Dr. Guadalupe Tuñón

Biography

Guadalupe Tuñón is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He specializes in comparative politics, political economy, and the intersection of religion and politics with a regional focus on Latin America. Tuñón's current research examines how religious ideas about inequality and redistribution influence electoral policy and the role of religious actors in politics. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Prior to joining Princeton, Tuñón was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a predoctoral fellow at the Identity & Conflict Lab at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. His expertise includes judicial politics and Latin American politics. Tuñón has received several honors including the Mancur Olson Prize for his dissertation in the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association in 2020, and the Aaron Wildavsky Award in the Religion and Politics Section of the APSA in the same year. Recently, he received the 2024 David Brian Robertson Paper Award.

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