Visiting Research Fellows

2009-10 Academic year

Professor Graciela Bensusan
Research Professor, UNAM, Mexico
Research topic: the impact of transition policies on state-union relations in Latin America
Period of visit: 1-31 May 2010

Emeritus Professor Hal Klepak
Professor Emeritus of History and Strategy, Royal Military College of Canada
Research topic: The life as a soldier and minister of the armed forces of Raúl Castro
Period of visit: 29 September - 12 December 2009

Dr Hyacinth Simpson
Ryerson University, Toronto
Research topic: Caribbean Orality: Voice, Text, and Performance
Period of visit: January to June 2010

Dr Fina Carpena-Mendez
University College Cork - National University of Ireland
Research topic: the effects of neoliberal globalization on the condition of everyday life, both in Latin American rural migrant-sending areas and the global North receiving contexts
Period of visit: TBC

2008-09 Academic year

Dr Bruce Dean Willis
University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Research topic: Body, Text, Map in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Period of visit: mid-June to mid-July 2009

Dr Canrobert Costa Neto
Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Research topic: Agrarian Reform, Agroecology, Global Food Crisis and Biofuels in Brasil
Period of visit: February to March 2009

Dr Cath Collins
Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Research topic: Post-transitional justice: Legal strategies and judgements in Chile and El Salvador
Period of visit: January-February 2009

Dr Anna Pegler-Gordon
James Madison College, Michigan State University
Research topic: Representing and Regulating Chinese American Servicemen in World War II
Period of visit: October to December 2008

Dr Laura Bunt
Research topic: Lawful Intimacies: Race, Sexual Morality, and Modernity in the Courts of Twentieth-Century Peru
Period of visit: October 2008 to March 2009

Dr Marie Vautier
University of Victoria, Canada
Research topic: Postcolonialism, First Nations, Métis and Transcultured Writers
Period of visit: August to December 2008

Rahsaan Maxwell (Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow)
Purpose of affiliation: to undertake research on ethnic minority migrant incorporation
Period of visit: August-September 2008

Dr Maarit Forde
University of Newcastle
Research topic: Colonial Rule and Spiritual Power: Obeah, the State, and Caribbean Culture
Period of visit: September 2007 to February 2009

2007-08 Academic year

Dr Marie Vautier
University of Victoria, Canada
Research topic: Postcolonialism, First Nations, Métis and Transcultured Writers
Period of visit: August to December 2008

Jeffrey Weinberg (Distinguished Fulbright Fellow)
Legislative Attorney, Office of Management and Budget, US Government
Research topic: Legislative processes in the US and the UK
Period of visit: March to June 2008

Dr Jaye Darby
Co-Director, Project HOOP, American Indian Studies Center University of California, Los Angeles
Research topic: Re/Casting the American West: Native Theatre and Broadway Reconsidered
Period of visit: May to August 2008

Dr Wendy Knepper
Independent researcher
Research topic: Seascapes of the Global Imaginary: Contemporary Caribbean Perspectives
Period of visit: September 2007 to May 2008

Dr Maarit Forde
University of Newcastle
Research topic: Colonial Rule and Spiritual Power: Obeah, the State, and Caribbean Culture
Period of visit: September 2007 to July 2008

Dr Pilar Domingo
Universidad de Salamanca
Research topic: Law and Politics in Latin America: the difficult path towards limited government and rights-based citizenship
Period of visit: January to September 2007

2006-07 Academic year

Professor James Pfiffner (School of Advanced Study Professorial Fellow)
George Mason University
Research topic: The use of intelligence preceding the war in Iraq
Period of visit: January-June 2007

Dr Pilar Domingo
Universidad de Salamanca
Research topic: Law and Politics in Latin America: the difficult path towards limited government and rights-based citizenship
Period of visit: 2007

Dr Ana-Mara Mustapic
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Research topic: The changes in the party system. The Argentine case in comparative perspective
Period of visit: January-February 2007

Mr Raul Ampuero
Chamber of Deputies of Chile
Research topic: Chile: el Congreso de la transicin 1990-2005
Period of visit: January-February 2007

Ms Els Hortensius
ICCO, the Netherlands
Research topic: As lo hicimos. Experiences of Latin American women's organisations with rights-based strategies
Period of visit: 20 November to 1 December 2006

Associate Professor Karen Racine
University of Guelph, Canada
Research topic: The Laureate and the Latins: Robert Southey and the Luso-Hispanic World
Period of visit: September to 15 December 2006

Dr Sergio Navarrete Pellicer
CIESAS, Mexico
Research topic: Music history of Mexico and Central America
Period of visit: July 2006 to 3 July 2007

Dr Leonardo Monasterio
Lecturer, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Research topic: Spatial dynamics of the Brazilian economic activity in the twentieth century: 'Path dependency' or 'Reversal of fortune'?
Period of visit: March 2006 to March 2007

2005-06 Academic year

Professor David Rock
Professor of History, University of California Santa Barbara
Research topic: The British in Argentina after 1790
Period of visit: 15 September to 15 December 2005

Dr Elizabeth Wells
Assistant Professor, Music History and Theory, Mount Allison University
Research topic: The intersection of American and British interests in the Broadway musical from the late 1950s to mid-1960s
Period of visit: JanuaryApril 2006

2004-05 Academic year

Professor Susan Clarke
Director, The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences
Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Research topic: The Changing Politics of Democratic Inclusion: Translocal identities and bounded democratic institutions
Period of visit: January June 2005