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Professor James Dunkerley, OBE
James Dunkerley is Professor of Latin American Politics at Queen Mary,
University of London.
Professor Dunkerley's expansive research interests concern: Latin American military history; the politics of conflict and revolution, particularly in Bolivia and Central America; and the intellectual impact of the end of the Cold War, amongst other topics.
Professor Dunkerley's undergraduate degree was in modern history at the University of York. He pursued his postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, where he obtained an MPhil in Latin American Studies and, subsequently, a DPhil at Nuffield College.
He has taught at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Queen Mary, University of London and the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS).
Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Mónica Moreno Figueroa is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge.
Dr Moreno's research has primarily developed around three areas: the lived experience of ‘race’ and racism; feminist theory and the interconnections between beauty, emotions and racism; visual methodologies and applied research collaborations.
Dr Moreno completed an undergraduate degree in Media and Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana, León, Mexico in 1996, before moving to the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, to study an MA in Sociology. In 1999, she travelled to the UK to do an MA in Gender, Culture and Modernity at Goldsmiths College, London, where she stayed to take a PhD in Sociology.
She has lectured at Newcastle University, Princeton University, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck College, London, the University of Nottingham, and El Colegio de Mexico.
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