Carlos Forment, associate professor of Sociology, along with his colleague, Jeff Rubin (Boston University), were awarded a grant from the Open Society Institute for their project: Enduring Reform: Business and Activist Response to Progressive Civil Society-Based Reform in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico.

The Open Society Institute works to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. The grant will enable Professor Forment to spend this coming academic year (2009-10) in Buenos Aires working on a new research project: Citizenship and its Fragments: Argentine Democracy in the Wake of Neoliberalism; and to complete his book manuscript: Democracy in Latin America: Civic Selfhood and Public Centers of Sociability in Nineteenth Century Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Cuba.

Professor Forment teaches in The New School for Social Research and the Bachelor's Program.