Academic Staff Research Specialisms

The following academic staff will be joining the institute from 1 July 2012.

Professor Maxine Molyneux, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute. Gender, public policy, development, globalisation, human rights, citizenship, and social policy in Latin America.

Professor Iwan Morgan, Professor of United States Studies, Deputy Director of the Institute and Director of the United States Presidency Centre. Modern US political history (from the New Deal onwards); US political economy – historical or contemporary; or the US presidency – past or present.

Professor Kevin J. Middlebrook, Professor of Latin American Politics. Comparative and international political economy (labour rights in the context of free-trade agreements and globalization, state-labour relations in Latin America), regime change in Latin America (political cleavages, conservative parties, democratization), US foreign policy and US-Latin American relations.

Dr Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History. History of Peru in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; labour history and state formation, racism and exclusion, gender and sexuality, the social history of medicine, and memory and historiography.

Dr Par Engstrom, Lecturer in Human Rights of the Americas. The Inter-American Human Rights System; judicialization of politics; transitional justice; the international relations of the Americas; human rights, humanitarianism, and foreign policy; theories of international relations, particularly relating to international law and institutions; and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human rights. Country-specific research expertise on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia.

Dr Kate Quinn, Lecturer in Caribbean History. Political history of the post-independence Anglophone Caribbean; Black Power in the Caribbean; the Caribbean left; intellectuals and the state; culture and nationhood; intellectual movements. Country-specific research on Cuba, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the Eastern Caribbean.

Dr Graham Woodgate, Principal Teaching Fellow in Environmental Sociology of the Americas. Agroecology and food sovereignty in the Americas; Agrarian reforms in Latin America; Globalisation and natural resource use and conservation in the Americas; Political ecologies of the Americas; Climate change vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation in the Americas; Ecotourism in the Americas; Environmental social movements and direct action environmentalism in the Americas.

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