Kenneth Maxwell

Kenneth R. Maxwell, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Director of Latin America Studies. 

Fellowships and Research Appointments

 * First holder of the Nelson and David Rockefeller Chair in Inter-American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1995-2004
 * Senior Fellow for Latin America, Council on Foreign Relations, 1989-1995
 * Senior Research Associate, Columbia University, 1992-2000
 * Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, 1978-1992
 * Luso-American Foundation Fellow, 1986-1987
 * Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow, 1985-1986
 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1976-1977
 * Member, School of Historical Studies and School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1974-1975
 * Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, with support of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 1972-1974
 * Herodotus Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1971-1972
 * Newberry Library Gulbenkian Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1968-1969
 * Princeton Regional Studies Fellow (in Brazil), 1966-1968
 * Metropolitan Graduate Training Program in Latin America, 1965
 * Ford Regional Studies Fellow, Princeton University, 1964-1965
 * Gulbenkian Scholar, Lisbon, Spring 1964
 * University of Madrid, 1963

Administrative Appointments

 * Director, Latin America Studies Program, Council on Foreign Relations, 1989-2004 Vice-President and Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, 1996
 * Founder and Director, The Camões Center for the Study of the Portuguese-speaking World, Columbia University, 1988-1999
 * Program Director, The Tinker Foundation, Inc., 1979-1985

Service Positions at Harvard University

 * Director of Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2006-
 * Member, Executive Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005- Chair, Brazilian Studies Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005-

Service Positions at Columbia University
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 * Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Communications and Society, 1985-1990
 * Director, Columbia University/Gulbenkian Foundation Workshops on “Portugal: Ten Years After the Revolution,” 1984
 * Chair, Research Institute on International Change Seminars, 1978-1979, 1981-1982
 * Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Brazil, 1978-1980

Affiliations

 * Member, Human Rights Watch Americas Advisory Committee
 * Executive Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
 * Advisory Board, Brazil Foundation

Books

 * Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal 1750-1808
 * Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (Routledge, 2003) - foreword by Fouad Ajami
 * Mais Malandros: Ensaios Tropicais e Outros
 * The Making of Portuguese Democracy
 * Pombal: Paradox of the Enlightenment
 * The New Spain: From Isolation to Influence