Leandro Rodríguez

Leandro Rodríguez

Argentina

He obtained his BA in political science at the Belgrano University in Argentina (2000), his MA in philosophy from State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, 2004, a Magister degree in Science History (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina, 2005), and a PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Since 2009, he has been Associate Professor at Universidad de las Américas in the International Relations and Political Sciences Department (Puebla), and a member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Level 1) since 2011. He was named Affiliate Research Fellow at Cambridge University in 2013, where he participated in the International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and Humanities project, which provides funding for the European Union 7th Marco Program. He has authored the following works: Material Hermeneutics in Political Science (Mellen Press, 2013), Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production (Routledge, 2014), and The Circulation of European Knowledge: Niklas Luhmann in the Hispanic Americas (Palgrave, 2014). His current areas of interest include the epistemological bases of public policies, socio-political studies in science and technology, scientific-technological policies in developing countries, higher education in Latin America, and the international circulation of ideas and knowledge.