PhD Student
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In my doctoral research, I study the extraterritorial expansion of American penal power. Using data science techniques and archival research, I analyze the institutional mechanisms behind the emergence and consolidation of extradition as a penal practice. As a case study, I focus on Colombia, the main country of origin for extraditions to the U.S.
I am interested in how bureaucratic processes—rather than deliberate efforts at social control—configure and sustain punitive practices and logics. This aligns with my broader interest in theorizing the interplay of power, bureaucracy, and individual intentions in reproducing social inequalities.
My submitted or in-progress work includes a theoretical discussion of punishment as a sociological object, an ethnographic study of bureaucratic logics in social services, and archival research on the emergence of extradition as a component of American penal policy.
I am a Fulbright grantee with an M.A. in Sociology from Paris VIII (France) and a B.A. in Government and International Relations from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. My teaching ranges from Political Sociology to Drugs and Security in the Americas and Introduction to Sociology, where I challenge students’ assumptions about law, the state, and power.