UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Research Associate
Adrián Lerner is a Research Associate and Lecturer in Global History at the Free University of Berlin. He is a historian of cities, environmental history, the history of science, and Latin America. His current monograph, Jungle Cities: The Urbanization of Amazonia explores the parallel and divergent histories of Manaus (Brazil) and Iquitos (Peru), the crucial urban nodes of the Amazon rainforest. He is also working on two co-edited volumes: one about the links between capitalism and the formation of the ecological imagination in Peru (with Javier Puente, Smith College), and one about Peru from the perspective of global history (with Alberto Vergara, Universidad del Pacífico). He has also published widely on the histories of politics, international relations, gender, and public policy in Latin America.
Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Adrián obtained his BA and Licenciatura at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He then moved to the United States, where he earned his MA, MPhil, and PhD in History from Yale University, where he was also a member of the inaugural cohort of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in the Humanities, focused on "The Technologies of Knowledge." Before joining the Free University of Berlin, he was the Princeton Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Urbanism and the Environment at Princeton University.
Aiko Ikemura Amaral holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and she has an interdisciplinary background in Social Sciences (BSc, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Political Science (MSc, University of São Paulo). Having previously researched the institutionalisation of indigeneity in Bolivian politics for her Masters, her focus has turned to the analysis of experiences of, and resistance against, intersectional forms of exclusion in people's everyday lives. Her doctoral research explored the interaction between indigeneity, gender and class in contexts of social and spatial mobility through the narratives of Bolivian market women working in Bolivia and in Brazil. She has teaching experience in the areas of sociology, development studies and political science in Brazil and in the UK, and she is currently a teaching fellow at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests include racial regimes in Latin America and its articulations with gendered and class-based inequalities; urban indigeneities; globalisation, mobility and migration; and critical qualitative research methods.
Project: "The political economy of drug trafficking in Mexico: Understanding the overlap of crime, repression and state making"
Throughout the second half of the 20 th century, the leadership of Mexico's security and policing apparatuses has often turned out to be the very same running the national criminal syndicates. Confronted time and again with this entrenched historical pattern, Mexicans often wonder why has it been so politically permissible for the state security apparatus to ‘tap' and enable organized crime. The extent to which political elites have endorsed and encouraged these behaviours throughout the country's history not only underlines poorly understood "grey" and "parapolitical" areas in the country's state-making process, but points at broader questions on the nature of policing in Mexico, what policing actually has been, and what it has aimed at achieving.
Situated at the intersection between historical sociology and comparative politics, my doctoral research studied the overlap of federal policing and organized crime in 20 th century Mexico, showing how this overlap shaped and constrained the evolution of Mexican society in historically significant ways. Drawing from copious archival research and unprecedented testimonies, my thesis showed how federal policing has been much less about sustaining the rule of law, tackling illegality and suppressing crime, and much more about tapping into drug markets, contraband, human trafficking and other criminal activities in order to support an enhanced state capacity to break down social protest. The politically-endorsed attachment of federal policing to criminal economies not only supported the coercive side of political centralization in Mexico but "paid" for the repression of peasant and labour movements, the deployment of dirty wars, the suppression of urban and rural insurgencies, the neutralization of leftist actors, the policing of alienated populations and other processes that made capitalism, industrialization and neoliberalism possible in a very material sense. Throughout the 20 th century, political and economic elites in Mexico developed a stake in indirectly enabling criminal economies because criminal economies became a crucial economy in the operation of the security bureaucracies and processes keeping them in power.
My research fits into a growing body of literature seeking to understand the relationship between governance and crime, the "grey areas" linking state and criminal actors, and the "parapolitics" of modern state-making. It also builds on a growing body of literature that challenges the naturalization of policing by underlining its role in the historical evolution of capitalism, social alienation and economic inequality. Building on my Ph.D. research, my post-doctoral interests lie in better understanding policing under authoritarian regimes, recasting the so-called ‘war on drugs' in Mexico in a context of neoliberal transformation, looking at policing institutions and organized crime from historical and comparative perspectives, and better understanding the interaction between the police and economic and political elites. Before joining CLAS at the University of Cambridge, I studied security studies at Sciences Po Paris and political science at the National University of Mexico. I worked as a private consultant in Mexico City specialized in organized crime, as a journalist for a variety of Mexican newspapers, as an intern at the UNODC in Vienna, and as a police inspector in the anti-corruption division at Mexico's federal police.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Psychiatrist, Public Health
Andres is an academic psychiatrist, public health clinician, and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. He is also an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University and an Honorary Consultant Clinical Academic Staff at Public Health England. Roman-Urrestarazu was previously a Harkness Fellow in Health Policy at Stanford University and Gillings Fellow in Global Public Health (2016-2020). He is a Member of the Faculty of Public Health and a Board Member of the International Society for the Study of Emerging Drugs (ISSED), and worked as Civil Servant in the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation (CHTE) at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). His research in Latin America with a focus on Chile, lies at the intersection of health policy and public mental health, with a focus on early child development and health inequalities with research in the field of conditional cash transfer and neurodevelopmental screening in low resource settings. Roman-Urrestarazu's work has been published in leading health policy and medical journals, including JAMA Pediatrics, BMJ, and Health Policy, and has directly informed policy. In 2016, he submitted evidence to the House of Commons for the UK Psychoactive Substances Act. He has a Ph.D. in Psychiatry from the University of Cambridge, M.D. from the University of Santiago in Chile, and M.Sc. in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Charlie Nurse is a modern historian and political scientist who holds degrees from the Universities of Manchester (BA) and Glasgow (M. Litt). His post-graduate research was on the politics of the labour movement in Ecuador and was summarised in a chapter on Ecuador in "The State, Industrial Relations & the Labour Movement in Latin America" (edited by Jean Carrière et al, 1989). In the 1980s he worked in social development in Nicaragua and taught in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua before becoming a travel writer, authoring the early editions of the Chile Handbook and the Argentina Handbook. He was subsequently Senior Lecturer in Modern History & Politics at Anglia Ruskin University, specialising on Latin America and Spain and he has also worked for the Open University. He has taught courses on Latin American and Spanish History on the Cambridge University International Summer Schools programme and on Third World Revolutions at the Universidad de la Frontera in Chile. His current research and teaching interests include the Cold War in Latin America, the Cuban Revolution, revolutionary movements, and contemporary political change in Argentina and Chile.
Job Titles:
- Senior Library Assistant and Events Coordinator
Chiara looks after the CLAS library & film collection as well as the Centre's events. Please contact her for support or advice on these matters.
Chriselia manages all aspects of the Centre's administration including MPhil and PhD matters. Please direct any enquiries to Chriselia and she will be pleased to advise.
Cristina Reigadas received her Ph.D. degree in Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires. Since then she has been Tenured Full Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, where she is now Consultant Professor and Researcher at the "Gino Germani" Institute of Social Research. She is a Life Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
She specializes in political philosophy, ethics, sociopolitical theory, and critical Latin American thought. Focusing on contemporary social change, she has particularly worked on modernity and globalization, global democracy, contemporary theories of democracy, modernity and democracy in Latin America, deliberative democracy, civil society and voluntary associations. She currently conducts a research project on modernity and democracy in India and China.
Reigadas has compiled and co-authored over 30 books, including Entre la norma y la forma. Cultura y política hoy (EUDEBA, 1998), Globalización y nuevas ciudadanías (Editorial Suárez/IIGG, 2004), "Crisis y renovación de la democracia desde la perspectiva del diálogo intercultural. La cuestión de la democracia en China", ¿"Quién le teme a Daniel Bell? De la crítica de la cultura de masas al posmodernismo cultural" (2014), Jürgen Habermas and Wang Hui. Modernidad y sociedad mundial: un diálogo intercultural" (2012), "Modernidad y religión en el pensamiento actual de Habermas" (2011), "Calidad institucional y populismo: dos visiones de la democracia latinoamericana" (2010), "¿Misioneros, militantes, tecnócratas? Hacia un cambio de paradigma en las asociaciones voluntarias en la Argentina" (2008), translated into Chinese Mandarin in the Journal of Comparative Economic & Social Systems (JCESS), (www.bijiao.net.cn) (2014).
She has given lectures, courses and seminars at universities around the world, including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, China and the UK, and has worked as a visiting professor with Professor Daniel Bell at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, USA; Professor Thomas McCarthy at the Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, USA; Professor Bryan Turner at the University of Cambridge; and with Professor Alain Caillé at the Laboratoire de Sociologie, Philosophie and Anthropologie Politique (Sophiapol), Université de París X, France.
She has been distinguished by the Institute of German and Latin American Culture (ICALA) for her contributions to the development of Latin American thought.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of Clare Hall
- Honorary Emeritus Associate Director
David Brading read History at Pembroke College, Cambridge, from 1955-57. In 1960-61, he spent time in the United States as a Henry Fellow at Yale University, during which period he made his first visits to Latin America, specifically Cuba and Mexico. Brading undertook his PhD in 1962, with periods of archival research in Spain and Mexico. He graduated in 1965, the same year in which he was appointed assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where he lectured on the history of Mexico, Peru and Argentina. His first book, Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico 1763-1810 was published by Cambridge University Press in 1971. After a further two years at Yale, he returned to Cambridge in 1973 to take up the position of University Lecturer in Latin American History. From 1973-1990, he acted as Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies. In 1978 he published Haciendas and Ranchos in the Mexican Bajio. Leon 1700-1860 which was based upon archival research in Mexico. It was followed, in 1994, by Church and State in Bourbon Mexico, the Diocese of Michoac án 1749-1810, which, like its predecessors, was based on local archives. But during the 1980s he had abandoned archival research in favour of an analysis and evocation of the printed sources that the Spanish conquest and settlement of the Americas had elicited. The unsuspected wealth of these materials was demonstrated in The First America. The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State 1493-1867, a volume of 761 pages that covered the political and social development of Mexico and Peru in those years. This was followed by Mexican Phoenix. Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries, which revealed the richness of contemporary printed sources. Finally, in 2011, the press of the Congress of Peru published Profecía y patria en la historia del Perú. During the course of 2014 he completed a set of essays on colonial Mexico dealing with a variety of topics that will be published during 2015.
David Brading is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Senior Research Associate
David Rock graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge with a BA and MA and holds a Cambridge Ph.D. He served as Research Officer in the Cambridge Centre of Latin American Studies and later moved to the History Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he taught Latin American history for more than three decades. His research interests lie in Argentina, a country on which he has published books and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century historical topics. The books include Politics in Argentina, 1890-1930. The Rise and Fall of Radicalism, based on a Ph.D. dissertation completed at Cambridge. He later published a synthetic general history, Argentina 1516-1987. From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsin. A study titled Authoritarian Argentina provoked by the Argentine military dictatorships of the 1970s followed. Another book titled State Formation and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860-1916, analysed the growth of the political system in that period. On returning to Cambridge, he hopes to complete a book on the British in Argentina tentatively titled 'Empire without Dominion: the British in the Río de la Plata from 1800'.
Dolores Señorans is a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. In 2018, she received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. For her PhD dissertation, she addressed the everyday forms of activism within popular economy through an ethnography of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy, a union representing unwaged workers in Argentina. She studied their practices of organisation and their relationship with state bureaucracies focusing on how they demand and produce rights based on notions of what constitutes a life with dignity. Before coming to Cambridge she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, and worked for the Government of Argentina in the design and implementation of public policies for worker cooperatives. As part of the research group Antropología en Colabor based at the University of Buenos Aires, she has also explored collaborative research methodologies with social movements and labour organisations. Her current research project focuses on the trade union organisation of migrant garment sector workers in Buenos Aires, examining the intersections between outsourced commodity production, South-South migration processes, popular urbanisation in the periphery, and collective labour politics in the city.
Carlos Fonseca is a writer and academic. His teaching, writing and research focuses on modern Latin American literature, art and culture, with particular emphasis on concepts of history, nature and politics. He is interested in the intersection between philosophy, literature and art history. He holds a PhD from Princeton University. His research interests include the Caribbean and Central American Literature, Theories of the Postcolonial Imagination, the History of the Avant-Garde, Overlaps of Art History, Philosophy and Literary History, Theories of the Novel and the Historical Archive, and Eco-humanities, among others.
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Associate
- Teaching Associate
Charles Jones is Emeritus Reader in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies, a Fellow of Wolfson College, and a former Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies. He has worked extensively on the past and contemporary international relations of Latin America, especially the Southern Cone, and is author of El Reino Unido y América (Madrid, 1992) and The North-South: A Brief History (London, 1983). Early work concentrated on economic relations between Argentina and Britain. A more recent book, American Civilization (University of London SAS, 2007), deals with hemisphere commonalities and contests the illusions of United States exceptionalism and western cultural homogeneity. Current research interests include Argentine nineteenth-century history.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Senior Research Associate
- Fellow of Clare Hall
David Lehmann Emeritus Professor in Social Science in the Department of Sociology until his retirement from the University in 2012. He was Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies (1990-2000, 2010-11). From 1968 to the early 1980s he worked on Land Reform, rural social movements and peasant economies in Chile and Ecuador; thereafter he shifted his research focus to religious movements, Catholic and Evangelical, particularly in Brazil, and from 2000 he began to work on multiculturalism in the region as a whole, and on affirmative action in Brazil. He is the author of Democracy and Development in Latin America: Economics, Politics and Religion in the Post-war Period (Polity Press, 1990) and Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America(Polity Press, 1996). In 2006 he published, with Batia Siebzehner, Remaking Israeli Judaism (Hurst, 2006). Between 2007 and 2012 he held a British Academy Major Research Award to study the spread of ideas about multiculturalism and interculturalidad in Latin America, and especially in Mexico, Peru and Brazil, focusing on the relationship between the politics of recognition, affirmative action and social justice. This led to an edited volume entitled The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America (Palgrave, 2016) and to The Prism of Race: the Politics and ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil (Michigan University Press, 2018), which was described in the American Journal of Sociology as ‘a model for how to do an empirical political sociological study of race'. In 2022 a new book, After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America will be published by Polity Press. Meanwhile he continues his research on evangelical Christianity in Brazil, London, New York and wherever else he happens to land. In 2016-2017 he held a Fellowship with the Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas of the Universidad Católica de Chile, and in 2018 he was a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Bahia.
Job Titles:
- Architect
- Architecture
- New Centre Director
Felipe Hernández is an Architect. He was the first Latin American to have been appointed Director of CLAS and remains the first Colombian to have hold a permanent teaching position at Cambridge University.
Felipe teaches architectural and Urban Design, while giving courses and seminars in the Theory and History of architecture and urbanism. Felipe has worked, and published, extensively on Latin America and other areas in the Developing World, including Africa and South East Asia.
Felipe is also Chair of Cities South of Cancer (CSC), an interdisciplinary Research Group whose members work on a wide variety of urban issues in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Bangladesh,and Indonesia.CSC collaborates with academic, institutions in USA, Latin America and Indonesia. The group also offers internships and summer courses abroad, and operates as consultant to governmental, non-gevernmental, and private organisations involved in urban research and development in cities around the world.
Felipe is the author of Bhabha for Architects (Routledge 2010) and Beyond Modernist Masters: Contemporary Architecture in Latin America (Birkhauser 2009).
He is also co-editor of Marginal Urbanisms: Informal and Formal Development in Cities of Latin America (CSP 2017), Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America (Berghahn 2009) as well as Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America (Rodopi 2005).
Job Titles:
- British Academy Visiting Fellow
As an Associate Professor of Sociology (of the City, of Space and Everyday Life) at the University of São Paulo (USP), Fraya Frehse holds the British Academy (BA) Visiting Fellowship 2023 at the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS). At USP, she coordinates the Center for Studies and Research on the Sociology of Space and Time (NEPSESTE) and acts as both Lead Partner and Action Speaker of the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS). She is also a member of the ‘Global Cities' Program of the USP Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA). At CLAS as a BA Visiting Fellow, Fraya addresses the role of situational space in the lived experience of intersectional inequalities in Latin America. Particularly, she submits qualitative data on the social-reproductive daily interactions of homeless mothers in São Paulo (2020-2023) to an analytical dialogue with state-of-the-art approaches to intersecting inequalities, street violence, everyday racism and urban marginality in Latin America.
Job Titles:
- Fellow in Spanish at Gonville & Caius College
Geoffrey Maguire is a Fellow in Spanish at Gonville & Caius College and a College Lecturer at Emmanuel College. He specialises in contemporary Latin American film, literature and visual art, with particular interests in cultural memory, queer representation, and sexuality and gender.
Geoffrey is the author of The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture (2017) and, with Rachel Randall, New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2018). His current monograph explores the filmic representation of queer sexualities through theories of temporality and embodiment, and is entitled Bodies of Water: Queer Trends in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. More broadly, Geoffrey is interested in the intersections of politics and culture in contemporary Latin America, as well as in theoretical debates surrounding performance, masculinities and post-conflict cultural memory, particularly the Falklands/Malvinas conflict.
Job Titles:
- Teaching Associate
- Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse
Dr Giulia Torino is a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse and an Affiliated Lecturer and Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Geography. She holds a PhD in Urban Studies from the University of Cambridge and has held various visiting research posts at the Universidad de Los Andes and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá.
Her PhD thesis, "Racial and Relational Urbanisms: The Spatial Politics of Afro-Colombian Emplacement in Bogotá" (2021), currently in preparation as a book, explores the role of racial capitalism and coloniality in shaping the contemporary (physical, social, and mental) space of Latin American cities. The research adopted a situated perspective from Bogotá to study ethnographically contemporary racial segregation and bias in urban planning and governance, as well as emerging forms of pluri-ethnic and relational urbanism, emplacement, and territoriality, with a focus on internally displaced Afro-Colombian communities and women grassroots organisations.
Since 2016, Giulia has taught on racial(ised) cities and urban spaces, contested citizenship, new border regimes and forms of inhabitation under racial capitalism, among others, at the University of Cambridge, the University Externado of Colombia, the University of Basel, and the University of Sheffield, while acting as examiner in undergraduate and postgraduate projects at the University of Cambridge and UCL. Her research interests have in common a focus on urban ethnography, expanded notions of Southerness, the dynamic relation between space, place and politics, dwelling in the "margins", and contemporary spatialisations of racial capitalism and anti-racism in Latin America and, more recently, the Mediterranean.
She co-founded the Cambridge "Urbanism in the Global South" research group and the CRASSH "In War's Wake" network.
Grace Livingstone is an affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, and a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London.
Her research interests include US and British foreign policy towards Latin America, and the impact private corporations and social movements have on policy-making. She also works on drugs policy in Colombia, and Latin America.
She is the author of Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-82: Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); America's Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror (Zed Books, 2009); and Inside Colombia: Drugs, Democracy and War (Latin America Bureau/Rutgers University Press, 2003).
She has also contributed a chapter on ‘The United States and the Latin American Right' to Geraldine Lievesley and Steve Ludlum (eds.), Rightwing Politics in Latin America, (London: Zed Books, 2011) and a chapter on ‘Drugs and Criminal Organisations' to Pia Riggirozzi and Chris Wylde (eds.), The Handbook of South American Governance, (Routledge, 2017).
She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Latin American Studies from the ILAS, University of London, and a BA in history from Queen Mary, University of London.
She is also a journalist, specializing in Latin American affairs, and has reported for the BBC World Service, The Guardian, the Independent on Sunday and The Observer.
Job Titles:
- History )
- University Associate Professor
Hank Gonzalez is a University Associate Professor in the History Faculty specializing in the Caribbean. His book 'Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti' comes out in 2019. His initial research deals with the early years of Haitian independence. He is currently writing a book on foreign influence in the twentieth-century Haitian art business, and pursuing a marine archeology project in Haiti.
Job Titles:
- Teaching Associate
- Research Fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies
Dr Jessica Sklair is a Research Fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies (Newnham College, University of Cambridge). She received her PhD in Anthropology from Goldsmiths in 2017 and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Latin American Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London) and the University of Sussex (SeNSS/ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship) before joining the MAC. Jessie's doctoral research explored philanthropy among economic elites in Brazil and the UK and her postdoctoral work has looked at the recent emergence of ‘impact investing', the practice by which private investors finance social businesses in the search for both social impact and financial return. Jessie is currently working on two collaborative research projects. The first of these looks at how DFID (UK) works with for-profit contractors and consultants, and the second explores processes of financialisation in development practice and financing in Brazil. Jessie has teaching experience in areas including development in Latin America, the anthropology of development, economic and political anthropology, qualitative research methods and visual anthropology.
Job Titles:
- Teaching Associate
- Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow
Dr Joshua Fitzgerald is the Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow in "art as a source of knowledge" with Churchill College. In 2019, he received his PhD in History and a certification in Museum Studies at the University of Oregon, and, from 2019-2020, he interned with the Getty Research Institute (GRI) for the Florentine Codex Initiative for the Director's Office. There, Josh was a text-encoder and content specialist for the critical digital edition of the Florentine Codex (forthcoming) and co-convened, with the UCLA Latin American Institute, the 2020 educator's workshop "The Florentine Codex: Teaching the Spanish Conquest through Indigenous Eyes" for the Los Angeles Unified School Districts, CA. He has co-curated several museum exhibitions and conducted archival and archaeological research throughout Mexico and the U.S., and his publications examine place-identity theory, education as conquest, and the material and visual components of learning environments.
Dr Julieta Galante is a UK National Institute for Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. She is from Argentina and studied medicine and public health at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She worked as a public health researcher in Buenos Aires before securing a PhD scholarship at Cardiff University in 2010.
Since then, Julieta's programme of research has been focused on public mental health improvement. She is passionate about conducting high-quality studies to devise mental health promotion interventions that consider peoples' lifestyles, communities and environments. One aspect of this has been studying the effects of meditation techniques derived from contemplative traditions on individuals and communities' wellbeing. She is now collaborating internationally to study mental health needs and possibilities of preventative intervention in Latin American communities under complex social situations. See publications list
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Research Associate
Dr Liliana Galindo is a consultant psychiatrist with clinical and research experience in psychoactive substances and early interventions in mental health. She is a clinically-active psychiatrist working in the Adult Community Team (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust) and a researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.
Job Titles:
- Fellow
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Lorna Dillon is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. Her research focus is Latin American textile art. Her current project explores the link between symbolic representations and human rights through the analysis of transnational art movements and diasporas. Lorna is looking at embroideries, quilts and arpilleras (appliqués) created by artists and art collectives in Colombia, Mexico and Chile.
Lorna's doctoral research was on the embroideries, papier-m ché sculptures and oil paintings created by the Chilean artist Violeta Parra and this led to two books, the edited volume Violeta Parra: Life and Work (Tamesis, 2017) and the monograph Violeta Parra's Visual Art: Painted Songs (Palgrave, 2020).
Lorna's work confronts exclusionary biases in the art world, particularly with regard to crafts, participatory textile art movements and the art of the Global South. Her other interests include the decolonisation of art history, Surrealism, Pop art, muralism and the translation of theatre.
Lorna's work has been recognised with awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Henry Moore Foundation and the Institute of Fine Art of the University of New York.
She is currently a research fellow at Murray Edwards College and an Isaac Newton Trust fellow. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Job Titles:
- Teaching Associate
- Research Fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies
Dr Maria Daniela Sanchez-Lopez is a research fellow at the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies at Newnham College and a teaching associate at the Centre of Latin American Studies. She has a background in Economics at Universidad Católica Boliviana, an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands and a Ph.D. in International Development from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.
Her research expertise focuses on socio-environmental conflicts, governance of lithium and energy politics, extractive resources in Latin America and environmental justice. Daniela is currently researching the geopolitics of renewable energies and lithium in the South American salt flats of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. In particular, the different elements shaping the governance of lithium in the region, the role of China in accessing the lithium supply chain, and the new forms of dependency and neo-colonialism emerging in a world embedded in a low-carbon energy transition and the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Outside academia, she has an extensive experience in public policy research in international organizations including the United Nations Development Program (UNDP-Bolivia), Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) and NGOs with a regional expertise in Latin America. Email: mds88@cam.ac.uk
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at the Centre of Latin American Studies
- Lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies
Pedro Mendes Loureiro is an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). Primarily a political economist, at the heart of his work is a commitment to interdisciplinarity and methodological pluralism, with interests ranging wide across the social sciences. Substantively, Pedro is a scholar of inequality and of development strategies, with the ultimate goal of helping combat social inequalities in all their forms and wherever they might arise. He has researched and published on the political economy of development strategies in Latin America; on the changing dynamics of race, class and gender inequality; on social policies and their politics; on inequality measurement; and on the history of Latin American social thought. Recently, his research has turned to the expansion of the prison system in Brazil. Pedro also collaborates with development agencies and NGOs in devising frameworks and policies to tackle multidimensional inequalities.
He is a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, where he directs studies for the Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS) and History and Politics Triposes, and supervises for several papers (POL1, POL4, POL5/19, POL9, Dissertations).
Dr R Sánchez-Rivera is a Research Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Gonville & Caius at the University of Cambridge. Sánchez-Rivera has a Ph.D. in the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. They hold a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and an M.A. in Regional Studies-Latin America and the Caribbean from Columbia University in the City of New York.
Sarah Abel holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre of Latin American Studies. As a social anthropologist with an interdisciplinary background, her research specialises in the dynamics of racisms and antiracisms in American societies. Sarah's current project focuses on representations of skin colour in art, science and politics in Mexico, and her work is broadly concerned with how scientific technologies (DNA tests, genealogies, photography, colour palettes) have been used to construct and deconstruct relationships between ancestry, identity, and the body. To date, her research has centred particularly on slavery and its legacies in the Atlantic World, and she has conducted fieldwork in the US, Brazil, Iceland, and Cuba. Sarah's publications cover topics such as DNA ancestry testing, concepts of Blackness in American societies, and the socio-political dimensions of family history research. Her monograph, Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body after the Genome, was published by University of North Carolina Press in 2022.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Teaching Associate
Dr Sofia Gotti is Associate Lecturer and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the History of Art Department at the University of Cambridge, where she delivers the special subject course Alternative Art and Politics in Latin America, 1928-1988. Her research is invested in the intersections of Decoloniality, Indigeneity and Feminism. She is currently working on a monograph investigating the relationship between Pop Art, Popular Art and Folk through case studies in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. A major output of her fellowship has been the online conference Worldviews: Latin American Art and the Decolonial Turn, which explores the ontological positions, modes of imagining the world and worldmaking that frame the study of Latin American Art. Sofia has previously worked at the The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan, where she taught modules on Countercultures in Latin America, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory through Exhibitions, Contemporary Art and the Anthropocene, and Art Markets. Her Phd was a collaborative studentship between UAL and Tate Modern, under the aegis of the exhibition The World Goes Pop (2015). She also obtained the Hilla Rebay International Curatorial Fellowship at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2015, and has since worked as an independent curator with organisations including The Feminist Institute, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, FM-Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Mendes Wood DM. Sofia's writing is published in edited books and academic journals and she regularly contributes to contemporary art magazines.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Colonial Latin American Literature
Stephanie Rohner is Assistant Professor of Colonial Latin American Literature and Culture in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. She holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University.
Her area of specialization is the literature and culture of the viceroyalties of Peru and New Spain with a particular interest in the transatlantic circulation of indigenous literary, historiographical, and visual discourses. One of the questions that drive her research concerns how modern ideas about the pre-Columbian past in Latin America have been formed. She looks at the eighteenth century as a key moment in which innovative approaches such as the exploration of archaeological sites and the explosion of antiquarian studies, in dialogue with the philosophical and scientific trends of the European Enlightenment, deeply renewed understandings of indigenous histories and material cultures. In her current book project, she focuses on the efforts of the eighteenth-century Mexican Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavigero to compile the pre-Columbian history of Mexico and systematize native epistemologies from his exile in Italy.
Job Titles:
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor in Development Studies
- Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies
Graham Denyer Willis is a University Professor at the Centre of Latin American Studies and the Centre of Development Studies, and Director of Studies in Geography at Queens' College. His work brings together debates about public security, state-society relations and urbanization to raise and address new questions and understandings of development, security and governance in cities of the Global South. His first book, The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (California 2015) is based on research carried out alongside homicide and other detectives in São Paulo from 2009-2012. He has also written about cloned cars, why homicide rates aren't all that helpful and the ways that Brazilian cemeteries materially mingle violence and terror, past and present.
Graham Denyer Willis is Associate Professor in Development Studies and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Fellow of Queens' College.
Research Interests
A political ethnographer, Graham's research and teaching is concerned with practices and assumptions of power amidst inequality, as they work through cities, institutions and informality. He approaches these questions from historical and contemporary Brazil, to question how direct and indirect forms of violence and social organisation matter in the production and maintenance of political authority. He is especially motivated to identify and question forms of entrapment and escape from power and capitalism, globally.
He is the author of two books, both published by the University of California Press. His first book, The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (2015), accompanies homicide detectives in São Paulo as they negotiate an incipient organised crime group and police who kill 2.3 times per day. He argues for a conceptualisation of organised crime as 'nested' in the state's regulation of life and death, and rooted in a shared understanding of which kinds of killings matters, where and why in the city.
His second book, Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil (2022), examines how and why 20,000 - 25,000 people go missing, per year, in São Paulo. Keep the Bones Alive explores this phenomenon and why there is little concern for those who vanish. he accompanies family members, state workers, and gravediggers to examine the rationalization underpinning why bodies are missing in space including cemeteries, the criminal coroner's office, and prisons. By following the bereaved as they confront an indifferent state and suspicious society and search for loved ones against all odds, this book reveals where missing bodies go and the reasons why people can disappear without being pursued. Recognizing that disappearance has long been central to Brazil's everyday political order, with some people pursued and others not, this humanistic account of the silences surrounding disappearance shows why a demand for a politics of life is needed more than ever.
He is now at work on a third ethnographic monograph, which examines the practices and logics of 'trust and safety' in Silicon Valley as vital to a global regime of security and accumulation rooted in platform capitalism.
He welcomes emails from anyone seeking an expert witness for asylum and/or deportation concerns because of police or organised crime violence in Brazil.
Graham is interested in supervising PhD students whose work touches on development, freedom and unfreedom, race, governance, everyday political contestation, violence and informality, and especially those wishing to do ethnographic inquiry and/or who are interested in Latin America. Prospective students should familiarise themselves with Graham's general line of inquiry and research interests.
Job Titles:
- Supervisor
- Professor of Latin American Studies
Joanna Page is a Professor of Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between science and culture in Latin America, and she has worked on a range of different media, including literature, film, graphic fiction and visual arts, particularly from Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. She is also interested in questions of memory, modernity, capitalism, posthumanism, new materialism, decoloniality and environmental thought in Latin America. She is the author of six monographs: Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Duke University Press, 2009), Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature (University of Calgary Press, 2014), Science Fiction from Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse (University of Michigan Press, 2016), Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (with Ed King, UCL Press, 2017), Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art (UCL Press, 2021) and Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (Open Book Publishers, 2023). She has also co-edited two volumes: Visual Synergies: Fiction and Documentary Filmmaking in Latin America (with Miriam Haddu, 2009) and Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (with María Blanco, 2020). She was the Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded international research network "Science in Text and Culture in Latin America" (2014-16) and two of her recent research projects have been funded by the British Academy. She is currently the Director of CRASSH, the University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Federico Lorenz holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento - IDES) and a BA in History from the National University of Luján. He is currently an Associate Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Comittee), based at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani" in Buenos Aires.
He was recently awarded a research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for developing a project on Malvinas/ Falklands War experiences through amateur photographs and war correspondence. Throughout his career as a teacher and historian, he has focused on recent Argentine history, such as political violence, state repression and the Malvinas/ Falklands War, as well as the relationships between history, memory and education. He is a specialist in the social history of the war. He travelled twice to the Malvinas/ Falklands. From those experiences several books and documentaries have emerged (one for BBC Radio 4), as well as educational materials. During 2009 he was in charge of the Programa Educación y Memoria (Memory and Education Programme) of the Ministry of Education (Argentina). Between 2007 and 2008 he was curator of the Museum of the Malvinas Soldier, located in the city of Rawson (Chubut). Between 2000 and 2004 he worked for the Open Memory Civil Partnership (Memoria Abierta), which collects testimonies in an audiovisual archive on state terrorism. During that time, he participated in the assembly and construction of the oral archive.
He regularly publishes on mainstream media in Argentina. Among other books, he is the author of Algo parecido a la felicidad. Una historia de la lucha de la clase trabajadora argentina, 1973-1978 (2013), Las guerras por Malvinas (2012), Fantasmas de Malvinas, Un libro de viajes (2008), Malvinas. Una guerra Argentina (2009) and Todo lo que necesitás saber sobre Malvinas (2014). In addition, he published two novels, Montoneros o la ballena blanca (2012) and Los muertos de nuestras guerras (2013).
Felipe is a political scientist investigating the impact of social movements on institutional change. For his PhD at Cambridge, he has been looking at how groups of activists have contested the global drug prohibition regime, with varying degrees of success and failure. From an empirical perspective, his research is focused on the drivers of the rapid but uneven global diffusion of drug policy reform in the last two decades. With respect to theory, Felipe is interested in developing categories and patterns of social movement impact. He is also engaged in the debates on neoliberalism, post-neoliberalism and the regulatory state. Felipe examines these issues primarily through the lens of Brazil and Latin America.
Before coming to Cambridge, Felipe was a diplomat in the Brazilian Foreign Service. He represented Brazil in major multilateral human rights bodies, including UNAIDS, UNHABITAT and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He also worked extensively on multilateral banks, sovereign debt restructuring and bilateral tax treaties. He established the Brazilian Embassy in Bangladesh, where he served as Deputy Ambassador.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Scientist
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- Senior Policy Analyst in Policy Links
- Teaching Associate
Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete is Senior Policy Analyst in Policy Links, the knowledge exchange unit of the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (CSTI), University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Sussex. Jennifer has 15 years' experience in policy analysis in developing and developed contexts. Before joining Policy Links, she worked in academia and in the Ministry for Industrial Development in Yucatan, Mexico. Jennifer has produced reports for several international organisations, including: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Key areas of her expertise include: industrial and innovation policy; policy design and evaluation; gender analysis; livelihoods studies; and mixed-methods research. Jennifer is a member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE).
Dr Jesús Sanjurjo is an Early Career Fellow of the Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Trusts at the University of Cambridge and the author of In the Blood of Our Brothers. Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800-1870 (University of Alabama Press, 2021).
He was born in Gijón, Asturias, on the northern coast of Spain, in 1991. Before joining Cambridge, he was a lecturer at the University of York and Cardiff University. He studied History at the undergraduate level at the University of Oviedo and then obtained an M.A. in Race & Resistance and a PhD in Spanish and Atlantic History at the University of Leeds, under the supervision of Prof Manuel Barcia and Dr Gregorio Alonso. He was awarded an AHRC-WRoCAH Doctoral Studentship.
Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas is Senior Curator of World Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD from the University of Bristol and an interdisciplinary background in Anthropology (BA, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia) and History (BA and MA, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia).
Before coming to Cambridge, she was Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Caldas in Colombia, where she was also Curator of Archaeology at the University Museum Centre.
Her research interests span the history and archaeology of colonialism, indigenous and African forms of resistance, pre-Columbian and colonial metallurgy, ethnoarchaeology, material culture studies, and cultural heritage. Recently, her research has focused on the study of metallurgy in the Americas during the colonial period. Her book "Del texto, contexto y lugar del oro en la Crónica de Indias de Pedro Cieza de León" aimed to investigate the meaning and use of gold as a rhetorical concept in colonial discourse.
Jimena has worked extensively with museum collections and is interested in contributing to decolonization work in museums by actively engaging the voices of indigenous peoples and source communities in the creation of exhibition narratives and learning experiences. She is interested in collection research projects that address issues of provenance, the life of objects, and processes of repatriation and restitution. She was Assistant Archaeologist in the Gold Museum expansion project in Bogotá, Colombia and between 2007 and 2011 she was director of Casa del Alabado-Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Quito, Ecuador.
We are delighted to be welcoming Professor Juan Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez to Cambridge to take up the Simón Bolívar Visiting Chair for 2017-18. A sociologist hailing originally from Bolivia, Prof Calderón is currently Director of Research at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also teaches on postgraduate programmes at the Universidad de Córdoba and FLACSO, Argentina.
Previously, he has taught at several US universities (Austin, Chicago, Berkeley, and Cornell), as well as the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona (Spain), the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) in La Paz (Bolivia) and universities in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Chile.
He has been appointed as Executive Secretary of Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO), Social Policy Advisor at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Special Advisor on Human Development and Governance for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He has also participated as Coordinator and Senior Advisor in over ten Human Development Reports for several countries of Latin America, Europe and Africa, and at sub-regional and global levels.
Prof Calderón is the author of 22 books on democracy, culture and development. Currently, his research interests include innovation, development and multiculturalism in Latin America. Among other projects, he is co-writing with Manuel Castells a sociological analysis of political, cultural and ecological changes in the region.
Job Titles:
- Retired Librarian and Events Coordinator
Julie retired in December 2022 after 26 years of dedicated service offering support and advice on the CLAS library, film collection and Latin American events in Cambridge, and beyond.
I am a Latin American anthropologist and completed my PhD at The University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am currently a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a researcher of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group- ReproSoc under the leadership of Professor Sarah Franklin. Before this position, I was a lecturer in the Graduate Gender Program at Utrecht University.
My work seeks to understand how the colonial conditions of the present shape the reproductive lives of peasant and indigenous women, whether through aggressive population control programs or exposure to chemical environments. I understand that peasant and indigenous people's reproductive decisions are shaped by long-standing structures that emerged during the colonial period but have outlived it. I am currently working on my book manuscript Decolonizing Reproductive Rights and the Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru, where I map different registers of forced sterilization, including peasant women's grammar of reproductive abuse, urban feminist reproductive activism, and the bureaucratic treatment of these cases in different state institutions. In this book, I argue that a hierarchy of discourse between them shapes a dominant understanding of reproductive abuse along repronormative assumptions, displacing other harms narrated by survivors, such as loss of strength and alteraciones that are not easily mapped within its boundaries. I am developing a second research project that expands my work on decolonizing reproduction by looking at how chemical exposure and extractive industries affect the reproductive lives of humans, animals, and the land.
Job Titles:
- Research Associate
- CLAS As a Research Associate
Katia Chornik joined CLAS as a Research Associate in 2020, having also worked across Cambridge humanities and social sciences departments as Senior Research Impact Coordinator. She is currently Impact Development Manager at Kingston University, leading on research impact and knowledge exchange for the Kingston School of Art and the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education.
Her research expertise focuses on 20th- and 21st- century Latin American cultural history, particularly in the areas of music, memory and human rights, and the writings of Alejo Carpentier. She directs and edits the bilingual digital platform Cantos Cautivos, which compiles testimonies on musical experiences in political detention centres in Chile under Pinochet's dictatorship, as well as music composed, performed and listened to in these contexts. She first developed this project in partnership with Chile's Museum of Memory and Human Rights, during her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Manchester. Her project, hailed as "an extraordinary digital archive" by The New Yorker critic Alex Ross, was featured in the British Museum's exhibition I Object: Ian Hislop's Search for Dissent (2018-19).
Katia is currently writing her second book, Captive Songs: Music and Political Detention in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1990, under contract with Oxford University Press. Her first book, Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text, was published by MHRA-Maney/ Routledge in 2015. She has also published widely on Latin American topics in peer-reviewed journals and media outlets, including the BBC, The Guardian and The Economist.
Outside academia, she worked as a Commissioning Officer in the UK governmental sector, and as a violinist with the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra, Chile. She holds degrees from the Catholic University of Chile, the Royal Academy of Music, the University of London and The Open University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Liesbeth François holds a PhD in Literature, awarded by KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium). Her research and teaching activities centre on contemporary Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on Argentina and Mexico. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven between 2015 and 2022, with funding from the Research Council KU Leuven and the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). She is the author of Andares vacilantes. La caminata en la obra narrativa de Sergio Chejfec (Beatriz Viterbo, 2018) and Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature (Palgrave, 2021). She has published articles on several Latin American authors and co-edited two volumes on, respectively, the everyday and urban space in contemporary literature and culture. Her research interests include urban space and mobility in narrative fiction, imaginaries of the underground, literature and politics, and the figure of youth in contemporary literature and culture.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of Churchill College and Professor
Marcial Echenique is a Fellow of Churchill College and Professor Emeritus of Land Use and Transport Studies, and a former Head of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. He is accredited, in particular, with early work on the integration of land use and transport planning. He has acted as a consultant to numerous government and local authorities and has directed major planning studies financed by international institutions such as The World Bank and The United Nations. He directed the influential study of Cambridge Futures (Royal Town Planning Institute award for planning innovation in 2000). In 2009 he was awarded an OBE for services to Urban and Regional Planning. Since 1990 he has been an advisor to successive Chilean ministers for planning infrastructure in cities.
He has published more than 100 articles and books, including 'Growing Cities Sustainably: Does Urban Form Really Matter?', co-authored with A. Hargreaves, G. Mitchell and A. Namdeo, Journal of American Planning Association (JAPA), vol. 78 no. 2 (2012); 'Land Use/Transport Models and Economic Assessment', in Research in Transportation Economics, vol. 31 (2011); 'Mobility and Income' in Environment and Planning A, vol. 39, no. 8 (2007); 'El crecimiento y desarrollo de las ciudades' and 'Las vías expresas urbanas: que tan rentables son?', in Santiago: dónde estamos y hacia dónde vamos, ed. A Galetovich, Centro de Estudios Públicos, Santiago de Chile (2006); 'Forecasting the Sustainability of Alternative Plans, The Cambridge Futures Experience' in Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities, ed. M. Jenks and H. Dempsey, Architectural Press, Elsevier (2005); 'Econometric Models of Land Use & Transportation', in Handbook of Transport Geography & Spatial Systems, eds. D. Hensher, K. Button, K. Haynes y P. Stopher, Elsevier Sciences (2004).
Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke was a professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo, where she also graduated and obtained her Master's , PhD and "Livre Docência" degrees. She has worked on the cultural history of the European Enlightenment and its reception in Latin America, and more generally on the circulation and reception of ideas in both European and Latin American contexts. She has also studied the intellectual trajectory of thinkers who had a great impact on Brazilian history, including Gilberto Freyre, his friend Rüdiger Bilden and Anísio Teixeira, a disciple of John Dewey, who fought a battle for the democratisation of education in Brazil from the 1920s until 1964. She is the author, among other works, of As Muitas Faces da História: Nove Entrevistas, a collection of interviews with a group of outstanding cultural historians (2000: - translated into Spanish, English, Korean and Chinese); Gilberto Freyre, um vitoriano dos trópicos (2006: it received the Senador José Ermírio de Morais Prize of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and also the Prêmio Jabuti), Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics (with Peter Burke, 2008) and O Triunfo do Fracasso: Rüdiger Bilden, o amigo esquecido de Gilberto Freyre (2012), which studies Bilden's battle for the dissemination of the idea of Brazil as a "laboratory of civilization" and for the improvement of race relations in the USA. Her most recent publication is "A Two-Headed thinker: Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre and the Reinvention of Brazilian Identity", in Indigenous Visions - Rediscovering the world of Franz Boas, ed. Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner (Yale University Press, 2017). She has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Marta Magalhães Wallace holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Magalhães Wallace's thesis looked at ideas about cosmopolitanism, processes of urban transformation, and violence in contemporary Brazil. Her research interests include political economy and social transformations; ethnography of the state; cities, space and the built environment; violence; memory; mental health; gender; ethics (especially ethics of care); and social theory. Between 2007 and 2011, Dr. Magalhaes Wallace was a postdoctoral research fellow at CLAS, where she convened the MPhil course on the Anthropology of Latin America. She is currently a research associate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a collaborator at CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia), ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon). Dr. Magalhães Wallace has written extensively on space, citizenship and violence in Brazil. She has also written on history, memory, material culture and identity in Portugal (2009). In addition to her work in Latin America, Dr. Magalhães Wallace has recently started to do research on mental health in contemporary Europe.
Michael Kuczynski is an economist specializing in international, monetary, and financial topics, in particular monetary and fiscal policy; and the relationship between financial activity and economic growth. He also works on Latin American economic issues, on problems of comparative national economic performance, and on primary commodity markets. He is at the Centre of Development Studies and a fellow of Pembroke College. He teaches on the MPhil in Development Studies, the MPhil in International Relations and the MPhil in Latin American Studies (Economic Issues in Contemporary Latin America).
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Peter Burke was educated at St Ignatius's College, Stamford Hill, London, and St John's College Oxford. He was one of the first junior lecturers to be appointed at the University of Sussex, attracted by the interdisciplinary programme, and remained there for 17 years (1962-79). He moved to Cambridge in 1979, where he became Professor of Cultural History. He retired from the Chair in 2004 but remains a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia García Pallares-Burke, with whom he has written two books, Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics (2008) and Os Ingleses(2016). He wrote regularly at one time for the (now extinct) ‘Caderno Mais!', Folha de São Paulo, and his articles were collected as O historiador como colunista (2009).
He has been a visiting teacher or researcher in Berlin, Brussels, Canberra; Groningen, Heidelberg, Los Angeles, Nijmegen, Paris (the EHESS), Princeton (IAS and Department of History) and São Paulo (Instituo para Estudos Avançados). He is a Fellow of the British Academy; Member of the Academia Europea; Ph. D (honoris causa), Universities of Lund, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Zurich, Brussels and Oviedo; Honorary Professor of the National University of Colombia; Honorary Fellow of St John's College Oxford.
He has published hundreds of articles and chapters as well as 30 books, from Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy (1972) and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978) to A Social History of Knowledge (2 vols., 2000-2012) and Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge (2017). His work has been translated into 33 languages. For most of his career he worked on the cultural and social history of early modern Europe, but now extends his investigations more widely to include Brazil and the 20th century. His Cultural History of Polymaths appeared in 2020 and his current project is a social history of ignorance.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department
Brad Epps is Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor and former Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University for over two decades. He has published extensively on modern literature, film, art, architecture, urban theory, queer theory, and immigration from Spain, Latin America, Hispanophone Africa, and Catalonia, including an essay which won the first Carlos Monsiváis prize at LASA, "Retos y riesgos, pautas y promesas de la teoría queer". Amongst other publications, he is the author of Significant Violence: Oppression and Resistance in the Narratives of Juan Goytisolo; Spain Beyond Spain: Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity (with Luis Fernández Cifuentes); Passing Lines: Immigration and Sexuality (with Bill Johnson-González and Keja Valens); All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema (with Despina Kakoudaki), and is currently editing a book entitled El cine como historia, la historia como cine (forthcoming, Ediciones Colihue, Buenos Aires) and a monograph entitled Barcelona and Cinema (forthcoming, Liverpool UP).
His research interests include eighteenth to twenty-first century Spanish and Latin American literature, Catalan literature and film, Ibero-American cinema, photography, and art, Hispanophone Africa, theories of visuality, modernity, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, feminist thought, queer theory, urban cultures, immigration, and post-colonial studies, among others.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies Director of Graduate Studies
- History )
- University Professor
Gabriela Ramos is a University Professor in Latin American History in the Faculty of History, and Fellow at Newnham College. She specializes in the colonial history of the Andes. Her research interests include religion, culture, and politics in colonial and modern Latin America. Her book Death and Conversion in the Andes. Lima and Cuzco 1532-1670 (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) won the Howard F. Cline Prize 2011, for its contribution to the history of indigenous peoples in Latin America. She has recently co-edited Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in Mexico and the Andes (Duke University Press, 2014) with Yannis Yannakakis. She teaches the Race and Ethnicity module on the MPhil in Latin American Studies.
Geoffrey Kantaris is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a former Director of the Centre (2005-10). He specializes in Latin American urban culture, in particular contemporary cinema. He is preparing a book provisionally entitled Contemporary Latin American Cinema: The Urban Paradigm and has published a wide range of articles in this area. He has also worked on Southern Cone literature. He has published The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary Women's Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect (London: Tamesis, 2013).
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- Professor of Brazilian Studies
Maite Conde is University Professor of Brazilian Studies and Visual Culture in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She specialises in Brazilian literature, cinema and cultural theory. She is the author of Consuming Visions. Cinema, Writing and Modernity in Brazil (Virginia University Press, 2012), for which she was received the Andrew Mellon/MLA award and Foundational Films. Early Cinema and Modernity in Brazil (University of California Press, 2018) for which she received the Antonio Candido Prize (honourable Mention) for the best book in the humanities by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association and the Richard Wall Memorial Prize (finalist) for the best book on Film or Theatre by the Theatre Library Association. She also edited, translated and wrote the introduction to Between Conformity and Resistance. Essays on Politics, Culture and the State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), a collection of key essays by renowned Brazilian philosopher Marilena Chauí, and co-edited a collection of essays by Brazilian film scholar Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes, translated for the first time into English, titled Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes: On Brazil and Global Cinema (University of Wales Press, 2018).
Mónica Moreno Figueroa is University Professor in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. Her research has primarily focussed on Mexico and Latin America more broadly. The interest in researching the 'qualities' of the lived experience of racism, has taken her to the study of the everyday, the relevance of emotions, issues around gender, visibility and embodiment as well as exploring the links with anti-racist practice, political activism and collaboration. Currently, she is developing various research strands: a project on Anti-Racism in Latin America, with Prof Peter Wade (Manchester); a project on the gendered experience of racism and racial identification alongside economic trajectories in Mexico's Costa Chica, with Dr Emiko Saldivar (UCSB); and a project on institutional and state racism exploring access to health, water and recognition of rights in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, with Dr Juan Carlos Martinez (CIESAS).
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Latin American Literature
Rory O'Bryen is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He has published Spectres of La Violencia: Literature, Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary Colombian Culture (2008), Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect (2013), Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader (2015), and Transnational Spanish Studies (2020). His current research explores the representation of the Magdalena River in Colombian culture between 1850 and the present day. It engages with a range of works, including mid-nineteenth-century regional romances, late nineteenth-century Afro-Colombian poetry, the aesthetics and politics of steam in Colombian modernismo, representations of leprosy in early twentieth-century literature, music and silent film, the ‘novela de la Violencia' of the 1950s, and late twentieth-century engagements with narcotráfico. In doing so it uses the river as a conduit into the fragile interplay between nation-formation and global political and economic processes.
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- Geography )
- Professor of Latin American Geography at the Department of Geography
Sarah A Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography at the Department of Geography, and Fellow of Christ's College. She specializes in social difference and development geographies, largely in the Andes. Her current research interests include social heterogeneity in development, indigenous engagements with development, and postcolonial social theory.
Sian Lazar is a Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology. Her research interests include social movements, especially labour movements; ethnography of the state, democracy and citizenship; gender; the city; and the anthropology of politics and development, with a particular focus on Bolivia and Argentina. Her research is focussed on collective politics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and El Alto, Bolivia. She is the author of various articles on these topics, as well as El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2008), and The Social Life of Politics: Ethics, Kinship and Union Activism in Argentina (Stanford University Press, 2017). The first has been published in Spanish translation in Bolivia by Plural (2013), and the second is forthcoming in Argentina with Siglo xxi in mid-2019. She has also co-edited journal special issues on the Bolivian uprisings of 2003, the anthropology of citizenship, and precarious labour, and is the editor of Where are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe (Zed books, 2017), and The Anthropology of Citizenship. A Reader (Wiley-Blackwell 2013). She is one of the joint editors of the Journal of Latin American Studies.
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Management Committee
- Professor
The Centre benefits from its relationships with a number of associates, who are not currently full-time members of staff but who are actively involved in research and teaching at the Centre. As well as scholars from Cambridge and the UK, these also include researchers based in Latin America who visit the Centre on a regular basis.
The Management Committee of the Centre has responsibility for maintaining the academic autonomy and integrity of the Centre within the unified administrative structure of the Department of Politics and International Studies. It is the body that appoints the Director of the Centre, and to which the Director reports, chiefly on matters of strategy and certain aspects of finance. It approves invitations to visiting fellows and scholars and acts as an advisory body to the Board of Electors for the Simón Bolívar Chair.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Development Studies
- University Assistant Professor of Development Studies and Latin American Studies
Tamara Wattnem is Assistant Professor of Development Studies and Latin American Studies. She is a sociologist and agroecologist by training, specializing in theories of development and economic change, environmental sociology and critical agrarian studies. Broadly, her research focuses on the politics and implications of the deepening of extractivism in Latin America - particularly industrial agriculture, mining, and hydrocarbon extraction. She is currently engaged in two interrelated projects. The first analyzes the distinct trajectories of energy and mining policy throughout Mexico's neoliberal era, with special attention to the role and reach of resource nationalism. The second project focuses on how and when the International Labor Organization's Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention - more commonly known as the ILO Convention 169 - is used as a tool to both resist and legitimate extractivism. She has also written about global trends in seed legislation that erode farmers' rights to save and replant seeds.
Job Titles:
- Teaching Associate
- Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Public Policy
Tanya Filer is Research Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Public Policy, where her work focuses on the intersections of politics and digital technologies and the emergence and regulation of GovTech in the context of democratic governance. She is interested in comparative perspectives and approaches that undo the idea of the Global South as passive recipient of digital creativity. She is currently completing an in-depth project chronicling the rise to prominence in contemporary Argentine political thought and policymaking of the people, practices, and ideas surrounding digital technologies and the informational affordances associated with them. Between 2015 and 2017, Tanya was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and a member of the interdisciplinary Leverhulme Trust Conspiracy and Democracy Project based at the Centre. She has held a number of fellowships, including at Harvard, Yale, the Library of Congress and the Universidad de San Andrés. Tanya serves on the Council on the Future of Information and Entertainment at the World Economic Forum.
Dr. Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of São Paulo, where she also received a joint degree in Portuguese and English Studies. She is the author of a book on Northern Irish poetry, Exile, Home and City: The Poetic Architecture of Belfast (Humanitas, USP). It was during her lectureship in English Language and Cultural Studies at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) that she started to examine more closely the portrayal of Brazil and Latin America in English-language poetry. In order to expand her research, Dr. Carvalho da Annunciação came to the Centre of Latin American Studies in April, 2014 as a visiting scholar and Portuguese teacher. In the course of the year, she helped to organize the exhibition ‘a token of concrete affection'. This celebrated the fifty-year anniversary of the first concrete poetry exhibition at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, which featured the Brazilian Noigandres group that was responsible for disseminating the movement in both the United Kingdom and Latin America. In April 2015, she was made a Teaching Associate at CLAS and a Senior Member at Robinson College and continues to research the Noigandres movement, tracing the intricate connections between Brazil, Latin America and Great Britain in Concrete Poetry. Her current research interests also include Brazilian and Latin American avant-garde, poetry and politics and new methodologies in language learning.