Latin America Experts
Founder and Senior Scholar, International Institute of Learning for Social Reconciliation, Guatemala
Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, University of Miami
Once I resumed my studies in sociology at the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, (interrupted by the violent military coup of September 11, 1973), I began to focus on military participation in politics during the first half of the twentieth century. My goal was to understand the background to that unexpectedly violent military overthrow and its repressive aftermath. This work resulted i...
Researcher, Department of Public Administration Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Professor, Department of International Studies, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent work has focused on questions of democratic governance, conflict resolution, international relations, and U.S. policy in the Western hemisphere. She is editor of In the Wake of War: Peace and Democratization in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanf...
Associate Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Leonardo Avritzer is an associate professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He graduated in political sociology at the New School for Social Research. In 1998 and 2003 he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at MIT. His Ph.D. dissertation received the New School for Social Research Albert Salomon Dissertation Award. Among Leonardo Avritzer's published books is...
Currently serves on the International Advisory Councils of a number of Brazilian institutions, including the Centro Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais (CEBRI), Rio de Janeiro, and on the Editorial Boards of several Brazilian journals, including the Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (IBRI, Universidade de Brasília).
Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford; Senior Research Associate, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro; Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Ce...
