Barry Levitt, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Comparative Politics, Latin America.

Barry Levitt holds a B.A from McGill University and an M.A. from York University, both in Political Science. In 1998-99 he was a visiting scholar at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru. In 2000, he served as Director of Political Analysis for the Carter Center / National Democratic Institute election observation mission in Peru. Levitt received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2002 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the faculty at FIU in 2007, he was Assistant Professor at Reed College and at Emory University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a range of topics including comparative politics, Latin America, democratic institutions, and political violence. Levitt has published articles in journals such as Latin American Politics and Society and Latin American Research Review and is the author of several chapters in edited volumes, most recently .Ecuador, 2004-5: Democratic Crisis Redux,. in Promoting Democracy in the Americas, Legler, Lean and Boniface eds., Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007. He is currently (Spring 2008) completing a book manuscript on institutional power in new democracies, titled "Echo Chamber: Presidents, Political Parties and Legislative Institutions in Peru and Beyond, 1985-2006".

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