Alfred Montero

Alfred Montero

scholars program at Carleton.

Montero was a double-major in nursing and nutrition at the University of Miami, where he graduated "magna cum laude" in 1990. However, after a stint on a nursing practicum in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he switched career paths, receiving 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

* 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).
* The Political Economy of Nursing and Nutrition: A South American Perspective (Columbia University Press, 2004).
* Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World (Polity Press, 2005).


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