I am an Anna Julia Cooper Fellow and incoming Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study democracy, violence, and the state in the Americas. My book project, War on the Ballot Box: How Violent Actors Corrupt and Disrupt Democracy, examines how armed non-state groups seek to influence the democratic process. Through multi-method analysis of rebel, paramilitary, and criminal groups in Latin America, I identify the conditions that lead these actors to intervene in electoral politics, the structural forces that determine whether they succeed or fail, and the consequences of these interventions for democratic institutions and policy outcomes. Other projects explore the dynamics of governance by non-state actors, processes of competitive statebuilding during civil war, and the political strategies of anti-democratic politicians.

I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2023. In 2023-24, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. My CV is available here; please feel free to email me at andres.uribe [at] wisc [dot] edu.