Carmen Maganda

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Dr. Carmen Maganda is a Research Associate in the Laboratoire de Sciences Politiques at Université du Luxembourg, Executive Director of the Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (RISC) and co-editor of the new scientific journal Regions and Cohesion by Berghahn Journals. Previously, she was Coordinator of the Bi-national Border Water Project for the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, a HERMES Fellow (awarded by the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères en France, le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, le Ministère de la Recherche and la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l‘Homme) at Clersé, Université de Lille 1, a Research Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC-MEXUS). She completed her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS) México with a dissertation entitled Availability of Water: a Constructed Risk which was nominated for national competitions for the best dissertation in social anthropology and the social sciences. Dr. Maganda has an MA in Regional Studies from the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José Ma. Luis Mora and a B.S. Human Settlement Design (since re-named Urban and Regional Planning), from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Campus Xochimilco.

Dr. Maganda's present research focuses on comparative perspectives of global environmental politics in the human rights framework, social participation in environmental politics (focus on water), and elite behaviour and decision-making processes in water management in cross-border river basins in Europe and the Americas. She has authored articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Environment & Development , and she has published book chapters in edited volumes in both English and Spanish. She also has extensive policy experience as she was an urban planner that worked on Mexico's national social housing plan and she has worked as a consultant to local and state governments in the fields of water politics and housing politics. Related websites: www.risc.lu  and www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/reco/

Current occupation

• Research Associate, Laboratoire de Sciences Politiques, University of Luxembourg. Coordinator of Research Project: Border Regions in Different Geographic Espaces (BRIDGE). February 2009-present
• Co-editor, Regions and Cohesion , Berghahn Journals http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/reco/. February 2010-present
• Executive Director, Consortium for Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion (www.risc.lu). Laboratoire de Sciences Politiques, University of Luxembourg. September 2007-present.

LANGUAGES:

• Spanish (native),
• English,
• French,
• Italian

last modified:05 Jul 2011