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Visiting Scholars
Current and Recent Visiting Scholars at the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
2011-2012
Lucas Coffman
Coca-Cola World Fund Visiting Professor, Yale School of Management
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Ohio State University
Research Interests: experimental economics, behavioral economics, development economics Brazil
Teaching: One course at the School of Management
Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Visiting Fellow
Luis Eduardo Zavala DeAlba
Research Professor and Lecture, Director of Human Rights for EGAP, State of Mexico
Research Interest: human rights, human rights policy
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
Jeremy Seekings (Fall term)
Professor of Political Studies and Sociology, University of Cape Town
Research Interests: South African welfare policy; democratization and the transformation of urban politics in South Africa
Teaching: Comparative Welfare Policy in Developing Countries; Race and Class in Comparative Perspective
Jackson Senior Fellows
Domingo Cavallo
Chairman and CEO of DFC Associates; Honorary President of Fundación Mediterranea; former Minister of Economy of Argentina
Teaching: International economics
Ana Palacio (fall 2011)
Founding partner Palacio y Asociados; former Minister for Foreign Affairs for Spain
Teaching: Elements of Global Governance: Values & Interests at Crossroads
Fox International Fellows
Laura Stevens Leo
Masters Candidate, International Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City
Project Title: Legislative Coalitions in Multiparty Presidentialisms: Comparing Mexico and Brazil
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
Post Doctoral Fellows
Laura Roseanne Adderley (Spring term)
Associate Professor, History, Tulane University
Research Topic: The black experience during the decades around slave trade abolition and slave emancipation in the nineteenth-century Caribbean and the Americas
Yale World Fellows
Marcelo de Camargo Furtado (Brazil)
Executive Director, Greenpeace Brazil
As the leader of the national chapter of Greenpeace, Furtado is one of Brazil’s most important voices on sustainable development, climate change, and renewable energy. He has nearly 20 years of experience as an activist committed to advancing sustainability and social justice through innovation and public mobilization. Having worked with both Greenpeace Brazil and Greenpeace International since 1990, Furtado has established himself as a visionary and strategic leader with an instinct for mobilizing support on environmental issues from all sectors and constituencies.
2010-2011
Gabriel Aladrén
Ph.D. Student, History
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Dissertation: Entre guerras e fronteiras: escravos, libertos e soldados negros no sul do Brasil (Rio Grande de São Pedro, c. 1801 - c. 1835)
Advisor: Hebe Mattos
Fellowship: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes)
Rousiley Celi M. Maia
Associate Professor
Dept. of Communication
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Brazil
"Deliberation, media and political talk," to be published by Hampton Press, and is a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science at Yale.
Maria Clara Sales Carneiro Sampaio
PhD Program in Social History at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (USP)
Studying colonization schemes that aimed the settlement of freed African descendents (or in the
process of emancipation) from United States in several countries in Central and South America. These particular colonization projects were proposed to nations such as Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, New Granada (Colombia / Panama), Ecuador and Brazil, among others, by delegates of Washington in the early years of Civil War.
Linda Jewell
Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Spring 2011
Linda Jewell is a career diplomat and senior member of the foreign service who has served in a number of posts all over the world, including Jakarta, Mexico City, New Delhi and Warsaw. She is the former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador. Prior to her post in Ecuador she was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Mexico and Canada, focusing especially on trade and border issues. She also served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica and as Director of the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs of United States Information Agency.
Courses: INRL 572b/ INTS 261b, US Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century (spring)
2010 Yale World Fellows
Ana Hernández (Mexico)
Co-founder, Collective for an Integrated Drug Policy
A leading human rights advocate in Mexico, Hernández currently promotes drug policy reform that aims for a more balanced approach, integrating scientific evidence and public health perspectives, and emphasizing prevention, treatment, and human rights rather than enforcement and criminalization. She is the former deputy director of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center in Guerrero, a mostly indigenous region and one of the poorest in Mexico. She has been a consultant to the Angelica Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, and the Mexico office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ricardo Terán (Nicaragua)
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Agora Partnerships
A successful entrepreneur, Terán devotes himself to combating poverty by helping socially responsible small business entrepreneurs start and grow companies that create wealth through job creation and make positive social impacts in their communities. He has also founded three businesses, including international retail clothing franchise LOLITA in Nicaragua and El Salvador and a socially responsible alternative-media company. He a member of the Central America Leadership Initiative, is the co-founder of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Nicaragua, and a board member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. Terán is working to make Central America a hub for innovative, entrepreneur-led economic policy and social business models.
2010-2011 Fox International Fellows
From El Colegio de México, Mexico City
Andrés Hincapié
Masters Candidate, Economics
Project Title: Mixing, Not Fixing, Inequality Theories in Mexico
Pablo Barriga Davalos
Graduating Senior, Political Science
Project Title: The New Left in Bolivia: Indianism, Social Justice and “High Intensity” Democracy
From Free University, Berlin
From the University of São Paolo, Brazil
Catarina Barbieri
PhD Candidate, Law
Project Title: Resolving the Tort Crisis in Brazil: U.S. and Brazilian Solutions to Contemporary Injury Litigation
From Free University, Berlin
Mr. Georg Fischer
PhD Candidate, Institute for Latin American Studies
Project Title: Strategic Resources and U.S.-Brazilian Technical Cooperation in the 20th Century: The Case of Iron Ore
Jackson Senior Fellows
Linda Jewell
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Mexico and Canada
Research Interests: Public diplomacy; Western Hemisphere affairs
Teaching: US Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers
Lourdes Gutierrez Najera
Assistant Professor, Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Research interest:Zapotec transnational migrations, conflict and belonging
Teaching: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Gilder Lehrman Center Post Doctoral Fellows
Jane Landers (March 2011)
Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
Research topic: African Kingdoms, Black Republics, and Free Black Towns in Colonial Spanish America
