Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History and Research Associate for the Boston University Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA).

He is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico (Duke 1997) and co-author of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (Duke 2013).  A specialist on social movements in Latin America, Rubin combines innovative methodological approaches with the study of democratic possibility in Latin America over the past thirty years.

Sponsored by the Curriculum in Global Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas