Julia Smith Coyoli is a fourth-year doctoral student in Harvard's Government Department, with interests in Latin American politics and the political economy of education in developing countries.  A former Fulbright IIE scholar and Princeton in Latin America fellow, Julia earned a BA in Latin American Studies and Educational Studies from Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) and an MSc in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City). Her dissertation examines sub-national bureaucratic politics in Mexico and Brazil, focusing on the ways in which sub-national bureaucratic structures and incentives explain variation in student learning in those countries.