Enlace 2012 by Mark Rapacz

IN THIS ISSUE

FROM THE DIRECTOR

BOLIVAR HOUSE VISITORS

CLAS LECTURE SERIES 2011-2012

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

SPRING FIESTA

LIBRARY REPORT

STUDENTS AND CLAS

FACULTY CONFERENCES

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

CLASS OF 2012

FACULTY AND ALUMNI UPDATES

CLAS STAFF NEWS

AFFILIATED FACULTY

NEW FACULTY

ADVISORY BOARD

FROM THE DIRECTOR

Since I wrote the last issue of Enlace one year ago, the attention of the media in the country — and therefore of the public in general — has been largely monopolized by US-centric events and news. This is hardly surprising given the significance of many of those events for the country, including the presidential campaigns, culminating with the somewhat erratic presidential and vice-presidential debates and the demolishing re-election of President Obama in which the so-called “Latino vote” seemed to have played a decisive role; the occurrence of the Sandy megastorm and its cataclysmic consequences for the people and infrastructure of the impacted regions of the country; the telenovela-like scandal surrounding the resignation of the CIA Director; and the assassination of the US Ambassador in Egypt, to name but a few examples. In addition, our collective attention in the last few weeks has been drawn to the drama of the Middle East, in particular the catastrophic Gaza-Israel war, the seemingly unending civil war in Syria, and the horrific outlook that it might metastasize into the Gollan Heights — all of which have been met with shameful inaction on the part of the international community. However, relevant developments in other parts of the world have been taking place which are newsworthy and, in some cases, not only of regional but of broader significance. The Latin American region is certainly no exception to this situation. Consider, for example: the presidential campaign and overwhelming re-election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela; the surprising (and to some, hopeful) initiation of negotiation talks between Colombia’s major guerrilla group “Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias” (FARC) and government representatives; or the unexpected announcement by the Cuban leadership regarding the country’s new policy which will allow for citizens to travel out of the country if they wish to do so! Further south of the Caribbean, in Panama (sadly) little attention was given to the disastrous governmental attempt to enforce a new law (“Ley 72”) through which the Panamanian regime intended to sell the commercial areas of the free zone in Colón, thereby displacing and seriously affecting the modus vivendi of a large number of citizens traditionally dedicated to commercial activities in this iconic sector of the Canal Zone. As could be predicted, this elicited massive protests by large contingents of people in the country, which were unfortunately accompanied by vandalism and violent police repression, ultimately causing the loss of many lives while President Martinelli essentially looked the other way, remaining on his trip in Asia during the peak of the crisis. Though tardy, said crisis eventually culminated in the derogation of such an infamous law.

Another note-worthy event, taking place in the South Cone, involves massive public street manifestations of disapproval (“cacerolazos”) of the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner which, unfortunately, were met with violent official responses and led to nasty street clashes and belligerent responses on the part of the Casa Rosada. Closer to home, just south of the border, after a 12-year break the PRI (Mexico’s longest consecutive ruling power) returned to take the helm of the country under a thick cloud of anxiety on the part of the citizens regarding, amongst other things, what Enrique Peña-Nieto’s approach is going to be in confronting the drug traffic/mafias industry. On a more cheerful note, we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Gabriel García Márquez receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, and although his Macondo has left an indelible mark in the psyche of many a person worldwide (particularly in Latin America), almost no media is making noise about this remarkable writer and his universal legacy. Speaking of international recognitions, one area of knowledge for which there is no instituted Nobel recognition within the sciences is ecology/environmental sciences. That being said, a few highlyprestigious international prizes are awarded to remarkable scientists who make stellar contributions to their fields. One of those recognitions, The Midor Prize in Biodiversity Conservation awarded by the AEON Environmental Foundation in Japan, in conjunction with the United Nations’ Biodiversity Convention, was given to two outstanding Latin Americans: Dr. Rodrigo Gámez, from the Costa Rican Institute of Biodiversity (the famous InBio), and to Professor Juan Carlos Castilla, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, for their “outstanding contributions to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity at the local, regional and global scale.” The award was presented at the recent meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP11) in Hildebrand, India. Given the significance of ecological science at Stanford in general, and at CLAS in particular — where in fact one of the three major tracks of our MA Studies Program is precisely ecology and environmental science — it seems pertinent in this edition of Enlace to join the chorus of international congratulations they have been receiving. I am already looking for an opportunity to have them visit CLAS! One might ask, why bring this litany of multi-faceted (and seemingly disconnected) examples of Latin American news to the table? And the answer is to emphasize: i) the plethoric diversity of issues in history, culture, policy, politics, and science that emerge from this region of the world; ii) what an important geopolitical entity the region is — in and of itself and in the context of the global community; and iii) the extent to which the region continues to be an exciting, fertile laboratory for international studies, which deserves the continued interest of scholars and students who wish to engage in interdisciplinary research and training for our understanding of the world. It is my

aspiration that CLAS, with the support of the general Stanford Latin American community (students, faculty and visiting scholars) becomes an even stronger venue that fosters the study and appreciation of the region’s resources, people, and actual and potential contributions to the world. Directly related to my last point, I wish to comment on one of the vital forces of CLAS — the students and the faculty, including our visiting scholars. I am delighted to report that last year’s cohort of MA students was a truly remarkable group of young Latin Americanists who participated in the first-ever CLAS capstone experience for MA students. The students produced an exciting set of scholarly review and synthesis papers which, after being presented in a CLAS colloquium in May 2012, were assembled as a bound document that constitutes the written memory of the experience (available for consultation both at CLAS and at the Green Library). The graduation ceremony of this cohort of students was a truly stellar event, where we were honored to have Dr. Diana Magaloni, Director of Mexico’s Museum of Anthropology, as the Commencement Speaker (in addition to her giving a memorable seminar at CLAS!). Beyond this, I am delighted to report that, after graduation, the students have been successful in finding new horizons in their intellectual aspirations. If you knew, advised, or taught them, you might be interested to learn that: James Bennett is currently applying to law schools and has also worked on an Oral History Project in Los Angeles over the summer with his grandfather; Daniel Cruz has become a Business Analyst at Couch, based in San Francisco; Humberto Cruz has enrolled in a Master’s of Education program at Columbia; Benita Herreros is finishing her PhD in History in Spain; Mariana de Heredia is working as Coordinator of Advisors for the Consultive Scientific and Technologic Forum of Mexico; Nathan Keegan is working as Cultural Media Liaison at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington DC; Nica Langinger works as a tech support representative at Box; Veriene Melo is now a Research Assistant working with Professors Zephyr Frank and Beatríz Magaloni at Stanford; Ellen Moore became a Social Science Researcher and conducted social research at the Woods Institute for the Environment project on sustainability in the Osa-Golfito Region, Costa Rica; Adrienne Murphy is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Policy at Harvard; Alyson Sprague continues her efforts on Social Muralism in the Bay Area and is working as Catering Manager at the W Hotel in San Francisco; and Jessica Uno is now a Medical Student at University of Southern California. Thus, it is with great joy that I can report that, from my continued communication with several of them, I have heard that they found the MA in Latin American Studies at CLAS to have been an important springboard for the continuation of their intellectual aspirations. With that in mind, I am very excited about the current cohort of students in our MA program. We have recruited eight students, including one Argentinian/Central American, one Brazilian/Spanish, one from the UK, one Romanian raised in LA (“but Latin American at

heart”), and a quartet of students from several states of the USA. Their backgrounds and interests represent an exciting blend of experiences and intellectual aspirations, and they clearly seem to be on the same trajectory of previous recent cohorts; that is, of being a group of students who so greatly contribute to the life of CLAS. As is our tradition now, on this year’s orientation day, the staff and I met with them in a most educational (certainly for me!), lively, and fun session, made so thanks to the combination of the students’ enthusiasm, culture and aspirations, and the fantastic participation of Professor Jorge Rufinelli, who accompanied me in this effort to get students excited about Latin American studies right from the start. His remarks and questions were delightfully inspirational to all of us; thank you Jorge! As I write this for Enlace, I am preparing for my first end-of-the-quarter meeting with the students where I will hear their feedback as to how they feel the program is matching their expectations. Needless to say, our dynamic program of visiting scholars has become a highlight of CLAS life and is always newsworthy — however briefly — in Enlace. You can find information on our visiting scholars and their lines of work, as well as their contributions to CLAS on our website, and we also keep a file of their academic reports in the CLAS archive (available upon request). Here, I want to express my deepest gratitude to our supporters, the Tinker Foundation and the Nabuco Program, who make this crucial and distinctive element of CLAS possible. And just as I did in the previous issue of Enlace, I wish to highlight again how inspiring it is to see that, apart from our sponsored Tinker and Nabuco professorships, CLAS continues to be a center of attraction for numerous independent scholars who wish to come and work on their research programs, based at our center. Our list of current and appointed forthcoming scholars includes Professor José Carlos Chiaramonte, who has a long-standing relationship with CLAS and conducted library-based research work over the summer; Dr. Naci Yorulmaz, who, to our fortune, has extended his visit with us. We are also fortunate that Verónica Figueroa, a Mapuche-descent scholar based at the University of Chile, will be joining us in January 2013 to conduct research on her fields of specialty. Finally, I wish to mention how fortunate we are that Dr. Alejandro Toledo, former President of Peru and a scholar of long tradition at Stanford, is doing an extended period of visit at FSI at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and CLAS is taking advantage of his presence by having him participate in some of our activities, such as speaking to our students in our SAAGE program (see below), and working with me in the planning of synergistic activities for the near future (we will keep you posted on this!). At the same time, we are extremely fortunate and humbled that his wife, Dr. Eliane Karp-Toledo, has chosen CLAS as her working place, as a visiting scholar during the period of her visit at Stanford. Dr. KarpToledo has become an active member of our center, not only by her continuous presence and engagement in conversations with our community, but due to her invaluable contribution as an Instructor in our SAAGE program.

While we are on the topic of the SAAGE program (a part of our Title VI mandate to engage the community-at-large on issues of Latin American culture, language, and appreciation), I want to report that in the last academic year we launched our first year-long (three-quarter) course for students of underserved communities in the area, “Frontiers of Iberian and Latin American Culture and History.” Our acronym for the program, SAAGE (Stanford Academic Alliance for Global Enrichment, http:// hsblogs.stanford.edu/sage/) resulted largely from suggestions and input from our students. The program covered the three major tracks of our MA program, supported by the commitment of Professors Tamar Herzog and Lisa Surwillo (instructors for culture and society), Beatriz Magaloni and Thomas O’Keefe (political science and economy), and Rodolfo Dirzo (ecology and environment in Latin America). For this program we hosted eight high school students from East Palo Alto Academy, all US-born females, whose parents were born elsewhere, mainly Mexico. Concluding with a “graduation ceremony” attended by parents and relatives, and in which students presented what they considered to have been the highlights of the learning experience, the effort was regarded by students — and parents — as a total success. This year, we are expanding the program to students of Pescadero (together with East Palo Alto Academy), and the first quarter is proving to be an improved version of last year’s. This year, we are including sessions taught by Stanford faculty (Professors Marilia Librandi-Rocha, Zephyr Frank), and complemented by Drs. Elaine Karp-Toledo and Alejandro Toledo in the module of culture and society. We are absolutely thrilled to have such a cadre of instructors who have generously given their time and wisdom to our outreach students, and we are humbled by the opportunity to provide a potentially life-changing experience for these students! For more details please consult the CLAS website, or you may also check the blog of Dr. Karp-Toledo, where she describes her own experience as a participant in SAAGE (http://elianekarp.blogspot.com/2012/11/indiana-jonesla-globalizacion-uniforme.html). Last but certainly not least, I wish to comment that we are back to a full staff with the incorporation of Elizabeth SáenzAckermann as Associate Director in early 2012. Her enthusiasm and dedication is contagious and I want to express my deepest gratitude to her. In the opening paragraphs I addressed the importance of the Latin American region, its fascinating nature, and the need to study and appreciate it. It is my hope that as a community we continue to increase our ability to do effective crossdisciplinaryteamwork so that we may fulfill our aspirations to serve CLAS and its mission. Cordially, Rodolfo Dirzo

BOLIVAR HOUSE VISITORS

TINKER VISITING PROFESSORS 2011-2012

Professor Mauricio Fontes and CLAS Director, Professor Rodolfo Dirzo

Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), a Brazilian research-funding agency. Professor Fontes has published extensively, serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals, and is a member of the editorial board of ISRN Agronomy. He has been a member of the editorial boards of the important Brazilian agronomic journals Revista Ceres and Revista Brasileira de Ciencia do Solo. He is a member of the Soil Science Society of America, the International Society of Trace Elements Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), and was recently appointed Honorary Member for the International Committee of ICOBTE-2013 (12th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements), which will be held June 16-20, 2013 in Athens, Georgia. During winter quarter 2012, Professor Fontes taught EARTHSYS 153, Soils and Nutrient Cycling in the Amazon Rainforest, at Stanford.

Roberto Ierusalimschy is Associate Professor in the Department of The Center for Latin American Studies Informatics at the Pontifical Catholic brings leading Latin American scholars University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), to Stanford University to teach, conduct where he researches programming research, and advise students in their language design and implementation. He is the leading architect of the particular areas of expertise. Lua programming language and Mauricio Fontes is Professor at the the author of Programming in Lua. Ierusalimschy obtained Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil. his PhD in Computer Science from PUC-Rio in 1989. He was a He obtained his PhD in Soil Science postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at from North Carolina State University in the University of Waterloo (1992), as well as a visiting researcher 1988 where he was invited to become at International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and (1994), German National Research Center for Computer Science Gamma Sigma Delta honor societies. (GMD) in Berlin (1997), and University of Illinois at UrbanaAt that time, he also was recipient of Champaign (2002). During winter quarter 2012, Professor a Potash and Phosphate Institute Fellowship award. He was Ierusalimschy taught CS 193L, Scripting Embedded Systems with a Visiting Scholar at University of California Berkeley (1993Lua. 94), Technische Universitat Munchen (2000-01), and Stanford University (2009-10). Widely viewed as one of the leading soil Iris Kantor is Professor of Iberian experts within Brazil, Professor Fontes has worked on the heavy and Colonial History in the History metals adsorption/desorption phenomena for many years, Department at the University of São establishing a geochemical background for heavy metals and Paulo in Brazil. She obtained her PhD assessing soil vulnerability to pollution/contamination to heavy in Social History from the University metals of highly weathered/developed soils throughout the of São Paulo in 2002. Professor Kantor country, most notably in the state of Minas Gerais. He has also is a leading historian of Colonial Brazil been working with soils from Amazonia and recently had the and the History of Cartography and project “Geochemical Background, Natural Soil Fertility and Spatial History. Her many books, edited volumes, articles, book Nutrient Cycling in Amazonia Soils” approved by the Conselho chapters and essays cover a wide range of topics, including

the history of labor, the formation of academies of history and NABUCO SCHOLARS 2011-2012 historiography, sociability and popular culture, the history of In 1996, while visiting Stanford University, Portuguese and Brazilian enlightenment, the history of Brazil’s native peoples, the history of science and, presently, the history Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso announced the establishment of the of cartography as well as spatial history. During winter quarter Joaquim Nabuco Chair. 2012, Professor Kantor taught HISTORY 273G, Geographical Imagination & the Making of Brazil & the Hispanic-American States, Junia Ferreira Furtado is Professor of 1750-1850. Modern History at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Pablo Neumeyer is Professor and She has also been a Visiting Scholar Chair in the Department of Economics at Ecole des Hautes Etudes em at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Sciences Sociales (2008) and a visiting Buenos Aires, Argentina. He obtained professor in the history department his PhD in Economics from Columbia at Princeton University (spring 2001). University in 1992. Professor Neumeyer Professor Furtado obtained her PhD in social history from the is a leading researcher in the fields Universidade de São Paulo. She has published several books of macroeconomics, international and articles about colonial Brazil and slavery including Chica finance, and Latin American development. He is best known da Silva: a Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge for Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Role of Interest University Press, 2009). The Portuguese-language edition of Rates (2005 Journal of Monetary Economics, with Fabrizio this book was awarded honorable mention in 2004 by the Perri). Professor Neumeyer is also a member of the board of Casa de las Américas Foundation of Cuba. During her time at directors at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella as well as the Global Stanford, from April 15 through June 15, 2012, Professor Furtado Development Network. He received the President’s Fellowship conducted research on the freed mulatto priests’, Cipriano Pires from Columbia University, is a Fellow of the Economics Society, and Vicente Ferreira Pires, religious and political mission to as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. During winter quarter 2012, Dahomey (1797). She shed light on how their freed mixed-blood Professor Neumeyer taught ECON 217, Topics in International male descendants integrated into the local society. Professor Macroeconomics: Theory and Evidence for Latin America. Ferreira also analyzed how they interpreted their African cultural religious heritage within the context of their embracing the Enrique Casanovas is Professor in Catholic church, which was dominant in the Portuguese world the Department of Logic, History and at that times. Philosophy of Science at the University of Barcelona in Spain. He obtained his PhD in logic from the University of Barcelona in 1987. Professor Casanovas’ areas of expertise include model theory and mathematical applications of logic. His publications have appeared in leading journals, collections of papers and conference proceedings among others. Professor Casanovas was a Visiting Scholar of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999) and the University of California at Berkeley (2002). He taught two courses at Stanford University during spring quarter 2012: PHIL 152, Computability and Logic, and PHIL 350A, Model Theory.

VISITING SCHOLARS 2010-2011

The Center for Latin American Studies sponsors visas and privileges at Stanford University Libraries for senior scholars conducting research on Latin America. Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida is Associate Professor at the University of Campinas in São Paulo. She is also a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and co-director of the Study Group on the School Institution and Family Organizations (Focus). Her research addresses the relationship between education and inequality, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of social inequalities in contemporary Brazil. Professor Fonseca de Almeida has recently published A Escola dos Dirigentes Paulistas (2009) on elite education in São Paulo, and co-edited A Escolarização das Elites (2002), an international collection of studies on elite education, as well as Circulação Internacional e Formação Intelectual das Elites Brasileiras on the impact of international circulation on the intellectual formation of Brazilian elites. She has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. She is co-editor of the journal Pro-Posições and a member of the Editorial Board of Educação e Sociedade and Sociologia da Educação. Clemente Forero-Pineda is Professor at Universidad de los Andes School of Management in Bogotá, Colombia. His recent research is on the impact of violence on organizational forms of rural Colombia, and innovation and intellectual property in emerging economies. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. In the past, he was Dean of the School of Economics at Colombia’s National University and General Director of Colciencias, the Colombian National Science Foundation.

Roberto Lebrão is a graduate of the University of São Paulo, Faculty of Law. As an attorney, Roberto has specialized in administrative and tax law for more than a decade with a respected Brazilian firm that he co-founded (CFLA Advogados). In 2010, he defended a master’s thesis that compared the different processes involved in the development and implementation of public policies in federalist states, such as Brazil and the United States. Roberto is currently working on his doctoral thesis, examining public consortia as a form of intergovernmental cooperation in federalist states. During his time at Stanford, Roberto’s work focused on the comparative study of federalism and intergovernmental relations for the development and implementation of public policies. Mónica Quijada is a high-profile public intellectual and historian of Spain and Latin America at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. Her engagement with the UN in Argentina (working with refugees) and her directorship of the investigation carried out in the late 1990s regarding Nazi activities during the Second World War and in post-war Argentina shows her commitment to the public space. She has written extensively on dictatorship, populism, and war, and their effect on the public sphere in Argentina and Spain, as well as on the relationship between 19th-century Latin American states and their indigenous populations. She was nominated to be a visiting scholar by the History Department and the Center for Latin American Studies, and housed at the Humanities Center as an International Visitor.

CLAS LECTURE SERIES 2012 JANUARY 10, 2012 Dr. John Rick Death in the Andes: Archeological Discovery of an Historical Mystery JANUARY 17, 2012 Thomas O’Keefe A Critical Assesment of the Obama Administration’s Latin American Policy

Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of ILAC, and CLAS Director, Professor Rodolfo Dirzo

2011 SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 Dr. Héctor Hoyos The Cultural Politics of Chocolate in Latin America OCTOBER 4, 2011 Dr. Enrique Chagoya “Surviving Paradise”, a painted book by Enrique Chagoya OCTOBER 11, 2011 Julie Prieto “Making a Modern Man”: United States Government Sponsored Film and Television in Latin America, 1940-1970 OCTOBER 18, 2011 Dr. Tomás Jimenez Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration and Identity OCTOBER 25, 2011 Dr. Robert Norris Stanford’s Initial Response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

NOVEMBER 1, 2011 Dr. Zephyr Frank A Comedy of Manners: Twenty Plays and the Social History of the Everyday in 19th Century Rio de Janeiro

JANUARY 24, 2012 Dr. Oralia Cabrera The Poor in Antiquity: Investigating Low-Status Commoners at Teotihuacan, Mexico JANUARY 31, 2012 Daniel P. Erikson China’s Engagement with Latin America: A U.S. Policy Perspective

APRIL 3, 2012 Dr. Jorge Ruffinelli México en los Ojos de Luis Buñuel APRIL 10, 2012 Dr. Clemente Forero-Pineda Violence, Insecurity and the Organization of Rural Production in Conflict-Ridden Regions of Colombia APRIL 17, 2012 Dr. Herbert Klein The Emergence of a Mestizo and Indigenous Participatory Democracy in Bolivia APRIL 24, 2012 Zeb Tortorici Contra Natura: Queering Colonial Latin America

FEBRUARY 7, 2012 Dr. Pablo Andrés Neumeyer A New Beginning for Latin America?

MAY 1, 2012 Roberto Lebrão The Challenges in the Formulation and Implementation of Social Policies in Brazil

NOVEMBER 15, 2011 Dr. Rosamond Naylor Food Security in an Era of Biofuels

FEBRUARY 14, 2012 Dr. Iris Kantor Seeing Brazil Through the PlaceName Memory: Identities and Cartography in Making of PostColonial State (1758-1831)

MAY 15, 2012 Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo Human Impact on Biodiversity: Consequences for Ecosystems and Humans in Latin America and Africa

NOVEMBER 29, 2011 Dorothy Kronick Electoral Consequences of Violent Crime in Venezuela

FEBRUARY 21, 2012 Dr. Eduardo Miranda Reducing Seismic Risk in a Rural School Building in Peru

DECEMBER 6, 2011 C.J. Álvarez Delusions of Sovereignty: How the United States Has Policed Its Border with Mexico Since 1993

FEBRUARY 28, 2012 Dr. Mauricio Fontes The Challenge of a Sustainable Agriculture in Amazonia: The Soils Perspective

MAY 22, 2012 Dr. Lauren Phillips Democratic Politics and Financial Market Volatility: Contestation and Reform in Latin America and Beyond

NOVEMBER 8, 2011 Ethan Cole Beer, Pottery, and Politics: Recognizing Political Identity in Moche Painted Ceramics

MARCH 6, 2012 Dr. Roberto Ierusalimschy The Disembedding of a Brazilian Software MARCH 13, 2012 Dr. Steven Palmer Shifting Sands of Cuban Science, 1870-1933

MAY 29, 2012 Dr. Enrique Casanovas Teoría de Modelos: Investigación Lógico-Matemática en España y Latinoamérica JUNE 5, 2012 Dr. Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida Educational System Segmentation and Inequality in Contemporary Brazil

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Dr. Alejandro Toledo, President of Perú

Benita Herreros Cleret de Langavant, MA Class of 2012

During the academic year 2011-2012, we are proud to announce that over 90 events were organized, sponsored, co-sponsored or financed by the Center for Latin American Studies. The following are a few of the year’s highlights. For a complete list of events, please visit http://las.stanford. edu/events.

lands and artifacts are plundered from them. In many Latin American countries, indigenous peoples are not even permitted to study their own language.

May 8, 2012 Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America

We had the honor of having President Alejandro Toledo of Peru give the keynote speech at the conference.

Hosted by the Program on Human Rights and the Center for Latin American Studies

Conference Proceedings: http://humanrights.stanford.edu/events/human_rights_of_ indigenous_peoples_in_latin_america/

Indigenous peoples around the world have often been dispossessed of their land, leading to ongoing conflict over control and usage of land and resources. Indigenous peoples in Latin America are no exception; they are among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable peoples in the region. Indigenous peoples in Latin America rank highest on underdevelopment indicators such as incarceration, illiteracy, unemployment, poverty and disease. They face discrimination in schools and are exploited in the workplace. Their sacred

The Stanford Spring conference “Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America,” brought scholars from all disciplines to examine the common trends, actors, challenges and changes among indigenous populations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Stanford Daily Article on President Toledo’s participation: http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/05/09/1065850/

May 16, 2012 Ecuador’s Educational Policy 2006-2012 and the Development of a New Science Curriculum: Potential Impacts in Galapagos Speakers: Gloria Vidal, Minister of Education of Ecuador Alba Toledo, Undersecretary of Education of Ecuador Closing remarks: Nathalie Cely, Ambassador of Ecuador to Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, Woods Institute for Technology, Stanford School of Education, Ecuatorianos at Stanford (ECUS) and Galapagos Conservancy. From left to right: Event Organizer, Diego Román, PhD Candidate, School of Education, Alba Toledo, Undersecretary of Education of Ecuador, Gloria Vidal, May 26, 2012 Minister of Education of Ecuador and CLAS Director, Professor Rodolfo Dirzo Stanford CLAS Reception at LASA 2012 The Center for Latin American Studies enjoyed the company of faculty, alumni and friends at the 2012 LASA Congress held in San Francisco.

Thomas O’Keefe, Lecturer in International Relations with MA Class of 2012

Friends and students enjoy the reception at LASA 2012

June 15, 2012 Los Artistas del Códice Florentino: Una Historia Epica Contra la Muerte. A talk by Dr. Diana Magaloni, Director, National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico).

Diana Magaloni Kerpel studied at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, specializing in restoration and mural painting. She received graduate degrees in art history from the National Autonomous University (UNAM) in Mexico City and Yale University. Her research has focused on the study of Mesoamerican and indigenous pictorial techniques in the 16th century, and she is developing an interdisciplinary method combining chemistry, physics, archaeology, ethnography, and art history to understand how mural paintings and codices were created. She has written extensively about pre-Hispanic mural art and is currently writing a book about the materials, images, symbolism, and narratives of the Florentine Codex. The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City is the finest museum of archaeology and anthropology in the Western hemisphere, exceeding collections found at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The National Museum of Anthropology owns the world’s most impressive collection of pre-Columbian Mexican art, including sculpture, painting, pottery, and other works. Since it was founded in 1964, it has displayed and studied the fascinating art, artifacts, and cultures of the pre-Columbian Mexican world and its descendants, the indigenous peoples of Mexico.

SPRING FIESTA 2012

SPRING FIESTA

On Thursday, May 17, 2012, CLAS hosted its annual Spring Fiesta at the Bolivar House gardens. Themed “Expresiones Mexicanas,” it featured Mariachi Cardenal de Stanford and Stanford’s Ballet Folklorico: Veracruz and Jalisco.

LIBRARY REPORT

BOLIVAR HOUSE LIBRARY REPORT 2011-2012 Books are alive and well at the Stanford Libraries. Nearly 10,000 titles from Latin America, Spain and Portugal were acquired this year, with 1,300 of those titles added from Brazil and Mexico alone. As digital content becomes more widely available, the Library will add new products, such as the ever-growing Digitalia database. (www. digitaliapublishing.com). Libraries and their resources are only beneficial if readers know how to access them, which is why Adan Griego, Curator for Latin American Collections, has been actively teaching students how to navigate the library to find specialty works. This year, Adan brought a group of 30 eager students from Cañada College to Special Collections, where they viewed rare Latin American works, like Mexican Revolution postcards, Bracero Letters, and handmade books (libros artesanales). Adan’s contributions to Latin American Studies librarianship have been recognized by both the 2011 Guadalajara Book Fair/FIL, where he was named one of 25 “personajes de la FIL” among information professionals. In April of 2012, the Buenos Aires Book also listed him as one of the most influential people in Spanish language publishing (http:// publishingperspectives. com/2012/05/argentinesurvey-picks-top-50-peoplein-spanish-languagepublishing/). Check us out at the Library!

STUDENTS AND CLAS CLAS WORKING GROUPS 2011-2012

A “working group” consists of a group of students (in collaboration with a faculty advisor) who organizes events such as lectures, speaker series, symposia, exchange of working papers, or collaborative research efforts around a particular theme. The Center for Latin American Studies awarded grants to the following working groups during the 2011-2012 academic year: Innovative Theoretical Approaches in the Andes Student Coordinator: Francesca Fernandini, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology Faculty Advisor: Professor John Rick, Department of Anthropology Challenges and Potentials in Education: The Brazilian Experience in the Latin American Context Student Coordinators: Luana Marotta, MA candidate of International Comparative Education and Tassia de Souza Cruz, PhD Candidate, Economics and Education Faculty Advisor: Professor Martin Carnoy, School of Education Brazilian Music and Film Student Coordinators: Victoria Saramago and Tom Winterbottom, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Faculty Advisor: Professor Marilia Librandi-Rocha, Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC)

Religion, Magic, and Shamanism in Mexican Identity Student Coordinators: Mariana de Heredia, MA, Latin American Studies; Benita Herreros, MA, Latin American Studies and Nathan Keegan, MA, Latin American Studies Faculty Coordinator: Professor Jorge Ruffinelli, Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC) Perspectives of Sustainable Development in Latin America Student Coordinators: Sophie Theis, MS, Earth Systems and Ana Deaconu, MS, Earth Systems Faculty Coordinators: Professor Rosamond Naylor, Program on Food Security and the Environment and the Woods Institute for the Environment Professor Bill Durham, Department of Anthropology and the Woods Institute for the Environment CLAS congratulates all working group members for an outstanding job during the academic year. FLAS FELLOWS

Stanford University’s Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) administers Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing language training in advanced Portuguese, beginning or intermediate Quechua, and, in rare cases, advanced Spanish.

CLAS congratulates the 2011-2012 FLAS Fellows:

ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012 James Bennett, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Brazilian Portuguese Humberto Cruz, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Brazilian Portuguese Lucy Haley, Graduate, School of Law, Brazilian Portuguese Nica Langinger, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Brazilian Portuguese Tanaka Mawindi, Undergraduate, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Brazilian Portuguese Sophie Theis, Graduate, Earth Systems, Brazilian Portuguese Jessica Uno, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Quechua

SUMMER 2011 Dylan Attal, Undergraduate, Linguistics, University of Florida, Brazilian Portuguese Humberto Cruz, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Brazilian Portuguese Caroline Egan, Graduate, Comparative Literature, Quechua James Hoyt, Graduate, History, Brazilian Portuguese Meredith Jones, Graduate, Business, University of Florida, Brazilian Portuguese Edith Leni, Graduate, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Quechua Anna Koester Marshall, Graduate, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Brazilian Portuguese Johanna Bard Richlin, Graduate, Anthropology, Brazilian Portuguese

UNDERGRADUATES AND CLAS

Since 2004, thanks to the generous gift from Stanford alumna Monica Miller Walsh and her husband David Walsh, CLAS has supported Stanford undergraduates in summer internships in Latin America through the Monica Miller Walsh Grant Program.

Johanna (Hanna) Burch, Sebastián Mancera, Andrés Gonzalez and Jennifer Nguyen

MONICA MILLER WALSH GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR SUMMER 2011 Johanna (Hanna) Burch - BA candidate 2013, Human Biology Internship: Clínica La Esperanza, Honduras Andrés Y. Gonzalez - BA 2012, Anthropology Internship: La Asociación de Desarrollo Integral en San Isidro (ASODEICH), Nicaragua Sebastián Mancera - BS candidate 2015, Architectural Design Internship: Irarrazaval Architectural Firm, Chile Jennifer Nguyen - BA candidate 2014, Anthropology Internship: VivePeru, Peru

FACULTY CONFERENCES

VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND GOVERNANCE: MEXICAN SECURITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE October 3, 2011 Faculty Organizers: Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor of Political Science; Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law; Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies On October 3 and 4, the Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Law School at Stanford, held a private, two-day conference examining the complex issues of violence, drug-related criminal activity, and governance in Mexico. The conference brought together a multidisciplinary group of political scientists, economists, and lawyers, together with policymakers and military experts, in an effort to seek better answers about how to confront drug-related violence and strengthen the rule of law and state capacity in Mexico. While the major focus was on Mexico, the conference brought a comparative lens to the issue of violence and conflict. Scholars and practitioners from the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Germany shared research strategies and policy lessons from other settings to contribute to the debate on the current state and future trajectory of Mexico’s situation. Moreover, the conference sought to foster an exchange of ideas based on the analysis of various actors in contentious environments, including, but not limited to, drug trafficking organizations. A better understanding of the causes and implications behind the violence in Mexico from a comparative perspective brought us closer to developing constructive policy recommendations to reduce violence in Mexico. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL: ONE KINGDOM, TWO EMPIRES? November 11, 2011 Faculty Chair: Tamar Herzog, Professor, Department of History In this one-day workshop, participants considered the way relations between Early Modern Spain and Portugal modified their historical experience in both Europe and overseas. At stake were historical as well as methodological issues as the workshop explored how similarities and distinctions emerged and were manipulated in the early modern period, and further looked into how these similarities and distinctions are studied today.

IBERIAN IMPERIAL FRONTIERS March 9, 2012 Faculty Organizer: Iris Kantor, Tinker Visiting Professor During this one-day conference, topics discussed included Mapping Latin America and Brazilian Frontiers: New Approaches to a Classic Theme. The conference concluded with a roundtable discussion surrounding these topics.

LOOKING INWARD / MIRAR ADENTRO / OLHAR PARA DENTRO: BRAZILIAN AND CHILEAN CINEMA: A GATHERING OF FILMMAKERS February 22, 23 and 24, 2012 Faculty Coordinators: Jorge Ruffinelli, Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin Amerian Cultures and Marilía Librandi Rocha, Assistant Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures The conference welcomed internationally acclaimed filmmakers Joel Pizzini, Paloma Rocha, Eryk Rocha, Macarena Aguiló and Teresa Arredondo. There were film screenings and roundtable discussions with the filmmakers.

COLLOQUIUM: “WHAT IS THE CONTEMPORARY?” May 21-22, 2012 Faculty Chairs: Marilia Librandi-Rocha, Assistant Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. The premise of the colloquium was simple and enormously thought-provoking: we sought answers -- from world-class Latin American, U.S. and European intellectuals, writers, and scholars – to the question of what is the contemporary. Participants followed three main lines of inquiry, addressing questions of comparative modernities, emerging canonicity, and conceptual elucidation of contemporaneity.

A TINKER UPDATE by Ricardo Mar, Tinker Visiting Professor (Spring 2011) and Alejandro Beltrán Caballero, Visiting Scholar (Spring 2011)

DIBUJANDO LAS RUINAS: LA ARQUITECTURA PÚBLICA DE TARRACO Estas imágenes hacen parte de la exposición Tarraco: El Urbanismo de una Ciudad Romana. Esta es el resultado de más de 25 años de trabajo, donde se hace un acercamiento al urbanismo y la arquitectura monumental de la ciudad de Tarraco en época imperial romana. Aunque nunca conoceremos con certeza el aparato constructivo y decorativo de los antiguos edificios de la colonia Tarraco, podemos ya presentar al menos una imagen general de cómo eran la ciudad y sus edificios. La metodología aplicada en el estudio de los restos arqueológicos con el fin de plantear una imagen verosímil de la arquitectura y el urbanismo en el mundo antiguo, fue el tema central de los conferencias y cursos impartidos en la Universidad de Stanford en 2011: la conferencia Cuzco (Peru): Inca Architecture and Landscape (CLAS Lecture Series 2010-2011) y el curso Roman Archaeology & Heritage: The Case of Tarragona (Spain) in the European Context (Stanford Archaeology Center).

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

SAAGE students listening to Professor Rodolfo Dirzo at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

SAAGE Last year, CLAS launched the Stanford Academic Alliance for Global Enrichment (SAAGE) program, a community-based academic partnership between Bay Area high schools and Stanford University. SAAGE brings highly motivated students to Stanford’s Center for Latin American Studies to take part in multi-disciplinary academic training under the mentoring and supervision of professors and graduate students. Through a variety of pedagogical tools, including field visits, multi-media presentations, literature, film, and current-events, students gain significant knowledge of various aspects of Latin American studies and the importance of the Latin American region for the world at large. Such knowledge is intended to facilitate students’ future academic and community-based work. The first year of this Latin American Studies course for high school students was an overwhelming success. Eight students from East Palo Alto Academy participated in the year-long course, which consisted of 3 sessions per quarter and followed the conceptual

SAAGE students with Professor Beatriz Magaloni at Bolivar House

content of the tracks Stanford students take in the MA program: Culture and Society (autumn), Political Economy (winter), and Ecology and the Environment (spring). Autumn and winter sessions (Culture and Society, and Political Economy tracks) explored race and identity, borders and nations, poverty and violence, and international trade in Latin America through analyses of literature, film, economic case studies, and current events. Spring sessions (Environment and Ecology track) were taught at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, offering an optimal environment for students to learn about the importance of Latin America’s flora and fauna in the context of global biodiversity as well as the Latin American perspective on the goals and challenges of global change and nature conservation. Taken together, the three tracks of this course increased students’ awareness of Latin American issues as they affect Latino youth in the Bay Area and provided the students with tools to analyze college-level academic materials and concepts they can then integrate into their own lives.

We extend our deepest appreciation to the 2011-12 SAAGE instructors: Autumn Sessions Tamar Herzog (Department of History) Lisa Surwillo (Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures) Winter Sessions Thomas O’Keefe (Program in International Relations) Beatriz Magaloni (Department of Political Science) Spring Sessions Rodolfo Dirzo (Department of Biology)

CLAS is delighted to announce that this year the program has been expanded to include a second high school, Pescadero High School, and four sessions per quarter. Eighteen students are currently attending the 2012-13 program.

SHREI

become independent, effective, and self-aware agents of change. SHREI also CLAS enjoyed its second year with began work on a series of content pieces the Stanford Human Rights Education to provide educators with background Initiative (SHREI), a four-year collaborative information on human rights topics project between California-based related to Africa; East Asia; Russia, Eastern community college educators and Europe and Eurasia; and Latin America. Stanford University’s Division of International, Comparative and Area The year culminated in the second Studies (ICA), Program on International annual 2012 SHREI Symposium, Making and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), and the Global Local: Teaching Human Rights Program on Human Rights (PHR). in the Community College Classroom, on June 9, 2012. The symposium drew At the start of the 2011-12 academic year, over 80 attendees, mostly community eight community college instructors college educators, to discuss human were offered fellowships to work with rights education pedagogy in today’s SHREI to develop resources aimed at community colleges. Keynote addresses integrating human rights education included “Human Rights Education in a into a wide range of community college Globalizing World” from Felisa Tibbits, courses and encouraging students Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to be more informed and engaged at the Harvard Kennedy School of global citizens. During the year, fellows Government Fellow; and “Camera as developed The Manifestation Project, a Witness – International Human Rights curricular approach to teaching human Documentaries” from Jasmina Bojic, rights that can be implemented across Executive Director of the Camera as the curriculum as a means of delivering Witness Program at Stanford University. In course content that outlines the addition to the keynote addresses, more transformative process by which students than a dozen informative sessions were led by SHREI fellows, community college faculty and students, community leaders, and renowned professionals in the human rights field. Each session provided resources, shared classroom experiences, and facilitated open dialogue about current human rights issues and best practices for integrating these issues into community college curricula. In addition, SHREI solicited nominations for the first annual Outstanding Student Project Award to highlight the exceptional work of a community college student or student organization dedicated to raising awareness of human rights, particularly in an international context. Nominated students presented Outstanding Student Project Award recipient Khin Thiri Nandar Soe, City College of San Francisco, with SHREI Chair Richard Roberts

their projects during a poster session at the symposium, and the 2012 award was presented to City College of San Francisco student Khin Thiri Nandar Soe for her inspiring work addressing human rights issues in Burma and the Burmese diaspora. The 2013 SHREI Symposium will take place on June 8, 2013. To receive more information about the 2013 symposium or the Outstanding Student Project Award nomination process, please contact Molly Aufdermauer at mollyauf@ stanford.edu. Américas Book Award The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) founded the Américas Award in 1993 to encourage and commend authors, illustrators and publishers who produce quality children’s and young adult works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States; and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use. The Américas Award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. This year’s award recipients were Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt and Company) and Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People by Monica Brown, Illustrated by Julie Paschkis (Henry Holt and Company). For more information, including honorable mentions and past award recipients, visit http://claspprograms.org/ americasaward.

CLASS OF 2012

CLAS Director, Professor Rodolfo Dirzo

Dr. Diana Magaloni-Kerpel

The 121st Commencement of Stanford University was held on Sunday, June 16. The Center for Latin American Studies recognized twelve graduates of the Master of Arts degree and five graduates of the undergraduate Minor in Latin American Studies. The keynote speaker for the CLAS Commencement ceremony was Dr. Diana Magaloni, Director of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. 2012 MA graduate Nathan J. Keegan also gave a speech to commemorate the occasion. Families and friends joined us in the BoHo garden to celebrate with this year’s graduates. Congratulations, Class of 2012!

Nathan J. Keegan, Class of 2012

Master of Arts in Latin American Studies Graduates: James William Bennett Capstone: “ ‘A Permanent Stain on the Reputation of Foreign Affairs’ : The Maxwell/Rogers Chile Controversy” Daniel Fernandez Cruz Castro Capstone: “Honduras 2009: Coup d’état or Constitutional Succession?” Humberto Cruz-Chavarria Capstone: “The Deterioration of Democracy in Venezuela under the Hugo Chavez’s Presidency” Mariana de Heredia Capstone: “The Structure of Denunciation of Human Rights Violations in Chiapas: The Human Rights Center Fray Bartolomé de las Casas” Benita Herreros Cleret de Langavant Capstone: “Mapping the Frontiers of Colonial Latin America: 18th Century Matto-Grosso-Paraguay Boundaries” Nathan J Keegan Capstone: “Mainstream and Alternative: The Development of the Romance Panel in Jaime Hernandez’s Locas” Nica Langinger Capstone: “Visions of Paradise: Exportation of the Myth of Racial Democracy”

From right to left: Daniel Fernando Cruz Castro, Alyson Sprague, Jessica Noelle Ming Uno, Nathan J Keegan, Humberto Cruz Chavarria, Mariana de Heredia, Benita Herreros Cleret de Langavant, James William Bennett, Ellen Atkins Moore, Adrenne Louise Murphy, Veriene ‘V’ Melo

Veriene ‘V’ Melo Capstone: “We Have Been ‘Pacified’... Now What? Generating Legitimate Opportunities for Transformation through Social and Economic Development in ‘Pacified’ Favelas in Rio de Janeiro” Ellen Atkins Moore Capstone: “The Popular Referendum and the Limitations of Democracy in Guatemala” Adrienne Louise Murphy Capstone: “Addressing the Gap: An Analysis of Educational Spending and Outcomes in Peru” Alyson Sprague Capstone: “Mission Muralismo: Examining Identity in San Francisco’s Mission District Via Exploration of Public Mural Art” Jessica Noelle Ming Uno Capstone: “Peru: A Country of Plenty and Poverty. A Country report on Persisting Poverty in the Face of Progress”

UNDERGRADUATE MINOR IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES RECIPIENTS: • Helen Sylvia Bolton (BA in International Relations) • Merlin Michael Greuel (BA in Psychology) • Francisco Pinillos (BA in Economics) • Elizabeth Lea Rasmussen (BA in History) • Lena Catherine Sweeney (BS in Biology)

FACULTY AND ALUMNI UPDATE FACULTY NEWS Gregory P. Asner, Faculty Scientist, Department of Global Ecology received the Stanford Energy and Environment Affiliates Program Award, 2011, 2012. Clifford R. Barnett, Professor of Anthropological Sciences, Emeritus, will be given the Bronislaw Minowski Award for 2012. Angela García, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, was awarded the 2012 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing by the American Anthropological Association for her book The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande (University of California Press, 2010). Gabriel García, Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), was awarded the 2012 Roland Volunteer Service Prize, an annual prize awarded to members of the Stanford faculty who engage and involve students in integrating academic scholarship with significant and meaningful volunteer service to society. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guerard Professor of Literature, received the José Vasconcelos World Award for Education, 2012. During his sabbatical in 2012-2013, Assistant Professor Héctor Hoyos, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, will be an Internal Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. He is working on a new project, entitled “The Commodity as Prism: A Hundred Years of Latin American Things,” which examines the

representation of key commodities in the literature of the region. His most recent publication is “Visión desafectada y resingularización del evento violento en Los ejércitos.” El lenguaje de las emociones: afecto y cultura en América Latina. Moraña, Mabel and Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Eds.) Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2012: 283-295. He was appointed Delegate Assembly Representative by the Division Executive Committee on 20th Century Latin American Literature (2012-2016). Stephen Haber, A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor of History and, by courtesy, of Economics, received the 2012 Manuel Espinosa Yglesias Prize awarded by the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, a nonprofit think tank in Mexico City, for an essay written about the Mexican banking system, called “These are the ‘Good Old Days’.” He coauthored it with Harvard Business School Associate Professor, Aldo Musacchio, with whom he shares the award. Professor Haber was also awarded the Walter J. Gores Award, 2012, which honors excellence in graduate and undergraduate teaching at Stanford. Tomás Jimenez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was awarded the American Sociological Association’s, Sociology of Latinos/as Section, 2011 Distinguished Book Award. Alice A. Miano, Lecturer, Stanford Language Center, was awarded “Outstanding Dissertation of 2012” by the American Educational Research Association Family, School & Community Partnerships Special Interest Group.

Ana Raquel Minian Andgel, Assistant Professor of History, won the 2012 Henry Gabriel Prize from the American Studies Association for the best dissertation of the year in the field of American Studies for her thesis, “Undocumented Lives.” Roger G. Noll, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, was presented with the 2012 AAI’s Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement. Michael J. Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology, was the winner of the Stanford University Phi Beta Kappa teaching award, 2012. Professor Jorge Rufinelli, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, has recently published “America Latina en 130 Documentales.” Noted Chilean writer Ascanio Cavallo presents this book: “In the last 50 years, documentary cinema has become the favorite instrument by which to configure a ‘secret history’ of Latin America, since its lesser events to its most significant processes of collective change. This documentary dimension has explored and liberated from silence all dimensions of the continent. The autonomous and distinctive stature of the documentary has found in Latin America its most tenacious expression. Jorge Ruffinelli, expert and a collector like no other, travels through many countries and covers its story, in an investigation without precedent with evoking images that explain how it has become so powerful. There is no other book like it in Spanish or any other language: fundamental and unique.”

Ramón Saldívar, Hoagland Family Professor, T. Robert and Katherine States Burke Family Director of BSOP, and Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, was awarded a 2011 National Humanities Medal in honor of his cultural explorations of the U.SMexico border, by President Obama. Mike Tomz, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, received the International Studies Association, Karl Deutsch Award (presented annually to a scholar who, within 10 years of earning a PhD, has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations), 2011. Guadalupe M. Valdés, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor in Education, received the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from AERA (American Educational Research Association). The award is given annually to acknowledge outstanding achievement and success in education research.

ALUMNI NEWS Mark Anner (MA ’91) just earned tenure at Penn State University in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. After graduating from Stanford, Miguel Angel Bacigalupe (MA ’11) moved back to Washington D.C. to work for an international development consulting firm. Staying in the D.C. area was not as exciting as he once thought, so he did not think twice when the opportunity to move to São Paulo with a new job arose. Since November, Miguel resides in São

Paulo working as a Project Manager for an international logistics firm focusing on wind energy. He is very excited to not only live in a huge metropolis, but to also refine his Portuguese. Last year, Victoria Harman (LAS Minor ’09), completed an MPhil in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in England. She focused on Economics and Politics and wrote a thesis regarding sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon. Another member of our community, Denis Benchimol Minev (MA ’03), was very helpful in providing Victoria with some very important insights on the subject for her research. While in the UK, she was selected to serve as a delegate to both the LSE Emerging Markets Forum and the University of Oxford MERCOSUR Conference. Victoria has since moved back to New York City and has started a new job as Social Media Executive (US) for online retailer ASOS in November. She loves to hear from other members of our community, so please get in touch – especially any students that would like advice about interning abroad in Latin America or going to grad school! Having worked as a Research Assistant since her first week on campus, upon graduation, Veriene Melo (MA ’12) was invited by her advisor Dr. Zephyr Frank and Professor Beatriz Magaloni to continue working on some of their projects through the end of the Autumn 2012 quarter. Next year Veriene hopes to intern at a non-profit organization and go to graduate school to pursue a degree in International Educational Development.

Denis Minev (MA ’03) lives in Manaus, Brazil, and continues to be involved with Amazon rainforest conservation and development issues through several NGOs. He previously served as Secretary for Planning at the state government of Amazonas. As a day job, Denis works as finance director of a local group of companies. Please shout if you are ever in the neighborhood or are coming to the 2014 World Cup! Araceli Ortiz (MA ’08) just graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a Joint MBA/MA in Education in June (2012). She is currently working in University Relations for Pac12 Enterprises in San Francisco. That basically means she gets to work with every department at the new networks and all 12 schools and she learns a whole lot. She is loving her new job and living in San Francisco for the first time. While at the GSB, Araceli was also lucky to lead 25 classmates (along with another 4 classmates) on a trip to Manaus, São Paulo, and Rio, Brazil over spring break. It was a phenomenal experience and a great opportunity to continue to practice her Portuguese and be reconnected to Latin America. She hopes to make it back for the 2014 World Cup and/or 2016 Olympics. In September 2012, Rita Rico (BA ’02) moved from Santiago, Chile to Nairobi, Kenya for her new diplomatic assignment with the State Department. While in Chile, she gave birth to her second child and named him Jack Santiago Alba. With her husband, daughter Lucia, and baby Jack, they went on safari in their first month and absolutely love Kenya so far. Perhaps Africa will win her heart over like Latin America has?

CLAS STAFF NEWS The Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to welcome Elizabeth SáenzAckermann into the role of Associate Director and Molly Aufdermauer into the role of Public Engagement Coordinator.

After seven years, Associate Director Megan Gorman accepted a position at the Office of the Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. Megan’s new role is Financial Analyst, where she interacts with many different units on campus. She began her new role in February 2012.

CLAS thanks Megan for her dedication to the Center and wishes her much success in all her endeavors.

Born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico, Elizabeth SáenzAckermann obtained a BA in Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. In the US she has studied English Literature at San Jose State University, Spanish Literature at the State University of New York, and also holds a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University. For the last nine years Elizabeth was the Administrative Manager of the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego State University. Her research experience includes fieldwork in several Latin American countries, particularly Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil. Her research includes grassroots resistance movements in Latin America, specifically indigenous resistance and struggles such as that of the Kumiai Indian community of San José de la Zorra in Baja California, Mexico. Indeed, Elizabeth is a community organizer herself and over the last 15 years has worked on education and health projects in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico, and has participated in several forums and conferences advocating for the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America. Her experience also includes work as a lecturer at San Diego State University, freelance journalist, filmmaker, and student advising. On a more personal note, she loves theater, music and the arts, and enjoys biking, running, traveling and cooking for friends.

A native of Northern California, Molly Aufdermauer received her BA in Spanish from Brigham Young University and her MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from San Jose State University. As part of her studies, she spent a year studying language and literature in Sevilla and Granada, Spain. Her academic interests are focused in comparative Spanish-English linguistics and language instruction. Before coming to CLAS, Molly was the Advising Coordinator at the Stanford School of Medicine, where she helped students navigate their way through medical school and residency applications. During her time at the School of Medicine, Molly also worked for Nuestra Casa in East Palo Alto, teaching English as a Second Language to Spanish-speaking residents. In her free time, Molly likes to balance her life through running, biking, traveling, and spending time with her husband and two small children.

AFFILIATED FACULTY The Latin American Studies curriculum at Stanford benefits from the wideranging expertise of affiliated faculty from a variety of disciplines.

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS

Roger Noll, Professor Emeritus

John Rickford, Professor

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Paulo Blikstein, Assistant Professor Martin Carnoy, Professor Amado Padilla, Professor Guadalupe Valdés, Professor

Michele Barry, Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases Gabriel Garcia, Professor Grant Miller, Assistant Professor Paul Wise, Professor

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Clifford Barnett, Professor Emeritus George Collier, Professor Emeritus Lisa Curran, Professor Carolyn Duffey, Lecturer William Durham, Professor James Fox, Associate Professor Angela Garcia, Assistant Professor John Rick, Associate Professor Ian Robertson, Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

DEPARTMENT OF ART & ART HISTORY

HOOVER INSTITUTION

Enrique Chagoya, Professor

Herbert Klein, Senior Fellow

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

PROGRAM IN HUMAN BIOLOGY

Gretchen Daily, Professor Rodolfo Dirzo, Professor and CLAS Director Harold Mooney, Professor Peter Vitousek, Professor Virginia Walbot, Professor

Anne Firth Murray, Consulting Professor

Ramón Saldívar, Professor DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor Tamar Herzog, Professor Ana Raquel Minian Andjel, Assistant Professor Mikael Wolfe, Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Stephen Haber, Professor Terry Karl, Professor Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor Robert Packenham, Professor Emeritus Gary Segura, Professor Mike Tomz, Professor DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Thomas Sheehan, Professor DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE

Gregory Asner, Faculty Scientist, Department of Global Ecology DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Roland Greene, Professor José David Saldívar, Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Professor DANCE DIVISION, DRAMA DEPARTMENT

Susan Cashion , Senior Lecturer Emeritus

DEPARTMENT OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES

Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor Marilia Librandi Rocha, Assistant Professor Michael Predmore, Professor Joan Ramon Resina, Professor Jorge Ruffinelli, Professor Lisa Surwillo, Assistant Professor Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Professor PROGRAM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Thomas O’Keefe, Lecturer

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Jenna Davis, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Leonard Ortolano, Professor of Civil Engineering STANFORD LANGUAGE CENTER

Jose Carlos Fajardo, Lecturer Alice Miano, Lecturer Ana Maria Sierra, Lecturer Agripino Silveira, Lecturer Lyris Wiedemann, Senior Lecturer STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

FREEMAN SPOGLI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Rosamond Naylor, Professor and Senior Fellow

SCHOOL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Pamela Matson, Professor of Environmental Studies

Tomás Jiménez, Assistant Professor Michael Rosenfeld, Associate Professor

SCHOOL OF LAW

James Cavallaro, Professor Jonathan Greenberg, Lecturer Thomas Heller, Professor Emeritus

Adán Griego, Curator, Latin American and Iberian Collections Sergio Stone, Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian Robert Trujillo, Curator, Special Collections

NEW FACULTY

The Center for Latin American Studies would like to welcome Dr. Ana Raquel Minian and Dr. Mikael Wolfe to Stanford University.

ANA RAQUEL MINIAN Assistant Professor of History and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicisty Her current book project explores the late-20th-century history of Mexican undocumented migration to the United States, the growth of migrant communities, and bi-national efforts to regulate the border. It uses over 200 oral history interviews, government archives, migrant correspondence, privately held organizational records and personal collections, pamphlets and unpublished ephemera, and newspapers and magazines collected in Washington D.C., Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, MichoacĂĄn, Zacatecas, and Mexico City. As the first sustained history of transnational Mexican migration from 1965 to 1986, this work addresses audiences interested in U.S. and Latin American political history, Latina/o history, and Migration Studies. Minian is also working on a project on the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. Dr. Minian received her PhD from Yale University, with distinction; her MA from Yale University; and her BA from The University of Chicago, with honors.

MIKAEL WOLFE Assistant Professor of Latin American and Environmental History Dr. Wolfeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research and teaching interests include modern Mexican and Latin American history, environmental history, especially the socioeconomic and cultural dimensions of water management, engineering and technology, and climate change, comparative and world history, especially between Latin America and the U.S. and Latin America and East Asia. Dr. Wolfe received his PhD from The University of Chicago; his MA in International History, from The University of Chicago; and his BA from Columbia University.

ADVISORY BOARD Martin Carnoy, Professor of Education, School of Education Jenna Davis, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment Rodolfo Dirzo, Bing Professor in Environmental Science, Department of Biology Bill Durham, Bing Professor of Human Biology, Department of Anthropology Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor of Latin American History, Department of History

Adรกn Griego, Curator for Latin American and Iberian Collections, Stanford University Libraries

Hal Mooney, Paul S. Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology

Stephen Haber, Professor, Departments of History and Political Science; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

John Rick, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Tamar Herzog, Professor, Department of History Marilia Librandi Rocha, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Jorge Ruffinelli, Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Paul Wise, Richard E. Behrman Professor in Child Health and Society, School of Medicine

Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

CLAS STAFF Director Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo

Program Coordinator Angela Doria-La

Associate Director Elizabeth Sรกenz-Ackermann

Business Administrator Laura Quirarte

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