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Congratulations to professors Dolores Inés Casillas and Myriam Gonzales-Smith
Award Recipient: Dolores Inés Casillas and Myriam Gonzales-Smith Award Date: Friday, June 5th, 2020 By vote of LAIS undergraduate and graduate Students, professors Dolores Inés Casillas (Chicana and Chicano Studies […]
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LAIS Teaching Associate Alba Constenla Torrado offered Tenure Track Position
Congratulations to LAIS Teaching Associate Alba Constenla Torrado who has accepted a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages, at the School of Languages, Literatures, […]
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Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Sara Poot-Herrera have a new publication.
LAIS affiliates, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Sara Poot-Herrera (both Spanish and Portuguese), have just published a carefully researched edition of El pregonero de Dios y Patriarca de los Dioses by Br. […]
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Interview with LAIS Alumna, Christine Khrlobian
Christine Khrlobian is an LAIS M.A. Alumna (2019), we recently caught up with her to learn more about what led her to pursue a LAIS M.A, and how that experience […]
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Interview with LAIS Alumna, Fátima Andrade Martinez
Fátima Andrade Martinez is a recent LAIS Alumna (2019), we recently caught up with her to learn more about what led her to pursue an undergraduate degree in Latin American […]
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Michael Gurven published in the Lancet on Covid-19 and indigenous populations
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 […]
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Interview with Suzanne Levine
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 […]
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Kai Thaler publishes on the Coronavirus in Nicaragua
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 […]
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Kai Thaler published in the Washington Post on Nicaragua
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 […]
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Congratulations to Evelyne Laurent-Perrault for receiving a UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship
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 […]