Visiting Researchers
Professor Ana Claudia Marques
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Prof. Ana Claudia Marques is based in the Department of Social Anthropology (School of Social & Political Science).
Professor Jorge Villela
Universidade de Sao Carlos
Professor Jorge Villela is based in the Department of Social Anthropology (School of Social & Political Science).
Dr Laura Giraudo
Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
Dr Iris Selene Conrado
Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados (Brazil)
Iris Selene Conrado is based in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures in 2015-16, where she works on two projects -- one in the field of Teaching English as a Second Language for Technical Courses, and the other on the topic of the influence of literature on culture and behaviour.
Dr Carolina Orloff
Independent Scholar (Argentina)
Carolina Orloff is based in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies) where she is currently working on a project on contemporary writer, Guillermo Martínez, and the politics of the detective genre in 21st-century Argentina.
Postgraduates
Edwar Calderon
Edinburgh College of Art
His thesis examines the ‘Functional City as a doctrine of Modernist Urban Planning and its impact on current urban sustainability in Latin America' with a focus on Medellín, Colombia, under the supervision of Professor Paul Jenkins.
Marcelo González Gálvez
Social Anthropology
Marcelo González Gálvez completed his PhD in Social Anthropology in July 2012, and now holds a three-year FONDECYT postdoctoral fellowship at the Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Chile. His research focuses on notions of personhood, alterity, sociality, and the relationship between ideas of knowledge, reality, and ‘the world’ among the Mapuche people of southern Chile.
Iris Marchand
Social Anthropology
Her ethnographic study of ethnicity and race in Nickerie, Western Suriname examines political behaviour, ideas of kinship and cultural belonging and religious practices as locally held by and about doglas. Doglas are ‘mixed’ people with one of their parents a descendent of Suriname’s former African community. She is writing her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr Magnus Course and Dr Lotte Hoek.
Tristan Partridge
Social Anthropology
He is writing up his PhD on community and politics in highland Ecuador. He is supervised by Dr Maya Mayblin and Prof Francesca Bray.
Pablo Briceno
Social Anthropology
He is currently carrying out fieldwork in Chile for his PhD. His work is an ethnographic study of political life in a working-class barrio of Santiago. He is supervised by Dr Magnus Course and Prof Jonathan Spencer.
Juan Alberto Claux
Social Anthropology
He is currently carrying out fieldwork for his PhD in Social Anthropology on psychiatry and national culture in Lima.
Hannah Lesshafft
Social Anthropology
She is about to embark on fieldwork for her PhD on healing and Candomblé in Fortaleza, Brazil. She is supervised by Dr Maya Mayblin and Dr Ian Harper.
Kimberly Sigmund
Social Anthropology
She is conducting research towards her PhD in Social Anthropology, working on traditional healing practices in Mexico.
Dr Cristobal Bonelli
Social Anthropology
His research is concerned with the relations between indigenous healing practices and biomedical knowledge in Southern Chile. His particular research interests are focused on notions of the body, patients’ experiences, and medicines, in the context of multiple ontologies.
He is currently teaching a course as visiting professor at Leiden university in The Netherlands. The course examines the immensely complex inter-cultural communication relations between indigenous Mapuche’ healing practices and the state’s biomedical practices. He has also collaborated with the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), in Sao Paulo, which is dedicated to the study of recent dynamics in urban transformation, with focus on the Sao Paulo Metropolitan area.
He completed his PhD in Social Anthropology in October 2012, and now holds a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Amsterdam.
Clara Martinez-Nistal
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Clara Martínez arrived at the University of Edinburgh to do her MSc in Comparative and General Literature in 2013, after obtaining her BA in Translation and Interpreting (Spanish, English and French) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Currently she is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh, working on a project that involves Spanish and Italian about the relationship between history and fiction in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Leonardo Sciascia.
Barbara Fernandez
School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Bárbara Fernández arrived at the University of Edinburgh as a PhD student after doing an MA in Latin American Literature at the Universidad de Chile, and having previously completed a BA in English Literature and Linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2008). Her current PhD project delves into the relationship between contemporary Chilean female poetry (1980-2010) and the consequences of neoliberalism, as imposed during Pinochet’s dictatorship in the country.
Anna Watts
School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
She completed her MScR in 2012 on a wave of literature in the 1990s in Latin America called McOndo which is an anti-magical realism movement seeking to reflect an unstereotypical globalised and urban Latin America. This caused a great deal of controversy amongst Latin American intellectuals and therefore received a fair amount of media attention. Her MSc dissertation was supervised by Dr Huw Lewis.
Kate Dunn
School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Kate is writing her PhD thesis on ‘Women Writers and Dictatorship - poets from Argentina and Chile’ under the supervision of Dr. Fiona Mackintosh.