Assistant Professor
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights

Degrees

  • Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
  • M.A. FLACSO, Ecuador
  • B.A. University of Michigan
Anna Callis received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023.  Before arriving at Lafayette, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy Research at Tulane University.
Teaching and research interests: 
Latin American politics; comparative politics; democratization; authoritarian politics; politics of labor; historical political economy

Selected Publications:

Callis, Anna and Carter, Christopher. “Balancing Bossism: State Expansion in the Face of Elite Capture.” American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).

Callis, Anna. “When Economic Elites Support Democratization: Evidence from Argentina.” Comparative Political Studies (conditionally accepted).