Hiram José Irizarry Osorio
Research Associate
614-247-8656
irizarry-osorio.1@osu.edu
Hiram works as a research associate at the Kirwan Institute. His work centers on the conceptual basis of the institute’s work (i.e., structural racism). He is part of the organizing team of an institute’s conference endeavor (every two years), which seeks to underscore innovative and/or transformative ways of thinking about race, on communicating this transformative vision in persuasive and compelling ways, and on ways of acting to promote racial transformation. He also administers and organizes the institute’s summer internship program and he is part of the editorial group of the institute’s blog, which seeks to address a plethora of relevant polemic issues through a structural racial lens. He received a Ph.D. in political science from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2005. In 1999, he received an M.A. in political science from OSU and in 1996, a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez Campus).
Research Interests: State Capacity Issues as affected by the construction of race (and its intersection); Latin American politics; Puerto Rican Issues; (Post)-Colonial Realities
