Core faculty of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies hold regular faculty appointments, engage in research in Latin America, and teach one or more Latin American content courses or direct M.A. theses or Ph.D. dissertations on the area. Associate faculty are regular faculty who engage in research in Latin America or teach Latin American content courses. Affiliate faculty are regular faculty or administrators with demonstrated research interests in Latin America. Visiting faculty occupy post-doctoral, adjunct, or visiting faculty positions and have demonstrated research interests in Latin America.

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Michael S. Field Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts
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Laura Rosanne Adderley
Associate Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Caribbean;;Core Faculty;
Maria Akchurin
Former CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellow (2017-2019) and Non-Resident Research Fellow
;all;;;;;;;;Visiting;
IÃ±aki Alday
Dean and Koch Chair - Tulane School of Architecture
;all;;School of Architecture;;;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Gabriela Alemán
Visiting Research Professor
;all;;;;;;;;Visiting;
Adrian Anagnost
Assistant Professor - Art History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Art History;;South America;;Core Faculty;
E. Wyllys Andrews, V
Professor Emeritus - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Mesoamerica;Central America;North America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Katherine Andrinopoulos
Associate Professor - Global Health Systems and Development
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;International Health & Development;;Caribbean;;Core Faculty;
Moises Arce
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;South America;;Core Faculty;
Rebecca Atencio
Associate Professor - Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;South America;;Core Faculty;
Idelber Avelar
Professor - Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Southern Cone;South America;;Core Faculty;
Mia Bagneris
Associate Professor - Art History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Art History;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Melissa Bailes
Assistant Professor - English
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;English;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
William Balée
Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;South America;;Core Faculty;
Antonio Barrios
Clinical Assistant Professor - Urology Department, Director - International Liaison for Advanced Urologic Care
;all;;School of Medicine;;Urology ;;Central America;;Affiliated Faculty;
William E. Bertrand
Wisner Professor of Public Health - Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences;;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Jane Bertrand
Professor and Chair - Global Health Systems and Development
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Health Systems Management;; Africa;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Antonio Bojanic
Professor of Practice - Economics
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Economics;;South America;;Associated Faculty;
Elizabeth Boone
Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Studies - Newcomb Art Department
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Art History;; Europe;South America;Mesoamerica;;Core Faculty;
James Boyden
Associate Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Iberian Peninsula;Europe;;Core Faculty;
Victoria Bricker
Professor Emerita - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Mesoamerica;;Emeritus Faculty;
Michael E. Brumbaugh
Assistant Professor - Classical Studies
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Classical Studies;;Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Myrlene Bruno
Professor of Practice - French
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;French & Italian;;Caribbean;;Associated Faculty;
Pierre Buekens
W.H. Watkins Professor of Epidemiology - Public Health and Tropical Medicine
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Tropical Medicine;;General Latin America;; Core Faculty;Administrator;
Michael Burke
Professor - Business, Lawrence Martin Chair in Business
;all;;A. B. Freeman School of Business;;;;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Carolina Caballero
Professor of Practice - Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Caribbean;;Staff;Associated Faculty;
Hortensia Calvo
Doris Stone Director - The Latin American Library
;all;;;;Latin American Library;;South America;; Core Faculty;Administrator;
Marcello Canuto
Director - Middle American Research Institute, Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Mesoamerica;South America;Asia;Africa;;Core Faculty;
Arachu Castro
Senior Associate Research Fellow - Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;;;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Christopher Chambers-Ju
Former CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellow 2017-2019
;all;;;;;;General Latin America;;Visiting;
M. Pia Chaparro
Assistant Professor - Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Tropical Medicine;;General Latin America;;Associated Faculty;
John Charles
Associate Professor - Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;; South America;Andes;;Core Faculty;
Claudia Chávez ArgÃ¼elles
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Central America;;Core Faculty;
Eugene Cizek
Professor Emeritus - Architecture
;all;;School of Architecture;;;; North America;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Mary Clark
Associate Professor - Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;; South America;Central America;;Core Faculty;
Emily Clark
Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Keith Clay
Professor and Chair - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Adrienne Colella
Professor, A.B. Freeman Chair - Business
;all;;A. B. Freeman School of Business;;;;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Felipe Fernandes Cruz
Assistant Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;General Latin America;South America;;Core Faculty;
Steven Darwin
Professor Emeritus - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;;North America;;Associated Faculty;
Roxanne Dávila
Professor of Practice - Spanish & Portuguese, Director - Basic Language Program in Spanish
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;; Central America;Mesoamerica;; Researcher;Associated Faculty;
Dave Davis
Professor Emeritus - Director, Institutional Research
;all;;;;;; West Indies;Mesoamerica;Caribbean;North America;;Administrator;Emeritus Faculty;
Diogo de Lima
Senior Professor of Practice - Theatre & Dance
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Theatre & Dance;;South America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Martin Dimitrov
Associate Professor - Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Christopher Dunn
Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;South America;;Core Faculty;
Renata Durães Ribeiro
Professor of Practice - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
;all;;;;;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
John Edwards
Associate Professor - Economics
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Economics;;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Patrick Egan
Assistant Professor - Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;;;Associated Faculty;
Ludovico Feoli
Permanent Researcher and CEO, CIAPA, Executive Director - Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;Central America;;Administrator;Core Faculty;Staff;
George C. Flowers
Associate Professor - Earth & Environmental Science
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Earth & Environmental Science;;North America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Guadalupe García
Assistant Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Caribbean;North America;;Core Faculty;
Amy George
Senior Professor of Practice - Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Mesoamerica;;Associated Faculty;
Annie Gibson
Administrative Assistant Professor - Department of Global Education
;all;;;;;;;;Associated Faculty;
Antonio Daniel Gómez
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;; South America;Southern Cone;;Core Faculty;
Eduardo Guzmán-Saenz
Lecturer - Business
;all;;A. B. Freeman School of Business;;;;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Benjamin M. Han
Assistant Professor - Communication
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Communication;;Asia;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
GÃ¼nther Handl
Professor - Law
;all;;School of Law;;;;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Dan M. Healan
Professor Emeritus - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;North America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Christine Hernández
Curator of Special Collections - Latin American Library
;all;;;;Latin American Library;;Mesoamerica;;Core Faculty;
Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez
Associate Professor - Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;North America;;Core Faculty;
Claudia Herrera
Research Assistant Professor - Public Health and Tropical Medicine
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Tropical Medicine;;South America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Laila Hlass
Professor of Practice - Law, Director of Experiential Learning
;all;;School of Law;;;;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Oliver Houck
Professor - Law
;all;;School of Law;;;;Caribbean;North America;;Core Faculty;
Harry Howard
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Iberian Peninsula;;Core Faculty;
James D. Huck, Jr.
SCLAS Assistant Director for Graduate Programs
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;Latin American Studies;;North America;;Staff;Core Faculty;
Martha Huggins
Professor Emerita - Sociology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Sociology;;South America;North America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Laura-ZoÃ" Humphreys
Assistant Professor - Communication
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Communication;;Caribbean;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Katharine Jack
Professor - Anthropology, Director - Environmental Studies
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;South America;Central America;;Core Faculty;
Margarita Jover
Associate Professor in Architecture - Tulane School of Architecture
;all;;School of Architecture;;;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Jordan Karubian
Associate Professor - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;; Australia;South America;;Core Faculty;
Carl Kendall
Professor - Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Director - Center for Global Health Equity
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;International Health & Development;; North America;Africa;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Brittany Kennedy
Senior Professor of Practice - Department of Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Thomas A. Klingler
Professor - French & Italian
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;French & Italian;;Caribbean;Europe;West Indies;;Core Faculty;
Kris Lane
Professor - History, France Vinton Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;; South America;Andes;;Core Faculty;
Amalia Leguizamón
Associate Professor - Sociology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Sociology;;Southern Cone;South America;;Core Faculty;
Camilo Arturo Leslie
Assistant Professor - Sociology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Sociology;;South America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Jack C. Ling
Emeritus Clinical Professor - Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;International Health & Development;; Africa;Asia;General Latin America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Jana Lipman
Associate Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Caribbean;North America;Asia;;Core Faculty;
Ana M. López
Director - Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, Professor - Communication, Associate Provost - Office for Faculty Affairs
;all;;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;School of Liberal Arts;;Communication;;Caribbean;South America;North America;;Administrator;Core Faculty;Staff;
M. Casey Kane Love
Senior Professor of Practice - Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;North America;;Associated Faculty;
Megwen Loveless
Senior Professor of Practice - Spanish & Portuguese, Director - Basic Language Program in Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;;;Associated Faculty;
Nora Lustig
Professor - Economics, Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Latin American Economics
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Economics;;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Colin M. MacLachlan
Emeritus - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Central America;Iberian Peninsula;South America;North America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Judith Maxwell
Louise Rebevva Schawe and Williedell Schawe Memorial Professor - Linguistics and Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;; North America;Central America;;Core Faculty;
Vicki Mayer
Professor - Communication, Associate Dean for Academic Initiatives and Curriculum
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Communication;;South America;North America;;Core Faculty;
Sabia McCoy-Torres
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Africa;Caribbean;Central America;;Core Faculty;
Marilyn Miller
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Caribbean;South America;;Core Faculty;
Nancy Mock
Associate Professor - Global Health Systems and Development
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;International Health & Development;; Asia;Africa;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Tatsuya Murakami
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Mesoamerica;;Core Faculty;
Laura Murphy
Clinical Associate Professor - Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences (GCHB), Associate Director - Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking (TAYLOR)
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;International Health & Development;; Asia;Africa;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Stephen A. Nelson
Professors Emeritus - Earth & Environmental Science
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Earth & Environmental Science;;Mesoamerica;;Core Faculty;
Jason S. Nesbitt
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Andes;;Core Faculty;
Richard Oberhelman
Professor and Chair - Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences;; Africa;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Virginia Oliveros
Assistant Professor - Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;Southern Cone;;Core Faculty;
Tatjana Pavlovic
Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Iberian Peninsula;;Affiliated Faculty;
Valerie Paz-Soldán
Associate Professor - Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Director - Health Office for Latin America
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences;;South America;Africa;;Core Faculty;Administrator;
Stephanie Porras
Assistant Professor - Art History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Art History;;South America;General Latin America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Mauro Porto
Associate Professor - Communication
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Communication;;South America;;Core Faculty;
Lance Query
Director Emeritus - Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
;all;;;;;;General Latin America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Wayne Reed
Professor - Physics
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Physics;;South America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Linnette F. Reed
Senior Professor of Practice - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Iberian Peninsula;;Associated Faculty;
Thomas F. Reese
SCLAS Executive Director. Professor - Art History
;all;; School of Liberal Arts;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;;Art History;; Iberian Peninsula;South America;Central America;North America;;Staff;Core Faculty;Administrator;
Carol McMichael Reese
Professor - Architecture
;all;;School of Architecture;;;; South America;Central America;North America;;Core Faculty;
Felix K. Rioja
Associate Professor and Scott and Marjorie Cowen Chair - Econoimcs
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Economics;;;;Core Faculty;
Fernando Rivera-Díaz
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Andes;South America;;Core Faculty;
Christopher Rodning
Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;North America;;Affiliated Faculty;
Diego Rose
Professor - Global Community Health and Behavioral Science
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Community Health Sciences;;General Latin America;Africa;;Affiliated Faculty;
Oana Sabo
Assistant Professor - French and Italian Studies
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;French & Italian;;Europe;;Affiliated Faculty;
Ana Sánchez-Rojo
Assistant Professor - Music
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Music;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Susan Schroeder
Professor Emerita - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Mesoamerica;;Emeritus Faculty;
Daniel Sharp
Associate Professor - Music
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Music;;South America;;Core Faculty;
Maureen E. Shea
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Central America;North America;;Core Faculty;
Thomas Sherry
Professor - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;;Central America;Caribbean;;Core Faculty;
Dale Shuger
Associate Professor- Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;General Latin America;Europe;;Associated Faculty;
G. Eduardo Silva
Professor - Lydian Chair of Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Lee Skinner
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;Newcomb College Institute;;Spanish & Portuguese;;;;Core Faculty;
David Smilde
Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations and Senior Associate Fellow at CIPR
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Sociology;;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Raymond Taras
Professor - Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;; South America;North America;;Associated Faculty;
Caz Taylor
Associate Professor - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Selamawit D. Terrefe
Assistant Professor - English
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;English;;General Latin America;Caribbean;;Affiliated Faculty;
John M. Trapani, III
Professor - Business, Director - Goldring Institute of International Business
;all;;A. B. Freeman School of Business;;;;General Latin America;;Core Faculty;
Beverly Trask
Associate Professor - Theatre & Dance
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Theatre & Dance;;Caribbean;;Affiliated Faculty;
Constantino Urcuyo
Academic Director - Centro de Investigación y Adiestramiento Político Administrativo
;all;;;;;;Central America;;Administrator;Affiliated Faculty;
Sunshine A. Van Bael
Assistant Professor - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;;Central America;;Core Faculty;
John Verano
Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;South America;;Core Faculty;
Dawn Wesson
Associate Professor - Public Health & Tropical Medicine
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;Tropical Medicine;;;;Affiliated Faculty;
Edward D. White
Associate Professor - English, Pierce Butler Chair in American Literature
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;English;;Caribbean;;Affiliated Faculty;
Edith Wolfe
SCLAS Assistant Director for Undergraduate Programs
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;; Latin American Studies;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;; Central America;North America;South America;; Core Faculty;Staff;
Justin Wolfe
Associate Professor - History, Arceneaux Professorship in Latin American History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;General Latin America;Central America;;Core Faculty;
Ralph Lee Woodward
Professor Emeritus - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Central America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Marc Zender
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Mesoamerica;;Core Faculty;
Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Assistant Professor - English
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;English;;;;Affiliated Faculty;

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Storytelling in the Language Classroom K-12 Educator Workshop

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This online workshop focuses on books for the Spanish language classroom and highlights interdisciplinary connections for the language, arts and science classrooms. Increase the diversity of books in your school library with these stories from Latin America.

Registration closes on February 12, 2021.

The pandemic this past year has challenged educators in unimaginable ways. Learning environments have been reinvented as teachers constantly struggle to connect with students in meaningful ways. This presentation shows how storytelling can create learning environments that nurture as well as educate.

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of education, entertainment, and cultural preservation. Given its natural and universal appeal, storytelling can be particularly valuable as an instructional strategy in the language classroom. Attendees will learn how to harness the benefits of storytelling, from creating a more nurturing learning environment that encourages active participation to increasing verbal proficiency among all students.

The presenter, an award-winning children’s books author and teacher, will provide examples from her own books and classroom.

Registration is $10 and includes a copy of a book presented, ready-made lessons to introduce into your teaching, and a certificate of completion. Confirmation of your registration will be sent via email within 2 days to provide access to the Zoom Workshop. Space is limited.

REGISTER TODAY TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT! Deadline to register is February 12, 2021

Sponsored by Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Pebbles Center in partnership with the New Orleans Public Library.

For more information, please call 504.865.5164 or email crcrts@tulane.edu.

Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality Exhibit K-12 Educator Orientation

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Join us for an evening with Tom Friel, Coordinator for Interpretation and Public Engagement as he walks through an innovative tool developed to share the Newcomb Art Museum’s latest exhibit, Laura Anderson Barbata: Transcommunality. The program is designed to introduce K-12 educators to Laura Anderson Barbata’s work and focus on specific elements of the exhibit that connect deeply to the K-12 classroom. While the exhibit is open to limited public access, it plans to open to the public and school visits by Fall 2021. Educators from across the country will find this online introduction to Barbata’s work a valuable resource as the virtual exhibit serves as a unique tool for online learning.

Read more about this exhibit from the Newcomb Gallery of Art About the Exhibit page below:

“The process-driven conceptual practices of artist Laura Anderson Barbata (b. 1958, Mexico City, Mexico) engage a wide variety of platforms and geographies. Centered on issues of cultural diversity, ethnography, and sustainability, her work blends political activism, street theater, traditional techniques, and arts education. Since the early 1990s, she has initiated projects with people living in the Amazon of Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and New York. The results from these collaborations range from public processional performances, artist books and handmade paper, textiles, countless garments, and the repatriation of an exploited 19thcentury Mexican woman ‘” each designed to bring public attention to issues of civil, indigenous, and environmental rights.

In Transcommunality, work from five of Barbata‘s previous collaborations across the Americas are presented together for the first time. Though varying in process, tradition, and message, each of these projects emphasize Barbata‘s understanding of art as a system of shared practical actions that has the capacity to increase connection. The majority of the works presented are costumed sculptures typically worn by stilt-dancing communities. Through the design and presentation of these sculptures, Barbata fosters a social exchange that activates stilt-dancing‘s improvisational magic and world history. At the core of this creative practice is the concept of reciprocity: the balanced exchange of ideas and knowledge.

The events of this past year ‘” from the uprisings across the country in response to fatal police shootings to the disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 among Black and brown communities to the bitter divisiveness of the 2020 presidential election ‘” have renewed the urgency for Barbata‘s multifaceted practice. In featured projects such as Intervention: Indigo, participants from various backgrounds reckon with the past to address systemic violence and human rights abuses, calling attention to specific instances of social justice. In The Repatriation of Julia Pastrana, Barbata‘s efforts critically shift the narratives of human worth and cultural memory. The paper and mask works presented in the show demonstrate the impact of individual and community reciprocity, both intentional and organic. Through her performance partnerships in Trinidad and Tobago, New York, and Oaxaca, represented throughout the museum, onlookers are invited to connect to the traditions of West Africa, the Amazon, Mexico, and the Caribbean and the narratives these costume sculptures reflect on the environment, indigenous cultures, folklore, and religious cosmologies.

By encouraging diverse collaborators to resist homogenization and deploy the creative skills inherent to authentic local expressions and their survival, Barbata promotes the revival of intangible cultural heritage. Transcommunality horizontally values the systems of oral history and folklore, spirituality, and interdisciplinary academic thought that shape Barbata‘s engaging creations, celebrating the dignity, creativity, and vibrancy of the human spirit.”

An Evening with Multi-Award Winning Author Elizabeth Acevedo

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Join us for an evening with Elizabeth Acevedo. Acevedo presents her third book, Clap When You Land, and discusses her writing process and performance background. The discussion will be followed by a reading.

Poet, novelist, and National Poetry Slam Champion, Elizabeth Acevedo was born and raised in New York City, the only daughter of Dominican immigrants. She is the author of Clap When You Land, (Quill Tree Books, 2020); With the Fire On High, (Harper, 2019); the New York Times best-selling and award-winning novel, The Poet X. (HarperCollins, 2018), winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, the 2019 Michael L. Printz Award, and the Carnegie Medal; and the poetry chapbook Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths. (YesYes Books, 2016), a collection of folkloric poems centered on the historical, mythological, gendered and geographic experiences of a first-generation American woman. From the border in the Dominican Republic, to the bustling streets of New York City, Acevedo’s writing celebrates a rich cultural heritage from the island, inherited and adapted by its diaspora, while at the same time rages against its colonial legacies of oppression and exploitation. The beauty and power of much of her work lies at the tensioned crossroads of these competing, yet complementary, desires.

This online program is free and open to the public. It is part of our ongoing series of public engagement programs with Latinx writers that explore Latin America, race, and identity. Read more about Acevedo’s work in this recent article from The Atlantic.

Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Newcomb Institute.

For more information, please email crcrts@tulane.edu or call 504.865.5164.

Global Read Webinar Series Spring 2021

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The Stone Center for Latin American Studies coordinates the annual CLASP Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature and is excited to collaborate with other world area book awards on this exciting online program. Join us this spring 2021 as we invite award winning authors to join us in an online conversation about social justice, the writing process and an exploration of culture and identity across world regions. This annual Global Read Webinar series invites readers of all ages to join us as we explore books for the K-12 classroom recognized by world area book awards such as the Africana Book Award, the Américas Award, the Freeman Book Award, the Middle East Outreach Council Book Award, and the South Asia Book Award.

Each webinar features a presentation by an award-winning author with discussion on how to incorporate multicultural literature into the classroom. Be sure to join the conversation with our webinar hashtag #2021ReadingAcrossCultures.

SPRING 2021 SCHEDULE – Read more about the program here.
All webinars are at 7:00 PM EST.

January 12 – The Américas Award highlights the 2020 Honor Book, The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
February 3 – The Children’s Africana Book Award highlights the 2020 book award winning, Hector by Adrienne Wright
March 11 – The Middle East Outreach Award presents 2020 Picture Book award winner, Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan, illustrated by Anna Bron
April – Freeman Book Award, a project of the National Consortium for Teaching Asia will present a book TBD.
May 13 – South Asia Book Award presents The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

All sessions are free and open to the public. All times listed refer to Eastern Standard Time (EST). Sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs, the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, the Middle East Outreach Council, and African Studies Outreach Council, The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.

Reading Latina Voices Online Book Group for High School Educators

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This spring 2021 we invite all K-12 educators to join us once a month in an online book group. This past year has been a challenging one for everyone but especially K-12 educators. Sign up and join us as we explore the stories of women confronting identity as Latinas in the United States. Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies, AfterCLASS and the New Orleans Public Library partner to host this online book group. The books selected are recognized by the Américas Award and focus on the Latina experience. The group begins with the work of award-winning author and poet, Elizabeth Acevedo who will speak in a unique online format on March 23rd presented by Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Newcomb Institute.

You have the option of registering in two methods:

A) $15 includes your own complete set of books for the series mailed to your home;
B) Free – you find your own copies of the books at your local library.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 29, 2021

Reading Schedule – Thursdays at 6:00 PM CST

February 11 – Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
March 18 – The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
April 15 – American Street by Ibi Zoboi
May 13 – The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano

Sponsored by AfterCLASS and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University and the New Orleans Public Library.

Central America, People and the Environment Educator Institute 2021

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This summer educator institute is the third institute in a series being offered by Tulane University, The University of Georgia and Vanderbilt University. This series of institutes is designed to enhance the presence of Central America in the K-12 classroom. Each year, participants engage with presenters, resources and other K-12 colleagues to explore diverse topics in Central America with a focus on people and the environment.

While at Tulane, the institute will explore the historic connections between the United States and Central America focusing on indigenous communities and environment while highlighting topics of social justice and environmental conservation. Join us to explore Central America and teaching strategies to implement into the classroom.

Additional details and registration will be available in the early spring 2021. For more information, please email dwolteri@tulane.edu or call 504.865.5164.

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