Virginia M. Bouvier
Senior Program Officer, Grant and Fellowships
Program
Gender | Governance | Human Rights | Non-governmental Organizations | Central
America | South America
Phone: (202) 429-3884
E-mail: vbouvier@usip.org
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese,
French
Virginia M. Bouvier joined USIP in January 2003 as a program officer for the Jennings Randolph
Fellowship program. She is currently a senior program officer in the Grants and Fellowships
program.
For the previous seven years, she was an assistant professor of Latin American literature and
culture at the University of Maryland. From 1982 to 1989, Bouvier served as senior associate at the
Washington Office on Latin America, where she focused on Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Bouvier has also served as a consultant and research director for the Women’s Leadership Conference
of the Americas, a joint project of the Inter-American Dialogue and the International Center for
Research on Women, and as a consultant at the World Bank, Levi Strauss Foundation, Levi Strauss and
Co. and the C.S. Fund.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley in Latin American studies.
Publications:
- Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War (editor) (USIP Press, forthcoming 2009).
- "Crossing the Lines: Women's Social Mobilization in Latin America," in Governing Women:
Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform, edited by
Anne Marie Goetz (Routledge, 2008).
- Colombia's Crossroads: The FARC
and the Future of the Hostages
USIPeace Briefing, June 2008
- New Hopes for Negotiated Solutions in
Colombia
(USIP Working Paper, September 2007).
- Harbingers of Hope: Peace Initiatives in
Colombia
Special Report, August 2006
- "Evaluating U.S. Policy in Colombia," a Policy Report from the IRC Americas Program
(2005).
- Women and Global Leadership in the Americas (InterAmerican Dialogue and International
Center for Research on Women, 2004).
- Civil Society Under Siege in
Colombia
Special Report, February 2004
- U.S. Involvement Deepens As Armed
Conflict Escalates In Colombia
USIPeace Briefing, May 2003
- "Colombia Quagmire: Time for U.S. Policy Overhaul," Foreign Policy in Focus (2003).
- Whose America? The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation (Praeger Press,
2002).
- The Globalization of U.S.-Latin American Relations: Democracy, Intervention, and Human
Rights (Praeger Press, 2002).
- Women and the Conquest of California (University of Arizona Press, 2001, 2004).
Available on usip.org