Tulia G. Falleti is Principal Investigator of the research project “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present,” funded by the Mellon Foundation. Falleti is a sociologist (BA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1994) and political scientist (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2003), who has been teaching and conducting research at the University of Pennsylvania since 2004. She was the inaugural Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (2021-2024), Director of its preceding Program (2016-2021), and Chair-Elect and Chair of the University’s Faculty Senate (2022-2024). She is the author of the award-winning book Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and, with Santiago L. Cunial, of Participation in Social Policy: Public Health in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Falleti has also co-edited Latin America Since the Left Turn (with Emilio Parrado, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (with Orfeo Fioretos and Adam Sheingate, 2016), and El Federalismo Argentino en Perspectiva Comparada (with Lucas González and Martín Lardone, EDUCC, 2012/2013). Some of her academic articles on decentralization, democracy, participation, qualitative methods, and Indigenous politics can be found in her Penn website.