Tulia Falleti, PhD is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science at Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Falleti is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award for the best book on political institutions by the Latin American Studies Association. She is also a co-author (with Santiago Cunial) of Participation in Social Policy: Public Health in Comparative Perspective (Elements in the Politics of Development) (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
She is co-editor, with Orfeo Fioretos and Adam Sheingate, of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2016), and with Emilio Parrado of Latin America Since the Left Turn (University of Pennsylvania, 2018), among other co-edited volumes. Her articles on decentralization, federalism, authoritarianism, participation, and qualitative methods have appeared in edited volumes and journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Publius, Qualitative Sociology, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Politics, and more.
As a principal investigator of an interdisciplinary team, Dr. Falleti has been awarded a $5 million Just Futures grant from the Mellon Foundation. Collaborating with partners throughout the Americas, the Penn team is researching “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Cultural Heritage from La Conquista to the Present.” Among other projects, Dr. Falleti is researching the effectiveness of mobile health care for indigenous women and children in remote rural areas.
Dr. Falleti earned her PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University.