Claudio Beato Filho is a Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Minas Gerais Federal University (UFMG). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Social Science from UFMG and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Rio de Janeiro Institute for Graduate Studies. He has been a visiting professor at the Center for Brazilian Studies, Oxford University, England and is currently the coordinator of the Center for Studies in Criminality and Public Security at the UFMG and a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil.  He has authored numerous works on the subject of criminality, violence and public policy on security. He is a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Colombian government. He will be the Lemann Visiting Scholar during the Fall 2009 semester working on a project entitled Urban Spaces and Crime Control in Brazil.

Demetrio Boersner received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Geneva. Currently he is a Professor at the Institute of Historical Research and Department of Sociology at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.  Dr. Boersner has held several diplomatic posts including service as the Venezuelan Ambassador to Romania, Sweden, and Austria. Author of several books and articles, he has also written opinion pieces for various Venezuelan newspapers and magazines. He joins DRCLAS as the Cisneros Visiting Scholar in the Fall of 2009 in order to pursue a project on the conflict and interdependence of Venezuelan and United States relations during the period 1999-2009.

Mario Carretero is a researcher at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) where he coordinates the Masters Program on Cognitive Psychology and Learning. He is also a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he has been Dean of the Faculty of Psychology. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Complutense University, Madrid, and has conducted postdoctoral research at Teachers College of Columbia University. Dr. Carretero has done extensive research on cognitive processes, learning and conceptual change of school contents. He has published numerous books and papers. His most recent book, Documents of Identity: The Construction of Historical Memory in a Global World, is being translated into Portuguese and English. He joins DRCLAS as a Santander Visiting Scholar to work on his next project, Could History Teaching Contribute to Develop a Culture of Cooperation in Latin America in the Context of a Globalized World?

Jorge Duany is a Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, specializing in Anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests are Caribbean migration, ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism, as well as popular culture among Latinos in the United States. He has published extensively on these topics in professional journals and academic books in Puerto Rico, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He will be joining DRCLAS as the Wilbur Marvin Visiting Scholar during the Fall of 2009 working on a project entitled Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration from the Hispanic Caribbean and will teach a graduate seminar, Transnational Migration from the Hispanic Caribbean, in the Department of Sociology.

Roberto Gargarella is a professor of constitutional law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires as well as a professor of constitutional theory and legal philosophy at the University Torcuato Di Tella. He received his LL.M. and Jurisprudence doctorate from the University of Chicago and has been published in: Derechos Humanos en la Argentina, Democracia, Deliberación y Diferencia; International Journal of Constitutional Law Association; Latin American Research Review; and Democratization. He will be in residence during the Spring of 2010 as the de Fortabat Visiting Scholar to pursue research on the democratic argument for the judicial enforcement of social rights in the Americas.

Jon Martinez is a professor at the ESE Business School, University of the Andes, in the areas of General and International Direction where he is the titular professor of the Jorge Yarur B. Family Business Chair. He received his doctorate in Business Direction from the Institute of Superior Studies of Business (IESE) at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain and has done post-doctoral studies at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He is the author of several books and articles in prestigious international publications, among them Strategic Management Journal, Family Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, International Marketing Review, and Journal of Business Research. Martinez will be a Luksic Visiting Scholar for the fall of 2009 working on a project entitled The Impact of Globalization on Family Firms.

Alan McPherson is ConocoPhillips Petroleum Chair of Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of International and Area Studies at Oklahoma University. Professor McPherson trained at the Université de Montréal, San Francisco State University, and received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses in Latin American Studies and U.S. international relations and specializes in U.S.-Latin American relations. His referenced articles have appeared in The Americas, the Latin American Research Review, Diplomatic History, the Brown Journal of World Affairs, Diplomacy and Statecraft, and Gender and History. He joins DRCLAS as the Central American Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2010 semester to work on a project involving the occupation and resistance of the United States in Latin America between 1912-1934.

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). As a DRCLAS Visiting Scholar she will be working on her latest project, The Inter-American Commission of Women, the Pan American Union and Women's Suffrage in the Americas, 1928-1948.

Mark Overmyer-Velazquez is an associate professor in the University of Connecticut’s history department and the director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He completed his doctoral studies in Latin American history at Yale University. He wrote Visions of the Emerald City: Modernity, Tradition and the Formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico and edited Latino America: State by State. His interests include transnational migration and empire and Mexico-US migration. Overmyer-Velazquez will be the Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar for the fall of 2009 working on a project entitled ‘Bleeding Mexico White’: Race, Nation and the History of Mexico-US Migration.

Rodolfo Pastor is a social historian, from Honduras, where he has been a member of the Liberal Party Central Committee, and Minister of Culture from 1984-1998  and again from 2006 until recently. He has also been Coordinator of the Social Cabinet of President M. Zelaya. Dr. Pastor received his BA from Tulane University and holds a Ph.D. in history from El Colegio de México where he has also been a research professor of history. Pastor has previously been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and Haverford College. His research has focused on social history and ethnohistory. In addition to his nine books, he has been a regular columnist of newspapers in Honduras and contributed to United Nations publications on social policy. During his time at Harvard he will teach two courses in the Department of History: Central American and Mexican (or Mesoamerican) Peoples: 1500-1840, and Alternative Narratives: An Introductory Seminar on the Modern Literature and Historiography of Latin America.

Yovanna Pineda is an associate professor of history at Saint Michael’s College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas of research include industrialization in Argentina machinery and economic development in Argentina. Her upcoming publication from Stanford University Press is entitled, Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890 – 1930.  Dr. Pineda will be a Santander Visiting Scholar for the Spring of 2010 working on her next next book project, Imagining Independence: Technology Transfer, Nationalism, and Technological Development, Argentina and the Atlantic Economies, 1890-1940.

Jorge Tarziján received his Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He is currently the Director of the School of Management at the Universidad Católica de Chile. His book publications include Organización industrial para la estrategia empresarial (Industrial Organization for Business Strategy), and most recently Fundamentos de estrategia empresarial (Fundamentals of Business Strategy). He has also written numerous articles for a variety of publications and cases for the Harvard Business School. As a Luksic Visiting Scholar for the 2009 -10 academic year, he will work on a project examining business models in Latin America.

Joshua Tucker received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan. He is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin and a Research Associate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University. His ethnographic research has focused on Andean popular music, media circulation, and social change in Ayacucho and Lima, Peru. As the Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar for the 2009 – 10 academic year, he will be in residence working on his manuscript, Singing Sentiment, Inventing Indigeneity: Popular Music, Mass Media, and the Andean Imaginary in Peru.