Former Visiting Fellows
(Fall 1998-Present)
2008 - 2009
Matthew Carnes, SJ
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
“The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America”
SPRING
Luis Cosenza
(Hewlett Visiting Fellow)
Cosenza & Cia, Honduras
FALL
Sean T. Mitchell
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
“Relaunching Alcântara: Space, Race, Technology & Inequality in Brazil”
ACADEMIC YEAR
Noor O'Neill Borbieva
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
“Development in the Kyrgyz Republic: Exchange, Communal Networks, and the Foreign Presence”
FALL
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Latin American Centre
St. Antony’s College, England
“The Origins of Democracy in the Americas, 1770s-1880s”
8/22/08 – 9/22/08
Rachel Riedl
Department of Political Science
Princeton University
“Institutions in New Democracies: Variations in African Party Systems”
11/3/08 – 12/3/08
Sanjay Ruparelia
Department of Political Science
New School for Social Research
“Divided We Govern: Federal Coalition Politics in India in Comparative Perspective”
SPRING
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer
Department of Political Science
University of Missouri
“Women's Representation in Latin America”
FALL
Martín Tanaka
Department of Political Science
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
“The Paths of Democracy in the Andean Region: Evolution or Collapse of the Party Systems, and its Political Implications”
SPRING
Nina Wiesehomeier
Department of Political Science
University of Konstanz, Germany
“Political Polarization in Latin America”
ACADEMIC YEAR
Mikael Wolfe
Department of History
University of Chicago
"'Engineerist' Ideology between State and Nature in Mexico”
SPRING
Joseph Wright
Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Princeton University
“When Does Economic Crisis Lead to Democratization?”
ACADEMIC YEAR
Eduardo Zimmermann
Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
“Lawyers, Social Sciences, and State Modernization in 20th-century Argentina”
FALL
2007 - 2008
Manuel Alcántara
Department of Public Law
University of Salamanca
“The Quality of Political Leaders in Latin America”
FALL
Noor O'Neill Borbieva
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
“Development in the Kyrgyz Republic: Exchange, Communal Networks, and the Foreign Presence”
SPRING
Daniel Corstange
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
“Diversity and Development or Pluralism and Poverty? Government Institutions and the Economic Development of Multiethnic Societies”
SPRING
Luis González
CIFRA/González, Raga y Asociados
“The Nature and Causes of Main Political Crises in Latin America Since the End of the Cold War”
SPRING
Simanti Lahiri
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Consumed by Commitment: Suicide Protest in Contentious Politics”
SPRING
Yung C. Lee
Department of Public Administration
Jeonnam National University
“Conservative Turn of Korean Labor Unions after Democratization, 1987-2002”
ACADEMIC YEAR
Gary J. Marx
(Hewlett Visiting Fellow)
Latin American Correspondent
Chicago Tribune
SPRING
Gabriel Negretto
Department of Political Science
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE)
“Political Conflict, Institutional Design, and Constitutional Instability”
ACADEMIC YEAR
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Department of Political Science
University of Pittsburgh
“Democratization in Latin America”
ACADEMIC YEAR
Cecilia V. Vaisman
(Hewlett Visiting Fellow)
Freelance Writer and Photographer
FALL
2006 - 2007
Diego Abente Brun
Department of Sociology and Politics
Universidad Católica
Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguay (CADEP)
FALL
Daniel Brinks
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
“Law and Rights in Developing Countries: The Impact of Legal Strategies on Social and Economic Rights”
ACADEMIC YEAR
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Research Associate
Latin American Centre,
St. Antony’s College, Oxford
SPRING
Luis Cosenza
Executive Director for Central America and Belize
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
"Structural Reform in Honduras"
ACADEMIC YEAR
Nicanor Domínguez
Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Pillars of the Monarchy or the Critical Consciousness of the Colony? Criollo and Mestizo Priests in the Colonial Peruvian Church”
ACADEMIC YEAR
John French
Department of History
Duke University
“The Origin of Brazil’s Lula: Building Movements in a World in Flux, São Paulo, 1950–1980”
SPRING
Juliet Hooker
Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
“Building Post-Mestizo Democracy: Race, Nationalism, and Multicultural Citizenship in Nicaragua”
FALL
Daniel H. Levine
Political Science
University of Michigan
“New Dynamics of Religion, Society and Politics in Latin America”
SPRING
Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo
Department of Political Science
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
“Designing Cabinets: Presidents, Politics and Policymaking in Latin America”
SPRING
Irene Rizzini
Brazilian Ministry of Culture
“Perceptions and Experiences of Citizenship Among Young People in Urban Brazil”
FALL
Donggyu Sul
Economics
University of Auckland, New Zealand
“Growth Determinants Under Economic Transition”
FALL
2005 - 2006
Roxana Barrantes Cáceres
Department of Economics
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
“Social Movements and Civil Society: Popular Organizations to Improve Housing and Social/Urban Conditions in the Central Area of São Paulo”
SPRING
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens
California State University, Northridge
"Transforming Mission: Maryknoll Catholic Missionaries, Indigenous Catechists,
and Liberation Theology in Peru and Guatemala, 1943 to 2000"
ACADEMIC YEAR
Daphna Canetti-Nisim
Department of Political Science
University of Haifa, Israel
“Religion and Democracy: Friends or Foes”
SPRING
Vladimir Gel’Man
Department of Political Science
European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire? Post-Communist Regime Change in Russia in a Comparative Perspective”
SPRING
Jan Hoffman French
Duke University
"Rewards of Resistance: Legalizing Identity Among Descendants
of Indians & Fugitive Slaves in Northeastern Brazil"
FALL
Kenneth Greene
University of Texas, Austin
"Defeating Dominance: Opposition Party Building and Democratization in Mexico"
FALL
Axel Hadenius
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
(Hewlett Visiting Fellow)
FALL
Miriam Kornblith
Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA)
Caracas, Venezuela
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
FALL
Tim Power
Florida International University
"Twenty Years of Brazilian Democracy"
FALL
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
Department of Political Science
Miami University, Ohio
“The Dynamics of Post Communist Transformation: Varieties of Authoritarian Regimes and Paradoxes of Crony Capitalism”
SPRING
Donna Lee Van Cott
Tulane University
"Intercultural Governance and the Quality of Democracy in Latin America"
FALL
Lucan Way
Temple University
"Pluralism by Default in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine:
Competitive Authoritarianism After the Cold War"
ACADEMIC YEAR
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"
SPRING
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?"
SPRING
Pablo Sandoval
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
SPRING
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"
ACADEMIC YEAR
Wendy Hunter
University of Texas at Austin
"From Opposition Movement to Government Party: Growth and Transformation of the Workers' Party in Brazil"
ACADEMIC YEAR
Kurt Weyland
University of Texas at Austin
"The Diffusion of Innovations: Social Policy Reform in Latin America"
ACADEMIC YEAR
Cecilia Blondet
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
FALL
Luis Alberto Gómez de Souza
CERIS, Brazil
"Latin America & the Catholic Church: Coincidences & Discrepancies-1960/2000"
FALL
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"
FALL
Eduardo Posada-Carbó
University of London
"On the Colombian Establishment"
FALL
2003 - 2004
Marieclaire Acosta
Former Under-Secretary for Human Rights and Democracy, Mexico
SPRING
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"
SPRING
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"
SPRING
Jamil Mahuad
Former President of Ecuador
"Governing in Globalization or How to Square the Circle""
SPRING
Carlos Meléndez
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Lima, Peru
(Fulbright Educational Partnerships)
"Democratic Reform in the Andean Region"
SPRING
Horacio Sobarzo
Department of Economics
El Colegio de México, Mexico City
"Fiscal Federalism in Mexico"
SPRING
Anthony DePalma
Journalism
New York Times
"The Journalist and the Revolution"
FALL
Kathryn Hendley
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Revitalizing Law: An Analysis of the Role of Law in Russian Enterprises"
FALL
Kun-Chin Lin
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
"Corporatizing China: Reinventing State Control for the Market"
FALL
Covadonga Meseguer
Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Juan March Institute
Madrid, Spain
"Globalization and Policy Diffusion"
FALL
Simón Pachano
Department of Political Science
FLACSO
Quito, Ecuador
"Ecuador: Political Blockades and Representation"
FALL
Marifeli Perez-Stable
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Florida International University, Miami
"Cuba's Future Democratic Transition"
FALL
Richard Snyder
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Does Lootable Wealth Breed Chaos? Natural Resources and Political Order in Comparative Perspectives"
FALL
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)"
FALL
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"
FALL
Gerardo L. Munck
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and the Rule of Law"
FALL
Shannon Speed
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
"Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Grounding Human Rights in Chiapas"
FALL
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"
SPRING
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"
SPRING
R. Martín Tanaka
Department of Political Science
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Lima, Peru
"Crisis and Collapse of Party Systems in the Andean Region"
SPRING
Francisco Weffort
Former Brazilian Minister of Culture
São Paulo, Brazil
SPRING
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
FALL
Alejandro Reyes
Bogotá, Colombia
Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia
ACADEMIC YEAR
Aseema Sinha
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Divided Leviathan: Federalism and Developmental States in India"
SPRING
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"
SPRING
Francisco Zapata
Center for Sociological Studies
El Colegio de México, México City
Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology
SPRING
William Cavanaugh
Department of Theology
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
"The Creation of Religion and the Roots of Modern War"
FALL
René Mayorga
CEBEM/FLACSO, La Paz, Bolivia
"Decentralization and Popular Participation: On State Modernization and Democracy in Latin America. The Case of Bolivia"
FALL
Pierre Ostiguy
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
"Cleavages and Party System in Argentina: Culture, Class and Identity"
FALL
Catalina Romero
Department of Social Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology
FALL
Edward Schatz
Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Ethnic Conflict and Elite Framing in Post-Soviet Central Asia"
FALL
2000 - 2001
Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez
Princeton University, New Jersey
"Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia"
ACADEMIC YEAR
Sarah Brooks
Department of Political Science
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
"Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Latin America"
SPRING
Benito Nacif Hernández
Centro de Investigación y Docencias Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City
"The Mexican Congress: Change and Continuity in the Transition to Democracy"
SPRING
Larissa Lomnitz
Visiting Professor of Mexican Studies
Department of Anthropology, UNAM, Mexico City
SPRING
David Smilde
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Illinois
"Rationality, Meaning and Modernity: Men's Conversion to Pentecostalism in Venezuela"
SPRING
Jason Wittenberg
Academy for International and Area Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Local Church Institutions and the Limits of State-Socialist Rule"
SPRING
Manuel Alcántara
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
"Internal Structure and Organization of the Political Parties of Latin America"
FALL
Álvaro Camacho
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
"Tensions and Obstacles to Democracy and Consolidation in Colombia"
FALL
Kathleen Collins
Stanford University, California
"The Political Sociology of Regime Transition in Central Asia"
FALL
Gretchen Helmke
University of Chicago, Illinois
"Judicial Independence and Executive Control in New Democracies"
FALL
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"
FALL
Luis Pásara
MINUGUA, Guatemala City
"Judicial Reform and Citizenship in Latin America"
FALL
Nora Segura
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
"Work, Family, and Gender in Displaced Populations in Colombia"
FALL
1999 - 2000
Volker Frank
University of North Carolina, Asheville
"Between Success and Failure: Labor Movement Strategies in Democratic Chile"
SPRING
Venelin Ganev
University of Chicago, Illinois
"The Separation of Party and State and the Process of Democratization in Eastern Europe"
SPRING
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"
SPRING
Larissa Lomnitz
Visiting Professor of Mexican Studies
UNAM, Mexico City
SPRING
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"
SPRING
1998 - 1999
Gustavo Gallón
Colombian Commission of Jurists, Bogotá
"Dealing with Gross Human Rights Violations of the Past: The Case of Colombia"
ACADEMIC YEAR
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"
SPRING
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"
