Katherine Hite

Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies program
Rockefeller Hall 410
845/437-7661
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B.A., Duke University; M.I.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Katherine Hite joined the Vassar faculty in 1997. She received her B.A. from Duke University and her Masters in International Affairs and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. Prior to her arrival at Vassar, she served as the associate director of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies of Columbia, where she also taught courses in Latin American studies and comparative politics.  Hite is currently the director of Vassar's Latin American and Latino/a Studies program.

Dr. Hite's recent work focuses on the politics of memory and memorialization processes in Latin America, and her research as been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Ford Foundation.

Hite is the author of When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998 (Columbia University Press, 2000), co-editor of The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation (Oxford University Press, 1997), co-editor with Paola Cesarini of Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), and the author of several articles and book chapters on memorials and politics in Latin America and Spain.

Dr. Hite's teaching interests include Latin American politics, social movements, political psychology, and the legacies of violence for governments and societies in transition around the globe.