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Jonathan Hartlyn has been named chair of the Curriculum in Latin American Studies and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies. He also serves as associate director of the Duke-UNC program in Latin American Studies (the directorship rotates between the two campuses).
Hartlyn joined the University's political science faculty in 1988, after serving as associate and assistant professors of political science at Vanderbilt University. From 1992 to 1998, he was co-director of the Undergraduate Honors program in Carolina's political science department.
Hartlyn has written two books: The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia and The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic. He has co-edited Latin American Political Economy: Financial Crisis and Political Change, The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War, and Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America (2nd edition).
His published articles include "Democracy in Latin America since 1930," which appeared in The Cambridge History of Latin America, Vol. VI, Part 2, Latin America since 1930: Economy, Society and Politics.
Hartlyn has received a Tinker Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a Spring and Summer Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in 1991 and 1996. In 1998, he was given a Lupton Opportunities Fund Award.
Hartlyn also has served as an international election observer in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Venezuela.
Hartlyn received a B.A. at Clark University, and master's and doctorate degrees in political science at Yale University. He was awarded Phi Beta Kappa and attended graduate school as a Danforth Foundation Fellow.
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