Cora Fernandez Anderson is a Five College Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Reproductive Politics. She holds an M.A. in International Peace Studies and a Ph.D in political science from the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on human rights and women’s movements in Latin America and the impact these movements had on shaping and implementing state policy. She is currently working on a project to explain the successes and failures of the campaigns for the decriminalization of abortion in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.