Paola Bergallo, Fall 2026
Paola Bergallo focuses on comparative public law, empirical legal studies, gender and the law, health and food rights, and the rule of law. Her research has examined how courts, legislatures, and social movements shape the recognition and enforcement of reproductive and health rights in Latin America, how constitutional and statutory frameworks travel across jurisdictions, and how legal mobilization reshapes public policy. She has served as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Colombian Constitutional Court, and the Argentine Congress, and has advised the Argentine Ministry of Health and the Supreme Court's Office on Gender. She has presented her work at conferences and universities across the Americas and Europe. She is a founding member of Red Alas (Latin American Network of Academics on Gender and Sexuality), a longtime member of SELA (Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política) convened by Yale Law School, and co-editor of the Política & Derecho book series at Siglo XXI. At Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, she is Professor of Law and founding director of the Program on Law and Development. She is also an Independent Researcher at CONICET, Global Visiting Professor at NYU School of Law, and a Global Fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen.
Marisa G. Ruiz Trejo, Fall 2026
Marisa G. Ruiz Trejo is a feminist anthropologist and full-time professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, and a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (Level II). She holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on feminist and decolonial epistemologies, academic freedom, and gender-based violence in Chiapas and Central America. She contributed an expert report to the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala, a landmark domestic court ruling addressing sexual violence against Maya Q’eqchi’ women committed by the army during the genocide. Her work has received international recognition through fellowships from CLACSO and CAFA. She has been an Edmundo O’Gorman Fellow at Columbia University, a Fulbright-Comexus García Robles fellow at New York University, and a Visiting Heath Professor at Grinnell College. Her recent books include Epistemologías feministas: cuerpo y emociones en investigación (2023), Antropologías feministas en rebeldía en Chiapas y Centroamérica (2022), and Descolonizar y despatriarcalizar las Ciencias Sociales(2020). Her forthcoming book, Antropólogas y pensadoras críticas desde el Sur: de las pioneras a las feministas insurgentes (2026), is currently in press.
Argentine Studies Visiting Fellows
- Nicholas Barnes, University of Saint Andrew, Scotland, "Resident responses to criminal governance".
- Guillermo Sardi García, City University of New York, Grad Center, "How collaboration and confrontation with non-state armed groups shape democratic backsliding in Latin America".
For a list of past Lemann Visiting Public Policy Fellows click on the title.