Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Eduardo Posada-Carbó (DPhil, University of Oxford) returns to the Kellogg Institute as a visiting fellow in spring 2012. A departmental lecturer at the Latin American Centre and research fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, he studies the comparative history and politics of Latin America with a special focus on Colombia.
While in residence at Kellogg, Posada-Carbó will be working towards the completion of the book project “Elections and Democracy in Colombia, 1830–1930,” an interdisciplinary examination of the democratization of Colombia in its first century as an independent state. The work is a culmination of a decade of research, evolving from a narrow focus on electoral practices to a wider concern with democratization processes.
Posada-Carbó has been Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at the Watson Institute, Brown University, and Tinker Visiting Professor in Latin American History at the University of Chicago. He was previously a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute in fall 2004, spring 2007, and fall 2008.
His publications include Liberalismo y poder. Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011), coedited with Iván Jaksić, and The Colombian Caribbean: A Regional History, 1870–1950 (Oxford University Press, 1996) as well as many other books and articles. He is the general editor of two major series, on Latin American and Colombian history.
Previously the director of a daily published in his hometown, Barranquilla, Posada-Carbó writes a regular column for El Tiempo, the leading Colombian newspaper.
