Communications

Assistant Professor

College of Sciences and Mathematics - Anthropology and Sociology

Bio

As a college student, Dr. Sebastian Guzman decided he wanted to help social movements struggling against inequality. He was especially interested in how they can deal with difficult challenges and dilemmas and why so many people accept inequality. This led him to Public Sociology, which involves sharing the knowledge produced by sociologists with the broader public, to help us all make the world better. This also led Guzman to a research program focused on understanding how political and class subjectivities are produced and how these subjectivities relate to political and economic action that reproduces or challenges inequality. Guzman has developed this program especially (but not exclusively) by studying struggles for social rights (such as housing and education) and debt resistance in Chile.

These projects have led him to multiple interests within Sociology and with related disciplines: Political Sociology, Social Movement Studies, Inequality, Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, Social Theory, Social Psychology, Education, Urban Studies, Political Science, Anthropology, and Latin American studies.

Education

• B.A., Universidad Católica de Chile
• M.A., New School for Social Research
• Ph.D., New School for Social Research

Media

La Tercera, El Mostrador, El Pulso, (Chilean newspapers)