Argentina

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Craft has researched and published extensively in the field of human resources and labor relations. His current research activities include an inquiry into the elements of organizational human resources strategy, the use of human resources systems to enhance organizational competitiveness, and an examination of the evolving characteristics of unions and collective bargaining.

Craft has served as a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow in Washington, D.C., and has been a labor force analyst with the U.S. Department of Labor. He also has been a visiting professor at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Valparaiso, Chile) and the International Management Center (Budapest, Hungary). In addition, Craft has lectured on human resources topics in universities and in business programs in Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and Poland.

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The former director of Pitt’s Center for Latin American Studies, Carmelo Mesa-Lago is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies.

Mesa-Lago was a visiting professor or researcher in Argentina, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as a lecturer in 36 countries. He is the author of 73 books and about 240 articles/chapters published in eight languages in 33 countries, most of them on social security, including pensions and health care.

Mesa-Lago has worked in all of the countries of Latin America and several in the Caribbean, as well as in Germany, Egypt, Ghana, and Thailand. He also has been a regional advisor for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and a consultant with the International Labour Organization and the International Social Security Association.

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Herlinghaus is a faculty associate of Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, and Film Studies Doctoral Certificate Program. A member of the executive board of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Herlinghaus serves on the editorial committees of Nómadas (Bogotá), RELEA (Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Avanzados; Caracas), Kosmopolis (Berlin), and E-misférica (New York).

Herlinghaus' books include Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Renarración y descentramiento. Mapas alternativos de la imaginación en América Latina (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2004), and Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad: Melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latina (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2002).

At Pitt since 1981, Reid Andrews has done extensive research on Brazil, Argentina, and Latin America in general. He is the author of Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2004), named Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2005 and for which he received the 2005 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize. The book has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish.

Andrews' other books include The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990, coedited with Herrick Chapman, (Macmillan and New York University Press, 1995); Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), for which he earned the 1993 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, also translated into Portuguese; and The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1980). He is at work on Blackness in the White Nation: Afro-Uruguay, 1830-2010.

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Scott Morgenstern has taught at Duke University, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Mexico), the University of Salamanca, Spain, and several Latin American universities. He has conducted research throughout Latin America, as well as in Spain, Israel, and Canada.

Morgenstern recently received a $685,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Higher Education for Development program to update and evaluate USAID’s work in supporting political party development worldwide. Among Morgenstern’s books are Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll Call Voting in the United States and Latin America’s Southern Cone (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Legislative Politics in Latin America, coeditor with Benito Nacif and contributor, (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and Pathways to Power, coeditor with Peter Siavelis and contributor, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008). His articles and book chapters include “Party Nationalization and Institutions” with Stephen Swindle and Andrea Castagnola, in Journal of Politics, forthcoming; “Are Politics Local?: An Analysis of Voting Patterns in 23 Democracies,” with Stephen Swindle, in Comparative Political Studies (2005); “Campaigning in an Electoral Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Mexico,” with Joy Langston, in Comparative Politics (2009); “Scope and Trade Agreements,” with Arturo Borja, Philippe Faucher, and Daniel Nielson, in the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2007); “Latin America's Reactive Assemblies and Proactive Presidents,” with Gary Cox, in Comparative Politics (2001); and “Legislative Oversight: Interests and Institutions in the United States and Argentina,” with Luigi Manzetti, in a book by Scott P. Mainwaring and Guillermo O’Donnell, Institutions, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2003).

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Born in Argentina, Pérez-Liñán has conducted extensive research in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Venezuela. He has published articles in academic journals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Great Britain, Spain, the United States, and Uruguay.

Among his recent publications are “Strategy, Careers, and Judicial Decisions,” with Barry Ames and Mitchell Seligson, in the Journal of Politics, 2006; “Evaluating Presidential Runoff Elections” in Electoral Studies, 2006; “Democratization and Constitutional Crises in Presidential Regimes” in Comparative Political Studies, 2005; and “Levels of Development and Democracy: Latin American Exceptionalism,” with Scott Mainwaring, in Comparative Political Studies, 2003. He is the author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

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Picard has done consulting work for the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, the governments of Botswana and South Africa, and the Ford Foundation.

His publications include seven books and more than 40 articles on international development, including “Public Administration in South Africa: Provincial Capacity, Institutional Development, and the Civil Service” in Public Administration in South Africa (Westview Press, 1999) and “Affirmative Action in South Africa: The Transition to a Non-racial Public Service” in Public Administration: Concepts, Theory and Practice (Southern Publishers, 1995).