Former Visiting Fellows
(Fall 1998-Present)
2005 - 2006
SUSAN FITZPATRICK-BEHRENS
California State University, Northridge
"Transforming Mission: Maryknoll Catholic Missionaries, Indigenous Catechists,
and Liberation Theology in Peru and Guatemala, 1943 to 2000"
LUCAN WAY
Temple University
"Pluralism by Default in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine:
Competitive Authoritarianism After the Cold War"
JAN HOFFMAN FRENCH
Duke University
"Rewards of Resistance: Legalizing Identity Among Descendants
of Indians & Fugitive Slaves in Northeastern Brazil"
KENNETH GREENE
University of Texas, Austin
"Defeating Dominance: Opposition Party Building and Democratization in Mexico"
AXEL HADENIUS
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
(Hewlett Visiting Fellow)
MIRIAM KORNBLITH
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA)
Caracas, Venezuela
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
TIM POWER
lorida International University
"Twenty Years of Brazilian Democracy"
DONNA LEE VAN COTT
Tulane University
"Intercultural Governance and the Quality of Democracy in Latin America"
2004 - 2005
SOLEDAD LOAEZA
El Colegio de México
"The Mexican Presidency in the XXth Century: An Analysis of Power and Constraints.
The Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Administration. 1964-1970"
CINEZIO FELICIANO PECANHA (Mestre Cobra Mansa)
International Capoeira Angola Foundation (ICAF)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visiting Chair in Brazilian Cultural Studies
FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA)
Caracas, Venezuela
"Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse?"
PABLO SANDOVAL
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
PATRICIA ZÁRATE
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
VICTORIA TIN-BOR HUI
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
"Globalization, Development, and Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective: Lessons from the West on the Rest"
WENDY HUNTER
University of Texas at Austin
"From Opposition Movement to Government Party: Growth and Transformation of the Workers' Party in Brazil"
KURT WEYLAND
University of Texas at Austin
"The Diffusion of Innovations: Social Policy Reform in Latin America"
CECILIA BLONDET
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
LUIS ALBERTO GÓMEZ DE SOUZA
CERIS, Brazil
"Latin America & the Catholic Church: Coincidences & Discrepancies-1960/2000"
MALA HTUN
New School University, New York
"Identities and Representation in Latin America"
CARMEN MONTERO
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
EDUARDO POSADA-CARBÓ
University of London
"On the Colombian Establishment"
2003 - 2004
MARICLAIRE ACOSTA
Former Under-Secretary for Human Rights and Democracy, Mexico
ARMANDO J. BARRIOS ROS
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA)
Caracas, Venezuela
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
KATHLEEN BRUHN
Department of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Partisanship and the Dynamics of Protest in Brazil and Mexico"
JULIETTE LEVY
Department of Economic History
University of California, Los Angeles
"The Rights to Credit: Land, Wealth and Institutions in a Developing Economy, Yucatán, 1850-1900"
JAMIL MAHUAD
Former President of Ecuador
"Governing in Globalization or How to Square the Circle""
CARLOS MELÉNDEZ
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
HORACIO SOBARZO
Department of Economics
El Colegio de México, Mexico City
"Fiscal Federalism in Mexico"
ANTHONY DEPALMA
Journalism
New York Times
"The Journalist and the Revolution"
KATHRYN HENDLEY
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Revitalizing Law: An Analysis of the Role of Law in Russian Enterprises"
KUN-CHIN LIN
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
"Corporatizing China: Reinventing State Control for the Market"
COVADONGA MESEGUER
Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Juan March Institute
Madrid, Spain
"Globalization and Policy Diffusion"
SIMÓN PACHANO
Department of Political Science
FLACSO
Quito, Ecuador
"Ecuador: Political Blockades and Representation"
MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLE
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Florida International University, Miami
"Cuba's Future Democratic Transition"
RICHARD SNYDER
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Does Lootable Wealth Breed Chaos? Natural Resources and Political Order in Comparative Perspectives"
FRANCISCO WEFFORT
Department of Political Science
Former Brazilian Minister of Culture
São Paulo, Brazil
"Brazilian Culture and Politics: An Exercise in the History of Ideas"
2002 - 2003
ROBERT CURLEY
Department of History
Universidad de Guadalajara
"Christian Democracy and the Mexican Revolution (1900-1926)"
ZSOLT ENYEDI
Department of Political Science
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
"Church-State Relations in East-Central Europe: Post-Communist Democracy - Building via Regulation, Establishment, and Discrimination"
GERARDO L. MUNCK
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and the Rule of Law"
SHANNON SPEED
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
"Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Grounding Human Rights in Chiapas"
EUGENIO TIRONI
Department of Sociology
Catholic University
Santiago, Chile
Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology
VICTOR SUPYAN
Deputy Director of the Institute of USA and Canada Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia
"Transformation of Ownership in Transitional Society of Russia: Social-Economic Consequences and Role of Government"
RUBEN ZAMORA
Instituto Salvadoreño para La Democracia (ISPADE)
San Salvador, El Salvador
"Political Parties of El Salvador"
TULIA FALLETI
Department of Political Science
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
"Not Just What, but When and by Whom: Decentralization Trajectories and Balance of Power in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, 1982-1999"
R. MARTÍN TANAKA
Department of Political Science
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Lima, Peru
"Crisis and Collapse of Party Systems in the Andean Region"
FRANCISCO WEFFORT
Former Brazilian Minister of Culture
São Paulo, Brazil
2001 - 2002
IVÁN OROZCO
Institute for the Study of Politics and International Relations (IEPRI)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia
ALEJANDRO REYES
Bogotá, Colombia
Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia
ASEEMA SINHA
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Divided Leviathan: Federalism and Developmental States in India"
ANGELINA SNODGRASS GODOY
Assistant Professor, Law, Societies, and Justice;
the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
"'Justicia a Mano Propia' and the Privatization of Violence in Latin America"
FRANCISCO ZAPATA
Center for Sociological Studies
El Colegio de México, México City
Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology
WILLIAM CAVANAUGH
Department of Theology
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
"The Creation of Religion and the Roots of Modern War"
RENÉ MAYORGA
CEBEM/FLACSO, La Paz, Bolivia
"Decentralization and Popular Participation: On State Modernization and Democracy in Latin America. The Case of Bolivia"
PIERRE OSTIGUY
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
"Cleavages and Party System in Argentina: Culture, Class and Identity"
CATALINA ROMERO
Department of Social Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology
EDWARD SCHATZ
Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Ethnic Conflict and Elite Framing in Post-Soviet Central Asia"
2000 - 2001
EDUARDO PIZARRO LEONGÓMEZ
Princeton University, New Jersey
"Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia"
SARAH BROOKS
Department of Political Science
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
"Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Latin America"
BENITO NACIF HERNÁNDEZ
Centro de Investigación y Docencias Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City
"The Mexican Congress: Change and Continuity in the Transition to Democracy"
LARISSA LOMNITZ
Visiting Professor of Mexican Studies
Department of Anthropology, UNAM, Mexico City
DAVID SMILDE
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Illinois
"Rationality, Meaning and Modernity: Men's Conversion to Pentecostalism in Venezuela"
JASON WITTENBERG
Academy for International and Area Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Local Church Institutions and the Limits of State-Socialist Rule"
MANUEL ALCÁNTARA
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
"Internal Structure and Organization of the Political Parties of Latin America"
ÁLVARO CAMACHO
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
"Tensions and Obstacles to Democracy and Consolidation in Colombia"
KATHLEEN COLLINS
Stanford University, California
"The Political Sociology of Regime Transition in Central Asia"
GRETCHEN HELMKE
University of Chicago, Illinois
"Judicial Independence and Executive Control in New Democracies"
GUILLERMO PALACIOS Y OLIVARES
El Colegio de México, Mexico City
"The Academic Intellectuals and the Sociocultural Construction of the 'Campesino Problem' in Mexico, 1920 - 1940"
LUIS PÁSARA
MINUGUA, Guatemala City
"Judicial Reform and Citizenship in Latin America"
NORA SEGURA
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
"Work, Family, and Gender in Displaced Populations in Colombia"
1999 - 2000
VOLKER FRANK
University of North Carolina, Asheville
"Between Success and Failure: Labor Movement Strategies in Democratic Chile"
VENELIN GANEV
University of Chicago, Illinois
"The Separation of Party and State and the Process of Democratization in Eastern Europe"
CARLOS HUNEEUS
Catholic University of Chile and Centro de Estudios de Realidad Contemporánea (CERC), Santiago
"Democracy without Political Parties? Parties at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century"
LARISSA LOMNITZ
Visiting Professor of Mexican Studies
UNAM, Mexico City
VIVIANE BRACHET
El Colegio de México, Mexico City
"State-Making and Democracy in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico in Historical Perspective"
JOERGEN ELKLIT
University of Aarhus, Denmark
"Institutional Change and Democratization Process: The Impact of Electoral Systems on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies"
STEPHEN LEVITSKY
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"From Laborism to Liberalism: Institutionalization and Labor-Based Party Adaptation in Argentina, 1989-1997"
RAFAEL DURÁN MUÑOZ
University of Malaga, Spain
"Reciprocity and Dynamism: State Elites and Mobilized Masses in Southern and Eastern European Transitions"
VIBHA PINGLÉ
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and
Columbia University, New York City
"Communities, Shared Understandings, and Entrepreneurship in South Africa"
1998 - 1999
GUSTAVO GALLÓN
Colombian Commission of Jurists, Bogotá
"Dealing with Gross Human Rights Violations of the Past: The Case of Colombia"
CARLOS HUNEEUS
Catholic University of Chile and Centro de Estudios de Realidad Contemporánea (CERC), Santiago
"Leadership and Political Parties: Chile in Comparative Perspective"
MARGARITA LÓPEZ MAYA
Centro de Estudios de Desarrollo (CEDES), Caracas, Venezuela
"Popular Protest in Neoliberal Venezuela"
ARCHIBALD H. BROWN
Distinguished Residential Fellow
St. Antony's College, Oxford, England
"The Political Transformation of Communist Systems:
JULIÁN CASANOVA
University of Zaragoza, Spain
"Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Spanish Civil War: A Comparative Analysis"
ILENE J. GRABEL
University of Denver, Colorado
"Mexico Redux? Currency Crises in Southeast Asia"
MARK P. JONES
Michigan State University
"Variation in Legislative Enterpreneurship in Presidential Systems: Data from beyond the US Case"
GÁBOR A. TÓKA
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
"The Influence of Political Institutions and Social Structure on Electoral Behavior, Democratic Accountability, and Regime Support: A Multilevel Analysis of Four New Democracies"
CARLOS H. WAISMAN
University of California, San Diego
"Neomercantilism and Its Legacy: The Southern Cone in a Comparative Perspective"
