Vitae
Scholars@TAMU Profile
Website

Dr von Vacano spent the academic year 2024-5 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He was affiliated with the Environmental Change and Security Program and the Latin American Program where he finished a book on Latin American green energy geopolitics. He is a Contributor to the Buenos Aires Herald.

He received his doctorate in Politics from Princeton University and his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University. He studied in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University. Before that, he attended Franco Boliviano School in La Paz, Bolivia.

He is the Chief Editor of the Oxford University Press book series “Studies in Comparative Political Theory,” which examines issues in political ethics from inter-cultural, non-Western perspectives. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University; a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University; and a Member of the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, NJ.

He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other venues. His work has been cited in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, El Pais, The Guardian, and The New York Times.

Von Vacano is also interested in the globalization of soccer. He is Founder and Organizer of the Yale and Princeton Soccer Conferences. He has covered international association football tournaments for various media outlets since 1990. As a photographer and analyst he has covered events such as the UEFA Champions League, Copa America, and Euro 2016 for NBC/Telemundo, Código Deporte (Argentina), and El Deber (Bolivia) among others. He is a lifelong supporter of Bolivar and Chelsea (since 1997) and still plays for Illimani FC in the DC area.