Bolivar House Visitors

Tinker Visiting Professors

Cristián Bellei Carvacho, University of Chile

Cristián Bellei is an associate researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education and a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Chile, and a coordinator of the Research in Education Initiative at the Austral University of Chile. He is a Doctor of Education from Harvard University. He also has a sociology degree from the University of Chile and a master degree in education policy from Harvard University. Professor Bellei Carvacho taught SOC 238: Market Oriented Policies in Education (EDUC 238) in spring quarter 2022.

Claudia Nunes Duarte Dos Santos , Carlos Chagas Institute - Fiocruz

Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos received her B.A. in biology (1982), M.Sc. in genetics (1987), and Ph.D. in molecular virology (1994) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She obtained her post-doctoral degree from the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1995) and sabbatical professorship at the Rockefeller University (2018). Professor Nunes Duarte Dos Santos taught BIO 189: Emergent and Re-Emergent Viruses as a Global Threat to Human Health (BIO 289) in spring quarter 2022.

Latin American Perspectives Lecturer

Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, CIESAS Mexico

Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo is a professor and senior researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. At Stanford, Professor Hernández taught a graduate workshop on collaborative research and feminist ethnography and delivered a public lecture titled “Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves”. Her academic work has promoted indigenous and women’s rights in Latin America.

Luksic Visiting Scholars

Enzo Sauma Santis , Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Enzo Sauma is a professor at the School of Engineering and director of the UC Energy Research Center at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He holds both Ph.D. (2005) and M.S. (2002) degrees in industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Sauma also holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in industrial engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His interests include power systems economics, environmental economics, mathematical programming, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy.

Carolina Parra , Federico Santa María Technical University

Carolina Parra received her Ph.D. in applied physics from the Federico Santa María Technical University (USM) in Chile, (2009) and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University (2013). Currently, Professor Parra is head of the interdisciplinary Laboratory of Nanobiomaterials within the physics department at USM (http://nanobiolab.usm.cl/) and is an associated researcher at the Technological Scientific Center of Valparaíso.