Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture; Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Estelle Tarica is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University (2000). In her research and teaching she examines colonial legacies of race in modern Latin America, Indigenous and Jewish memory cultures, and the transformative power of testimony, fiction and poetry. Her first book, The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), explores the subjective effects of racialized national...
Jason Wittenberg is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. A former Academy Scholar at Harvard University, he has been a visiting scholar at the Helen Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame; a Fulbright scholar at the Central European University in Budapest; and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. Professor Wittenberg has published widely on topics including electoral behavior, ethnic and religious violence, historical legacies, and empirical research methods. His first book, Crucibles of Political Loyalty:...
