Terry Karl

Terry L. Karl
Occupation	Professor
Employer	Stanford University

Terry L. Karl is the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University.

Acadmics

Karl received a B.A. from Stanford University (1970), an M.A. from Stanford University in Political Science (1976), and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Political Science (1982). Karl was granted the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the University of San Francisco in 2005.

Academia

Karl was an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Government, at Harvard University from 1982-85. Karl served as director of Stanford's Center for Latin American Studies from 1990-2002.

She won the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1989), the Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research (1994), the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching (1997; the University's highest academic prize), and the Rio Branco Prize by Brazil President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in recognition of her service in fostering academic relations between the United States and Latin America.

Scholarship

She is the author of The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States ((University of California Press, 1998)). Her writings have been translated into 15 languages.

Selected publications

• Schmitter, P. C., & Karl, T. L. (1991). What democracy is... and is not. Journal of Democracy, 2(3), 75-88.

• Karl, T. L. (1990). Dilemmas of democratization in Latin America. Comparative Politics, 23(1), 1-21.

• Karl, T. L., & Schmitter, P. C. (1991). Modes of transition in Latin America, southern and eastern Europe. International Social Science Journal, 128(2), 267-282.

• Karl, T. L. (1995). The hybrid regimes of Central America. Journal of Democracy, 6(3), 72-86.

• Karl, T. L. (1997 ). The paradox of plenty: Oil booms and petro-states. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

External links

• Terry L. Karl's web page at Stanford University.