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LAIS Academic Award Recipients 2019
Award Date: Thursday, April 11, 2019 AWARDS 2019 Fátima Andrade Martinez received the “2019 Latin American and Iberian Studies Undergraduate Award for Exemplary Academic Performance.” Denny Alvarez received the “2019 […]
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Read our interview with LAIS Alumna Cheryl Jimenez Frei
Cheryl Jimenez Frei is a LAIS Alumna ’12 who has accepted as Assistant Professor of Public History and Modern Latin America at the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire. How did […]
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Interview with Graduate Student Sarah Zamir
What motivated you to study Latin America? I’ve always been interested in colonial history. I come from a family with an intense passion for history and politics. But the catalyst […]
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Rocking the Boat: Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music by Silvia Bermúdez
LAIS Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Silvia Bermúdez’s fascinating study reveals how Spanish popular music, produced between 1980 and 2013, was the first cultural site to engage in critical debate […]
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Interview with Thomas Huff, Our Graduate Program Coordinator
Thomas Huff LAIS Graduate Program Coordinator What do you like the most about your job? What I like most about my job is when I can assist student with figuring […]
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Interview with LAIS Alumnus Steve Pent
Steve Pent LAIS MA Alumni ’07 What is the main contribution/argument of your book? One of the main contributions of my book will have been to draw attention to the […]
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Professor Javiera Barandiarán’s new book Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
About the Book: In Science and Environment in Chile, Professor Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. […]
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Program Director Cecilia Méndez Interview in UCSB’s ‘The Current’
LAIS Program director, Cecilia Méndez, sits down with UCSB’s campus news publication ‘The Current’ to discuss themes of displacements among peoples worldwide. Please be sure to join us April 10th […]
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LAIS 2019 undergraduate conference, “Displacements: peoples, politics, and rights in Latin America and the Iberian World”
UC Santa Barbara Displacements: Peoples, Politics, and Rights First Latin American and Iberian Studies Undergraduate Student Conference April 10th– 11th, 2019 Harbor Room, UCen WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th […]
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LAIS affiliated faculty Verónica Castillo Muñoz is awarded long-term fellowship from the Huntington Library
Congratulations to LAIS affiliated faculty Verónica Castillo Muñoz for winning a long-term fellowship from the Huntington Library to work on her project “Women and Revolution: A Tale of Violence and Deception […]
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Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
