Overview
María Belén Elías Pineda is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her research focuses on democracy, subnational politics, and women's political representation in Latin America. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Licentiate degree in Political Science and Government from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Before joining Cornell, María Belén worked as a teaching assistant at PUCP and as a researcher on projects related to decentralization, political culture, and elections in Peru and across Latin America.