Alfredo Joignant and Katherine Hite: new adjunct researchers of Latin Memories Project from the Institute.
Katherine Roberts Hite is Adjunct Researcher at Latin American Observatory on Memories, IIPSS. Professor of Political Sciences for Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Obtuvo su B.A. en Duke University y continuó a recibir su maestría en relaciones internacionales y doctorado en ciencias políticas en Columbia University. Hite es la autora de When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998 (Columbia University Press, 2000), Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to Struggle in Latin America and Spain (Routledge Press, 2011), y Política y arte de la conmemoración: memoriales a la lucha política en America Latina y España (Santiago de Chile: Mandrágora Ediciones y Museo de la Memoria, 2013). También es coeditora de The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation (Oxford University Press, 1997); coeditora con Paola Cesarini de Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe(University of Notre Dame Press, 2004); coeditora con Mark Ungar de Sustaining Human Rights in the 21st Century: Strategies from Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press); y coeditora con Cath Collins y Alfredo Joignant de Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013), y Política de la Memoria en Chile: De Pinochet a Bachelet (Santiago de Chile: Universidad Diego Portales/Catalonia, 2014).
Alfredo Joignant is Adjunct Researcher at Latin American Observatory on Memories, IIPSS. PhD in Political Science, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France. Full professor in political science at the Universidad Diego Portales. Past president of the Chilean Political Science Association (1998-2000) and Principal Researcher of the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). His work turns around the political sociology of elites, the sociology of resources and political capital, charisma, the politics of memory, and also the political competence of ordinary citizens. His last books are: The Politics of Memory in Chile from Pinochet to Bachelet, edited with Katherine Hite and Cath Collins (Boulder, Colorado, Lynn Rienner, 2013); El otro modelo. Del orden neoliberal al régimen de lo público, with Fernando Atria, Guillermo Larraín, José Miguel Benavente and Javier Couso (Santiago, Debate, 2013); Gouverner par la science: perspectives comparées, edited with Olivier Ihl and Yves Déloye (Grenoble: Presses universitares de Grenoble, 2013) ; and Ecos mundiales del golpe de Estado. Escritos sobre el 11 de septiembre de 1973, edited with Patricio Navia (Santiago, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2013). His last book, La solución constitucional (Santiago: Catalonia) was co-edited with Claudio Fuentes. He has published in several international journals: Revue française de science politique; Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire ; Politix. Revue des sciences sociales du politique ; Journal of Latin American Studies ; Democratization ; Cahiers internationaux de sociologie ; Política y gobierno and Revista mexicana de sociología. He is member of the Council of the Chilean Electoral Service (SERVEL), appointed by the Chilean Senate.
