Eduardo Posada-Carbó

Eduardo Posada-Carbó is currently a Research Associate at the Latin American Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He has been a Visiting Professor and Lecturer at various universities in Europe and the Americas, and more recently, a Tinker Visiting Professor in Latin American History at the University of Chicago. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute during the fall of 2004.

He has published and edited several books and essays, including The Colombian Caribbean: A Regional History, 1870–1950 (Oxford, 1996); Ensayos de historia intelectual y política en Colombia (Banco de La Republica Colombia, 2003); Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America (Basingstoke, 1997).

Before embarking upon an academic career, he was director of Diario del Caribe(1986–88), a daily published in Barranquilla, Colombia. He writes a regular column for El Tiempo, the leading Colombian newspaper.