He is Charles Flint Kellogg Professor of Politics in the Division of Social Studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he teaches comparative politics and Latin American and Iberian studies.
He is the author of the forthcoming Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars.
The title of his dissertation was "Governing Regime Change: Social Concertation in Democratic and Market Transitions.
"[3] Encarnación is a prolific scholar who has written extensively about democratization in Spain, Latin America, and the United States.
[4][5] He is also a scholar of LGBTQ politics, including same-sex marriage and the concept of gay reparations.