Visiting Academics

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Annual Visiting Professorship

Established as part of the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowment, this professorship supports visiting scholars from a Latin American country to teach at UT for one semester. Candidates for the Lozano Long Professorship must be nominated by UT academic departments and approved by the committee that oversees the LLILAS visiting professors programs. Two to four of these professorships can be awarded every year.

For more information, contact Paola Bueche at 512.232.2405.

Lozano Long Visiting Professors

Fall 2008

Ariel Dulitzky
Ariel Dulitzky holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Law and an LL.M. from Harvard. A former professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and American University, Washington College of Law, Professor Dulitzky is a leading expert in the Inter-American human rights system. His work on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was fundamental to the creation of the Special Rapporteurship on Afro-Descendants and Racial Discrimination. Prior to joining the IACHR, Dulitzky served as the Latin America Program Director at the International Human Rights Law Group, where he developed a program on racial discrimination in Brazil and oversaw the Law Group's Program on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Professor Dulitzky will be teaching the course during the Fall 2008 session.

Fall 2007

Antonio Dimas DeMoraes
Professor DeMoraes holds a Ph.D. from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He is a respected scholar of Brazilian literature, with a research focus on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Professor Dimas will arrive in fall 2007 and will teach Modernização cultural e literária nos anos 20 e 30: Gilberto Freyre, Mário de Andrade e José Lins do Rego [Brazil's Cultural and Literary Modernization in the 1920s and 1930s: G. Freyre, M. de Andrade and J. Lins do Rego].

Spring 2007

Marcela Cerrutti
Professor Cerrutti holds a Ph.D. in sociology with a specialization in population from The University of Texas at Austin. She is a leading expert on urban labor markets in Latin America with a particular emphasis on the role and behavior of women within them. She has served as the Director of the Center for Population Studies (CENEP) in Argentina. Professor Cerrutti will be teaching SOC 389K, Internal and International Migration in Latin America, during the spring 2007 session.

Spring 2006

Guillermo Padilla
The first Lozano Long Visiting Professor, Dr. Padilla is from the University of California, Berkeley and his research focuses on sociology and legal anthropology. He will teach in the Department of Anthropology during Spring 2006.