Eduardo Moncada

Last month, the Making and Knowing Project by Professor Pamela Smith hosted the Environment, Craft, Language, Culture, and Knowledge in the Americas workshop. Learn more here: www.columbiaspectator.com/arts-and-cul...

Applications are open for Fall 2026 and funding opportunities are available for this competitive and comprehensive program.

🚨MARSLAC APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN
Are you interested in #LatinAmerica, in the #Caribbean? Check out our Master of Arts in Regional Studies: Latin America and the Caribbean.

Learn more: ilas.columbia.edu/content/mast...

YouTube video by Razón de Estado TV 377. Dionisio y Eduardo Moncada: Entre el miedo y la esperanza. Razón de Estado

Our Director @emoncada.bsky.social was interviewed by Dionisio Gutiérrez from Razón de Estado TV. Watch it here: youtu.be/xR9q05S9F0M?...

On Cobogós, Frames and Filters

Our current Tinker Visiting Professor Mara Eskinazi will be presenting a talk On Cobogós, Frames and Filters at the University of Pennsylvania.
November 5th, 2025 10:15 am

YouTube video by Urbana Play 104.3 FM "La elección de NY fue un voto CONTRA TRUMP y fue a FAVOR de LLEGAR A FIN DE MES" #DeAcáEnMás

"La #elección de #NYC fue un voto contra Trump y fue a favor de llegar a fin de mes", said @vickymurillo.bsky.social
in a conversation at @urbanaplay.bsky.social, #DeAcáEnMás. Watch it here >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAF...
#NYCMayoralElection

Violence and Thriving Economies in Mexico flyer November 13, 2025 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 457 - Schermerhorn Extension

Violence and Thriving Economies in #Mexico

Join us for a conference exploring how prosperity and violence intertwine across legal and illegal markets

November 13, 2025
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
📍457 - Schermerhorn Extension

Registration required: thrivingeconomies.eventbrite.com

Milei’s Tightrope Act Why the Argentine president will struggle to exploit his new mandate.

“If #Milei cannot control inflation and translate his market-oriented agenda into tangible gains for a majority of #Argentines, the electorate that brought him to power may quickly turn elsewhere,” @vickymurillo.bsky.social for @foreignaffairs.com
Read it here: www.foreignaffairs.com/argentina/mi...

2025 Brazilian Black Consciousness Abroad Colloquium
Between "Where We Stand" and "#Amefricanity"

Keynote Speaker: #Djamila Ribeiro
Debaters: Tassiana Oliveira (SUNY/Albany) and Priscila Santana (TC, Columbia University)

November 12, 6-8pm
📍Milbank Chapel, Teachers College

Join us for a special screening of the documentary "Fragmentos de otra historia" (Fragments of Another Story).

We are thrilled to host directors Laura Vera Jaramillo for a live Q&A after the film.

November 13, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
📍IAB - Room 802

Registration: lnkd.in/d-29B4Uj

Join us for El Regreso '25, an event organized by the Latino Alumni Association at Columbia University (LAACU).

November 15, 2025
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
📍Pulitzer Hall

Dress Code: Business attire
Registration: events.blackthorn.io/en/i0gvMh6/g...

Hurricane Melissa hit areas vulnerable to landslides because of deforestation Hurricane Melissa pummeled areas of the Caribbean already vulnerable to landslides and flash flooding — made worse by decades of deforestation — with risks likely to continue for days, experts said.

Professor Maria Uriarte, from the Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, had an article published in @apnews.com on how Hurricane Melissa hit areas vulnerable to landslides because of deforestation. Read it here: apnews.com/article/hurr...

Early Atlantic History & the Caribbean A discussion on the book: Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico. * Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel * Dr. Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco * Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés November 18 5-6:30 PM 📍Casa Hispánica

Early Atlantic History & the Caribbean
A discussion on the book: #Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in #Spain, #SantoDomingo, and #PuertoRico.

* Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel
* Dr. Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
* Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés

November 18
5-6:30 PM
📍Casa Hispánica

How Housing Policies Shape Crime flyer November 12, 12-1pm IAB - Room 802

How Housing Policies Shape Crime: Embedded Criminal Social Orders in #Chile and #Uruguay

Speaker: Inés Fynn, Universidad Católica del Uruguay Discussion by ILAS Director Eduardo Moncada (@emoncada.bsky.social)

* November 12, 12-1pm
📍IAB - Room 802
Register: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

Managers and Public Hospital Performance (November 2025) - We study whether the quality of managers can affect public service provision in the context of public health. Using novel data from public hospitals in Chile, we show how the introdu...

Professor Cristóbal Otero's paper Managers and Public Hospital Performance has been published in the November issue of the @aeajournals.bsky.social. Read it here:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🔉 Next week events:
* 10/27: Venezuela at a Crossroads: Political Developments and U.S. Relations
columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
* 10/28: Argentina and Beyond
columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
* 10/29: Reclaiming the Lost Century of Growth
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

The London Consensus flyer October 23: 12-1pm IAB Room 802

⚠️EVENT REMINDER:
Make sure to register for our book talk with Andrés Velasco on The London Consensus.
Moderated by Jeff Frieden
* October 23: 12-1pm
📍IAB Room 802
events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

An amazing set of events at the @ilascolumbia.bsky.social coming up with an excellent group of scholars and experts, including @vickymurillo.bsky.social and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social and others. Join us!

Looking forward to this timely webinar that will take stock of Argentina’s debt bailout and elections, using both to probe the politics of U.S. foreign economic policy in an era of global economic uncertainty.

Join us!

@ilascolumbia.bsky.social
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Join us for “Drugs and Security: Shifting U.S. Policy in Latin America” — a panel featuring SIWPS Director @profsaunders.bsky.social, María Alejandra Vélez, @gramsey.bsky.social, & @emoncada.bsky.social.

📅 Oct 1
🕑 2–3 PM

In partnership w/ @ilascolumbia.bsky.social & @columbiaigp.bsky.social ⬇️

👇🏽👇🏽 #Agendar ¡¡Lanzamos la convocatoria📣!!

III Seminario Internacional "Política Subnacional en América Latina🌎"

📅Fecha límite para postulaciones📋: 14 de julio

🗓️Fecha del evento: 30-31 de octubre de 2025
🏫Lugar: CENUR Litoral Norte (UDELAR), Salto, Uruguay

Me in the center with the members of my committee, smiling in front of a whiteboard after my dissertation defense!

I defended my dissertation today! A heartfelt thanks to my committee—@vickymurillo.bsky.social, John Marshall, Sarah Daly, @emoncada.bsky.social, and @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social—for their insight, generosity, and steady support, as well as the family and friends who've backed me every step of the way.

Any questions?

@emoncada.bsky.social , Claire Tow Associate Professor of Political Science at #BarnardCollege, #ColumbiaUniversity joins @nellylun.bsky.social for a timely discussion on the urgent and growing crisis of #extortion in #Peru and across #LatinAmerica

📖 Full piece:
ojo-publico.com/entrevistas/...

Check out this new piece by @emoncada.bsky.social, Claire Tow Associate Professor of Political Science at #BarnardCollege, #ColumbiaUniversity on #Peru👇

Eduardo Moncada: “Frente a la extorsión no hay responsabilidad solo del Estado” Investigador de organizaciones criminales, Eduardo Moncada, ha realizado un intenso trabajo de campo en zonas violentas de Colombia, El Salvador y México, y ha analizado la incapacidad del Estado ante...

Súper interesante esta entrevista a @emoncada.bsky.social sobre extorsión criminal en Perú. Puede leerse acá ➡️ larepublica.pe/politica/202...

Join us for a conversation on race, migration, and real estate in 19th century Buenos Aires with Michael Goebel, the Einstein Professor of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin on April 10th.
#GlobalHistory #UrbanStudies #RaceandMigration #LatinAmerica

Very excited to be in Lima this week to share findings from my book on extortion, new projects on crime and public goods in Latin America, and learn from colleagues.

Greater #Caribbean combo next week! Two events, one on visual #art, the other one on #embroidery with #PuertoRico textile expert Lulú Varona. Don't miss out!
@barnardcollege.bsky.social