Faculty: Katherine Hite

kahite@vassar.edu

Rockefeller Hall 410

845.437.7661

Associate Professor of Political Science, 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.

Dr. Hite's work focuses on legacies of authoritarian rule in Latin America's Southern Cone, and her research as been funded by the Fulbright Foundation 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) and co-editor with Paola Cesarini of Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004)

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

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