Jeffrey D. Pugh

Jeffrey Pugh is an associate professor of conflict resolution at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the executive director of the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC), an NGO in Ecuador, as well as the co-PI of the Immigrant Visibility & Political Activism Research Collaborative (IVPARC). He received his PhD in political science from the Johns Hopkins University. Pugh’s research focuses on peacebuilding, migration, and non-state actors in the Global South. He has published scholarly articles, book chapters, and policy reports, and his book, The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security (Oxford University Press, 2021), examines the integration, political participation, and access to human security of Colombian migrants in Ecuador. His research has received more than 10 awards, from the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and others, and he was a 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar affiliated with FLACSO Ecuador.

Pugh teaches graduate courses on Negotiation, Immigration & Conflict, Human Security, Theories of Peace and Conflict, and others. He is a co-founder of the Regional Institute on Nonviolent Action in the Americas, he occasionally serves as an expert witness for asylum cases of Ecuadorians in the United States, and he is a past president of the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS).