Tinker Visiting Professors

Each year, an endowment established at CLAS by the Edward Larocque Tinker Foundation allows the Center to invite senior scholars or professionals from Latin America and/or the Iberian Peninsula to teach and conduct research at the University of Chicago as Tinker Visiting Professors.

 

This year, the Center will host

spring 2012

  • Aloisio Araujo, Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada and the Graduate School of Economics at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
    Host: Department of Economics
    Course: Credit Markets, Bankruptcy Laws, and Banking Crises: Brazil
  • Jose Miguel Wisnik, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
    Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
    Course: Brazilian Popular Song

Winter 2012

  • Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile
    Host: Department of History
    Course: Comparative Revolutions: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico

Autumn 2011

 

Past Tinker Visiting Professors

2010-11

2009-10

  • Nuria Sebastian-Galles, Universitat Pompeu-Fabra, Barcelona
    Host: Department of Psychology (Spring)
  • Clara Bargellini, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Host: Department of Art History
    Course: New World Mission Art: art and architecture of Franciscan and Jesuit missions among the Amerindian peoples of northern New Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries (spring)
  • Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist
    Host: Department of English
    Course: Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America (Fall)
  • Josep Maria Fradera, Universitat Pompeu-Fabra, Barcelona
    Host: Department of History
    Course: An Empire Revisited: an unapologetic reconsideration of the Spanish empire, 1492-1898 (Fall)

2008-09

  • João de Pina-Cabral, University of Lisbon, Portugal
    Host: Department of Anthropology
    Course: New Vocabularies of Method in Social and Cultural Anthropology (spring)
  • Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist
    Host: Department of English
    Course: Looking for History: Chronicles of Contemporary Latin America (fall)
  • Jorge Edwards, Novelist
    Host: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
    Course: My Personal History of the "Boom" (fall)
  • Fausto Hernandez-Trillo, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, México
    Host: Harris School of Public Policy Studies
    Course: Topics in Mexican Economic Public Policy (fall)

2007-08

  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Ricardo Paes de Barros
    Host: Harris School for Public Policy Studies
    Course: Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy in Latin America (winter)
  • Suzel Reily, Queens University, Belfast
    Host: Department of Music
    Course: Music & Religiosity in Brazil (fall)

2006-07

  • Anthony Stanton, El Colegio de Mexico
    Host: 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 TellaHost: 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

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

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
    Spring1993 Courses: Latin American Intellectuals in a ComparativePerspective; 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
    Spring1992 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 Latinoamérica 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 1991 Course: 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

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 ModernIndividual: '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