Edwin Ackerman

• 2024 Fall
  • SOC 611 Sociological Theory
• 2024 Spring
  • SOC 300 Selected Topics - Global Capitalism
  • SOC 800 Selected Topics - Political Sociology
• 2023 Fall
  • SOC 335 Political Sociology
  • SOC 495 Senior Thesis
  • SOC 611 Sociological Theory
• 2023 Spring
  • SOC 335 Political Sociology
  • SOC 300 Selected Topics - Global Capitalism
• 2022 Fall
  • SOC 335 Political Sociology
  • SOC 611 Sociological Theory
• 2022 Spring
  • SOC 335 Political Sociology
  • SOC 300 Selected Topics - Global Capitalism

Edwin Ackerman uses comparative-historical methods to understand how political identities are formed, articulated, and become operative. He has studied this process in three contexts: the historical trajectory of debates over ‘illegal’ immigration in the U.S., the relationship between political economy and political party formation in Latin America, and the rise of transnational grass-roots right-wing mobilization against “gender ideology” in Latin America and the U.S.

He is the author of "Origins of the Mass Party" (Oxford Press), and his work has been published in Social Science History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Language and Politics, and Contexts, and has been featured on Jacobin and National Public Radio (NPR), among other media outlets.

Edwin is a former ASA MFP Fellow and Ford Fellow and was a Global History Fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center (2018-19). He received a Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley.

• Book
  • Ackerman, E. F., Origins of the Mass Party: Economic and Political Dispossession in Mexico and Bolivia. , 2022.
• Journal Articles
  • Ackerman, E. F., "Mass Party Formation and Incorporation: Land, Civil Society, and Party in Post-Revolutionary Mexico." Social Science History, 2020.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "'What part of illegal don’t you understand?:’ Bureaucracy and Civil Society in the Shaping of the Immigration Debate in the U.S." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2014.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "The ‘Illegal Alien’ As a Category of Analysis: A Methodological Intervention." Journal of Language and Politics, 2014.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "The Rise of the ‘Illegal Alien'." Contexts, 2013.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "NAFTA and Gatekeeper: A Theoretical Assessment Of Border- Enforcement In The Era Of The Neoliberal State." Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 2011.
• Book Chapter
  • Ackerman, E. F., "Alt-Right: El surgimiento y desarrollo de la 'Derecha Alternativa' en E.E.U.U (The Alt-right: The Emergence and Development of the Alternative Right in the U.S.)." In La Diplomacia Consular en los tiempos de Trump. Colegio de la Frontera Norte: , 2019.
• Book Review
  • Ackerman, E. F., "Santiago Aria's When Movements Become Parties: Bolivia's MAS in Comparative Perspective." Sociological Review, 2020.
• Essay
  • Ackerman, E. F., "The AMLO Project." In New Left Review's Sidecar. New Left Review, 2023.
• Magazine/Trade Publications
  • Ackerman, E. F., "Mexico’s Fourth Transformation." Jacobin, 2019.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "AMLO’s Mexico." Jacobin, 2018.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "A Potential Breakthrough in Mexico." Jacobin, 2018.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "El PRI y la sociedad civil (The PRI and civil society)." Revista Nexos, 2018.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "La Leccion del PRI (The Lesson of the PRI)." Newsweek En Espanol, 2017.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "A Mexican Spring?." Jacobin, 2012.
  • Ackerman, E. F., "El Regreso del PRI?...Nunca Se Fue (The Return of the PRI?..It Never Left)." Animalpolitico.com, 2012.
• Technical Report
  • Ackerman, E. F., "Neoliberalism and Corruption in Mexico: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing." NACLA Report on the Americas, 2019.

American Sociological Association Conference, American Sociological Association, "Evangelicals Against ‘Gender Ideology" (August 10, 2019 - August 13, 2019)

American Sociological Association Conference, American Sociological Association, "Origins of the Mass Party in Theoretical Perspective" (August 10, 2019 - August 13, 2019)

Anti-corruption as Redistribution: The Crafting of AMLO’s Electoral Coalition,, "Anti-corruption as Redistribution: The Crafting of AMLO’s Electoral Coalition," (May 24, 2019 - May 27, 2019)

Comparative Historical Conference, Northwestern University, "Two Primitive Accumulations and Party Formation in Mexico and Bolivia" (May 17, 2019)

Latin American Studies Colloquium, SUNY-Albany, "Two Primitive Accumulations and Party Formation in Mexico and Bolivia" (April 24, 2019)

Historical Materialism Conference, "Anti-corruption as Redistribution: The Crafting of AMLO’s Electoral Coalition" (April 11, 2019 - April 13, 2019)

Harvard University, "Two Primitive Accumulations and Party Formation in Mexico and Bolivia," (February 11, 2019)

Weatherhead Center’s Global History Initiative Residential Fellow, Harvard University (2019)

Global Religion Research Initiative Project Launch, Notre Dame University (2018)

Appleby-Mosher Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2017)

Center for U.S.-Mexico Study Visiting Fellow, University of California, San Diego (Declined) (2015 - 2016)

Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, University of Notre Dame (Declined) (2015 - 2016)