Valentin Figueroa
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Comparative politics; state-building; historical political economy; economic history; Western Europe; Latin America
Biography
Valentin Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. He studies historical political economy, with a regional focus on Western Europe and Latin America. His recent work examines state-building, ideological change, scientific innovation, and electoral systems. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, Explorations in Economic History, the Journal of Politics, and World Politics.
Valentin earned a PhD in Political Science at Stanford University. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he holds an MA from Universidad Torcuato di Tella, and a BA from Universidad de San Andrés. For more information, please visit www.valentinfigueroa.com.
Biography
Valentin Figueroa is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. He studies historical political economy, with a regional focus on Western Europe and Latin America. His recent work examines state-building, ideological change, scientific innovation, and electoral systems. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, Explorations in Economic History, the Journal of Politics, and World Politics.
Valentin earned a PhD in Political Science at Stanford University. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he holds an MA from Universidad Torcuato di Tella, and a BA from Universidad de San Andrés. For more information, please visit www.valentinfigueroa.com.