Nikita L. Harwich, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Member of the Academic Committee Fields of expertise Latin America: contemporary economic history and politics Commodity trade: cocoa and chocolate

Education

• B.A. with honors (magna cum laude), History, Duke University, U.S.A.

• Ph.D. in International Economic Relations, London School of Economics, England

Other current posts

• Professor, Chair of Contemporary Latin American History and Civilization, University of Paris West-Nanterre (France)

• Co-Director of the MASCIPO French Research Center on the History and Anthropology of North and South America (Paris, France)

• Member of the Academia Europaea (London, UK)

• Member of the Académie Française du Chocolat et de la Confiserie; President (since 2004) of the Academy's Chocolate and Confectionery Dictionary Commission

Previous experience

• Professor, Chair of Contemporary Latin American History and Civilization, University of Rouen (1996-2002)

• Associate Professor, Chair of Contemporary Latin American History and Civilization, University of Paris X-Nanterre (1994-1996)

• Andrés Bello Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford University (1991-1992)

• Associate Professor, "N.D. Dao" Chair of Contemporary Venezuelan History, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas (1990-1994)

• Associate Professor, History Postgraduate Programme, Universidad Santa María, Caracas (1983-1990)

Selected publications

• El modelo económico del Liberalismo Amarillo: Historia de un fracaso, 1888-1908 (Caracas: Universidad Santa María, 1984)

• Formación y crisis de un sistema financiero nacional. Banca y Estado en Venezuela, 1830-1940 (Caracas: Co-published by Fondo Editorial Antonio José de Sucre and Fondo Editorial Buría, 1987)

• Histoire du Chocolat (Paris: Editions Desjonquères - Collection "Outremer", 1992; 2^nd revised edition, 2008)

• Asfalto y Revolución: la New York & Bermudez Company (Caracas: Co-published by Fundación para el Rescate del Acervo Histórico Venezolano and Monte Avila Editores, 1992)

• 'L'iconographie du consensus: les illustrations des manuels scolaires d'histoire nationale en Amérique latine', in: Image et Transmission des Savoirs dans les Mondes Hispaniques et Hispano-Américains, Jean-Louis Guereña (s.l.d.), (Tours: Presses Universitaires de Tours, Série 'Ếtudes Hispaniques', XIX, 2007), p. 465-484.

• 'De l'Officine à l'Office : Métamorphoses Progressives du Chocolat en France au XVIII^e siècle', in: Tomate et chocolat. Usages alimentaires et créolisation culturelle, Pascale Budillon Puma (S.l.d.), (Paris : Michel Houdiard Ếditeur, 2008), p. 41-52 + ill. h.t..

• “Comercio del cacao desde los Mexicas a la Nueva Espana”, in: Artes de México, n° 103 (Mexico, October 2011), pp. 47–53.

Contact

If you wish to contact Professor Nikita Harwich, please write to info@ags.edu and your email will be fowarded to him.