Scholars
Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
Trained broadly as a Latin Americanist historian, I have devoted most of my scholarly career to research on modern Argentina. I made my first trip to the country some thirty years ago, in the midst of the military dictatorship that I am currently studying. I have traveled widely in Latin America and lived in several of the countries for extended periods of time, but I have specialized in Argentine...
Professor at Central University of Venezuela and Director, Social Science Laboratory (LACSO) Caracas, Venezuela
I was born in Valera, Trujillo State, Venezuela, and I was enrolled in basic education in La Salle Schools in Barranquilla, Colombia and in Caracas, Venezuela. I studied sociology at Central University of Venezuela where I obtained a degree in Sociology in 1974. In 1975 I studied in the University of Grenoble in France and was connected with the “Center of Social Ethnology and Psycho-sociolo...
Former Governor of Michoacán, Mexico
Expertise
Mexican and Latin American Migrant Workers' Hometown Associations in the U.S.; immigrant reform in the U.S.; immigration in U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Latin America relations
Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Miami
Dr. Gomez Mera holds a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics. In 2004-2005, she was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University. She has also taught at Metropolitan College of New York and at New York University and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank...
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Born in Chile to parents of different nationalities, and as the daughter of a career diplomat, I developed early on a personal and intellectual interest in the topic of international migration. After receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, I moved to the University of Houston, where I co-directed the Center for Immigration Research from 1995-2005. In 2005, I joined...
Researcher, Instituto de Iberoamérica, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
My degree in Law was obtained in Lima in 1967 but a scholarship allowed me to discover the following year a complete new approach to legal matters at the University of Wisconsin Law School. I worked as a law professor between 1967 and 1976 but since 1977 I have been working as a social science researcher. My other field of work has been writing op-ed pieces—on social and political affairs—, a fiel...
Senior Scholar
Dr. Joseph S. Tulchin served as Director of the Latin American Program from 1989 through 2005. His areas of expertise are U.S. foreign policy, inter-American relations, contemporary Latin America, strategic planning, and social science research methodology. Dr. Tulchin was previously Professor of History and Director of International Programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whe...
Fellow, Center for Ethics, Jesuit Alberto Hurtado University; Former Executive Director and Chair, Board of Directors, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Alexander Wilde is currently writing on themes of international human rights, democracy and historical memory. He is Scarff Memorial Distinguished Visiting Professor at Lawrence University of Wisconsin in 2011. A Senior Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, he also serves on advisory boards at the Social Science Research Council, Chilean Mille...
