Guide to Specialists

Virginia M. Bouvier
Senior Program Officer, Grant and Fellowships Program

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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

• On the Issues: Colombia
  January 25, 2008