AZUL AMÉRICA AGUIAR AGUILAR Periferico Sur Manuel Gomez Morin 8585 Col. ITESO. CP. 45604 Tlaquepaque, Mexico azulaguiar@iteso.mx Facebook: Azul Aguiar Twitter: @azulaguiar CURRENT POSITION Associate Professor at ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara EDUCATION Italian Institute of Human Sciences. University of Florence Department of Political Science, 2007-2011 Obtained degree: PhD in Political Science. Field: Comparative Politics Dissertation title: Rule of Law in New Democracies. The Reforms to the Public Prosecutor s Office in Latin America. A Comparative Study. Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Guarnieri Coordinator: Prof. Leonardo Morlino Date received: February 11, 2011. Florence, Italy. Research Institute Dr. José Ma. Luis Mora Department of Political Sociology, 2004-2006 Obtained degree: Master in political sociology Dissertation title: Intereses políticos e independencia formal de las instituciones de justicia: un estudio de caso Supervisor: Prof. Andreas Schedler Date received: September 29, 2006. University of Guadalajara Department of International Studies, 1998-2003 Dissertation title: La inserción del movimiento sin tierra en el movimiento altermundista Supervisor: Prof. Jaime Preciado Coronado Date received: January 22 nd 2004. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico LINGUISTIC PROFICIENCIES LANGUAGE SPOKEN WRITTEN READ Spanish Mother tongue Mother tongue Mother tongue
English Fluent Fluent Fluent Italian Fluent Fluent Fluent Portuguese Intermediate Intermediate Fluent WORK EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor at University of Guadalajara, Political Science Department, September 2011 present Guadalajara, Mexico Invited Professor at Colegio de Jalisco February 2013 present Guadalajara, Mexico Associate Professor at UAM (Autonomous Metropolitan University) campus, Cuajimalpa April August 2010 Research Assistant at CEPCOM (Center of Comparative Politics Studies) April 2004 December 2006 Research Assistant at CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) April August 2004 PUBLICATIONS a) Articles Refereed 1. 2015, La procuración de justicia: el talón de Aquiles del Estado de derecho en México. Revista Mexicana de Análisis Político y Administración Pública. Universidad de Guanajuato. Volumen IV, número 1, pp. 159-172. 2. 2012, The Institutional Change of the Public Prosecutor Office. The cases of Mexico, Chile and Brazil, Mexican Law Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, IIJ-UNAM, Mexico. 3. 2009, Democracia sin Estado de derecho. El Ministerio Público en México, El Cotidiano, UAM-Azcapotzalco, No. 153, Año 26, pp. 29-37. b) Book Chapters 1. Reforms to the Public Prosecutor s Office in Brazil, Chile and Mexico. The role of justice-sector interest groups, in Kapiszewski, Diana and Ingram, Matthew, Beyond High Courts. The Justice Complex in Contemporary Latin America, Advance contract at University of Notre Dame Press, December 2015.
2. 2014, Reforma policial municipal en México. El caso de Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, en Mejía Joaquín, Gerardo Ballesteros y Josué Murillo, Violencia, derechos humanos y seguridad ciudadana, Editorial San Ignacio y Guaymuras, Honduras. 3. 2013, Estado de derecho y régimen político, en Pérez, Gabriel (ed.), Temas selectos de teoría política contemporánea, UAM-Porrúa, México. 4. 2012, Valoraciones de la democracia en México, en Álvarez Ángel y Francisco José Virtuoso (coords.), Valoraciones de la democracia en Venezuela y América Latina, Centro Gumilla y OSI, Venezuela. En colaboración con Carlos Moreno. 5. 2011, Entre reglas democráticas y procedimientos alternativos del juego. El TEPJF, el PRD y la elección en Iztapalapa 2009, en Palma, Esperanza (ed.), Partidos y elecciones intermedias de 2009: problemas para la construcción de mecanismos de representación y participación ciudadana en México, UAM-C y Porrúa, México Lejos del Estado fallido, Periódico Excélsior, 20 de enero de 2009, México, D.F. c) Book reviews 1. 2009, Pasión, arte y método en la política comparada, Política y Gobierno, CIDE, Vol. XVI, No. 1, pp. 191-194. d) Research and Media Reports 1. 2013, Seguridad pública y reforma policial en Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Revista Replicante, Guadalajara, Jalisco. http://revistareplicante.com/seguridad-publica-y-reforma-policial/ 2. 2011, Más allá de la censura: Los problemas del sistema de justicia en México, Revista Milenio Semanal, No. 696, 06 de marzo, D.F. TRANSLATION WORK (FROM ENGLISH) Morlino, Leonardo, Observando las diferentes calidades de la democracia, Revista Mexicana de Análisis Político y Administración Pública, no. 1, vol. 1, México, 2012. Whitehead, Laurance, Sobre la corrupción política, Metapolítica, no. 45, vol. IX, Mexico, 2006. Fox, Jonathan, Ciudadanos binacionales, Metapolítica, no. 52, vol. XI, Mexico, 2007. Levinson, Bradley, La consagración cívica en América Latina, Metapolítica, no. 53, vol. XI, Mexico, 2007. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Estado de derecho y regimen politico en México, Conference in Tercera Escuela de Política y Gobierno, Mexican Association of Political Science, Queretaro, Mexico November 2014. Vida y obra de Robert Dahl, Conference in Semana de Ciencia Política, Autonomous University of Nayarit, Mexico, October 2014. Harmonizing National Law with Inter-American Human Rights Law. Evidence from Three Mexican States, Paper delivered at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, Washington DC, August 2014, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2451676
Human Rights and Conventionality Control in Mexico. Paper presented at Colóquio Instituições Judiciais e debate Político na América Latina at University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, May 2014. Derechos humanos y control de convencionalidad en México. Evidencia de Jalisco, Nuevo León y Oaxaca, Paper presented at the Mexican Political Science Association, Guanajuato, August 2013. The Use of Conventionality Control in Domestic Polities. Evidence from Brazil and Mexico, Paper presented with Ligia Madeira at the Comparative Judicial Studies Research Committee Interim Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Dublin, Ireland, July 2013. Reforms to the Public Prosecutor Office in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: The Role of Justice Interest Groups, Paper delivered at the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting, New Orleans, August 2012. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2106321. Reforms to the Public Prosecutor Office in Brazil, Chile and Mexico Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual meeting in San Francisco, California, May 2012; Presented also at the Comparative Judicial Studies Research Committee Interim Meeting of the International Political Science Association, Irvine, California, July 2011. Instituciones de justicia en transición: los cambios al Ministerio Público en perspectiva comparada, Paper presented at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana- Iztapalapa, October 2011. Los desafíos del Ministerio Público en el ámbito local, Conference at Research Institute of Governance and Innovation, University of Guadalajara/Guadalajara Local Government, September 2011. COURSES TAUGHT Political Science (Graduate) Judicial Reform and Rule of Law (Graduate) Rule of Law and Legality Culture (Graduate and undergraduate) Theories of Democracy (Graduate and undergraduate) Contemporary Political Systems (Undergraduate) Methodology of Political Science (Undergraduate) ADVISING Graduate ITESO ü Sergio Pacheco (Thesis Supervisor) ü Enrique Gudiño (Thesis Supervisor) ü Jesús Rivera (Thesis Supervisor) Undergraduate Universidad de Guadalajara ü Eduardo Mercado (Thesis Supervisor) ü Edith Mei Lei Cuan (Thesis Supervisor)
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) in Mexico. Awarded for 3 years, from Jan 2014 to December 2016. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Political Science Association; Latin American Studies Association; Mexican Political Science Association. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Member of the Doctoral Program in Social and Scientific Studies. ITESO. Collaborator in the creation of the Doctoral Program in Political Science. University of Guadalajara. Coordinator for Mexico for the project Valoraciones de la democracia en América Latina conducted by Centro Gumilla (Venezuela) and financed by the Open Society Foundation. Panel organizer in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual meeting in San Francisco, California, May 2012. Member of the Editorial Board of Revista Mexicana de Análisis Político y Administración Pública. Article reviewer of the Revista Brasileira de Ciencia Politica.