Comparative Politics and Government (Regime Types), Comparative Social Policy (Developing), Poverty Alleviation Strategies (CCTs), Federalism and the Welfare State, Transitology and Democratization in Latin America, Subnational Governance and Decentralization, Political Economy of Latin America, Local and Urban Politics, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile and the Caribbean.

Tracy Beck Fenwick isi the Director, of the Australian Centre for Federalism (SPIR) and a lecturer in the School of Politics in the College of Arts and Social Sciences,  She was previously a a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies at ANU, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. She completed her doctorate specializing in Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford, U.K. in 2009 (St. Anthony's College). She holds a M.A. in Comparative Politics and a B.A. in Latin American Studies and Economics from McGill University, Canada. Her research was recently published in a single-authored book: (2016) "Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina." Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.  She also recently published in Global Social Policy (2013), the Journal of Politics in Latin America (2010), and in the Latin American Research Review (2009). Tracy has been a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), and at the Fundacão Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP). From 2003 to 2004, Tracy was also young professional with the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) based at FLACSO in Santo Domingo.  At the School of Politics and International Relations, Tracy teaches Politics in Latin America, Power Sharing: Federalism in Comparative Perspective, Introduction ot Latin American Studies, and Contemporary Brazilian Politics.

I work on federalism and the politics of poverty alleviation in the developing world. I have researched CCTs (ideational development, policy diffusion, and the political dimentions of their implementation and outcomes--feedback effects) for over ten years. I am also interested in local and urban politics in federal countries.

I am interested in supervising topics on Latin America, Development and Democracy (including regime types), Poverty Alleviation (Social Policy), Decentralization and Subnational Government, Federalism and Territorial Politics, and/or local and urban politics.

Chair

Bouri Song, HDR/SPIR. "Equalization and Fiscal Federalism in China"

Panel

Rafael Jacque Rodrigues. HDR/CAP. "The Politics of Deforestation Control: Public Policies, Federalism, and                                                                 Territorialites in the Brazilian Amazon.

Marian Calix Figueroa. HDR/Sociology. "Do Local NGOs make a Difference? The Case of Honduran NGOs                                                                      working in Education Projects."

Carlos Edurardo Morreo. HDR/SPIR. "Critical oil politics. Governing oil in ‘left turn’ Latin America.

Isi Unikowski. HDR/CAP. "New Wheels for Deakin's Federation? Structure and Agency in Australian                                                           Intergovernmental Management"

Chair/Honours

Chloe Waltho. "Continuity without Change: The Persistence of Populism in Post-Fujimori Peru"