Tinker Visiting Professors
Beginning in 1969, the Tinker Foundation endowed Tinker Visiting Professorships (TVPs) at five major universities in the United States – the first Latin American-centric endowed positions at U.S. universities. The program is designed to bring preeminent Latin American scholars, professionals, and regional experts to the United States to encourage interaction and collaboration. Notably, the program seeks to promote exchange in a broad range of scholarly and generalist communities; Tinker Visiting Professors need not focus their work on Latin America per se. The professorship is intended to have the dual impact of enhancing the careers of appointed individuals as well as generating distinctive and meaningful experiences for students and faculty alike.
The mission of the Tinker Foundation is to promote the development of an equitable, sustainable, and productive society in Latin America. Tinker realizes its mission by providing funding to organizations working to address the region’s most pressing challenges.
The Foundation makes grants in the following program areas: Democratic Governance, Education, and Sustainable Resource Management.