Alfred P. Montero (born March 24, 1969) is Frank B. Kellogg Professor of political science at Carleton College, specializing in comparative politics.[1] He has also done in-depth studies of Brazil and Spain, and is the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton that focuses on the European Union as well as European Political Economy at the subnational level.[2] Montero is the adviser of the Posse Foundation scholars program at Carleton. He has previously taught a comparative off-campus studies seminal with Roy Grow, a Carleton professor specializing in the political economy of East Asia.
Montero was a double major in political science and Latin American studies University of Miami, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1990. He received a PhD in political science with Distinction from Columbia University in 1997. He is married to renowned Spanish linguist Mar Valdecantos, whom he met at a bullfight in Seville, Spain, while conducting research for his first book.
Books by Alfred Montero edit
- Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain (Penn State University Press, 2002).
- Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America, co-edited w/ David Samuels (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).
- Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World (Polity Press, 2005).
- Brazil: Reversal of Fortune (Polity Press, 2014)
References edit
- ^ "Alfred P. Montero". Carleton College. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ "Political Economy in Madrid and Maastricht". Carleton College. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2011.