Latin American Studies Essay Contest As a means of fostering the study and appreciation of Latin America at Boston University, earlier this spring the Center for Latin American Studies announced, on March 19, an essay contest with separate prizes for graduate and undergraduate students and separate juries for each competition. Gradaute essays were judged by […]
Prof. Jeffrey Rubin, Professor of History at Boston University and an affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies, has co-authored a piece with a BU graduate student Gana Ndiaye on Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, the disparate impacts of the virus on vulnerable populations, and community efforts to fight […]
“The Palmer Grant from the Center for Latin American Studies made it possible for me to go to Mexico in January to support Professor David Carballo’s community archaeology efforts in Tlajinga, Estado de Mexico. In pre-history, Tlajinga was a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of the ancient city of Teotihuacan. Today, the area is a small town […]
All of my preconceived notions about Cuba were challenged by my study abroad experience. Cuba is considered by the United States to be a third world country. That was evidenced by the many decaying buildings in Havana and the excessive amount of family members living in one apartment due to a housing shortage, but other […]
Click here to view the original article. The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University announced the recipients of the 2018 graduate student research travel grants and the inaugural William R. Keylor undergraduate student travel grants. The grants will allow graduate and undergraduate Pardee School students to travel to countries including Turkey, South […]
As part of a scholarship granted by the Latin American Studies program, I travelled to Mexico City in order to locate documents pertaining to the SEP’s radio station, now housed at the “Archivo General de la Nación.” I reviewed the letters of the intellectuals of the avent-garde Estridentismo who completed national projects for the SEP, […]
My trip to Mexico City was great. Thanks to the grant, I had the opportunity to do research in the National Library and enjoy this amazing city. I also delivered a paper in the I Congreso Internacional de Literatura Mexicana Siglos XIX y XX in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, […]
I lived in Santa Rita, a Kichwa village in Ecuador, for 2 months, where I taught English at the elementary school, participated in community tourism, and worked on my host family’s chakra (a traditional, subsistence agroforestry farm), among other daily activities. I conducted research on how chakras are being impacted by cacao, the predominant cash crop, and the involvement […]
I am working on a critical, bilingual edition of the Mexican woman-of-letters Rosario Castellanos’s newspaper writings. In January, a Latin American Studies Travel grant made it possible for me to visit Mexico City and make connections with scholars at UNAM and the national library and newspaper archive, former editors of Castellanos’s work, and her son; […]
Professor David Carballo and graduate student, Daniela Hernandez Sarinana, were in San Pedro Tlajinga, Teotihuacan, working with the community of San Pedro Tlajinga, south of the tourist zone of the site where Carballo has been digging, on issues relating to education, conservation, and community engagement. The Boston University Initiative on Cities provided the funding. https://mobile.twitter.com/BU_Archaeology/status/1026831065393102848 […]