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

Award Recipient: Evelyne Laurent Perrault Award Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020 Professor Evelyne Laurent-Perrault has been awarded Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library