Previous LLILAS Visiting Resource Professors: Fall 2000 Fall 2007

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1 Previous LLILAS Visiting Resource s: Fall 2000 Fall 2007 Full text of papers by previous Visiting Resource s: Fall 2007 Celina Manzoni Dr. Manzoni is 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 at the Universidad de los Andes School of Law in Bogotá, Colombia, from which he graduated in 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 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 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. Rios Neto was the Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting at UT during spring 2006.

2 Spring 2007 Paulo Fontes 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 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 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 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 Teresa Sierra A Ph.D. in sociology of the University of Paris, Dr. Sierra is 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

3 Fall 2006 Chata ( ) 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. Liliana Obregón Dr. Obregón is 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 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 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 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.

4 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 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 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. 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 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 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.

5 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." martazev@uol.com.br, martazev@socioambiental.org 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 format, which allows for easy reproduction of the full score as well as orchestral and choral parts. He will participate in the UT-Austin symposium hosted jointly by LLILAS, the School of Music, and the College of Fine Arts on March 7-8, 2005, entitled Music and Culture in the Imperial Court of João VI in Rio de Janeiro. ricber@uol.com.br Name & Institution Country Semester Area of Study Francisco Foot Hartman State University of Campinas Brazil Fall 2004 Brazilian History and Literature Jose Carlos Lozano Carlos Eduardo Aramburu Director Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey Consorcio de Inverstigación Económica y Social Mexico Fall 2004 Consumption and Appropriation of Foreign Media Contents in Mexico Perú Fall 2004 Social Policy Analysis Jorge Schwartz Universidade de São Paulo Brazil Spring 2003 Literature and the Visual Arts Manuel Gonzalez Oropeza Instituto de Investigaciones Mexico Spring 2003 Constitutional Framework for Indian

6 Jurídicas, UNAM Rights in Mexico; Law Margaret Stern UC_Davis USA Spring 2003 Wetlands and floodplains; Ecology Carlos Gervasori Solange Couceiro Universidad Católica Argentina Escola da Comunicaçao e Artes Universidade de São Paulo Argentina Spring 2003 Latin American and International Politics Brazil Spring 2002 Journalism in Latin America Adolfo Constenla Umana Jorge Castro President Victor Farias Zurita Universidad de Costa Rica Costa Rica Spring 2002 Indigenous Languages of Latin America Institute for Strategic Planning Argentina Fall 2002 Policy and Economics in Argentina of the Argentine Republic Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain Fall 2002 Spanish-America Historiography Marcela Cerruti Researcher Centro de Estudios de Población Argentina Fall 2002 Lanning Urban, Health and Migration Research in the Southern Cone Ruben Mercado /Researcher Universidad Argentina de la Empresa Argentina Fall 2002 Computational Economics Paola Bentivoglio Nélida Morita Carrasco Universidad Central de Venezuela and Instituto de Filologia Andres Bello Venezuela Spring 2002 Spanish Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina Spring 2002 Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Argentina Lauro Zavala /Researcher Universidad Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco Mexico Fall 2001 Film Analysis and Contemporary Mexican Narrative Clara Bargellini Instituto de Investigaciones México Fall 2001 Mexican Colonial Art

7 Senior Research/Fellow Jorge Castro President Alexander Galetovic Associate Jim L. King Estéticas, UNAM Institute for Strategic Planning of the Argentine Republic Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile Argentina Fall 2001 Latin American Economics and Development; Comparative Systems; Economics of the Arts Chile Fall2001 Development of International Trade and Development Universidad de Monterrey México Fall 2001 Planning and Urban Design Ricardo Villalba Researcher Arturo Taracena Researcher Argentinean Institute for Snow, Ice and Environmental Research Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica Argentina Fall 2001 Landscape Ecology; Biogeography; Conservation Guatemala Spring 2001 Policy, Culture and Identity in Latin America Ligia Prado Universidade de São Paulo Brazil Spring 2001 History on Brazil & Argentina Ruben Katzman Ismael Aguilar Universidad Católica de Uruguay Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey Uruguay Spring 2001 Social Integration, Poverty and Exclusion in Latin America México Fall 2000 City Systems in Latin America