Simone Bohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University. She is the co-editor of Mothers in Public and Political Life (2017), 21st Century Feminismos: Women’s Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021), Mulheres Quilombolas, Políticas Públicas e Intersectionalidades [Quilombola Women, Public Policy and Intersectionalities] (2021), and Women's rights in movement. Dynamics of feminist change in Latin America and the Caribbean (forthcoming). Her articles have been published in scholarly journals, such as Politics and Government, Latin American Research Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Latin American Politics, and Comparative Governance and Politics.
Research Interests
Politics and Government, Political parties, Latin American political development, Latin American political economy, Methodology in Political Science, Research design in Comparative Politics, Electoral behavior, Legislative politics, Women and Politics in Latin America.

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Simone Bohn is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University. She is the co-editor of Mothers in Public and Political Life (2017), 21st Century Feminismos: Women’s Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021), Mulheres Quilombolas, Políticas Públicas e Intersectionalidades [Quilombola Women, Public Policy and Intersectionalities] (2021), and Women's rights in movement. Dynamics of feminist change in Latin America and the Caribbean (forthcoming). Her articles have been published in scholarly journals, such as Politics and Government, Latin American Research Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Latin American Politics, and Comparative Governance and Politics.
Research Interests
Politics and Government, Political parties, Latin American political development, Latin American political economy, Methodology in Political Science, Research design in Comparative Politics, Electoral behavior, Legislative politics, Women and Politics in Latin America.

By centering the analysis on gender and racial justice in post-colonial and post-slavery societies, I locate my scholarship, first, within the field of gender and racial equity and development, with a regional focus on Latin America. Although my academic production dialogues with critical race studies and post-colonial perspectives, it draws from – and seeks to promote - the works by Brazilian and/or Latin American authors who have reflected upon gender, race-ethnicity, class, territory, identity, slavery and colonial legacy.
The second scholarly debate that is crucial for my work examines the effects of state architecture and capacity on gender and racial inequities and equity-seeking struggles. Here I focus, first, on the advantages and shortcomings for women activists of federal systems, especially those which are institutionally symmetrical but socioeconomically unequal. More importantly, I am interested in exploring the impact on gender and racial equity of what the late Argentine scholar Guillermo O’Donnell referred to as “brown areas” in Latin American nation-states, the parts of their territory that are essentially devoid of “state capacity”.
My current research project is based on a participatory action research design.

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Coordinator of the Brazil Chair Program

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