Gregory Bart Weeks
Updated 4/8/24
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
(704) 687-0060
gbweeks@charlotte.edu
Education:
1999 Ph.D. (Political Science), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: The Long Road to Civilian Supremacy over the Military:
Chile, 1988-1998
1994 M.A. (Political Science), San Diego State University
Thesis: The Pattern of United States Recognition Policy Toward Latin America
1992 B.A. (Political Science and Spanish–dual major), University of California, Berkeley
–Spent the 1990-1991 academic year studying at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2024-present Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2018-2024 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2012-2018 Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science & Public Administration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2005-2012 Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2010-2012 Director of Latin American Studies, UNC Charlotte
2006-2021 Editor, The Latin Americanist
2000-2005 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Spring 2000 Lecturer, San Diego State University
Fall 1999 Lecturer, San Diego State University
Adjunct Professor, University of San Diego
Spring 1999 Lecturer, San Diego State University
Fall 1998 Teaching Assistant, UNC-CH
1997-1998 Researcher, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Santiago, Chile
1995-1997 Teaching Assistant, UNC-CH
WORKS PUBLISHED
Books
Gregory Weeks, Embracing Autonomy: Latin American-U.S. Relations in the Twenty-First Century (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2024).
Gregory Weeks and Michael Allison, U.S. and Latin American Relations, 3rd Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Gregory Weeks, U.S. and Latin American Relations, 2nd Edition (Malden: Wiley, 2015).
Gregory Weeks, Understanding Latin American Politics (New York: Pearson, 2014). Now available as Open Access at https://omp.uncc.edu/library/catalog/book/7
Gregory B. Weeks and John R. Weeks. Irresistible Forces: Explaining Latin American Migration to the United States (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010)
Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory Weeks (eds). The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010)
Gregory Weeks. U.S. and Latin American Relations (New York: Longman, 2008)
Gregory Weeks. The Military and Politics in Postauthoritarian Chile. (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2003)
Refereed Articles
Gregory Weeks, “Reaching for Autonomy: U.S.-Latin American Relations in the Trump Era.” The Latin Americanist 66, 3 (September 2022): 325-347.
Gregory Weeks, “Civilian Inattention and Democratization: The Chilean Military and Political Transition in the 1930s,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 43, 1 (2018): 1-17.
Gregory Weeks, “Fighting to Close the School of the Americas: Unintended Consequences of Successful Activism,” Journal of Human Rights 16, 2 (2017): 178-192.
Gregory Weeks and John R. Weeks. “Immigration and Transnationalism: Rethinking the Role of the State in Latin America,” International Migration 53, 5 (October 2015): 122-134.
Gregory Weeks and Silvia Borzutzky, “Michelle Bachelet’s Government: The Paradoxes of a Chilean President,” Journal of Politics in Latin America 4, 3 (2012): 97-121.
Gregory Weeks, “Civilian Expertise and Civilian-Military Relations in Latin America,” Latin American Policy 3, 2 (2012): 164-173.
Gregory Weeks and Erin Fiorey. “Policy Options for a Cuban Spring,” Military Review May-June 2012: 88-95.
Amy Kennemore and Gregory Weeks. “Twenty-First Century Socialism? The Elusive Search for a Post-Neoliberal Development Model in Bolivia and Ecuador,” Bulletin of Latin American Research 30, 3 (July 2011): 267-281.
Gregory Weeks. “A Preference for Deference: Reforming the Military’s Intelligence Role in Argentina, Chile and Peru,” Third World Quarterly 29, 1 (2008): 45-61.
Gregory Weeks, John R. Weeks, and Amy J. Weeks. “Latino Immigration to the U.S. South: ‘Carolatinos’ and Public Policy in Charlotte, North Carolina,” Latino/a Research Review 6, 1-2 (2006-2007): 50-71.
Gregory Weeks. “Facing Failure: The Use (and Abuse) of Rejection in Political Science,” PS: Political Science and Politics 39, 4 (October 2006): 879-882.
Gregory Weeks. “Fighting Terrorism While Promoting Democracy: Competing Priorities in U.S. Defense Policy Toward Latin America,” Journal of Third World Studies 23, 2 (Fall 2006): 59-77.
Gregory Weeks. “The Military and Intelligence Reform in Chile,” Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad 18, 3-4 (2004): 245-258.
Gregory Weeks. “The Military and Legalism: A Response to Paul Sigmund,” Revista de Ciencia Política 24, 1 (2004): 227-230.
Gregory Weeks. “Rethinking Historical Factors: The Military and Political Transitions in South America,” Politics & Policy 32, 1 (March 2004): 158-174.
Gregory Weeks. “Fighting the Enemy Within: Terrorism, the School of the Americas, and the Military in Latin America,” Human Rights Review 5, 1 (October-December 2003): 12-27.
Gregory Weeks. “Is the Mold Being Broken? Defense Ministries and Democracy in Latin America,” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 31, 1 (Summer 2003): 23-37.
Gregory Weeks. “The ‘Lessons’ of Dictatorship: The Military and Political Learning in Chile,” Bulletin of Latin American Research 21, 3 (July 2002): 396-412.
Gregory Weeks. “Almost Jeffersonian: U.S. Recognition Policy Toward Latin America,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 31, 3 (September 2001): 490-504.
Gregory Weeks. “Democratic Institutions and Civil-Military Relations: The Case of Chile,” Journal of Third World Studies 18, 1 (Spring 2001): 65-85.
Reprinted in Peter R. Kingstone (ed.). Readings in Latin American Politics: Challenges to Democratization (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006): 331-345.Gregory Weeks. “Waiting for Cincinnatus: The Role of Pinochet in Post-Authoritarian Chile,” Third World Quarterly 21, 5 (2000): 725-738.
Gregory Weeks. “The Long Road to Civilian Supremacy Over the Military: Chile, 1990-1998,” Studies in Comparative International Development 25, 2 (2000): 65-83.
Book Chapters:
Gregory Weeks, “Latin America and the United States.” In Julie Cupples, Marcela Palomino-Schalschan, and Manuel Prieto (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (London and New York: Routledge, 2019): 168-178.
Gregory B. Weeks and John R. Weeks, “The Train Has Left The Station: Latino Aging in the New South.” In William A. Vega, Kyriakos S. Markides, Jacqueline L. Angel, and Fernando M. Torres-Gil (eds.). Challenges of Latino Aging in the Americas (New York: Springer, 2015): 33-47.
Gregory Weeks, “The Military and Twenty Years of the Concertación.” In Kirsten Sehnbruch and Peter M. Siavelis (eds.). Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of a Historic Coalition, 1990-2010. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014): 103-117.
Gregory B. Weeks and John R. Weeks. “The Demographic Fit Between the U.S. and Latin America.” In John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate (eds.). The Youth Bulge: Opportunity or Challenge? (New York: Open Society Institute, 2012): 166-175.
Gregory Weeks. “The Transition is Dead, Long Live the Transition: Civil-Military Relations and the Limits of Consensus.” In Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks, The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010): 67-84.
Gregory Weeks and Silvia Borzutzky. “Introduction.” In Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks, The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010): 1-23
Gregory Weeks. “Inching Toward Democracy: President Lagos and the Chilean Armed Forces,” In Silvia Borzutzky and Lois Hecht Oppenheim (eds.). After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Democracy and the Market (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006): 26-41.
Gregory Weeks. “The Military and Democracy in Latin America: Chile in Comparative Perspective,” In Frank Columbus (ed.). Politics and Economics of Latin America. (Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science Publishers, 2003): 19-41.
Other:
“How the U.S. Midterm Elections Impact Florida and Latin America Policy,” Global Americans November 10, 2022. https://theglobalamericans.org/2022/11/how-the-u-s-midterm-elections-impact-florida-and-latin-america-policy/
“USAID in Central America: Less is Better.” Global Americans January 10, 2022. https://theglobalamericans.org/2022/01/usaid-central-america/
“U.S. Vaccine Diplomacy is Failing in Latin America.” Global Americans May 27, 2021. https://theglobalamericans.org/2021/05/u-s-vaccine-diplomacy-failing/
“It’s No Joke: Bukele’s Authoritarian Language.” Global Americans September 23, 2021. https://theglobalamericans.org/2021/09/its-no-joke-bukele/
“USAID in Central America: Less is Better.” Global Americans January 10, 2022. https://theglobalamericans.org/2022/01/usaid-central-america/
“U.S. Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America is Failing,” Global Americans May 27, 2021
“The Debate Over Immigration is Saying All the Wrong Things,” Global Americans March 30, 2021
“AMLO’s Threat to Latin American Democracy,” Global Americans November 24, 2020
“A Promotion for Trump’s Man at the OAS,” Global Americans July 21, 2020
“The U.S. is Thinking of Invading Venezuela. That’s Unlikely to Lead to Democracy.” The Washington Post March 25, 2019.
“AMLO’s Cautious Foreign Policy.” Global Americans February 15, 2019.
“Global Responses to Rex Tillerson’s Trip to Latin America,” Global Americans February 21, 2018.
Gregory Weeks, “Soft Power, Leverage, and the Obama Doctrine in Cuba,” The Latin Americanist 60, 4 (2016): 525-539.
“The Trump Doctrine in Latin America,” Latin America Goes Global August 16, 2017.
“Latin America Will Not Unite,” Latin America Goes Global March 14, 2017.
“Pink Tides, Pendulums, and Presidents: Political and Economic Change in Latin America,” Latin America Goes Global January 19, 2017
“The Still-Slumbering Giant in a Southern Swing State: Hispanic Voters,” Latin America Goes Global November 2, 2016.
“Winning the Paranoid Way in Nicaragua,” Latin America Goes Global October 6, 2016.
“An Attitude of Platitudes: The Democratic Party’s Platform and Latin America,” Latin America Goes Global July 25, 2016.
“Latin America in the Republican Platform: Cold War Ideology Meets the Art of the Deal,” Latin America Goes Global July 20, 2016.
“The OAS and the Venezuelan Crisis: Even Debate is Welcome.” Latin America Goes Global May 31, 2016.
“U.S. Leverage in Latin America,” Latin America Goes Global January 29, 2016.
“Crisis in Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Demographic,” Latin America Goes Global August 12, 2015.
“What to Watch in the Venezuelan Elections,” Latin America Goes Global December 3, 2015.
“Using and Losing Leverage in U.S.-Cuban Relations,” Latin America Goes Global October 6, 2015.
“Crisis in Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Demographic,” Latin America Goes Global August 12, 2015.
“How Venezuela’s Opposition Can Unite and Win Elections,” Latin America Goes Global June 30, 2015.
“The Left and Political Pragmatism in Latin America,” Latin America Goes Global May 27, 2015.
(with John R. Weeks) “The Political Demography of U.S.-Cuban Relations,” The Washington Post December 18, 2014.
“Obama’s Low Key Approach to Latin America.” The Miami Herald June 6, 2014.
“The Return of Michelle Bachelet,” The Miami Herald November 4, 2013.
“Exit vs. Loyalty: Dealing With Autism in CMS.” Charlotte Viewpoint April 8, 2013.
“A Cautionary Tale For Election Boycotts,” Foreign Policy March 1, 2013.
“Don’t Blame the U.S. for the Changes in Latin America,” The Miami Herald December 8, 2011.
“Reopen the Doors,” The Raleigh News & Observer September 14, 2009.
“America’s Melting Pot in a Processed Cheese Era,” The Raleigh News & Observer June 3, 2009.
“A Highly Flawed But Fixable Program,” The Raleigh News & Observer March 26, 2009.
“Bush’s Bogus Empathy,” Newsday March 18, 2007.
(with John R. Weeks) “Demographic Shift Coming,” The Charlotte Observer May 30, 2006.
“Aristide Plays His Last Card,” The Charlotte Observer February 26, 2004.
“Autumn of the General: Pinochet and the Search for Justice in Chile,” Hemisphere 9, 2 (Spring 2000): 6-8.
Reviews
Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà,(eds). Latin America and the Global Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Cold War History 21, 2 (2021): 240-242.
Kirk Tyvela, The Dictator Dilemma: The United States and Paraguay in the Cold War (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). The Latin Americanist 65, 1 (March 2021): 172-173.
Fernando López, The Feathers of the Condor: Transnational State Terrorism, Exiles, and Civilian Anticommunism in South America (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). Journal of Cold War Studies 20, 4 (2019): 264-266.
John. Belohlavek, Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017). The Americas 76, 1 (January 2019): 180-181.
Alan McPherson, A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2016) in The Latin Americanist 61, 2 (2017): 299-300.
Russell Crandall, The Salvador Option: The United States in El Salvador, 1977-1992 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016) in Latin American Politics & Society 59, 2 (Summer 2017): 160-162.
Thomas C. Wright, Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy: Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014) in The Americas 74, 3 (July 2017): 377-379.
Edward Dallam Melillo, Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 47, 2 (2016): 244-245.
Morris Morley and Chris McGillion, Reagan and Pinochet: The Struggle Over U.S. Policy Toward Chile (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015) in Latin American Politics & Society 58, 2 (Summer 2016): 185-187.
Heidi Tinsman, Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45, 3 (Winter 2015): 448-449.
Patricia Richards, Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy and Indigenous Rights (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44, 3 (Winter 2014): 419-420.
Michael J. Lazzara (ed.). Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence (New York: Palgrave Macmillan). Hispanic American Historical Review 93, 1 (2013): 143-144.
Helen Marrow, New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural South (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011). American Journal of Sociology 117, 4 (January 2012): 1255-1257.
Brian Loveman, No Higher Law: American Foreign Policy and the Western Hemisphere since 1776 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Reviews in American History 39, 4 (December 2011): 637-641.
Fred Rosen (ed.). Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008). Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 21, 2 (2010-2011).
“Recent Scholarship on U.S.-Latin American Relations,” Latin American Research Review 44, 1 (2009): 247-256. (article-length analysis of eight books)
Michael Grow, U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008). Presidential Studies Quarterly 39, 4 (2009): 960-962.
Mary E. Odem and Elaine Lacy, Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2009). Camino Real 1, 1 (2009): 141-142.
Kristian Gustafson, Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile 1964-1974 (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2007). Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 10, 1 (2009).
Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser. In from the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008). Hispanic American Historical Review 89, 3 (August 2009): 566-567.
David Scott Palmer, U.S. Relations with Latin America During the Clinton Years: Opportunities Lost or Opportunities Squandered? (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006). The Americas 66, 2 (October 2009): 302-303.
J. Patrice McSherry. Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005). Journal of Latin American Studies 40, 1 (2008): 164-165.
Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez (eds). When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005). Mesoamerica 50 (2008): 237-239.
Stern, Steve J. Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004). Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37, 3 (2007): 494-495.
Fuentes, Claudio A. Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Political Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile (New York: Routledge, 2005). Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 6, 2 (Summer-Fall 2005): 215-216.
Bowman, Kirk S. Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002). Journal of Latin American Studies 36, 4 (November 2004): 806-807.
Veeser, Cyrus. A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America’s Rise to Global Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), The Latin Americanist XLVIII, 1 (Fall 2004): 118-120.
Sheinin, David. Beyond the Ideal: Pan Americanism in Inter-American Affairs (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000), The Latin Americanist XLVII, 3-4 (2004): 110-112.
Londregan, John. Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), Journal of Third World Studies 20, 2 (Fall 2003): 226-228
Article manuscript reviews for American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Armed Forces & Society, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Comparative Politics, Democratization, Diplomacy & Statecraft, International Migration Review, International Political Science Review, Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Third World Studies, Latin American Politics & Society, Latin American Research Review, Oral History Forum d’histoire oral, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile), Sage Open.
Book manuscript reviews for Cambridge University Press, Cengage, CQ Press, Duke University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Longman Publishers, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Oxford University Press, Prentice Hall, Roxbury Press, Routledge, Rowman and Littlefield, University of California Press, University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Florida, Wadsworth, Wiley-Blackwell, Yale University Press.
Consulting and Other:
Expert witness testimony for immigration cases
U.S. State Department Seminar on Opportunities and Challenges in Latin America in 2018, December 2017.
U.S. State Department Seminar on Colombian Politics, June 2017.
U.S. State Department Seminar on Western Hemisphere Trends, September 2016.
Policy Roundtable for Commander of U.S. Southern Command, December 2016.
Policy Roundtable for Commander of U.S. Southern Command, September 2014.
Briefing for U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Washington DC, December 2007
Assisted the Mayor’s Immigration Study Commission, 2006
U.S. State Department Seminar on Chilean Politics, Washington DC, November 2005
Comercial Pablo, C. por A. vs. General Tire International Company (2003), United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Charlotte Division.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
“Breaking Up is Hard to Do: U.S.-Latin American Relations Under Trump.” Paper Presented at the 2021 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Zoomland.
“Embracing Autonomy: U.S.-Latin American Relations in the 21st Century.” Paper Presented at the 2018 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Nashville, TN.
“Latin America and the United States: Development of the Literature.” Paper Presented at the 2017 meeting of the V Jornadas de Relaciones Internacionales, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Consensus vs Conflict: Policy-Making in Bachelet I versus Bachelet II.” Paper Presented at the 2017 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Lima, Peru.
“Too Big to Succeed? Demography and Socialist Experiments in Chile, Venezuela, and Cuba.” Paper Presented at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 2016.
“Soft Power is Hard to Achieve: The Obama Administration and Latin America.” Presented at the 2016 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
“Fighting to Close the School of the Americas: Unintended Consequences of Human Rights Activism.” Presented at the 2015 Meeting of the British Political Studies Association, Sheffield, England.
“Too Big to Succeed? The Political Demography of Socialist Experiments in Chile and Venezuela” (with John R. Weeks). Presented at the 2015 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Charleston, SC.
Roundtable Organizer, “U.S.-Latin American Relations: Policy Relevance, Academic Relevance, and the Future.” 2014 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL.
Panelist on “Getting Published: A CLAH Journal Editors Workshop.” 2014 Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC.
(with John R. Weeks) “The Train Has Left the Station: Latino Aging and the New South.” Presented at the 2013 International Conference on Aging in the Americas, Austin, Texas.
“The School of the Americas and WHINSEC: Unintended Consequences of Human Rights Activism.” Presented at the 2013 Meeting of the International Studies Association-South, Charlotte, North Carolina.
“The Military and Twenty Years of the Concertación (Revised).” Presented at the 2012 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, California.
“Congressional Activism and U.S. Policy Toward Latin America.” Presented at the 2012 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Gainesville, Florida.
“The Military and Twenty Years of the Concertación.” Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Wilmington, North Carolina.
(with Silvia Borzutzky) “Consensus with Conflict: The Rise of President Bachelet and the Fall of the Concertación (Revised)” Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association, Charlotte, North Carolina.
(with Silvia Borzutzky) “Consensus with Conflict: The Rise of President Bachelet and the Fall of the Concertación.” Presented at the 2010 Meeting of the Chilean Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile.
(with Claudia N. Avellaneda) “Local Leadership in a Latin American Setting: Mayor’s Role in Municipal Performance.” Presented at the 2010 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Mexico City, Mexico.
Organized and Chaired Workshop, “Connecting Globally Through Latin American Politics Blogs,” 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“The Concertación and Chilean Politics: The Role of Expectations,” Presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
(with John R. Weeks) “Immigration and Transnationalism: Rethinking the Role of the State in Latin America.” Presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Discussant for Panel “Foreign Policy in the New Administration,” 2009 Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association, Greensboro, North Carolina.
“The Transition is Dead, Long Live the Transition: Bachelet’s Inheritance of Civil-Military Relations in Chile.” Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Montréal, Canada.
“Arrested Development: The Military and Intelligence Reform in Argentina, Chile, and Peru.” Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, San José, Costa Rica.
(with John R. Weeks) “The Political Demography of Latin American Migration,” Presented at the 2006 Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Charlotte, North Carolina.
(with John R. Weeks) “The Political Demography of Latin American Migration,” Presented at the 2006 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Arrested Development: The Military and Intelligence Reform in Chile and Peru.” Presented at the 2004 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Accountability, Rule of Law and Defense Policy: Chile in Comparative Perspective.” Presented at the 2004 Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“Fighting Terrorism While Promoting Democracy: Competing Priorities in U.S.
Defense Policy Toward Latin America,” Presented at the 2003 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas.
“Inching Toward Democracy: President Lagos and the Chilean Armed Forces,” Presented at the 2003 Meeting of the Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
“U.S. Foreign Policy and the Military in Latin America,” Presented at the 2002 Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association, Salisbury, North Carolina.
“What is ‘After’ Pinochet? Pinochetismo and Chilean Politics,” Presented at the 2001 Meeting of the International Studies Association-South, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
“The ‘Lessons’ of Dictatorship: The Military and Political Learning in Chile,” Presented at the 2001 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC.
“From Bad to Worse? Civilian Authority and Defense Ministries in Latin America.” Presented at the 2001 Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Tucson, Arizona.
“Waiting for Cincinnatus: The Role of Pinochet in Postauthoritarian Chile.” Presented at the 2000 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida.
“Dealing With the Dictator: The Role of Pinochet in Postauthoritarian Chile.” Presented at the 2000 Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“Democratic Institutions and Civil-Military Relations: The Case of Chile.” Presented at the 1999 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
“The Military and Chilean Democracy, 1990-1998.” Presented at the 1998 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois.