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 Tenured Full Professor at FCHDIS, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH), Mexico, 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 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Gender and Feminist Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her research focuses on feminist and decolonial epistemologies, academic freedom, genealogies of feminist thinkers, and gender-based violence in Chiapas and Central America. She contributed an expert report to the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala, the landmark national court ruling that recognized sexual and domestic slavery committed by the Guatemalan army against Maya Q'eqchi' women during the internal armed conflict. Marisa Ruiz Trejo has received international recognition through fellowships and research grants from organizations including CLACSO and CAFA, Edmundo O'Gorman Fellow at Columbia University, a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow at New York University, and Heath Visiting Professor at Grinnell College. Ruiz Trejo is the author and editor of several books on feminist thought and decolonial social sciences, including 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 recently published book, Antropólogas y pensadoras críticas desde el Sur: de las pioneras a las feministas insurgentes y activistas (CLACSO–UNACH, 2026), presents twenty-eight interviews with leading feminist scholars and activists, tracing the history of feminist anthropological thought from the Global South. In Fall 2026, she serves as the Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University, where she teaches Feminist and Decolonial Studies in Latin America.
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.