Nayeli Riano
I am a Ph.D. candidate in political theory in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, working with Drs.
Shannon Stimson, Stefan Eich, Joshua Cherniss, and Joshua Simon (Johns Hopkins). My dissertation analyzes the conceptual impact and reconstruction of the Enlightenment political discourse on "civilization" and "barbarism" in Latin American political thought during the long nineteenth century. In this period, I integrate the region's historical stages of colonialism, wars of Independence, nation building, and industrialization with its social and political thought, covering the topics of empire, colonialism and post-colonialism, liberalism, Latin American political thought, Enlightenment, modernity, history, and republicanism.
My research is published or forthcoming in Journal of the History of Ideas, History of Political Thought, and History of European Ideas, among other journals.
Prior to my work in political theory, I studied intellectual history (MLitt) at the University of St Andrews and English literature (B.A.) at the University of Pennsylvania