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Current CLAS Visiting Scholars, 2007-08
Winter Quarter, 2007-08
Karina Galperín is an Assistant Professor at the Torcuato Di Tella University. She received her Ph.D. (2002) in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, where she returned as a Visiting Scholar in the spring of 2006. She has been commended for her instruction of Spanish language and literature. Her current research examines female narrators in early modern Iberia. In 2003, she was a Visiting Professor at Stanford’s Spanish and Portuguese Department. As a Visiting Scholar in Latin American Studies, Dr. Galperín will investigate early modern Spain through painter and sculptor Alonso Berruguete and poet Alonso de Ercilla.
Jennie Popp was born in Chile into a multicultural family. She studied Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she received an M.A. in Hispanic Literature. Currently, she is working on her Ph.D. dissertation in Sociolinguistics (Universidad de Valladolid-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile). She is a Spanish Lecturer at the Stanford University Center in Santiago, Chile. She also teaches at Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, and has been a lecturer at Pontificia Universidad Católica and Universidad del Pacífico. She was also a Programme Coordinator and Spanish Lecturer at University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Julia Sarreal is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University. She is currently writing her dissertation on the decline of the Guarani missions of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil during the late eighteenth century. Her research links the dissolution of the missions and Guarani empowerment with larger issues such as Bourbon reforms, trade liberalization, regional growth, and imperial conflict between the Spanish and the Portuguese Crowns.
Spring Quarter, 2007-08
Iraida Casique earned her B.A. in Letras from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (1984). She also has a Masters in Literatura Latinoamericana Contemporánea from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (1994), and a Ph.D in Spanish American Literature from Rutgers. At present, Iraida is an Associate Professor at the Departamento de Lengua y Literatura at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on Latin American Literature. She is researching the the role of intellectuals in different Latin American Socialist Revolutions of the 20th Century, including the current “Revolución Bolivariana” in Venezuela.
Cecilia Taiana was trained in Buenos Aires, Paris, London and Ottawa. A region of central interest to Dr. Taiana is Latin America, and in particular, Argentina, a country marked by political trauma and dictatorships. In 1995, Dr. Taiana co-edited The Reordering of Culture: Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the Hood, an interdisciplinary book by sociologists, historians and cultural theorists that explores the vicissitudes of north–south cultural identities. In the area of trauma and memory, she is the author of Confession and its Twin, Torture: Re-thinking the Therapeutic Alliance, an article published in a refereed book published in 1995. More recently, she published an article in the History of Psychology (November 2005), entitled "Conceptual Resistance in the Disciplines of the Mind: The Buenos Aires-Leipzig Connection at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."
Based on her research on the transatlantic migration of psychoanalytical discourse, she contributed a chapter, Internationalizing the History of Psychology (Adrian Brock, Ed. 2006), entitled "Transatlantic Migration of the Disciplines of the Mind: An Examination of the Reception of Wundt's and Freud's Theories in Argentina" and an article "The Emergence of Freud's Theories in Argentina: Towards A Comparison with the US" to the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis (November 2006). Last winter, Cecilia wrote a biographical note on Jacques Lacan for the editors of the Dictionary of Medical Biography published by Greenwood Publishers in 2006. She will continue her work on Jacques Lacan during her next sabbatical (2007-2008), when she plans to document the role of Lacanian study groups in Argentina during the period of the last dictatorship (1976-83).
Summer Quarter, 2007-08
Nicole von Germeten received a Ph.D. in history from UC-Berkeley in 2003 and since that time has been on the faculty of the History Department at Oregon State University. She has published two books. The first, entitled Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afromexicans, argues that Catholic brotherhoods helped preserve a sense of African identity and community for slaves in seventeenth-century Mexico, but later facilitated their changing status as free urban workers. Her second book is an annotated translation of Alonso de Sandoval’s 1627 De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute, published with the title A Treatise on Slavery. De instauranda Aethiopum salute is the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas. The Jesuit priest Alonso de Sando val described dozens of African ethnicities, their languages, and their beliefs, and provided an exposé of the abuse of slaves in the Americas. This new edition complicates the history of the African diaspora, slavery in colonial Latin America, and the role of Christianity in the formation of the Spanish Empire. It also provides insights into early modern European concepts of race.
Liliana Obregon is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the International Law Program at the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. Professor Obregon obtained her doctoral degree from Harvard University, where she specialized in the history and theory of international law and international institutions, with particular interest in the study of Latin American regionalist perspectives. She also holds an MA in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, where she concentrated in Latin American Studies. Representative publications include "Between Civilization and Barbarism: Creole Interventions in International Law," in International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice," edited by Richard Falk, Balakrishnan Rajagopal and Jacqueline Stevens, Routledge-Cavendish, London (2008). "Noted for Dissent: The International Life of Alejandro Alvarez", special edition of the Leiden Journal of International Law, volume 19, no. 4, Cambridge University Press (2006). "Creole Consciousness and International Law in Nineteenth Century Latin America" in International Law and Its Others, edited by Anne Orford, Cambridge University Press (2006), and "In Search of Hope: The Plight of Displaced Colombians" in The Forsaken People, edited by Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (1998).
Francisco A. Ortega is the Director of the Center for Social Studies (CES) at National University of Colombia in Bogota. He is also an associate professor at the History Department and teaches in the Cultural Studies graduate program. Mr. Ortega obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2000), where he specialized in Colonial Latin American studies and critical cultural theory. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1995 to 1999 and was an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 2000 to 2004. He spent 2003 in Colombia as a Fulbright scholar. Mr. Ortega has edited a Spanish language anthrology on Michel de Certeau (La irrupcion de lo impensado, Bogota, 2003) and a newly published collection of essays by US-based anthropologist Veena Das and local Colombian authors focusing on social violence, language and interpretation (Veena Das: Sujetos de dolor, agentes de dignidad, Bogota, 2008). He has also published in academic journals in the US, Mexico, Peru and Colombia on colonial Latin American intellectual history.
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