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Prof Dr Michiel Baud
Director of CEDLA
Research Theme: History
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Michiel Baud is Director of CEDLA (from April 2000) and Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He graduated in Contemporary History at the University of Groningen in 1982 and received his Ph.D. cum laude in Social Sciences at Utrecht University in 1991. From 1995 to 2000 he was Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leiden.
Research interests
His Ph.D research was carried out in the Dominican Republic, where he studied the social history of a tobacco producing peasantry in the northern part of the country. In doing so he combined traditional historical documentary research with anthropological fieldwork techniques. After finishing his Ph. D he did research in southern Ecuador and North-Eastern Brazil.
His current research interests are indigenista ideologies and their influence on present-day academic interpretations of the Andes, the role of ethnic movements in Latin American politics, the social history of Latin American borders, the analysis of Latin American modernity and the construction of collective memories in present-day Latin America.
Selected publications of Prof Dr Michiel Baud
— (2011) 'Environmental Governance in Latin America: Towards an Integrative Research Agenda' with Dr. Fábio de Castro and Dr. Barbara Hogenboom. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 90, April 2011, pp. 78-88.
(2009) (edited with Annelou Ypeij) Cultural Tourism in Latin America: The Politics of Space and Imagery. CEDLA Latin America Studies 96, June 2009.
(2008) Review Essay: 'Intellectuals and Dictators in the Dominican Republic', European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, April 2008, pp. 101-105.
(2007) "Indigenous Politics and the State: The Andean Highlands in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Social Analysis, Special issue: "Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-Liberal State in Latin America", 51:2, (Summer 2007); 19-42.
(2007) "Liberalism, Indigenismo, and Social Mobilization in Late Nineteenth Century Ecuador", in: A. Kim Clark and Marc Becker (eds.), Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007); pp. 72-88.
(2007) "Ambivalent Academia: Latin and Anglo-Saxon influences in Latin American Studies in Europe", LASA-Forum, 38:1 (Winter 2007); pp. 7-8.
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