Rachel Schoner

Rachel Schoner

Assistant Professor- Department of Political Science

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Research

Non-State Actors in International Relations, Human Rights, International Organizations, International Law and Courts, Political Violence

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of California-San Diego, Political Science, 2022
  • M.A., Emory, Political Science, 2015
  • B.A., Emory, Mathematics and Political Science, 2015

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 2022-2023

Distinctions

  • Best Graduate Student Paper, Law and Courts Section American Political Science Association, 2022
  • University Association for Contemporary European Studies Scholarship, 2020
  • International Studies Association Travel Award, 2020
  • American Political Science Association Travel Award, 2019
  • Prestage-Cook Travel Award, 2018

Selected Publications

  • Forthcoming. “Naming and Shaming in UN Treaty Bodies: Individual Petitions’ Effect on Human Rights” Review of International Organizations
  • 2023. “Empowering Your Victims: Why Repressive Regimes Allow Individual Petitions in International - Organizations” Review of International Organizations
  • 2023. Review of Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance by Andrey L. Comstock. Law and Politics Book Review 33 (5): 73-76.

Zorimar Rivera Montes

Zorimar Rivera Montes

Assistant Professor- Department of English

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Caribbean

Research

Puerto Rican, Carribbean, and Latinx Literatures and Cultures

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2022
  • M.A., University of Puerto Rico, English Literature, 2013
  • B.A., University of Puerto Rico, History of the Americas, 2009

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies, Washington University in St. Louis, July 2022-2023
  • Instructor of Record, Northwestern University, September 2018-June 2020
  • Adjunct Instructor, English, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, June 2015- May 2016

Distinctions

  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable Mention - 2020
  • Graduate Assistantship- Latina and Latino Studies Program September 2019-June 2020
  • Puerto Rican Studies Association Graduate Student Workshop Fellow - October 2019
  • The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Summer Research Grant - Summer 2019
  • Latin America and Caribbean Studies Cluster at Northwestern Summer Research Grant - Summer 2019

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Puerto Rico

Selected Publications

  • 2020. “For Opacity: Queerness and Latinidad in Justin Torres’ We the Animals” Latino Studies 18 pp. 218-234
  • 2020. “Review: Queer Decolonial Resistance in Raquel Salas Rivera’s The Tertiary/Lo terciario” in Sargasso 2019- 20 pp.155-158.
  • 2018. "Puertorriqueños en los Estados Unidos: Nacionalismo en una nación cambiante" in "Estados Unidos latinos" of Istor: Revista de Historia Internacional, Mexico, Jan 2018 pp. 51-66
  • 2015. “Review: In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam by Urayoán Noel” in Sargasso 2015-16 pp. 189-191.

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

Related Experience

  • Research Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Summer 2018
  • Economic Analyst, ALEF Consultores (Consulting), Mexico City, 2011-2014
  • Intern Analyst, INE-SEMARNAT (Government), Mexico City, 2011

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

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
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