Join us for an Awards Ceremony on May 3rd, 2024, to celebrate our students who have earned distinctions for their engagement with Latin American Studies at Tulane.

The following awards will be presented:

This talks centers around a book co-authored with Dorothy Kronick.

Cancelled Classes: A Virtual Conversation with Professor Nadève Ménard on Haiti's Current Situation 

Join Professor Nadève Ménard of the Ecole Normale Supérieure at the l'Université d'Etat d'Haïti for a luncheon discussion of Haiti’s political situation and its impact on education in the country. Professor Ménard will provide an overview of the current situation and the consequences these disruptions have had on lower, secondary, and university education.

How did the dollar come to play such a leading role in Argentina? What cultural, economic, and political processes made the U.S. currency dominant on certain domestic markets? How did the dollar-peso exchange rate become an everyday part of life, something nearly everyone follows? In other words, how precisely did this global currency become a local currency on the other end of the Americas?