STUDENT FELLOWS

Jorge Mangonnet is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, specializing in comparative politics with a regional focus in Latin America. His dissertation proposal examines how institutions that were designed to secure ownership, such as a land registration system, can threaten economic elites in times of increasing uncertainty. As an ISEP student fellow, he is currently conducting research on deforestation, natural resource extraction, and the political factors that shape the demarcation of protected areas across the Brazilian Amazon.

Jorge holds a B.A in Political Science at Universidad del Salvador and a M.A. in Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, both from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prior to joining Columbia, he was a graduate research fellow at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), an exchange fellow at Fulbright’s Young Leaders Program, and a researcher for the Argentine Senate.