Dr. Francesca Lessa, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, joined Steven to talk about Operation Condor and the pursuit of justice and accountability for the states and actors responsible for transnational human rights crimes in the 1970s. See Francesca’s recent article in Read more…
Dr. Erin Beck, an associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon and an award-winning author, spoke with Steven about the recent general election in Guatemala. How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs (Duke University Press, 2017)
Drs. Rita Palacios and Paul Worley joined Steven to discuss their new book entitled Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge. This episode is the first in an occasional series on the Maya.
In this state of the field episode, Matt Childs, Elena Schneider, and Alex Wisnoski joined Steven to discuss the history of slavery in Latin American and Caribbean societies.
Longtime SECOLAS member Steve Morris, who also served on the Executive Committee and as President, has been named the Coordinador del Laboratorio de Documentación y Analisis de la Corrupción y Transparencia at UNAM. Congratulations from your SECOLAS family!
For immediate release: The officers and the members of the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) stand in solidarity with the students, faculty, staff, and administration of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), and the greater Charlotte community of which they are Read more…
Lina Del Castillo of the University of Texas has earned honorable mention from the Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article committee for her article entitled “Entangled Fates: French-Trained Naturalists, the First Colombian Republic, and the Materiality of Geopolitical Practice, 1819-1830,” published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. The committee found Read more…
Martin A. Nesvig of the University of Miami earned an honorable mention for his book entitled Promiscuous Power: An Unorthodox History of New Spain from the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Committee. The committee said of his book, “Nesvig employs archival research to construct a narrative of local politics in Read more…
Congratulations to SECOLAS members Rita Palacios and Paul Worley on the release of their book entitled Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge, published by the University of Arizona Press.
Lily Pearl Balloffet has won the 2019 Sturgis Leavitt Award for Best Article from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies for her article entitled “Argentine and Egyptian History Entangled: From Perón to Nasser” published in the Journal of Latin American Studies. The Sturgis Leavitt Award given annually for the Read more…