Carlos de la Torre

Carlos de la Torre is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky and Emeritus Professor at FLACSO-Ecuador. He earned his PhD at the New School for Social Research, and was was granted felowships at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. De la Torre has published a dozen books and more than one hundred articles and chapters in academic publications. Among his top books are his edited volumes The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism (2019), The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives (The University Press of Kentucky, 2015), and Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Cynthia J. Arnson (the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2013). The second edition of his Populist Seduction in Latin America (Ohio University Press) was published in 2010.