Profile of Trevor Stack

About

I came to Aberdeen as a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in 2002, after completing a BA in History and a Masters in Social Anthropology at Oxford University, a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and having taught Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. I have been doing research in Mexico since 1992, and I have also done research since 2008 in the East Bay Area of northern California. My research has focused mainly on aspects of citizenship and civil society. As well as teaching in Spanish and Latin American Studies, I am Director of the inter-disciplinary Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), which focuses on the study of political concepts in the world. I led a large RCUK-Newton team project on Societal Responses to Crime and Violence in Mexico (2016-19), and currently I lead an EU Marie Curie COFUND grant Political Concepts in the World (2018-23), which funds 11 PhD fellowships together with related training and conferences. I am also mentor of a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2019-22), held by Hanifi Baris, a former CISRUL PhD. From September to December 2019, I was Radboud Excellence Initiative Visiting Professor in Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University in the Netherlands. I published Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship (2012), and edited the volumes Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty (2015) and Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere (2020).

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Contentious Politics, Democratisation, Extremism, Latin America, Local Government, Organised Crime, Political Participation, Political Violence, Religion, Social Movements, USA, Political Sociology, Cartel, Constructivism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Comparative Perspective, Corruption, Judicialisation, Protests, Activism, Political Cultures, Theoretical