About

Research Interests

Comparative political economy • Business-government networks • Social network analysis • Inequality in Latin America and Puerto Rico • Quantitative methods in the social sciences

Current Position

Assistant Professor in Quantitative Sociology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Social Sciences
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (2024–present)

Research Affiliate, NSF project #2017652, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University

Previous Positions

Postdoctoral Scholar, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University (2023–2024)

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Indiana University (2023)

Dissertation: Networked Varieties of Capitalism

M.S., Statistics, Indiana University (2019)

M.A., Political Economy, New York University (2014)

Contact

rashid.marcano[at]upr.edu
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras Campus