Dr. Constanza Sanhueza

Biography

Constanza is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics and Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Political Science at the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) of the Australian National University. She is a Fellow at the Australian Center for Federalism and Co-Chair of the Quantitative Methods Research Group of the Australian Political Studies Association. Before joining ANU in 2022, she worked as a Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and at the Varieties of Democracy Institute at the University of Gothenburg. Constanza also held positions at Sciences Po Paris and received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission from 2009 to 2012. She has been a visiting scholar at prestigious institutions, including the University of Oxford and the University of Oslo. Her PhD in Political Science from the University of Mannheim focused on the effects of immigration on voting and political parties' representation in European democracies. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Democratisation, Governance, and Party Politics. Constanza is also active as a consultant for various international agencies and engages with the media on current political issues.

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