Tinker Visiting Professors
WINTER, SPRING 2025
Jaime Araos has researched Greek philosophy, addressing issues in logic, metaphysics, and ethical and political philosophy related to democratic theory. His work explores the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions of liberal democracy, the role of tolerance in the modern state, and the crisis of representation in contemporary democracy.
He has been a full professor of philosophy at UMCE, the Universidad de Chile, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford and has been a recurring visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Aix-Marseille Université, Universidad Complutense de Madrid...
AUTUMN 2024, WINTER, SPRING 2025
Ernesto Domínguez López (he, him, él), (La Habana, 1976) is a Professor (full) of History and Political Sciences at the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies of the University of Havana (UH), in Cuba. After studying Nuclear Physics for five years, he went to study History and earned his bachelor´s (UH, 2006), master´s (UH, 2008) and doctoral degrees (UH, 2011) in that discipline. Currently, he is completing a research PhD, in Political Sciences, at the University of Rostock (Germany)
Domínguez López has significant research and teaching experience. He has applied the complex approach and...
WINTER, SPRING 2025
Julio J. Elias is a Professor in the Department of Economics and Business School at Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA), Argentina. He serves as the Executive Director of the UChicago/UCEMA Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE), Director of the MA program in Economics, and Director of the Center for Creativity Economics at UCEMA.
He earned his BA from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina, in 1996, and his MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2005. Elias has held positions as a Visiting Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute, a Visiting Professor at...
WINTER, SPRING 2025
Sergio Ugalde Quintana is Professor at the Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies at El Colegio de México. His research and teaching interests are 20th century Latin American essays and poetry, seen from the perspective of intellectual history. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature from El Colegio de México and a Habilitation in Romance literatures and languages from the University of Potsdam, Germany.
Prof. Ugalde has been Visiting Professor at the Universidad de la República (Udelar, Uruguay) and at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR, Brazil). From 2007 to 2019 he was Professor of Latin American...