Nicolás Taccone

I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and International Affairs at Wofford College. My research explores civil war and post-conflict governance, democratization and democratic erosion, and qualitative methodology. My job market paper on militias' diverse pathways after civil wars has been recently published at Comparative Political Studies. My research on other questions has appeared in top area studies journals, such as Latin American Politics and Society and the Journal of Latin American Studies, as well as in various Spanish-language journals.

I recieved my PhD in 2025 from the Department of Political Science at Brown University. I instructed undergraduate and graduate level courses at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Wofford College, and Brown University, where I furthered my teaching training at the Sheridan Center. In the year 2023, I received the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching from Brown's Political Science Department. In my past role as Curriculum Developer for the Democratic Erosion Consortium, I designed comprehensive course materials to standardize a course on democratic erosion for academics, policymakers, and practitioners.

I hold a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Universidad de San Andrés (2014) and an MA in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2018), both in Argentina. Outside of academia, I play soccer and am a River Plate fan.