Gisela Liliana Sin Silva
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
gsin@illinois.edu
Gisela Sin is Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Norman P. Jones
Professorial Scholar, and professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studies
political institutions and is the author of many articles and the award winning book Separation of Powers and Legislative
Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and the coauthor of Congreso, Presidencia y Justicia en Argentina
(TEMAS, 1999). As CLACS director, profesor Sin is in charge of promoting interdisciplinary collaborations and
innovative research, teaching, and public awareness of Latin American and the Caribbean among students, faculty, and
scholars from across the University of Illinois campus, as well as communities throughout Illinois and the Midwest.
Professor Sin holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Universidad del
Salvador in Argentina.
I would like to join the ACE Cordoba program to initiate and strengthen collaborations with the province and its
educational institutions. We aim to build relationships and agreements so that our faculty and students can engage
across geopolitical, cultural, disciplinary, and academic borders with our counterparts in the region. The University of
Illinois has more than 180 faculty connected through the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies whose
research focuses on the region and who are keen on strengthening ties and collaborating on initiatives. We have a
substantial core faculty who specializes in Argentina from the College of Agriculture (especially Agricultural Engineering
and Animal Sciences), the College of Engineering, the Departments of Architecture; Art and Design; Urban and
Regional Planning; Biological Sciences; Entomology; Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Political Science;
and History. A few start-ups on the Research Park also have relations and investments with Argentina, and Cordoba
could become an important partner for them.
