Biography
Renzo Aurazo is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Tulane University. With a B.A. in Political Science from San Marcos University (Peru), he earned an M.A. in comparative politics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His primary research agenda focuses on popular mobilization, and it seeks to answer the following question: since grassroots have access to a diverse array of protest tactics, what conditions determine their selection? Specifically, his dissertation analyzes transformations in the labor repertoire in Latin America with emphasis on protest event analysis and cross-national data buildup.