Fellows

• Amy Chazkel is Assistant Professor of History at Queens College, City
  University of New York. Beginning in the spring 2003 semester, in
  addition to her appointment at Queens College, she will be affiliated
  with Columbia University's Institute of Latin American Studies as a
  visiting scholar. Her teaching specialties include Latin American
  history, urban history, law and society in Latin America, and
  comparative slavery. In the fall of 2002, she completed her doctoral
  dissertation on the informal sector, petty crime, and urban culture in
  nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazil, which forms the basis for her
  book manuscript currently in progress. She is also working on an
  interdisciplinary, co-edited volume of essays on Latin American urban
  history. She has pursued her interest in the cultural and social
  context of the law both in her scholarship and as a research assistant
  and Portuguese-English interpreter in the Yale Law School Immigration
  Law Clinic.