Yuna Blajer de la Garza is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. She is a political theorist who studies inequalities in democracies by examining how formal institutions are translated (or distorted) into everyday practices and norms. She is interested in debates of democratic and critical theory, relational egalitarianism, citizenship, nationalism, and the “side-effects” of otherwise desirable formal institutions, among other things. Methodologically, she combines normative political theory and interpretive methods, and has carried out research in Mexico and France. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics, Politics and Society and the European Journal of Political Theory, among others. In 2022, she received the Carlo Argenton Memorial Prize for the best research article published in the EJPT that year. Her current book manuscript discusses the relationship between citizenship and belonging in contemporary democracies through the figure of the “citizen who does not belong.” You can read more about her here.