Fellows Archive

This archive lists former associates of PLAS from various appointment ranks including visiting scholars from the PLAS long- and short-term visiting fellowships and the Visiting Scholars and Artists from Puerto Rico (VISAPUR) program as well as postdoctoral research associates from the PLAS postdoctoral fellowship in date order. Please scroll down to view the entire list.

Long-term Fellows 2023-2024

Short-term Fellows 2023-2024

Long-term Fellows 2022-2023

Short-term Fellows 2022-2023

Long-term Fellows 2021-2022

Short-term Fellows 2021-2022

Postdoctoral Fellows 2021-2023

Long-term Fellows 2019-2020

Short-term Fellows 2019-2020

VISAPUR Fellows 2019-2020

VISAPUR Students 2019-2020

Postdoctoral Fellows 2018-2020

Long-term Fellows 2018-2019

Short-term Fellows 2018-2019

PLAS Fellows 2017-2018

PLAS Fellows 2016-2017

Visiting Fellows, 1999-2015

2015-2016

Álvaro Enrigue Soler (Columbia University)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese,  Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2015)

Wendy Guerra Torres Gomez de Cadiz (Independent Writer/Lecturer)
Visiting Associate Professional Specialist, Program in Latin American Studies
(Sep 9, 2015-Oct 15, 2015)

Margarita López (Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo of Universidad Central de Venezuela)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
(Fall 2015)

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz  (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(2014-2017) 

Paulo Tavares (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador)
Visiting Associate Professional Specialist, Program in Latin American Studies
(Sep 15, 2015-Dec 14, 2015)

Mario Vargas Llosa (Recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Visiting Lecturer, Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2015)

2014-2015

Robin Blackburn (University of Essex, UK)
Visiting Associate Professional Specialist, Program in Latin American Studies
(Mar 10-Apr 25, 2015)

Arcadio Diaz Quiñones (Emeritus, Princeton University)
Lecturer with rank of Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2014)

Henrique Espada Rodriguez Lima Filho (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
(Dec 19, 2014-Apr 20, 2015)

Alma Guillermoprieto (Independent Journalist)
Visiting Associate Professional Specialist,  Program in Latin American Studies 
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2014)

Serge Gruzinski (École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Visiting Lecturer,  Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2015)

Mauricio Lissovsky (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
(Mar 8-Apri 18, 2015)

Zita Cristina Nunes (University of Maryland)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
(Oct 1, 2014-Jun 1, 2015)

Richard Peña (Columbia University)
Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(2014-15)

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(2014-2017)

2013-2014

João Cezar De Castro Rocha (State University of Rio de Janeiro)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of  Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2014)

Marcos de Almeida Rangel (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(2013-2014)

Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones (Emeritus, Princeton University)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2014)

Enrique Krauze Kleinbort (Historian; Founder and editor, Letras Libres, Mexico City)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2013)

Efraín Kristal (University of California, Los Angeles)
Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Program in Latin American Studies  
(Fall 2013)

Mario Vargas Llosa (Recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Visiting Lecturer, The Lewis Center, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2013)

Lilia Schwarcz (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Global Scholar, Department of History, Program in Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
(Spring 2014)

2012-2013

Álvaro Enrigue Soler (Award-winning author)
Senior Research Assistant, Program in Latin American Studies
Lecturer, Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies 
Research project: New Latin American Journalism and its Fictions

Albert Esteve (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Towards a Unified Analysis of World Population: Family Patterns in Multilevel Perspective (WorldFam) 

James Green (Brown University)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies 
Research project: Exiles within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Brazilian Gay Revolutionary
(Spring 2013)

Maria Helena Lavinas de Morais (Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Comparative Analysis of the Recent Evolution of Social Protection Systems in Latin America: institutional breakdown, incremental dynamics, counter-reform? 
(Spring 2013)

Ricardo Luna (Kluge Center of the Library of Congress)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2013)

Giancarlo Mazzanti (Architect)
Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2012)

Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Research Scholar, History, Program in Latin American Studies
Global Scholar
(Spring 2013)

Timothy J. Smith (Appalachian State University)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Critical examination of indigenous governance and autonomy, human rights and violence, citizenship and the state, development and grassroots indigenous politics in Latin America (Guatemala and Ecuador)
(Fall 2012)

Jorge Volpi (Award-winning author)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies

2011-2012

Serge Gruzinski (École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - EHESS, Paris)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: New World and the Birth of a Global Conscience: a Reading of José de Acosta; and Asia and the New World in Early Modern Times
(Spring 2012)

Christina Halperin (University of California, Riverside)
Latin American Studies-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow
Lecturer, Council of the Humanities, Department of Art & Archaeology
(2010-13)

Ricardo Luna (Kluge Center of the Library of Congress)
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2012)

María Regina Martínez Casas (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)
(April 2012)

Mónica Gabriela Moreno Figueroa (Newcastle University)
Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Racist Moments: Mestizaje and the Everyday Life of Racism in Mexico
(Spring 2012)

Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Research Scholar, History
Global Scholar
(Spring 2012)

John Mraz (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Art & Archaeology, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Historicizing Photographs: Critiques, Theories, Practices
(Fall 2011)

Carlos Reboratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Visiting Research Collaborator, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Latin America: A Global History
(Spring 2012)

Rafael Rojas (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas/CIDE)
Global Scholar, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2012)

Juan Villoro (Universidad Pompeu Fabraa)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2011)

2010-2011

Carola Barrios de Adam (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Caracas: Modern City and Museum: Incomplete intersections in the cityscape of the 1950s
(Fall 2010)

Agustin E. Ferraro Cibelli (Universidad de Salamanca, Instituto de Estudios de Iberoamérica)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Dangerous Liaisons: Bureaucrats and Politicians in Latin American Democracies
(Spring 2011)

Julia Preston (Correspondent for The New York Times)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2011)

Mario Vargas Llosa (Award-winning Peruvian writer)
Visiting Lecturer, Program in Creative Writing, The Lewis Center for the Arts
2010 PLAS Distinguished Visitor
(Fall 2010)

2009-2010

Gustavo Guerrero (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: The Llanero: History of a National Symbol (1862-1955)
(2009–2010)

Beatriz Jaguaribe de Mattos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese,  Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Memories of the Future: National Imaginaries and the Aesthetics of Memory in Brazil and Argentina
(2009–2010)

Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of History, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Lima Barreto: The Anxious Thermometer of a Young Republic
(Spring 2010)

2008-2009

Marcos Cueto (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia)
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Visiting Professor, Program in Latin American Studies
Research Project: Health & the Culture of Survival: A History of Public Health in 20th-century Latin America & the Caribbean
(Fall 2008)

Juan Pablo Luna (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Political Representation & the Quality of Democracy in Latin America
(Fall 2008)

José Manuel Prieto (Cuban writer, New York)
Professional Specialist, Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Cuban Literature of the ’90s: Between the Island & the Diaspora
(2008–2009)

2007-2008

Ricardo Córdova Macías (Fundación Dr. Guillermo Manuel Ungo, El Salvador)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Conflict, Peace Processes, & Democratization in Central America
(Fall 2007)

Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of African American Studies
Visiting Fellow, Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies
Research project: Class Formation & Black Movements in Brazil
(Spring 2008)

Nadya Araujo Guimarães (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Visiting Research Scholar, Visiting Associate Professor, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Fellow, Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies
Research project: The Sociology of Brazilian Industrial Society
(Fall 2007)

Vania Markarian (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Youth Counterculture & the Left in 1960s Uruguay
(Spring 2008)

Gabriel Negretto (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica - CIDE, México)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: The Politics of Constitutional Change in Latin America
(Spring 2008)

Ignacio Walker (Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica - CIEPLAN, Chile)
LaPorte Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies
Visiting Professor, Dean of the College/Program in Latin American Studies, Woodrow Wilson School
Research project: Democratic Governability in Latin America
(2007–2008)

2006-2007

Paulo Fontes (Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo - FESP–SP)
Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Department of History, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Popular Culture & Workers’ Associations in São Paulo, 1945–1978
(2006–2007)

Jorge Giovannetti (University of Puerto Rico)
Visiting Research Scholar, Visiting Associate Professor, Program in Latin American Studies
Research project: Black British Subjects in Cuba, 1898–1948
(Spring 2007)

2005-2006

Carlos Iván Degregori (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru)
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Program in Latin American Studies
(2005-2006)

Victoria Langland (University of California, Davis)
Visiting Research Associate, Department of History
(2005-2006)

Scott Martin (Columbia University)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2005)

Carol McMichael Reese (Tulane University)
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies
(Fall 2005)

2004-2005

Carlos Iván Degregori (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru)
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2005)

Andrés Di Tella (Independent filmmaker, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American Studies
(Spring 2005)

2003-2004

Eric Hershberg (Social Science Research Council)
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies (PIIRS), Council on Regional Studies
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Politics

Roberto Laserna (Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia)
Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Program in Latin American Studies

2002-2003

Ana María Bejarano (University of Toronto)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Fellow, Center for International Studies

Julia Paley (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Program in Latin American Studies

Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Politics

2001-2002

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (State University of New York, Buffalo)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Religion, Program in Latin American Studies

Ana María Bejarano (University of Toronto)
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Fellow, Center for International Studies

Junia Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Visiting Fellow, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, Program in Latin American Studies

Elizabeth Jelin (Universidad de Buenos Aires, IDES)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies

Ricardo Luna (Former Ambassador of Peru to the United States)
Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Program in Latin American Studies

Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies
Visiting Professor, Department of Politics

2000-2001

Gage Averill (New York University)
Visiting Professor, Department of Music, Program in Latin American Studies

Junia Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Visiting Fellow, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, Program in Latin American Studies

Silvia Hirsch (The College of New Jersey)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Program in Latin American Studies

1999-2000

Ann L. Craig (University of California, San Diego)
Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics, Program in Latin American Studies

Cristina Escobar (Temple University)
Visiting Research Fellow, Office of Population Research, Program in Latin American Studies

Alison Newby (New Mexico State University)
Visiting Research Fellow, Office of Population Research, Program in Latin American Studies