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The University of Connecticut
Department of Political Science
341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1024
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-9052
E-mail:
charles.venator@uconn.edu
Office: Montieth 204
Area of Speciality:
Political implications of contemporary Latino centered ideologies
Biographical Note:
Charles R. Venator Santiago holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. He is also a Faculty-in-Residence for the Northwest Complex. He teaches courses with a focus on Latino Politics and Thought and in the areas of Public Law and Political Theory. His research broadly focuses on questions pertaining to Nation-State building in the Americas . He is currently completing a book-length manuscript on constitutional interpretation and the creation of spaces that belong to the U.S. but are not a part of the nation for constitutional purposes. Other ongoing research projects include work on the deportation of Dominicans from the U.S., asylum and the U.N. Convention Against Torture, and the ideological underpinnings of Latino politics and thought in the Western hemisphere.
Selected Publications:
(2006) “ From the Insular Cases to Camp X-Ray : Agamben's State of Exception and United States Territorial Law,” 39 Studies in Law Politics, and Society, 15-54.
“Dominican Deportees and the Question of Rights,” Disonante , Issue 1, No. 1 (2005).
The Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Legal Transculturation: The Puerto Rican Example?” Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2002.
E-Books
With Belkys Torres and Frank Valdes, Eds. Lat Crit: Informational CD, Resources and Materials Digital Production, (Version 1, April 2004, 1965 pgs; Version 1.2, September 2004, 8, 495 pgs; Version 1.3, December 2004, 8, 945 pgs; Version 2, August 2005; Version 2.1, Summer 2006, 25,000+ pgs; Version 3.1, October 2006; Version 3.2, January 2007; Version 3.3, June 2007).
Research Monographs
“Law and the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group: Some Preliminary Reflections” (2004) LatCrit Monograph Series.
Works-in-Progress
“Huntington 's White Patriotism and Latino Nationalist Narratives” (article)
Constitutional Exceptions: From the Indian Boundary Line to Camp X-Ray (book manuscript)
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