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Conn, Robert T.
Associate Professor, Latin American Studies
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rconn@wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: On sabbatical.
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Robert Conn specializes in the study of some of Latin America's leading intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In his book - The Politics of Philology: Alfonso Reyes and the Invention of the Latin American Literary Tradition (2002, Bucknell University Press) - he examines the manner in which one of Mexico's most important writers and scholars of the past century turns to literature and philosophy to create intellectual community across the Hispanic and Latin American world.
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Degiovanni, Fernando
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Fernando
Degiovanni specializes in issues of nationalism, cultural politics and canon formation in
Argentina. By focusing on the first popular series of national "classic"
authors in early 20th century, his research explores the way in which opposing
intellectual projects attempted to build and impose contrasting versions of the
Argentine cultural tradition in times of massive immigration and democratic
institutionalization. His work has been published in major scholarly journals,
including Revista Iberoamericana, Hispam?rica, and Revista de cr?tica literaria
latinoamericana.
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McGuire, James W.
Professor, Latin American Studies
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jmcguire@wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2PM to 4PM, or by appointment (send email), in Public Affairs Center 219.
James McGuire specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia. He is the author Peronism without Peron (Stanford, 1997) and of articles on parties, unions, and strikes in Argentina; on transitions from authoritarianism in Latin America; on determinants of economic growth and income distribution in East Asia and Latin America; and on determinants of the pattern and pace of mortality decline in developing societies, including Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, South Korea, and Taiwan. His new book, Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge, in press, to be published early 2010), explores why some East Asian and Latin American societies have done better than others at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality. It draws on a cross-national analysis of more than 100 developing countries (Chapter 2); case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand (Chapters 3-10); and historical comparisons among the eight societies (Chapter 11).
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Wightman, Ann M.
Chair, Latin American Studies
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Center for the Americas 201
awightman@wesleyan.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009:
Director of the Center for the Americas and Professor of History, Ann Wightman specializes in Latin American colonial history. Her award-winning Indigenous Migration and Social Change analyzes the impact of Spanish colonization on traditional Indian communities. She is continuing her research on Andean society in her current study of kinship ties within the Indian community of seventeenth-century Peru. In 1996, she won a university award for excellence in teaching.
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