Diana Kapiszewski, PhD

Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor
Department of Government, Georgetown University
Department of Government, Georgetown University

Diana Kapiszewski is Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Her research interests include public law, comparative politics, and research methods. Her book High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2012) received the APSA Law and Courts Section's C. Herman Pritchett Award. She has also co-edited Consequential Courts: Judicial Roles in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), The Inclusionary Turn in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, under final contract), and Concepts, Data, and Methods in Comparative Law and Politics (Cambridge University Press, under final contract). Her ongoing research includes projects examining "constitutionalism with adjectives," as well as institutions of electoral governance, and accountability institutions, in Latin America. In the area of research methods, Kapiszewski co-founded the Qualitative Data Repository and co-edits the Cambridge University Press Methods for Social Inquiry book series. She co-authored Field Research in Political Science: Practices and Principles (Cambridge University Press, 2015), is co-authoring Managing Qualitative Data in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, under advance contract), and in 2013 was awarded the APSA Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section's Mid-Career Achievement Award. Her work has appeared in Latin American Politics and Society, Law and Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, Perspectives on Politics, and PS: Political Science and Politics.

Presentation(s):

• A05 - Optimizing Openness in Human Subjects Research—Balancing Transparency and Human Research Protections

  Sunday, November 17
  9:15 AM – 10:30 AM