Beyond Borders, s2e2 January 17, 2026
Angela Marino’s research focuses on contemporary Venezuela and political cultures of the Southwest, Caribbean, and Latin America. Her book Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela (Northwestern University Press, 2018) examines theater, festivals, political speeches, and visual language during the first decade of 21st century socialism, refuting the loose claims of ‘authoritarian populism’ that were devised during Chávez’s presidency to undermine popular democracies of the left. She is co-editor of the book Tribunal Rising (Eastwind Books, 2025); Festive Devils of the Americas (Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press, 2015), and is published in the journals, Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 2023), Latin American Perspectives (2025, 2023), Harvard ReVista (2014), and Cultural Anthropology (2014).
In addition to teaching, Dr. Marino is the faculty lead of the UC Berkeley Critical Perspectives on Democracy + Media of the American Hemisphere (D+M Lab), an interdisciplinary research group that develops policy, popular education, and media in community-engaged partnerships.
