Faculty & Staff > Tinker Visiting Professors in Latin American Studies

Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professors (2009-10)

Fall Quarter 2009

A leading Portuguese specialist in logic, Fernando Ferreira holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University and is currently Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Lisbon and a corresponding member of the Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard and Stanford Universities and the University of Aarhus (Denmark) and given invited talks throughout Europe and in the United States. His book, Matemática Finita (with Carlos André), was published in 2000. Recently published articles by Ferreira include "The co-ordination principles: a problem for bilateralism" (Mind, 2008), "A most artistic package of a jumble of ideas" (Dialectica, 2008), and "The Riemann integral in weak systems of arithmetic" (with Gilda Ferreira, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2008).

During Fall Quarter 2009, Professor Ferreira will teach PHIL 353C: Functional Interpretations.

Winter Quarter 2010

An Argentine pioneer in the field of Computational Mechanics, Eduardo Dvorkin (Ph.D., MIT) is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires. A member of the National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina and a two-time recipient of the prestigious Konex Foundation Award in Science and Technology, Dvorkin has also been selected as a Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. Widely published in international journals, Professor Dvorkin has advised a generation of young scientists who have gone on to pursue doctoral studies and academic careers at leading research institutions in the United States, including MIT, Rutgers, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

During Winter Quarter 2010, Professor Dvorkin will teach ME 411: Advanced Topics in Computational Solid Mechanics.

João Adolfo Hansen, Professor of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo, is a specialist in Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. His first book, A Sátira e o Engenho. Gregório de Matos e a Bahia do Século XVII (São Paulo, 1989; Campinas, 2004), won the 1990 Jabuti Award. He has since published a handful of additional books as well as scores of book chapters, journal and magazine articles, and newspaper essays. His current book project is entitled Categories of Luso-Brazilian Representation. Hansen has previously been awarded visiting professorships at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France), Ohio State University (USA), and the Federal University of Ouro Preto (Brazil).

During Winter Quarter 2010, Professor Hansen will teach ILAC 374: Luso-Brazilian Practices of Representation in the 16th-, 17th-, & 18th Centuries.