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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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Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Race and gender have shaped the law, public policy, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history. At the present moment, however, shifting patterns of migration and the […]
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“The House that Binds: Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Peru” Rachel Sarah O’Toole, UC Irvine
The Household that Binds: Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Peru Talk by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (UC Irvine) To demonstrate how enslaved and freed people in Colonial Peru contracted their freedom, […]
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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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Juan Carlos Estenssoro’s “The inescapable Indian: Yungas, chunchos and serranos in the geographical, social and pictorial imaginings of Perú, 16th through 18th centuries.”
Juan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l’Université Paris, where he also directs the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America (CRAEC). […]
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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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Book Launch: Professor Juan and Natalie Cobo’s La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial [The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé in the colonial period]
About the Book The Catholic Church played a central role in shaping how early modern Spaniards arranged their own lives and attempted to transform those of the indigenous peoples of […]
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