Claudia Calirman received a Ph.D. from the City University of New York and is currently an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and a lecturer at both MoMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Calirman specializes in contemporary art and twentieth-century Brazilian art and has published reviews in magazines such as Hispanic Research Journal, Art in America and Art Nexus. She joins DRCLAS as the Lemann Visiting scholar for the Fall 2008 semester to work on a project exploring Brazilian art under the 1968-74 dictatorship.

Javier Corrales is an associate professor and chair of political science at Amherst College. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1996, specializing in the politics of economic and social policy reform in Latin America. Corrales is the author of Presidents Without Parties: the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s. He has written extensively on the Chávez regime, and most recently, co-authored an article in the Journal of Democracy, entitled “Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition.” Corrales will be the Central America Visiting Scholar for Spring 2009 working on two projects, one entitled Fixing Democracy: Power Asymmetries and Constituent Assemblies in Latin America Since the 1980s and a second one, Does Parental Participation in Schools Make Parents more Civic?:  A Multi-year Study of Communitty Managed Schools in Honduras and Guatemala.

Elizabeth Dore is a professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. She is a modern Latin American historian known for her research on class, gender, race and ethnicity in Central America, Cuba and Peru. Her recent publications focus on historical memory, gender studies, late capitalist development and Marxist theories of development as applied to the Third World. Dr. Dore received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Latin American history. She is on the editorial boards of NACLA's Report on the Americas and Latin American Perspectives. She has worked and consulted for numerous NGO's including the Inter-American Foundation and the International Center for Research on Women. She joins DRCLAS as the Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar in the 2009 Spring semester, to work on her project, Memories of the Cuban Revolution.

Martha Few will be a Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2009 semester. An Associate Professor of Latin American history at the University of Arizona, her research focuses on colonial Guatemala and Mexico, Mesoamerican ethnohistory, the history of medicine and healing, religion, and gender studies. She is the author of Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala, which will be published in Spanish translation as Mujeres de mal vivir: Género, religión, y las políticas de poder en la Guatemala colonial. Recent journal articles and book chapters include "'That Monster of Nature': Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a 'Hermaphrodite' in Late Colonial Guatemala," in Ethnohistory; and "'Our Lord Entered His Body': Miraculous Healing and Children's Bodies in Colonial New Spain," in Religion in New Spain  Dr. Few’s current research will result in a book entitled, All of Humanity: Colonial Guatemala and New World Medical Cultures Before the Smallpox Vaccine.


Carlos Garcia-Nuñez is a forestry engineer and holds a Ph.D. in tropical ecology. He is an associate professor at the Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela and affiliated with the Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Ecologicas at the ULA. Garcia-Nuñez specializes in tropical ecology and plant physiological ecology. As the Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar for Spring 2009, he will conduct research in the labs of the Organismic and Environmental Biology department for his project, Plant Water Relation: Stem and Leaf Water Hydrolics.

Marysa Navarro-Aranguren holds the Charles A. and Elfriede A. Collis Professorship in History at Dartmouth College. She completed her B.A. at the Instituto José Batlle y Ordóñez in Montevideo, Uruguay and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. Her areas of expertise include: Argentine history; Peronism; Brazilian history; Latin American history; Latin American feminism; and feminist history. Navarro-Aranguren’s most recent published work is "La red lationamericana de católicas por el derecho a decidir" in De lo personal a lo politico: 30 años de agencia feminista en America Latina, with M.C. Mejia (2006). She will be in residence for the 2008 – 09 academic year as the de Fortabat Visiting Scholar working on The Inter-American Commision of Women, the Pan American Union and Women's Suffrage in the Americas, 1928-1948.

Luis Ortega is a Professor of History at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He joins the Center from Santiago, Chile as a Luksic Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2009 to work on his project: Evolution of the Entrepreneurial Class in Chile from 1880-1913. Ortega earned his B.A. from King’s College at the University of London and his Ph.D. at University College from the same institution. His published work include: Crecimiento económico y desarrollo tecnológico. Textos e imagines para una historia, 1850-1932 with Hernan Venegas, and Chile en ruta al capitalismo. Cambio, euphoria y depression, 1850-1932.

Guita Schyfter studied psychology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and television production at the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) as a British Council scholarship winner. Her career as a documentary filmmaker has been widely recognized. She received Mexico’s Ariel award for best medium-length documentary for Xochimilco, historia de un paisaje. Her 1993 feature-length fiction film Novia que te vea, earned five Ariel awards from the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. Her work in this genre also includes her film Sucesos distantes (1994) and Las caras de la luna (The Faces of the Moon) (2001). Her most recent work, Los Laberintos de la Memoria (The Labyrinths of Memory) marks a return to documentary film-making. As the Fundación México/Antonio Madero Visiting Fellow during the Spring 2009 semester, Schyfter will develop a film project based on the life of nineteenth century Mexican intellectual and politician, Melchor Ocampo.

Paul Scolieri, has taught in the Barnard College Department of Dance since 2000 and serves on the faculty advisory committee for the Program in Africana Studies. His primary areas of research and teaching include Latin American and Caribbean dance; political performance in the US; and movement theory and analysis. His writings have appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He has served on the Editorial Board of Women and Performance, the Board of Directors of the Congress on Research in Dance as well as on the Board of World Dance Alliance: Americas. Professor Scolieri earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and his certification in movement analysis (C.M.A.) from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in NYC. He joins DRCLAS as the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar for the 2008 – 09 academic year to work on a project entitled: Encountering Dance: Aztec Ritual and Missionary Discourse, a study of the role of dance in the 16th-century “encounter” between Spanish missionaries, conquistadors and “Aztecs” in the New World.

Sol Serrano will be a Luksic Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2009 semester. Dr. Serrano is currently an associate professor for the History Institute at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). She earned her B.A. from PUC, her Master of Arts from Yale University and her Ph.D. in History from PUC. Serrano won a Guggenheim Scholarship in 2002 to work on the project: “Catholicism and Secularization in Chile in the 19th Century.” Her publications include: Que hacer con Dios en la Republica. Política y secularización en Chile, 1845-1885 (2008) and Virgenes Viajeras. Diarios de religiosas franceses en su ruta a Chile 1838-1874 (2000). She will be at the Center during the Spring 2009 semester to work on her next project, The Social Value of Education in the History of Chile.