Directories

Federico Finchelstein
 Director, Janey Program in Latin American Studies
Associate Professor of History

NSSR Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

Janey Summer Fellows – Past and Present

Alexandra de Mesones (2002)
Anthropology
Research interests: politics of property and personhood, material culture, inheritance law, subjectivities of elites, anthropology of value, extractive industry and environment, theories of emotion

Sharon Washington (2002)
Anthropology

Michelle Wojcik (2002)
Anthropology

Martha Carolina Escalona (2002)
Politics

Renata Segura (2002, 2003)
Politics

Victoria Peralta (2002)
Sociology

Laura Bunt (2003)
Anthropology

Martin Abeles (2003)
Economics

Edgar Pardo (2003)
Economics

Aleida Ferreyra-Barreiro (2003)
Politics

Angelica Moreno (2003, 2004)
Politics

Yuri Contreras (2003)
Sociology

Christiane Wilke (2004)
Politics

Maria Victoria Crespo (2004, 2005)
Sociology

M. Veronica Perera (2004)
Sociology

Seema Srinath (2004)
Sociology

Lilia Tavolaro (2004)
Sociology

Laura Balbuena (2005)
Politics

Claudia Heiss (2005)
Politics

Aylin Topal (2005)
Politics

David Bond (2006)
Anthropology

Diego Cagueñas (2006, 2007, 2008)
Anthropology

Evan Daniel (2006)
Political Science
Committee on Historical Studies

Carmen Ilizarbe (2006, 2007)
Politics

Josh Lerner (2006, 2008)
PhD Politics Department [Expected Graduation, 2011]
Research interests: participatory democracy, participatory planning, social movements, democratic learning, games

Victoria Quiroz-Becerra (2006)
Politics

Sarah Taylor (2006, 2007)
Politics

Héctor Vera (2006, 2007)
Committee on Historical Studies and Sociology department
Research interests: social history of knowledge

Eddie Gonzalez (2007, 2008)
Politics

Matthew Gritter (2007)
Politics

Francisca Herreros (2007, 2010)
Psychology

Ana Mallen (2007)
Sociology

Lorena Rivera-Orraca (2007)
Sociology

Brie Marina Gettleson (2008, 2009, 2010)
Anthropology, PhD Student
Research interests: ethnographic research of violence against women in contemporary Guatemala, international human rights law, post-conflict states, rule of law and governance, gender politics

Jesus Preciado Lopez (2008)
Politics

Veronica Zebadua Yanez (2008, 2009)
Politics

Gabriel Vignoli (2009, 2010)
Anthropology

Miriam Rehm (2009)
Economics

Juan Pablo Ossa (2009)
Politics

Melissa Amezcua (2009)
Sociology

Sebastian Guzman (2009)
Sociology, PhD Student
Research interests: class, power, and social movements in Latin America; neoliberalism and the sociology of economics; contemporary political sociology

Luis Herran Avila (2010)
Politics
Committee on Historical Studies

Gema Santamaria Balmaceda (2010)
Sociology, Committee on Historical Studies
Research interests: violence (political and criminal) in historical and contemporary perspectives; social construction of fear in the city; ‘post-political’ violence in Latin America; states of exception; gender, sexuality, and performativity

Ritchie Savage (2010)
PhD Candidate Sociology
Tentative dissertation title: “A Comparative Analysis of Populist Discourse in Venezuela and the US: 1945’1954 and 1998-present.”
Research interests: Latin American populism, Venezuela, political sociology, historical sociology, social theory, psychoanalysis, structural linguistics

Luis Tsukayama Cisneros (2010)
Sociology

Graduate Students

Hanan Alhajeri
Politics department, PhD student
Research interests: Argentina, presidentialism, political stability, religion and Immigration, political participation, Arab Diaspora in Latin America

Paul C. Clement
Politics Department, PhD student
Reseach interests: regional integration, globalization, international political economy

Nicol√°s Figueroa
Sociology Department, MA student
Research interests: comparative constitutionalism, legal sociology, judicial behavior

Francisco Martínez Hernández
PhD Economics Department
Research interests: economic growth

Emilio Rodríguez
Politics Department, MA student
Research interests: conflict and human rights, Latin America-U.S. relations, the “New” Left in Latin America, Latin American politics, immigration

Hee-Young Shin
Economics Department, ABD
Research interests: financial Instability and income inequality in Asia and Latin America

Camila Vergara
Politics Department, PhD Student
Research interests: constituent revolutions in Latin America

Verónica Zebadua-Yanez
Politics Department, ABD
Research interests: modern and contemporary political theory, theories of violence, gendered violence

Alumni

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Summer Fellow 2004)
PhD Politics Department, 2010
Research interests: comparative politics, Mexican politics, Mexico-U.S. relations, border studies

Juan Santarc√°ngelo (Summer Fellow 2005)
PhD Economics Department, 2010
Dissertation: “Growth, Employment, and Labor Productivity: A Long Run Analysis for the Case of Argentina” (Edith Henry Johnson Award, 2010)
Research interests: political economy, growth, employment and distribution, economic development, history of economic thought

Raquel Thompson
MA Historical Studies, 2010
Research interests: 20th-century Panama, nation-state formation, Caribbean history, historiography