PhD Candidate, Political Science Nov 2008 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Political Science 2140 Derby Hall 154 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1373 INÉS VALDEZ ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CELL: [919] 641-6049 inevaldez@gmail.com mwpweb.eu/inesvaldez/ CURRICULUM VITAE Academic Positions Assistant Professor 2013- Department of Political Science, Ohio State University Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Theory 2012-2013 Department of Political Science, Ohio State University Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow -2012 Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute Junior Visiting Scholar 2009 Nuffield College, Oxford University Education Ph.D., Political Science July University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science Fields Exams: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology Dissertation: Deporting Democracy: The Politics of Immigration and Sovereignty Committee: Susan Bickford (co-chair), Jeff Spinner-Halev (co-chair), Michael Lienesch, John McGowan, and Andrew Perrin. PhD Candidate, Political Science Nov 2008 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.A., Political Science December 2004 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.A. Thesis: Party Decay? Electoral Effects of New Issues and Cleavages during Neoliberal Reforms, winner of James B. Prothro Award for Best M.A. Thesis, granted by the Department of Political Science Ph.D. student, Political Science 2002-2003 Duke University, Department of Political Science Graduate coursework in Public Policy, M.A. Candidate 1999-2001 Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina B.A., Economics (Political Science minor) 1994-1998 Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Publications and Forthcoming Work 2013 Reel Latinas? Race, Gender, and Asymmetric Recognition in Contemporary Film, in Politics, Groups, and Identities 1 (2): 181-198. 2012 Perpetual What? Injury, Sovereignty, and a Cosmopolitan View of Immigration, in Political Studies 60(1): 95-114. From Workers to Enemies. National Security, State Building and America s War on Illegal Immigrants (with Desmond King), in Narrating Peoplehood amidst Diversity. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives, ed. Michael Böss (Aarhus: Aarhus Academic Press), pp. 145-182. Residues of Border Control (with Susan Harbage Page), Southern Spaces April 17. Book Reviews Mary C. Beltrán, Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom, in Latino Studies 9(2-3): 346-348. Referee Work Journals Politics, Groups, and Identities (2013) Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (2012) Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric (2010) Book prize APSA Latino Caucus Best Book Award (committee member for the selection of - 2012 best book in Latino Politics) Honors and Awards Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at annual meeting March 2012 Western Political Science Association For paper applying a Foucaultian approach of biopolitics and discipline to the contemporary US immigration regime American Political Science Association Fund for Latino Scholarship Sep 2010 William Wilson Brown, Jr. Dissertation Fellowship Fund, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ford Foundation and University of North Carolina Center for Latin American Studies (Doctoral Research Fellowship) Summer 2010 2006-2007 2

James B. Prothro Award for Best M.A. Thesis, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tinker Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Institute of Latin American Studies, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Various summer fellowships) 2005 2003, 2004, 2005 Duke University, Department of Political Science (RA/TA fellowship) 2002-2003 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Science (RA/TA-fellowship) William and Flora Hewlett Foundation & San Andrés University (Field Research Grant) ENARGAS (National Office for Natural Gas Regulation) (M.A. Fellowship) 2003-2009 2001 2000-2001 Fundación Mediterránea (Macroeconomics Training Fellowship) 1996 Research Interests Political Theory: Democratic Theory, Immigration, Sovereignty, Latin@ Political Thought, Feminist Theory, Post-colonialism. American Political Development: Citizenship, Democracy, Immigration, American Statebuilding, Latino/a Political Thought, Race/Gender in Film and Political Discourse. Comparative Politics: Critical Development Studies, Globalization. Research Experience and Employment Research Assistant to Professor Milada Vachudova Summer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2010 Research Assistant to Professor Jeff Spinner-Halev Summer 2008/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Spring 2009 Research Assistant to Professor Cecilia Martinez Gallardo Fall 2008/ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Spring 2009 Research Assistant to Professor Evelyne Huber Summer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003 Research Assistant to Professor Anirudh Krishna Fall 2002/ Duke University Spring 2003 Junior Economist March 1998 National Office for Natural Gas Regulation (ENARGAS, Argentina) - July 2002 3

Invited Talks 2014 Who s the Toughest? Punishment and the Organization of Immigration Exclusion presented at the Berlin Institute for Immigration and Integration, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany), June 2013 Libération ou Liberté? What is at stake in the French debate on Laicitè presented at the Women s Studies Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November The Downsides of Toughness: Border Security, Immigration Enforcement, and a Tough Path to Citizenship presented at Oberlin College, Oberlin, April What Part of Illegal Don t We Understand? Political Judgment on the Issue of Immigration presented at the Immigration and Democracy Series & Latino Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, February 2012 Perpetual What? Injury, Sovereignty, and a Cosmopolitan View of Sovereignty presented at the Empire and Sovereignty Workshop, European University Institute, Fiesole (IT), June Power, Politics, and Realistic Approaches to the Political Theory of Immigration presented at the Workshop The Ethics of Immigration, European University Institute, Fiesole (IT), May The Co-Optation of Feminism in the Veil Controversy: Reason, Equality, and the Closure of Politics presented at the Gender & Migration Working Group, European University Institute, Fiesole (IT), February Who s the Toughest? Punishment and the Organization of Immigration Exclusion presented at the Migration Working Group, Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Fiesole (IT), October 2010 Sovereignty in the City: Spatial Racialization and Immigration Enforcement, presented at: Comparative Working Group, UNC at Chapel Hill, September Kirwan Institute Brownbag Series, Ohio State University, Columbus, July State Building by Other Means: American Democracy and the War on Illegal Immigrants (with Desmond King), Lunch Series of the Quality of Government Institute. Gothenburg (Sweden), June Unearthing the Politics of Immigration: Beyond the Borders of the Public Sphere, presented at the Political Theory Workshop, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, April 2009 State Building by Other Means: American Democracy and the War on Illegal Immigrants (with Desmond King), presented at the Workshop of the Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy, Oxford (UK), November Perpetual What? Publicness, Sovereignty, and a Cosmopolitan View of Immigration, presented at the Nuffield Workshop of Political Theory, Oxford (UK), March 4

Conferences and Workshops Organized 2014 Migration and Global Justice Workshop, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University: co-convenor, Fall Political Theory Workshop, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University: cocoordinator 2012 The 6 th Classics Revisited Max Weber Conference (on Karl Polanyi): lead organizer (6 external speakers including Nancy Fraser and Gareth Dale), European University Institute, May 2 Unveiling Colonialism in the Republic: co-organizer (3 external speakers including Mayanthi Fernando and 4 local speakers), European University Institute, March 14 Conference Presentations 2013 Discipline and Freedom as Alternative Practices: Muslim Women's Responses to Republicanism and Islam presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August-September 2012 Finding the Political in the Political Theory of Immigration presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April Who s the Toughest? Punishment and the Organization of Immigration Exclusion presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April Granted the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper presented at the WPSA meeting 2010 Sovereignty in the City: Spatial Racialization and Immigration Enforcement, presented at: The Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September The Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2009 Perpetual What? Publicness, Sovereignty, and a Cosmopolitan View of Immigration, presented at the Kantian Standing Group of the European Consortium of Political Research Conference. Berlin, Germany, September Secularism or Veiled Exclusion? Muslim Women and the French State (with Hollie Mann), presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, August 2008 An Alien Consciousness? A Critical Reading of the Construction of Citizenship and Borders, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, 5

August Film, Identity, and Culture, Watching Latinas on Film, Annual Women s Worlds Conference. Madrid, Spain, July 2007 Global Justice in a Postcolonial World (with Jeff Spinner-Halev), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August-September 2005 Economic Reforms as Collective Action Problems: An Ontological Obstacle? presented at: Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April; Comparative Working Group, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 2004 Party Decay? Electoral Effects of New Issues and Cleavages during Neoliberal Reforms, Annual Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Las Vegas, October New Issues and Cleavages Under Neoliberal Reforms: A Study of the Argentine Case, Workshop on the Analysis of Political Cleavages and Party Competition, Duke University, Durham, April Teaching Experience GRADUATE At Ohio State University The Politics of Cosmopolitanism (Spring 2016) At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Immigration Politics in Contemporary Europe (Summer 2014) UNDERGRADUATE At Ohio State University Immigration Politics Through Film (Spring 2014) Feminist Political Theory (Fall 2013 and Spring 2014) Introduction to Human Rights (Fall 2013 and 2014) Teaching Fellow Feminism & Political Theory (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2008) Critical Perspectives of Development in Latin America (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Summer 2008) Transitions to Democracy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2006) Latin American Politics Through Film (Elon University, Winter 2005 and 2006) Introduction to Latin American Politics (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fall 2005) Introduction to Economics (co-taught with Alejandro Catterberg) (Universidad de 6

Buenos Aires, Spring and Fall 2001) Teaching Assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Modern Political Thought (Professor Stephen Leonard, Fall 2007) Global Issues (Professors Sandy Smith-Nonini and Eunice Sahle, Fall 2007 and 2004, in charge of developing special section in Spanish) Introduction to Latin American Politics (Professor Evelyne Huber, Fall 2003 & 2004) Course Development and Teaching Training Ohio State University Library Course Enhancement Grant for course Human Rights (Fall 2014) Teaching Diversity in the Classroom (Diversity and Identity Studies Collective, the Ohio State University): Workshop by Professor Dalia Rodriguez (March 4, ) Languages Across the Curriculum Award, University Center for International Studies (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): section in Spanish for Global Issues. Future Faculty Fellow at the Center for Faculty Excellence (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Training program for designing and teaching courses that emphasize critical thinking and higher-order learning (Summer 2006) Presentations Language as an Instrument of Critical Thinking, presented at Spring 2008 LAC Workshop Series at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April, 2008 Teaching Interests Graduate Political Theory: Democratic Theory, Feminist Theory, Race and Gender in Political Theory, Modern Political Thought, American Political Thought, Kant and Contemporary Political Theory, Sovereignty, Biopolitics, Film and the Politics of Representation. Undergraduate Political Theory: Democratic Theory, Modern Political Thought, Feminist Theory, American Political Thought, Film and Politics, Latina/o Politics, Race and Political Thought, Classic Political Thought. International & Comparative Politics: Introduction to Latin American Politics, Latin American Politics through Film, Politics of Immigration, Development, Globalization. Service Comparative Politics Graduate Student Representative Spring 2005 Department of Political Science, UNC at Chapel Hill Coordinator of Latin American Political Economy Working Group Fall 2004/ Duke & UNC Chapel Hill Consortium for Latin American Studies Spring 2005 Presentations to Community Audiences 7

2013 Immigration Politics and Immigration Reform, invited speaker at the Worthington Kilbourne High School, Columbus, April Immigration and U.S.-Mexico Relations panelist at Columbus Council of Global Affairs event, Columbus, February Post Dream Act Dreamers, facilitator of discussion session on the DREAM Act for the Go There! Series, sponsored by the Multicultural Center of the Ohio State University, Columbus, April The Political Complexity of Talking about the Economics of Immigration, in American Immigration Council & Immigration Policy Center on the Road. Meeting with Immigration Experts in Ohio, Columbus, March Immigration Conversation, panelist at Martin Luther King Day at Capital University, Columbus, January 2010 Immigration: History, Present, and Implications for Democracy, presented at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, October Immigration Enforcement, Discourses, and Democracy, presented at the Ohio Diversity Latino Talent & Leadership Conference, Columbus, October The Immigration Debate and Arizona: Escalation or Turning Point? presented at the Weekly Meetings of Ohioans for Peace, Columbus, June (also invited presentation in Spanish at Ohio State University SP 689, Professor Diana Ruggiero, June) Immigration Detention and the Rule of Law, presented at Ohio State University Event And Justice for All?, Columbus, March The Ethics of Immigration, invited presentation at Ohio State University PS 543, Professor Tony Mughan, Columbus, March Volunteering Member of Central Ohio for Immigrant Justice, preparation and issuing of Spring know your rights card for local Latino/a community Community organizing, Columbus Reform Immigration for America 2010 Committee on grassroots action on the 2010 Census and Immigration Reform, 2010 Columbus Hispanic Coalition Interpreter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School Immigration Clinic Interpreter at the Durham Latino Health Fair (Nuestra Fiesta de la Salud) July 2007 Languages Spanish (native), English (fluent), French and German (good), Portuguese (fair) 2009-2010 8