Professor Emerita, Political Science; PhD, Columbia University
Margaret Keck taught comparative politics, Latin American Politics, and environmental politics. She is the author or co-author of numerous articles and four prize-winning books, including Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics (Oxford 2013), with Rebecca Abers; Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (Duke 2007), with Kathryn Hochstetler; Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (Cornell 1998), with Kathryn Sikkink; and The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil (Yale 1992). She has been doing research in Brazil since 1982.