Assistant Director of Programs

jacevedo@gc.cuny.edu
@huanacevedo

Dr. Juan P. Acevedo-Ossa is a Moynihan Postdoctoral Fellow in International Affairs and researches international relations and international political economy, with a focus on hegemony and China in the Global South. He received his PhD in political science from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where his dissertation analyzed how status concerns shape state behavior in multilateral institutions. He employs mixed methods, combining inferential network analysis with data from elite interviews. Before entering academia, Acevedo-Ossa spent several years working on international trade in China, Brazil, and Colombia, where he also taught international trade and Mandarin, and that experience continues to inform a research agenda attentive to how structural power and perception operate in the everyday practice of diplomacy.

Currently, Juan continues pursuing his agenda on status in IOs and China and India’s claim for leadership in the Global South. He is also beginning a project on the social determinants of Chinese foreign direct investment in Latin America, examining provincial government investment networks and small investors’ ties through social influence regression and temporal network models, supported by interviews with investors, chambers of commerce, and local politicians in both regions. His work has appeared in Review of International Political Economy, International Interactions, and the edited volume Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South, with a chapter forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Power in International Relations. He writes for broader audiences in Foreign Affairs Latin America, Africa is a Country, and El País, and is a co-founder of the China at CUNY Initiative, the Human Rights Hub, and the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. At the City College of New York, he teaches “Contemporary International Politics” and, working with program director Dr. Nicolas Guilhot, is strengthening the China component of the Master’s in International Affairs through a competency-based curriculum redesign.