I (Dr. Kelly Bauer, she/her/hers) am a political scientist researching and teaching about identity and development politics in Latin America, and knowledge production and pedagogy in political science. I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, and a member of the Red De Politólogas – #NoSinMujeres.My interdisciplinary teaching and research explore how Latin American states govern identity politics to recenter themselves as global trends destabilize state sovereignty; currently, I am writing about state responses to Indigenous rights, irregular migration, and human security regimes. My book, Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy (2021), explores inconsistencies resulting from how state officials navigate extending elite and neoliberal governance and citizenship through policy in post-Pinochet Chile. A second line of research studies the best practices of teaching and learning, examining how to make the classroom and university spaces for place-based, student-centered learning and empowerment. This work interrogates political science pedagogy to understand student access to and success in the field, focusing particularly on research methodology courses. I translated this research into the 9th edition of Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas.