Senior Fellows

Eduardo Langer holds a PhD in Education (UBA/Argentina), a Magister in Social Sciences (FLACSO/Argentina) and a Bachelor of Science in Education (UBA/Argentina). He is an Assistant Researcher at CONICET. He is professor of Sociology of Education at the National University of San Martin and National University of Southern Patagonia. He is the Director of Education at the National University of San Martín.

Evangelina Caravaca holds a PhD in Social Sciences (UBA/Argentina), a Master in Latin American Studies (Escuela de Humanidades-UNSAM/Argentina) and a Bachelor of Sociology (UBA/Argentina). Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research. Professor at the IDAES School (UNSAM). Participates as a PhD teacher in various universities in Argentina. Coordinator of the Nucleus of Studies on Violence (EIDAES-UNSAM). Her research topics prioritize sociological approaches over violence with emphasis on collective and institutional violence.

Cinthia Wanschelbaum holds a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), in the area of Education Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Education, from the same University. She is a Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) based at the Institute for Research in Educational Sciences (IICE) of the UBA and Professor of the subject Theories of Education II, of the Department of Education of the National University of Luján (UNLU).

Sarah Bak-Geller Corona is a professor and researcher at the UNAM Anthropological Research Institute. PhD in history from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France). Former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm-Paris) and Hong Kong University. Her lines of research focus on the political dimension of food practices and the forms of representation of food in the contexts of colonialism and nation-building in Mexico and Latin America.

Eduardo Domenech is researcher at  CONICET and professor in the Cordoba National University. Leads the research program “Critical Latinamerican Studies on Migration and Borders” at the UNC Center for Advanced Studies. He obtained his doctorate in sociology from the University of Salamanca. He has been a member and coordinator of the CLACSO GT "Migration, Culture and Politics". Research migration and border control regimes, policies and practices from a critical perspective.

After studying the specialty of Conservation of the Environment of the Career in Agronomy and Rural Development in Giessen, Germany, Andrés Gerique worked as a consultant in Spain before returning to Germany to obtain a doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His doctoral thesis was on the use of biodiversity by indigenous and local groups in southern Ecuador.

Alejandro Grimson is Full Professor of Contemporary Anthropological Theories at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín and is a Senior Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). At the Universidad Nacional de San Martín he has been Director of the PhD in Social Anthropology and Director of the Doctoral College and Dean of the Institute of Higher Social Studies at UNSAM between 2005 and 2014.

Cécile Stehrenberger is professor of historical and comparative studies of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal. She received her PhD from the University of Zurich. She worked as a lecturer at the universities of Braunschweig and Erfurt and was visiting scholar at Princeton IAS, University of Delaware, Drexel University and CSDS in Delhi, India. She was also a visiting professor at the National University of La Plata (Argentina).

Fernando Resende is Professor at the Department of Cultural and Media Studies and the Graduate Program in Communication at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. He has a Post-doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS - University of London), a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP); Master in Literary Studies from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), both in Brazil. He is Researcher PQ/CNPq.

Alberto Javier Olvera Rivera is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales of the Universidad Veracruzana since 1981. He is member of the National System of Researchers Level III, and of the Mexican Academy of Science. His lines of research are: Theories of Civil Society and Democratic Innovation, and Social Movements and Models of Society-State Relationship in Mexico and Latin America. He also studies the institutions and practices of the justice system and subnational authoritarianism in Mexico.