Alberto Rivera-Padilla

Alberto Rivera-Padilla

Assistant Professor- Department of Economics

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Associated Faculty

Research

Macroeconomics, Development, Spatial Economics, Agricultural Productivity, Internal Migration, Spatial Inequality, and Human Capital

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Economics, Arizona State University, 2019
  • M.S. Economics, Arizona State University, 2016
  • B.A., Economics, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, 2012
  • B.A., Political Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, 2012

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, California State University Fullerton, 2019-2024

Distinctions

  • Faculty Fellowship for Outstanding Performance, CSUF, 2023
  • Award for Continued Excellence in Publications, CSUF, 2022
  • Recognition For Excellence In Scholarly And Creative Activity, CSUF, 2021
  • Rondthaler Award (Most Deserving Graduate Student), ASU, 2019

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Market Power, Output, and Productivity” Economics Letters, 232, November 2023
  • 2021. “Slums, Allocation of Talent, and Barriers to Urbanization” European Economic Review, 140, November 2021
  • 2020. “Crop Choice, Trade Costs, and Agricultural Productivity” Journal of Development Economics, 146, September 2020

Clare Gucwa

Clare Gucwa

Student

Ph.D. Student - Joint with Art History
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Students
Tulane Affiliation
Graduate Student

Biography

Clare Gucwa (she/her) is a writer, educator, museum professional, and a PhD student in the Art History and Latin American Studies program at Tulane University. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art at Ohio University and her Master of Arts degree in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory at the State University of New York, Purchase College. Clare has held curatorial roles in art, history, and science museums where she completed projects that increased access to art historical research on the construction of public art and public space within institutions. Her research interests include Latin American art of the twentieth century, Indigenous art, performance studies, and public practice. Her current research explores public art and performance in El Salvador and questions how collective spaces shape ideas and categories of art and artifact. 

Degrees

  • B.F.A. in Studio Art, Ohio University
  • M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory, State University of New York, Purchase College

Jessica Tueller

Jessica Tueller

Forrester Fellow, Tulane Law School

School of Law
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
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Biography

Jessica Tueller is a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School. Her research focuses on tensions between and among progressive ideologies and movements, especially in the areas of feminism and international law. She investigates the origins and extent of these tensions, and in so doing often develops new approaches that further intersectional and coalitional work on gender equality and human rights.

Before joining Tulane, Tueller worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Wesleyan University and as a clinical supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights. She also completed a Robina Fellowship at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, where she worked across the Rapporteurship on the Rights of LGBTI Persons and the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women.

Tueller earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was an Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism and a student director of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in History and Literature.

Courses

Legal Research & Writing

Research

International Law; Human Rights; Family Law; Health Law; Gender, Sexuality, and Law  

Degrees

  • J.D., Yale Law School, 2021
  • B.A., Harvard University, 2018

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Forrester Fellow, Tulane Law School, 2023-
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyen University, 2023
  • Teaching Fellow, Yale University, 2021

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • French

Chelsea B. Stieber

Chelsea B. Stieber

Associate Professor- French

Kathryn B. Gore Chair in Nineteenth Century French Studies
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
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Courses

The Haitian Revolution, Voix d’esclaves/Voices of the enslaved

Research

Haiti, nineteenth-century Caribbean literature, history, and culture

Degrees

  • Ph.D., New York University, French/French Studies, 2013
  • M.A., New York University, French/French Studies, 2007
  • B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, French and Comparative Literature, 2006

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Catholic University of America 2020-2023
  • Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, 2013-2020

Distinctions

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2020–2021
  • John W. Kluge Center Fellowship, Library of Congress, 2016–2017
  • Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2012–2013
  • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, New York University, 2011–2012

Languages

  • French
  • Haitian Creole

Overseas Experience

  • Haiti
  • France

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “Refuting Pro-Colonial discourse in Postcolonial Haitian Pamphlets,” in American Contact: Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History, Glenda Goodman and Rhae Lynn Barnes, eds. (forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Press 2024)
  • 2023. “Haïti farà da se: French Third Republican Colonial Universalism and Louis Joseph Janvier’s Haitian Autonomy,” in Haiti for the Haitians, Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea Stieber, eds. (Liverpool University Press 2023)
  • 2023. “The Heritage of Haitian Combat Writing in Félix Darfour’s L’Eclairieur haytien and L’Avertisseur - Haytien,” Revue d’Histoire Haïtienne/Haitian History Review 1.3 (2023): 381–410.
  • 2022. “Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue,” Small Axe 67 (2022): 30–54.

Carolina Sánchez

Carolina Sánchez

Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow

Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Research

20th - and 21st -Century Latin American Literature and Culture, Ecocriticism & Environmental Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies: Literature, Philosophy, and Visual Studies, Public Scholarship, Creative Writing.  

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Rutgers, Spanish Literature, 2024
  • M.A. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Literary Studies, 2018
  • B.A., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2016

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Co-editor of Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales 2020-
  • Instructor, Rutgers University, 2019-2023

Distinctions

  • Fulbright Scholarship 2019-2022.
  • DAAD Scholarship for the Summer School, “Extractivism and Its Discontents: Cultural and Artistic Counter Movements.” University of Kassel, Documenta Institut, Más arte más acción, DAAD, Documenta Fifteen, Instituto Capaz. Kassel, Germany. September 2022.

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Colombia
  • Germany

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “The Dam is a Form of Border. A Notion of Environmental Historical Memory in the Work of Carolina Caycedo” escritos. Revista científica. Vol. 32-68. https://revistas.upb.edu.co/index.php/escritos/issue/archive
  • 2022. Un gabinete para el futuro. Edited by Gisela Heffes, Alejandro Ponce de León, Christian Vásquez y Carolina Sánchez. Bogotá: Urdimbres.
  • 2022. “Public Secrets, Private Violence. A Reading of Laura Restrepo’s Delirio.” Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments. Eds. Carlos Gardeazábal y Kevin Guerrieri. Routledge Publishers.
  • 2022. “Seguir el viento, dar la mano”. Dossier: Texturas de las Humanidades Ambientales en América Latina. Papel de Colgadura. Edited by Sofía Rosa, Jesús Alejandro García and Alejandro Ponce de Léon. 22 (2022): 84-91.
  • 2021. “Land and Shade: Haptic Cinema, Environmental Violence and Migration in Colombia” Tepokorá. Revista Latinoamericana De Humanidades Ambientales Y Estudios Territoriales, 3.1 (2021): 327-347.

Racism and Health in Latin America

The Center for Health Equity in Latin America (CHELA) is hosting its first biennial meeting on Racism and Health in Latin America in October 2024 at Tulane University’s Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, with leaders from Latin American public health schools and programs. The objective of this event is to promote teaching and research aimed at preventing racism in the provision of health care in the region from the perspective of Latin American social medicine.

Racism and Health in Latin America

The goal of the meeting is to discuss teaching and research to prevent racism in healthcare facilities in the region from a Latin American social medicine perspective. This region is known for its vast ethnic diversity and significant inequities in health outcomes that frequently correlate with social and ethnic backgrounds. Racist practices in healthcare facilities are widespread, resulting in unsafe and disrespectful healthcare delivery or even complete neglect.

Sarah Brokenborough

Sarah Brokenborough

Student

Ph.D. Student
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Students
Tulane Affiliation
Graduate Student

Biography

Sarah Brokenborough is from Piscataway, New Jersey. She completed an MA History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, an M.A. in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and a B.A. in Comparative Women’s Studies at Spelman College. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on material and visual culture, modernity, empire, and enslaved girlhood in Brazil and the Caribbean.  

After completing her M.A. in Latin American Studies, Sarah contributed to foreign policy as a U.S. Diplomat, policy analyst, and public affairs consultant. As a two-time recipient of the Fulbright ETA grant, Sarah designed and led English-language courses and public events for young adults in Vientiane, Laos. She is committed to supporting local communities’ engagement with archival materials and historical narratives through contemporary art. 

Degrees

  • B.A. in Comparative Women’s Studies, Spelman College
  • M.A. History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • M.A. in Latin American Studies, Georgetown University

Jacqueline Amezcua

Jacqueline Amezcua

Student

M.A. Student
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Students
Tulane Affiliation
Graduate Student

Biography

Originally from Los Angeles, CA, Jacqueline holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies and Spanish from Dickinson College. Her research interests include expressions of queerness, Blackness, performance resistance and urban resilience in the northeastern region of Brazil. She aims to advocate for the (re)writing of histories to incorporate elements of accessibility, focusing on stories of resilience, community, and living memory. She ultimately hopes that her writings and incorporation of performance can serve as a tool for embodied civic engagement. 

Degrees

  • B.A. in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies and Spanis, Dickinson College

Latin American Library Exhibit Opening

Join the Latin American Library for the opening of a very special exhibit and reception to mark one hundred years of Tulane’s dedication to Latin American studies. The exhibit, “A distinguished Trajectory: Reshaping Histories at the Latin American Library,” tells the story of Tulane’s longstanding engagement with Latin America through the library’s many treasures. It also highlights how the university’s focus on the region has been shaped by New Orleans’ historical connections with Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

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