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My name is Francisca Castro and I’m a visiting professor in political science at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the International Security and Development Center (ISDC) in Berlin.

I’m also associated to the ERC project Participation & Representation in the Digital Age.

I obtained my PhD in Political Science from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I worked as a Doctoral Researcher in the Chair of International Politics.

My research interests are intrastate conflict, protests and social movements, state repression, democratic backsliding, and authoritarian legacies.

You can contact me at francisca.castro@uc3m.es

News & Updates

  • On December 1st I will present in the Fall Series of the Authoritarian Political Systems Group. You can check the full line-up here.

  • Our article with Aya Shoshan and Jennifer Oser, titled Social movements and social media: the evolution of scholarship in the age of datafication, was just published at Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

  • Our paper The Mobilizing Potential of Mass Emigration: Experimental Evidence from Honduras was accepted for publication at the Journal of Politics. You can read the accepted version here.