Tulia Falleti holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (Northwestern University). Tulia is a tenured Professor of Political Science at U Penn, a member of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program, and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. Falleti is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), winner of the Latin American Studies Association's Donna Lee Van Cott Award, and Participation in Social Policy (with Santiago Cunial, Elements of Development Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Latin America Since the Left Turn (University of Pennsylvania, 2018), among other co-edited volumes. At the University of Pennsylvania, Falleti has served as director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program (2016-2021), founding director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (2021-2024), president-elect (2022-2023), and president (2023-2024) of the Faculty Senate.