Information on Visiting Scholars Program

Current Visiting Scholars and Visiting Professors 2008-2009

Altamirano, Nelson
Altamirano is an expert on political economy issues related to mining and oil industries, copper mining, oil and natural gas in South America....View expert sheet

Gomez, Andres
Gomez studies cultural conflicts in the Knowledge Society: ICTs as tools of social and etnopolitical experimentation ....View expert sheet

Henriksen, Ken
Henriksen is an expert on Ethnicity, Human Rights, Citizenship, State Formation, Democratization and Decentralization, Migration, Transnationalism, Discourse Theory. ....View expert sheet

Former Visiting Scholars and Visiting Professors

2008-2009

Andrade, Rogerio
Andrade is an expert on Law, Philosophy of Law, General Theory of the State, Law and Economics, Public Administration ....View expert sheet

Trilnik, Carlos
Trilnik works on visual and audiovisual representations of indigenous people in Latin America....View expert sheet

2006-2007

Albuquerque, Claudia Ponte de
Albuquerque is currently researching the Central Bank of Brazil and Chile from 1973-2005...View expert sheet

Carvalho, Isabel
Carvalho is a psychologist. She is an expert in the area of environmental studies and social psychology...View expert sheet

Hernandez-Perez, Amanda
Hernandez-Perez is an expert on social and gender history. View expert sheet

Latorre, Marta
Latorre is a sociologist and expert in the area of Spanish return migration during Franco's regime. View expert sheet

Mato, Daniel, Visiting Professor (Venezuela)
Mato is an expert on communication, culture, and social transformations in Latin America... View expert sheet

Montoya, Rodrigo, Visiting Professor (Peru)
Montoya is an expert on ethnicity, indigenous political movements and the cultural history of Latin America...View expert sheet

Nieto-Solís, José Antonio
Nieto-Solís is an expert on economics of the European Union (EU). He teaches European economy and international economic organization...View expert sheet

Ruano de la Fuente, Jose M.
Ruano de la Fuente is an expert on policies for the reform of the State, governance and sub-national governments...View expert sheet

Sampaio, Gabriela dos Reis, Visiting Professor (Brazil)
Sampaio works with Social and Cultural History of the 19th century Brazil...View expert sheet

Steil, Carlos Alberto
Steil is an anthropologist and an expert in the area of religion, tourism and social movements in Brazil and Latin America...View expert sheet

Torres, Cristobal
Torres is an expert in sociology of science and technology, general sociology and methodology of social sciences...View expert sheet

2004-2005

Coraje, Juan Leon
Mr. Leon Coraje is well-known social forester in Bolivia and has worked in his field for over 10 years. He is currently working for the Grupo Nacional de Tabajo para la Participacion (GNTP), an NGO in Santa Cruz, Bolivia ... View expert sheet

Gomez Seguel, Andres
Seguel is currently researching the political systme of Chile... View expert sheet

Mantini-Briggs, Clara
Mantini Briggs has extensive knowledge of Public Health in Venezuela. She is former coordinator for the National Program for Dengue Fever and National Director of Health Education at the Venezuelan Ministry of Health and Social Development...View expert sheet

Montes-Sylvan, Artemisa
Montes-Sylvan is focusing her research on the political economy of Mexico. She is currently completing her dissertation titled Mexican crisis process from 1976 to 1992: A case of transitional crisis?...View expert sheet

Vaz, Nelson
Vaz is an expert on Civil-military relations, coercive institutions, Portuguese and European security and defense policies. My geographic area of research is Western Europe...View expert view

Waitzkin, Howard
Dr. Waitzkin has focused on health policy in comparative international perspective and on psychosocial issues in primary care... View expert sheet

2003-2004

Bijos, Leila
Bijos has extensive knowledge of human rights, economic development of women and local sustainable development....View Expert Sheet

Breilh, Jaime
Breilh has extensive knowledge of Social Medicine; Health Epistemology; Critical Epidemiology; ethnic and gender related health issues... View Expert Sheet

Dietz, Gunther
Dietz has extensive knowledge of minority integration and development policies in indigenous regions, ethnicity, interculturality and intercultural education... View Expert Sheet

Tapias, Maria
Tapias is trained as a medical anthropologist, and is particularly interested in health and gender, the anthropology of emotions and in violence and subjectivity... View Expert Sheet

Zapata, Roger
He has written extensively on Colonial Latin America Chroniclers and Contemporary writers such a Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, José Maria Arguedas, and Isabel Allende... View Expert Sheet

2002-2003

Gazzoti, Julianna
Gazzotti's research involves the transformation of the Brazilian Press under the 1964-1985 military rule....View Expert Sheet

Iglecias, Wagner
Iglecias has extensive knowledge on business-politics relations in Mexico and Brazil during the eighties and the nineties...View Expert Sheet

Otegui Pascual, Rosario
Dr. Otegui has extensive knowledge of Medical Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, and Women's Studies....View Expert Sheet