THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Tinker Visiting Professors
Beginning in 1969, the Tinker Foundation endowed Tinker Visiting Professorships (TVPs) at five major universities in the United States – the first Latin American-centric endowed positions at U.S. universities. The program is designed to bring preeminent Latin American scholars, professionals, and regional experts to the United States to encourage interaction and collaboration. Notably, the program seeks to promote exchange in a broad range of scholarly and generalist communities; Tinker Visiting Professors need not focus their work on Latin America per se. The professorship is intended to have the dual impact of enhancing the careers of appointed individuals as well as generating distinctive and meaningful experiences for students and faculty alike.
The mission of the Tinker Foundation is to promote the development of an equitable, sustainable, and productive society in Latin America. Tinker realizes its mission by providing funding to organizations working to address the region’s most pressing challenges.
The Foundation makes grants in the following program areas: Democratic Governance, Education, and Sustainable Resource Management.
Cristóbal Bellolio - Autumn 2024
Cristóbal Bellolio Badiola is a prominent scholar in normative political theory, focusing on the liberal tradition and its intersections with science, religion, and populism. His work has been featured in academic journals including Politics, Law & Philosophy, Res Publica, Social Epistemology, Religions, Philosophy of Education, and Educational Philosophy & Theory.
In 2018, he became the first Iberoamerican to win the Postgraduate Essay Prize from Res Publica and The Association for Social and Political Philosophy for his paper "Science as Public Reason. A Restatement." In 2020, Professor Bellolio was awarded a three-year national grant in Chile to study "The Place of Science in Liberal Democracy.” He has twice been selected to attend the Religious Diversity and the Secular University Summer School at the University of Cambridge for outstanding early career scholars.
His current research focuses on climate change and its relationship with liberal democracy.
He will be teaching The Era of Democratic Pessimism.
Aurora Gómez Galvarriato - Autumn 2024
Aurora Gómez Galvarriato Freer holds a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. She served for several years as a Research Professor in the Economics Division at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas A.C. (CIDE) and was the General Director of the Archivo General de la Nación from 2009 to 2013. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and a professor at ITAM. She is a Level II member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico.
Her expertise lies in the economic and social history of Mexico. Within this field, her main research areas have been the process of industrialization in Mexico and Latin America, business and labor history, the economic and social impact of the Mexican Revolution, and the evolution of living standards in Mexico.
She will be teaching The Economic History of Latin America.
