BA National University of Cordoba
MA University Maryland College Park
PHD University Maryland College Park

SPAN275 - 01
Jorge Luis Borges

SPAN409 - 03
Senior Thesis Tutorial

SPAN226 - 01
Spanish American Lit & Civil

SPAN271 - 01
Intellectuals Cultural Politic

Office Hours:
Spring 11: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00-1 p.m.

Research Interests:
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.

Associate Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures
300 High Street 204
860-685-3109

Associate Professor, Latin American Studies
860-685-3109

rconn@wesleyan.edu

BA Dartmouth College
PHD Princeton University

SPAN221 - 04
Introduction to Hispanic Lit.

SPAN226 - 01
Spanish American Lit & Civil

Office Hours:
F11 Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00-3:00 pm

Research Interests:
Robert Conn is the author of The Politics of Philology: Alfonso Reyes and the Invention of the Latin American Literary Tradition (Bucknell University Press, 2002). At present, he is completing a book-length study of Simon Bolivar that focuses on the ways in which the liberator of South America has been used in different national contexts, with careful attention to the areas of politics, literature, and history. A section entitled "Vasconcelos as Screenwriter: Bolivar Remembered" was published as a book chapter in the collection Mexico Reading the United States (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009).

Scholarly Keywords:
Latin America, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela

BA University of Toronto
MA University of Chicago
PHD University of Arizona

LAST362 - 01
Authenticity in the Americas

Personal Homepage:
http://akiddle.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Tuesday 2-3, Wednesday 10-11, Thursday 2-3

Professor of Government
Public Affairs Center 219
860-685-2487

Chair, Government
860-685-2487

Professor, Latin American Studies
860-685-2487

Tutor, College of Social Studies

jmcguire@wesleyan.edu

BA Swarthmore College
MA University of California, Berkeley
PHD University of California, Berkeley

GOVT383 - 01
East Asian & Latin Amer Devel.

GOVT271 - 01
Political Econ Developing Coun

Personal Homepage:
http://jmcguire.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tues. & Weds., 2:00-3:30 PM, Public Affairs Center 219.

Research Interests:
James McGuire specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia and a topical focus on democracy and public health. McGuire is the author of Peronism without Persn (Stanford, 1997) and of articles and chapters on Argentine politics and labor unions; Latin American social policies; transitions from authoritarianism; and economic growth, income inequality, and mortality decline, particularly in East Asia and Latin America. His recent book Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge, 2010) explores why some countries do better than others at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010 and won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research (2011).

Scholarly Keywords:
Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, mortality decline, political economy, social (especially health) policy, labor unions, political parties, democracy and democratization

Publications:
http://jmcguire.faculty.wesleyan.edu/welcome/research-2/

BA Duke University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University

HIST188 - 01
Subject Peoples

HIST245 - 01
Latin American History

LAST401 - 01
Individual Tutorial, Undergrad

LAST403 - 01
Dept/Program Project or Essay

Office Hours:
ON LEAVE SPRING 2012

Research Interests:
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.