Biography
Jessica De Alba-Ulloa (Visiting Assistant Professor) joins us from University of Maine. She holds a PhD from Université Paris-Saclay (2003) and has extensive teaching experience at a range of academic institutions. Her research focuses on applied IR theory, U.S. foreign policy, migration, and international organizations, with numerous publications in books and peer-reviewed journals. This fall, she will be teaching POLS 102 Introduction to Comparative Politics and Latin American Politics. An O’Gorman Fellow, Columbia University, Salzburg Global Fellow, and Fulbright in National Security, Dr. De Alba-Ulloa is a Distinguished National Researcher II recognized by Mexico’s Council of Science and Technology.
She serves on the Nominating Committee of the International Studies Association (ISA), where she previously held leadership roles as Vice President, Representative-at-Large, and Chair of the Global South Committee. In Mexico, she served as Secretary-General and Vice President of the Mexican International Studies Association (AMEI), where she led major academic conventions and faculty development initiatives. She is a Senior Associate at the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), a Higher Education Ambassador for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and a frequent speaker at the Atlantic Dialogues hosted by the Policy Center for the New South in Morocco. Her professional experience includes service as Delegate for the Science Sector at the Mexican Permanent Mission to UNESCO, policy advising at the Mexican Immigration Institute, and Senior Associate at Kroll Mexico.
Selected Publications
Dominguez, R. & De Alba-Ulloa, J. (2025). Reviewing the US-Latin American Agenda. In: R. Dominguez & J.A. Sanahuja (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of EU-Latin American Relations (575-592). Palgrave Macmillan.
Marsh, A., Sweeting, D., Flores, A., de Alba-Ulloa, J., Rivera Ugarte, V. (2025). Constructing the smart city beyond the state: Exploring the conditions for institutional change in Mexico City. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544251332070
Villanueva, R., De Alba-Ulloa, J., González Olvera, P., Lorenzini, M.E. (2024). Missing voices: Latin American perspectives in International Relations. Special Section Guest Editors. International Af airs, 100(1), 1-120.