Student Profiles
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Environmental history and literature in the Andes and United States
Research Interests: Cuba, the Caribbean, Latin American art, politics and literature
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Ecology and evolution of bird colouration.
Beatriz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where she studies electoral politics, public goods provision, and health care in Latin America. She received her BA in Sociology and Government from Cornell University in 2017.
Research interests: Modern and contemporary art of the African Diaspora.
Research Interests: ephemera, nontraditional archives, and popular media; transnational artistic movements; dance and film; especially in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Mexico
Research Interests: Reduce inequalities and improve the efficiency of education-related markets in developing countries, including Colombia, Peru and Chile.
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: 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.
Research Interests: Social movements, migration, and regime types in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and Cuba
Research Interests: Focus on modern and contemporary poetry and music from Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular interest in the Greater Antilles
Research Interests: How the history of science intersects with law, resources, and the so-called global south.
Research interests: Corruption and the elite backlash in Guatemala, Peru, and Colombia
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Argentina, human rights and political transition during the late 20th century
Research Interests: Architectural discourse between the built environment and nature in the Latin American region and Latino community in the northeast
Research Interests: Joseph’s research explores colonial-Indigenous architectural interaction on reservations, focusing on Native American reconciliation of colonial trauma, and the reinterpretation, or reversal, of existing power structures in the interest of Indigenous sovereignty.
Research Interests: Avant-garde literature, modernismo, experimental fiction, poetics, aestheticism, formalist criticism, 19th- & 20th-century Hispanic American Literature.
Research Interests: The relationship between history and literature, theory of history in dialogue with literary theory and Intellectual History in Latin American and the Caribbean.
Research Interests: Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, amateur cinema, contemporary art from Latin America, minor literature
Research Interests: The intersection between poetic language and the formation of female subjectivity. Her literary focus is 20th century Latin-American women’s literature which she analyses alongside the feminisms that arose from French Écriture féminine and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Research Interests: Architecture experimentation, human rights, post-conflict cities
Research Interests: forced disappearance; humanitarian forensic intervention; Mexico
Research Interests: History of photography, modern and contemporary art from Latin America
Research Interests: Latin American modern and contemporary poetry (especially Chile, Colombia, and Perú); Latin American avant-garde and neo-avant-garde art; ecopoetry and ecocriticism; memory studies; decolonial theory; Andean ecologies and cosmovisions.
Research Interest: The contribution of indigenous language revitalization efforts to approach ecosystem loss, extinction and the effects of pollution in Mexico.
Research Interests: Argentina, Brazil, Chile; History of Development, Economic History, History of Consumption, History of Advertising, Global History.
Research Interests: US-Latin America Exchanges, Circulation Practices, Material Techniques and Culture, Cultural and Visual Studies, Institutional History, Modernization, Decoloniality.
Research Interests: The limits and possibilities of international networks of artistic exchange that linked artists to audiences and colleagues beyond their geographic reach.
Research Interests: Organized Crime, Conflict, Political Economy of Development, Behavioral Science.
Topic / Title of Dissertation: Gang recruitment: the decision maker’s perspective.
Arantxa Rodriguez-Uribe is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics. She is a fellow at Quantitative and Analytical Political…
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Animal communication in complex social groups; specifically, vocal communication in a cooperatively breeding bird in Panama
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The intersections of religion, race and national identity, particularly as they relate to Afro-descendant Muslim communities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Research Interests: Plant-microbial symbioses and nutrient cycling in the white-sands forests of the Peruvian Amazon
Research interests: Foreign policies of Latin America, its regional institutions, and human rights at the intersection of domestic and international politics
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Modern and contemporary art from the Caribbean, Afro-Diasporic religions, race, and visual culture and nation building
Alumni Update
Ingrid Brioso Rieumont (Spanish & Portuguese) was awarded the 2021-2022 Dean's Completion Fellowship/PGRA Program. The honorific fellowship provides support for dissertation completion to doctoral students who demonstrate the highest scholarly excellence. In addition, she translated and edited the book, Paletó y yo. Memorias de mi padre indígena (2021), by Aparecida Vilaça, winner of the 2020 Casa de las Américas Literary Prize.