Associate Professor and International Affairs Program Director
Political Science
Jessica A.J. Rich is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Marquette Democracy Project. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, NGOs, social-welfare policy (with an emphasis on health policy), and state capacity. Regionally, she specializes in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil. Prof. Rich earned her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, and she has held postdoctoral fellowships at Tulane University, in the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Prof. Rich's publications include articles on social movements, state-society relations, HIV/AIDS policy, participatory governance, and federalism. Her recently published book, State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil (Cambridge University Press 2019), uses the lens of AIDS policy in Brazil to analyze a new form of political mobilization—in which social movements make aggressive policy demands on the state even while relying on state actors for financial support.
Education
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 2012
Courses Taught
- POSC 2401 Comparative Politics | Syllabus
- POSC 4541 Latin American Politics | Syllabus
- POSC 3101 The Politics of NGOs | Syllabus
- POSC 6401 Research Seminar in Comparative Politics
- INIA 4997 Senior Capstone Seminar
Publications
Books
Articles
- “Who Counts Where? Federalism and the Politics of Covid-19 Surveillance” (with Philip Rocco, Daniel Béland, Scott Greer, Kasia Klasa, and Ken Dubin). The Journal for Health Policy, Politics, and Law 46 (4, 2021): 959–987. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-9349114
- “Organizing 21st-Century Activism: From Structure to Strategy in Latin American Social Movements.” Latin American Research Review 55(3) (2020).
- “Making National Participatory Institutions Work: Bureaucrats, Activists, and AIDS Policy in Brazil”," Latin American Politics and Society 61 (2, 2019).
- "The Politics of Participation: New Actors and Institutions in Latin America,” (with Lindsay Mayka and Alfred Montero), Latin American Politics and Society 61 (2, 2019).
Book Chapters
- “Participatory Policymaking in Democratic Brazil: Reinventing Corporatism?” (with Lindsay Mayka). 2021. In The Inclusionary Turn in Contemporary Latin America, Diana Kapiszewski, Steven Levitsky, and Deborah Yashar. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “Teaching Methods in the Context of a Writing Intensive Course.” 2021. In Pedagogy through the Research Process, eds. Julia Hellwegge, Eric Leopp, and Daniel Mallinson. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- “A burocracia de baixo para cima.” 2016. In Estado, Burocracia e Controle Democrático, edited by Carlos Santana. São Paulo: editora Sesi.
- “Association” and “HIV/AIDS”. Entries in Encyclopedia of Governance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
- Review of The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America, Shawn Smallman (UNC Chapel Hill, 2007). Latin American Politics and Society 50: 4 (Winter 2008).
Additional Information
Marquette Democracy Project
- The link to the Marquette Democracy Project can be found here.
Jessica Rich, Ph.D.Marquette University
