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.

Héctor Perla Jr.

Héctor Perla Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Ohio University. He is currently on leave as a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. During 2007–08 Dr. Perla will be a visiting scholar at CLAS, where he will be finishing his book manuscript entitled Revolutionary Deterrence: U.S. Coercion & Transnational Resistance by Sandinista Nicaragua. The book documents the strategies and tactics used by the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) to resist the Reagan Administration’s efforts to oust them from power. It traces the domestic, international and transnational strategies that Nicaraguans both at home and in the diaspora used to sway U.S. public opinion to oppose Reagan’s policy and deter him from escalating the conflict. Specifically, this includes analysis of transnational sub-state actors such as religious and secular NGOs, the Central American Diaspora and the Solidarity Movement in the U.S., as well as their impact on public opinion, media framing of the conflict and government officials’ decision-making.

Glauco Arbix, Brazil

Glauco Arbix is Professor of Sociology at the University of São Paulo and a Visiting Scholar at CLAS. From 2003 to 2006 he was the president of the Institute for Applied Economic Research, the most important government think tank in Brazil , and general coordinator of the Strategic Unit, an advisory board to the President of the Republic. He is a member of the Brazilian National Council of Science and Technology and the United Nations Development Program’s International Advisory Group and heads the Observatory for Innovation, part of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo . In his recent book, Brazilian Industry: Between the Past and Future, Arbix analyzes the deep changes the Brazilian economy has undergone over the past 20 years, moving from a reliance on standardized agricultural and industrial goods to a growing capacity to export medium and high-technology products.

Ana Paula Galdeano Cruz, Brazil

Ana Paula Galdeano Cruz is a doctoral student at UNICAMP in Brazil and a visiting student researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Previously, she worked as a consultant to the Brazilian government on issues related to the prevention of violence (2004–06) and as a research associate at the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento in São Paulo (2005–06). She is currently concluding her doctoral dissertation, “Representations of Violence and Public Security in São Paulo,” which addresses the interface between the social and political problems of violence. Her ethnographic research focuses on narratives of violence and public (in)security in both lower and middle/high class neighborhoods and how positions of class, gender, race and age challenge democracy and citizenship in São Paulo.

Luciana Andressa Martins de Souza, Brazil

Luciana Andressa Martins de Souza is a Ph.D. student at the Federal University of São Carlos in São Paulo and a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. From 2003 to 2006 she worked as a consultant to Brazilian municipal governments on a range of issues including public health policy, civil society and popular participation in local decision-making, i.e., participatory budgeting. Her dissertation examines the impact of the implementation of participatory budgeting on political and institutional changes related to the decision-making process and to local political representation in six Brazilian cities. Her research focuses on the consolidation of practices and political institutions that have the capacity to increase popular participation and government accountability.

Hilda Lorena Cardenas, Mexico