Speaker
Edgar Franco Vivanco, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Biography
Edgar Franco Vivance os a NCID Postdoctoral Fellow and MIDAS Fellow at the University of Michigan with an interest in the political economy of development and comparative politics. His research focuses on the co-evolution of institutions, economic growth, and social norms of cooperation. In his dissertation, Strategies of Indigenous Resistance and Assimilation to Colonial Rule, he studies how Indigenous communities survived colonization by using strategies that range from violent collective action to active collaboration, and from voluntary isolation to cultural assimilation.