Faculty & Staff Directory
Jeffrey Pugh
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Phone: 617.287.7489
Email: Jeffrey.Pugh@umb.edu
Department: Confl Res, Hum Sec & Globl Gov
Areas of Expertise
Peace and Conflict Studies , International Studies , Latin American Politics, Institutions (Political Science) , Refugee Studies, Migration Studies , Social Movements
Degrees
PhD in Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
BAs in Political Science and Speech Communication, University of Georgia
Professional Publications & Contributions
- The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- “A Catalyst for Action: Training and Education as Networking Platforms for Peace Projects,” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. 15, no. 1 (2020). 127-132.
- “Welcome Wears Thin for Colombians in Ecuador as Venezuelans Become More Visible,” Migration Information Source, with Luis Jimenez and Bettina Latuff (January 9, 2020).
- "Eroding the Barrier between Peace and Justice: Transitional Justice Mechanisms and Sustainable Peace,” International Journal of Peace Studies. 24, no. 1 (Summer 2019): 1-23.
- "Mapping the field of international peace education programs and exploring their networked impact on peacebuilding," with Karen Ross. Conflict Resolution Quarterly 37, no. 1 (2019): 49-66.
- "Transnational Governance and Peace Processes: The Case of the UN and ICC in Colombia," with Adriana Rincón and Consuelo Sánchez. In Aigul Kulnazarova and Christian Ydesen, eds. Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace and International Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan (2019). 561-584
- “Negotiating Identity and Belonging through the Invisibility Bargain: Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador,” International Migration Review 52, no. 4 (2018): 978-1010. o Winner of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Award for Best Article, presented by the Migration and Citizenship section, 2019 o Winner of the Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Prize, presented by the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS), 2019
- “Weaving transnational activist networks: Balancing transnational and bottom-up capacity-building strategies for nonviolent action in Latin America,” Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies 2, no. 1 (2018): 130-144.
- "Universal Citizenship through the Discourse and Policy of Rafael Correa," Latin American Politics and Society 59, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 98-121. o Winner of the Harold Eugene Davis Prize for Best Article, MACLAS, 2018
- "Adapting Community Mediation for Colombian Forced Migrants in Ecuador," with David Sulewski and Julie Moreno. Conflict Resolution Quarterly 34, no. 4 (Summer 2017): 409-430.
- "Peacebuilding among Transnational Youth in Migrant-Receiving Border Regions of Ecuador," Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 11, no. 3 (2016): 83-97
- “The Short-Term ‘Bridge Model’ Study Abroad Program: Peacebuilding in Latin America,” PS: Political Science & Politics 46, no. 4 (October 2013): 791-796.
Additional Information
Jeff Pugh is an associate professor of conflict resolution in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also a visiting scholar of conflict management and Latin American studies affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. Pugh received his PhD in political science from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, after completing BAs in political science and speech communication from the University of Georgia. He is also the executive director of the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC), based in Quito, Ecuador. He was previously assistant professor of political science at Providence College.
Pugh's research focuses on the role of non-state actors and international institutions influencing governance and peacebuilding in the Global South, especially in migrant-receiving areas of Ecuador. His book, released in February 2021, with Oxford University Press entitled The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security, argues that under the informal host-society expectations of economic contributions combined with political and social invisibility that he calls the ‘invisibility bargain’, migrants often gain access to rights, resources, and protection indirectly through connections and brokered relationships within a governance network comprised of non-state, international, and state organizations. Drawing on 15 months of field work over eight years in six provinces in the northern border region of Ecuador, he builds his case on the basis of evidence from more than 170 interviews and more than 650 surveys of migrants in these 6 provinces. In addition to his book project, Pugh has published peer reviewed articles in International Migration Review, Latin American Politics and Society, International Studies Perspectives, PS, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Bulletin of Latin American Studies, and Negotiation Journal, among others. He has also contributed public-sphere op eds, policy reports, book chapters, and training manuals that translate his research into actionable and policy relevant recommendations.
His work has been recognized with best paper awards from the International Studies Association Ethnicity, Nationality, and Migration (ENMISA) section, the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Middle
Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS), the New England Council on Latin American Studies, and his dissertation won the 2011 Peace and Justice Studies Association Best Graduate Dissertation of the Year award, among other recognitions. He was a 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar in FLACSO Ecuador. Under his leadership, CEMPROC has reached over 6,000 adults and children from more than 30 countries around the globe with its conflict resolution and peacemaking training programs.
Pugh has developed innovative experiential and study abroad programs to teach international conflict resolution in the Global South at the university and practitioner levels through a combination of service-learning, simulations, lecture/discussion, and other teaching strategies. Currently, he co-directs the UMass Boston/FLACSO Summer Institute on Conflict Transformation across Borders in Quito-Ecuador. He is also a founding member of the organizing committee for the Regional Institute for the Study and Practice of Strategic Nonviolent Action in the Americas, together with ICNC, FLACSO, and the Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE). Pugh has taught Negotiation, Theories of Conflict Resolution, Immigration & Conflict, Human Security, International Conflict Resolution, Integrative Seminar, Peace & Justice, International Relations, Latin American Politics, Politics, International Organizations, and Model Organization of American States. Pugh was appointed as an interviewer forming part of the New England/USA node of the Colombian Truth Commission’s work with Colombian victims in exile. He served as past president of the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS), serves on the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association Ecuadorian Studies section and the editorial board of the Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, and he regularly serves as an expert witness for asylum cases and in immigration court hearings involving Ecuadorians in the United States.