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2008-2009 Research Seminar Speaker Series

USMEX Research Seminar: Carol Wise- May 20th, 2009

“Financial Crisis Incomes and Social Policy: Mexico and Argentina in Retrospect” Carol Wise is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD. She is also an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. She specializes in international political economy and development, with an emphasis on Latin America.
Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Research Seminar: Roderic Ai Camp- May 7th, 2009

“Mexican Governors as the New Democratic Actors” Roderic Ai Camp is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. He earned a Ph.D. in comparative politics and history from the University of Arizona. His interests include Mexican politics, comparative elites, political recruitment, church-state relations, and civil military affairs.
Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Research Seminar Series: Abe Lowenthal- May 5th, 2009

Abe Lowenthal is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, President Emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and author of numerous works on Latin American and Inter-American affairs.
Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Book Presentation: Leo Chavez- April 30th, 2009

"The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" Leo Chávez is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1982. His research examines various issues related to transnational migration.
Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Research Seminar: Mauricio Benítez Iturbe- April 22, 2009

Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Research Seminar: Carolina Gomez Vinales- April 8th, 2009

Podcast Date: April 08, 2009

USMEX Research Seminar: Isaac Campos-Costero-March 11th, 2009

Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Research Seminar: Jorge Carrillo Viveros- March 4, 2009

Jorge Carrillo Viveros is a sociologist and visiting scholar at the Center for US-Mexican Studies. He has been a researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Tijuana, since its foundation in 1982. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from El Colegio de México and currently serves as a member of The National Researchers System (SNI) level 3. He has participated in 40 research projects through Spain, France, Japan, and the United States. He is the author of 7 books and the coordinator of 15 edited volumes. Some of his publications include El medio ambiente y la maquila en México: un problema ineludible and Globalism/Localism at Work.
Podcast Date: March 04, 2009

USMEX Research Seminar: Ricardo Gomez-Vilchis- February 25, 2009

Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX_EvMeade_ResearchSeminar_February 19th, 2009

Ev Meade is a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, a professor in the History Department, and co-founder of the Human Rights Minor Program at UCSD. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 2005. Professor Meade’s research focuses on the memory of violence, public debate, and the negotiation of rights in modern Mexico and the United States. His manuscript explores the death penalty and its abolition in Mexico.
Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Research Seminar: Sebastian Saiegh- February 11th, 2009

Dr. Sebastian M. Saiegh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCSD. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University in 2004. His research interests cut across the fields of comparative politics, positive political theory and political economy. In the research being discussed, Dr. Saiegh and his co-authors find a strong relationship between the history of civil conflict in a player’s home country and his propensity to behave violently on the soccer field, as measured by yellow and red cards. To read the full paper, please visit: http://dss.ucsd.edu/~ssaiegh/soccer.pdf.
Podcast Date: February 11, 2009

USMEX Research Seminar: Martha Escobar- February 4th, 2009

Martha Escobar is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Her fields of specialization include the politics of immigration control and incarceration. Her dissertation focuses on the experiences of migrant women, especially as they are shaped by state policies and practices of policing racialized and gendered national boundaries. Her talk will focus on stories of Mexican migrant women that illustrate how the boundaries between interpersonal and state modes of violence are blurred, which obscures the role of the state in performing violence as a means of securing borders.
Podcast Date: February 04, 2009

USMEX Research Seminar: Enrique Morones- January 28th, 2009

Podcast Date: December 31, 1969

USMEX Research Seminar - Alberto Diaz-Cayeros_January 21, 2009

Podcast Date: January 21, 2009

USMEX Research Seminar: David Shirk- January 14th, 2009

Podcast Date: December 31, 1969