Tinker Visiting Professors Archive
Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professorship Program
The Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professorship Program is funded by the Tinker Foundation and administered by the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS). The Foundation, created in 1959, promotes the interchange and exchange of information within the community of those concerned with the affairs of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Programmatically, the Foundation funds projects addressing environmental policy, economic policy or governance.
Tinker Visiting Professors Fall 2008
Fall Visiting Professor of Theatre: Luis Peirano, Pontificio Universidad de Lima, Peru
Fall Visiting Professor of Law: Helena Alviar Garcia, Los Andes University, Bogota, Colombia
Fall Visiting Professor of History: David Sheinin, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Tinker Visiting Professors Spring 2007
Professor of Environmental Studies: Mary Allegretti, Cubrita, Brazil
Tinker Visiting Professors Fall 2006
Fall Visiting Professor of Law: Javier Couso, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
Tinker Visiting Professors - Spring 2004
Maria Helena Moreira Alves
Maria Helena Moreira Alves was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She married an American citizen and had two children. She lived in Cambridge and Newton, Massachusetts, from 1964 to 1976. She participated in the early moments of the feminist movement and was a very active militant in the Vietnam anti-war movement. In 1968, she went back to school, at Wellesley College. Later she transferred to and got her BA in political science from the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
She received a Danforth Scholarship for human rights to pursue her studies at MIT where she received a MA and a PHD in political science. Her PhD dissertation, State and Opposition in Military Brazil, was later published by Texas University Press (1986) and is regarded as a classic work on the state in Latin America. In 1976 Maria Helena Moreira Alves returned to Brazil. She took on the chair of Political Economy at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She was instrumental in developing an important worker education program organized by the UERJ and the Central Union of Workers (CUT). She worked closely with educator Paulo Freire in this and other popular education programs for trade unionists and community leaders. Maria Helena was also active in the founding of Brazils Workers Party, the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and was a member of the government of Diadema, the first city government of the PT in Brazil.
She has been an advisor to the PT since its founding. She has written extensively about the PT, trade unions and social movements in Brazil and Latin America. She has also taught in many US Universities, including Madison, where she was a Tinker Professor for the Spring semester of 1990. Maria Helena then moved to Chile where she coordinated a large research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The Aconcagua Verde Project, as it became known, had three components: Agro-ecological fruit production with local farmers; South-South technological transfer from the UERJs Institute of Biology in a technique to detect pesticide contamination in water; and a socio-economic participative research that trained fruit industry trade unionists to conduct two surveys in the Central Valley of Chile.
Carlos Reboratti
Born Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1946. Degree on Geography, University of Buenos Aires, 1973. Full Professor of Rural Geography at the University of Buenos Aires since 1987, visiting scholar at the Universities of Tubingen, Berkeley and Cantabria.
Main lines of work is about rural development in subjects as agrarian frontiers, seasonal migrations, peasant economy and agricultural modernization. The field work has been mainly in the northwest region of Argentina. Most recent publications: "Sobre hombres y tierras: historia ambiental del Noroeste" (ed.), "El Alto Bermejo: realidades y conflictos", "Ambiente y sociedad" and "La Quebrada: historia, geografia y ecologia de la Quebrada de Humahuaca".
Tinker Visiting Professor - Spring 2002
Mauricio Garcia-Villegas
Mauricio Garcia-Villegas was born in Manizales, Colombia in 1959. He received his law degree in Colombia in 1982 and his master's degree in political science from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).
He returned to Colombia in 1985 and was a professor in the philosophy of law at the Bolivariana University (Medellin). In 1998 he returned to Belgium in order to start a PhD in sociology 1991. In 1993, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain-la Neuve with a thesis, "The Symbolic Efficacy of Law." In 1992 he worked as a clerk at the Constitutional Court in Colombia. In 1994 he became Director of the Institute for Legal Research at the Los Andes University in Bogota.
Recently, Professor Villegas (with Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos) completed research about justice in Colombia, the results of which have been published in a two volumes book titled "El caleidoscopio de las Justicias en Colombia". In 2001 he was visiting professor at the Law School of the University of Grenoble, France. Currently he is a professor of the Universidad Nacional in Bogota, Colombia and also Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tinker Visiting Professors - Fall 2001
Paloma Aguilar
Paloma Aguilar is a distinguished scholar who has published widely on issues of democratic transitions, historical memory and legacies of war and authoritarian regimes. She is the author of at least four books, including "Memory and Forgetting of the Spanish Civil War." UW-Madison History professor Stanley Payne has called the work a "methodically exemplary study," that makes an essential contribution to research on historical memory in Spain. Aguilar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Administration of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia) Madrid. She has a doctorate in Political Science and Sociology from the same university.
Professor Aguilar will teach a course on "The Challenge of Democratization." The Institute's Global Studies Program and Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), and the Department of Political Science are sponsoring her visit.
Adolfo Figueroa
Professor Adolfo Figueroa, the second of the Tinker scholars, is one of Latin America's most distinguished economists. He has paid extensive attention to questions of inequality and income distribution in America's Southern Hemisphere. His most recent work, "The Inequality of Nations," examines why, after decades of reform and revolution, economic inequality still persists across Latin America.
Professor Figueroa is a faculty member of the Catholic University of Peru. In addition to his scholarly work, he has had advisory roles with major international development organizations including the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations.
Professor Figueroa will teach an interdepartmental seminar on Latin America on "income Inequality and Social Exclusion in Latin America." The Institute's LACIS, Border and Trans-cultural Studies Research Circle, and the Department of Agricultural Economics are sponsoring his visit.
For more information, contact Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications and Publications, International Institute, at (608) 262-5590 or E-mail: rlhessfacstaff.wisc.edu
Tinker Visiting Professor - Spring 2001
Roberto Vizcaino Guillot
Roberto Vizcaino Guillot is an adjunct professor at two of Cuba's leading institutions for higher music education - the Instituto Superior de Arte and the Amadeo Roldan School of Music, based in Havana. He is a member of the faculty of traveling professors who teach in foreign countries through the Instituto Superior de Arte of Havana, Cuba. He is teaching a master percussion class. His visit is being sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), and the Departments of Afro-American Studies and Music. Roberto Vizcaino Guillot
Gloria Bonder
Gloria Bonder is a leading scholar on women and gender issues in Latin America and an active advocate of women's rights. She pioneered the field of women's studies in Latin America and helped create the Center for Women's Studies in Argentina, one of the first research and advocacy institutions on women's rights in Latin America. Bonder has also been a key player in the Latin American women's movement and in resistance organizations against dictatorship in Argentina. This semester, she is directing a postgraduate seminar in "Gender and Public Policies." She is teaching the course "Women, Civil Society and Citizenship Identity in Latin America" in Women's Studies in the Spring of 2001. Her visit is being sponsored by LACIS, the Global Studies Program,
Jos Morn
Jos Morn is a professor of Spanish language at the Universit del Piemonte Orientale in Vercelli, Italy. He is one of the most innovative young scholars of Spanish literature in Europe today. His focus has been on Spanish narrative in a comparative context from the 16th to the 20th centuries, with special emphasis on Cervantes and Unamuno. His research on Cervantes has been widely recognized as groundbreaking. He is teaching a course on "Narrative Authority and Presence of the Author." His visit is being sponsored by LACIS and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
