Social Science Research Council

March 4 - 6, 2005

List of Participants and Bios

Itty Abraham
Social Science Research Council
abraham@ssrc.org

Itty Abraham directs the South Asia program and the Global Security and Cooperation program. He received his B.A. in economics from Loyola College, Madras, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State (Zed Books, 1998); co-editor of Southeast Asian Diasporas and the forthcoming The Criminal Life of Things. He is a member of the editorial board of Asian Security, a book series from Stanford University Press, and serves on the advisory boards to the Digital South Asia Library, the Center for Place, Culture, Power at CUNY, and the Cold War History Project at NYU. He will be on leave from September 2003 through June 2004, teaching at the Gaston Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University.

Daniel Cieza
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina
danielcieza@tutopia.com

Dr. Daniel Cieza: Argentinean Doctor in Law. Has a Master degree in Sociology. Former Professor of Political Sociology at the Universidad Veracruzana, in México (1980-1984). Since 1985 is a Professor in the Buenos Aires National University and La Plata National University. He was Deputy at the Buenos Aires Constituent Assembly, in 1994 and Provincial Deputy in Buenos Aires Province (1995/1999). He is the author of three books about labour relations and politics and has coordinated two other books about labour policies. At the moment is in charge of the Institutional Relations Area y Social Mediation in the Human Rights Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina.

Paul W. Drake
University of California - San Diego
pdrake@ucsd.edu

Drake specializes in Chilean politics and, more generally, in Latin American political economy. He is the author of Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932-52; The Money Doctor in the Andes; and Money Doctors, Foreign Debts, and Economic Reforms in Latin America, from the 1890s to the Present. He has co-edited Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980-85; El Apra de la ideologia a la praxis; and The Struggle for Democracy in Chile, 1982-90. He has contributed over three dozen articles and chapters to journals and edited volumes. Professor Drake received the Bolton Prize for Socialism and Populism in Chile and the Bryce Wood Prize for The Money Doctor in the Andes; he was elected President of the Latin American Studies Association in 1988. His current research examines labor movements under authoritarian regimes.

Steve Ellner
University of New Mexico
esteve74@cantv.net

Professor Steve Ellner, a University of New Mexico graduate, has published extensively on Latin American politics and history. Since 1994 he has been teaching graduate courses in the School of Law and Political Science of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). He has also contributed extensively to the Venezuelan history journal Tierra Firme and one of his most frequently cited publications is his "Venezuelan Revisionist Political History, 1908-1958: New Motives and Criteria for Analyzing the Past," published in Latin American Research Review (1995).

Adolfo Gilly
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
agilly@servidor.unam.mx

Adolfo Gilly is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Evaluation Coordinator for the government of Mexico City. Professor Adolfo Gilly is a renowned scholar of Mexican politics. His publications include "Chiapas: La Razón Ardiente, Ensayo sobre la Rebelión del Mundo Encantado" (1997) and "México, el Poder, el Dinero, y la Sangre" (1996). From 1997 to 1999 he served as adviser to Mexico City Mayor Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas.

Neil Harvey
New Mexico State University
nharvey@nmsu.edu

Neil Harvey, is an associate professor of government at New Mexico State University and is the author of "The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy" (Duke University Press 1998).

Alan Knight
Oxford's St Antony College
alan.knight@latin-american-centre.oxford.ac.uk

Alan Knight is professor of History at Oxford's St. Anthony College, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Mexican Revolution, v. 1. Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants v. 2, Counter-revolution and Reconstruction. (Cambridge, 1986); US-Mexican Relations, 1910-1940: An Interpretation. (San Diego, 1987); and The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century. (Austin, 1992). His areas of interest are modern history and politics of Latin America, especially Mexico; revolutions, state-building and peasant movements; British and US relations with Latin America.

Carlos Marichal
Centro de Estudios Historicos
El Colegio de Mexico
1948car@prodigy.net.mx

Carlos Marichal holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, is Professor of History at El Colegio de Mexico, and is the president of the Mexican Association of Economic History. He is the author of A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: from Independence to the Great Depression, 1920-1930, Princeton University Press, 1989 and The Bankruptcy of the Viceroyalty, 1780-1810: New Spain and the Finances of the Spanish Empire, Mexico Fondo de Cultura Economica 1999. His lines of investigation are the Economic History of Mexico and Latin America and the Intellectual history of Latin America.

Silvia Rivera
Universidad Mayor de San Andres La Paz, Bolivia
snrivera@entelnet.bo

Silvia Rivera is a Professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in Bolivia. She is one of the world’s leading authors and experts on the coca leaf, with long experience in the Yungas region of Bolivia. She is the author of Oprimidos pero no vencidos (“Oppressed but not Conquered,” Ediciones Aruwiri, 2003) and Las Fronteras de la Coca (“The Frontiers of Coca,” Ediciones Aruwiri, 2003) – that is now included in video and monograph form. She has been a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, University of Texas in Austin, Andina Simón Bolívar University in Ecuador, International University of Rábida in Spain, and Salta and Jujuy Universities in Argentina. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow.

Fred Rosen
The North American Congress on Latin America
frosen@nacla.org

Fred Rosen, one of the organizers of this workshop, is a Mexico City-based political economist and writer. He is an editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas and is a regular political columnist for the International Edition of the Miami Herald. He is currently working with Steve Ellner on a book about the political moment in Venezuela.

Jeffrey W. Rubin
Boston University
jwr@bu.edu

Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History, Boston University and Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University. He has written and published extensively on Latin America, democracy and social movements. These include: Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico, Duke University Press, 1997 (Winner, Best Book Prize for 1997, New England Council of Latin American Studies); “Ambiguity and Contradiction in a Radical Popular Movement,” in Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, and Evelina Dagnino, eds., Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements, Westview Press, 1998, pp. 141-164; “Zapotec and Mexican: Ethnicity and Democratization in Juchitán, Mexico,” in Wayne Cornelius, ed., Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1999, pp. 175-206..

Jan Rus
Instituto de Asesoria Antropologica para la Region Maya (INAREMAC)
jan_rus@yahoo.com

Jan Rus, has worked in the native communities of Chiapas since the early 1970s and has directed the Taller Tzotzil, a Maya-language publishing house based in San Cristóbal, since 1985. He is co-editor of Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous People of Chiapas and the Zapatista Uprising, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, and author of numerous articles in English and Spanish about the history, politics, and social organization of Chiapas’s Maya. He has also translated indigenous writers, most notably Mariano Pérez Tzu, whose “First Months of the Zapatistas” has been widely re-published and has become perhaps the emblematic essay about the 1994 uprising by an indigenous writer.

Ricardo D. Salvatore
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
rdsalva@utdt.edu

Ricardo D. Salvatore is professor of modern history at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. He is author of Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires During the Rosas Era (1820-1860) and coeditor of Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times and Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations, all published by Duke University Press.

Daniela Spenser
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antroplogía Social
spenser@prodigy.net.mx

Dr. Daniela Spenser, of the "Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antroplogía Social", Mexico City has published widely on Soviet-Latin American relations and has also organized the November 2002 Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project Conference. She is the author of "The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia,and the United States in the 1920s" (1999)and editor of "Espejos de la Guerra Fria: Mexico, America Central y el Caribe" (2004).

Oscar Ugarteche
oscar_ugarteche@terra.com.pe