Center For Latin American Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies

CLACS Welcomes Newly Affiliated Professors, Academic Year 2007-08

Adrián López Denis
Cogut Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities Adrian Lopez Denis

Research Interest: “Public Health and Popular Healing in Colonial Cuba.” Adrián is writing a book about the impact of epidemics on the articulation of modern sanitary practices in the Spanish Caribbean during the long nineteenth century. Combining insights coming from the historiography of slavery, science, and colonialism, this work is an attempt to explain the emergence of hybrid forms of both healing and policing the body of the nation. His ultimate goal is to explore the epistemic consequences of recasting Western medicine as an Atlantic, rather than a European invention.

Course: Colonial Cuba: Slavery and Modernity in the Spanish Caribbean (1500-1930) [HIST 1320]

Teodoro Hampe Martínez
Charles H. Watts Visiting Professor, Department of History

Background: Teodoro Hampe Martínez has a BA in Humanities and MA degrees in History and Education from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru (1983) and a PhD in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (1986). He is Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Peru and at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, and has been a research fellow at the John Carter Brown Library in 1989.
Teodoro Hampe Martinez

His list of publications include Historia de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1989), Don Pedro de la Gasca: su obra política en España y América (1990), Bibliotecas privadas en el mundo colonial (1996), Cultura barroca y extirpación de idolatrías (1996), Fragmentos de la historia moderna (1997), Santo Oficio e historia colonial (1998), Testimonios del Perú y del mundo (1998), and El mirador peruanista (2002). He has compiled multi-authored volumes on La tradición clásica en el Perú virreinal (1999), El legado científico de Alexander von Humboldt en el Perú (2005), and La mujer en la historia del Perú (2007).

Course: The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega [HIST 1971E]

Meida McNeal
Cogut Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities

Research Interest: "Choreographing Citizenship in the Gayelle: Performing Trinidadian Nationalism." Meida is revising her dissertation into a book. This comparative ethnographic study focuses on four Afro- and Indo-Trinidadian dance companies. Analyzing the relationship between cultural production and variables of difference (race/ethnicity, class and gender), the study contributes to current discourse about citizenship and nation-building in the post-colonial Caribbean through the arena of cultural production as both a local and globally situated enterprise.

Course: Caribbean Culture and Performance [TSDA 1281G];
Black Diaspora, Dance and Vernacular Embodiments [TSDA 1281H]

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies

Background: Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro is the United Nations special rapporteur of human rights in Myanmar, and from 1995-2000 in Burundi. He is also the chairman of the UN Subcommission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Geneva. In December 2002, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed him an independent expert to prepare a study on violence against children.

Professor Pinheiro holds a Ph.D. in political science and a graduate degree in sociology from the University of Paris. He is professor of political science and research associate at the Center for the Study of Violence at the Universidade de São Paulo. He has taught at Columbia and Notre Dame Universities in the U.S., Oxford University in the U.K., and the école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Pinheiro has focused much of his career on human rights. He is a member of the Justice and Peace Commission in São Paulo.

He also served as secretary of state for human rights under Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He is the co-author, with Jorge Wilheim and Ignacy Sachs, Brasil: um Século de transformações (2001); and with Juan Méndez and Guillermo O'Donnell, The (Un) Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America (1999). He also has collaborated on and contributed to numerous other books and is the author and coauthor of a wide range of articles and reports.

Course: The Struggle for Human Rights in Brazil: Democracy without Citizenship [LAST 1510.01]