Every year ILAS attracts distinguished faculty and researchers from throughout the United States and Latin America including instructors from Latin America as Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professors.

ILAS is pleased to announce our Spring 2008 Tinker Visiting Professors:

Lila Caimari
Lila Caimari graduated as a History Professor from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), and received her MA and Ph.D. at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (University of Paris). She is currently an Independent Researcher at CONICET (the main state-sponsored research institution in Argentina), and teaches in the Posgraduate Program in History at San Andrés University.
Professor Caimari’s research interests focus on two different areas. First, the intersection between religion and politics in 20th century Argentina. Her book, Perón y la Iglesia Católica. Religión, Estado y Sociedad (1943-1955) is the main outcome of this line of work. Second, the history of crime and punishment, a field of studies that includes a number of broader related topics on the social and cultural history of modern Argentina. Her book Apenas un delincuente. Crimen, castigo y cultura en la Argentina, 1880-1955 focuses on the prison experience and popular notions of justice and punishment. She has recently edited a collection of essays on social views of crime and justice: La ley de los profanos. Delito, justicia y cultura en Buenos Aires. Her current research project deals with illegal practices in Buenos Aires during the inter-war period. Professor Caimari is also the editor of a reader of Latin American History for US students (Keen’s Latin American Civilization, in collaboration with Robert Buffington). She lives in Buenos Aires, where she regularly writes for cultural supplements and magazines.

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Full Professor in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo. Her main interests are the History of the Slaves, Racial Theories, the History of the Brazilian Court, and Academic Art.
She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, among them: Portrait in Black and White: Slaves, Newspapers and Citizens in São Paulo [Best National History Book]; Spectacle of Races: Scientists, Institutions and Racial Theories in Brazil at the End of the XIXth Century; The Emperors beard: D. Pedro II a Tropical King [Best Book of the Year, Jabuti National Prize]; The Long Journey of the Kings Librarie: from earthquake to independence of Brazil; The Book of the Books: The Royal Library. She also edited the 4th volume of the History of Private Life in Brazil.
Professor Schwarcz has been a fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation and a visiting professor at Brown, Oxford and Leiden Universities. She has been a Member of the Advisor Group for the Harvard Brazilian Office since 2006.

2007-2008 Visiting Scholars:

Marcelo Bohlke, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations

Ricardo Caldas, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil

Lilian Furquim, São Paulo School of Economics, Brazil

Roberto Gargarella, Universidad Torcuata Di Tella & Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gustavo Senechal de Goffredo, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations

Liliana Gomez, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Paulo Vieira da Cunha, Central Bank of Brazil (Director of International Affairs)

Eduardo Viotti, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil