University Level Teaching Experience
Universidad Adolfo Ibanez Santiago Chile and Vina del Mar
2012 Universidad Catolica de Chile
2010, 11 Universidad Diego Portales
2011 Historia Occidental de Pensamiento Politico
Confrontaciones entre el Poder y la Justicia en la esfera polticia
Problemas del Poder
Politica Contemporanea
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Fall 2009: Politics, Government, Society
Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies
Fall 2009: History of Political Thought
Fall 2008: Ancient Political Thought
Winter 2008: Introduction to International Relations
Summer 2007: Law in the Political Arena
Kansas State University
Summer 2008: History of Political Thought
Northwestern University Teaching Assistant
Courses: Methods of Political Inquiry, History of Political Thought, World Systems, Law in
the Political Arena, Introduction to Roman Civilization, Trial Advocacy, Law and Society
Education
PhD 2010 Political Science, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Mimesis in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan
Legal Studies Graduate Assistantship 2008-2009
Paris Program in Critical Theory Participant 2007, 2008
Fellow, Insitut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris 2007-2008 Exchange with Sciences-Po, Paris
Chateaubriand Award to do dissertation research in Paris 2006-2007
University Scholar Award 2006-2007
French Interdisciplinary Group award to study French in Montpellier 2003
Masters in Science by Research, Politics, 2001, University of Edinburgh
Thesis: Hannah Arendt on Kant’s Critique of Judgement
BA 2000 Ohio University Honors Tutorial College, Philosophy
Study Abroad: Universidad de Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
Conference and Special Events Experience
- Ciclo de Seminarios, Debates Bipolíticas Contemporaneas, 2 Nov. 2010 “El lugar de Hobbes en la crítica Biopolítica del Neoliberalismo: ¿Quién decide lo que significa ‘salvar la propia vida’?”
- IX Congreso Chileno de Ciencia Política 11, 12, 13 Nov. 2010 “La teoría de dios en el Leviatán de Thomas Hobbes: más cerca a Roma o Jerusalem?”
- Nietzsche and the Future of Life Santiago, Chile November 2-4, 2009 “The Politics of Culture and Civilization in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan”
- Bible and Political Theory Conference, Northwestern University, March 2009 “The Sovereign’s Personation of God in Leviathan”
- Northwestern University Political Theory Colloquia, Jan. 09 Respondent Dana Villa “Genealogies of Total Domination: Adorno, Arendt, and Auschwitz”
- Queen’s University, Belfast, Quest, Perspectives on Power, March, 2007. “Hobbes’s ‘perspicuity’ clearly related to Foucault’s ‘effective truth.’”
- Western Political Science Association, Politics and Luck: Thinking about Government and the State in an Uncertain World Las Vegas, NV March, 2007
“Hobbes’s emplotment of Leviathan according to the techniques outlined in Aristotle’s Poetics”.
- McGill University, Colloque de la Recherche Étudiante en Sciences Politique, Les Facettes du Pouvoir Montreal, Canada, May 2007.
“Returning to Leviathan after Foucault: A genealogy of the Automaton as a symbol of
constituent power”.