Visiting Scholars

Some of the world’s brightest minds have made Princeton their home for scholarship and research.

PLAS awards four to six long-term fellowships annually, for one or two semesters, to top international or national scholars, and promising mid-career scholars, in the humanities and social sciences who have teaching experience, as well as established writers, artists, filmmakers and architects who are working on projects related to Latin America and are stellar teachers, who will provide Princeton students with a unique opportunity to study topics that are not regularly offered at the University. Visiting Research Scholars will be expected to teach one undergraduate course and to participate in PLAS-related events on campus.

Join us in welcoming our fellows to campus this coming academic year.

PLAS Long-term Fellows

Agustín Díez Fischer
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies (Fall 2022)

Agustín Díez Fischer (Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires) is a professor of Latin American art at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He has curated various exhibitions, among them The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War along with Ruth Estévez and Miguel López for the Getty…

José Lira
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies (Fall 2022)

José Lira (PD and Ph.D. University of São Paulo) is a professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP). He is currently the Director of USP's Maria Antonia Cultural Center. He was a research affiliate of the Brazilian National Council of Research from 1999 to 2014, and directed USP's…

James Loxton
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies (Spring 2023)

James Loxton ‘06 (Ph.D., Harvard University) is a senior lecturer in comparative politics at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes, democratization, and political parties. He is the author of Conservative Party-Building in Latin America: Authoritarian Inheritance and…

Catalina Muñoz
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Latin American Studies (Spring 2023)

Catalina Muñoz (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of history at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Her publications include A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul: Cultural Politics in Colombia, 1930-1946 (Lexington Books, 2022) and articles in the Hispanic…

Mary Pena
Princeton-Mellon / Program in Latin American Studies Fellow (2022-2023)

Mary Pena’s fellowship is made possible through the support of the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton Program in Latin American Studies.

Mary is a researcher and arts practitioner with experience in sensory ethnography, curation, and public programs. Her published work is multidisciplinary, bridging theoretical and artistic…

PLAS Short-term Fellows

Paola Bergallo
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (October 2022)
Virginia Bonicatto
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (October 2022)
Maria Mercedes Di Virgilio
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (March 2023)
Edgardo Dieleke *13
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (March 20 - April 19, 2023)
Lucas Dominguez Rubio
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (September 2022)
Germán Feierherd
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (February 2023)
Naara Fontinele dos Santos
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (September 2022)
Lauren Heidbrink
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (May 2023)
Juan Antonio Le Clercq
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (June 2023)
Adrian Gustavo Zarrilli
Visiting Fellow, Program in Latin American Studies (April 2023)

Latin Americanists at Princeton

Eduardo Bhatia '86
Visiting Lecturer in Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor
Benjamin Bradlow
Associate Research Scholar, Sociology and Lecturer in the School of Public and International Affairs
Michael Esbach
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, High Meadows Environmental Institute
Carlos Fausto
Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Reinaldo Funes-Monzote
Visiting Research Scholar, History and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Arbel Griner
Associate Research Scholar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Lecturer in the School of Public and International Affairs
Philip Luke Johnson
Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program
Elise Mitchell
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, History
Michael Montesano
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Jose Morales-Arilla
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Politics
Miqueias Mugge
Associate Research Scholar, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Anna Ozaki
Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities
Sebastián Ramírez
Lecturer in Anthropology
Sergio Ramírez
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Program in Latin American Studies
Keishla Rivera-Lopez
Lecturer in Effron Center for the Study of America
Juan Rubio
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Effron Center for the Study of America
Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez
Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Spanish and Portuguese
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Visiting Faculty, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Rodrigo Simon de Moraes
Postdoctoral Research Associate, PIIRS/HMEI
Matias Spektor
Visiting Fellow, Reimagining World Order (RWO) Research Community, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Cynthia Ursino
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology