Faculty & Staff > Tinker Visiting Professors in Latin American Studies
Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professors (2008-09)
Fall Quarter, 2008-09
Mauro Galetti received his Bachelors degree in Biology (1990) and his Masters degree in Ecology (1992) at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). After receiving his Ph.D. from Cambridge University (1996), he moved to Indonesia to study seed dispersal by hornbills and mammals. In 1997, he returned to Brazil and founded the Plant Phenology and Seed Dispersal Research Group at Universidade Estadual Paulista at Rio Claro in São Paulo State. Since 2002, Dr. Galetti has been a Visiting Scientist at Integrative Ecology Group at Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas in Seville, Spain. In 2006, he, along with other colleagues, received the Zayed International Prize for Scientific Achievements in the Environment for the Millenium Assessment book. Dr. Galetti’s research strives to understand complex interactions between frugivores (fruit-eating animals) and plants and the impact of human activities, including forest fragmentation, poaching, and more recently global warming, on biodiversity loss. His major study sites are in the Pantanal and in the Atlantic rain forest.
During Fall Quarter 2008 at Stanford, Dr. Galetti will teach BIO 235: Challenges for Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America.
Juan Alfredo Tirao received his Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, where he has also served as Director of the Instituto de Matemática, Astronomía y Física (1977-1983). He is an Investigador Superior at the National Research Council, Argentina (CONICET) and the former Vice President of Scientific Affairs of the National Research Council (1998-2002). Tirao has been honored as a visiting professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidade de Brasilia, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Winter Quarter, 2008-09
Alexander Galetovic holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and an undergraduate degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Since 2005, he has served both as an Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes and as a researcher for the Centro de Estudios Públicos. As Chile’s leading economist in the fields of industrial organization and regulation, Galetovic is the author of numerous articles in Chilean and international journals. His research focuses on regulatory policies and performance in the electricity, telecommunications, and transportation sectors. Professor Galetovic is a regular contributor to the Stanford Center for International Development's annual conferences on Latin American economic development.
During Winter Quarter 2009 at Stanford, Dr. Galetovic will teach ECON 123: Regulation and Competition in Less Developed Countries.
Ernesto Schargrodsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1998. He is currently the Dean of the Business School of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been a visiting scholar at both Stanford University and Harvard University. His research includes studies of the effect of the use of electronic systems for the payment of welfare programs, the impact of privatization of water companies on child mortality, the distribution of crime victimization across socioeconomic levels, and the effects of awarding land titles to squatters. At Stanford, he is researching crime measurements to inform public decision-making. Dr. Schargrodsky's work has been published in a number of prominent journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Development Economics. He received the Bernardo Houssay Award for Young Researcher in the Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education of Argentina, and he has been awarded numerous fellowships, grants, and prizes by academic and non-academic institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations.
During Winter Quarter 2009 at Stanford, Dr. Schargrodsky will teach ECON 122: Economic Development of Latin America.
José Luis Villacanas Berlanga has a Ph.D. from the Universitat de Valencia, where he was an Associate Professor of Philosophy from 1982-1986. Since 2003, he has been a Professor of Moral History at the Universidad de Murcia, where he was a Professor of History of Philosophy from 1997-2002. He was also a Research Professor at the Instituto de Filosofía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid.
Spring Quarter, 2008-09
María Emma Mannarelli is the director and founder of the Center of Gender Studies at the Universidad de San Marcos in Lima, Peru and is the author of numerous works on feminist history. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University and was named a Guggenheim fellow. She has a broad experience working in Gender Studies in both academic and NGO environments and was head of research for many years at the Flora Tristán Center in Lima. She is bilingual and has taught at the University of California, Davis and at Holy Cross College. Her first book on free unions in seventeenth century Lima, which has become a classic work in the field, was recently translated into English and in 2007 published by the University of New Mexico Press (Private Passions and Public Sins: Men and Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima).
During Spring Quarter 2009 at Stanford, Professor Mannerrelli will teach HISTORY 273B/373B: Latin American Societies: The Public and the Domestic Domain.
Sonia Maria Rodrigues da Rocha, a consultant to the World Bank and senior researcher at the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), developed conceptual and empirical tools for measuring poverty incidence in Brazil, ultimately disseminating an influential set of short-term and long-term poverty times series. She established locally-defined poverty lines based on the National Budget Survey, poverty lines that were then used to derive income-based poverty measures and to develop profiles of the poor and the non-poor in Brazil. These indicators were routinely used by the World Bank for its poverty reports in Brazil. She has carried out fundamental research on income inequality, poverty incidence, consumption patterns, and labor market and social policy in Brazil. Since 1993 she has been Senior Researcher at the National Research Council where she is developing projects on employment poles, long term evolution of poverty in Brazil, expansion of public services in metropolitan municipalities, and distributive effect of income tax. Sonia Rocha is also examining the rise of a dual income transfer system in Brazil, one that combines the old constitutional transfers with the new transfer programs encompassed by the Bolsa-Familia.
During Spring Quarter 2009 at Stanford, Sonia Rocha will teach SOC 143/243: Poverty in Brazil: From Empirical Evidence to Anti-poverty Policies.
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