Kenneth Maxwell

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Kenneth R. Maxwell, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Director of Latin America Studies. [1]

Fellowships and Research Appointments

  • First holder of the Nelson and David Rockefeller Chair in Inter-American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1995-2004
  • Senior Fellow for Latin America, Council on Foreign Relations, 1989-1995
  • Senior Research Associate, Columbia University, 1992-2000
  • Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, 1978-1992
  • Luso-American Foundation Fellow, 1986-1987
  • Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow, 1985-1986
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1976-1977
  • Member, School of Historical Studies and School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1974-1975
  • Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, with support of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 1972-1974
  • Herodotus Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1971-1972
  • Newberry Library Gulbenkian Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1968-1969
  • Princeton Regional Studies Fellow (in Brazil), 1966-1968
  • Metropolitan Graduate Training Program in Latin America, 1965
  • Ford Regional Studies Fellow, Princeton University, 1964-1965
  • Gulbenkian Scholar, Lisbon, Spring 1964
  • University of Madrid, 1963

Administrative Appointments

  • Director, Latin America Studies Program, Council on Foreign Relations, 1989-2004 Vice-President and Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, 1996
  • Founder and Director, The Camões Center for the Study of the Portuguese-speaking World, Columbia University, 1988-1999
  • Program Director, The Tinker Foundation, Inc., 1979-1985

Service Positions at Harvard University

  • Director of Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2006-
  • Member, Executive Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005- Chair, Brazilian Studies Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005-

Service Positions at Columbia University

  • Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Communications and Society, 1985-1990
  • Director, Columbia University/Gulbenkian Foundation Workshops on “Portugal: Ten Years After the Revolution,” 1984
  • Chair, Research Institute on International Change Seminars, 1978-1979, 1981-1982
  • Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil, 1978-1980

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Affiliations

Books

  • Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal 1750-1808
  • Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (Routledge, 2003) - foreword by Fouad Ajami
  • Mais Malandros: Ensaios Tropicais e Outros
  • The Making of Portuguese Democracy
  • Pombal: Paradox of the Enlightenment
  • The New Spain: From Isolation to Influence

Resources and articles

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References

  1. Americas Advisory Committee, Human Rights Watch, accessed April 16, 2010.