Global Engagement

Diana Kapiszewski is associate professor of government, director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and co-director of the Georgetown Democracy Initiative. Her research interests include comparative politics, public law, and research methods. Her work examines judicial politics and the intersections between law and politics more broadly in Latin America. Her current projects explore institutions of electoral governance in Latin America, the architecture of accountability in Latin America, and the judicialization of electoral governance in Brazil in Mexico. She also directs SIGLA (States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America, www.sigladata.org). With regard to research methods, Kapiszewski has published extensively on practices for generating qualitative data and field research and on making qualitative research transparent; she also co-directs the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. She has published several books with Cambridge University Press and multiple articles in Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, Law and Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, and other peer-reviewed outlets. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007.