Alcañiz, Isabella

Dr. Isabella Alcañiz is a Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, and also serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Education in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland.

Professor Alcañiz studies the politics of climate change, social inequality, disaster policy, and gender with a focus on Latin America and Latinx residents of the United States. Her research has been published in PS: Political Science & Politics, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Water Policy, Environmental Science & Policy, World Politics, and the Latin American Research Review. 

Her books, "The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean" (2022) and "Environmental and Nuclear Networks in the Global South: How Skills Shape International Cooperation" (2016), were published by Cambridge University Press. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Environmental Politics and Global Environmental Politics.

Professor Alcañiz earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University, and a Licenciatura in International Relations from the Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina).

She is also a commissioner of the City of College Park Restorative Justice Commission.