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Curriculum Vitae
Name: Juan Gabriel Gómez Albarello
Date of Birth: 12th January 1968
Citizenship: Colombian and Italian
Contact Information:
(Work): Department of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University, P.O. Box 2900 Bloomington, Illinois 61702-2900
(Home): 211 Eisenhower Dr Apt 3 Bloomington, IL 61701
(E-mail):
Education:
Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 1984-1989. Lawyer degree obtained in January 1995.
MA in Political Science, Washington University, St Louis, MO, degree obtained in August 2002.
Ph D. Washington University, St Louis, MO, degree obtained in August 2006.
Job Experience:
1.Legal Advisor of Francisco Rojas Birry, delegatee to the National Constitutional Assembly, Bogotá, January-July 1991.
2.Field Researcher. Commission for the Overcoming of Violence. Bogotá, August/1991-January/1992.
3.Researcher. United Nations’ Commission on the Truth for El Salvador. San Salvador and New York, NY, June/1992-March/1993.
4.Researcher. Andean Commission of Jurists, Colombian Section. Bogotá, June/1993-December/1994.
5.Attached Professor. Institute of Political Studies and International Relations, National University. Bogotá, February/1995-June/1999.
6. Visiting Assistant Professor. Illinois Wesleyan University. Bloomington, IL, 2006 to the present.
Political Experience:
Head of the Students Movement’s list to the Constitutional Assembly, Colombia, 1990.
Teaching Experience:
Lecturer at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. Courses taught:
Colombian Constitutional History, January-May/1995-1998 and
Colombian Political Institutions, August-December/1995-1998
Lecturer at University College, St Louis. Courses taught:
Topics in Political Thought: Politics, Democracy, and Rationality, Fall 2004 and Summer 2002,
Contemporary Democratic Theory, Summer 2004,
Democracy (From a Comparative Point of View), Spring 2004, and
Latin American Politics, Fall 2002.
Visiting Assistant Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. Course taught:
International Politics, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007.
Peace and Justice in International Relations, Summer 2007.
Politics in Developing Countries, Fall 2006.
Latin American Politics, Spring 2007.
Academic Distinctions:
Second Prize in the Latin American Essay Competition on alternative use of law and critical law studies, organized by the Institute of Alternative Legal Services, 1989, with the paper “El interés por la razón en el mundo de la praxis juridical” (The Interest fpr Reason in the World of Juridical Praxis).”
First Prize in the Essay Competition on the New Constitution organized by Universidad Externado de Colombia, 1992, with the paper “Poder y Ciudadanía. Notas sobre la nueva Constitución Colombiana (Power and Citizenship. Notes on the New Colombian Constitution).”
Fulbright Grantee, 1999-2001.
Participation in Professional Conferences:
“Colombia’s Constitutional Court.” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Friday April 16 1999.
“The Malaise of Democracy.” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Friday April 4 2003.
“Electoral Competition in Large Multimember Districts: Evidence from the Colombian Senate.” Co-authored with Juan Carlos Rodríguez Raga, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Thursday April 15 2004.
“Deliberative Democracy and Majority Rule.” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Friday April 16 2004.
“Casting the Anti-Immigrant Vote across Fortress Europe.” Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Friday April 17 2004.
“Campaign Finance Reform in a Deliberative Democracy.” American Political Science Association Conference, Friday 2 September 2005.
“Nietzsche.” Discussant. Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Friday 13 April 2007.
“A-Socialized Rational Agents?” American Political Science Association Conference, Thursday 30 August 2007.
Publications:
On Philosophy of Law:
“El interés por la razón en el mundo de la praxis jurídica (The Interest of Reason in the World of Juridical Praxis).” El Otro Derecho No. 4. 1989, 41-78.
On Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Armed Conflict, and Peace Negotiations:
(co-author). Pacificar la Paz. Lo que no se ha negociado en los Acuerdos de Paz (Pacifying Peace. What Is Yet to Be Negotiated in the Peace Agreements). Bogotá, CECOIN-CINEP-Comisión Andina de Juristas Seccional Colombiana-Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional, 1991.
“La construcción de la paz y la democracia en El Salvador. Un balance de los acuerdos de paz y su cumplimiento.” (Building Peace and Democracy in El Salvador. A Balance of Peace Agreements and their Implementation), Análisis Político No. 19 (May.-Ago., 1993), 63-76.
“Los derechos humanos del nuevo gobierno: entre la imagen y la realidad” (The New Administration’s Human Rights Policy: Between the Image and Reality), Análisis Político No. 23 (Sep.-Dic., 1994), 68-78.
“La humanización de la guerra y la realización de acuerdos de paz en El Salvador” (Humanization of War and Peace Agreements), en Angarita, Ricardo. Conflicto Armado y Derecho Internacional Humanitario. Santafé de Bogotá, Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja-Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales-Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales. 1994, 83-100.
“Conflicto armado y derecho internacional humanitario en Colombia” (Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law in Colombia), en Franco, Saúl (ed.). Colombia Contemporánea. Bogotá, Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional-ECOE Editores. 1996, 11-46.
“Lecciones para Colombia” (Lessons for Colombia), en Villarraga, Alvaro (ed.) Derecho internacional humanitario aplicado. Los casos de Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Yugoslavia y Ruanda. Memorias del Seminario internacional "Realidad y perspectivas del derecho internacional humanitario. Bogotá, Oficina del Alto Comisionado para la Paz, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana : Fundación Konrad Adenauer, Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja, TM Editores. 1998, 231-250.
On Constitutionalism and the Colombian Judiciary:
“Fueros y contrafueros. Justicia y contrareforma en Colombia.” (Privilege and Counter-privilege. Justice and Counter-reform in Colombia), Análisis Político No. 25 (May.-Ago., 1995), 71-79.
“Justicia y Democracia en Colombia: en entredicho?” (Justice and Democracy in Colombia: In Question?), Análisis Político No. 27 (May.-Ago., 1996), also published in Raul Urzua y Felipe Agüero (eds.). 1998. Fracturas en la Gobernabilidad Democrática, Centro de Análisis de Políticas Públicas/Universidad de Chile, 429-475.
(with Iván Orozco, co-author). Los Peligros del Nuevo Constitucionalismo en Materia Criminal (The Dangers of the New Constitutionalism in Criminal Matters). Bogotá, Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional-Ministerio de Justicia y del Derecho. 1997; second edition, Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional-Temis, 1999.
“Sobre las Constituciones de Colombia (incluida la de papel)” (On Colombian Constitutions –Included the one Written on Paper–), Colombia: Cambio de Siglo. Balance y Perspectivas. Bogotá, Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional-Planeta. 2000.
Article in Press:
(with Juan Carlos Rodríguez Raga). “Competencia electoral en grandes circunscripciones: el caso del Senado colombiano.” (“Electoral Competition in Large Multimember Districts: The Case of the Colombian Senate.”) Hoyos, Diana (ed). Partidos y sistema electoral en Colombia. (Political parties and the electoral system in Colombia.)
Article to be Resubmitted:
(with Barbara Sgouraki Kinsey).“Citizen and Anti-Immigrant Vote in Western Europe.” Electoral Politics.
Working Papers:
“A-Socialized Rational Agents?”
“From an Impartial Vantage Point: A Retrodiction of Experimental Results concerning the Choice over Competing Principles of Distributive Justice.”
Languages:
I speak, read, and write in Spanish and English. I also read French, Italian, and Portuguese.
References:
Jack Knight, , (314) 935-4343
Gary J. Miller, , (314) 935-5874
Guillermo Rosas, , (314) 935-7456