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Lorenzo
Meyer
Lorenzo
Meyer received his Ph. D. in International Relations
from El Colégio de México in Mexico City
in 1967, and has been on the faculty of the Center of
International Relations at that institution since 1970.
He has been invited to teach at more than a half-dozen
American and European universities.
Meyer’s
research centers on the foreign policy of Mexico in the
20th century with some incursions into the political
developments of post-revolutionary Mexico and, more recently,
on Mexico’s transition to democracy. He also writes
a weekly political column for a national newspaper and
is a participant in a weekly TV program on current events.
His
most recent book is on Spanish-Mexican relations in the
19th and early 20th centuries, El cactus y el olivo:
Relaciones hispano mexicanas en el siglo XX, (Mexico:
Oceano, 2001) and he is currently editing a general history
of Mexico from 1968 to the present.
Teaching "The
U.S. and Mexico: A Never-Ending Quest to Accommodate
Conflicting Agendas," Spring 2003 at the Center
for Latin American Studies.
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David
E. Bonior
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David
Bonior
David
E. Bonior was elected to the 10th Congressional District
of Michigan in 1976. From 1991-2002, Congressman Bonior
was the Democratic Whip, the second in command in the
House Democratic Leadership. Throughout his political
career, Congressman Bonior made it a priority to work
on a wide range of issues, including fair trade, issues
affecting women, improvement of the education system,
health care coverage for all, the environment, civil
and human rights, and election reform. He currently is
a Professor in the College of Urban, Labor & Metropolitan
Affairs, Wayne State University.
Teaching "Revolution
from the Left and Right in Central America, 1979-1994;
U.S. Congressional Involvement," Spring 2003
at the Center for Latin American Studies.
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Antonio
Barros de Castro
Professor
Barros de Castro teaches at the Institute of
Economics of the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and
has been a visiting professor at the Center
for Latin American Studies. Professor Barros
de Castro is an expert on Brazilian industrial
and trade policy, having directed BNDES, Brazil's
giant development bank, which has a loan volume
greater than the World Bank's.
Teaching "Brazil
in Transition," Spring 2003 at the Center
for Latin American Studies.
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Nancy
Appelbaum
Nancy
Appelbaum is Assistant Professor of History and Latin
American Studies at the State University of New York
at Binghamton. Her research interests include Latin America,
Colombia, race, and gender. Of her many publications,
her most recent book, Muddied Waters: Race, Region,
and Local History in Colombia, will be released
from Duke University Press in spring 2003.
Teaching "Race,
Region, and Nation: Colombia in Comparative Latin American
Context," Spring 2003 at CLAS.
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Sandy
Tolan
Sandy
Tolan is an independent journalist and public radio documentary
producer, and a co-founder of Homelands Productions based
in Gloucester,
Massachusetts. He specializes in coverage of Latin America, the Middle
East, and ethnic and social tensions over natural resources. Tolan has
produced dozens of documentaries and features for National Public Radio,
and has written for more than 30 newspapers and magazines, including
The New York Times
Magazine, The Nation, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. His 2002-2003
class, Politics and Petroleum,
is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Graduate
School of Journalism. In early 2003, his 11 reporters traveled to five
countries to report on oil in Latin America for newspapers, magazines,
television and NPR.
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Maria
Francisca del Rio
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Francisca
del Rio
Maria
Francisca del Rio, psychologist, works as Child Labor
Adviser for the Chilean Minister of Labor. From 2002
until 2004, the Chilean Ministry of Labor is developing
a major research project intented to measure and describe
the problem of child labor in Chile. This project would
allow the Government to improve the design of policies
aimed at tackling this problem.
As
a visiting scholar, Francisca is studying the most
recent literature and findings on child labor, in order
to improve her knowledge about the complexities and
factors involved in the child labor phenomena. This
information will help the Chilean Ministry of Labor
to develop a better measurement survey.
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Jaime
Couso
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Jaime
Couso
Jaime
Couso is Professor of Law and serves as Director
of the Child Rights Program at the Centro de
Investigaciones Jurídicas of Universidad Diego
Portales, Chile. He also directs the Revista
de Derechos del Niño, published by Universidad
Diego Portales and UNICEF.
Awarded
a Fulbright grant for visiting researchers, he has
been working at CLAS on a research project intended
to study the most relevant and representative jurisprudence
made by the courts of the US and some Latin American
countries on child rights protection, in order to
prepare a database for the training of Latin-American
judges and practitioners. This project is sponsored
by the Justice Center for the Americas (Organization
of American States), Universidad Diego Portales and
UNICEF.
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Romana
Falcon
Romana
Falcon has been a professor at the Centro de Estudios
Historicos, El Colegio de Mexico for twenty years.
She obtained a Masters at El Colegio de Mexico and
a Ph.D. at Oxford University. She has worked and published
on several aspects of a social history of power in
Mexico during the 19th and 20th centuries: agrarian
and indigenous resistance and rebellions, peasant organizations,
political institutions as jefaturas politicas,
informal networks of power – caciquismo, caudillismo and
revolutionary coalitions—, the Mexican revolution
from the standpoint of ordinary peasants, as well as
the nexus between Mexicans and people from Spain during
the 19th century.
These
are among her latest publications
Romana
Falcon, Mexico descalzo. Estrategias de sobrevivencia
frente a la modernidad liberal, (Mexico, Plaza
y Janes, 2002); Escobar Antonio and Falcon Romana (ed.) Pueblos,
comunidades y municipios frente a los proyectos modernizadores
en America Latina, (Amsterdam, CEDLA – El
Colegio de San Luis, 2003).
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Carsten
Schneider
Carsten
Schneider is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of
Political and Social Sciences at the European University
Institute in Florence, Italy. His dissertation project
deals with the consolidation of third wave democracies
and seeks to explain why some seem more likely to persist
than others. Within the framework of his research,
Schneider is currently working with his supervisor,
Philippe Schmitter, on a data set for measuring the
processes of liberalization, democratization and consolidation
in countries from Latin America, Northern Africa, the
Middle East and Southern, Central and Eastern Europe.
Schneider’s
work also focuses on the application of the fuzzy set
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA) method to
the cross-national study of democratization. As a visiting
scholar, he is working to refine data on the democratization
of Latin American countries.
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