Yuna Blajer de la Garza
Assistant Professor
Political Theory
Professor Blajer’s research focuses on contemporary political theory. She studies inequalities in democratic political communities and is particularly interested in how membership in a democratic political community is articulated and negotiated, not only as a matter of formal rights (such as formal citizenship), but as a matter of lived democratic practices and norms, emotions, and belonging. Methodologically, she combines normative political theory and ethnographic methods and is an active member of the interpretive methods community. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, Politics and Society and the European Journal of Political Theory, among others.
She teaches widely in political theory, offering PLSC 100, Political Theory on a regular basis, alongside Contemporary Political Thought, Global Justice, and Ethics of AI. She also offers a graduate seminar on Political Ethics. At Loyola, she has been awarded the Provost Award for Excellence Teaching First Years (2023) and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Sujack Master Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching (2025).
She co-leads Speak Up Democracy, a multi-year project sponsored by a generous grant from the Teagle Foundation.
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Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2019
M.A., University of Chicago, 2011
B.A. (Licenciatura), El Colegio de México, 2010