Dr. Enrique Alvear MorenoÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñLalumiere Hall, 420
MilwaukeeWI53201United States of Americaenrique.alvear@marquette.eduCurriculum VitaeEnrique Alvear Moreno, PhD, is a sociologist by training who studies the coproduction of the state’s punitive social control and imperialism, and its consequences for social inequality. As a member of the UIC Policing in Chicago Research Group (PCRG), Enrique has co-authored a book entitled (University of Minnesota Press).
His current book project explores how and why the domestic shift to predictive policing in Santiago, Chile, was the result of global power relations that constrained and facilitated imperial flows of economic capital, policing expertise, and penal policies between the US and Chile. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including ethnographic observations within the national police, 68 in-depth interviews, and over 2,000 pages of archival materials, this project demonstrates that predictive policing emerged out of large macro-institutional arrangements between the Inter-American Development Bank, US policing experts, and Chilean bureaucrats.
Enrique’s research has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Research and Development Agency (ANID) from the Chilean Government.
In a second line of research, Enrique investigates how sanctuary city policies constitute a regime of racialized urban governance that strengthens rather than contests the legitimacy of the state and police power. Some of his other works have been published in Law & Social Inquiry, Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology, Persona y Sociedad (Original in Spanish), and Revista Latinoamericana de TeologÃa (Original in Spanish). Before joining ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, Enrique was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
Crime and Punishment, Policing, Empire and Neocolonialism, Social Theory, Ethnography, Qualitative Research Methods, Latin America
