Fernando Coronil
Presidential Professor, Ph.D. Program
in Anthroplogy
 Fernando
Coronil has been appointed Presidential Professor of
Anthropology, effective February 1, 2009. He comes
to the Graduate Center from the University of Michigan
where he was a professor in the anthropology department
and the history department and also directed the doctoral
program in anthropology and history and the Center
of Latin American Studies. His first book, The
Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela (1997)
received widespread praise. With Julie Skurski, he
recently coedited States of Violence (2006). From 2004
to 2005 he was a fellow of the David Rockefeller Center
of Latin American Studies at Harvard. In 2004 he guest-edited
a special issue of the Hispanic American Historical
Review, entitled “Can the Subaltern See?: Photography
as History.” His current projects include a book
on the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez, entitled
Crude Matters, and a collection of essays, Beyond Occidentalism:
Towards a Critical Academy. A citizen of Venezuela,
Coronil earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
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