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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Maria Akchurin
CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Laura Rosanne Adderley
Associate Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;Caribbean;;Core Faculty;
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;; North America;Central America;Mesoamerica;;Emeritus Faculty;
Katherine Andrinopoulos
Associate Professor - Global Health Systems and Development
;all;;School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine;;International Health & Development;;Caribbean;;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;
Agustina Monasterio Baldor
Assistant Professor - Spanish and Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish and Portuguese ;;;;Associated 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;
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;;Europe;Iberian Peninsula;;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;
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;;Associated Faculty;Staff;
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
CIPR Post-Doctoral Fellow
;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;
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;;Central America;South America;;Core Faculty;
Emily Clark
Professor - History
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;History;;;;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 - 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;;Mesoamerica;Central America;;Associated Faculty;Researcher;
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;
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-Hirons
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
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Antonio Daniel Gómez
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Southern Cone;South America;;Core Faculty;
Daniel Gough
Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;Latin American Studies;;South America;;Visiting;
Eduardo Guzmán-Saenz
Lecturer - Business
;all;;A. B. Freeman School of Business;;;;General Latin America;;Visiting;
Benjamin M. Han
Assistant Professor - Communication
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Communication;;General Latin America;Asia;;Core Faculty;
Günther 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-Zoë 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;; Central America;South America;;Core Faculty;
Jordan Karubian
Associate Professor - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;;South America;Australia;;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;
Thomas A. Klingler
Professor - French & Italian
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;French & Italian;;West Indies;Europe;Caribbean;;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
Assistant 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;
Paul Lewis
Professor Emeritus - Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;Southern Cone;South America;;Emeritus 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;; Asia;North America;Caribbean;;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;;North America;South America;Iberian Peninsula;Central America;;Emeritus Faculty;
Judith Maxwell
Louise Rebevva Schawe and Williedell Schawe Memorial Professor - Linguistics and Anthropology
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Anthropology;;Central America;North 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;;Central America;Caribbean;Africa;;Core Faculty;
Marilyn Miller
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;; South America;Caribbean;;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
Associate Professor - 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;
Pamela Jane Neumann
Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
;all;;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;;Latin American Studies;;;;Visiting;
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;
Scott Pentzer
Associate Dean for the Center for Global Education
;all;;;;;;Central America;;Associated Faculty;
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;;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;School of Liberal Arts;;Art History;;North America;Central America;South America;Iberian Peninsula;;Administrator;Core Faculty;Staff;
Carol McMichael Reese
Professor - Architecture
;all;;School of Architecture;;;;North America;Central America;South America;;Core Faculty;
Fernando Rivera-Díaz
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;; South America;Andes;;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;; Africa;General Latin America;;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;; Caribbean;Central America;;Core Faculty;
Dale Shuger
Associate Professor- Spanish & Portuguese
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Spanish & Portuguese;;Europe;General Latin America;;Associated Faculty;
G. Eduardo Silva
Professor - Lydian Chair of Political Science
;all;;School of Liberal Arts;;Political Science;;General Latin America;;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;;North America;South America;;Associated Faculty;
Caz Taylor
Associate Professor - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
;all;;School of Science & Engineering;;Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;;;;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;;Stone Center for Latin American Studies;Latin American Studies;;South America;North America;Central America;;Staff;Core Faculty;
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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China's Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: New Wine in Old Bottles?

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The Center for Inter-American Policy and Research will be hosting Dr. Matt Ferchen for a talk titled China’s belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: New Wine in Old Bottles? on January 23, 2019 at noon.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has attracted global attention since it was first introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013. Despite the hype and anxiety surrounding the BRI’s apparent extension to the region, it remains unclear whether its rollout there will change entrenched patters, challenges, and dysfunctions in the China-LAC (Latin American and Caribbean) relationship or merely deepen them. Moreover, at a time of growing US-China strategic rivalry, the expansion of BRI-themed deal-making in LAC is already playing into growing major-power competition and tension.

Matt Ferchen is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy where he runs the China and the Developing World Program. From 2008-2017 Ferchen was the first and only full-time foreign member of the International Relations Department at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Dr. Ferchen has a Masters in Latin America and China Studies from John Hopkins SAIS (1997) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and International Relations from Cornell (2008).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to cipr@tulane.edu.

Sociology Colloquium Series to host talk by Javier Auyero on collusion and violence in Argentina

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Join the Sociology Department at Tulane University in welcoming Dr. Javier Auyero, for a talk titled The Ambivalent State: Collusion and Violence in Latin America on Thursday, January 24, at 3:30 PM.

Drawing upon long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a poor high-crime neighborhood of Argentina and documentary evidence from court cases involving drug traffickers and police officers, this talk examines the clandestine connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of the state security forces – and their impact on skyrocketing urban violence. The presentation unpacks the much-referred to (but seldom scrutinized) content of police-criminal collusion reconstructing the resources, relational practices, and processes at its core. The talk makes its three-fold argument by way of empirical demonstration: a) illicit relationships between police agents and traffickers serve the latter to achieve a quasi-monopoly in the use of force over a territory that is central to the prosecution of their illegal trade, b) clandestine relationships between police officers and traffickers feed the systemic violence that characterizes the market of illegal drugs and contributes to localized violence, and c) police-trafficker collusion fosters widespread skepticism about law-enforcement among residents of low-income violent neighborhoods.

Dr. Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas-Austin. He is the author of Poor People’s Politics, Contentious Lives, Routine Politics and Violence in Argentina, and Patients of the State. Together with Débora Swistun, he co-authored Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. His new book, In Harm’s Way: The dynamics of urban violence, co-authored with María Fernanda Berti, was recently published by Princeton University Press. He is also the editor of Invisible City: Life and Labor in Austin, Texas (published this year by University of Texas Press), and co-editor with Philippe Bourgois and Nancy Scheper-Hughes of Violence at the Urban Margins (published this year by Oxford University Press).

Stone Center for Latin American Studies to host 11th annual Workshop on Field Research Methods

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Join us at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies for the 11th Annual Weekend Workshop on Field Research Methods on Saturday, January 26, 2019. The deadline to apply for the workshop is January 15, 2019.

How will you get the data you need for your thesis or dissertation? Do you envision immersing yourself for months in the local culture, or tromping the hills and farms seeking respondents? Sorting through dusty archives? Observing musicians at work in the plaza? Downloading and crunching numbers on a computer? For any of these approaches: How might you get there, from here?

This workshop aims to help you approach your data collection and analysis for your thesis or dissertation topic, and to adapt and refine your topic to be more feasible. You will take your research project ideas to the next stopwhatever that may be, include raising travel grants. Learn to:

Plan more efficiently, feasible, and rewarding fieldwork
Prepare more compelling and persuasive grant proposals
Navigate choices of research methods and course offerings on campus
Become a better research and fieldwork team-member

Format
This is an engaged, hands-on, informal workshop. Everyone shares ideas and participates. We will explore and compare research approaches, share experiences and brainstorm alternatives. You will be encouraged to think differently about your topic, questions, and study sites as well as language preparation, budgets, and logistics. The participatory format is intended to spark constructive new thinking, strategies, and student networks to continue learning about (and conducting) field research.

Who is leading this?
Laura Murphy, PhD, faculty in Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, and affiliate faculty to the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.

Who is this for?
This workshop is targeted to Stone Center graduate students as well as graduate students from other programs (GOHB, CCC, humanities, sciences, and others) if space is available. The workshop will be particularly helpful for those who envision research with human subjects.

Sign up
Sign up as soon as you can! Apply by January 15, 2019, at the latest to confirm your stop. Send an email with the following details:

Your name
Department and Degree program
Year at Tulane
Prior experience in research, especially field research
Academic training in research design and methods
Include a 1-paragraph statement of your current research interests and immediate plans/needs (i.e. organize summer field research)

Light breakfast and lunch will be provided. Not for credit.

For more information and/or to apply: Contact Laura Murphy or Jimmy Huck.

K-12 Professional Development Opportunity: Resources and Pedagogy on Latin American Studies

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On Saturday, January 26, 2019, join us at the Louisiana Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Annual Meeting for a professional development opportunity. This year’s meeting will include a presentation on pedagogy by Lolla Blas Troncoso, a middle school Spanish Instructor at the Isidore Newman School and a session on the Latin American Resources available at Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies by Denise Woltering-Vargas, Senior Program Manager at Tulane University’s Stone Center Latin American Studies.

This conference is free and open to all educators and membership in the AATSP is not required. Please RSVP as space is limited. Please RSVP to Stephanie Davis.

The event will be held in the Reynolds Room at the Isidore Newman School. Please use the Loyola Street Lower School entrance, located at 5320 Loyola, the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Loyola Street.

K-12 Educator Workshop at the Audubon Zoo: Rescuing the Forests

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Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Audubon Nature Institute will be hosting a K-12 educator workshop Rescuing the Rainforest at the Audubon Zoo on Saturday, February 2, 2019. Rescuing the Rainforest will focus on conservation efforts and environment of Central American rainforests. This workshop is a great way to learn how to bring real world science into your classroom. Activities will incorporate a variety of sciences and other subjects including: art, environmental science, cultural components, anthropology, computer science and technology. While it is geared for middle and high school teachers, this workshop is open to all educators formal and informal. We are delighted to have Dr. Katharine Jack, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Environmental Studies at Tulane University, join us for this workshop.

Please register here. The cost is $45.00 per participant. Lunch will be provided.

Please contact educationprograms@auduboninstitute.org for additional information.

Latin American Library to host Brazilian photographer João Farkas for talk and exhibit Amazônia Ocupada

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The Latin American Library in collaboration with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the Departments of History and Spanish & Portuguese at Tulane University will be hosting an exhibit opening and talk titled Amazônia Ocupada, featuring Brazilian photographer João Farkas on Friday, February 8, 2019. The evening will begin with a conversation between João Farkas and professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Christopher Dunn. A reception will follow.

Amazônia Ocupada features the work of Brazilian photographer João Farkas, who documented the mass migration of workers from throughout Brazil who came to the Amazon basin in the 1980s and 1990s to try their luck in gold mining, logging and cattle ranching, often with devastating effects on the environment and the indigenous peoples of the region. The exhibit also includes rare books, maps, and other material from the special collections of The Latin American Library tracing Western conceptualizations of the Amazon region beginning with the earliest post-contact explorations in the 16th century to 20th century narratives about the region.

João Farkas is one of Brazil’s leading documentary and environmental photographers with projects that document life in the coastal village of Trancoso, Bahia, the carnival masks of Maragojipe, Bahia, and the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal, as well as the occupation of the Amazon.

A related symposium featuring historians and anthropologists of the Amazon region will be held on Saturday February 9, 2019, in Jones Hall 100A, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. More information forthcoming.

These events are sponsored by The Latin American Library, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and the Departments of History and Spanish & Portuguese at Tulane University.

Photo credit: João Farkas Amazonia

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