Latin America Experts
Associate Professor of History, Duke University; Director, Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2002-2005)
I was an undergraduate in "American" history in the early 1970s and grew discontented with the discipline's failure to contextualize U.S. and Western European histories within a broader geographical and historical terrain. My intellectual objective of transcending North Atlantic parochialism was achieved in graduate school by shifting my focus to Latin America. After studying in Mexico, I became a...
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Austin
Kenneth Greene is an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes and democratization, political parties, elections, and voting behavior. Most of his research to date has been on Latin America with a special emphasis on Mexico. His first book, Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's Democratization in Compar...
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Born in Chile to parents of different nationalities, and as the daughter of a career diplomat, I developed early on a personal and intellectual interest in the topic of international migration. After receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, I moved to the University of Houston, where I co-directed the Center for Immigration Research from 1995-2005. In 2005, I joined...
Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Associate Professor for Brazil Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University
I began studying Latin American politics in college. I was fascinated by the Mexican and Cuban revolutions, and the failed attempt to construct socialism in an electoral democracy in Chile. I vividly recall the day after the Chilean coup d'état on September 11, 1973 when my history teacher, Professor Milton Vanger (a distinguished, gentlemanly historian of the Battle y Ordóñez period in Urugua...
