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Current CLAS Visiting Scholars

2009-10

Pedro Maciel is former Manager of Fiscal Analysis at the Brazilian Secretariat of the National Treasury - Ministry of Finance. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Brasilia. He is responsible for developing studies and policies regarding fiscal programs of the Brazilian Government. He has published articles about fiscal policy and economic growth in Brazil and has been awarded several national prizes for his research.

Rosa Fontes is Professor of Economics at Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil) with a Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University (1988). She was a Visiting Scholar at University of California – Berkeley (1993-94) and at Ludwig Maximiliams Universität in Munich, Germany (2000-01) teaching there a course named Latin American Policy Making. She is the former Dean of Humanities, Languages and Arts at UFV (2001-2006) and former Coordinator and Member of Social Sciences and Humanities Consulting Chamber at FAPEMIG (Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa em Minas Gerais), from 2002 to 2006.

Antonio Annino was born in Croatia and completed his studies in Milan and at the University of Pavia, University of Florence, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes d'Amérique Latine in Paris. He is currently Professor of Latin American History at the University of Florence. Since 2002 he has been an adjunct professor with the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica in Mexico City. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and the Americas and has published numerous articles and books, including Dall'insurrezione al regime. Politiche di massa e strategie istituzionali a Cuba 1953-1965 (Milan, 1981); El liberalismo en México (Hamburg, 1993); and La independencia en la historiografía del siglo XIX, serie "Herramienta para la Historia" (Fondo de Cultura Economica-Cide, Mexico, 2008).