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Hail...
The Institute is very pleased to welcome the following new staff:

Iwan Morgan as Professor of United States Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute. See Iwan's self-introduction.

Jane Simpson as Postgraduate Administrator, who introduces herself here.

Agnieszka Gillespie as Administrative Officer (Admissions and Marketing). See Agnieszka's self-introduction.

Emily Coles as Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. Emily introduces herself here.

See the full list of Institute staff and their contact details.

... and farewell
We are very sorry to bid farewell to the following former members of staff:

Pippa Smith has been appointed Assistant Registrar for the School of Advanced Study. She has worked at the Institute of United States Studies/Institute for the Study of the Americas for the last three and half years and we wish her every success in her new School-wide role.

Lucy Rainbow left the Institute of United States Studies in April this year after three years as Programme Officer. She is now working closer to home as Grants Manager for South Oxfordshire County Council and is expecting her first baby in November..

Thanks also to intern Helen Town for her willingness to assist over the summer.

Congratulations
to Dr Caterina Pizzigoni on her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship award. The two-year award will enable Caterina to conduct research on 'The life within: Native daily practices in colonial Mexico', as well as contribute to the Institute's master's course on Latin America, 1750–1950: From Colony to Modernity.

Graduation speech - Social Engagement In A Difficult, Changing World
Economics Lecturer Diego Sanchez-Ancochea reflects on his experience of being a student in New York - particularly on September 11, 2001 - in his address to the graduation ceremony at which he was awarded his PhD.

Staff activities

Rachel Sieder

As reported in the last newsletter, in May Dr Sieder was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship research leave award for her research project "Indigenous rights, decentralisation and legal globalisation: Mexico and Guatemala". Dr Sieder will be based at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) Mexico City as a visiting research fellow from January to December 2005.

Dr Sieder was invited to form part of the international advisory board of the new journal Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (LACES), which is to be launched in 2006.

In May 2004 Dr Sieder was made a full editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies.

Fieldtrips:

In July Dr Sieder travelled to Guatemala, where she carried out research for her project on indigenous rights, decentralisation and legal globalisation.

In August she was invited to give a keynote speech at the IV Congreso de la Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Jurídica, held in Quito Ecuador, where she gave a paper entitled 'Del indigenismo institucional integracionista a la gestión pluralista de las políticas públicas’.

Publications:

---(2004) “El uso de la ley en los movimientos indígenas” en Fernando Flores Jiménez (coord.), Constitución y Pluralismo Jurídico, Corporación Editora Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, pp.195-211.

Caterina Pizzigoni

Hello everybody!
My name is Caterina Pizzigoni and from the 1st of October I am at the ISA as Leverhulme Research Fellow in history. Previous to that, I had a two-year contract at the former Institute of Latin American Studies as postdoctoral research fellow. I am interested in the social and cultural history of indigenous populations and in gender issues in colonial Latin America. I specialise on Mexico and I also study Nahuatl, the indigenous language of central Mexico, to analyse documents produced by indigenous people in my research. Here are some details about the most recent activities that I have undertaken:

Publications:

Forthcoming 2005, “Sources for Indigenous Women and Men in the Valley of Toluca, Eighteenth Century,” Methods and Sources in the Ethnohistory of Mesoamerica, edited by Lisa Sousa and James Lockhart, in Lockhart’s UCLA Nahuatl Studies Series. Publication arrangements pending with the UCLA Latin American Center.

Forthcoming 2004 “ ‘Como frágil y miserable mujer’: vida cotidiana de las mujeres nahuas del Valle de Toluca”, in Historia de la vida cotidiana en México, Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (editor), Mexico DF, El Colegio de México and Editorial Planeta.

2004 “‘Para que le sirva de castigo y al pueblo de exemplo’. El pecado de poligamia y la mujer indígena en el valle de Toluca (siglo XVIII)”, in Las mujeres en la construcción de las sociedades iberoamericanas, Berta Ares Queija and Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (editors), Seville and Mexico DF, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, and El Colegio de México – Centro de Estudios Históricos, pp. 193-217.

Seminar Papers:

9 and 16 June 2004, University of Bristol, UK, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, Dean’s Seminar Series, seminar paper ‘The life within: Native daily practices in colonial Mexico.’

24 March 2004, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico DF, seminar paper ‘Ver desde adentro: la vida cotidiana de los Nahuas del Valle de Toluca a través de los testamentos (siglo XVIII).’

Kevin Middlebrook

Conference participation :

March 2004, lecture on 'Mexico's Democratic Transitions' at the Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

April 2004, panel discussant, Latin American labour movements in the 1930s at the Society of Latin American Studies conference in Leiden, The Netherlands

May 2004, discussant,‘Theories of International Relations and the Analysis of Mexican Foreign Policy’ conference at the Latin American Centre, Oxford

Publications:

(editor) Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London / Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2004)

“Mexico’s Democratic Transitions: Dynamics and Prospects,” pp. 1-53 in Middlebrook, ed., Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico.

“Mexico,” Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook (2003).

Review of Caroline C. Beer, Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico in the Journal of Latin American Studies.

In preparation: a coauthored study of economic, political, and social change in Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

In preparation: a study of the labour institutions created in association with the North American Free Trade Agreement and the international defense of workers’ rights.

Other activities:

Member of the Board of Directors of the International Consortium for Research on Mexico (PROFMEX).

Member of the editorial board of Estudios Políticos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Fiona Macaulay

Dr Macaulay has a publication on gender policy and political parties in Brazil and Chile which is currently in press (Palgrave). Her research focuses on the dynamics of reforming the Brazilian criminal justice system. In particular she is beginning work on a project examining civil society engagement with the police and with the penal system. This year she was awarded a research grant by the Socio-Legal Studies Association to carry out a pilot project on community-run prisons in Brazil.

Conference papers:

16 October 2003 Canning House, London
Paper presented on ‘Corporate social responsibility and human rights in Brazil’ at the conference ‘Reputational Issues in Latin America: Risks and Opportunities’

22 October 2003 Institute of Latin American Studies, London
Paper presented on the panel ‘Brazilian politics a year after the elections’

24 October 2003 St Antony’s College, Centre for Mexican Studies, Oxford
Paper presented on‘The Brazilian experience’, at the conference ‘Human rights, democracy and foreign policy: The Mexican case’

5 Nov SOAS, London
Talk given at SOAS, at event organised by Latin America Bureau and Brazil Network ‘Brazil and Human Rights: an evening of film, talks and discussion on gun violence’

24 November Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Cambridge
Paper presented on ‘Sexual politics, party politics: The PT government’s policies on gender equity and equality in Brazil’

19-20 February 2004 Institute of Latin American Studies, London
Discussant on panel on Penal Codes at conference ‘Law and Gender in Contemporary Mexico’

17-18 March 2004 Institute of Latin American Studies, London
Paper presented on ‘Private conflicts, public powers: Domestic violence inside and outside the courts in Latin America’ at the conference ‘Judicialisation of politics in Latin America’

2-4 April 2004 Leiden, Netherlands
Paper ‘Human rights and the justice system in Lula’s Brazil’ given on the panel ‘Social mobilisation in Lula’s Brazil’ at the Annual Conference of the Society of Latin American Studies

28 May 2004 Institute of Latin American Studies, London
Paper presented on ‘Civil Society-State Partnerships for the Promotion of Citizen Security in Brazil’ at ESRC seminar series on Social Policy, Stability and Exclusion in Latin America, seminar on ‘Crime, justice and violence’. Paper is published on the website www.sas.ac.uk/ilas/sem_socpolpapers.htm

Publications:

Book chapter ‘Democratisation and the judiciary: Competing reform agendas’ in Maria D’Alva Kinzo and James Dunkerley (eds) Brazil since 1985: Economy, polity and society (London, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003) pp. 84-104. ISBN 1 900039 53 2

Centre Working Paper ‘Justice sector and human rights reforms under the Cardoso administrations’ (also submitted for publication in Latin American Perspectives)

Journal article ‘Políticas de género en el gobierno del PT’ América Latina Hoy No 38, August 2004

Article ‘Tapping the Maharajah’s Well: human rights and North-South relations’ Article contributed to the International Human Rights Colloquium, São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2002. http://www.conectasur.org/files/a2e1.pdf

*americas plural*		*staff* issue one: October 2004 ISSN: 1745-249X
news events publications alumni students staff library exhibition americas plural home	Hail and farewell \| Congratulations \| Graduation speech \| Staff activities Hail... The Institute is very pleased to welcome the following new staff: Iwan Morgan as Professor of United States Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute. See Iwan's self-introduction. Jane Simpson as Postgraduate Administrator, who introduces herself here. Agnieszka Gillespie as Administrative Officer (Admissions and Marketing). See Agnieszka's self-introduction. Emily Coles as Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. Emily introduces herself here. See the full list of Institute staff and their contact details. ... and farewell We are very sorry to bid farewell to the following former members of staff: Pippa Smith has been appointed Assistant Registrar for the School of Advanced Study. She has worked at the Institute of United States Studies/Institute for the Study of the Americas for the last three and half years and we wish her every success in her new School-wide role. Lucy Rainbow left the Institute of United States Studies in April this year after three years as Programme Officer. She is now working closer to home as Grants Manager for South Oxfordshire County Council and is expecting her first baby in November.. Thanks also to intern Helen Town for her willingness to assist over the summer. Congratulations to Dr Caterina Pizzigoni on her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship award. The two-year award will enable Caterina to conduct research on 'The life within: Native daily practices in colonial Mexico', as well as contribute to the Institute's master's course on Latin America, 1750–1950: From Colony to Modernity. Graduation speech - Social Engagement In A Difficult, Changing World Economics Lecturer Diego Sanchez-Ancochea reflects on his experience of being a student in New York - particularly on September 11, 2001 - in his address to the graduation ceremony at which he was awarded his PhD. Staff activities Rachel Sieder As reported in the last newsletter, in May Dr Sieder was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship research leave award for her research project "Indigenous rights, decentralisation and legal globalisation: Mexico and Guatemala". Dr Sieder will be based at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) Mexico City as a visiting research fellow from January to December 2005. Dr Sieder was invited to form part of the international advisory board of the new journal Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (LACES), which is to be launched in 2006. In May 2004 Dr Sieder was made a full editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies. Fieldtrips: In July Dr Sieder travelled to Guatemala, where she carried out research for her project on indigenous rights, decentralisation and legal globalisation. In August she was invited to give a keynote speech at the IV Congreso de la Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Jurídica, held in Quito Ecuador, where she gave a paper entitled 'Del indigenismo institucional integracionista a la gestión pluralista de las políticas públicas’. Publications: ---(2004) “El uso de la ley en los movimientos indígenas” en Fernando Flores Jiménez (coord.), Constitución y Pluralismo Jurídico, Corporación Editora Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, pp.195-211. Caterina Pizzigoni Hello everybody! My name is Caterina Pizzigoni and from the 1st of October I am at the ISA as Leverhulme Research Fellow in history. Previous to that, I had a two-year contract at the former Institute of Latin American Studies as postdoctoral research fellow. I am interested in the social and cultural history of indigenous populations and in gender issues in colonial Latin America. I specialise on Mexico and I also study Nahuatl, the indigenous language of central Mexico, to analyse documents produced by indigenous people in my research. Here are some details about the most recent activities that I have undertaken: Publications: Forthcoming 2005, “Sources for Indigenous Women and Men in the Valley of Toluca, Eighteenth Century,” Methods and Sources in the Ethnohistory of Mesoamerica, edited by Lisa Sousa and James Lockhart, in Lockhart’s UCLA Nahuatl Studies Series. Publication arrangements pending with the UCLA Latin American Center. Forthcoming 2004 “ ‘Como frágil y miserable mujer’: vida cotidiana de las mujeres nahuas del Valle de Toluca”, in Historia de la vida cotidiana en México, Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (editor), Mexico DF, El Colegio de México and Editorial Planeta. 2004 “‘Para que le sirva de castigo y al pueblo de exemplo’. El pecado de poligamia y la mujer indígena en el valle de Toluca (siglo XVIII)”, in Las mujeres en la construcción de las sociedades iberoamericanas, Berta Ares Queija and Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (editors), Seville and Mexico DF, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, and El Colegio de México – Centro de Estudios Históricos, pp. 193-217. Seminar Papers: 9 and 16 June 2004, University of Bristol, UK, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, Dean’s Seminar Series, seminar paper ‘The life within: Native daily practices in colonial Mexico.’ 24 March 2004, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico DF, seminar paper ‘Ver desde adentro: la vida cotidiana de los Nahuas del Valle de Toluca a través de los testamentos (siglo XVIII).’ Kevin Middlebrook Conference participation : March 2004, lecture on 'Mexico's Democratic Transitions' at the Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge April 2004, panel discussant, Latin American labour movements in the 1930s at the Society of Latin American Studies conference in Leiden, The Netherlands May 2004, discussant,‘Theories of International Relations and the Analysis of Mexican Foreign Policy’ conference at the Latin American Centre, Oxford Publications: (editor) Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London / Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2004) “Mexico’s Democratic Transitions: Dynamics and Prospects,” pp. 1-53 in Middlebrook, ed., Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico. “Mexico,” Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook (2003). Review of Caroline C. Beer, Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico in the Journal of Latin American Studies. In preparation: a coauthored study of economic, political, and social change in Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s (under contract with Cambridge University Press). In preparation: a study of the labour institutions created in association with the North American Free Trade Agreement and the international defense of workers’ rights. Other activities: Member of the Board of Directors of the International Consortium for Research on Mexico (PROFMEX). Member of the editorial board of Estudios Políticos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Fiona Macaulay Dr Macaulay has a publication on gender policy and political parties in Brazil and Chile which is currently in press (Palgrave). Her research focuses on the dynamics of reforming the Brazilian criminal justice system. In particular she is beginning work on a project examining civil society engagement with the police and with the penal system. This year she was awarded a research grant by the Socio-Legal Studies Association to carry out a pilot project on community-run prisons in Brazil. Conference papers: 16 October 2003 Canning House, London Paper presented on ‘Corporate social responsibility and human rights in Brazil’ at the conference ‘Reputational Issues in Latin America: Risks and Opportunities’ 22 October 2003 Institute of Latin American Studies, London Paper presented on the panel ‘Brazilian politics a year after the elections’ 24 October 2003 St Antony’s College, Centre for Mexican Studies, Oxford Paper presented on‘The Brazilian experience’, at the conference ‘Human rights, democracy and foreign policy: The Mexican case’ 5 Nov SOAS, London Talk given at SOAS, at event organised by Latin America Bureau and Brazil Network ‘Brazil and Human Rights: an evening of film, talks and discussion on gun violence’ 24 November Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge University Cambridge Paper presented on ‘Sexual politics, party politics: The PT government’s policies on gender equity and equality in Brazil’ 19-20 February 2004 Institute of Latin American Studies, London Discussant on panel on Penal Codes at conference ‘Law and Gender in Contemporary Mexico’ 17-18 March 2004 Institute of Latin American Studies, London Paper presented on ‘Private conflicts, public powers: Domestic violence inside and outside the courts in Latin America’ at the conference ‘Judicialisation of politics in Latin America’ 2-4 April 2004 Leiden, Netherlands Paper ‘Human rights and the justice system in Lula’s Brazil’ given on the panel ‘Social mobilisation in Lula’s Brazil’ at the Annual Conference of the Society of Latin American Studies 28 May 2004 Institute of Latin American Studies, London Paper presented on ‘Civil Society-State Partnerships for the Promotion of Citizen Security in Brazil’ at ESRC seminar series on Social Policy, Stability and Exclusion in Latin America, seminar on ‘Crime, justice and violence’. Paper is published on the website www.sas.ac.uk/ilas/sem_socpolpapers.htm Publications: Book chapter ‘Democratisation and the judiciary: Competing reform agendas’ in Maria D’Alva Kinzo and James Dunkerley (eds) Brazil since 1985: Economy, polity and society (London, Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003) pp. 84-104. ISBN 1 900039 53 2 Centre Working Paper ‘Justice sector and human rights reforms under the Cardoso administrations’ (also submitted for publication in Latin American Perspectives) Journal article ‘Políticas de género en el gobierno del PT’ América Latina Hoy No 38, August 2004 Article ‘Tapping the Maharajah’s Well: human rights and North-South relations’ Article contributed to the International Human Rights Colloquium, São Paulo, Brazil, in May 2002. http://www.conectasur.org/files/a2e1.pdf