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Consuelo Amat is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University and previously served as a Senior Research Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS).
Her research focuses on state repression, nonviolent resistance, and civil society development in authoritarian regimes, particularly in Latin America. Key projects include studies on Chile’s movement against Pinochet and the impact of nonviolent action trainings in Latin America and Africa. Amat’s work has been supported by grants from USIP, the John F. Enders Foundation, and Tinker Foundation.
She has published in journals like Comparative Political Studies and Nature Human Behaviour, and her upcoming book Power in Autonomy: The Political Strategy of Constructive Resistance explores nonviolent strategies in repressive contexts. Awards include the APSA Ken Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award and ICNC Monograph Series Award.
Amat teaches courses on political violence, nonviolent resistance, and civic engagement at Johns Hopkins. Her research emphasizes ethical field experiments and collaboration with local partners to evaluate peacebuilding interventions, as highlighted in her work with USIP’s SNAP training programs.
