Stories about "Clarisa Perez-Armendáríz"
Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, professor of politics, receives Kroepsch Award

Thursday, October 30, 2025 4:01 pm

Before she joined the U.S. Foreign Service, Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz, professor of politics, was certain that she would never make a career out of studying Latin America. But, when she was assigned to Mexico for her first post as a Foreign Service officer, everything changed.

A ‘status quo election,’ say Bates professors — with disappointments, surprises, lessons

Friday, November 6, 2020 10:52 am

Regardless of who ends up in the White House, the 2020 election may have "revealed who we are as a country.”

The lesson I look forward to: Giving democracy a number

Friday, February 28, 2020 9:28 am

If scholars can't agree on what democracy even is, can democracy in a given nation be ranked? Students of politics professor Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz give it a shot.

Bates politics professors offer a post-election brief on immigration, gender, and the rural-urban divide

Friday, November 9, 2018 12:11 pm

Democrats are able to debate issues like healthcare on their terms, while conversations about immigration have moved to the right, say Bates politics professors.

Bates announces faculty promotions including tenure and full professorships

Sunday, May 8, 2016 11:35 am

Learn who's received tenure and a promotion to full professor, and read their "Why I teach" statements.