ERIC HERSHBERG
Curriculum vita, May 2010
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Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies2264 Cathedral Ave., NW
Professor of Government Washington, DC 20008
American Universitytel. 202-270-5421
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016
Tel. 202-270-5421
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Spanish and French, Indiana University-Bloomington
APPOINTMENTS
Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, Prof. of Government, American University, 2010-Prof. of Political Science and Director of Latin American Studies, Simon Fraser University, (2007-09)
Past-President, Latin American Studies Association (2009-2010)
President, Latin American Studies Association, (2007-09)
Vice President, Latin American Studies Association, (2006-07)
Senior Advisor, Social Science Research Council (2005-07)
Program Director, Social Science Research Council (1990-2005)
Adjunct Professor, The New School (Spring 2006)
Adjunct Assoc. Professor, ColumbiaUniversitySchool of International and Public Affairs (1999-2006)
Visiting Prof., PrincetonUniversity, Dept. of Politics, Inst. of Intl & Regional Studies (2003-04)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, New York University (Spring 1994)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Southern IllinoisUniversity (1989-90)
PUBLICATIONS
Books, Peer-reviewed Articles and Chapters:
Institutions that Include: Restructuring Political Participation in Latin America, co-edited with Maxwell A. Cameron and Kenneth Sharpe (in press, Palgrave-MacMillan)
“Colombia Policy Under the Obama Administration: Sustaining an Inherited Paradigm,” with Anne Gillman. Pensamiento Propio (Buenos Aires) No. 31 (Jan.-April 2010), pp. 77-102.
Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change, co-edited,with Maxwell A. Cameron. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010.
“Latin America’s Left Turns: A Tour D’Horizon” with Jon Beasley-Murray and Maxwell A. Cameron, in Cameron and Hershberg, eds., 2010.
“Latin America’s Lefts: The Impact of the External Environment,” in Cameron and Hershberg, eds.,2010.
“Democracy in Latin America: A Review of Recent Literature.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Summer, 2009 – published summer 2010).
“Paradoxical Inequalities in Latin America,”prologue to Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygadas, eds., Durable Inequalities in Latin America, Duke University Press (2010).
“Latin America’s Left Turns: an Introduction” with Jon Beasley-Murray and Maxwell A. Cameron. Third World Quarterly, (March 2009, special issue co-edited with Cameron).
"America Latina fragmentada: Economia y empleo en la era de la globalización," Nueva Sociedad. No. 214, 2008 (March-April), pp. 152-161.
“Globalization and Labor: Reflections on ContemporaryLatin America,”International Labor and Working Class History, No. 72, Fall 2007, pp. 164-172.
“Democracy Promotion in Latin America,” Democracy and Society, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (Spring 2007).
"Opening the Ivory Tower to Business: University Industry Linkages in Asia," Special Issue of World Development, co-edited and with introductory essay written with Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima (2007).
Turning the Tide? Latin America After Neoliberalism. Volume co-editor, with Fred Rosen. The New Press (2006).
"Turning the Tide? The Quest for Social Justice in Latin America," in Hershberg and Rosen, eds.
State and Society in Conflict: Comparative Perspective on Andean Crises, Co-edited with Paul W. Drake. University of Pittsburgh Press (2006).
“The Crisis of State-Society Relations in Post-1980s Andes,” (with Paul W. Drake) in Drake and Hershberg, eds.,(2006).
“Technocrats, Citizens and Second Generation Reforms: Considerations on Colombia’s Andean Malaise,” in Drake and Hershberg, eds. (2006).
Memorias militares: visiones en disputa en dictadura y democracia, co-edited with FelipeAguero. Madrid: Siglo XXI (2005).
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“Las Fuerzas Armadas y las memorias de la represion en el Cono Sur,” in Hershberg and Aguero, eds., (2005).
"Keys to Latin America’s Security: Economic Development and State Strengthening" (with Juan Carlos Moreno Brid), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee OccasionalPaper 94. (May 2005).
“Global Restructuring, Knowledge and Learning” in Voprosy Ekonomiki (Issues in Economics—in Russian). Moscow (August, 2004).
Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from Around the World. Co-editor, with Kevin W. Moore. New York: The New Press (2002)
“Place, Perspective and Power: Interpreting September 11," (co-authored with Kevin W. Moore), in Hershberg and Moore, eds., (2002).
“Change and Continuity in Hemispheric Affairs: Latin America after September 11,” (with Francisco Gutierrez and Monica Hirst), in Hershberg and Moore, eds., (2002).
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“Development: Economic and Social Dimensions,” in Paul Baltes and Neil Smelser, eds., The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Vol. 6, London: Elsevier (2001).
Economic Governance and Flexible Production in East Asia, (volume co-edited with Frederic Deyo and Richard F. Doner). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (2001).
“Conclusion: Network Governance, Flexibility and Development Amid Crisis” (with Frederic Deyo and Richard F. Doner) in Deyo, Doner and Hershberg, eds.(2001).
“Sector privado, democracia y desarrollo: Los empresarios y las transiciones en Chile,” in Amparo Menendez Carrion and Alfredo Joignant, eds. La Caja de Pandora: el retorno de las transiciones en Chile. Santiago: Planeta (1999).
“Flexible Production and Political Decentralization in the Developing World: Elective Affinities in the Pursuit of Competitiveness?” (with Richard F. Doner), Vol. 33, No. 4 (1999), Studies in Comparative International Development. (Abbreviated version in Portuguese, published in Nadya Araujo Guimaraes and Scott Martin, eds., Competividade: Atores e Institucoes Locais. Sao Paulo: Editora SENAC, 2001.)
“Democracy, and its Discontents: Extending Political Citizenship in Latin America,” in Howard Handelman and Mark Tessler, eds. Democracy and Its Limits: Lessons from Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Notre Dame University Press (1999).
“From Cold War Origins to a Model for Academic Internationalization: Latin American Studies at a Crossroads,”Dispositio/nVol. 22, Issue 50, 1999. (University of Michigan Press).
"Market-Oriented Development and State-Society Relations in Contemporary Spain and Chile," in Douglass Chalmers, et. al., The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America. OxfordUniversity Press (1997).
"Democratic Transition and Social Democracy in Spain," in PROKLA, Periodical of Critical Social Science (Berlin, in German), Issue 105, Vol. 26, No. 3 (December, 1996).
Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship and Society in Latin America. Coedited with Elizabeth Jelin, Boulder, CO: Westview Press (1996).
Construir la democracia: derechos humanos, ciudadanía y sociedad en América Latina. (Spanish version of Constructing Democracy...) Caracas: Nueva Sociedad, 1996. (Portuguese version published by the Editorial da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2007).
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"Human Rights and the Construction of Democracy,"with Elizabeth Jelin, in Elizabeth Jelin and Eric Hershberg, eds. (1996).
"Convergent Developments, Diversity and Change: Visions of Human Rights" (with Elizabeth Jelin) in Elizabeth Jelin and Eric Hershberg, eds. (1996).
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NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
“Political Economy of Colombia and Ecuador.” Bibliographic review essay, Handbook of Latin
American Studies. Washington, DC: Library of Congress,Vol. 67 (in press, 2012).
“Salvaging a Revolution: Cuba at a Crossroad,” guest editor and introductory essay, “Salvaging a Revolution?” NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 44, No. 4 (July – August, 2011).
“Latin American Studies Programs in the 21st Century U.S. University. LASA Forum (Fall 2010, Vol. XLI, No.4).
“Political Economy of Colombia and Ecuador.” Bibliographic review essay, Handbook of Latin
American Studies. Washington, DC: Library of Congress,Vol. 65 (2009).
“Comparative Perspectives on Institutional Origins and Evolution,” preface to Richard F. Doner, ed., Explaining Institutional Innovation: Case Studies from Latin America and Asia. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2010.
“The Funes Government and El Salvador’s Opportunity,” introduction to NACLA Report on the Americasdevoted to El Salvador (guest co-editor). Nov-Dec. 2009.
LASA Forum, edited six issues, 2008-2009, scholarly debates on Inequalities and “On the Profession.”
“Vamos Bien?: The Cuban Revolution at 50,” London Review of Books,, May 29, 2009.
“Waiting For a Bus to Somewhere: Reflections on Change in Cuba.” Social Science Research Council WebForum on Change in Cuba (April, 2008). (
"Human Rights and Accountability in the Southern Cone," in Cynthia Arnson and Jose Raul Perales, eds.
The 'New Left' and Democratic Governance in Latin America. Washington, DC: The Woodrow
Wilson InternationalCenter for Scholars (2007).
“Political Economy of Colombia and Ecuador.” Bibliographic review essay, Handbook of Latin American Studies. Washington, DC: Library of Congress,Vol. 63 (2007).
The Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO): An Evaluation, (with RodrigoArocena andRosemary Thorp) Stockholm: SIDA (2005).
“The Political Economy of Development: Trends in Latin American Studies.” Contribution to a Dossier on “Studies of Latin America From Latin America and the Caribbean,” LASA Forum, Vol. XXXVI,No. 3 (Fall 2005).
The Development Imperative: Toward a People-Centered Approach. Co-edited with Christy Thornton, Social Science Research Council, 2005.
Global Restructuring, Knowledge and Learning: Notes on Industrial Upgrading and Development. AmericanUniversity of Paris Working Paper Series, No. 15, 2004 (October).
“Political Economy of Colombia and Ecuador.” Bibliographic review essay, Handbook of Latin American Studies. Washington, DC: Library of Congress,Vol. 61 (2005).
“Hacia un Consenso Centroamericano.” Revista Virtual de Economia Centroamericana. Guatemala: ASIES, Vol. 2 (January, 2004).
Guest editor, special issue of NACLA Report on the Americas “Beyond the Washington Consensus,” (November, 2003).
“Latin America’s Crossroads,” in NACLA Report on the Americas (Nov. 2003).
”Prefacio” to Carlos Ivan Degregori, ed. Luchas por las memorias de la represion en Peru. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima (2003).
“Why Argentina Crashed, and is Still Crashing,” in NACLA Report on the Americas (August, 2002).
“Who Crashed Argentina?” in Connections to the Americas. Minneapolis (March, 2002).
“Governance in Colombia: A Time for Rethinking Priorities.” Consultant report, (25,000 words) commissioned by the World Bank(July, 2001).
“Collective Memory of Repression in Latin America’s Southern Cone.”Items. Vol. 53, No. 1 (March 1999).
“Trends in Funding for Graduate Student Field Research in Comparative Politics: Evidence from a Review of SSRC Fellowship Programs,” with Kenton Worcester, APSA-CP Newsletter, Summer 1999, pp. 25-29.
“Expanding U.S.-Cuban Scholarly Relations,”with Rachel Price. LASA Forum, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (Summer, 1999).
“The Social Sciences in Latin America” in World Social Science Report. (Unsigned essay).Paris: UNESCO. (1999).
“Industrial Upgrading: Workshop Notes.” Items. Vol. 52, No. 1 (March 1998).
“Prologo: Centroamerica en restructuracion” (with Rafael Menjivar), in Juan Pablo Perez Sainz, et. al., Centroamerica en restructuracion. 3 vols. San Jose: FLACSO-Costa Rica (1998).
"Is Latin America the Future of Eastern Europe?" with Melvin Croan, Lawrence Graham, David Ost and Thomas Skidmore, in Problems of Communism (June, 1992).
"Toward an Agenda for Comparative and Transnational Research," Items (Summer, 1992).
"Environmentalism and the Poor," with Juan Martinez-Alier, Items (Spring, 1992).
BOOK REVIEWS:
Laura Macdonald and Arne Ruekert, Post-Neoliberalism in the Americas, Routledge, 2009, reviewed for
Times Higher Education, (London). 2009.
Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine, eds., Hemispheric American Studies, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008, reviewed for Journal of American History (2008).
Merilee Grindle and Pilar Domingo, eds., Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. Institute of Latin American Studies, DavidRockefellerCenter for Latin American Studies, 2003 reviewed in Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Vol. 30, No 59&60 (Winter 2005).
David Collier and Ruth Berins Collier, Shaping the Political Arena. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, reviewed in Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Vol. 29, No. 57&58 (2004).
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Susanne Jonas and Nelson Amaro, (eds.), “Globalization on the Ground: Post- bellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development.” in Latin American Politics and Society. (Fall 2002).
Louis Perez, Jr., Becoming Cuban (University of North Carolina Press) in Lingua Franca, “Breakthrough Books” section (April, 2001).
Victor Perez Diaz, Spain at the Crossroads: Civil Society, Politics and the Rule of Law (HarvardUniversity Press) in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 2000).
Sonia Alvarez, E. Dagnino and A. Escobar, eds., Cultures of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements (Westview Press, 1998) in American Anthropologist (Dec. 1999).
Lucy Taylor, Citizenship, Participation and Democracy: Changing Dynamics in Chile and Argentina. (St. Martin’s Press, 1998) in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (Winter 1998)
Michael Peter Smith and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, eds., Transnationalism from Below (Transaction Publishers, 1998), in Political Science Quarterly (Summer 1999).
"Unarmed or Disarmed," Jorge Castañeda's Utopia Unarmed. New Politics (December 1994).
Benjamin Martin, The Agony of Modernization: Labor and Industrialization in Spain. inHispanic American Historical Review (November 1993).
Richard Gunther (ed.), Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1992), in Hispanic American Historical Review, (May 1993).
COURSES TAUGHT
Social and Political Change in Latin America (Simon Fraser 2007, 2009)
Introduction to Latin American Issues (Simon Fraser, 2007, 2008)
Comparative Development Experience (New School, 2006)
Globalization and Politics (PrincetonUniversity, 2004)
Development Policy Workshop (ColumbiaUniversity, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Labor in the Global Economy (Columbia University, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002)
Development Policy Analysis (Columbia University, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005)
Contemporary Spain (New York University, 1994)
Politics of Western Europe (Southern Illinois University, 1989, 1990)
Politics of Latin America (Southern Illinois University, 1989, 1990)
Introduction to Politics (Southern Illinois University, 1990)
Introduction to Comparative Politics (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988, 1989)
Introduction to Central America and Mexico (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988)
Intro to Comparative Politics; Intro to Political Thought, Teaching Asst, UW-Madison, 1985-88)
THESIS SUPERVISION
Lorenza Gallia, Latin American Studies Program, Simon Fraser University “The RecuperatedFactories of Argentina,” (MA thesis defended October 2007).
Chelsey Branch, School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University “Conditional Cash Transfers and Poverty Relief in Latin America.” (MA paper defended August 2008)
Catherine Craven, Latin American Studies Program, Simon Fraser University "Garifuna Youth and Community Development in Honduras." (MA thesis defended April 1, 2009).
Santiago Anria, Latin American Studies Program, Simon Fraser University "The MAS: Informal Structure in Urban Bolivia." (M.A.thesis defendedApril17, 2009).
Mel Bricker, School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University “Democracy and Inequality in Latin America” (MA paper defendedAugust 2009).
Julie Stevens, School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University, “Canadian Mining Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America” (MA paper defended August 2009).
Valerie Duquette, Latin American Studies Program, Simon Fraser University "Political Decentralization and Participatory Budgeting in Lima, Peru: Analysis from a Gender Perspective." (MAthesis defended Nov. 9, 2009).
Michael Toal, Latin American Studies Program, “Transnational Solidarity Networks and the Peace Movement in Colombia,” (MA thesis defended May 27, 2010).
Hayley Jones, School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University, “Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Inequality in Latin America,” (MA paper defended April 2011).
THESIS COMMITTEES
LaDawn Haglund, Dept. of Sociology, New York University, "Democracy and the Privatization of Utilities: Costa Rica and El Salvador." (Ph.D. thesis defended July 2005).
Julie Stewart, Dept. of Sociology, New York University, "To Help or to Harm: How transnational ties shape communities in post-war Guatemala," (Ph.D. thesis defended June 2006).
Robert Huish, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Ph.D. thesis on “Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine,” External Reader, (defended May 2008).
Ashley Buncic, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, M.A. paper on “Sustainable Tourism in the Dominican Republic,” Second Supervisor, (defended December 2008).
Luis Moncayo, Latin American Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, M.A. thesis on sustainable food systems in Bolivia, (defended December 2009).
Aaron Bell, Department of History, American University, Ph.D. dissertation committee.
Sebaistan Bitar, School of International Service, American University, Ph.D. dissertation committee.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Search Committee for tenure line faculty position in the Comparative and Regional Studies division of the School of International Service (Fall 2011)
“Funding Collaborative Research Programs,” panel presentation at the School of International Service Retreat, (September, 2010).
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Dept. of Political Science Renewal Committee
Dept. of Political Science Comparative Politics Committee, Chair
Dept. of Political Science Appointments Committee
World Literature Program Tenure and Promotion Committee
Dean’s Committee to Assess the Language Training Institute
Pacific Century Graduate Fellowship Competition, Proposal Review
SSHRC Masters Awards Committee
Campus-wide International Working Group, Participant
Organizing Committee, SSHRC Research Workshop on Health Inequalities
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Latin American Studies Association, Chair, LASA-Mellon Program Committee, 2008 –
Social Science Research Council, Member, SSRC Working Group on Cuba, 2010 --
Proposal Review, Program for Centers of Excellence in Science and Technology. Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Chile. 2010.
Latin American Studies Association, elected Vice President (May 2006-Oct. 2007) and President (Nov. 2007-April 2009); Past-President and member of Executive Committee, 2009-2010.
International Planned Parenthood Federation, member, fact finding delegation to assess aid programs for reproductive health in Peru (May, 2010); subsequent Capitol Hill briefings with Congressional staff and members of Congress (Jan. 2011).
Advisory Board, Library of Congress, for the Handbook of Latin American Studies (2008--)
Ontario Council of Colleges and Universities, External Reviewer of Latin American Studies Program at University of Guelph (June, 2008).
Ad-hoc Tenure Review Committee, Department of Government, HarvardUniversity (Dec. 2007).
Advisory Committee, University of British Columbia program on Andean Democracy (2008--)
Canadian Business Council for the Americas, Board member (2007 -- 2010).
Editorial Advisory Committee, Pensamiento Propio, Journal of the Consejo Regional de Investigacion y Estudios Sociales, Buenos Aires, (2007 -- )
Editorial Advisory Committee, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, (2007--)
International Advisory Group, Ford Foundation program to support Central American Social Science (2006).
Consultant, Gerson Lehrman Group, research on contemporary Cuban affairs (2006).
Chair, Evaluation team to review programs and activities of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, (CLACSO), commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD) (Spring, 2005).
International Editorial Board, Revista Centroamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, 2004 – 2007.
Selection Committee, Research Grants for Central American Institutions (ASIES, Guatemala),2004.
Affiliated Researcher, International Organization for Knowledge Economy and Development (IKED), Malmo, Sweden 2003-2005 (in residence Aug-September 2004).