Faculty & Staff > Tinker Visiting Professors in Latin American Studies

Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professors 1982-2007

Winter Quarter, 2007-08

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 2008 at Stanford, Dr. Schargrodsky taught ECON 122: Economic Development of Latin America.

Guillermo Solórzano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in this field from McMaster University in Canada. His research interests include: nanotechnologies; electron microscopy microanalysis and characterization of metals; defects, diffusion, and transformation of physical metallurgy in solids; and archaeometallurgy. He has published 96 scientific journal articles and 107 conference proceedings articles. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble and the Max Planck Institut fur Metallforschung, and a NSF-funded Research Scientist at MIT. During Winter Quarter 2008 at Stanford, Dr. Solórzano taught MATSCI 153: Nanostructures and Characterization.

Spring Quarter, 2007-08

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.

Ana María González de Tobia is a Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the National University of La Plata, Argentina. Her current research projects look at Greek grammar, Classical Studies in Latin America and Bacchylides in relation with early epics, ancient lyrics, tragedy and history. Her past research projects examined the poetics of loss and exile in Greek epics and tragedy as well as the epic and tragic space as a frontier of heroic ethics. She has been invited to lecture at UCL, UK; UFRJ, Brazil; Universidad Complutense and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela; Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Chile; Egean University, Turkey; and several universities in Argentina, among others. She has published about 30 papers in internationally-recognized journals of Classics. She was the editor of Una nueva visión de la cultura griega antigua en el fin del milenio (La Plata, 2000), Los Griegos: Otros y Nosotros (La Plata, 2001), Ética y Estética: De Grecia a la modernidad (La Plata, 2004), and Lenguaje, Discurso y Civilización: De Grecia a la modernidad (La Plata, 2007). She is currently Vice-President of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies (FIEC); Director of the Centro de Estudios Clásicos, UNLP; Director of Synthesis, a journal of Classics. She is a Life Member of the Classical Association, the Hellenic Society, and the Asociación Argentina de Estudios Clásicos. During Spring Quarter 2008 at Stanford, Professor González taught CLASSGEN 111: Croesus and Solon: Polemical Interpretation of Prosperity.

Cristián Sánchez is a Professor of Film Theory and Director of Film in Chile. He graduated from the Catholic University in Santiago (1975). Most recently he has taught visual arts courses at Valparaíso University, the University of Chile, the Viña del Mar Film School, and Arcis University. He has written and directed 13 films, including Los Deseos Concebidos (1983). His films have won numerous awards. During Spring Quarter 2008 at Stanford, Dr. Sánchez taught SPANLIT 249: Reading Cinema Today.

2006-2007

Linda Manzanilla (Mexico) is a researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Professor of Archaeology at UNAM. She received a PhD from the University of Paris (Sorbonne). She is the author and editor of 14 books and 112 articles and chapters on subjects related to the emergence and change of early urban societies in Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Andean Region. She has excavated in Mexico, Bolivia, Egypt, and Eastern Anatolia. She is a member of El Colegio Nacional (Mexico). She is a foreign member of both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She was the co-editor of Latin American Antiquity with Gary Feinman. At Stanford, she taught Early State Formation (in Winter Quarter) and Methodological Issues of Domestic Archaeology Research (in Spring Quarter).

Hilda Sabato (Argentina) is a history professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is primarily concerned with political history, emphasizing nation-building, the development of republican institutional frameworks, and the shaping of citizenship in Latin America. Her current research project looks at political violence in 19th-century Argentina. Her past research projects examined agrarian capitalism and the formation of labor markets in Buenos Aires, as well as the study of immigration to Argentina. She has been a fellow at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She is presently a Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University. Her books include, among others, Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1850-1890 (Albuquerque, 1989); and The Many and the Few: Political Participation in Republican Buenos Aires (Stanford, 2001). She was also the editor for Ciudadanía Política y Formación de Naciones: Perspectivas Históricas de América Latina (Mexico, 1999).

2005-2006

Gustavo Carlos Buscaglia (Argentina) is an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the Instituto Balseiro at Cuyo National University in Mendoza, Argentina, where he received his doctoral degree in 1993. He is also a researcher at the CNEA (National Atomic Energy Agency of Argentina), where he was Head of the Computational Mechanics Group from 1999-2001. He has published more than 30 papers in internationally recognized journals, such as the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Structural Optimization, and Physical Review. Buscaglia has been honored with the first ever Young Investigator Award from the Argentinean Association for Computational Mechanics, and the Bernard Houssay Young Investigator Award from the Science and Technology Secretary in Argentina. While at Stanford, he taught "Engineering Functional Analysis and Finite Elements."

Marcos Cueto (Peru) is an historian and a professor in the School of Public Health at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Perú. He is also the director of the Institute of Health and Development, the research center of the School of Public Health. Dr. Cueto received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988. In 1998, he was co-winner of the Premio Iberoamericano awarded by the U.S. Latin American Studies Association for the best book in the social sciences and the humanities on Latin America published in Spanish or Portuguese. While at Stanford, he taught an upper-level undergraduate course on "Health, Medicine and Society in Latin American History."

Margo Glantz (Mexico) is professor emeritus at the Universidad Nacional de Mexico, DF, Mexico, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She is the author of eleven novels, including Las genealogías (1982), Síndrome de naufragios (1984), and El rastro (The Wake) which won the 2005 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. Glantz is also a journalist and literary critic. Glantz has written extensively on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Álvar Núñez, Cabeza de Cava, and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. At Stanford, she taught "Gender Violence in Latin American Literature."

Ruy de Queiroz (Brazil) is associate professor of computer science at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. He received his doctorate in computing science from Imperial College, University of London in 1990. He is the editor of several books and articles, including the book Logic for Concurrency and Synchronization (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003). He is executive editor of Logic Journal, published by Oxford University Press. De Queiroz was chairman of the Organizing Committee of WOLLIC'06 (Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation), held at Stanford in July 2006. He has been actively involved in the organization of these international WOLLIC meetings since 1994. In December, he was elected as a member of the Council for the Association of Symbolic Logic and will serve a three-year term from 2006 to the end of 2008.

2004-2005

Cristian Cox (Chile) is head of the Chilean Ministry of Education's Curriculum and Evaluation unit, where he has been the driving force behind a number of major changes in Chilean education in the democratic period. Cox earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of London. While at Stanford he taught courses on policy analysis of and society's influence on educational reform in Latin America.

Armando Di Filippo (Chile) is a professor at the Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado de Chile and has taught for Stanford in Santiago since winter 1999. He is an economist devoted to the study of the economic and social development of Latin America and the author of two books. Di Filippo has been a researcher and advisor to the United Nations for thirty years. He holds degrees in economics from the University of Rosario Argentina and the University of Chile. During his year at Stanford, he taught courses on contemporary Latin American development and regional integration agreements in the Americas.

2003-2004

Alfredo Molano (Colombia) is a journalist and columnist for El Espectador in Bogotá. He is a sociologist and a scholar of the narcotics trade and agrarian reform in his native Colombia, as well as an active member of the Colombian peace conventions. In the late 1990s, his articles about Colombian paramilitary groups led to a series of threats from paramilitary leader Carlos Castano. Soon thereafter, Mr. Molano fled to Spain and has continued to live in exile for the past four years. He is the author of many articles and books about Colombia's history of violence. Mr. Molano was at Stanford first as a Knight Fellow and then as a Tinker Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies during the 2002-2003 and 2003-04 academic years. He taught popular courses on Plan Colombia: The War on Drugs.

Dr. Luiz Martinelli (Brazil) is an associate professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. His research into the ecology and geochemistry of the Amazon Basin has earned him recognition as one of Brazil's leading scientists in his field. In addition to publishing numerous papers in scientific journals, Dr. Martinelli has worked with both the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program and the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment. While at Stanford, he taught two courses. In the winter quarter, he taught LATINAM 130/230, "Basic Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin." His spring course was LATINAM 131/231, "Land Use in Amazonia: Drivers and Biochemical Consequences."

2002-2003

Fernando Birri (Argentina), beloved and popular professor, returned for one quarter in spring of 2003 to again offer his course on El Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano.

Isidoro Cheresky (Argentina) is a professor of contemporary political theory and political science at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the director of the Post-Degree Program in Political Science at the Universidad de Belgrano. A returning Tinker professor who first spent time at CLAS a decade ago, he is an expert in the field of citizenship and rights. He hosted a two-lecture series on the outcome of Argentina's 2003 presidential elections.

Alfredo Molano (Colombia) is a former Knight Fellow and journalist from Colombia, working as a columnist for El Espectador in Bogotá. He is a sociologist and a scholar of the narcotics trade and agrarian reform in his native Colombia, as well as an active member of the Colombian peace conventions. In the late 1990s, his articles about Colombian paramilitary groups led to a series of threats from paramilitary leader Carlos Castaño. Soon thereafter, he fled to Spain and has continued to live in exile for the past four years. He is the author of many articles and books about Colombia's history of violence.

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy (Mexico) returned to CLAS for one quarter in spring of 2003. He offered his course called The Day of the Dead and participated in a panel discussion on the process of creativity. He also gave a talk about his novels.

Eliseo Subiela (Argentina) is a renowned Argentine filmmaker whose works include El Lado Oscuro del Corazón and No Te Mueres Sin Decirme Adonde Vas. During his year at Stanford, he taught a three-part course entitled El Realismo Sospechoso or Equivocal Realism, culminating in a filmmaking workshop in the third quarter.

2001-2002

Roger Bartra (Mexico) is currently a full-time research fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) and a member of the National System of Researchers. He has an M.A. in Anthropological Sciences from UNAM and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Sorbonne University in Paris. Dr. Bartra has taught courses in Hispanic and Italian studies and sociology at universities around the world, including the Johns Hopkins University, Cambridge University, and the University of California-San Diego. He is a prolific writer and has published books and articles since 1961. Dr. Bartra taught a winter quarter class at Stanford entitled Discussions of Mexican Culture and Identity, which explored topics such as the authoritarian system, the modern revolutionary, and multiculturalism in Mexico.

Fernando Birri (Argentina) is a film director, actor, artist, and writer. His past career accomplishments include founding and directing both the Institute of Cinematography at Litoral University in Argentina and the Laboratorio Ambulante de Poeticas Cinematograficas Catedra Glauber Rocha in Venezuela. In 1961 he won the Tiré Dié award for documentary and experimental film. At Stanford, Mr. Birri taught a three-part course on the New Latin American Cinema. The course focused on his own works, including films such as Los Inundados and La Pampa Gringa, and on a selection of poetry.

Luis Moreno Ocampo (Argentina) was a prosecutor in the cases against Argentine generals for human rights abuses in the 1980s. Since 1992, he has practiced law and served as the president of Transparency International in Latin America. He has taught human rights and justice seminars in over 12 countries, including U.S. universities such as Harvard, Columbia, and Yale. In 1993, Professor Ocampo published his first book, En defensa propia, Como salir de la corrupción, which was followed by Cuando el poder perdio el juicio in 1996. He is cofounder of Poder Ciudadano, an organization encouraging citizen participation. At Stanford, Professor Moreno Ocampo taught Human Rights, International Business, and Corruption: How Rule of Law Could be Established in Latin America during the winter quarter.

Rosanna Reguillo (Mexico) is a research professor in the Department of Sociocultural Studies at ITESO, Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superioeres de Occidente, and teaches in the doctoral program of anthropology and history at the University of Guadalajara. She is one of Mexico's best-known experts on urban life and culture, mass media, and communication, and has published widely on these topics. She has held various teaching positions for the past 19 years and has also worked as a radio and newspaper journalist and film director. At Stanford, she taught Urban Culture in Latin America, and Public Space and Political Culture in Latin America.

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy (Mexico) is the director of the arts magazine, Artes de México, which has won countless national and international awards. He is the author of several books, including Cuentos de Mogador and Los nombres del aire, for which he won the Xavier Villarrutia award.

2000-2001

Luis Guillermo Lumbreras (Peru) is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima, and at the Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga, in Ayacucho. Lumbreras is one of the foremost social scientists of Peru, and one of the pivotal figures in anthropological theory in the Americas. His research focuses primarily on the prehistoric cultures of the central Andes, and includes major projects carried out from initial complex cultures through the imperial Incas. At Stanford, he taught a course on the origins of the State in Peru.

Alejandro Mohar (Mexico) is director of research for the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, in Mexico City. He researches the role of infectious agents in causing cancer, and is a world expert in the epidemiology and natural history of stomach and cervical cancer. He is also recognized as an authority on the role of HIV in accelerating the progression of cancer. Dr. Mohar collaborated with Stanford's Medical School with his knowledge on cancer epidemiology of the developing world, and worked to address the epidemiologic, cultural, and economic factors that characterize studies of malignancy in Latin America.

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy (Mexico) is a writer and the editor of Mexico's award-winning journal, Artes de México. He holds degrees in cinematography and philosophy, and a Ph.D. in Communications from the Université de Paris, Jussieu. He is a novelist, short-story writer, and has contributed chapters to books on Mexican art and artists. He taught a course on Mexican art during the spring quarter.

1999-2000

Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina) is a professor of sociology at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and an expert on political and social structure in Latin America. Di Tella has held academic and research posts around the world, including presidency of the Institute for Economic and Social Development (IDES) in Buenos Aires. He is the author of numerous books on political parties in Latin America, and a two-volume history of Argentina. Professor Di Tella taught the CLAS M.A. core seminar on society and politics in Latin America in winter quarter, and a course on political systems of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the spring.

1998-1999

Carlos Marichal (Mexico) is a professor of Latin American history at El Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México and has previously taught at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Professor Marichal taught the autumn graduate core seminar in Latin American Studies, Economic History of Latin America: Debt Cycles from Independence. He taught two courses, one on the history of Latin American integration pacts, and the other on the intellectual history of Latin America.

Romana Falcón (Mexico) is a professor of history at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Oxford University. Her research interests include the analysis of power and society in Mexico. Professor Falcón taught a course on the breakdown of social order in Mexico.

Sandra Kuntz-Ficker (Mexico) is a professor of history at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco in Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in history from El Colegio de México. Her research examines aspects of the evolution of the Mexican economy from a historical perspective. She taught a course on the economic history of Mexico from 1820-1940, and an undergraduate/graduate colloquium on challenges to Mexican development.

Lorenzo Meyer Cosío (Mexico) is a professor of political science and international relations at El Colegio de México, where he also earned his Ph.D. in international relations. Professor Meyer taught The International Relations of Mexico, a course that examined Mexico's political and economic development in relation to the world economy.

Jean Casimir (Haiti) served as the Haitian Ambassador to the United States from 1991 to 1997. Professor Casimir was a member of the United Nations mission for the verification of elections in Nicaragua and served as the Social Affairs Officer to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City (UNAM), where he taught courses on economic and political geography and the sociology of industrial development. As a Tinker Visiting Professor, Dr. Casimir taught a course on challenges to democracy in Haiti.

Brian Meeks (Jamaica) is a dual citizen of Jamaica and Canada who chairs the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He has written several books on Caribbean politics, culture and thought, as well as a number of articles. During his stay at Stanford, Professor Meeks worked on a book about Caribbean politics and political thought entitled Careening on the Edge of the Abyss: The Caribbean Left at Century's End.

1997-1998

José Sarukhan (Mexico) is an ecologist who studies plant populations and biological systems in temperate and tropical environments. Former rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, he is the vice chairman of the Board of Conservation International, a member of various national and international scientific societies including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and recipient of numerous awards including the 1990 National Prize for Science, the most prestigious award of its kind given by the Mexican government.

1996-1997

Alison Brysk (United States) is a professor of Political Science at Pomona College, Professor Brysk taught several courses during her year at Stanford on human rights and international relations in Latin America. She has conducted fieldwork on the grassroots micro-credit movement in Ecuador and has written extensively on indigenous rights, women's labor, processes of democratization and international relations in Latin America.

Adolfo Gilly (Mexico) is a professor of history at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). A native of Argentina, he has authored numerous books on the history and politics of Mexico and Latin America, including La revolución interrumpida (1971) and, most recently, El cardenismo, una utopía mexicana (1994). His current research on neozapatismo examines the Zapatista movement within the context of other armed agrarian movements in Latin America. At Stanford, Professor Gilly taught courses on twentieth century Mexican history, Between Revolution and Rebellion, and The Cardenas Era of 1934-1940.

Rafael Zamarripa (Mexico) is one of Mexico's most honored contemporary artists. A former member of the national Ballet Folklórico, Zamarripa is widely-recognized as a master dancer and choreographer, sculptor, and painter. Founder of the Grupo Folklórico at the Universidad de Guadalajara, as well as the Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad de Colima, Zamarripa's sculpture adorns numerous public buildings and plazas in Guadalajara and throughout the state of Jalisco. At Stanford, Professor Zamarripa taught two courses: Latin American Theatre: Staging and Choreography, and Dances of Jalisco and Colima.

1995-1996

João Almino (Brazil) was a visiting professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a novelist, political scientist, and former Consul General of Brazil for the San Francisco consulate. He has taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the University of Brasilia as well as at the Brazilian Diplomacy School. He has written a number of articles and essays, which have been published in Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and the United States, as well as seven books in the fields of political science, political philosophy, and fiction. During his time at Stanford, he taught a course on Brazilian literature and gave several lectures about his own work as well as commentary on the work of fellow Brazilian writers.

Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan (Venezuela) is a professor of literature at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, where she coordinates the graduate program in Latin American literature and directs the magazine Estudios. She earned her Ph.D. in Spanish American Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. At Stanford, she taught a course entitled: (Des)composicion de la patria; diagnostico y disciplinamiento de cuerpos y sexualidades modelicas y patologicas.

Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida (Brazil) is a professor of political science at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. As a Tinker Professor she taught a course on the politics of labor in Latin America and also collaborated on a seminar on Brazil with Stanford Professor Philippe Schmitter. In addition, she led a seminar on interest groups and social policy in Latin America. Professor Tavares's research and teaching interests include politics and development in Latin America, political systems and interest organizations, and comparative social policies. She received her bachelors and doctorate degrees in political science from the University of São Paulo.

Ruben Zamora Rivas (El Salvador) is one of the most prominent leaders on the democratic left in El Salvador, and is perhaps most well-known for his presidential candidacy in El Salvador's 1994 elections. He is a professor of political science at the National University of El Salvador and also holds a post at the Central American University as well as at the San Carlos University in Guatemala. He holds a law degree from the University of El Salvador and a degree in government and politics from Essex University, England. Ruben Zamora also worked on the Peace and Justice National Commission in El Salvador at the end of the civil war, and founded the Social Christian Popular Movement Party (MPSC) in the early 1980s. In the early 1990s he served as vice-president of the Salvadoran Parliament and founded the National Commission for Peace (COPAZ). While at Stanford, Dr. Zamora taught a course on government and politics in Central America.

1994-1995

Eduardo Lizano (Costa Rica) is a professor of economics at the University of Costa Rica and formerly headed the Central Bank of Costa Rica. His areas of expertise include Central American development and regional integration, financial policy, and structural adjustment policies. Professor Lizano earned his Ph.D. in Development Economics from the University of Paris. While at Stanford, he taught a course on Latin American economic development.

1993-1994

Eduardo Viola (Brazil) is one of the first social scientists in Latin America to examine the politics of the international environmental movement. He has written about the evolution of Brazil's environmental policy, comparative environmental movements in the United States and Europe, and the politics of biodiversity. Trained in sociology and political science, Professor Viola has taught at Notre Dame University and at the University of Colorado as well as in Argentina and Brazil. Currently he teaches in the program in political sociology and political ecology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and is a leading advisor on environmental affairs to the Brazilian government. At Stanford, Professor Viola taught two courses: Latin America and Global Environmental Politics, and The Politics of Environmental Degradation in Latin America.

Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay) is perhaps one of the most well-known contemporary writers in Latin America. He began his career as a journalist, bringing his incisive social and political analysis to a number of editorial posts. He then began writing literature, writing a number of essays, stories and novels which have received critical acclaim and prizes. Some of his most famous works include Vagamunido, La canción de nosotros, Las venas abiertas de América Latina, and the trilogy Memoria del fuego, which creatively reconstructs the history of the Americas. He continues to work as a journalist and editor, having founded and directed several magazines, including Brecha, which he currently edits. While at Stanford he taught an undergraduate course entitled Contemporary Thought in Latin America, and a graduate seminar, Contemporary Latin America: A Critical View. He continued his Tinker fellowship through the academic year 1994-1995.

1992-1993

Ernesto Medina (Venezuela) is a world-renowned ecologist who spent a year at Stanford working the Biology Department and Earth Systems, as well as Latin America Studies. He worked on research related to the physiological ecology of tropical ecosystems and also collaborated with the SCOPE project for the evaluation of the role of biodiversity in the function of ecosystems. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, was a leader in establishing an international program for the study of tropical forests, and is a senior researcher at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research.

Augusto Monterroso (Guatemala) is a renowned writer who is Guatemalan but has spent most of his life in Mexico. He wrote a number of famous works, including Obras completas (y otros cuentos), La oveja negra y demas fábulas, and La palabra mágica. He was also the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Mexican Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1996 and the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters 2000. Monterroso taught courses in literature at El Colegio de México and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

1991-1992

Monica Hirst (Argentina), a citizen of the United States and Brazil, currently resides and teaches in Argentina. During her time at CLAS, Professor Hirst taught a course on Latin America in the international system and also gave several lectures for the Master's seminar in Latin American studies. She earned a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Political Science in Rio de Janeiro. She has published several books and many articles on the topics of Inter-American history, politics and international relations.

Rodolfo Stavenhagen (Mexico) taught three courses at CLAS: Ethnic Conflicts and Nation-States in the Contemporary World (The Ethnic Question in Comparative Perspective), Agrarian Change, Marginality and Human Rights in Latin America, and Indigenous Peoples and the U.N. System. He also participated in a CLAS-organized symposium called Ethnicity and Human Rights in Latin America. Professor Stavenhagen is a researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, a professor of sociology at El Colegio de Mexico, and a project coordinator and researcher for the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the Practical School of High Studies in Paris.

1989-1990

Rosalbra Campra (Italy) is a professor of Spanish-American literature at the University of Potenza, Italty. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Rome. While at Stanford, she taught a course on marginality and Spanish-American literature entitled Marginalidad y literature hispanoamericana: el indo, el gaucho, el imigrante, as well as a seminar entitled Las formas de lo fantástico en la literature hispanoamericana.

1988-1989

Juan Martinez (Spain) taught a course at CLAS called Energy, Economy, Environment, and Society. He holds a degree in agricultural economics from Oxford and a doctorate in economics from the University of Barcelona, where he now teaches and serves as vice-rector. He has written on topics related to economic and agricultural history in Spain and Latin America, and his most recent work is Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation.

1986-1987

Stefano Varese (Peru) is an anthropologist and professor of the Department of Native American Studies at UC-Davis, and member of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas. He has conducted extensive research on indigenous communities in Central and South American and Mexico. Previously he directed the Regional Program of Popular Culture, a branch of the Mexican Department of Public Education in Oaxaca, Mexico and also as a high official in the Peruvian government's Office of Indigenous Affairs. He received a doctorate in anthropology from the Catholic University of Peru. Professor Varese has consulted for a number of international organizations, including the World Bank, UNESCO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. While at Stanford, Professor Varese taught a course called The Politics and Ethno-politics of Community Development. He returned in 2001 to give a lecture for the Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Working Group entitled Indigenous Autonomous Movements, Globalization, and Territorial Rights.

1982-1983

Rogelio Perez Perdomo (Venezuela) has taught as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School. He recently published a work entitled Legal Culture in the Age of Globalization: Latin Europe and Latin America. Professor Perez Perdomo earned his doctorate in law from the Central University of Venezuela, where he holds a teaching position as well.