Email: dortiz@tulane.edu
Office: Newcomb 220B
Phone: 504-862-3019
Fax: 504-865-5544
Research Interests: social movements, collective violence, state repression, time-diffusion of social processes, Latin America, political sociology, and research methods.
David G. Ortiz specializes in cross-national research of violent and non-violent protests and their relationship with regime repression. Dr. Ortiz was born in Mexico City and received his B.A. in International Affairs from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He conducted his graduate studies in the United States and holds an M.A. in International Peace Studies and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. His current work focuses on event history analyses of long and short term effects of contention, gap-time conditional risk set models for collective action and repression, comparative analyses of Latin American social movements, and media coverage of protests, demonstrations, and riots. Dr. Ortiz has also served as an international election observer in several elections throughout Latin America, including the 1994 Mexican elections with Alianza Civica, and the 2004 Venezuelan Referendum with the Carter Center and the OAS.