CURRICULUM VITAE Octubre 2014 Robert J. Barros Departamento de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de San Andrés Vito Dumas 284 1644 Victoria, Argentina (54-11)-4725-7004 e-mail: barros@udesa.edu.ar I. Education Ph.D., 1996, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., Political Science Dissertation: "By Reason and Force: Military Constitutionalism in Chile (1973-1989)." Directed by Adam Przeworski, Jon Elster, and Bernard Manin M.A., 1983, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., Political Science Thesis: "Capitalists' Organization and Nationalism in Catalonia (1898-1923). Directed by Aristide Zolberg B.A., 1980, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Political Economy Study Abroad: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima, Peru, April 1976-March 1977. Graduate-level classes at The Graduate Faculty, The New School For Social Research, New York, 1978-79. II. Employment History and Professional Affiliations Associate Professor, 4/13-Present, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de San Andrés, Victoria, Argentina Assistant Professor, 6/03-3/13, Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad De San Andrés, Victoria, Argentina Lecturer, 9/09-5/12, New York University in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Visiting Professor, 7/98-6/03, Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad De San Andres, Victoria, Argentina Research Fellow, 7/94-6/96, The Chicago Center for Democracy, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Visiting Research Associate, 10/89-4/93, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Santiago, Chile 1
2 III. Publications and Professional Papers: A. Book Manuscripts: 1. Constitutionalism and Dictatorship: Pinochet, the Junta and the 1980 Constitution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 2. Spanish translation: La Junta Militar: Pinochet y la Constitución de 1980. Santiago: Editorial Sudamericana, 2005. B. Articles in Refereed Journals: Personalization and Institutional Constraints: Pinochet, the Military Junta, and the 1980 Constitution, Latin American Politics and Society, 43, 1, (Spring 2001): 5-28. A translated version of this article was published in Desarrollo Económico, Vol. 41, No. 161, (April-June 2001): 17-35. "The Left and Democracy: Recent Debates in Latin America," Telos No. 68, (Summer 1986), 49-70. Translated versions of this article were published in Zona Abierta (Madrid), No. 39-40, (April- September 1986) and in Cuadernos Políticos (Mexico, D.F.), No. 52, (October-December 1987). C. Articles appearing as Chapters in Edited Volumes: On the Outside Looking In: Secrecy and the Study of Authoritarian Regimes, chapter for inclusion in Paul Goode, editor, Research under Authoritarian Conditions, book manuscript under review at Oxford University Press, volume revise and resubmit March 2014. Courts Out of Context: Authoritarian Sources of Judicial Failure in Chile (1973-1990) and Argentina (1976-1983), in Tom Ginsburg and Tamir Moustafa, eds. Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Dictatorship and the Rule of Law: Rules and Military Power in Pinochet s Chile, in Adam Przeworski and José Maria Maravall, eds. Democracy and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). D. Other writings: Trial and tribulations revisited: What do we learn about dictatorship from contemporary human rights trials in Chile? Documento de Trabajo No. 16, Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de San Andrés, March 2013. Online. Review: The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile by Pablo Policzer, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 30, 4, October 2011: 565 566. Book review. "Secrecy and Dictatorship: Some Problems in the Study of Authoritarian Regimes" Political Methodology Working Paper # 2, Committee on Concepts and Methods (C&M), International Political Science Association (IPSA), April 2005. Online. De segundas vueltas truncadas y presidentes minoritarios, Post Data: Revista de Reflexión y Análisis Político, no. 9, Septiembre 2003:195-197.
3 Review: El pensamiento político de Jaime Guzmán: Autoridad y libertad by Renato Cristi, The Hispanic American Historical Review, 82, 4, (November 2002): 833-834. Book review. Dictatorship and Constitutionalism in Pinochet s Chile, Documento de Trabajo # 14, Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad de San Andrés, September 1998. "Democracy and Democratization: North and South," Working Paper #30, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1984. E. Works in Progress: Trials and tribulations revisited: do we learn about dictatorship by studying justice? Reflections on contemporary human rights trials in Chile, manuscript presented at at the Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, April 25, 2012. Qué aprendemos de la justicia?: Juicios de derechos humanos y dictadura en el Chile actual, ongoing research project on how transitional justice functions as a mechansism that may reveal information regarding the authoritarian past. Initiated 2011. Constitution-making and -breaking in South America, 1946-2000, comparative project on determinants of institutional change and stability. Presently inactive. IV. Fellowships and Research Grants Research Grant, Convocatoria 2012 del Programa de Apoyo a la Investigación (PAI-UDESA), 8/13-7/14, to continue research on human rights trials in Chile. Research Grant, Convocatoria 2012 del Programa de Apoyo a la Investigación (PAI-UDESA), 8/12-7/13, to continue research on human rights trials in Chile. Research Grant, Convocatoria 2011 del Programa de Apoyo A La Investigación (PAI-UDESA), 8/11-7/12, to continue research on human rights trials in Chile. Research Grant, Convocatoria 2010 del Programa de Apoyo a la Investigación (PAI-UDESA), Universidad de San Andrés, 8/10-7/11, to support field research in Chile on human rights trials. Dissertation Fellowship, William Rainey Harper Fellowship, The University of Chicago, 9/95-6/96, to complete doctoral dissertation. International Doctoral Research Fellowship, Joint Committee on Latin America and the Caribbean, American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council, 10/89-4/91, for doctoral research in Santiago, Chile. Fulbright Fellow, U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Training Grant, 10/89-9/90, for doctoral research in Chile. Research Travel Grant, Arthur W. and Francis E. Stadelman Traveling Scholarship Fund for International Relations, The University of Chicago, 9/98-12/98 for pre-dissertation research in Chile. Research Travel Grant, Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, 9/98-12/98, for research in Madrid, Spain.
4 Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship, 9/81-6/84. V. Presentations to Professional Meetings and Seminars "Confronting state repression in two moments: Courts, dictatorship, and transitional justice in Chile, 1973-2010," paper presented at the European Consortium on Political Research General Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 3-6 September 2014. " Memory and justice: The contributions of contemporary human rights trials in Chile," paper presented at the 2014 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL May 21-24, 2014. Juicios por violaciones masivas a los derechos humanos: Argentina y Chile en perspectiva, presentation at seminar on topic organized by Departamento de Derecho, Universidad de San Andrés, 4 November 2011. Mirando de afuera hacia adentro: El secreto y el estudio de los regímenes autoritarios, paper presented in Ciclo de Seminarios Permanentes del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, 3 November 2011. Limites estructurales del poder judicial durante los gobiernos dictatoriales: los casos de Chile y Argentina," lecture at the invitation of the Coloquio sobre Derecho, Moral y Politica, Maestria en Derecho, Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, 27 June, 2007. Invited participant, Workshop on Constitution Building Processes, Princeton University, Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Woodrow Wilson School, May 17-20, 2007. Courts out of Context: Authoritarian Sources of Judicial Failure in Chile (1973-1990) and Argentina (1976-1983), paper prepared for the Workshop on the Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA, August 30-31, 2006. Constitutions and constitutionalism in South America: What s wrong with constitutions that don t matter?, paper prepared for the Second Workshop on Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Universidad de San Andrés, Victoria, Provincia de Buenos Aires, November 18-19, 2005. Dictadura y derecho, lecture at the invitation of the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, August 26, 2004. Problemas metodológicas en la investigación de sujetos que no quieren ser investigados: el caso del régimen militar chileno, Seminario Abierta de Discusión, Posgrados de Historia Universidad Torcuato di Tella y Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, May 5, 2004. Constitution-making and -breaking in South America, 1946-2000: Are constitutions part of the problem?, paper presented at División de Estudios Políticos, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico, D.F., March 25, 2004. Constitution-making and -breaking in South America, 1946-2000: Are constitutions part of the problem?, paper prepared for the Buenos Aires Workshop on Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Universidad de San Andrés, Victoria, Provincia de Buenos Aires, November 21-23, 2003.
5 Las Disposiciones Permanentes: Controles Constitucionales o Tutelaje Militar? paper presented at the Seminario de Historia Política de la FLACSO, Buenos Aires, October 3, 2003. Patterns of constitutional change and reform in South America, 1950-2000, paper prepared for the 2001 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington DC, September 6-8, 2001. Constitutional change and reform in Latin America, paper prepared for the Conference on Representation and Democratic Politics in Latin America, Universidad de San Andrés, Victoria, Provincia de Buenos Aires, June 7-8, 2001. Dictatorship And The Rule Of Law: Rules And Military Power In Pinochet s Chile, paper prepared for the Conference on Democracy and the Rule of Law, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Juan March, Madrid, June 22-24, 2000. "Dictatorship and Constitutionalism in Pinochet's Chile," paper presented at the invitation of the Sawyer Seminar on "The Military, Politics, and Society," Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York, November 18, 1997. "Consolidation Before Transition: The Tribunal Constitucional and Regime Change in Chile (1981-1988), paper presented at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August 29-September 1, 1996. "Even if a Thousand Conversations Bloom, Will We Still be Forced to Choose?," paper presented at The Conference on Deliberative Democracy, Chicago Center for Democracy, University of Chicago, April 28-30, 1995. " Existe una contribución pos-marxista a la teoria democrática,?" paper presented at the Seminar on Modernity and Modernization in Latin America, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Santiago, Chile, October 1991. "A Democratic Past, Strong Political Parties, But No Transition to Democracy: The Paradox of Chile Explored," paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association XIV International Congress, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1988. VI. Courses Taught Filosofía Política Moderna Fundamentos del Estado Historia del Pensamiento Político II Teoría de la Justicia Teoría Democrática Teoría Política Contemporánea Seminario sobre política y constitucionalismo VI. University and Professional Service Articles Reviewed for Journals: Comparative Studies in International Development, 2001 Desarrollo Económico, 2003 Latin American Politics and Society, 2002, 2003, 2005
6 Law and Society Review, 2004, 2005, 2011 World Politics, 2008 Grant Proposals Reviewed for National Funding Organizations: Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT), Buenos Aires, 2010 Fondo Nacional de Investigación Cientifica y Tecnologica (Fondecyt), Santiago, Chile, 2002 Administrative Work in Department and University Committees: Library Committee, Universidad de San Andrés, 2000-2004 Hewlett Grant Committee, Universidad de San Andrés, 2001-2005 Faculty Senate Representative to Consejo Superior, Universidad de San Andrés, 2004-2006, 2013-2014 Department Chair, Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad de San Andrés, 2006-2009 Member Consejo Superior, Universidad de San Andrés, 2006-2009 Member Cuerpo Directivo, Maestría en Periodismo, Universidad de San Andrés/Grupo Clarín, 2006-2009 Comité de Intercambio, Foreign Studies Office, Universidad de San Andrés, 2011-present