Anna Callis is an Assistant Professor in Lafayette College’s Department of Government & Law. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University. Anna’s research and teaching interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, and issues of democratic consolidation, with a regional focus on Latin America. Her primary research agenda examines elite conflict in authoritarian settings and its consequences for democratization and democratic breakdown in both historical and contemporary periods.
