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Latin American Studies Association

Economics and Politics Section

All membership information is as reported by LASA (September 2004).

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Name
Institutional Affiliation

Contact Information
Work Phone, Email, Personal Webpage

Current Projects or Major Interests

Felipe Aguero
Univ. of Miami (US)

Ph: 305-284-4796
Email: faguero@miami.edu

 

Leslie Elliott Armijo
Reed College (US)

Ph:
Email: leslie.armijo@mindspring.com

 My current work is on the politics of exchange rate management and implications of different patterns of political institutions for the development of national economic regulation. I have focused on Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, as well as India in comparative perspective.

George Avelino Filho
Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)

Ph:
Email: avelino@fgvsp.br

 

Melissa H Birch
School of Business University of Kansas (US)

Ph: 785-864-7571
Email: mbirch@ku.edu

 

Carmen Elena Bongiovi
Miramar, Florida (US)
 

Ph:
Email: carmenbongiovi@msn.com  

 

Alexandrine Brami Celentano
São Paulo (Brazil)		 Ph:
Email: alexandrinebrami@aol.com

 

Fernando Calzadilla
Miami, FL (US)		 Ph:
Email: fc270@nyu.edu

 

Samuel Cohn
Texas A&M (US)

Ph: 979-845-0814
Email: profcohn@hotmail.com

 

Javier Corrales
Amherst College (US)

 Ph: 413-542-2164
Email: jcorrales@amherst.edu
Homepage: http://www.amherst.edu/~jcorrale

Development, Political Parties, Economic Change,
Markets and Democracy, Argentina, Venezuela
Cuba

Patrick Cronin
Thunderbird, The Garvin School of Int'l. Mgmt. (US)

 Ph: 602-978-7364
Email: croninp@t-bird.edu

Competitiveness issues at the macro and micro levels, small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America, business associations and development

Ovidio Diaz
New York, NY (US)
 
 

Ph: 646-523-1313
Email: odiaze@yahoo.com

 

Mahrukh Doctor
Univ. of Reading (UK)

 Ph: 44-118-378-7123
Email: m.doctor@reading.ac.uk

Industry (automotive), Infrastructure (ports), Economic Policy, Trade Policy, Regional Integration; Brazil, Argentina; Chile and Mexico.
Alejandro Espinel
Vancouver, BC (Canada)		 Ph:
Email: alejandroespinel@hotmail.com		  

Miranda Ferrell
University of Houston (US)

 Ph:
Email: miranda.ferrell@worldnet.att.net

 

Rogelio Garcia Contreras
Univ. of Denver (US)		 Ph: 303-825-1115
Email: rogarcia@du.edu

 

Jose Gijon-Spalla
Johns Hopkins SAIS (US)

Ph: 202-663-5736
Email: jgijon@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu

 

 

William Glade
Univ. of Texas-Austin (US)

Ph: 512-232-2424
Email: glade@eco.utexas.edu

 
Virginia Guitel
Charenton-Le-Pont (France)		 Ph:
Email: vfguitel@club-internet.fr

 

Marco Kamiya
PADECO Co., Ltd./
Waseda University (Japan)		 Ph.
Email: mkamiya@hotmail.com 		Determinants of private investment of Asian countries in Latin America; macroeconomics and business environment conditions for investment.
Peter Kingstone
University of Connecticut (US)		 Ph.
Email: kingston@uconnvm.uconn.edu
 		  

Leonard Kurz
New York, NY (US)		 Ph. 415-647-6289
Email: lkurz@forestcreatures.com

 

Linda Larach
Columbia Univ. (US)		 Ph: 212-677-2915
Email: lpl8@columbia.edu

Dominican Republic; business impact on social policy, particularly education; social responsibility.

Julio Leal
Salinas, CA (US)		 Ph: 212-677-2915
Email: jlpgleal@aol.com 		 
Agustin Llamas Mendoza
IPADE (Mexico)		 Ph: 53-54-18-00 x1603
Email: allamas@ipade.mx 		 

Mary Long
Univ. of Colorado (US)

Ph: 303-735-4888
Email: mlong@stripe.colorado.edu

 

Rachel M McCleary
Harvard University (US)

Ph:
Email: mccleary@cfia.harvard.edu

Political Economy, Business and Religion, Private Sector Elites and Peak Organizations in Central America, Comparative Study of Private Sectors as Political Actors
Marcela Natalicchio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
 		 Ph: 301-792-0937
Email: marcelle@mitu.edu

 

Roy C Nelson
Thunderbird, The Garvin School of Int'l. Mgmt. (US)

Ph: 602-978-7025
Email: nelsonr@t-bird.edu

 

Edson Nuñes
Candido Mendes University (Brazil)		 Ph: 5521-22531-2496
Email: e-nunez@uol.com.br

 

Elizabeth Oglesby
University of Arizona (US)		 Ph: 520-626-7242
Email: eoglesby@u.arizona.edu 		 

Patricia Olney
Southern Connecticut State Univ. (US)
 		 Ph: 203-392-6749
Email: olney@scsu.ctstateu.edu		  

John Pate
De Sola & Pate (US)

Ph: 58-2-793-9898
Email: jpate@desolapate.com

 

Cristina Puga Espinoza
UNAM (Mexico) 		Ph: 044-5451-6499
Email: puga@servidor.unam.mx

 

Angelika Rettberg
Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia)		 Ph: 571-339-4999-x3202
Email: rettberg@uniandes.edu.co

 

Sybil Rhodes
Western Michigan Univ. (US)		 Ph: 269-387-5686
Email: sybil.rhodes@wmich.edu

 

Evanan Romero
TD International (US)		 Ph: 832-545-3740
Email: eromero@TDInternational.com

 

Nestor Ruiz
Cal. State Univ, Pomona (US)		 Ph: 909-869-3972
Email: nmruiz@csupomona.edu		  

Eduardo Saenz-Rovner
Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
 

Ph: 571-316-5000
Email: esaenzr@unal.edu.co

business associations
industrialists and the state
Colombia, 1940s and 1950s

Aki Sakaguchi
Inst of Developing Economies, Chiba, (Japan)		 Ph: 81-43-299-9649
Email: sakaguti@ide.go.jp

 


Diego Sanchez Ancochea
Univ. of London (UK)
 www.sas.ac.uk/ilas/diego.htm
 		 Ph: 44 (0) 20 7862 8870
Email: Diego.Sanchez@sas.ac.uk		 Political economy of development, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, state-society relations, external insertion

Jorge Sanguinetty
DevTech Systems, Inc (US)		 Ph: 305-666-5150
Email: jorgeas730@aol.com		 Cuba and other Latin American countries: Institutional reform, political economy, transition economics, constitutional economics, education policies.

 

Ben Ross Schneider
Northwestern U.
Center for Int'l and Comparative Studies (US)

Ph: 847-467-1147
Email: brs@northwestern.edu
 

business associations, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, conglomeration, business politics, Chile, Argentina, Mercosul, Nafta
 

Andrew Schrank
Yale University (US)		 Ph:
Email: andrew.schrank@yale.edu
 		  

Kenneth C Shadlen
London School of Economics (UK)

Ph: 20-7852-3681
Email: k.shadlen@lse.ac.uk

 politics of intellectual property, politics of small industries and
business organizations
Molly Sheridan
Germantown, TN (US)
 		 Ph: 901-434-4783
Email: msheridan@alumni.macalester.edu		  

Hideki Shinozaki
Japan
 		 Ph: 5411-4318-8200
Email: hidekishinozaki@hotmail.com 		 

Henry Silvert
New York, NY (US)
 		 Ph: 212-339-0438
Email: silvertsherry@erols.com		  

Anthony Spanakos
Manhattanville College (US)

Ph: 914-323-7234
Email: spanakos@hotmail.com

Political Economy, Finance and Debt, Democracy and Reform

Fumiko Takeuchi
Kanazawa University, Japan		 Ph: 81-76-264-5413
Email: kobitof@kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

 

Matthew Taylor
Georgetown University		 Ph:
Email: taylormm@georgetown.edu 		 

 

Strom C Thacker
Boston University

Ph: 617-353-7160
Email: sthacker@bu.edu

  Pablo Toral
Beloit College (US)		 Ph: 608-363-2166
Email: ptoral01@yahoo.com

  Elina Vuola
University of Helsinki (Finland)		 Ph:
Email: elina.vuola@helsinki.fi

  Lawrence Whitehead
Oxford University (UK)		 Ph: 44-1865-278-612
Email: laurence.whitehead@nuf.ox.ac.uk