University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, PhD '13

Professor Garrido is interested in social transformations in the Global South, Southeast Asia particularly, and my research focuses on the Philippines, Cambodia, and Singapore. Topically, he studies democracy, corruption, urbanization, segregation, social inequality, and “populism” . Theoretically, he spends a lot of time thinking about how political institutions structure experience and how experience shapes political subjectivity, the relation between social and spatial boundaries and when inequality comes to be felt as stigma, and what freedom means sociologically. He's committed to theorizing “from the Global South,” or reconstructing conceptual categories in light of Southern realities, and enthusiastic about sociology as a mode of explanation that can help grasp aspects of reality that other modes (biological, psychological, economic) can’t.

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