Leigh Payne's CV. - St Antony's College - University of Oxford

EDUCATION
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Ph.D. in Political Science (1990)
M.Phil. in Political Science (1985)
LEIGH A. PAYNE
New York University, New York City, New York
M.A. in Latin American Studies (1983)
B.A. in Politics and History (1980)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor (Sociology/Latin America), University of Oxford, 2009-present
Visiting Professor (Political Science/Global Studies), University of
Minnesota, 2008-2012
Professor (Political Science), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001-2010
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998-2001
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991-1998
Lecturer, Yale University, 1990-1991
Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, The
University of Notre Dame, 1990
Acting Instructor, Yale University, 1986, 1988, 1989
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
National Science Foundation (US)-Arts and Humanities Research Council
(UK) collaborative grant 2010-2011 for “The Impact of Transitional Justice
on Human Rights and Democracy”
Zennström Philanthropies 2009 for “The Justice Balance”
Smith Richardson Foundation Research Grant 2007-2008 for the “Transitional
Justice Data Base Project”
A.W. Mellon Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for
Humanities 2007-2008 “Trauma Tourism Seminar Series”
United States Institute of Peace Research Grant 2007-2008 “Transitional
Justice Data Base Project”
Vilas Associate Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006-08
Global Legal Scholars Initiative fellowship, 2007
Franklin Center Book Award, Duke University Press, 2007
Nave Research Internship Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing
Grant, 2001

Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation, Global Security
Program Fellowship on Conflict, Peace and Social Transformations, 2001
John Leddy Phelan Award, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies
Program, 2001
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Alumni Research Fund, 2007, 2006,
1997, 1995, 1993 and 1992 (research and travel funds)
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Hilldale Fellowship, 1999, 1995, 1993
and 1992 research assistant stipend and travel funds
Fulbright Faculty Scholars Abroad Program, American Republics Research
Program, 1994-95
Social Science Research Council Grant for Advanced International Research
in Latin American Studies, 1993
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Latin American and Iberian Studies,
1991, conference travel grant
Inter-American Foundation Grant, 1988 to develop database on labor conflict
in Brazil
Social Science Research Council, International Doctoral Research Fellowship,
1986-1988
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Grant, 1987-1988
Yale Council on Latin American Studies Research Grant (Tinker), 1985
Inter-American Foundation Masters‟ Grant, 1985
U.S. Government Title VI Grant, 1983-1985
Yale University Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1983-1987
Block Fund Grant, Yale University Department of Political Science, 1983
Inter-American Foundation Masters‟ Research Grant, 1982
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Member, Governing Body, St. Antony‟s College, 2009-present
Latin American Seminar Series Convener, Oxford University, Hilary Term
2010
Steering Committee, Human Rights Initiative, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, 2007-2008
Co-Chair, Trauma Tourism Seminar Series, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
project, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2008
Co-Chair, Legacies of Violence Research Circle, International Institute,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004-2008
Co-Chair, Governing Global Insecurities, Center for World Affairs and the
Global Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005
Chair, Legacies of Authoritarianism Research Circle, Ford Foundation
Crossing Borders Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997-2003
Director, Global Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999-
2002
Co-Director, Advanced Studies Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998-2002

RESEARCH
Books
A Anistia da Era da Responsabilização: O Brasil em Perspectiva
Internacional e Comparada (forthcoming 2011), co-edited with Paulo Abrão
and Marcelo D. Torelly
Accounting for Violence: The Memory Market in Latin America (Durham,
NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2010), co-edited with Ksenija Bilbija
Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy
(Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace, 2010), co-authored with
Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G. Reiter
Testimonios Perturbadores: ni verdad ni reconciliaciόn en las confesiones de
violencia de estado (Bogota: Universidad de Los Andes, 2009)
Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State
Violence (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008)
The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule, (Madison, WI: University
of Wisconsin Press, 2005), co-edited with Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair and
Cynthia Milton
Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right-Wing and Democracy in Latin America
(Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
Business and Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh, PA: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1995), co-edited with Ernest Bartell
Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change (Baltimore, MD: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1994)
Articles
"Transitional Justice in Latin America," International Studies Review 13:3
(forthcoming 2011)
“The Justice Balance: When Transitional Justice Improves Human Rights and
Democracy,” Human Rights Quarterly 32:4 (2010): 980-1005, with Tricia D.
Olsen and Andrew G. Reiter
“Transitional Justice in the World, 1970-2007: Insights from a New Dataset,”
Journal of Peace Research 47:6 (2010): 803-809, with Tricia D. Olsen and
Andrew G. Reiter
“When Truth Commissions Work,” International Journal of Transitional
Justice 4:3 (2010): 457-476, with Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G. Reiter
“At What Cost? A Political Economy Approach to Transitional Justice.” Taiwan
Journal of Democracy 6:1 (July 2010): 165-184, with Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G.
Reiter
“Equilibrando Julgamentos e Anistias na América Latina: Perspectivas
Comparativa e Teórica,” Revista Anistia Política e Justica de Transição, No.2
(2010) [Brazil]), with Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G. Reiter
“Does Transitional Justice Work?” Global Studies Review: Special Issue on
Accountability after Mass Atrocity (Fall 2009), with Tricia D. Olsen and
Andrew G. Reiter

“Paradoxes of Punishment,” Review of Keally D. McBride, Punishment and
Political Order] Theory & Event vol.12 issue 2 (2009)
“In Search of Remorse: Confessions by Perpetrators of Past State Violence,”
Brown Journal of World Affairs (Summer/Fall 2004); XI(1): 115-24
“A Report to the GSC Fellows‟ Conference in Moscow, Russia,” Social
Science Research Council Global Security and Cooperation Quarterly,
Winter 2003
“Working with Perpetrators and Victims of State Violence: Notes from the
Field,” Social Science Research Council Global Security and Cooperation
Quarterly, Fall 2002
“Collaborators and the Politics of Memory in Chile,” Human Rights Review,
2:3 (April-June 2001)
“Brazilian Business and the Democratic Transition: New Attitudes and
Influence” The Helen Kellogg Institute Working Paper Series, 179 (August
1992)
“Working Class Strategies in the Transition to Democracy in Brazil,”
Comparative Politics, January 1991
“Industrialists and Labor Relations in the Transition to Democracy in Brazil,”
The Helen Kellogg Institute Working Paper Series, 158 (April 1991)
Book Chapters
“A Anistia na Era da Responsabilização: contexto global, comparativo e
introdução ao caso brasileiro,” in A Anistia da Era da Responsabilização: O
Brasil em Perspectiva Internacional e Comparada (forthcoming 2011) edited
by Leigh A. Payne, Paulo Abrão and Marcelo D. Torelly, with Paulo Abrão
and Marcelo D. Torelly
“As implicações políticas dos processos de anistia,” in A Anistia da Era da
Responsabilização: O Brasil em Perspectiva Internacional e Comparada
(forthcoming 2011) edited by Leigh A. Payne, Paulo Abrão and Marcelo D.
Torelly, with Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G. Reiter
“Surviving Dictatorship: The Justice, Truth, and Amnesty Conundrum,” in
Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis, edited by Bent Flyvbjerg, Todd
Landman, and Sanford Schram, Cambridge University Press: forthcoming
2011, with Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G. Reiter
“Introduction: Time is Money” in Bilbija and Payne, Accounting for
Violence: The Memory Market in Latin America (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, forthcoming 2010), with Ksenija Bilbija
“Trauma Tourism in Latin America,” in Bilbija and Payne, Accounting for
Violence: The Memory Market in Latin America (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, forthcoming 2010), with Laurie Beth Clark
“Confessional Performances: A Methodological Approach to Studying
Perpetrators‟ Testimonies,” in Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter and
Audrey Chapman, editors, Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice:
Challenges for Empirical Research (Washington D.C.: United States Institute
of Peace Press, 2009)

“Humor That Makes Trouble,” in Bilbija et al., editors, The Art of Truthtelling
About Authoritarian Rule (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2005)
“Confessional Performances: Perpetrators‟ Testimonies to the South African
Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” in Neil L. Whitehead, editor,
Violence (School of American Research, 2004)
“Confessions of Torturers: Reflections on Cases from Argentina,” in Susan
Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley, editors, What Justice?
Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America (Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 2003)
“Political and Economic Reform Sequencing in Brazil,” in Conversations
about Democratization and Economic Reform edited by Leslie Elliott Armijo
(Miami, FL: North-South Center, University of Miami, 1996)
“Brazilian Business and the Transition to Democracy,” in Ernest Bartell and
Leigh A. Payne Business and Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh, PA:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995)
“Introduction” and “Bringing Business Back In” (with Bartell) in Ernest
Bartell and Leigh A. Payne Business and Democracy in Latin America
(Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995)
In Progress
• “Trials and Amnesties in Latin America: Comparative and Theoretical
Perspectives,” in Human Rights Tribunals in Latin America: The Fujimori
Trial in Comparative Perspective, edited by Jo-Marie Burt (under review at
Pennsylvania State University Press), with Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew G.
Reiter
Conference Papers and Presentations
“Unsettling Accounts in Latin America and Africa,” Walter Rodney Seminar
series, Boston University, April 4, 2011
“Transitional Justice in Balance: the Impact of Transitional Justice on Human
Rights and Democracy,” International Governance Seminar Series (IGSS), Centre
for International Governance Innovation & Balsillie School of International
Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, 11 February 2011
“The Persistence and Impact of Amnesty Laws,” Annual Convention of the
International Studies Association, Montreal, CA, March 18, 2011
“Amnesty Under Siege: The Struggle Against Impunity in the Age of
Accountability,” The Faculty Works in Progress Series at the University of
Minnesota Law School, January 27, 2011
“Transitional Justice in Balance” presentation of book at the International Center
for Transitional Justice, January 26, 2011
“Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy,”
Political Science Seminar Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 3 December
2010
“Justicia Transicional en Equilibrio: Comparando Procesos, Midiendo
Efectividad,” Negociacion con las Guerillas: Entre la Paz y la Justicia, Seminario

International, La Fundación Ideas para la Paz, el Centro Internacional para la
Justicia Transicional, la Agencia Sueca de Cooperación Internacional para el
Desarrollo
Bogota, Colombia, November 3, 2010
“Issues of Access; Finding Comprehensive and Reliable Data,” University of
Ulster, Belfast transitional Justice Institute conference on The Role of Databases
in Transitional Justice, 26 October 2010
“The Political Implications of Amnesty Processes,” Oxford University conference
on Amnesty in the Age of Accountability, 22-23 October 2010
“Trial Databases and the International Picture,” Human Rights Consortium
conference on Late Justice in South America, University of London, 21 October
2010
“Brazil: Amnesty Under Siege,” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto,
6-9 October 2010
“Transitional Justice and Perpetrators‟ Confessions to Violence,” London School
of Economics conference on Violence and Memory: considering repression and
resistance in Spain 1936-1952 in comparative perspective, 21-22 September, 2010
“Data Archiving and Analysis” University of Essex Transitional Justice Network
conference on “Shaping the future of Transitional Justice: growing synergies
between theory and practice,” Colchester, September 16-17, 2010
“Transitional Justice Mechanisms and their Impact,” Inter-American
Commission for Human Rights, Washington, D.C., 2 September 2010
“Book Launch: Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing
Efficacy,” United States Institute of Peace, 1 September 2010
“Amnesty in the Era of Accountability,” Law and Society Association, Chicago,
27-30 May 2010
“Unsettling Accounts: Perpetrators‟ „truths‟ revealed and their impact on
democracy,” Exhuming Bodies, Producing Knowledge conference, University of
Minnesota, 23-24 April 2010
“Claves para la comparaciόn de procesos de esclarecimiento y difusiόn de la
verdad,” Agencia de Cooperaciόn Técnica (GTZ), Santa Marta, Colombia, 22-24
November 2009
“Testimonios Perturbadores: Ni verdad ni reconciliaciόn en las confesiones de
violencia de estado,” Departamento de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de los
Andes y la Fundaciόn Ideas para la Paz y la Agencia de Cooperaciόn Técnica
(GTZ), 20 November 2009
“When and Why Transitional Justice Improves Democracy and Human Rights,”
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea Symposium, 27 October 2009
“Unrevealed Truths,” Right to Truth conference, University of São Paulo, Brazil,
19-20 October 2009
“When Transitional Justice Works,” paper presented under the auspices of the
Ministry of Justice, Amnesty Committee, Brazilian Government in Rio de Janeiro
and Belem (Association of Human Rights Researchers), 18-20 September 2009
“The Justice Balance: Transitional Justice Reconsidered,” Taking Stock of
Transitional Justice conference, University of Oxford, 26-28 June 2009

“Trials in Latin America,” Accountability after Mass Atrocity: Latin American
and African Examples in Comparative Perspective conference, George Mason
University Center for Global Studies and Institute for Conflict Analysis and
Resolution, Washington, D.C. 6 May 2009
“The Transitional Justice Data Base Project,” Transitional Justice Collaborative
Speaking Series, University of Minnesota, 24 April 2009
“Trauma Tourism in Latin America,” Curating Difficult Knowledge conference,
Montreal, 16-18 April 2009
“Does Transitional Justice Work?” Center for Human Rights and Global Justice,
New York University Law School 12 February 2009
“Unsettling Accounts and the Colombian Case,” International Institute for Law
and Justice, International Legal Theory Colloquium, New York University Law
School, 12 February 2009
“The Justice Balance: Transitional Justice Reconsidered,” 50 th Annual
Convention of the International Studies Association, New York, 17 February
2009
“Amnesty in the Age of Accountability,” 49 th Annual Convention of the
International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, 26-29 March 2008
“Does Transitional Justice Work?” 49 th Annual Convention of the International
Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, 26-29 March 2008
“Demand for Justice: Domestic Support for Transitional Justice Mechanisms,”
49 th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco,
CA, 26-29 March 2008
“Performances of Power: Paramilitary Confessions in Colombia” Coming to
Terms with the Past, Yale University 31 October 2008
“Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State
Violence,” University of Michigan Realistic Wrongs: Questions of Evidence in
Human Rights Work speaker series, Ann Arbor, 11 January 2008
“Televised Confessions: Perpetrators of Past State Violence and Memory
Politics,” International Conference on Truth, Historic Memory and Mass Media,
Bogotá, Colombia, November 28, 2007
“The Politics of Speech and Memory in Argentina and Chile,” XXVII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, 5-8 September
2007, Montreal, Canada
“Trauma Tourism,” XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, 5-8 September 2007, Montreal, Canada
“Criminalizing Speech in Argentina and the Politics of Judicialization,” Law and
Society Association Meeting, Humboldt University, Berlin, July 25-28, 2007
“The Politics and Judicialization of Speech in Argentina,” Workshop on Legal
Culture and the Judicialization of Politics in Latin America, University of
Wisconsin-Madison Law School, 17-18 November 2006
“Reconciliation Drama (or the role of perpetrators‟ confessions in resolving past
authoritarian state violence),” Coming to Terms with Reconciliation: Critical
Perspectives on the Practice, Politics, and Ethics of Reconciliation, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 10-11 November 2006

“Authoritarian Apologists‟ Memories of the Violent Past (and what democracies
should do about them),” History and Memory Colloquium, La Plata, Argentina, 6-
8 September 2006
“Perpetrating Violence: Brazil and Memory Politics,” Latin American Studies
Association Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada, 7-9 October 2004
“Speaking about Violence: Authoritarian State Perpetrators‟ Confessions,”
Cultures of Violence, 5 th Global Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford
University, United Kingdom, 20-23 September 2004
“Studying Perpetrators,” University of Wisconsin-Madison workshop on “Danger
in the Field: Gender, Power and Ethics,” 1-2 April 2004
“Confessing Evil,” University of Wisconsin‟s Humanities Forum on
Contemporary Issues, 23 March 2004
“Perpetrators Confessions,” Brandeis University workshop on Justice Across
Cultures, 8 March 2004
“Urban Criminal Violence,” Harvard Forum on Brazil‟s Human Rights, Human
Rights Program, Harvard Law School and David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, 29 September 2003
“Confessing Evil: The Role of Perpetrators‟ Confessions in Chilean Memory
Politics,” Latin American Studies Association XXIV International Congress,
Dallas, 27-29 March 2003
“Research on Perpetrators,” Empirical Research Methodologies of Transitional
Justice Mechanisms,” conference sponsored by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the Centre for the Study of Violence and
Reconciliation, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 18-20 November 2002
“Social Scientists Don‟t Cry: Research on Human Rights Violations in South
Africa,” Social Science Research Council – Global Security and Cooperation
Annual Fellows‟ Conference
“Confessional Performances,” International Federation of Theatre Research,
Amsterdam 6 July 2002
“Performing Truth: Perpetrators Confessions in the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission,” Center for African Studies, University of Cape
Town, 22 May 2002
“Confession as Fiction: Analysis of the Brazilian Novel Xambioa,” presented at
the Latin American Studies Association meetings, Washington, DC, 4-6
September 2001
“Performing Confession: An Analysis of Videotaped Confessions by Perpetrators
in South Africa‟s Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” presented at the
Association of Theater in Higher Education annual conference, Chicago, 2-5
August 2001
“Confessions of Torturers” presented at the Bascom Hill Society, Madison, WI, 9
June 2001
“Acts to Grind: Memory, Gender and Collaborators in Chile,” Gender Workshop
of the MacArthur Consortium on Global Peace and Cooperation, Stanford
University 19-21 April 2001

“Humor as Truth -- Truth as Humor,” presented at the workshop on Fact and
Fiction in Post-Authoritarian Societies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 27-28
April 2001
“Making Heroes and Villains: Torturers' Confessions and the Media in South
Africa, Argentina, and Chile,” presented at the Border and Transcultural Studies
Research Circle workshop on The Contact Zone Revisited: Violence,
Reconciliation, and Co-Existence, Madison, WI, 6 April 2001
“Perpetrators‟ Confessions in Novels, Film, and Documentary,” presented at the
National Endowment for the Humanities seminar, Madison, WI, 2 April 2001
“Torturers‟ Confessions Compared: Argentina and Chile” presented at the Latin
American Studies Association conference, 23-26 March 2000
“Collaborators‟ Confessions: The Case of Chile,” presented at the University of
Michigan, Latin American Studies Center, 22 February 2000
“Confessions of Torturers: Reflections on Cases from Argentina,” presented at the
University of Witswatersrand‟s History Workshop on South Africa‟s Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, Johannesburg, 10-15 June 1999
“Confessions of Torturers,” presented at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs Faculty Development Seminar on International Justice and
Democratic Transitions, Madison, 3-4 June 1999
“Confessions of Torturers: Reflections on Cases from Argentina,” presented at the
Latin American Studies Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, 24-26 September
1998
“Uncivil Movements in Argentina, Brazil, and the US,” Conference on Coercion,
Violence, and Rights in the Americas, sponsored by the New School for Social
Research, Graduate Faculty, Janey Program in Latin American Studies, 16-17
April 1998
“Uncivil Movements,” presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9
March 1998
“Uncivil Movements,” presented at the Center for Latin American Studies,
Middlebury College, 20 November 1997
“Uncivil Movements in Brazil,” presented at the Center of Violence, University
of Sao Paulo, 5 November 1997
“Globalization and Domestic Security,” presented at the Fulbright Commission
Anniversary Conference, Sao Paulo, 3 November 1997
“Uncivil Movements: Armed Right-Wing Groups and Democratic Change,”
presented at the 93 rd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., 28-31 August 1997
“Authoritarian Movements in the New Democracies of Latin America,” paper
presented at the XX International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, 17-19 April 1997
“Packaging Right-Wing Violence in Democratic Brazil: The Case of the UDR,”
paper presented at the Third Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association,
Cambridge, England, 7-10 September 1996
“Security Legacies in Post-Authoritarian Societies: The Privatization of Security
and the Insecurity of Privatization," paper presented at the conference on

Democratization: International and Domestic Security Dimensions, Stanford
University, 23-25 February 1996
“Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” co-authored with Michael Barnett, a report
from the Democratization and Domestic Security Working Group for the 1996
MacArthur Consortium Summer Institute, Stanford University, 21-25 June 1996
“Authoritarian Movements in the New Latin American Democracies: A Case
Study of the Argentine Carapintada,” the 1995 annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Chicago, 31 August to 3 September 1995
“Industrialists and Landholders in the Brazilian Transition to Democracy,” XVII
International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles,
September 1992
“Business Perceptions of Labor and Industrial Relations during the Transition to
Democracy in Brazil,” XV World Congress of the International Political Science
Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21-25 July 1991
“Brazilian Business and the Transition to Democracy,” Kellogg Institute
Conference on Business Elites and Democracy in Latin America, University of
Notre Dame, 3-4 May 1991
“The Traditional Right in New Democracies: Brazilian Landowners,” XVI
International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.,
4-6 April 1991
“Business and Democratic Transitions: A Comparative Study of Brazil and
Chile,” Helen Kellogg Institute of International Studies, University of Notre
Dame, 27 March 1990
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
“Amnesty in the Age of Accountability: Brazil in Comparative and
International Perspective, University of Oxford, 22-23 October 2010
“Marketing Memory in Latin America,” University of Wisconsin-Madison,
11-12 April 2008
“Responses to Atrocity,” University of Wisconsin and University of
Minnesota, Madison, WI 20-21 April 2007
“Memory Across Generations,” Conference for the Legacies of
Authoritarianism Project, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES),
Buenos Aires, 10-12 October 2002
“Gendered Dimensions of Authoritarian Legacies,” (with Aili Tripp)
Rockefeller Foundation supported project, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
November 30-December 1, 2001
“Interrogating Reconciliation,” Conference for the Legacies of
Authoritarianism Project, Ateneo University, Manila, Philippines, 15-18
August 2001
“New Dimension of Human Rights,” Conference for the MacArthur
Foundation Consortium on Peace and Cooperation, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, 14-17 June 2001

“Fact and Fiction in Post-Authoritarian Societies,” Conference for the
Legacies of Authoritarianism Project and the African Studies Spring
Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 27-28 April 2001
“Alternative Truth-Telling,” Workshop for the Legacies of Authoritarianism
Project, Robben Island Museum, South Africa, 22-26 May 2000
“Changing Role of Law,” Global Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, 24-25 March 2000
“Legacies of Authoritarianism II,” FLACSO, Santiago, Chile, 4-6 January
2000
“Legacies of Authoritarianism I,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3-5 April
1998
“Business Elites and Democracy in Latin America,” Kellogg Institute,
University of Notre Dame, 3-4 May 1991
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Discussant, Panel [LASA]
Discussant, Panel on “Democratization, Law and Human Rights: Addressing
Wrongs from the Authoritarian Past,” Conference on Law and
Democratization in Taiwan and South Korea: Twenty Years' Experience,"
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 19-20 October 2007
Discussant, Memorialization and Democracy International Conference,
Santiago, Chile 20-22 June 2007
Discussant, Panel on “Bridging the International-Comparative Divide:
Emergent Research on Latin America,” Latin American Studies Association
Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada, 7-9 October 2004
Participant, Workshop on International Criminal Accountability, Social
Science Research Council, International Law and International Relations
Project, Washington, DC, 6-7 November 2003
Discussant, “Cuban National Reconciliation: Memory, Truth and Justice,”
Latin American Studies Association XXIV International Congress, Dallas, 27-
29 March 2003
Presenter, Ford Foundation Crossing Borders Initiative meeting, Sonoma
Valley, CA, 19-20 June 2001
Coordinator, Workshop on NGOs, MacArthur Foundation Consortium
Summer Institute, Stanford University, 17-19 June 1999
Chair, Panel on Sovereignty, MacArthur Foundation Consortium Summer
Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 18-20 June 1998
Discussant, Workshop on Refugees, MacArthur Foundation Consortium
Summer Institute, University of Minnesota, 18-21 June 1997
Presenter, “Challenges of Democracy in Latin America,” Alumni University,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 25 June 1997
Discussant and Co-organizer with the Social Science Research Council,
Roundtable on “Legacies of Fear in Post-Authoritarian Latin America: The

Culture of Fear Revisited,” XX International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, 17-19 April 1997
Presenter, “Challenges of Democratization in Latin America,” Rotary
International World Affairs Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 10
June 1996
Discussant, Roundtable on Roberto Mangabeira Unger's presentation on “An
Alternative to the Neo-Liberal Model Development,” Global Studies Program,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22 March 1996
Presenter, Franklin Elementary School First and Second Graders, as part of
the Brazil: Beyond the Rainforest exchange program through the Madison
Children's Museum, December 1995
Presentation, “Neoliberalismo nas Americas,” Universidade Nacional Estado
de Sao Paulo, Presidente Prudente, Brazil, 7 August 1995 (in Portuguese)
Presentation, “Brazilian Politics,” Intensive Portuguese Class, University of
Wisconsin, 27 June 1995
Discussant, "Shining and Other Paths" Conference, Madison, 27-30 April
1995
Presenter, “Discourses of Policy, Identity, and Resistance: Methods and
Applications,” MacArthur Consortium on International Peace and
Cooperation Workshop, University of Minnesota, 10-12 February 1995
Presentation on current research, Land Tenure Center Brown Bag Lunch,
October 1994
Presentation on current research, Sociology Department's Qualitative Methods
Class, October 1994
Presentation, “Empresarios y Democracia no Brazil,” Universidad Torcuato
Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 28 June 1994 (in Spanish)
Discussant, “Las Nuevas Relaciones Estado-Burguesia en America Latina,”
CEDES, Buenos Aires, 20-21 May 1994 (in Spanish)
Lecture on Political Actors in Latin America, Considering the Americas: A
Latin American Studies Workshop for Faculty from Two and Four Year
Campuses, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 27 May 1993
Discussant, Conference on Sustainable Development with Equity in the
1990s, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Global Studies Research Program,
13-16 May 1993
Presenter on Brazil, Southern California Workshop on Political and Economic
Liberalization, University of Southern California, Center for International
Studies, 22 March 1993
Discussant, Secondary Associative Democracy Conference, Havens Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 24-25 January 1992
Participant, The Woodrow Wilson Center Conference on Social Science
Research, Wye Plantation, Maryland, 12-14 December 1991
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, International Committee, Revista de Sociología, Universidad de
Chile, 2010 to present
Member, Advisory Committee, Grupo de Estudos sobre Internacionalização
do Direito e Justiça de Transição (IDEJUST), Universidade de São Paulo/
Brazilian Ministry of Justice, 2010 to present
Co-Editor, Cultures and Practices of Violence book series, Duke University
Press, 2004 to present
Editorial Board, Luso-Brazilian Review, 2000-2009
Consultant, Crime and Human Rights Project, The International Council on
Human Rights Policy, Geneva, Switzerland, 2001-2003
Editorial Team member, Social Science Research Council, Global Conflict
and Security Quarterly, Spring 2002
Member, Executive Committee, Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA),
1997-2000
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS
American Journal of Political Science (2006)
American Political Science Review (2006)
Cornell University Press (2000)
Comparative Politics (1999, 1995, 1993, 1992)
Governance (1993)
Harper Collins College Publishers (1995)
Houghton-Mifflin (2003)
Journal for Inter-American and World Affairs (1997)
Journal of Contemporary History (2005)
Journal of Latin American Studies (2010)
Latin American Research Review (1995, 1992)
Law and Social Inquiry (2000)
Longman Publishers (2007)
Luso-Brazilian Review (1993)
Oxford University Press (2002, 2001)
Penn State Press (1992)
Political Psychology (2004,1997)
Political Research Quarterly (2006)
Politics and Society (1993)
Radical History Review (1998)
Routledge Presss (2010)
University of California – Los Angeles Press (1993)
University of North Carolina Press (2007)
University of Pittsburgh Press (2005; 2003; 2002)
University of Wisconsin Press (2006, 1999, 1993, 1990)

GRANT REVIEW COMMITTEES
National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. (2001, 1995)
MacArthur Research and Writing Competition (2000, 1999)
MacArthur Foundation Graduate Student Fellowships, University of
Wisconsin (1995-2001)
Global Studies Program Travel Grants (1999-2001)
FLAS award, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program (1999)
FLAS award, JCIS, International Institute (1999)
Tinker Foundation Summer Research Fellowships in Latin America,
University of Wisconsin (1995)
EXTERNAL TENURE REVIEWS
Arizona State University (2010)
Tufts University (2009)
University of Western Ontario (2009)
George Mason (2006)
John Jay College (2006)
Vanderbilt (2005)
Macalester College (2001)
Tulane University (2000)
Middlebury College (2000)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Spanish – Fluent
Portuguese – Fluent
French – Basic