2007-2008

Victor Vich received his Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from Georgetown University. He is currently an associate professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has published three books: El discurso de la calle: los cómicos ambulantes y las tensiones de la modernidad en el Perú, El caníbal es el otro. Violencia y cultura en el Perú contemporáneo, and Oralidad y poder (with Virginia Zavala), and numerous articles. As the Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar during the Fall 2007 semester, he will be working on a project entitled, War Texts: Literature and Political Violence in Peru. He will also teach Spanish 187, “Representations of Violence in Peru” in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

2006-2007

Nils Jacobsen joins the Center as a Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar. His expertise includes the history of the Andean region and comparative rural history as well as Peruvian social and economic history. At Harvard Dr. Jacobsen will be completing a book entitled Peru in Revolution: The Civil War of 1894-95 and the Foundation of the Nation's Modern Political Culture. Dr. Jacobsen is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a doctorate from the University of California , Berkeley . He will be in residence during the spring 2007 term.