli, and sociologist Miguel Centeno received a grant from the Princeton Global Collaborative Research Fund for their research project "State-Building in the Developing World."[11] She also co-edited Parties Movements and Democracy in the Developing World and Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics.[12]

In 2018, she published "Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America," a book which focused on the high and uneven homicide rates of Latin Americans.[13] She was awarded the American Political Science Association Comparative Democratization Section 2019 Best Book Award.[14] Yashar later became the Chair of the Editorial Board for the political science journal World Politics.[15][16]

References

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  1. ^ "Yashar, Deborah J. 1963–". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  2. ^ Greenstein, Jennifer (June 18, 2007). "Yashar analyzes complex issues of citizenship in Latin America". princeton.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Deborah J. Yashar". ias.edu. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  4. ^ "DEBORAH J. YASHAR CV" (PDF). scholar.princeton.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  5. ^ "Deborah J. Yashar". kellogg.nd.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  6. ^ Gudmundson, Lowell (April 28, 2016). "Review of Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s". Canadian Journal of History. 33 (2): 335–337. doi:10.3138/cjh.33.2.335. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  7. ^ "Reappointments". pr.princeton.edu. 2001. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  8. ^ De La Peña, Guillermo (July 2006). "Review of Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge". Nations and Nationalism. 12 (3): 542–544. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00255_6.x. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  9. ^ "MARYSA NAVARRO BOOK PRIZE". neclas.net. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  10. ^ "Six named to endowed posts". pr.princeton.edu. June 18, 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  11. ^ "WWS faculty receive grants for Global Collaborative Research Fund projects". princeton.edu. June 9, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  12. ^ "Deborah J. Yashar". scholar.princeton.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  13. ^ Durán-Martínez, Angelica (October 2019). "BOOK REVIEW Homicidal ecologies: Illicit economies and complicit states in Latin America". Governance. 32 (4): 824–826. doi:10.1111/gove.12448. S2CID 211410795. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  14. ^ Morgan C. Tucker (June 10, 2019). "Two Woodrow Wilson Faculty Named Winners of APSA Book Awards". princeton.edu. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  15. ^ "World Politics editors". cambridge.org. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  16. ^ "Yashar and Tudor-Block reflect on gender and the editorial process". piirs.princeton.edu. June 14, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
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