Visiting Scholars

Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida is Associate Professor at the University of Campinas in São Paulo. She is also a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and co-director of the Study Group on the School Institution and Family Organizations (Focus). Her research addresses the relationship between education and inequality, focusing on the intergenerational tranmission of social inequalities in contemporary Brazil. Professor Fonseca de Almeida has recently published A Escola dos Dirigentes Paulistas (2009), on elite education in São Paulo, and co-edited A Escolarização das Elites (2002), an international collection of studies on elite education, as well as Circulação Internacional e Formação Intelectual das Elites Brasileiras, on the impact of international circulation on the intellectual formation of Brazilian elites. She has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. She is co-editor of the journal Pro-Posições and a member of the Editorial Board of Educação e Sociedade and Sociologia da Educação. Professor Fonseca de Almeida will be in residence at Stanford from July 2011 through June 2012.

Clemente Forero-Pineda is Full Professor at Universidad de los Andes School of Management in Bogotá, Colombia. His recent research is on the impact of violence on organizational forms of rural Colombia, and on innovation and intellectual property in emerging economies. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. In the past, he was Dean of the School of Economics at Colombia’s National University and General Director of Colciencias, the Colombian National Science Foundation. Professor Forero-Pineda will be at Stanford during Winter-Spring 2012.

Roberto Lebrão is a graduate of the University of São Paulo, Faculty of Law.  As an attorney, Roberto has specialized in administrative and tax law for more than a decade with a respected brazilian firm that he co-founded (cfla advogados). During this time, Roberto has also had a respected academic career at the University of São Paulo in the department of tax and finance law. In 2010, he defended a master's thesis that compared the different processes involved in the development and implementation of public policies in federalist states, such as Brazil and the United States. Roberto is currently working on his doctoral thesis, that involves research of public consortia as a form of intergovernmental cooperation in federalist states. During his stance at Stanford, Roberto will focus on the comparative study of federalism and intergovernmental relations for the development and implementation of public policies.

Mónica Quijada is a high-profile public intellectual and historian of Spain and Latin America at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. Her engagement with the UN in Argentina (working with refugees) and her directorship of the investigation carried out in the late 1990s regarding Nazi activities during the Second World War and in post-war Argentina shows her commitment to the public space. She has written extensively on dictatorship, populism, and war and their effect on the public sphere in Argentina and Spain as well as on the relationship between nineteenth-century Latin American states and their indigenous populations. She was nominated by the History Department and the Center for Latin American Studies. Mónica Quijada is currently housed at the Humanities Center as an International Visitor.