camila vergara
Critical legal and political theorist, historian, and journalist from Chile, Senior Lecturer at University of Essex, and author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an
Anti-Oligarchic Republic
(Princeton University Press 2020)
WINNER OF THE BRITAIN & IRELAND ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL THOUGHT 2023 EARLY-CAREER PRIZE
"Dr Vergara has demonstrated as impressive a global commitment to teaching, having delivered lectures on four different continents on a variety of topics that show the breadth of her expertise. Her international outreach is evident not only her teaching and research, but also in her prominent work in political advocacy and activism, which exemplifies a unity of theory and practice often discussed and aspired to but rarely achieved by academic political theorists."
about
DR. Vergara writes about the relation between inequality, corruption, and the law, and the ways to empower common people against oligarchic domination & climate collapse.
In addition to her work in academia, Dr. Vergara is an advisor to international and grassroots organizations on civil and political rights, and on procedures and institutions for direct deliberative democracy.
As a global public intellectual, her articles and interviews have been featured in mass media outlets such as New Left Review, Jacobin, Politico, Revista Plebeya, Il Manifesto Inret, and Setenta e Quatro.
Background
dr camila vergara is senior lecturer at university of Essex Business School
She holds a PhD in Political theory with specialization in constitutional law from columbia university and was awarded the prestigious marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at University of Cambridge (2021-2023) for her work on plebeian rights.
She also holds an interdisciplinary Master's degree in Latin American Studies from NYU, and two bachelor's degrees in History and Journalism from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
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