Faculty affiliate, Michael Gurven (Anthropology), and colleagues, including other anthropologists, physicians and tribal leaders, have developed a strategy for managing COVID-19 among an indigenous population in the Bolivian Amazon, the […]

LAIS affiliated faculty, literary scholar, poet, translator and Emerita Professor, Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) earned a BA at Vassar College, an MA at Columbia University, and a PhD […]

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.