List of 2009 Fellows - Latin America and Caribbean

Mariana Achugar, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Second Language Acquisition, Carnegie Mellon University: Intergenerational transmission of recent history.

Guillermo Luis Albanesi, Independent Researcher, CONICET: Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography.

Harry Altahír Almela Sánchez, Poet, Maracay, Venezuela; Assistant Professor, Antonio José de Sucre National Experimental University, Caracas: Poetry.

Angela Alonso, Professor of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo; Researcher, Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Institute of Developmental Studies, University of Sussex: Ideas and strategies in the Brazilian movement
for the abolition of slavery.

Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea Hernández, Writer, Coyoacán, Mexico: The Mexican revolution in the mirror of American political cartoons.

Máximo Bañados, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile: Gravity and the origin of dark energy and matter.

Fernando Benadon, Composer, Derwood, Maryland; Assistant Professor of Music, American University: Music composition.

Omar Carrum Semoloni, Choreographer, Sinaloa, Mexico: Choreography.

Verónica Cereceda Bianchi, General Director, Foundation for Anthropological Investigation and Ethno-development (ASUR): Textile designs of indigenous peoples in Bolivia as expressions of identity.

Livia Corona, Photographer, New York City: Photography.

Miguel Coyula, Filmmaker, Forest Hills, New York: Film and video.

Fernanda G. De Felice, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: Alzheimer's disease as a new form of brain-specific diabetes.

Paul Desenne, Composer, Turgua, Venezuela: Music composition.

Sebastián Díaz Morales, Filmmaker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Film and video.

Walter M. Farina, Adjunct Professor, University of Buenos Aires; Principal Researcher, CONICET: Multiagent interactions and cognition in social insects.

Flávio dos Santos Gomes, Associate Professor of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: A comparative study of the post-emancipation black peasantry in Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, and Maranhao.

Mario Eduardo Guido, Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biological Chemistry, National University of Cordoba, Argentina; Independent Researcher, CONICET: Light detection in an animal model of blindness.

Rodolfo Hinostroza, Poet, Lima, Peru; Freelance journalist: Poetry.

Alberto A. Iglesias, Professor, National University of Litoral, Argentina; Principal Investigator, CONICET: Enzymology and bacteria metabolism.

Marcelo Knobel, Professor, Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, State University of Campinas, Brazil: Magnetic properties of nanostructured materials.

Edson Roberto Leite, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil: Thermal stability of nanostructured ceramics.

Elías José Palti, Professor, National University of Quilmes, Argentina: Democracy as a problem: the Latin American experience.

Rolando Peña, Artist, Caracas, Venezuela: Installation art.

Enrique Peruzzotti, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina: Democratic representation as mediated politics.

Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures, University of Maryland: Caribbean literature and culture: poetics and politics.

Maria Clemencia Ramírez, Associate Researcher, Columbian Institute of Anthropology and History: Ethnography of good government, democracy, and transparency in a marginal region of Colombia.

Angela Ramírez Sanz, Artist, Santiago, Chile; Professor, Art Faculty, Mayor University, Santiago: Fine arts.

Adriana Rodríguez-Pérsico, Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires; Independent Researcher, CONICET: How science and technology affected the dissemination of knowledge in Argentine culture (1925-1950).

Renato de Lima Santos, Associate Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil: Antimacrobial responses to Salmonella.

Mayra Santos-Febres, Writer, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Professor of Literature, University of Puerto Rico: Fiction.

María de la Luz Urriola González, Poet, Santiago, Chile: Poetry.

Alejandro José Vila, Associate Professor of Biophysics, University of Rosario, Argentina; Principal Researcher, CONICET: Structural and stability traits in protein evolution.

Oscar Adolfo Zanetti Lecuona, Member, Cuban Academy of Sciences: The rise and fall of the Spanish Caribbean sugar industry.