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Call for Submissions – The Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article

The Sturgis Leavitt Award is given annually for the best article or book chapter on a Latin American or Iberian subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous calendar year. The article may be written in any language. Preference will be given to articles that have an appeal beyond a single discipline. The winner must be a member in good standing of the year in which the article or chapter was published and the Read more…

Call for Submissions – The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award

The Alfred B. Thomas Award is awarded annually for the best book on a Latin American subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous year. Co-authored works may be considered, but not anthologies or edited works. Books may be in any language. Authors must have been members of SECOLAS for the two calendar years preceding the year in which the prize will be awarded and the year the award is given. Selection of the Read more…

Historias 112 – Ángela Vergara And Joshua Frens – String on the Chilean National Plebiscite

Drs. Ángela Vergara and Joshua Frens-String spoke with Dustin about Chile’s recent constitutional plebiscite.  They talked about the nuts-and-bolts issues involved, and put the movement for constitutional change in a broader historical perspective.  Enjoy!  Joshua Frens-String, “Burying Pinochet” Follow Ángela Vergara on Twitter Follow Joshua Frens-String on Twitter

Historias 111 – Las cuatro vidas de Lurgio Gavilán

Esta semana hablamos con el antropólogo Lurgio Gavilan quien de niño fue miembro de Sendero Luminoso, reclutado, más tarde, por el ejército Peruano,  sacerdote en la iglesia católica, y ahora docente universitario en la universidad de Huamanga. Lurgio nos habla de su libro Memorias de un soldado desconocido: autobiografía y antropología de la violencia y del impacto que este fascinante trabajo ha tenido en el Perú. Historias Podcast · Historias 111 – Las cuatro vidas de Lurgio Gavilán Read more…

Historias 110 – Harmer and Sippial on Revolutionary Women

Dustin spoke with Drs. Tanya Harmer and Tiffany Sippial about their new biographies on Beatriz Allende and Celia Sánchez Manduley.  They discussed the significance of gender and the ways in which their subjects’ stories add to our collective understanding of politics and revolution during the mid-twentieth century.  They also consider questions of leadership, legacies, and lessons today’s political activists can learn.  Check it out!