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Carlos Aguirre, Mentor
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Sarah Johnston, McNair Scholar

Carlos Aguirre earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1996 and joined the faculty of the UO Department of History that same year. Since then he also has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) and San Marcos (Lima). Professor Aguirre has received research grants from the American Philosophical Society and the Guggenheim Foundation. In addition he earned the Ersted Award for distinguished teaching at the UO (2002). Aguirre has co-edited several books, including Crime and Punishment in Latin America. Law and Society Since Late Colonial Time (with Ricardo Salvatore and Gilbert Joseph), Duke University Press, 2001; and Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America (with Robert Buffington), Scholarly Resources, 2000. He is the author of Agentes de su propia libertad (1993) and The Prison Experience. The Criminals of Lima and their Worlds, 1850-1935 (forthcoming, Duke University Press).