Visiting Academics
Tinker Visiting Professor
The University of Texas at Austin is one of five major universities (with Chicago, Columbia, Stanford, and Wisconsin) to have a professorship endowed by the Edward Larocque Tinker Foundation. The goal of the Tinker Visiting Professor program has been to bring pre-eminent thinkers from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula to the United States as a means of encouraging contact and collaboration among scholars. A Tinker Visiting Professor is expected to provide an opportunity for U.S. scholars, students and the general public to discover the contributions made by Latin American and Iberian scholars in a broad range of disciplines and, therefore, must be a citizen of an Ibero-American country, Canada, Spain or Portugal. Canadian candidates must be Latin Americanists.
A Tinker visiting Professor is a scholar or professional (journalist, architect, judge, etc.) who has gained prominence and recognition for contributions to his/her field and not just a promising newcomer.
The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) administers the Tinker Professor Program. Nominations for this professorship must come from chairs of UT-Austin departments.
For more information, contact Paola Bueche at 512.232.2405.
Tinker Professors
Fall 2007
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 Human Rights in Latin America during the Fall 2007 session.
Spring 2008
Sandra Kuntz Ficker
Sandra Kuntz Ficker is Professor of Economic History at El Colegio de México, where she earned her Ph.D. She has been a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Chicago and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. Her research work deals with various economic history topics, including the economic impact of railroads, the entrepreneurial history of railroad companies, and Mexico's foreign trade and commercial policy—all in nineteenth and early twentieth century Mexico. During the spring semester, Dr. Kuntz Ficker will be teaching the course Economic History of Mexico, 1800–1940.
Fall 2008
Carolina Santamaria
Dr. Santamaria holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s in music from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. She has been the recipient of a Summer Fellowship from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, a Fulbright-Javeriana Scholarship for graduate studies, and the Rosa Sabater special award in harpsichord performance. Her research explores the history of a prominent national music in Colombia, the "bambuco," and the academic and popular discourses that surrounded its "sacralization" as the pre-eminent Colombian music in the 1930s and 1940s. Dr. Santamaria also explores the division between the disciplines of historical musicology and ethnomusicology and suggests modes of integrating the two areas in a Latin American context.
Spring 2009
Rafael Rojas
Dr. Rojas, a specialist in Cuban intellectual history, holds a Ph.D. in history from El Colegio de México as well as degrees from the Universidad de La Habana and UNAM in Mexico. He has published thirteen single-author books, among them Cuban Intellectual History, Cuba mexicana: Historia de una anexión, and La política de adiós, as well as numerous articles and book chapters covering the nineteenth century to the present. Dr. Rojas is a professor at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. During 2007, he was a visiting professor at both Princeton and Columbia University.