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瑞士拉丁美洲研究院

This document profiles 14 Latin American scholars who have completed postdoctoral research. It provides brief biographies for each scholar, summarizing their educational background and areas of research expertise. The scholars have backgrounds in fields like international development studies, law, history, and environmental anthropology and conduct research on topics related to Latin America across various universities and institutions in Europe.

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瑞士拉丁美洲研究院

This document profiles 14 Latin American scholars who have completed postdoctoral research. It provides brief biographies for each scholar, summarizing their educational background and areas of research expertise. The scholars have backgrounds in fields like international development studies, law, history, and environmental anthropology and conduct research on topics related to Latin America across various universities and institutions in Europe.

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Boanada-Fuchs, Anthony (University of São Paulo)

Dr. Fuchs has completed his PhD at the Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies (Geneva), 2009-2015. His thesis "Housing Governance – A
process-oriented, resource-centered Actor-Network Approach to Housing
Provision Systems in Ahmedabad" was defended in March 2015 and obtained
summa cum laude. Afterwards, he pursued a post-doctoral research at the
Center for Metropolitan Studies of the University of São Paulo, with a project
titled “Housing a Nation – the Governance of Affordable Residential Units in
Brazil: the case of Metropolitan São Paulo”. He joined the ProDoc Latin America
network in 2015 following the recommendation of colleagues from the Graduate
Institute and University of St.Gallen. Anthony is a post-doc researcher at the
University of Lausanne and at the ETH Zürich. His teaching and research aims at
providing systematic accounts of development challenges and emerging
solutions, with a special focus on housing policies and the role of governments to
make housing more affordable. He started teaching at the University of St.Gallen
in 2017.

Boanada-Fuchs, Vanessa (UNICAMP and University of

St.Gallen)

Dr. Boanada is a legal and international relations scholar with a PhD in


International Development Studies from the IHEID Geneva. Her thesis
defense was awarded Summa cum Laude and the Lateinamerika Preis of the
University of St.Gallen in 2015. She conducts postdoctoral research in the fields
of International Law, Society and the Environment, and has joined
an international team as postdoctoral researcher of projects carried out by the
University of Campinas (Brazil, 2015/16) and the Michigan State University (USA,
2017). She was Academic Project Manager for the ProDoc and the Swiss School
for Latin American Studies (SSLAS) from 2014-2017. Additionally, she was
the Program Leader for bilateral cooperation for the CLS-HSG's "Leading House
for the Latin American Region". Currently, she is the Director of the St.Gallen
Institute of Management in Latin America (GIMLA) in São Paulo, Brazil.

Cometti, Geremia (Collège de France)

Dr. Cometti has defended his thesis, “Climate Change and Migrations in the
Peruvian Andes: The Case of Q’ero” in June 2014 at the Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies (Geneva). He has also been embedded in
the ProDoc during his doctoral studies. He is currently a Post-doctoral fellow,
holder of an SNSF grant, at Collège de France, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie
Sociale (LAS), Paris. He works under the scientific direction of Prof. Philippe
Descola on a project titled: “Anthropologie du changement climatique : les Q’eros
face à la fonte des glaciers”.

Dupuits, Emilie (Global Studies, University of Geneva)

Ms. Dupuits began her PhD in February 2013. The title of her thesis project
"Parler d’une seule voix? Organisations de base, réseaux transnationaux et
reconfigurations de la gouvernance communautaire de l’eau et des forêts en
Amérique Latine". She has also worked as a teaching assistant at the Global
Studies Institute of the University of Geneva. In 2015, she received a
Doc.Mobility grant to conduct part of her research at the Center for International
Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Lima, Peru. She will finish her dissertation and
defend in November 2017.

Gertschen, Alex (University of Bern, Philipps-University of

Marburg)

Dr. Gertschen is an associated researcher at the Center for Global Studies at the
University of Bern and of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies of the
Philipps-University of Marburg. From 2016 until 2018, he conducts a historic
research project on corporate social responsibility in the context of economic
internationalisation in the period from the 1960s until the 2000s. His focus is on
Mexico and multinational enterprises. The postdoc project has been funded by
the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Alex received
his PhD in History by the Philipps-University Marburg in 2012. Besides being an
academic researcher and teacher, he has worked extensively as a journalist,
communications expert, and business consultant specialised in Latin America
(see www.alexgertschen.com).

Krepp, Stella (History, University of Bern)

Dr. Krepp is a postdoctoral researcher at the History Department of the University


of Bern. She joined the ProDoc Network in 2014 following her participation and
presentation of her research to the PhD students in one of the ProDoc
Workshops. Her project is titled “‘The Real Road to Development’: Reform,
Revolution, and Independence, 1955-1964”. She examines emerging ideas of
progress, modernity, and development in Brazil, Cuba, and the British Caribbean.
It further enquires how Latin American visions were received in the wider context
of the Third World and particularly the Non-Aligned Movement, which
simultaneously tried to formulate an alternative to East-West bipolarity and to
challenge Cold War consensus. She has conducted fieldwork in the Unites
States, Great Britain, and Latin America, in particular in Brazil and Cuba. Her first
book tentatively titled "The Decline of the Western Hemisphere: A History of Inter-
American Relations from 1941 to 1990" is currently under review with Cambridge
University Press. Together with Thomas Field and Vanni Pettinà, she is co-
editing the volume "Latin America and the Third World: An International History"
which is forthcoming in 2018. In 2016, she won the D.C Watt Prize of the
Transatlantic Studies Association.

Nussio, Enzo (ETH Zurich)

Dr. Nussio is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies. He holds a
doctorate in International Affairs and Governance from the University of St.Gallen
and a Master of Arts in History from the University of Basel. Prior to his work at
the CSS, he spent several years in Colombia, where he worked as a post-doc for
the Universidad de los Andes and as a lecturer for the Universidad Nacional in
Bogotá. He conducted further post-doctoral studies in the Institute of Latin
American Studies at Stockholm University and the University of St.Gallen, and
visited the University of Michigan and Uppsala University in several occasions.
Enzo Nussio specializes in post-conflict issues (such as disarmament,
demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants, reconciliation, transitional
justice, state-building and post-war violence) and violence reduction in urban
settings, mostly in Latin America.

Silva Garzón, Diego (The Graduate Institute, University of

Oxford)

Mr. Silva works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on


Democracy for the project “Bringing the seed wars to the courtroom”. His work is
located at the intersection of science and technology studies, environmental and
legal anthropology and economics, paying special attention to the socio-technical
networks that are necessary for, and the rural conflicts that arise from, the
deployment of agricultural innovations. His thesis was awarded the Lateinamerika
Preise for the best Swiss thesis in Latin American Studies (University of St.
Gallen), and the Prix des Anciens for the best 2017 Ph.D. thesis at the IHEID. In
October 2018, he will start his new project at the Institute for Science,
Technology and Society (Oxford University) on the deployment of climate ready
seeds in Argentina. He is editor of Alternautas.

Dr. Rocío Robinson


Academic Program Coordinator / Manager
Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS)
Universität St.Gallen
Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 8
CH-9000 St.Gallen

For Universität Zürich please contact:


Dr. Elena Rosauro (Coordinator)
Latin American Center Zurich (LZZ)
Romanisches Seminar
Zürichbergstrasse 8
CH-8032 Zürich

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