Amparo Menendez-Carrion

Abstract is: Amparo Menéndez-Carrión (born 1949 in Dolores, Soriano, Uruguay and naturalized Ecuadorean) is an author and a scholar specialized in comparative politics and Latin American studies. She received her BA in Political Science at the University of Minnesota and her M.A. and Ph.D in International Relations and Comparative Politics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She was Director General of FLACSO Ecuador (Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences at Quito) for two consecutive terms (1987-1995). Her book La Conquista del Voto en Ecuador (Quito, FLACSO-CEN, 1986) was declared by her peers ‘Best Book of the Year in the Social Sciences’ (December 1986). Her most recent book (Memorias de Ciudadanía. Los Avatares de una Polis Golpeada. La Experiencia Uruguaya, Montevideo: Fin de Siglo, three-volumes, 2015) was recipient of the Bartolome Hidalgo award for non-fiction book of 2016 in Uruguay. She has taught throughout the Americas and Europe, and has served as consultant to international organizations and foundations (UNDP, UNESCO, ILO, the Ford Foundation, among others).