Visiting Scholars
We are pleased to invite Latin American and Caribbean area scholars from a wide array of disciplines to affiliate with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) Program through our Visiting Fellows in Residence program.
LACS welcomes scholars from other institutions, especially those in this country and overseas who do not have access to special research collections, but who do have their own funding, either during the academic year or in the summer period. In accordance with current university procedures, a formal appointment as Visiting Fellow or Visiting Scholar (without Cornell stipend) requires a PhD degree and can be made for one year at a time, for a maximum of three years. This title may not be used to appoint external graduate students, either domestic or foreign. Overseas scholars must meet J-1 visa and financial requirements. LACS visiting fellows are expected to engage with Cornell’s campus in-person to conduct research in university libraries, as well as contribute to conferences, symposia, and workshops sponsored by the Program.
Scholars who wish to visit Cornell for less than three months are welcome to do so as casual visitors.
Scholars wishing to affiliate with LACS as a Visiting Fellow are invited to submit a current curriculum vitae, as well as a brief narrative of the research you will conduct at Cornell. Applicants should also indicate a proposed term of residence and have a faculty sponsor. Applications to join the LACS Visiting Fellow Program are accepted on a rolling basis, but should be submitted well in advance of the proposed start of residency.
Applications for appointment as a Visiting Fellow (without Cornell stipend) should be made by email to Program Manager Luke Urbain (ltu2@cornell.edu).
Former Visiting Scholars
David Flatten
Visiting Scholar ‘18-’23
David Flaten is a History professor at Tompkins Cortland Community College. As LACS Visiting Scholar, he researched opportunities to create a global history course centered around the Caribbean for students at partner institution Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3).
Martin Mejia Carrillo
Visiting Scholar, Fall 2023
Originally from Quito, Ecuador, Martin Mejia Carrillo is a PhD Candidate (ABD) at Tulane University and a lecturer in Politics at Universidad de Palermo.
Annette Prekker Levin
Visiting Scholar '21-’23
Annette is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College where she teaches courses on Latin American literature, theatre, and translation.
Fábio Zuker
Visiting Scholar ‘22
Fábio Zuker is an anthropologist and journalist. Fábio holds a master's degree in Social Sciences from EHESS-Paris and is carrying out his doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, with research on the destruction of life forms on the banks of the Tapajós River (Brazilian Amazon) and indigenous ways of doing politics and creating worlds.
Leonardo Aires de Castro
Visiting Scholar ’19-‘20
Leonardo Aires de Castro is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Political Science Program (PPGPol) in the
Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. He is researching the impacts of right wing populist ascension in the women legislative agenda, comparing Brazil and United States.
Beatriz De Moraes Vieira
Visiting Scholar
Beatriz De Moraeis Vieira is Professor of History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil. She works on Theory of History/Historiography, Intellectual History and Social History of Culture, and is currently researching the connections between history and literature/poetry, aesthetics and politics in contemporary Brazil and Latin America, painful historical experience and traumatic social memory.
María Esperanza Rojo Jiménez
Visiting Scholar
Maria Esperanza Rojo Jimenez researches the cultural impact of the foreign oil companies in Colombia and Venezuela during the 20th century. She is doing her Ph.D. in the Latin American History Department at the University of Seville.
Susana Romero-Sánchez
Visiting Scholar
Susana Romero-Sanchez researches the connection between the history of development policies and ideas in Latin American urbanization programs (including housing construction, credit, and planning schemes) in the mid-twentieth century.
Iulia Statica
Visiting Scholar
Iulia Statica’s research interests focus on the discourses of material culture in (post) communist contexts, and the role of ideologies and their critique in architecture and urbanism. She completed her PhD at the Department of Architecture at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and is currently in London, England on an European Union Marie Curie Fellowship.
Eduardo Vasconcelos
Visiting Scholar
Eduardo Vasconcelos is an Engineer/Social Scientist from Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a specialist in urban transportation systems in developing countries.