2011 Latin America and the Caribbean Fellows

Claudia Acuña, Writer, Buenos Aires, Argentina: The machinations of the sexual exploitation of Dominican women.

Adriana Barenstein, Choreographer, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Departmental and Workshop Director, Centro Cultural Borges: Choreography.
Mónica Bernabé, Assistant Professor of Iberoamerican Literature, Faculty of the Humanities and Arts, Universidad Nacional de Rosario: The question of space on the boundary of literature.

Damaris Calderon, Poet, Santiago, Chile: Poetry.
Tania Candiani, Artist, Mexico City, Mexico: Fine arts.
Antonio Bernardo Carvalho, Associate Professor of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: Origin and evolution of Y-chromosomes.
Eduardo Castaño, Independent Investigator, CONICET; Head of Laboratory, Neuroscience Section, and Board Member, Fundacion Instituto Leloir; and Invited Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires: The genetic bases of neuronal vulnerability in human dementias.
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Professor of Archaeology, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, and Curator, Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquin: Cotzumalhuapa sculpture as an expression of art and society at that pre-Columbian city.

Milagros de la Torre, Photographer, Lima, Peru: Photography.
Fabio Ariel Doctorovich, Principal Investigator, CONICET, and Associate Professor, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires: A study of the possibility of in vivo endogenous formation of nitroxyl.
Matias Duville, Artist, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Fine arts.

Raquel Gil-Montero, Assistant Investigator, CONICET, Instituto Superior de Estudios Sociales, and Editor, Poblacion & Sociedad: Miners and herders in the Andes in the 16th to 19th centuries.

Eduardo Halfon, Writer, Guatemala City, Guatemala, and Professor of Literature, Universidad Francisco Marroquin: Fiction.
Mario Hamuy, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Universidad de Chile: Improving the management of  the robotic telescope for supernova searching at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

Esteban Jobbagy, Professor of Agronomy, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Independent Investigator, Grupo de Estudios Ambientales - IMASL, San Luis: How contemporary societies shape and capture productivity in semiarid ecosystems.
Claudia Joskowicz, Filmmaker, Brooklyn, New York, and Adjunct Faculty Member and Digital Studio Coordinator, Art and Art Professions, New York University: Film-video.

Sebastián Lelio, Filmmaker, Santiago, Chile; Film Director, Fabula Production Company; and Instructor in Film, Universidad del Desarrollo: Film-video.

Natalia Majluf, Director, Museo de Arte de Lima, and Academic Coordinator of the M.A. Program in Art History, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú: Francisco Laso’s paintings of the Indian as indicative of 19th-century Peruvians’ image of their nation.
Marcus Melo, Associate Professor of Political Science, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco: Political and institutional checks on corruption in Latin America.

Pedro Palou, Writer, Hanover, New Hampshire; Visiting Professor, Centre d'Études sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien, Sorbonne Paris V; and Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College: Fiction.
Gustavo Paratcha, Lecturer in Histology, Cellular Biology, Embryology, and Genetics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Member of Ad Hoc Assistant Investigator Evaluation Committee, CONICET: Negative modulation of neurotrophic factor receptor signaling and new therapeutic opportunities for neurodegenerative disorders.

Pedro Querejazu, Executive Director, Fundación esART; Vice President, Academia Boliviana de la Historia; and Vice President, ICOM, Comité Nacional Boliviano: Photography in Bolivia, 1840-1940.
José Quiroga, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Emory University: Dissidents and literary production in Cuba and Argentina, 1967-1989.

Andrés Rivera, Researcher in Glaciology and Climate Change, Centro de Estudios Científicos, and Associate Professor of Geography, Universidad de Chile: Ice dynamic responses to non-climate-related driving factors.
Catalina Romero, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Coordinator of the Doctoral Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and Principal Researcher, Red Estudios Calidad de la Democracia en América Latina: Religious diversity and its influence on politics in Peru and in Latin America.
Alejandro Rosas, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia: The psychology and evolutionary biology of moral judgment.

Francisco Urbano, Scientific Researcher, CONICET, and Assistant Instructor in Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience, Universidad de Buenos Aires: Role of calcium channels in cocaine- and methylphenidate-induced thalamocortical and neostriatal alterations.

Susana Villalba, Poet, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Professor of Poetry and Drama, Instituto Universitario de Arte Dramático; Director, Lecture Program, City of Buenos Aires; and Theater Critic, Diario Clarín: Poetry.

Marcelo Yanovsky, Head of Plant Developmental Genomics Laboratory, Fundacion Instituto Leloir, and Associate Professor of Basic and Applied Biology, School of Agronomy, Universidad de Buenos Aires: Molecular mechanisms linking circadian and alternative splicing regulatory networks.

Manuela Zoccali, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile: The stellar population of the Galactic bulge.