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Kevin Funk

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Politics, History, Social Sciences

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Kevin Funk is a political economist and Latin Americanist who specializes in globalization, the politics of Brazil and Chile, and urban studies. He is also interested in the sociology of academic knowledge production, class and cultural analysis, and qualitative and interpretive methods.

Funk is a Fellow in Global Thought with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, where he is also a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and an affiliated faculty member of the Institute of Latin American Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science and Latin American Studies from the University of Florida. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese and has conducted extensive international fieldwork.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 13 ratings · 1 review · 3 distinct works

	The Scramble For Africa: Darfur--Intervention and the USA by Steven Fake (Goodreads Author), Kevin Funk (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scramble for Africa: Darfur--Intervention and the USA by Kevin Funk (Goodreads Author), Steven Fake (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kevin has read Fins de século: Cidade e cultura no Rio de Janeiro (Artemídia) (Portuguese Edition) by Beatriz Jaguaribe	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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