María Ignacia Curiel

Fellow | Migration in the Americas

Dr. María Ignacia Curiel is an empirical scholar using experimental, observational, and qualitative methodologies to explore questions of conflict, peacebuilding and democratic representation, with a focus on informing policy and practice. She is also a visiting scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) and an affiliate of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. María earned her PhD in Political Science from the Department of Politics at New York University. Her work has been supported by the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the American Political Science Association Centennial Center, and is published in the Journal of Politics. In addition to her academic pursuits, María has conducted research for the United Nations University Center for Policy Research, the Inter-American Development Bank, and a Caracas-based NGO.