Associate Professor
Faculty of International, Political and Urban Studies
Universidad del Rosario

Stefano Tijerina holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Maine (2011) and is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the Maine Business School, University of Maine. He was the inaugural recipient of the Maine Historical Society’s P.D. Merrill Research Fellowship (2023) and the Canadian Business History Association’s Chris Kobrak Research Fellowship (2018). He has also been recognized as a North Star Collective Faculty Fellow (2024) and a Provostial Fellow at the University of Maine.

His research examines the modern history of Canadian and U.S. business expansion into Latin America. His work has appeared in the Journal of Canadian Studies, American Review of Canadian Studies, Iperstoria, Ensayos Sobre Política Económica, Desafíos, and Perspectivas Colombo Canadienses. He has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes, including Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America: A Transnational History of Profits and Repression, Trade-Offs: The History of Canada-U.S. Trade Negotiations, “A Samaritan State” Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid, 1950–2016, Mercados en Común: Estudios sobre Conexiones Transnacionales, Negocios y Diplomacia en las Américas, and Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in Petroleum.

He is the author of Opportunism and Goodwill: Canadian Business Expansion in Colombia, 1867–1979 (2022).

Brigitte (Britta) Weiffen holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Tübingen (2009) and is currently a Senior Lecturer at The Open University, which she joined in September 2020. From 2015 to 2020, she held the Martius Chair for German and European Studies—a visiting professorship sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)—in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.

She previously served as a Visiting Professor at USP’s Institute of International Relations (2014–2015), a Lecturer at the University of Konstanz in Germany (2008–2014), and a Research Associate at both the University of Tübingen (2005–2008) and the University of Bonn (2001–2005).

She also earned an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Bonn (2001).

Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London, and a Faculty Associate at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University