Prof. Franco-Vivanco’s research focuses on Latin American politics, historical political economy, criminal violence, and indigenous politics. His book project, tentatively titled Strategies of Indigenous Resistance and Assimilation to Colonial Rule, studies how Indigenous communities survived colonization by using strategies that range from violent collective action to active collaboration, and from voluntary isolation to cultural assimilation. In a second research agenda, he studies the causes and effects of criminal violence in Latin America. Hiswork received the 2021 Heinz I. Eulau Award for the best article published in the APSR.