Faculty affiliate, Kai Thaler (Global Studies), has a new article in Foreign Policy discussing the Coronavirus in Nicaragua, and the dangers of an aging autocrat and an already wrecked health system. Read more: Nicaragua Is […]

Faculty affiliate, Kai Thaler (Global Studies) and co-author Mateo Jarquín (Chapman University) have an article in the Washington Post discussing why a mass nonviolent uprising failed to oust Nicaragua’s authoritarian leader. Read more: Two years […]

Award Recipient: Evelyne Laurent-Perrault Award Date: Saturday, May 9, 2020 Please join us in congratulating LAIS faculty affiliate, Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History), for receiving 2020-2021 University of California President’s Faculty Research […]

Award Recipient: Jennifer Tyburczy Award Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2020 Please join us in congratulating LAIS faculty affiliate, Jennifer Tyburczy (Feminist Studies), for receiving a 2020 American Council of Learned […]

In January 2020, LAIS Affiliated Faculty Dr. Anabel Ford traveled to both Guatemala City, Guatemala and Belize City, Belize to further conservation and development of the Maya Forest Gardens. The […]

Tyler McMullen is the LAIS Graduate Program Assistant. He joined PASC in Summer 2019 after earning his MA degree in French and Francophone Studies from Cal State Long Beach, where […]

Professor Cecilia Méndez (History), LAIS Program Director,  was interviewed by the Peruvian newspaper La República about current events and politics in Peru. The interview can be found here: ‘La Republica’ article.

Professor Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology) had an op-ed in the LA Times about the fires in Brazil in August, 2019. His piece can be found here: LA Times article.

Professors Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz (History) have served as guest editors in the Winter 2020 issue of the Pacific Historical Review’s special issue, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico […]

Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at UCSB. In his most recent publication ‘Queering Black Atlantic Religions’ (2019), Professor Strongman offers a novel analysis of […]