Theses
1980:
- Helena C. Barreto . “The Life and Times of Fernão Carrilho: A Seventeenth- Century ‘Bandeirante’ of Northeastern Brazil.”
- Elizabeth Sheldon Greider. “A Case Study of Two Urban Middle-Class Families of Oaxaca, Mexico.”
1984:
- Suzane Avellano. “Social Conditions and Political Aspirations of the Black Community in Cuba’s Early Republican Period.”
1986:
- Daniel Anthony Smith. “Siku Ensemble Music in the Urban Environment: Tradition and Change in the ‘Turgurios” of Lima, Peru.”
1987:
- Jeanine Anne Mendoza. “Membership in the Portuguese Military Order of Santiago, 1668-1706.”
1990:
- Timothy Karsten Braatz. “Challenging the Myths: the Revisionist Movement in Mexican-American Historiography.”
- Ilia Rodriguez. Qual Exam
1991:
- Teresa Berenhauser Fernandes. “Literary Tradition and Translation: Cummings in Brazil.”
- Sean S. Fromson. “The Andean Cocaine Trade: the Destabilizing Effects of a Criminal Industry in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.”
1992:
- Miguel Angel Reyes (qualifying exam).
1993:
- Dongyang Hsieh. “Land Reform in Chile, 1965-1989.”
- Michael Mcloughlin (qualifying exam).
1994:
- Julianna Cecilia Krolak. “The Influence of American Oil Companies on the Mexican Revolution of 1910.”
- Kristin Braun (qualifying exam).
- Peter Haws (qualifying exam).
1995:
- Douglas M. Goodner. “Of Women Seen But Not Heard”: The Spanish Women in Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Chronicle of the Conquest of New Spain.”
1996:
- Mark Hjerpe. “The Evolution of the Land Reform Movement in 20th Century Mexico.”
1997:
- Lillian Flores. “The Paradox of Elite Coalition and Party Formation: A Comparative Study of the Argentine and Uruguayan Political Systems.”
- Paul William Moncrief. “The Rise and Decline of the PRI: The Emergence of the PAN and its Impact on Democracy in Mexico.”
- Adriene Pilon. “Chile: The Art of Mourning.”
- Vasco Sena (qualifying exam).
1998:
- Laura Suzanne Weingarten. “Writing for Self-Discovery: Two Mexican-Jewish Women Explore Their Complex Identities.”
1999:
- Monica Landeros. “Las Cristeras: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Women in the Cristero Rebellion, Mexico 1926-1929.”
- Michele Lipka. “Filmmaking and the Making of Revolution: Jorge Sanjines, the Ukamau Group, and the New Latin American Cinema.”
- John Patrick Lyons. “Amaro Velho Cerqueira: A Life in the Service of the Portuguese Crown in the South Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century.”
- Tina Marie Perez. “The Life and Times of Constantino Barradas; Fourth Bishop of Brazil (1603-1618).”
- Maribel Roxana Roldán Pérez. “Narratives of Five Guatemalans Residing in Washington, D.C.: Uncovering Through Life Histories the Importance of Cultural and Religious Traditions of Immigrants in the United States.”
- Anna Belinda Sandoval. “Anguish, Fear, and Motherhood: Madres Angustiadas in the Guatemalan Post Civil War.”
2000:
- Rafaela Acevedo Field. “”Let the Dead Rest”: The Inquisition Case of Gaspar Mendez de Pineiro, Deceased Crypto-Jew in New Spain, 1642-1649.”
- Edwin López. “Race and Revolution: Indigenous Peasants and Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954.”
- Gregorio Luna (qualifying exam).
- Ana Rivadeneyra. “Poor Women’s Struggles Against Gender Inequality: A Case Study from Urban Venezuela.”
- Claudia Terrill (qualifying exam).
- Amy Vogel. “Blaming Burnham for Guyana’s Decline.”
- Marcelo Warkentin. “The Nationalization of the GermanRussian Mennonite Schools in Brazil, 1930-1945.”
- Vanessa Ziegler. “The Rise and Fall of Fulgencio Batista in Cuban Politics.”
2001:
- Elena Olivera. “We Belong to the Land: Access and Ownership in Southern Colorado.”
- Yolanda Swoopes-Jiménez. “The Brazilian Popular Church and its Role in the Formation of Black Consciousness in Brazil.”
2002:
- María Carmen Lozano Ibañez. “The Sounds of Immigration: Cultural and Legal Discourse in Spanish Pop Music and Las Leyes de Extranjería (Spanish Immigration Laws).”
- Amelia Maureen Layne. “Communicative Competence in the University Language Classroom.”
- Anil Mukerjee. “The Provedor-Mor da Fazenda in Colonial Brazil: Lourenco de Brito Correia (1659-1662).”
- Graciela Reynosa. “The Corrido as a (Re)Interpretation of Mexican Society: Los Tigres del Norte as Socio-political Discourse.”
2003:
- Michael Efren Peyron. “Devotion or Dissatisfaction?: Lucas Alamán and the Catholic Church.”
- Mary Aileen Seliger. “El Exilio y sus Angeles Enigmáticos en la Narrativa de Cristina Peri Rossi y de Juan Goytisolo.”
- Kevin P. Smith. “Here I Stand! Don Carlos of Texcoco, the Inquisition, and the End of Aztec Resistance, 1539.”
- Matthew A. Tompkins. “Evangelical Protestantism in a Highland Maya Community: Reshaping the Religious, Social, and Economic Landscape of Santa Clara La Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala.”
2004:
- Ryan Alaniz. “Addiction to the Bean: Guatemala’s Historical Dependency and the Current Coffee Crisis.”
- Jason Brian Ford. “Alternative Representations of Sexuality in Post-Franco Catalan Cinema.”
- Flor Martinez. “The Testimonies that Bring to Light the Struggles of Activist Women in El Salvador: Nidia Diaz and Maria Teresa Tula.”
- Omideh Kathleen Sloan. “Barriers to Educating Deaf Students: The Roles of Culture and Stereotypes.”
- Raul Reynoso. “Assisting Globalization: The Use of Foreign Aid for the Expansion of Capitalism in Latin America.”
- Cari Williams.””Coisas de Negro” Alem do Pitoresco: The First Afro-Brazilian Congress of 1934.”
2005:
- Ricardo Alvarez Jr. “Liberal Conservatism: Lucas Alaman’s Assessment of Agustin de Iturbide, Miguel Hidalgo, Jose Maria Morelos, and Vicente Guerrero.”
- Elizabeth Gonzalez.”The “Maquiladora Murders” of Ciudad Juarez: The Truths of Being Employed in a Maquiladora.”
- Craig Harmelin. “Parental Attitudes Toward a Southern California Spanish-English Two-Way Immersion Program.”
- Fernando Magallon. “The Changing Landscape of Production and Labor Organization in Kings County Dairy Farms: From Family to Immigrant Labor.”
- Rene Marchington. “Locating la Santera: Lucumi and Gender in Havana, Miami and Los Angeles.”
- Heather Kiger. “Relationships between Socioeconomic Status and Disordered Eating in Latin American Women”
- Amy Alton. “Invisible Zapatistas: Women’s Work Outside the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional.”
2006:
- Karen Aburto. “Exiled in Los Angeles: An Oral History on the Chilean Family Experience.”
- Brenna Avinelis. “Racism and Interracial Marriage: Case Studies in Santa Barbara and Hollywood.”
- Luzmaria Cabral. “Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real: Educating Through the Pleasure of the Telenovela.”
- Cristina Fuentes. “Ellas: Relaciones de poder entre personajes femeninos de cuentistas mexicanas del siglo XX.”
- Anabel Gutiérrez. “Reconsidering Mexican Immigrant Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of the Eastside of Santa Barbara.”
- Alison Goodwin. “Eugenio Dittborn and the ‘Airmail Paintings’: Remembrance in Chile after Pinochet.”
- Andrew Leonard . “The Historical Transition of the FARC: From Marxist Insurgent Guerrillas to Bolivarian State Competitor.”
- Karen Luna. “Salvadoran Men’s and Women’s Testimonios: A Gender Analysis of Historical Claims of Truth.”
- Orland Yates. “Black Gold and White Elephants: Energy Policy and Foreign Debt in Brazil and Mexico of the 1970s.”
2007:
- Claudia Johnson. “From Colonial Hell to National Purgatory: Racial Exclusion in the Evolution of Cubanidad.”
- Megan Lange. “U Ch’abal, Una Voz, Another Voice: Words, Education, and Identity in Guatemala.”
- Nicole Pacino. “La Hormiga Contra El Elefante: Copper Mining in Ecuador and the Transformation of a Small Andean Community – The Case of Junin.”
- Steven Pent. “Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide: Mobilization and Citizenship of a Peruvian Peasant Organization.”
- Mario Valadez. “Em Macau a galinha fala com o pato: The Rise and Role of the Jurubacas (Sino-Portuguese Interpreters) in the Far East, 1524-1699.”
- Larisa Veloz. “Nuestros Recuerdos: An Oral History Project about Mexican Migrant Women.”
2008:
- Paul Bancroft. “Yo, si puedo: A Cuban Quest to Eradicate Global Illiteracy.”
- Thomas Clark. “Taking the field: baseball hegemony in Latin America.”
- Steven Lockwood. “Antonio Teles da Silva, Governor-General of Brazil 1642-1647: His Family, His Life, and Early Career.”
- Amy Milner. “Community Development in Globalized El Salvador: A Case Study of Regalo de Dios.”
- Zachary Mckiernan. “Making Memory Matter: The National Stadium of Chile and the Politics of Post-Dictatorship Memory.”
- Yully Nieves. “Higher Education in Venezuela: From Conquest to 1900.”
- Amy Rosner. “Hegemony, Culture, and Cinema: Fernando Solanas’ Documentary Films as a Lens for Examining Radical Social Change and Popular Struggle in Argentina, 1968 and 2001.”
- Benjamin Ruiz. “An Attempt to Develop a Cultural Methodology Useful in Introductory and Early Intermediate Portuguese Instruction.”
2009:
- Martín García. “Green Card Commuters: A Labor Dilemma for Mexican American Border Workers in the Early Post-War Years.”
- Natalie Marie Rogers. “Staging the Nation: The Political Context of Ballet Folklóricoin the Creation of Mexican National Identity.”
2010:
- Linda Hall. “Confronting New Paradigms of Racism: Afro Communities in Plurinational/Intercultural Ecuador.”
- Robin Hoffman. “Agua de Briga: Cachaca’s Role in Early Colonial Brazil.”
- Justine Meyr. “Study Abroad: Maintenance of Spanish Oral Fluency.”
- Leah Russell. “Anything you can do I can do better: cooptation and agency within the AfroReggae cultural groups.”
- Lance Awbrey. “Chile: overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to gain civilian control of the military.”
- Miguel Becerra. “Stereotypes of Afro-Peruvians through the media : the case of the Peruvian blackface”
- Jeremy Simer. “Los Migueletes: Catalan Soldiers and the Negotiation of Identities and Power in Eighteenth-Century Spain and New Spain.”
2011:
- Mark Boelter. “Echo of Memory: Contentions of Reconciliation and Sites of Conscience in post-Pinochet Chile, 1990-2011.”
- Jenae Jordan. “Modern Argentine soccer in mass media imagery : sexuality, nationalism, and the female body in historical context”
2012:
- Cheryl Jimenez Frei. “Archetypes of the Veiled Other: Visual culture, travel literature, and the male gaze in the construction of the Spanish Morisca and the Peruvian Tapada, 1530-1900”
- Jorge Gonzalez. “The (Re)construction of Blackness in Costa Chica, Oaxaca: NGOs and the Making of an Afro-Mexican Ethnic Group.”
- William Alexander Yankes. “Chile, una nación resquebrajada desde su inicio: la incipiente novela “Cautiverio feliz del Mestre de Campo General Don Francisco Nunez de Pineda y Bascunan”
- Martin Jacinto. “Confronting Capitalist Globalization and Polyarchy in Oaxaca: An Assessment of the APPO Movement and the Prospects for Social Movements in Mexico”
- Jorge Cabrera. “Violent, Criminal, Illegal Immigrants” MS-13 – The Discursive Misrepresentation of a Global Gang.”
2013:
- Brian Wiley. “The 2006 Penguin Revolution and the 2011 Chilean Winter: Chilean Students’ Fight for Education Reform”
- Veronica Zavala Jacobo. “¡Venimos a Triunfar! A Discourse Analysis of Spanish Language Radio Piolin por la Mañana”
2014:
- Ángel Rodríguez. “Angel Ricardo, Infectious Imperialism : Race, Syphilis, and Human Experimentation in Guatemala City, 1946-1948”
- Marcus Cuellar. “Runners Left on Base: Cuban Baseball Defection Experience and a Reevaluation of Baseball Diplomacy”
2016:
- Kirstin Brown. “Leaving the Bubble: Understanding the Transition to Independent Living for Honduran Women in Government Care.”
- Alexander Scarlett. “Assessing the Law of Social Quotas: A qualitative approach to the perspectives of black university students in São Paulo.”
- Salvador García Vigil. “The Institutional Imaginative of Revolutionary Land Nationalism as Mexico’s Historiography and Literature from the 1930s to the 1980s.”
2018:
- Thelma Patnett. “Alternate Memories Revealed: Afro Nicaraguan Women’s Solidarity, Support, and Ambivalence to the Sandinista Revolution.”
- Denny Álvarez. “Los Angeles Latinx Ska: Subaltern Rhythms, Co-optation of Sound, and New Cultural Visions from a Transnational Latin America.”
2019:
- Allen Magaña. “Bichas à Rasca: Queer Social Movements of Portugal in an Age of Austerity”.
- Christine Khrlobian. “El Negro Permitido: Representations of Black Bodies and Beings in the Colombian Press, 1970-1980”
2020:
- Katie Rodriguez. “Guatemalan Mobility: Understanding Indigenous and Latino Migration Through a Critical Analysis of Key Literature.”
2021:
- Rosa Elvira Rodriguez. “The Black Idiot and the Mountain Woman: Interpretations of Discrimination in Peruvian Media.”
2022:
- Marlene Torres-Magana. “Constructing the Mexican White Mestizo Identity: Politics of Race, Culture, and Mexican Comics in Twentieth-Century Mexico.”
2023:
- Emma Laura Zamora Garcia. “‘It’s Like the Border is in Your Head:’ Stories from the Transborder Students in the U.S.-Mexico Border.”
- Carina Paredes-Rivera. “Contra la violencia sexista: estrategias artivistas en el movimiento ni una menos (2015) en Argentina y la perfromance ‘el violador eres tú’ (2019) en Chile.”
2024:
- Amy Houser. “Dictating the Past: Learning the Memory of the Pinochet Dictatorship in Present-Day Chile”