Current Visiting Resource Professors

November 2009 Visiting Professor, Lucio Renno

Lucio Renno, a political scientist at the University of Brasilia, will be in residence the month of November. After receiving his PhD from Pittsburgh, Renno taught at SUNY Stony Brook and the University of Arizona before moving back to Brazil. His work looks at the distribution of information and electoral behavior, and his work has focused on Brazil. His publications include Reforma Política: Licões da História Contemporânea.

Past Visiting Resource Professors

September 2009 Visiting Professor, Jesus Martin Barbero

Jesus Martin Barbero, widely considered the father of cultural studies in Latin America, inaugurated the Center for Latin American Studies’ new Visiting Resource Professor program during the month of September. Barbero Martín Barbero, the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, currently holds the title of distinguished professor of communication studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. A pioneer of communication and cultural studies, his books include Communication, Culture and Hegemony: From Media to Mediation, Televisión y melodrama, Al sur de la modernidad, and Oficio de cartógrafo. Barbero received his PhD in Belgium in 1971, and has held the UNESCO Chair of Communications in Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford, NYU, and Berlin, among others. His work has been highly influential in literary criticism, anthropology, communication, and cultural studies. Prof. Carlos Jáuregui of Spanish and Portuguese hosted Barbero in one of his graduate seminars. In addition to the registered seminar participants, 15 additional Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students registered to attend the three sessions led by Prof. Martín Barbero. Helena Simonett, Associate Director of CLAS, attended Barbero’s seminars, and found them helpful in her own research. “Being a National Resource Center affords CLAS the opportunity to have these distinguished professors here at Vanderbilt”, said Simonett. The topics covered “Los Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos,” “Repensando lo Popular,” and “Técnica y Política: Espacios/Tiempos no Pensados.” Prof. Matín Barbero also delivered a public lecture on “Diversidad cultural y convergencia digital”. This lecture, as well as the seminars delivered by Professor Barbero, can be seen on the CLAS website- http://www.vanderbilt.edu/clas/in_the_news.