Dr. Gabriel Ondetti 1011 S. Delaware Ave. Springfield, MO 65804 (417) 631-8461 gabrielondetti@missouristate.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor Department of Political Science Springfield, MO June 2010-present Assistant Professor Fall 2005-Spring 2010 Department of Political Science Springfield, MO Visiting Assistant Professor 2003-2004 Department of Government The College of William & Mary Williamsburg, VA Visiting Assistant Professor 2002-2003 Department of Government Wesleyan University Middletown, CT EDUCATION PhD in Political Science December 2002 Major in Comparative Politics; minor in International Relations MA in Latin American Studies July 1995 Georgetown University, Washington, DC Major in Government/Inter-American Relations BA in English May 1989 Minor in Psychology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
RESEARCH Awards Best article published in 2015, Economics and Politics Section, Latin American Studies Association, for The Roots of Brazil s Heavy Taxation (see below). Refereed Book Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2008. Articles in Refereed Journals The Social Function of Property, Land Rights and Social Welfare in Brazil, Land Use Policy, vol. 50, January 2016, pp. 29-37. The Roots of Brazil s Heavy Taxation, Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 47, no. 4, November 2015, pp 749-779 International Migration and Social Policy Underdevelopment in the Dominican Republic, Global Social Policy vol. 12, no. 1, April 2012, pp. 45-66. Up and Down with the Agrarian Question: Issue-Attention and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazil, Politics & Policy, vol. 36, no. 4, August 2008, pp. 510-541. An Ambivalent Legacy: Cardoso and Land Reform. Latin American Perspectives, vol. 34, no. 5, September 2007, pp. 9-25. Repression, Opportunity, and Protest: Explaining the Takeoff of Brazil s Landless Movement. Latin American Politics & Society, vol. 48, no. 2, Summer 2006, pp. 61-94. Book Chapter From Posseiro to Sem-Terra: The Impact of MST Land Struggles in Pará. Co-authored with José Batista Afonso and Emmanuel Wambergue. In Miguel Carter, ed., Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Agrarian Reform in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. (Published in Brazil as Combatenda a Desigualdade Social: O MST e a Reforma Agrária no Brasil, Editora UNESP, 2010). 2
Academic Working Papers Courting the South: Lula s Trade Diplomacy, UCEMA Working Paper Series, Number 430, Universidad del CEMA, Argentina, September 2010. Co-authored with Sybil Rhodes. Cuban Relations with Canada and Western Europe after the Cold War, Cuba Working Paper Series, Number 9, The Cuba Project, Georgetown University, November 1995. Book Reviews George Mészáros, Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reforms: Lessons from Brazil, in Journal of Peasant Studies (forthcoming). Arie M. Kacowicz, Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth: The Latin American Experience, 1982-2008, in Perspectives on Politics vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 509-510. Gustavo Flores-Macías, After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America, in American Review of Politics, vol. 33, Fall 2012, pp. 339-341. Krister Andersson, Gustavo Gordillo de Anda and Frank van Laerhoven, Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru, in Latin American Politics and Society, vol. 52, no. 1, March 2010, pp. 174-177. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society and James Holston, Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil, in Perspectives on Politics, vol. 6, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 625-627. Nancy D. Lapp, Landing Votes: Representation and Land Reform in Latin America, in Political Science Quarterly, vol. 20, no 3, Fall 2005, pp. 544-545. Other Non-Refereed Publications Die brasilianische Landlosenbewegung MST: Entwicklung, Organsiation und Strategie ( The Brazilian Landless Movement: Development, Organization and Strategy ). In FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN)-Germany, ed., Land in Bewegung: Rect auf Nahrung und Agrarreform in Brasilien (Land in Motion: The Right to Food and Agrarian Reform in Brazil), 2003. Economic Adjustment and its Effects on the Film and Book Industries in Latin America. Entrecaminos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Latin American Affairs, vol. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 37-58. 3
Conference Papers The 2011 Student Protests and Progressive Reformism in Chile, prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois April 7-10, 2016. Coauthored with Indira Palacios. Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Path Dependence, Power Resources and the Magnitude of the Tax Burden in Latin America, presented at the conference on The Politics of Taxation in Latin America, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 15-16, 2015. The Power of Preferences: Economic Elites and the Politics of Light Taxation in Mexico, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015. The Social Function of Property and Social Welfare in Brazil, prepared for the conference on Understanding Southern Welfare the B(R)ICS Countries, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany, November 24-26, 2014 The Politics of Light Taxation: Mexico in Comparative Perspective, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, May 21-24, 2014. Elite Resistance and the Magnitude of the Tax Burden in Latin America, prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 29- September 1, 2013. The Roots of Brazil s Heavy Taxation, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, May 29-June 1, 2013. Tax Burdens and Historical Legacies in Brazil and Mexico, prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, August 30-September 2, 2012 (meeting was cancelled due to weather, but I submitted my paper electronically). Policy Diffusion Theory and the Rise of Land Reform in Latin America, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, May 23-26, 2012. Taxation and Historical Legacies: Comparing Brazil and Mexico, prepared for the International Comparative Policy Analysis (ICPA) Forum on Public Policy: Brazil in Comparative Perspective, São Paulo, Brazil, November 18-19, 2011. International Migration and Social Policy Underdevelopment in the Dominican Republic, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9, 2010. 4
Democratization and Redistributive Policymaking: Taxation, Social Spending and Labor Market Regulation in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009. Does Democracy Promote Redistribution? The Case of Brazil, prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 28-31, 2008. Courting the Third World: Lula s South-South Trade Diplomacy, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 6-8, 2007. Co-authored with Sybil Rhodes. The Issue-Attention Cycle and Land Reform Policy in Contemporary Brazil, prepared for the meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association, Nashville, TN, October 13-16, 2006. Up and Down with the Agrarian Question: Issue-Attention and Land Reform in Contemporary Brazil, prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 2, 2006. Lula and Land Reform: How Much Progress? prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, PR, March 13-15, 2006. Revolution or Palliative? Assessing the Cardoso Land Reform, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9, 2004. The Rise of Agrarian Reform in Democratic Brazil: Causes and Prospects for the Future, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, TX, March 27-29, 2003. "When Repression Backfires: The Rise of the Brazilian Landless Movement in the Mid-1990s," prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, September 6-8, 2001. Political Opportunity as a Consequence of Collective Action: Explaining the Rise of the Brazilian Landless Movement, prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 30-September 2, 2001. Taking and Making Political Opportunities: The Growth of Landless Mobilization in Brazil, prepared for the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 19-22, 2001. Agrarian Reform in Brazil: Present and Future, prepared for the annual meeting of the Brazilian Political Science Association, São Paulo, Brazil, November, 20-24, 2000. The Rise of Agrarian Reform in Brazil: Causes and Prospects, prepared for the annual convention of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 8-11, 2000. 5
Explaining Regional Variation in the Strength of Brazil s Landless Movement, prepared the World Congress of the International Rural Sociology Association, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, July 29-August 5, 2000. The Exceptionalism of Land: Explaining Brazil s Surprising Sem Terra Movement, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, September 28-30, 1998. Democratic Institutions and the Process of Economic Reform in Argentina, prepared for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997. Co-authored with William R. Keech. Conference Panels Organized The Political Dynamics of Taxation in Latin America, organized for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015. Land Reform in Latin America I: Historical Perspectives and Case Studies, co-organized with Steven Helfand for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, May 23-26, 2012. Land Reform in Latin America II: The Case of Brazil, co-organized with Steven Helfand for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Franciscio, CA, May 23-26, 2012. Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America, organized for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9, 2010. The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America, organized for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009. Politics and Policy in Lula s Brazil, organized for the congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 6-8, 2007. The MST and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform, organized for the meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association, Nashville, TN, October 13-16, 2006. Invited Lectures "Reforma, reacción y acuerdo político: Las raíces de la baja tributación en México," Instituto de Ciencia Política, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, June 27, 2014. The Political Economy of Land Reform in MERCOSUR, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, September 16, 2013. 6
Brazil on the World Stage: Foreign Policies of an Emerging Power, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO, October 20, 2010. Taming Savage Capitalism: Brazil s Struggle with Poverty and Inequality, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, MO, October 20, 2010. An Outsider s View of the Lula Government and Agrarian Reform, State University of São Paulo (UNESP), Presidente Prudente, Brazil, August 8, 2003. The MST in Historical Perspective, Paulista Foundation for Education and Science, Lins, São Paulo, Brazil, March 27, 2000. Field Research Affiliations División de Estudios Políticos October-November 2014 Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) Mexico City, Mexico Departamento de Ciencia Política y Estudios Internacionales July-August 2014 Universidad Torcuato di Tella Buenos Aires, Argentina Departamento de Ciencia Política June-July 2014 Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) May-June 2008 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Núcleo de Estudos de Ideologias e Lutas Sociais (NEILS) 2nd semester 2000 Departamento de Ciências Sociais Pontifícia Universidade Católica, São Paulo, Brazil Laboratório de Geografia Agrária 1999-2000 Departamamento de Geografia Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Franklin Research Grant 2014 American Philosophical Society 7
Small Research Grant 2014 American Political Science Association Faculty Research Grant 2012 Fulbright Research Grant (declined) 2011 U.S. Department of State Summer Faculty Fellowship 2010 Faculty Research Grant 2008 College of Humanities and Public Affairs Incentive Grant 2007 Summer Faculty Fellowship 2005 Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2001 Latané Interdisciplinary Summer Research Grant 2001 International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999 Social Science Research Council Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant 1999 U.S. Department of Education Dissertation Research Fellowship 1999 Institute for the Study of World Politics International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 1997 Social Science Research Council National Science Foundation Democracy & Democratization Traineeship 1996 Tinker Foundation Travel Grant 1996 Institute of Latin American Studies 8
Andrew Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Studies 1996 TEACHING Courses Taught Latin American Politics, Rural Politics of Latin America, Politics of Less Developed Countries, Political Economy of Developing Countries, Democracy in Developing Countries, Introduction to Comparative Politics, International Political Economy, American Democracy and Citizenship. Thesis Advising Isabel de Azeredo Moura, Tying Microcredit to Brazil s Bolsa Família Program as a Path towards Sustainable Poverty Mitigation, MA thesis,, ongoing. Clayton Webb, Explaining the Iranian Revolution, undergraduate senior honors project,, Fall 2008. Christopher Strunk, Overcoming Powerlessness: Farm Workers in the United States and their Struggle for Union Contracts, undergraduate senior thesis, Wesleyan University, 2002-2003. Graduate Research Advising Advised students doing MA-level independent research projects on: policies for reversing US manufacturing jobs losses; conflict over rivers that cross national borders, the significance of the Chávez government in Venezuela for the United States, anti-narcotics policies in the Andes, regional trade integration in Latin America, democratization in Guatemala, the political economy of nationalization, and the results of market-oriented economic reforms in Latin America. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Scholarly Peer Review Reviewed articles for American Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Comparative Politics, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, International Interactions, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Land Use Policy, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Oxford Development Studies, Sociological Perspectives, World Development and World Politics. 9
Reviewed a book manuscript for the University of Arizona Press, 2017. Reviewed grant proposals for the City University of New York, 2008; the Social Science Research Council, 2011; and the University of Missouri system, 2012. Reviewed tenure application for the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 2013. Service to Professional Associations Council member, Economics and Politics Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2015- present. Chair, Economics and Politics Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2013-2015. Editorial Advisory Committee, LASA Forum (internal publication of the Latin American Studies Association), 2012-2014. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY Program Administration Acting Director, Masters in International Affairs and Administration program, Spring 2008 Committees Chair, Department of Political Science Scholarship Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2012 Chair, Department of Political Science Middle Eastern Politics Search Committee, Spring 2008 Member, University Incentive Work Group, Fall 2016-present Member, Department of Political Science African Politics Search Committee, Fall 2011 Member, Department of Political Science Ad-Hoc Committee on Assessment Methods, Fall 2010 Member, Department of Political Science Curriculum Committee, Fall 2005-present Member, Department of Political Science Masters of Global Studies Committee, Fall 2005-present. Member, Department of Political Science Thomas G. Strong Chair in Middle Eastern Politics Search Committee, Fall 2008 and Fall 2009 Member, University Global Studies Committee, Fall 2005-present Member, University Faculty Concerns Committee, Fall 2007-present Member, Department of Political Science PLS 101 Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2008 10
Other On-campus candidate interviewer, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, 2014-present. Co-organized talk by Barbara Hines, University of Texas at Austin and Emerson Collective, on US Immigration Policy and the Crisis in Central America, on October 6, 2016. Co-organized talk by Daniel Hellinger, Webster College, on Venezuela: The Oil Giant Enters the Post-Chavez Era, on February 10, 2016. Co-organized talk by Phillip Brennan, American University, on The Cuban Dilemma: Raúl Castro s Reforms and their Implications for U.S. Policy, September 26, 2013. Co-organized talk by David Scott FitzGerald, University of California at San Diego, on Unauthorized Immigration the United States: U.S. Policy and its Effects, September 24, 2012. Co-organized talk by Howard Campbell, University of Texas at El Paso, on Drug-Related Violence and the Future of Mexico, October 6, 2011 Co-organized talk by Moises Arce, University of Missouri at Columbia, on The Politics of Protest in Argentina, February 9, 2010 Candidate interviewer, University President s Scholarship, 2007, 2009-present. Faculty judge, Homecoming Queen Competition, 2009 Faculty judge, University Graduate Interdisciplinary Forum, 2008 NON-ACADEMIC JOB EXPERIENCE Reporter September 1991 to August 1993 The Jersey Journal, Jersey City, NJ Account Executive January 1990 to August 1991 Wang Associates Public Relations, New York, NY 11