Academic staff

Sylvia Chant 

Sylvia has undertaken research on gender and development in Latin America since the 1980s, initially in Mexico and subsequently in Costa Rica. 

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Jean-Paul Faguet

Jean-Paul is Professor of the Political Economy of Development in The Department of International Development at the LSE.

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Tasha Fairfield

Tasha is a comparative political scientist with expertise on political economy in Latin America. 

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Anthony Hall

Professor of Social Policy, Anthony has carried out extensive research and consultancy in the Brazilian Amazon on issues of deforestation, sustainable development and emerging REDD+ activities.

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Tanya Harmer

Tanya's research focuses on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean during the twentieth century and the impact of the Cold War in the region.

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Ellen Helsper

Ellen is leading on a large international project ‘From Digital Skills to Tangible Outcomes’ which has a number of Latin American partners, including Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay.

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Alejandra Irigoin

Dr Alejandra Irigoin, a native of Argentina, received her PhD in Economic History from the LSE in 2000.

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Sandra Jovchelovitch

Sandra is Professor in The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the LSE.

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Colin Lewis

Colin M. Lewis is Professor Emeritus of Latin American Economic History.

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Alvaro Mendez

Dr. Alvaro Mendez is the co-founder of the LSE Global South Unit.

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Covadonga Meseguer

Covadonga’s fields of interest are International and Comparative Political Economy, Political Economy of International Migration, Political Economy of Latin America, and Political Economy of Development.

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Francisco Panizza

Francisco Panizza is Professor in Latin American and Comparative Politics in the Department of Government. Francisco is currently setting up an Observatory on the peace process in Colombia within the Latin America and Caribbean Centre.

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Megan Ryburn

Megan’s work focuses on migration and citizenship, particularly within a global South context. 

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Ken Shadlen

Ken works on the comparative and international political economy of development.

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Livia Schubiger

Working mostly on Colombia, Peru, and Mexico, her research focuses on issues such as civilian support for criminal and political armed groups, ethno-environmental protest against mining activities.

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Matt Wilde

Matt Wilde specialises in research on popular and egalitarian politics, the state, ethics and morality, urban environments and political economy. His work has explored the lives of working-class residents in Valencia in Venezuela and London in the UK.

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Helen Yaffe 

Helen Yaffe is an economic historian of Cuba and Latin America. 

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Austin Zeiderman 

Dr Austin Zeiderman is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in the cultural and political dimensions of cities, with a specific focus on Latin America.

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