Mark Danner
A staff member at The New Yorker Magazine, Danner is teaching two classes at the Graduate School of Journalism in the Spring of 1999: "Wars, Coups, and Revolutions" and "Economic Chaos and its Bloody Reprecussions". He has just completed a book about America and the Balkans called The Saddest Story: America the Balkans and the Post-Cold War World which has been appearing in The New York Review of Books . He is currently working on a book about Haiti, forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf titled Beyond the Mountains: The Legacy of Duvalier. In 1990, Danner won the Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of the island nation. In 1993, he won an Overseas Press Club award for his investigative reporting of the notorious massacre in the remote Salvadoran town, El Mozote, and wrote his first book based on his series on the massacre. The book, The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War was published by Vintage in 1994. Danner is also working in conjunction with the Human Rights Center at U.C. Berkeley.

Martha Judith Sánchez Gomez is a sociologist who focuses on issues of race and ethnicity at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. This semester she is continuing her research at Berkeley on the development of ethnicity and community among migrant farm laborers in Mexico and the United States.

Lydia Nakashima Degarrod has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. She plans to be affiliated with UC Berkeley through August 30, 1999. Nakashima Degarrod has served as assistant and visiting professor of anthropology and has also written several publications on anthropology and indigenous Latin American populations. She has conducted extensive ethnographic work on the dreams of native populations in Chile and has adapted these interviews to a series of paintings that will be on display at CLAS starting in November.

Victoria Lerner obtained her Ph.D. in history from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is currently a researcher there. Lerner has written various articles concerning Mexican Politics and History. While at Berkeley, she will be working on a book about the history of bilateral relations between Mexico and the U.S.

Antonio Barros de Castro is a professor of economic policy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Council of the Instituto Nacional de Altos Estudios. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UNICAMP in Brazil.

Ana Celia Castro will utilize her affiliation with CLAS to do theoretical research for a post-doctoral project called "Entrepreneurial Culture and Managerial Identity in the Process of Purchasing Large Companies: The Agroceres/Monsanto Case." She has a Ph.D. in economics and plans to be with CLAS from December 3, 1998 to March 5, 1999.

Desiree Elizondo Cabrera is conducting research at the Graduate School of Journalism. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis and a consultant with the Danish development agency DANIDA. Her research interests include development assistance policy, sustainable development, environmental protection and conservation, institutional and capacity development, agriculture and ecology. She is a Nicaraguan citizen.

Elizabeth Katz is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. During her stay at Berkeley, she is continuing her work on a gender-related analysis of internal migration in Ecuador. Her research also focuses on the consequences of such migration on the country’s future labor and market policies. She will be affiliated with CLAS through August 1999.

Valéria Gonçalves da Vinha is an assistant professor from the Instituto de Economia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis, entitled "‘Ecologically Committed’ Companies and New Forms of Interest Conciliation: the Case of the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Industry," dealing with the potential impacts that ecologically conscious companies have on Brazilian environmental policy. Her work here will compare such companies in Brazil with their North American counterparts. Her year-long stay here is also being facilitated by Sociology Professor Peter Evans and Energy and Resource Group Professor Richard Norgaard.