Tinker Visiting Professors
Tinker Visiting Professor Alma Guillermoprieto's Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America.
With the support of an endowment from the Edward Larocque Tinker Foundation, each year the Center for Latin American Studies hosts at least three senior scholars or professionals from Latin America and/or the Iberian Peninsula to teach and conduct research at the University of Chicago as a Tinker Visiting Professors.
During 2008-09 the Center will host:
Fall 2008
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Alma Guillermoprieto, Tinker Visiting Professor in English
Course: Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America -
Jorge Edwards, Tinker Visiting Professor in Romance Languages
Course: My Personal History of the "Boom" -
Fausto Hernandez-Trillo, Tinker Visiting Professor in Public Policy Studies. Course: Topics in Mexican Economic Public Policy
Spring 2009
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Cuauhtemoc Medina, Tinker Visiting Professor in Cinema & Media Studies. Course: Critical Frameworks in the Development of Contemporary Latin American Art
Past Tinker Visiting Professors
2007-08
- Jorge Myers
Host: Department of History
Courses: Independence and State Formation in 19th-century Latin America (autumn); The Construction of Latin America: Cultural History and the Definitions of Latin America’s Continental Identity (winter) - Suzel Reily
Host: Department of Music
Course: Music & Religiosity in Brazil (autumn) - Ricardo Paes de Barros
Host: Harris School for Public Policy Studies
Course: Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy in Latin America (winter) - Ismail Xavier
Host: Department of Cinema & Media Studies
Course: Historical Allegories in Latin American Cinema: National Hopes and their Crises (spring) - Beatriz Sarlo
Host: Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Course: De la ciudad moderna a la ciudad en crisis (spring)
2006-07
- Anthony Stanton, El Colegio de Mexico
Hosted by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Course: Poesía, Modernidad, e Historia: La Obra Inicial de Octavio Paz (1931-1958) - Sydney Chalhoub, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Host: Department of History
Course: Slavery, Disease and Race: A View from Brazil
Course: Literature and Social History in Brazil - Juan Pablo Nicolini, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Host: Department of Economics - Barbara Pfeiler, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Host: Department of Comparative Human Development - Hildo Honóro do Couto, Universidade de Brasília
Host: Department of Linguistics
Course: The Ecology of Portugese Evolution in Brazil
2005-06
- Luciano García Lorenzo, Instituto Lengua Española Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Host: Romance Languages and Literatures Department
Fall 2005 Course: Teatro Español Contemporáneo de los Clásicos a las salas alternativas - Juan Pablo Nicolini, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Host: Department of Economics
Winter 2006 Course: Monetary and Theory Policy - Mauro Barbosa de Almeida, Universidade Estadual de Campinas-Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
Host: Department of Anthropology
Winter 2006 Course: The Politics of Environment in Brazil: Protected Areas, Indigenous Communities and the State - Miguel Vale de Almeida, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)
Host: Department of Anthropology
Spring 2006 Course: Portuguese Colonialism, Lusophone Post-Colonialism: Brazil, Cape Verde, and Portugal
2004-05
- Fernando Escalante, El Colegio de México
Host: Department of History
Winter 2005 Course: Political Order in Latin America
Spring 2005 Course: Political Cultures of the Left - Francisco Cruces, Universidad de Salamanca
Host: Department of Anthropology
Spring 2005 Course: Cultural Objects in the Urban Ethnography of Latin American and Iberian Cities - Mary Helena Allegretti, National Legal Counsel for the Amazon
Host: Department of Anthropology
Spring 2005 Course: The Social Construction of Environmental Policy in the Amazon
2003-04
- Norbert Bilbeny, Universidad de Barcelona
Host: Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Fall 2004 Course: National and Cultural identities in Spain and Europe: an intercultural view - Jorge Durand, Universidad de Guadalajara
Host: Department of Anthropology
Fall 2003 Course: Mexican Migration to the United States - Jose Carlos Chiaramonte, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Host: Department of History
Spring 2004 Course: Comparative Political Foundation of Ibero-American Independence
2002-03
- Eduardo Posada-Carbo
Host: Department of History
Spring 2003 Course: Democracy and Violence in the History of Colombia - Pablo Andres Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Host: Department of Economics
Winter 2003 Course: Topics in International Economics - Cuauhtémoc Cardenas
Host: Department of History
Spring 2003 Course: Life/Presidency: Lázaro Cardenas
2001-02
- Javier Lasarte, Universidad Simón Bolívar
Host: Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Spring 2002 Course: Nación e identidad en la literatura venezolana - Mario Rivera, Chilean National Commission on Science and Technology
Host: Department of Anthropology
Fall 2001 Course: Agricultural Systems in the Pre-Hispanic Andes - Samuel Amaral, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Host: Department of Political Science
Winter 2002 Course: The National Question in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Che Guevara
2000-01
- Juan Ossio, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Peru
Host: Department of Art History - Anthony J. Naro, Projeto de Estudo Sobre o Uso da Língua, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Host: Department of Linguistics - Manuel Carlos de Brito, Centro de Estudos Musicologicos, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Host: Department of Music
1999-2000
- Graciela Montaldo, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Spring 2000 Course: Ficciones culturales y fábulas de identidad en América Latina
1998-99
- Marlui Miranda, Independent Composer, Performer, Ethnographer, Brazil
Host: Department of Anthropology
Winter 1999 Course: Hyperanthropology: Different Approaches to Using Field Research Recordings - Luis Castro Leiva, Instituto de Ideas Avanzadas (IDEA), Venezuela
Host: Department of History
Winter 1999 Course: History & Political Theory: Latin American Republicanism and the Idea of Trust - Javier Garciadiego Dantán, El Colegio de México
Host: Department of History
Spring 1999 Course: War, Regions and Actors in the Mexican Revolution
1997-98
- Luis Castro Leiva, Instituto de Ideas Avanzadas (IDEA), Venezuela
Host: Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy
Fall 1997 Course: Understanding Latin American Democracy: Historical and Political Theory - Sergio Aguayo, El Colegio de México - Centro de Estudios Internacionales
Host: Department of History
Spring 1998 Course: Violence and Resistance in Mexico, 1960-98 - Mario Lavista, National Conservatory of Music, Mexico
Host: Department of Music
Spring 1998 Course: Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Music
1996-97
- Federico Reyes Heroles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México /Este País, Editor
Host: Department of History
Fall 1996 Courses: Demythologizing Mexico; Origins of Authoritarian Culture - Ricardo Paes de Barros, Instituto de Pesquisa Económica Aplicada, Brazil
Host: Department of Economics
Winter 1997 Courses: Inequality and Poverty in Latin America; Empirical Economics Workshop - Eugenia Meyer, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Department of History
Spring 1997 Courses: One Hundred Years of Mexican History: 1894-1994; Society and History in Mexican Cinema
1995-96
- Rosalba Campra, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Argentina
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Fall 1995 Courses: Los marginales en la literatura hispanoamericana: gauchos, indios y negros; Nuevas Formas de lo Fantástico - Paula Montero, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Host: Anthropology
Winter 1996 Courses: Symbol: Magic, Religion and Power; Brazilian Popular Culture and National Identity - Larissa Lomnitz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Department of Sociology
Spring 1996 Courses: Contemporary Perspectives: Latin America and the Caribbean; Urban Social Structure in Latin America
1994-95
- Saul Yurkievitch , Université de Paris-VIII ( Argentina)
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Fall 1994 Courses: Modernidad de Modernismo; Procedimientos Humorísticos
1993-94
- Fernando Cortés Cáceres, Colegio de México
Host: Department of Political Science
Fall 1993 Courses: The Informal Sector in Latin America; The Political Dynamics of Economic Reform - Luis Roniger, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ( Argentina)
Host: Department of Sociology
Spring 1994 Courses: Society and Culture in Latin America; Civil Society in Comparative Perspectives - Jorge Flores Ochoa, Universidad Nacional del Cuzco, Peru
Host: Department of Art History and Anthropology (co-hosts)
Spring 1994 Courses: Ethnology of the Andean Puna; Ethnicity, Identity, and Expressive Culture in the Region of Cuzco, Peru
1992-93
- Sonia Mattalía, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Fall 1992 Courses: Literatura Hispanoamericana del Siglo XX; Narrativa de la Vanguardia en Latinoamérica - Adolfo Aguilar Zinzer, Center for US Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Department of History
Fall 1992 Courses: US-Mexican Relations; Contemporary Mexico - Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Host: Department of History
Spring 1993 Courses: Latin American Intellectuals in a Comparative Perspective; Mass Media and Cultural Policies in Latin America - Alejandro Bendaña, Center for International Studies, Managua, Nicaragua
Host: Department of History
Spring 1993 Courses: Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy; Revolutionary Transformation in Central America
1991-92
- Osvaldo Dragun, Playwright and Director, Argentina
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Fall 1991 Courses: Teatro Hispánico; Theater workshop with UC's Court Theater - María Cátedra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Host: Anthropology
Winter/Spring 1992 Courses: The Anthropology of Rural Europe: European Rural Society; Urbanization in Spain and Latin America - Guillermo de la Peña Topete, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social de Occidente (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico
Host: Department of Anthropology
Spring 1992 Courses: The Politics of Ethnicity: Latin American; Rural Mobilizations in Modern Latin America: Political-Anthropological Perspectives - Manuel S. Santos, Instituto de Análisis Económico, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Host: Department of Economics
Spring 1992 Courses: Workshop in Economic Theory; Economics of the European Economic Community - Juan Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez, Consejo Latinoamerica de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Department of Sociology
Spring 1992 Courses: Culture and Society in Latin America; Modernism, Politics and Aesthetics in Latin America
1990-91
- Marcos Palacios, Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educación Superior, Colombia
Host: Department of History
Fall 1990 Courses: History of Colombia, 1890-1990; Regional History of Colombia to 1955 - Brígida von Mentz, Universidad Ibero-Americana, Mexico
Host: Department of History
Fall 1990 Courses: Social Classes in Mexico, Pre-Hispanic to the Revolution; Wealth and Power in Mexico - Jorge Edwards, Writer and Diplomat, Chile
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Winter 1991Course: The Novelist as Reader - Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro/Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Host: Anthropology
Spring 1991 Courses: Cosmology as Sociology: Humans and Gods in Araweté Society; Reading and Research in Anthropology; and Cosmology and Social Organization: Amazonia and Central Brazil (co-taught with Terence Turner)
1989-90
- José Luis Reyna, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Host: Department of Sociology
Fall 1989 Courses: Latin American Politics; Mexican Political System - Maria Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Host: Anthropology
Spring 1990 Courses: Practice of Anthropology: Levi-Strauss; Seminar: Cannibalism
1988-89
- Gilberto Mendonéa Teles, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Spring 1990 Courses: El Modernismo Latinoamericano (in Spanish); Poesia/Prosa do Modernismo Brasileiro (in Portuguese) - Gabriel Tortella, Universidad de Acalá de Henares, Spain
Host: Department of History
Fall 1988 Courses: History of Modern Spain; Economic History of Modern Spain - Enrique Tandeter, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Department of History
Winter 1989 Courses: History of the Andes in the Colonial Period; Markets in Andean Colonial History - Juan Ossio Acuña, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Peru
Host: Department of Anthropology
Winter 1989 Courses: Andean Ethnography; Andean Messianism - Mario A. Rivera , Universidad de Tarapaca Arica, Chile
Host: Department of Anthropology
Winter/ Spring 1989 Course: Prehistory of the Southern Andes
1987-88
- Aloísio P. Araújo, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil
Host: Department of Economics
Spring 1988 Course: Current Economic Issues: Brazil - Elizabeth Jelin, Universidad de Buenos Aires/ CEDES-Center for the Study of State and Society, Argentina
Host: Department of Political Science
Spring 1988 Courses: Social Movements in Latin America; Everyday Life and Collective Identities
1986-87
- Manuel Burga Díaz, Universidad de San Marcos, Peru
Host: Department of History
Winter 1987 Courses: Peruvian Rural History; Andean Utopia: 16th-17th Centuries - Jorge Balán, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host: Department of Sociology
Winter 1987 Courses: Urban Sociology; Social Scientists and Politics - Alicia Hernández, El Colegio de México
Host: Department of History
Spring 1987 Courses: Modern Mexican Political History; Topics in Mexican Military History, 1848-1920
1985-86
- Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Universidad Católica de Peru
Host: Department of History
Spring 1986 Courses: Economic and Social History of Peru, 1700-1820; Peruvian Social Movements, 1730-1885 - Luiz Tavares Júnior, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Spring 1986 Courses: The Brazilian Crónica; Topics in Brazilian Fiction: O Romance dos 30 - Juan Oleza Simo, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Spring 1986 Courses: La novela del siglo XIX; La poesía del siglo XX
1984-85
- David Benavente, Universidad Católica de Chile
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Fall 1984 Courses: El teatro hispanoamericano; Critical and Alternative Cultural Developments: the Case of Chile - Ernesto Laclau, Essex University, England (Argentina)
Host: Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy, Political Science, and Department of History
Fall 1984 Courses: Crisis of Oligarchic Order in Latin America: Brazil, Chile and Peru in the 1920s and 1930s; Genesis of the Modern Individual: 'Archeology' and 'Geneology' in the Work of Michel Foucault - Arturo Warman, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Department of History
Spring 1985 Courses: Peasant Society in Twentieth-Century Mexico; New World Agriculture and the Formation of the World System
1983-84
- Enrique Semo Calev, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Department of History
Fall 1983 Courses: The Mexican Political System; and Revolutions in Mexican History - César Rodríguez Chicharro, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Spring/Winter 1984 Course: Colonial Literature
1982-83
- Gonzalo Rojas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Winter 1983 Courses: Poesía Hispanoamericana y Conciencia del Lenguaje; Relectura de Gabriela Mistral - Adolfo Gilly, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Host: Department of History
Fall 1982 Colloquium: The Mexican Revolution and Course: Ideology and State Forms in Modern Mexico - Manuel Antonio Luis Garretón, Facultad Latinoameriana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Chile
Host: Department of Political Science
Winter/ Spring 1983 Courses: Understanding Contemporary Chilean Politics; Authoritarianism and Democracy in Latin America
1981-82
- Alberto Escobar, Universidad de San Marcos, Peru
Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Fall 1981 MA Tutorial: Estudios de Estilo; Course: Arguedas y la 'Nueva' Novela
