Elise Dietrich

Elise Dietrich, a native of Hanover, New Hampshire, graduated in 2001 with a B.A. in Studio Art from Bard College and holds an M.A. (May 2009) in Latin American Studies from Tulane. Before joining the Stone Center in 2007, Elise worked in New England and spent a year as a research assistant at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. She studied abroad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as well as Venezuela and Oaxaca, Mexico. Elise conducted her master's research in both Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro with grants funded by the Stone Center and the Tinker Foundation. At Tulane, her research focused on visual culture, Brazilian popular culture and music, and identity construction. Elise's M.A. thesis was entitled 'A Turma do Pererã: Representations of Race and Gender in a Pre-Dictatorial Brazilian Children's Comic.' In 2009, she won the Stone Center's Donald Robertson Award for the Best Graduate Paper in the Humanities by a Latin American Studies Graduate Student. Elise defended her doctoral dissertation over the Summer of 2014 and earned her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane in August 2014.