Visiting Scholars

Current and Recent Visiting Scholars
at the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies

2007-2008

RICARDO PEÑARANDA SUPELANO
(Sept-Oct 2007)
Associate Professor, Institute for Political Studies and International Relations
National University of Colombia
Research interest: The political economy of violence in Colombia in historic perspective.

PATRICK BALL
(October 29 – November 9)
Founder, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, originally a project of the AAAS and presently based at the Benetech Initiative, a non-profit organization in Palo Alto, California.
Research interest:  Truth commissions around the world; human rights documentation

MARCO GARAUDE GIANNOTTI, (Jan-Mar 2008). Professor of Painting- University of São Paulo. Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Departamento de Artes Plásticas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Research interest:  Contemporary Latin American painting, and reception in the U.S. of Pop Art from Abroad

FRANCISCO GUTIÉRREZ, Professor, Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Research interest:  Internal conflict, terrorism and crime in Colombia

BEATRIZ MAMIGONIAN, (April 2008). The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Professor of History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Research interest: The Impact of the Prohibition of the African Slave Trade to the Legitimacy of Brazilian Slavery in the 19th Century”

Post Graduate Associates:

FABIANA MACHADO, (Brazil). Program on Democracy and Political Science, University of Rochester.
Research interest: Relationship between democracy and inequality

JOSE LEDESMA.  Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, European University Institute
Research interest: Violence and the Spanish Civil War

MARCELO NAZARENO.  Professor of Political Science, Philosophy and Humanity College, National University of Córdoba, Argentina. Program on Democracy
Research interest: Leftist governments and income inequality in Latin America

ALEXANDRA VAZQUEZ, Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, Theater Studies and Department of American Studies.
Teaching: Latina/o Theater and Performance

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