2017 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
February 27, 2017
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants.
February 27, 2017
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants.
February 27, 2017
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is proud to announce that it has awarded three research fellowships to graduate students through the Sarmiento Flexible Fund for Latin American Studies, which was established through the generous support of Alfredo C. Cassiet, M.D. and Maria-Elena Cassiet.
February 8, 2017
We are pleased to share with you a new edition of CLACS Focus on Faculty. Our Focus on Faculty newsletter opens a window on the cutting-edge scholarship, pedagogy, and public engagement of our colleagues on Latin America and the Caribbean.
December 12, 2016
Lily Hartmann, a senior double concentrating in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Development Studies has received a CLACS Undergraduate Research Award to support her Development Studies honors thesis on the history of Cuban cultural policy, alternative music and film production in Havana, and the role of youth in the country’s contemporary social development.
December 12, 2016
If you're fascinated by the diversity and complexity of the Caribbean region, the concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACA) can give you a strong, interdisciplinary understanding of culture, history, and contemporary issues in the region, and help you situate the Caribbean within its hemispheric context. See here for two potential LACA course sequences focusing on Caribbean studies.
December 8, 2016
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Graduate Program in Development are proud to announce this year's participants in the second year of our exchange agreement with Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
December 1, 2016
Brown University invites applications for a 2-year International Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with a specialization in contemporary Mexican literary, visual, and/or performance studies. We especially welcome applicants working on narrative, poetry or drama about violence, social change and migration in relation to a broader Mexican and Latin American tradition or Mexican and U.S. border studies; a proven interest in film, visual arts, or digital culture and in critical theory is also desirable.
November 29, 2016
We are now accepting news submissions from our CLACS Affiliated Faculty to be featured in the Spring 2017 installment of the CLACS publication Focus on Faculty.
November 28, 2016
Vi Mai, a senior double concentrating in International Relations and Latin American & Caribbean Studies has received a CLACS Undergraduate Research Award to support her LACA honor thesis research which centers on analyzing discourses around Cuba's HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Cuban and the Cuban American press.
November 22, 2016
Grace Monk (Comparative Literature, '18) has received a CLACS Undergraduate Research Award to support her ongoing work with the Memorias del Territorio project in Valparaíso, Chile.
November 1, 2016
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) announces two new LACA courses taught by our Cogut Visiting Professors
October 5, 2016
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is pleased to announce that it has awarded funding to two student/faculty reading groups as part of a new initiative.
June 30, 2016
CLACS looks forward to welcoming our incoming visiting scholars for the 2016-17 academic year. The Honorable Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Fellowship Jimena Ponce de León - Ph.D candidate in Social Sciences at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina (Fall 2016) Guillermo Wilde, Ph.D - Associate Professor, Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Spring 2017)
May 23, 2016
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016-2017 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants.
May 3, 2016
Professor of Sociology and CLACS Affiliated Faculty José Itzigsohn was recently awarded with the 2016 Faculty Award for Advising & Mentoring. We wish him congratulations!
April 18, 2016
CLACS is pleased to announce the visits of two Latin American scholars later this month. Juan Pablo Luna, from Chile, and Sebastián Etchemendy, from Argentina, will be participating in conferences and events at Brown throughout April and May. Luna is this semester’s Sarmiento Visiting Scholar of Latin American Studies. Etchemendy is a resident of Brown’s Graduate Program in Development and CLACS.
February 29, 2016
CLACS is pleased to bring you the first issue of our Latin American and Caribbean Studies Alumni Newsletter. From 1975-2015, 311 students concentrated in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown. These former students now live across the country in 38 states and Puerto Rico, and abroad in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, the Bahamas, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic. Our alumni are engaged in groundbreaking work on the region from a wide range of disciplines. This issue highlights a criminal defense and immigration lawyer, a Fulbright Research Scholar focusing on micro-business, a sexual and reproductive health policymaker with Planned Parenthood, a Columbia law student studying minority voting rights and campaign finance reform, a design specialist at Harvard's Center on the Developing Child, a manager of the Chiquita company in Switzerland, a University of Vermont Professor of Latin American History, and an economist at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Alumni are listed in alphabetical order by surname. If you would like to be featured in the next issue of our Alumni Newsletter, please send an update and a picture to clacs@brown.edu. The newsletter will be published again in May, 2016. As always, many thanks for your support of CLACS! Richard Snyder Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Latin American and Caribbean Studies Alumni: Where Are They Now? In the United States and around the world, check out where Brown University Latin American and Caribbean Studies Alumni are now based!
February 25, 2016
CLACS is pleased to release the latest issue of Focus on Faculty. The publication highlights the exciting and varied work of Brown University faculty regarding Latin America and the Caribbean. This issue highlights exciting research and teaching by our faculty on topics ranging from climate change, to social violence, to undocumented immigrants, and the recently rediscovered poems of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. As always, many thanks for your support of CLACS!