scholarly journals Foreseeing the big scientific questions: a special gift of Wagley's

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-636
Author(s):  
Emilio Moran
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Title Vi ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
The University

In this paper I review my experience as Charles Wagley's Ph.D. student and later as a faculty colleague at the University of Indiana. In addition to his deep humanism and personal warmth, Wagley also had an uncanny ability to foresee important emerging issues in social sciences, especially within Latin American and Brazilian Studies. With his flexible, personable style he found ways to direct students and colleagues towards the issues he considered important, and which later became truly major issues for these fields. For example, he helped to create the interdisciplinary field of Latin American Studies while in New York, focused on Latin American race relations while at Columbia University, and created the Amazonian Studies program at University of Florida with its focus on impacts of development and infrastructure projects. He helped create scholarship programs for such studies through the Title VI mechanism. Through all of his scholarly contributions, Wagley led by inspiring with a rare social consciousness and a deep concern for the human costs of social and economic change

The Political Sociology of a Concept: Corporatism and the “Distinct Tradition”

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (01) ◽  
pp. 81-106
Author(s):  
Howard J. Wiarda
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Third World Development ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
World Development

The field of Latin American Studies owes much to Professor Howard J. Wiarda, whose pioneering work on “corporatism” and political culture during the 1960s and 1970s helped establish a new conceptual paradigm for interpreting the persistence of corporately defined, institutional identities throughout Latin America, despite the purported triumph of the “Liberal Tradition.” A child of Dutch parents, his early travels throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America sparked a keen interest in the question of “third world development.” Entering graduate school in the early 1960s, Professor Wiarda gravitated to the newly emergent field of modernization studies at the University of Florida, where he received his masters and doctorate degrees in Latin American politics. It was a time of tremendous social ferment in Latin America and his early fieldwork took him to the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Brazil, among other places. In each instance, he found recognizable patterns that transcended geographic locations, patterns that seemed to directly challenge the predominant arguments set forth in the modernization literature at the time.

scholarly journals Resenha de: Miracle at Joaseiro

1975 ◽  
Vol 52 (104) ◽  
pp. 1007
Author(s):  
Júlio Cesar Assis Kuhl
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Latin American Studies

DELLA CAVA (Ralph) . — Miracle at Joaseiro.  New York and London. ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1970 (Institute of Latin American Studies— Columbia University) 324 p. 23 cm.

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