Mitchell A. Seligson

Mitchell A. Seligson is the Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology (by courtesy) at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). He is an elected member of the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, a Fulbright Senior Faculty Fellow, a Danforth Foundation Kent Fellow, a Social Science Research Council Foreign Area Fellow, and was awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship, a Grace L. Doherty Latin American Fellowship by Princeton University and an International Fellowship from the Organization of American States. He was awarded the James A. Robertson Memorial Prize for the best paper in Latin American history, the Hoover Institution Annual Prize for the Best Scholarly Article on Latin America, and the Best Paper Award (Pi Sigma Alpha) at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, is an appointed member of the Organization of American States (OAS) Advisory Board of Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices, and is a founding member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the AfroBarometer.  He served on the National Academy of Sciences panel studying the impact of foreign assistance and democracy, and co-authored their book, Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge through Evaluations and Research, (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008).  He has served on the editorial board of the Latin American Research Review and is currently on the editorial boards of the European Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Democracy en Español,  ROP: Revista Opinião Pública,  and Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe. His most recent books are The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Democracy and Political Support in Eight Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and Development and Underdevelopment, the Political Economy of Global Inequality (forthcoming).  He has chaired or co-chaired over 35 Ph.D. dissertations.