Luis Rubén González Márquez
Luis Rubén González Márquez is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Merced. Previously, he studied history in the University of El Salvador, and Sociology at the graduate level in Ecuador. He worked as researcher in the National Teachers Training Institute (INFOD) of El Salvador and lecturer at the University of El Salvador. Luis Rubén was awarded a Fulbright-LASPAU scholarship for his graduate studies in 2019-2021. He also received a Dissertation Improvement Award Grant from the American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation (ASA-DDRIG) and a Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation from the University of California (UC-IGCC), for 2023-2024. His dissertation examines internal outcomes (escalation) and external outcomes (effects in the political economy) of conflicts in the extraction of renewable energies in the Global South. This research employs comparative-historical design to analyze contention on hydroelectric dam large projects in Central America since the 1970’s to the 2010’s, and it is based in extensive field and archival work. He has collaborated in publications about anti-austerity protest, climate action, protest music, and environmental civic engagement. Luis Rubén has also conducted research on labor and popular mobilization in El Salvador.
Country/Region of interest/research focus: Central America
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