Events

Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 12-2pm

Latin American Studies Luncheon Series

Judith Teichman is professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is co-author of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery (2006, Cambridge Unversity Press), author of The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America (2001, University of North Carolina Press) and of Privatization and Political Change in Mexico (1996) and of Policymaking in Mexico: From Boom to Crisis (1988) and of many articles on Latin American politics, political economy and policymaking published in scholarly journals and in edited volumes. Currently her research focuses on the political origins of poverty and inequality in the global south. Her current research project, supported by a Connaught Research Fellowship, is a comparative study examining the historical political conditions shaping poverty, inequality and welfare regimes in Chile, Mexico and South Korea.

A light lunch will be provided to those who register by 9am on Monday, December 3, 2007 at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=4475