Visiting Academics

Visiting Professors

• Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Annual Visiting Professorship
  This endowment supports two to four visiting scholars from a Latin American country to teach at UT for one semester.
• Tinker Visiting Professor
  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.
• Instituto Rio Branco Visiting Chair in Brazilian Studies
  One of the main objectives of the Instituto Rio Branco Visiting Chair is to encourage the study of and research on Brazil in internationally renowned universities.
• Matías Romero Visiting Chair in Mexican Studies
  The Matías Romero Visiting Chair in Mexican Studies was created in 2003 through an educational and research cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico and UT Austin. Its purpose is to promote the presence and participation of distinguished Mexicans from the public and private sectors, as well as from academia, to foster greater understanding of Mexican culture and society.
• Visiting Resource Professors
  Visiting Resource Professors are invited by UT Latin Americanist faculty members to lecture for one to two weeks in either undergraduate or graduate classes.
• LLILAS Mellon Visiting Professor
  
• Trade Visiting Professor

Visiting Scholars and Visiting Researchers

Due to the outstanding Benson Latin American Collection and its affiliation with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), many scholars choose to spend sabbatical or other research leave at the University of Texas at Austin.