Deborah Brandt is widely recognized as one of the leading lights in the field of literacy studies. In addition to the more than two dozen articles and book chapters she has written, many of which have been reprinted multiple times, she is the author of two highly influential monographs: Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of
Pascal Boyer studied philosophy and anthropology at the University of Paris and Cambridge, where he did his graduate work with Professor Jack Goody, on the memory constraints on transmission of oral literature. He has done anthropological fieldwork in Cameroon on the transmission of the Fang oral epics and on Fang traditional religion. Since then he
Since the late 1980s, Sebastián (Bas) van Doesburg has specialized in the study of the pictographic texts produced by indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. The existing manuscripts were produced in the decades prior to and shortly after the Spanish conquest (1521), but their contents often go back for centuries. His primary interest has been to
Jorge Lanzaro is senior lecturer and researcher at the Instituto de Ciencia Política (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), which he founded and directed for twelve years (1988-2000). Directing this institute in its early years implied building up a specialized center, which promoted the takeoff of political science in Uruguay, accompaning the democratic consolidation process which
Born in Quito, Ecuador, Carlos de la Torre earned a B.A. (with honors) in sociology from the University of Florida, Gainesville (1983), and an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in the same field from the New School for Social Research in New York City, supported by a scholarship from the Organization of American States, a
Myriam Jimeno es profesora titular del Departamento de Antropología e investigadora del Centro de Estudios Sociales CES de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, en Bogotá, Colombia. Fue directora del Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia ICANH en dos ocasiones (1988-1990 y 1992-1993). Se formó como antropóloga en la Universidad de Los Andes en Bogotá y
The world’s leading authority on the history of psychoanalysis in Argentina, Mariano Ben Plotkin holds undergraduate degrees in history (1983) and economics (1984) from, respectively, the Universidad de Belgrano and Universidad de Buenos Aires. He continued his studies in history at the University of California, Berkeley, with the support of fellowships from the University of
John Fabian Witt is the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He is the author of widely acclaimed work in the history of American law, including Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law (Harvard UP, 2007), which explores law and nationhood at key moments in American history
Educated at Yale University (B.A., 1980; J.D., 1988), Columbia University (M.A., 1982), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1987), James Q. Whitman returned to his alma mater’s law school in 1994 as a Professor of Law and is currently Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law there. Previously he served as Judicial Clerk (1988-89)
Lea VanderVelde is best known for drawing contemporary insights on work law and constitutional liberties from her historical study of the Thirteenth Amendment, free labor, and slavery. She examines legal rules and practices of free labor and slavery, as an oppressive labor and caste system. Her focus is upon how these legal rules are reactive
Alexander Todorov was born and grew up in Bulgaria. After graduating from Sofia University, he studied at Oxford University for a year. After completing his studies at Oxford, he moved to New York City. He completed a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research in 1998 and a Ph.D. degree at New York
Catalina Smulovitz has been a Professor of Political Science at the University Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires since 1993, and chair of that department since 2004; she has also been a CONICET researcher since 1992. After earning her undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Salvador in 1980, she came to the United
Irene Rizzini is the founding director of the International Center for Research and Policy on Children (CIESPI). At the time of its establishment in 1994, it was known as the Center for Research on Children and was located at the University of Santa Ursula in Rio de Janeiro, where Ms. Rizzini was a professor, but
Pablo Gerchunoff is a Professor and Researcher in the Department of Economics and History at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires; from 1981 to 2000, he was a researcher at its Center for Economic Research. In addition, he has been an Independent Researcher for CONICET since 1985, and since 2000 a Professor of
After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997, Leonardo Gasparini returned to Argentina to join the faculty of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata as a Professor of Economics and the founding Director of its Center for Distributional, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS). Long concerned with poverty and inequality in Latin America, Mr. Gasparini has been a
Born in Lima, Peru, Marisol de la Cadena began her career in anthropology in 1986, when, having earned a master’s degree at the University of Durham in England and a DEA at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, she returned to Lima to take up a position as associate researcher at the Instituto de
Frances McCall Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of International Politics at Yale University, is a comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan, and in the political economy of gender. Her books include Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan (Cornell, 1989), Japan’s Political Marketplace (with Mark Ramseyer; Harvard, 1993), The Politics of Oligarchy (with Mark
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera is a Professor of Urban Planning at the State University of Morelos, Mexico. Trained as an architect at the Universidad Iberoamericana, he holds degrees in urban planning from the University Institute of Architecture of Venice and a Ph.D. in urbanism from UNAM, Mexico. Mr. Valenzuela was a postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute of
Roger Waldinger is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as Chair of his department from 1999 to 2004 and as Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy from 1995 to 1998. He has worked on international migration throughout his career, writing on a broad set of
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