Denise Dresser

Dr. Denise Dresser.

Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra (born 22 January 1963) is a Mexican political analyst, writer, and university professor. She is currently a faculty member of the Department of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she teaches courses such as Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Contemporary Mexican Politics and Graduations Seminars since 1991.

Academic career

Dresser earned her Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University, after completing her undergraduate work at El Colegio de México. She has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, and the Organization of American States. In 1993 she was named Junior Third World Scholar by the International Studies Association.

She has taught at Georgetown University and the University of California, Berkeley. Dresser has been a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C., and a Fellow at the Salzburg Seminar.

Personal life

Dresser has three children.

Writing

Dresser is the author of numerous publications on Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexico relations including "Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Program", "Exporting Conflict: Transboundary Consequences of Mexican Politics", "Treading Lightly and Without a Stick: International Actors and the Promotion of Democracy in Mexico", "Falling From the Tightrope: The Political Economy of the Mexican Crisis", and "Mexico: From PRI Predominance to Divided Democracy,". She has published articles in the Journal of Democracy, Current History, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics and Foreign Policy. A more extensive list of her publications is included below.

She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso and was the host of the political talk show Entre versiones on Mexican television. She has participated as a political analyst in numerous radio and television programs including the "Mesa Política" with José Gutiérrez Vivó and "El cristal con que se mira" with Victor Trujillo. She is an Associate Editor at the Los Angeles Times, and has contributed numerous opinion pieces to The New York Times and La Opinión, and is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics in the U.S. and Canadian media. She has also worked as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, Barings Research and the Bank of Montreal. Dresser is a member of the Research Council of the Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the advisory board of Trans-National Research Corporation, the editorial board of the Latin American Research Review, the advisory board of Human Rights Watch, the Global Affairs Board at Occidental College, the board of the General Service Foundation and the editorial committee of the Fondo de Cultura Económica. She also served on the Citizens’ Committee in charge of investigating Mexico's dirty war. She is currently on the board of the Human Rights Commission for Mexico City.

She edited a bestselling collection of essays by prominent Mexican women entitled Gritos y susurros: experiencias intempestivas de 38 mujeres (Grijalbo 2004) and also produced a television documentary based on the book. Her most recent publication, in collaboration with novelist Jorge Volpi, is a book of political satire: México: lo que todo ciudadano quisiera (no) saber de su patria (Santillana 2006).

Politics

Politics has been Dresser´s main field of work, both in theory and in practice. She has expressed her open opposition to monopolistic practices in México, specially against the legislative reform known as the "Televisa Law", which provides government support to the national television duopoly group Televisa and TV Azteca. Also against TELMEX and more specifically Carlos Slim, one of the wealthiest men alive, whose investment group controls most of the telephone and communications networks in Mexico.[1]

Speeches

She has also spoken on several national and international forums. The main topics of her speeches are the ongoing political and economic crisis in México, civil and human rights violations, responsibilities of citizenship, among others. Though in Spanish, provided below are links to her speech in the Mexican Forum: "Mexico Ante la Crisis", 2009 (as shown on YouTube, provided by "Reporte Indigo"):

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Slim´s chance". Forbes.com. 26 March 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-18.

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