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Sebastián Vallejo Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Western University. His research focuses on gendered political institutions, representation, racial identity, and racism in Latin America. He is particularly interested in the gendered barriers to political institutions and the strategic reactions of political actors when encountering these barriers. Vallejo Vera employs novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques on a wide variety of text data, including legislative speeches and tweets, to address substantive questions surrounding gender, racism, and politics. His work has been published in respected journals such as Latin American Politics and Society, Political Research Quarterly, and the Journal of Politics. He has also contributed to several working papers and chapters, exploring issues related to the intersection of gender and politics in the context of legislative operations in Latin America.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.