Research advisory boards
NZCLAS has a National as well as an International Research Advisory Board of scholars from Australia, Latin America, China, the United Kingdom and the United States, who have been active research collaborators of the Centre since its creation.
Members of the National Research Advisory Board:
Dr Leonel Alvarado
School of Humanities, Spanish
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Professor Saville Kushner
Faculty of Education
University of Auckland
Professor Warwick Murray
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington
Dr Matthew O'Meagher
President Latin America New Zealand Business Council (LANZBC)
Principal Advisor, International Networks
Victoria University of Wellington
Members of the International Research Advisory Board:
Professor Arturo Arias
Former President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), USA.
University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Professor José Aylwin
University Católica de Temuco/ Universidad Austral de Valdivia, Chile.
Co-founder and Director of Citizens' Rights Watch, Chile.
Dr Claudio Barrientos
Head, History Department
Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.
Professor Eli Bartra
Co-founder and Co-ordinator of the Women’s Studies Postgraduate Programme
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico.
Professor John Beverley
Founding member, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Founding member, Latin American Subaltern Studies Group
University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Professor Barry Carr
Honorary Research Associate and Senior Fellow
Institute of Latin American Studies, History Program
La Trobe Univ. Australia.
Adjunct Professor, School of Politics and International Relations
Australian National University
Professor Catherine Davies
Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies Director
Director, Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Dr Luis Fernando Angosto Ferrández
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies / Department of Anthropology University of Sydney, Australia.
Associate Professor Adrian Hearn
Asia-Latin American Relations, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Gonzalo Leiva
Instituto de Estética
Coordinator of the degrees on Digital Photography and Visual Communication
Art Curator
Pontificia University Católica de Chile.
Professor John Mraz
Research Professor on Mexican Visual History
Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities
Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico.
Professor Kemy Oyarzún
Coordinator, Master of Arts in Gender Studies
University of Chile.
Associate Professor Rosangela Tenorio
Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Science and Engineering
University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China.