Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Political scientist and professor
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is a political scientist and professor in Chile. His research looks at populism and its uneasy relationship with democracy.
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Born in Punta Arenas, Chile
About Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is a political science professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He also directs ultra-lab, a research laboratory focused on the far right. His main research area is comparative politics, with a particular interest in how populism and democracy relate to each other. His book in our catalog is Populism. He earned his PhD in political science at Humboldt-University of Berlin. He then held postdoctoral fellowships at Nuffield College, Oxford, and at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Before that, he held a professorship at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago and a Marie-Curie research fellowship at the University of Sussex. In recent years he has also taught as a guest professor at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy, Sciences Po in France, Uppsala University in Sweden and the Free University of Berlin.