Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena
Research Topic: Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena’s project analyzes the discursive strategies of Chilean female parliamentarians between 1990 and 2006 regarding the role of women in the socio-political sphere. His study identifies strategic components and functions of political discourse to understand how these parliamentarians contributed to shaping debates on gender, democracy, and institutional change.
Country: Venezuela
Columbia Global Center: Santiago
Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena is a researcher and academic whose work integrates Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, and Social Sciences, drawing particularly from Political Science and Discursive Institutionalism. He earned his Ph.D in 2024 from the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Santiago, Chile. His dissertation, titled “The Contribution of Egalitarian Governmental Discourse to Democratic Quality in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Uruguay (2005-2011),” proposes a dynamic model of four analytical dimensions to assess how progressive presidencies — those of Cristina Fernández, Evo Morales, Michelle Bachelet, Rafael Correa, and Tabaré Vásquez, respectively — contributed to democratic quality through egalitarian discourse.
Juan Carlos earned a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology (1999) and a Master of Science in Social Communication (2009) from the Central University of Venezuela. Between 2009 and 2019 he held three roles within the School of Social Communication at the Central University of Venezuela: Instructor-Researcher (formally based in the Department of Social and Political Sciences), coordinator of the community service program, and teacher in the university-level broadcasting course.
He completed a research internship at the Planning and Budget Office of the Central Bank of Venezuela and was a thesis intern at the National Commission against the Illicit Use of Drugs. In Chile, he has taught at the Faculty of Government of the University of Chile and the School of Journalism at the University of Santiago (USACH).
At the Columbia Global Center in Santiago, his current project explores how female parliamentarians in Chile construct discourse on the role of women following the return to democracy. Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this research provides insights into one of the central challenges for Chilean democracy: achieving gender equality and ensuring women’s full participation in public life. By adopting a longitudinal perspective, the project contributes to institutional studies on Chile’s political regime, considering and its interaction with the socio-historical and institutional context.
Selected Publications:
Book (forthcoming). “Make Our People Great Again: Democratic Quality, Discourse, and Progressivism in Latin America”. Santiago de Chile, Editorial USACH.
Journal article (forthcoming). “Pioneers in Political Representation: The Role of Women in Chilean Parliamentary Discourse (1953–1973)”, co-authored with Pamela Figueroa Rubio. Latin American Journal of Discourse Studies.
Book chapter (forthcoming). The Chilean Party System, 1920–1939, in “Tiempos Convulsos”, vol. 2. Co-authored with Cristián Garay Vera. Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Bicentenario.
Journal article (2024). “Approaching the Mass-Man Category in Rómulo Betancourt’s Hegemonic Political Discourse”. Anuario ININCO. Investigaciones de la Comunicación, 30(1), pp. 173–181.
Journal article (2023). “Make Our People Great Again: The People According to Latin American Progressive Presidents”. Árboles y Rizomas, 5(1), pp. 38–57.
Journal article (2021). “Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Graffiti in Ñuñoa After October 18: Instantiations of Discourse Against Social Dominance”. Árboles y Rizomas, 3(1), pp. 17–39.
Book chapter (2018). Karl, Forgive Them Even Though They Know What They Do, in Karl Marx and South America in the 21st Century. Goethe Institut, Caracas, pp. 154–164. ISBN: 978-980-6839-04-5.