Student Profiles
Research Interests: Net-zero energy transition in the Caribbean and natural hazard resilience
Avery Barnett is from Kingston, Jamaica, and is a Ph.D. Student in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She honed her energy interests during her undergraduate tenure at Grinnell College where she graduated…
Research Interests: The relation between feminist politics, democracy, and literature in late-twentieth-century Latin America. Her work combines literary and cultural studies with literary historiography, textual analysis and critical theory. Through extensive archival work, interviews, and literary review, her dissertation examines a series of…
Research Interests: Textiles, Bodily Techniques, Ephemera, Archives, Dance and Film
Angela H. Brown is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on textiles, nontraditional archives, and craft pedagogies, especially in the Caribbean and Latin America. Her dissertation takes a material approach to the co-constitution of modernity, coloniality, and…
Research Interests: Mexico in the 20th and 21st centuries, Violence and Representation, Literary Realism, Documentation and the Archive, Theories of the Contemporary, Memory Studies, State and Nation.
Alonso is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature working on the forms of realism and the methods of documentation…
Research Interests: Repair, memory, Covid-19, victimhood, social movements
Vinicius is interested in the issues of repair, reparation, and memory in Brazil. His ongoing project follows the struggle of people victimized by Covid-19, who are seeking justice for violations perpetrated by the Brazilian state during the pandemic. This research…
Research Interests: Intergenerational distributive justice, theories of global and climate justice, multiculturalism, race, and the ethics of immigration, with a special emphasis on the particular normative issues that these topics present for Mexico and Latin America.
Claudia is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics…
Research Interests: Politics of aesthetics; representation; regimes of value; modernity; historiography.
Elise Y. Chagas is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Art & Archaeology studying modern and contemporary art with a focus on Latin America. Her dissertation concerns Peruvian modern art as it relates to indigenism, a pan-Latin…
Research Interests: Poetry and Poetics, Feminist Theory, Afro-Latin American Literatures, Hemispheric Studies, Book-as-Object, Community-based Research Methods
Alena Coleman holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame, where she double majored in Spanish and English and minored in Education, Schooling, and Society…
Research Interests: Colonial Latin America / Modern Latin America / Indigenous History / Popular politics / Frontiers.
Santiago Conti is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and holds a B.A. in history from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He has done research on encomiendas in the governorship of Tucumán…
Research Interests: The modern history of Latin America and Chile within a global landscape of human rights struggles. Her doctoral dissertation project is a study of impunity and its role in shaping social, political, and cultural developments in post-conflict societies.
Constanza Dalla Porta is a Ph.D. Candidate in the…
Research Interests: Foreign policy, nuclear security in the Global South, security policy and militarization in Latin America. Before coming to Princeton, she was Director of Analysis of Geopolitical Transformations at the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of Argentina where she conducted research and high-level advising on Argentinian foreign…
Research Interests: The ephemeral, theater, public space.
Research Interests: Social movements, migration, and regime types in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and Cuba.
Research Interests: The past and present lives of former intelligence agents, military officers, and civil collaborators of the repressive apparatus during the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) and their international ramifications throughout the continent and beyond. Combining dreams, archival records, literary and photographic creations, oral…
Research Interests: Ethnomusicology, Caribbean and Latine poetics, media studies
Alex Diaz-Hui joined the Department of English and Program in Latin American Studies in 2020. A proud Oregonian, he received his BA from Portland State University and his MA at Oregon State University. At Oregon State, Alex wrote his thesis on the use of…
Research Interests: Brazilian studies, modernism, mental health, theater, queer studies, translation.
Originally from New York City, Dylan Blau Edelstein is a PhD student in the Spanish and Portuguese Department, with a broad interest in 20th-century Brazil and Latin America. He holds a B.A. from Princeton ('17), also in Spanish and…
Research Interests: History of architecture, construction history, labor history, colonial history, nineteenth-century Atlantic history
Dante is a scholar and architect with a varied professional background including undergraduate studies in Latin American history, and work in historic restoration, fabrication, and publishing. His…
Research Interests: Questions of the environment, history, new technologies, interdisciplinary research and exhibitions.
Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American imag(inari)es around obscenity, censorship, disappearance, and spectacular violence are traversed by memory studies, film studies, new materialisms, and visual thought, as well as curatorial practice. He was part of the Galería Casas Riegner curatorial team and collaborates on a regular basis…
Research Interests: Memory Studies, Revolutions, Peacebuilding, Ex Combatants, Reinsertion/Reintegration
Alan is a Ph.D. student at the History Department. He holds a master’s degree in history from the Mora Research Institute in Mexico, a master’s in Conflict Resolution from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa…
Research Interests: Cinema studies, indigenous studies, visual studies, and literature.
Estela Imigo is a Ph.D. Mapuche-williche student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a Fulbright scholar. She holds a BA in Pedagogy in Language and communication, a MA in Contemporary Hispanic American Literature (summa cum laude) earned…
Research Interests: Avant-garde literature, modernismo, experimental fiction, poetics, aestheticism, formalist criticism, 19th- & 20th-century Hispanic American Literature.
Research Interests: Afro-Latin American Religions and Literatures; Decoloniality.
Research Interests: environmental politics and policy, environmental justice, qualitative research, social movements, comparative studies
Jack Markowitz is a doctoral student at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program. Jack holds a master's degree in Environmental…
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Poetic Theory, Border Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Critical Theory, Art History, Modernism, Surrealism.
Anaís Martinez Jimenez is a PhD candidate with the Department of Comparative Literature and a psychoanalyst in training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. In her…
Research Interests: Latin American Literature, Modern Greek Literature, Shipwreck Literature, Phenomenology, Translation
Research Interests: Forced disappearance; humanitarian forensic intervention; Mexico.
Cate Morley is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities (IHUM). Her research concerns forced disappearance and humanitarian forensic intervention in Mexico, and is shaped, in particular, by attention to the…
Research Interests: Latin-American contemporary literature written by women, studies of the body, feminism(s), ecocriticism, the Latin American literary ecosystem with an emphasis in independent bookstores and editorials
Nora Muñiz is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and holds two bachelor’s degrees: one…
Research Interests: Birds diversity and evolution, particulary on the drivers of variation in eggs and nest across different species.
David has broad interests in the natural history, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary diversification of avian life histories. He received his BA from Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), where he studied…
Research Interests: Economic and Financial History of Latin America, International Macroeconomics, History of the International Financial System, Debt and Capital Flows to Emerging Economies, Critical Finance, Political Economy of Latin America, Colombian Studies.
Manuel F. Pérez Archila is a Ph.D. student in the Economics department. His…
Research Interests: Translation; Ethics & Technology; Afro-Latin American Literatures; Poetry; International Education.
Daniel Persia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. His research takes translation to be a vital tool for reimagining the humanities, showing how collaboration within and beyond the…
Research Interests: Latin American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies
Tatiane França Rangel is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a bachelor's degree in Portuguese and French language and literatures and a master’s degree in literary theory from the Federal University of Rio de…
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Alumni Update
Pablo Pryluka *24 (History) wins Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History for "Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America".
Pablo will join the History Department at the City College of New York (CUNY) as an Assistant Professor beginning in August 2025. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History at Harvard University.
Will Freeman *23 (Politics) joined the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as a Fellow for Latin America Studies in 2023. At CFR, Will is developing a book manuscript on the relationship between rule of law and democracy in Latin America over the past two decades. He continues to write on current events in the region for a broad audience. His commentary and analysis has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Economist, the Journal of Democracy, the Washington Post, Current History, and Americas Quarterly, where he is a contributing columnist. Will also organizes Latin America-focused roundtables with guest speakers from the region.