// Researcher
María Esperanza Casullo
Foreign researcher · UC Chile
Assistant professor of Political Theory at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She studies populism, democratic representation, political performance and democratic erosion.
PhD in Government from Georgetown University and assistant professor of political theory at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Her expertise is the study of populism, theories of democratic representation, and political performativity. Before working in Chile, she taught at Argentine universities and was a visiting researcher at institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. She researches democratic erosion and radical populist leaderships.