Call for Predoc TREES Fellowships

TREES seeks to reimagine economics as a discipline and economics in Latin America from a Global South perspective.By studying inequalities and obstacles to development from multiple disciplines, it will build innovative narratives that improve the understanding of inequality in its multiple dimensions, as well as other challenges specific to the region. To address these challenges, TREES works from three intertwined components: Research, Teaching, and Outreach. In these three areas, TREES will seek to involve a diverse and multidisciplinary group of researchers, students, institutions and countries.

The person selected in the call for the predoc fellowship will work, within the framework of the Research component, with the Principal Investigators (PI) of the Initiative: Juan Camilo Cardenas, Leopold Ferguson y Jimena Hurtado. 

Some of the topics of interest are segregation and social inclusion, citizens' relationship with the state, inequalities (gender, ethnicity, region of origin, among others), environmental justice, informality, labor markets, teaching inequality in economics from a global south perspective. 

The position is ideal for a person who plans to apply to a PhD program at Universidad de los Andes or other higher education institutions. The selected person will get excellent research experience and mentoring from the PIs of the TREES initiative.