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Urbana, IL 61801
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Biography
Alejandro Pocoroba is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds a master's degree in Social Development from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef) and a bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA).
He was a 2025 Equity Scholar at NORC at the University of Chicago (USA), previously served as a Research Fellow in the Drug Policy Program at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Mexico), and as a visiting researcher at the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (Argentina).
His research focuses on violence, militarization, and migration in border regions, drawing on quantitative and qualitative methods.
Education
MA in Social Development, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico
BA in Sociology, Universidad Autónoma Aguascalientes, Mexico
Visiting Student
- Graduate Course, The University of Chicago, United States
- Graduate Exchange Program, Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Argentina
- Undergraduate Exchange Program, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Highlighted Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
• Pocoroba, Alejandro, Laura H. Atuesta, and Javier Treviño-Rangel. 2024. "The unbearable uncertainty of being on the front: Street-level military in the Mexican war on drugs." Latin American Politics and Society https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2024.20
• Ospina-Escobar, Angélica and Alejandro Pocoroba. 2023. "Confinement with No Rights. Perceptions of Inmates’ Relatives Regarding Measures for COVID-19 Control Implemented in Mexican Prisons." Victims & Offenders https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2110060
• Maza Díaz Cortes, Octavio and Alejandro Pocoroba. 2018. "Cruce de caminos: trabajo informal y economía social." Caleidoscopio, Revista Semestral de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades https://doi.org/10.33064/38crscsh916
Book chapters
• Pocoroba, Alejandro and Andrés Sumano.“Tortura en el Operativo Conjunto Chihuahua 2008-2010” Forthcoming In Sarabia, Cecilia (coord) Derechos humanos, denuedos para su observancia. MX El Colef
• Pocoroba, Alejandro and Erick Morales. 2023. “Crónicas de la violencia en Colima” In Pasillas, Omar (coord) Repensar los escenarios de la seguridad pública en el contexto del Siglo XXI. MX UQRoo
• Pocoroba, Alejandro. 2023. “Las fuerzas armadas durante la pandemia por COVID-19 en América Latina. El caso de México, Honduras y Chile” In Guerra, Edgar and Atuesta, Laura (comps) Drogas y violencias en tiempos de pandemia. Consecuencias y respuestas. MX: Programa de Política de Drogas
• Pocoroba, Alejandro. 2021. “(Re)activación de la Guardia Nacional en México” In Benítez, Raúl and Gómez, Elisa (eds) Fuerzas Armadas, Guardia Nacional y violencia en México. MX: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Professional Memberships
- Member since 2026, Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología
- Member since 2024, Conflict Research Society