Tinker Visiting Professor

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Gabriel Vommaro

Gabriel Vommaro is Professor of Political Sociology at the EIDAES, Universidad de San Martín, and Researcher at the Argentinian National Research Council, CONICET. He is also Director of the Master Program in Political Sociology at EIDAES, UNSAM. He received his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in France. He has published on political activism and political parties, political clientelism and the state, polarization, and political communication. His books include La era del hartazgo. Líderes disruptivos, polarización y antipolítica en América Latina (Siglo XXI, 2025, edited with G. Kessler), The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions (Cambridge University Press, 2024, edited with A. Borges and R. Lloyd), Conservatives Against the Tide: The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Diminished Parties: Democratic Representation in Contemporary Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2021, edited with JP Luna, R. Piñeiro and F. Rosenblatt), La larga marcha de Cambiemos (Siglo XXI, 2017), and Sociologie du clientélisme (La Découverte, 2015, with H. Combes). His research has been published in Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Party Politics, LAPS, JLAS, Revista de Ciencia Política, and Estudios Sociológicos.

TVP Details
Employer/Affiliation Universidad de San Martin
Job Title Professor
Country of Residence Argentina
Field of expertise Sociology
Specialty Political activism and political (conservative) parties, political clientelism and the state, polarization and political communication
Host University Details
University name University of Texas at Austin
Department Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Academic Year 2026-2027
Term/Semester Spring