The Expert is currently Fellow of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota as well as Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. He was for two years Senior Policy Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, for over a decade Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and for four years Director of the Center for Social Studies at the same university. He holds a PhD in Political Science from UCLA, an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Since 2014 his research has focused on processes of civil reconstruction and civil degradation.
LGBTQ, trafficking, forced conscription, refoulment, ex-combatant reintegration, criminal deportees, likelihood of destitution or homelessness, land tenure disputes, ethnic, religious, or tribal persecution, torture/risk of political persecution/risk from state actors, risk from non-state actors, risk of retaliation, safe internal relocation, sufficiency of protection.
The Expert co-edited in 2020 a book on international migrations titled The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration” (New York, Palgrave-Macmillan).
Tognato, C., Jaworsky, B. N. and Alexander, J. C. (eds.) 2020. The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Alexander, Jeffrey and Carlo Tognato (eds.). 2018. The Civil Sphere in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tognato, Carlo. 2020. “Radical Protest on a University Campus: Performances of Transition in Colombia.” Pp. 42-69 in Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere, edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Trevor Stack and Farhad Khosrokhavar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tognato, Carlo. 2019. “Countering violent extremism through narrative intervention: For a decentering the local turn in peacebuilding.” Pp. 346-365 in As War Ends: What Colombia Can Tell Us about the Sustainability of Peace and Transitional Justice, edited by James Meernik, Jacqueline DeMeritt, and Mauricio Uribe-López. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.