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José grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and studied Political Science at Williams College (BA, magna cum laude). He received his doctorate in Politics from the University of Cambridge in 2018. Before joining York, José held a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, University of Cambridge and was a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados (IESA-CSIC). He has been the recipient of the Watson, Fulbright and Gates Cambridge fellowships and has conducted fieldwork in Jordan, Syria, Morocco and Spain.
In addition to articles in several leading journals, José is the author of a recently published monograph, States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan (Stanford University Press, 2022).
José also occasionally writes for a general audience. This work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Jacobin, Jadaliyya, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Dr José Ciro Martínez
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of York
YORK
YO10 5DD