Previous LLILAS Visiting Resource Professors: Fall 2000 – Fall 2007
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Previous LLILAS Visiting Resource Professors: Fall 2000 – Fall 2007 Full text of papers by previous Visiting Resource Professors: http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/llilas/vrp/ Fall 2007 Celina Manzoni Dr. Manzoni is Professor at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. She specializes in Latin American literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a focus on Caribbean literature. Daniel Bonilla Dr. Bonilla is Associate Professor at the Universidad de los Andes School of Law in Bogotá, Colombia, from which he graduated in 1994. He earned his J.S.D. degree from Yale University. Dr. Bonilla is Director of the Public Interest Law Group of the Universidad de los Andes. Among his most recent publications are La Constitución Multicultural (The Multicultural Constitution) and Hacia un Nuevo Derecho Constitucional (Toward a New Constitutional Law). As Director of G-DIP, Dr. Bonilla works with students to bring cases before the Constitutional Court relating to a broad range of issues including racism, discrimination, indigenous rights, and the environment. Rachel Meneguello Dr. Meneguello holds a Ph.D. in social sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, Brazil. A Professor of Political Science at UNICAMP, a researcher at the Center of Public Opinion, and the editor of Public Opinion magazine, she specializes in the study of political parties and electoral behavior. Eduardo Rios Neto Dr. Rios Neto is Professor of Demography at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He has served as president of the Brazilian Population Studies Association and has collaborated on several joint projects with the UT Population Research Center. He also has led several research projects to evaluate the impact of government policies in the areas of education, employment, and job training. Professor Rios Neto was the Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at UT during spring 2006. Spring 2007 Paulo Fontes Professor Fontes is a historian of Brazilian labor and working-class culture in São Paulo after World War II. He also has studied internal migration from the Northeast to São Paulo, the links between rural and urban workers, the role of place and communities in working-class formation, and the cultural aspects of popular organization and politics. He earned his Ph.D. in social history at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP-Brazil). Dr. Fontes is currently a Visiting Associate Research Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Latin American Studies and the History Department at Princeton University. Gilmar Jardim Dr. Jardim is a composer, flutist, music arranger, conductor, and professor. Since 1984, he has been a professor in the Department of Music of the Communication and Arts Sector at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he teaches orchestral conducting. Since 2001, he has been the artistic director and head of the USP Chamber Orchestra (OCAM). Gil Jardim has been notable for his performance in concerts with several symphonic national and international orchestras. Since December 2005, he has been Chief of the Music Department at the University of São Paulo. Jorge Lanzaro Dr. Lanzaro is Director of the Institute of Political Science at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay and a leading specialist on political parties and governmental institutions in Latin America. He is the founder of the first doctoral program in political science at this university. His work focuses on the rise of the political and partisan left in Latin America. Ruben Mercado Dr. Mercado is a 1987 honors graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He received a Ph.D. in economics from UT Austin in 1996. His fields of specialization are computational economics, applied econometrics, economic development in Latin America, and macroeconomics. Dr. Mercado is currently a member of the board of IDES (Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social) and Senior Consultant for the Secretary of Economic Policy of Argentina. Aldo Panfichi Dr. Panfichi is Professor at the Catholic University of Peru and a well-known sociologist. He has written extensively on Peruvian politics, social movements, and the sociology of sports. He is an honorary AVINA civic leader and member of the Board of Alianza Lima soccer club. Dr. Panfichi also was a visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University in 2002. Teresa Sierra A Ph.D. in sociology of the University of Paris, Dr. Sierra is Professor and Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Dr. Sierra has received numerous awards, among them the Casa Chata (1995–1996) from CIESAS for her research on “Indian Rights and Customary Law: A Case Study of the Nahuas of the Sierra de Puebla.” Julio Solórzano-Foppa Julio Solórzano-Foppa is a Mexican writer, arts producer, and promoter researching the theme of arts and culture as a resource for development and job creation in Latin America. He has organized highly visible international cultural and artistic events and is a board member of the International Society for the Performing Arts. Solórzano-Foppa was associate producer of the film Cronos– the first film directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth)–and produced and acted in Cabeza de Vaca, both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Fall 2006 Liliana Obregón Dr. Obregón is Professor of International Law and Director of the New International Law Center at the Universidad de los Andes Law School in Bogotá, Colombia. She specializes in the history and theory of international law and international institutions in Latin America and has a great deal of practical experience in the area of human rights. Francisco Ortega Professor Ortega is a distinguished colonialist and Director of the Centro de Estudios Sociales of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His research and writing focus on the political culture of colonial Spanish America. Aida Hernández Castillo Prof. Hernández Castillo is an anthropologist and an activist who has worked with women's groups and indigenous communities. She earned her doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University in 1996 and is currently a Professor and Senior Researcher at CIESAS, the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Mexico City. Maite Ezcurdia Dr. Ezcurdia is a graduate of King's College London. She is a distinguished philosopher currently working in Mexico on the analytic tradition. Her research and teaching focus on cognitive science, problems in philosophy of language, and interpretive truth theories and philosophy of language. Diego Tatián Dr. Tatián is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina. He will participate in a seminar on the philosophical underpinnings of the thought of Jorge Luis Borges. In addition to his intellectual qualifications, Dr. Tatián is a mainstay of UT Austin's program in Córdoba. Spring 2006 Richard Webb Dr. Webb has a distinguished record as governor for the Central Reserve Bank in Peru and is currently Director of the Center for Economic Research at the Universidad de San Martin in Lima. His research focuses on political economy, growth, and equality in Latin America. Gabriel Infante-Lopez Dr. Lopez received his doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam. His area of specialization is probabilistic grammars for natural language parsing. Fabrice E. Lehoucq Dr. Lehoucq is Research Professor in the Division of Political Studies at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico. He specializes in the field of comparative politics, with focus on Costa Rica's elections, electoral institutions, and electoral fraud. Salvador Romero Ballivian Dr. Romero is a well-known Bolivian political scientist, currently serving as one of the directors of the National Electoral Court in Bolivia. His research focuses on political behavior in Bolivia. Fall 2005 Juan Carlos Aguiló Dr. Aguiló is Dean of the Political and Social Sciences School at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. His areas of study are public policy and management, negotiation and design, and evaluation of social projects. Mauro Galetti Dr. Galetti is Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Ecologia at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and Scientific Director (volunteer) at the Institute for Biological Conservation (IBC). He works on landscape ecology and conservation in Brazil and on plant-animal interactions. Florian Hoffman Dr. Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Law (Public International Law and Human Rights) and Deputy Director, Núcleo de Direitos Humanos, Department of Law, at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). His areas of study are public international law and international human rights. Spring 2005 Marta Maria Azevedo Dr. Azevedo is an anthropologist who works with indigenous communities in Brazil. She is an expert on the demography of indigenous populations and holds a doctorate from the Universidade de Campinas. Dr. Azevedo works at the Instituto Socioambiental, where she coordinates a project on "Violéncia, Sexualidade e rela??es de género em São Gabriel da Cachoeira." E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Ricardo Bernardes Mr. Bernardes is a Brazilian conductor and musicologist who reconstructed the Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição by Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia and transcribed it to computerized