Curriculum vitae. 1 Cunningham Square Providence, RI Assistant Professor of Political Science

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1 THEA N. RIOFRANCOS Curriculum vitae Providence College 1 Cunningham Square Providence, RI EMPLOYMENT Current Providence College Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Notre Dame Kellogg Institute for International Studies Kellogg Institute Visiting (Postdoctoral) Fellow EDUCATION Ph.D. in Political Science Competency Exams in Political Theory and Comparative Politics (with distinction) Dissertation Committee: Tulia Falleti (chair), Robert Vitalis, Anne Norton, Erica Simmons (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Dissertation: Contesting Extraction: State-making, Democracy, and Large Scale Mining in Ecuador Degree Awarded August 5, Reed College B.A. in Political Science Graduated Phi Beta Kappa Thesis: The Co-evolution of Neoliberalism and Social Movements in Bolivia AWARDS AND HONORS Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism Graduate Fellowship Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students University-wide Award

2 2011 Penfield Dissertation Research Fellowship 2011 Latin American and Latino Studies Dissertation Research Grant 2012 Rowe Grant Recipient Awarded for pre-dissertation fieldwork in Quito and Cuenca, Ecuador Benjamin Franklin Fellowship PUBLICATIONS Beyond the Petrostate: Ecuador s Left Dilemma. Dissent. Scaling Democracy: Representation and Resource Extraction in Latin America. (Under review at Perspectives on Politics) with Tulia Falleti, Endogenous Participation: Prior Consultation in Extractive Economies. (Submitted for Initial Review to World Politics) CONFERENCES Papers Presented 2015 State-making, Corporate Strategies, and the Politics of Resource Extraction in Postneoliberal Ecuador, Latin American Studies Association San Juan, Puerto Rico, May Extractivism, Post-extractivism, and the Debate Over Large Scale Mining in Ecuador, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 28. Extracting Democracy: The Politics of Representation and the Debate over Large Scale Mining in Ecuador, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August (Post)Extractivismo: The Problematic of Continuity and Transition in the Debate Over Large-Scale Mining American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 24. "Contesting Extraction: Constitutional Politics and Visions of Democracy in the Debate over Mining in Ecuador", American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 29.

3 "The Right to Prior Consultation: Indigenous and Subnational Territorial Conflict in Bolivia and Ecuador", paper with Tulia Falleti, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 29. Stories of Participatory Democracy: The Collective Right to Prior Consultation in Ecuador and Bolivia, XI Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política organized by la Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político y la Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Paraná, Argentina, July 19. "The Right to Prior Consultation: Indigenous and Subnational Territorial Conflict in Bolivia and Ecuador ", paper with Tulia Falleti, Latin American Studies Association Washington, D.C., May 31. The Right to Prior Consultation: Bolivia and Ecuador in Comparative Perspective, paper with Tulia Falleti, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Chicago, April Rethinking the Single Case Study Political Science Graduate Workshop, Philadelphia, April The Discursive Terrain of Resource Conflict in Ecuador American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., September A Taxonomy of Spectacle: Rousseau s Critique of the Theater, Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory - Cambridge, October 31. Panels, Workshops, and Conferences Organized 2012 La Extracción de Recursos en Ecuador: Políticas Publicas, Conflictos Sociales y Derechos Constitucionales, Associación Latinoamericana de Ciencias Políticas Quito, June Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Graduate Workshop Series, co-organizer 2011 Political Science Graduate Workshop, co-organizer April 2011 Departmental Talks 2012 Resultados Preliminares de Tesis de Doctorado, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador - Quito, July 18. TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate Coordinator Latin American and Latino Studies Program

4 2013 TA Training Program - Trainer School of Arts and Sciences 2012 How to Conduct Social Science Research Workshop for Public Policy Masters Students Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador Quito, Ecuador 2011 Latin American Politics Teaching Assistant to Prof. Tulia Falleti 2010 The Meaning of Democracy (Political Theory) Teaching Assistant to Prof. Jeffrey Green 2010 Introduction to Comparative Politics Teaching Assistant to Prof. Julia Lynch 2009 The Meaning of Democracy (Political Theory) Teaching Assistant to Prof. Jeffrey Green VISITING APPOINTMENTS Visiting Researcher Programa de Políticas Públicas Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador Quito, Ecuador LANGUAGES Fluent in Spanish REFERENCES Tulia Falleti Associate Professor of Political Science 237 Stiteler Hall Tel: Robert Vitalis Professor of Political Science

5 237 Stiteler Hall Tel: Anne Norton Professor of Political Science 3440 Market Street Suite 300 Tel: Erica Simmons Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison North Hall Bascom Mall Madison, WI Tel: Rogers Smith Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science 3440 Market Street Suite 300 Tel: