Paulina Ochoa Espejo University of Virginia, USA
Paulina Ochoa Espejo is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia in the USA. She has written on democratic theory, territorial rights, and Latin American political thought. She is the author of On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy and the Rights of Place (Oxford University Press, 2020) and The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State (Penn State University Press, 2011) co–editor of the Oxford Handbook of Populism (Oxford University Press, 2017) and of articles in Political Theory the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Political Philosophy and the Journal of Politics among others. She has taught “Introduction to Political Theory” for almost 20 years, both at liberal arts colleges and research universities.