Latin America

Edwin Ackerman

Edwin Ackerman

Visiting Fellow Spring 2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Syracuse University
Dr. Edwin Ackerman uses comparative-historical methods to understand how political identities form and become operative. He has studied this process in two... Read more about Edwin Ackerman
Felipe Alfonso

Felipe Alfonso

PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo
Global Fellow at Harvard University, Spring 2019
Felipe Rodrigues Alfonso has a Bachelor's Degree in History at the University of Sao Paulo with partial completion at the University Paris-Sorbonne IV, a... Read more about Felipe Alfonso
Cesar Castillo-Garcia

César Castillo-García

Visiting Graduate Student, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) (spring 2024).
PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research.

I am a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) and a...

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Sibylle Duhautois

Sibylle Duhautois

2016-2017 WIGH Affiliate
2016-2017 Visiting Fellow, History Department, Harvard University
PhD Candidate in History, Paris Institute of Political Studies, France

Sibylle Duhautois graduated from Sciences Po and holds a Master degree in History. Since 2012 she works in the Futurepol project as a research assistant....

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Marcelo Ferraro

PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo
Global Fellow at Harvard University, 2015

Marcelo Ferraro has a degree in Law and in History from the University of São Paulo and is currently a student in the graduate program in social history....

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Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Alexander Geelen

Alexander Geelen

Global Fellow, WIGH, Fall 2021
PhD Candidate in History, the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Alexander Geelen is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the...

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Martine Jean

Martine Jean

Visiting Fellow 2018-2019, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations
Visiting Fellow, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University

During her stay at the WCFIA, Martine Jean will complete her monograph on the advent of the penitentiary in Brazil with a focus on the Casa de Correção (...

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Liliana Obregón

Liliana Obregón

WIGH Visiting Fellow, Spring 2017
Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Fall 2016
Associate Professor in International Law, University of Los Andes Law School, Colombia

Liliana Obregón is professor of law at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has a degree in law from the same university, an MA from...

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Tâmis Parron

Tâmis Parron

Assistant Professor of History, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
2016-2017 Volkswagen Global Fellow, WIGH

Tamis Parron is the WIGH Volkswagen Global Fellow.  He received his PhD from the University of Sao Paulo in 2015, where his...

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Israel G. Solares

Israel G. Solares

Visiting Fellow, Fall 2019, WIGH
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego (starting January 2020)
Israel G. Solares received his PhD in 2018 from El Colegio de México. He has been a Visiting Researcher and Research Associate at the Kellogg Institute... Read more about Israel G. Solares