Paloma Cobo Diaz (2023)

Prior to my PhD, I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Literature and Political Science from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (2011-2015) and completed an MA in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago (2018). My Master’s dissertation, awarded with the 2019 MAPSS Raymond D. Fogelson Prize for the superior thesis in the historical and ethnological sciences, investigates the ambivalent ways in which Colombia’s urban youth bear the Nation’s violent past  and how it informs feelings of ethical responsibility and political activism.

My PhD focuses as well on ambivalent affects, political participation and the echoes left by the armed conflict, but now in relation to clientelism and patronage networks in rural Colombia.