Tinker Professors

Every year ILAS attracts distinguished faculty and researchers from throughout the United States and Latin America including instructors from Latin America as Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professors.

ILAS is pleased to announce our 2009- 2010 Tinker Visiting Professors:

Fall 2009

PROFESSOR ALOISIO ARAUJO (Brazil) is a renowned Latin American economist.  Known for his solid mathematical/statistical background, Professor Araujo has recently been working on bankruptcy law and the role of Knightian uncertainty in the generation of speculative bubbles in emerging markets.  His work has attracted global attention as he has recently been named a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Foreign Associate member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Spring 2010

PROFESSOR RICARDO SALVATORE is one of Argentina’s most versatile and prolific historians. His work ranges from monographs on Argentine intellectual and cultural history to sophisticated monographs on the anthropometric history of living standards in the early national period. He is currently collaborating with Professor John Coatsworth on a volume of essays on the history of living standards in Latin America from the late colonial era through twentieth the twentieth century. Professor Salvatore teaches at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella and has served as a visiting professor at a number of U.S. universities, including Harvard University.

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Previous Tinker Visiting Professors

Spring 2009

Juan Antonio Morales, Economics (Bolivia)

 

Fall 2008

Roberto Gargarella, Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law (Argentina)

Spring 2008

Lila Caimari, History (Argentina)
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, History (Brazil)

2006

Jorge Leon-Trujillo, Sociology (Ecuador)

2005    
Sebastian Galliani, Economics (Argentina)
Michael Penfold-Becerra, Political Economy (Venezuela)

2004 

Ricardo Cordova, Political Science (El Salvador)
Margarita Lopez-Maya, Economics & History (Venezuela)

2003    

Renato Janine Ribero, Political Philosophy (Brazil)
Mario Pecheny, Political Science (Argentina)

2002  

Ricardo Luna, International Relations (Peru)
Gabriel Tortella, History (Spain)

2001    
Raul Benitez-Manaut, International Relations (Mexico)
Rut Diamint, International Relations (Argentina)

2000  

Eduardo Pizarro, Political Sociology (Columbia)
Samyra Cresno, Political Science (Brazil)