Jacqueline Adams
jacqueline_adams@berkeley.edu

Jacqueline Adams received her degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Essex, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, and an assistant professor of sociology in Hong Kong for five years. She is currently writing a book for the University of Texas Press, Art and Human Rights: Women against Pinochet, focusing on the mothers of the disappeared and shantytown women in Pinochet's Chile and their protest through art. Her work has appeared in Sociological Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, and the Journal of Comparative Family Studies.

Kent Eaton

Kent Eaton is Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. A political scientist by training, Dr. Eaton is interested in political institutions and comparative political economy. He is the author of Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies and Politics beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America. Currently Dr. Eaton is conducting research on police reform and on the relationship between decentralization and security in Latin America.

Benjamin Goldfrank, University of New Mexico

Benjamin Goldfrank returns to the University of California after having received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Berkeley’s Department of Political Science. He is currently an assistant professor of political science at the University of New Mexico. Goldfrank’s research interests include participatory democracy, social movements, political parties, and urban politics. He has published extensively on Latin American leftist politics. Most recently, Goldfrank has co-edited and written two chapters for, The Left in the City: Participatory Local Governments in Latin America. The Left in the City has also been translated into Spanish and Italian.

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Lyal White, South Africa

Lyal White is a doctoral student at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa researching investment rationale in Africa and Latin America. In addition to being a UCT lecturer, he is a researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs. White has published on themes ranging from South-South co-operation to business practice and economic reform in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has been a member of working groups in government and the private sector, and has collaborated with embassies, think-tanks and academic institutions worldwide. Most recently, White edited the book, Is there an Economic Orthodoxy? Growth and Reform in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Michele DeSando, California

Michele DeSando is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation Aesthetics and Citizenship: Women and Cultural Policy in Cuba examines how citizenship and feelings of belonging in Cuba are affected by the way that everyday life, development discourse and government policy combine to define who is a good citizen. This study is based on fieldwork with the women’s programs of a community development project in Havana and from training classes for cultural development workers at the Ministry of Culture. Desando is also writing on food and tourism in Cuba. After completing her doctorate she hopes to examine the links between development organizations, the state and local AfroPeruvian women’s groups in Peru.