Pierre Ostiguy
University of Valparaíso
Chile

Pierre Ostiguy (PhD, UC, Berkeley) is Professor at the Escuela de Administración Pública of the University of Valparaiso, Chile. He has also recently held appointments as Professor at the Catholic University of Córdoba in Argentina and as Assistant Professor at the Instituto de Ciencia Política of the Catholic University of Chile. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Populism (2017) and author of one of its three theoretical, framing chapters (“Populism: A Socio-Cultural Approach”). He specializes in Latin American politics, social theory and comparative politics, with research interests on populism (theoretically and cross-regionally), the creation of political identities, and Peronism and anti-Peronism in Argentina. Recent publications include “Putting Trump in Comparative Perspective: Populism and the Politicization of the Sociocultural Low” (with Ken Roberts), “The Politics of Incorporation” in Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America, and (in Spanish) “Plebian Grammars: Excess, Representation and Porous Borders in Governing Populism”. He has also been published in Turkish and French.