Luciana Chamorro Elizondo

I am a political anthropologist who specializes in Central America and writes on revolution and its afterlives, populist politics, authoritarianism, affect and aesthetics. I am currently preparing a book manuscript titled Afterlives of Revolution: authoritarian populism and political passions in post-revolutionary Nicaragua which examines populist governance and affective attachments to the Sandinista political project after the return of Daniel Ortega to power in 2007. My larger conceptual interests are in political theology, debt, inheritance and generational difference, political violence, and feminist and queer imaginaries of the future. I received my PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2020 and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate for the “Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads” Sawyer Seminar at the University of Arizona for the 2020-2021 academic year. My ethnographic work has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the De Karman Foundation.