Gabriel Vergara

B.A. (Cornell University)

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My research interests lie in the history of political thought, the political theory of empire, and Latin American political thought. I am particularly interested in Marxism and its uptake in Latin America. 

My dissertation project, Archaic Developmentalism: 20th-Century Andean Marxism and the Invocation of the Incan Empire, explores how 20th-Century Andean Marxists altered and took up Marxist theorizations of development and progress, based on their utopian reimagination of the Incan Empire. I received my undergraduate degree in Government from Cornell University in 2021. At Cornell, I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, the recipient of the Stephen H. Weiss ’57 Memorial Scholarship, and a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Diversity Fellowship.