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Table of Contents
About the LAII
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Publications 50 Latin America Digital Beat
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Outreach 4 Academic Events
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Our People
Cultural Activities
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SOLAS 52
K-12 Education
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K-12 Teacher Advisors
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Affiliated Scholars
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Academics 27
Faculty Committees
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Latin American Studies
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Professional Staff
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LAS at CNM
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International 34 Partnerships 34 Faculty-Led Study Abroad
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Student Research & Awards
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Faculty Research & Awards
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About the LAII
Because of the geographic location and unique cultural history of New Mexico, The University of New Mexico has emphasized Latin American Studies since the early 1930s. In 1979, the Latin American & Iberian Institute was founded to coordinate Latin American programs on campus. LAII is committed to two core ideas: that peace and prosperity in the hemisphere depend upon deep mutual understanding among peoples of diverse cultural, linguistic, and historical backgrounds; and that such understanding depends on the rigorous training of area experts who have the knowledge base to conduct inter-American relations into the future. Designated a Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) by the U.S. Department of Education in 2017-2018, the LAII offers academic degrees, supports research, and provides development opportunities for faculty. In addition to the Latin American Studies (LAS) degrees offered, the LAII supports Latin American studies in departments and professional schools across campus by awarding student fellowships and providing funds for faculty and curriculum development. The LAII is also committed to expanding awareness, knowledge, and understanding of Latin America and Iberia among diverse constituents. Through its community education programs, the LAII coordinates a wide array of outreach initiatives, including K-12 teacher professional development opportunities; post-secondary academic conferences and lecture series; workshops and symposia for business leaders, government officials, and media representatives; educational travel; and cultural events for the general community.
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Outreach Academic Events
The LAII maintains a thriving outreach program that reaches across and beyond UNM. In addition to hosting our own events, we cosponsor a range of programs in partnership with departments and organizations across campus. Lecture series, invited presentations, and conferences all contribute to the dynamic learning experience at UNM.
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LA I I LE C T U R E S E R I E S Each year the LAII Lecture Series brings together knowledgeable speakers on a range of topics, drawing on locan and invited scholars. In 2017-18 we featured 14 faculty, independent scholars, authors, and artists:
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Dr. Alison Brysk, University of California, Santa Barbara — Contesting Violence Against Women: Constructing Human Rights at the Frontiers of Globalization
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Dr. Anna Nogar, UNM Department of Spanish & Portuguese — Creating the Sisters in Blue: History, Legend and Place
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Dr. Aurolyn Luykx, University of Texas at El Paso — The Contradictory Fortunes of Bilingual Education in the US and Latin America
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Dr. Brian Price, Brigham Young University — Mexico in the Key of Rock: Some Thoughts on Music and Literature
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Dr. Carew Boulding, University of Colorado Boulder, — Poverty and Political Participation in Latin America
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Dr. Claudio Holzner, University of Utah — Mexico’s Difficult Democratic Moment
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Dr. Patricia Rosas Lopátegui, UNM Chicana and Chicano Studies — Cristales de tiempo - los poemas transgresores de Elena Garro
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Daniel Peña, author — Trauma as Cultural Legibility in BANG: Researching and Writing the Contemporary Narconovela
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Dr. Javier Corrales, Amherst College — The Collapse of Venezuela and the Strange Longevity of the Maduro Administration
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Dr. Javier Osorio, University of Arizona — Multi-Actor Conflict and Violence in Colombia
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Jesús Cossio, Peruvian artist and educator — Representing Political Violence in Peru through Comics
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Lance Blythe, LAII Research Associate — Why Charles Bent Had to Die (and Oribai had to be Sacked): Pastoral Conflict in the Nineteenth Century New Mexico Borderlands
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Dr. Mike Wolff, Western Washington University — Community Policing the Brazilian Slum
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Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, University of Texas at Austin — Archives, Historical Memory, and Human Rights in Guatemala: The Case of Fernando Garcia
MU S I CO LO GY COLLOQUIUM S ERIE S With the support of Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti of the Department of Music, the 2017-18 Musicology Colloquium Series invited international and domestic scholars to address topics such as ethnomusicology, narrative soundscapes, and feminist performances, among others. The series concluded with a lecture-recital by Carmen Morales Moreno, a performer, researcher of contemporary music, and feminist artist whose musical endeavors serve to perform and promote the work of female contemporary sound artists and composers. In the concluding event, Morales addressed the role of female sound artists in the experimental music scene of her native Spain and also performed a series of compositions for piano, electronics, and multimedia by peer composers.
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Dr. Josh Kun, University of Southern California — The Tide Was Always High: Latin American Musical Modernisms in Los Angeles
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Dr. Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, UNM Department of Spanish and Portuguese — Imagining Something Better: Punk, Tejano, La Bamba, and Other Rolas from My Border Hi-Fi.
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Dr. Luisa Vilar-Payá , Universidad de las Américas, Puebla — The Politics of Exile, the Dedication of the Cathedral of Puebla, and the Music of Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla —
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Carmen Morales Moreno — Spanish Women Sound Artists: Sound Creations for Piano with Extended Techniques, Electronics, and Multimedia
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GALE MEMOR IA L L E CTU R E SE R IE S: DECOLONIZING M ETHOD OLOGIE S IN A RT HISTORY Organized by Dr. Kency Cornejo of the Department of Art and Art History, the 2017-18 Gale Memorial Lecture Series brought together scholars, artists, and activists with crosscountry and cross-cultural expertise and experience. The series began with a joint presentation by Emory Douglas, a Former Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Party who served as director, designer, and illustrator for The Black Panther Newsletter, and Caleb Duarte, an artist who creates public works and community performances and is the founder and director of the EDELO art residency in Chiapas, Mexico. Defining the impact of the speaker series as a whole, Douglas and Duarte marked the start of the series by discussing their individual artistic and activist works as well as their recent collaboration, Zapantera Negra. The project unites the bold aesthetics, revolutionary dreams, and dignified declarations of two leading movements that redefined emancipatory politics in the twentieth and twenty-first century--The Black Panthers and The Zapatistas. Both movements were born into a centuries-long struggle against racial capitalism and colonialism, state repression, and international war and plunder. Not only did these two movements offer the world an enduring image of freedom and dignified rebellion, they did so with rebellious style, putting culture and aesthetics at the forefront of political life. Zapantera Negra is the result of their joining forces in artistic and political solidarity.
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Emory Douglas, artist and former Minister of Culture for The Black Panther Party, and director, designer, and illustrator for The Black Panther Newsletter
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Caleb Duarte, artist, creator of public works and community performances, founder and director of EDELO art residency in Chiapas, Mexico
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Muriel Hasbun, artist, internationally-exhibited Salvadoran photographer and educator, founder of Laberinto Projects
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Macarena Gómez-Barris , scholar, author, and chair of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute
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Regina José Galindo, artist, award-winning, internationally-exhibited performance artist, and poet based in Guatemala
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Images: Zapantera Negra project. Credit: Caleb Duarte.
SP OT LI G H T AC AD EM I C EV EN T: PE R U V I A N A R T I STS A N D AC T IVISTS SH ARE WOR K ON TR U TH , J U ST I C E , A N D R E CO N C I LI AT I O N The LAII was honored to partner with the International Museum of Folk Art to provide an opportunity for the UNM campus and broader Albuquerque community to meet Peruvian artists and activists Adelina GarcĂa, Wari ZĂĄrate, and RosalĂa Tineo whose work is at the forefront of the fight for truth, justice, and reconciliation in the wake of the 20 year internal armed conflict with the Shining Path that claimed the lives of nearly 70,000 Peruvians between 1980 and 2000. Using their traditional folk arts of Ayacucho, they give testimony to the stories of individuals and communities who endured violence. The discussion took place in conjunction with Crafting Memory: The Art of Community in Peru, an exhibit (December 3, 2017 - March 10, 2019) of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. The exhibit explored the new directions taken by current Peruvian folk artists during the recent decades of social and political upheaval and economic change, and includes the biographies and social histories of contemporary artists along with examples of work that preserve family tradition, reimagine older artforms, reclaim pre-Columbian techniques and styles, and forge new directions for arte popular in the 21st century. Crafting Memory explored the new directions taken by current Peruvian folk artists during the recent decades of social and political upheaval and economic change. The exhibition highlighted the biographies and social histories of contemporary artists along with examples of work that preserve family tradition, reimagine older artforms, reclaim preColumbian techniques and styles, and forge new directions for arte popular in the 21st century. The past forty years have been a time of tremendous change in the Andes, beginning with the Agrarian Reform of 1969 that broke up the large haciendas; a twenty-year internal armed conflict with the Shining Path that engulfed the 1980s and 1990s and claimed nearly 70,000 lives; economic swings, rapid development, the recent large investment in preserving archaeological heritage and the current booming tourism industry. The exhibit contextualizes a series of contemporary folk artists in Peru and places their work within this larger framework of Peruvian history and social change. In doing so, it explores the many routes through which craft and folk arts are learned and practiced, including multigenerational crafting families, self-taught artisans, and others who came to folk arts as a means of economic survival during the time of violence. The artists included a third generation silversmith reviving the art of tupus or shawl stick pins that were worn during the Inca Empire; the art of war orphans from the 1980s who were trained in traditional arts to give hope in dark times; and a collective of young artists in Lima using the medium of silk screening to promote conversations between rural highland and jungle communities with their counterpart migrant neighborhoods in the city, celebrating their shared arts, culture, and customs and emphasizing the value of the handmade, and the ideas, values, and aesthetics that arise from Cultura Popular - common people and everyday life.
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Rosalia Tineo and artwork “Tortura de mi Papa/My Father’s Torture” (Museum of international Folk Art). Photographer: Amy Groleau Credit: Courtesy: IFAF Collection, Museum of International Folk Art
Outreach Cultural Activities
At the same time that we foster academic dialogue and scholarship on the UNM campus, we also serve the broader public by supporting cultural events that share the richness of Latin American and Iberian history, language, and arts with diverse audiences. The majority of our cultural programming is the fruition of partnerships with remarkable local community organizations such as the Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque, Spanish Resource Center of Albuquerque, National Hispanic Cultural Center, and many others.
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CU LT URAL AC TI V I TY S P OTL IG H T: ¡ C I N E M AG N Í FI CO ! Organized annually by the Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque in collaboration with community partners such as the LAII, the film festival promotes the richness of Latin American, Iberian, and Hispanic cultures found around the world. As it celebrates five years in 2017, the film festival has grown into a major event and is one of the few film festivals in the southwest to focus solely on cinema from and about Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the United States. As it has from the beginning, the festival continues to feature firsttime filmmakers and established masters alike, bringing to New Mexico the best of award-winning comedies, documentaries, animation and dramatic masterpieces. As in past years, the festival includes the UNM campus in its venues and screens films free of charge for students and faculty. This year’s selection of campus screenings addressed themes of immigration and included: Trails of Hope and Terros/Trazos de esperanza y terror, So Far from God/Lejos de Dios, The Returned / Retornados, and Our Barrio / Nuestro barrio. Screenings were held in Ortega Hall in collaboration with the departments of American Studies, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Cinematic Arts, Spanish & Portuguese, and El Centro de la Raza. Beyond immigration, the festival’s diverse line-up included the award-winning documentary Somos Lengua/Speaking Tongues, as part of which the LAII hosted a presentation and discussion with Carlos Sosa and Feli Dávalos, the film’s producers. Sosa and Dávalos met with faculty and students during the lunch hour to discuss how the art of rap is practiced by a large number of youths in Mexican cities who are completely committed to it - they live for rap and they are nourished by it. The filmmakers addressed questions such as: Who are these Mexican rappers? What do they find in that culture that society at large cannot offer to them? How have they been transformed by their words and languages?
Image: 2017 ¡Cine Magnífico! (L-R): MALAS and alumni volunteers María José Ramos, Alin Badillo-Carillo, and Alejandría Lyons; Sosa and Dávalos presenting on their documentary, Somos Lenguas/Speaking Tongues, at the LAII; and the Guild Cinema, where the majority of screenings were held.
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Outreach K-12 Education
We provide outreach to K-12 educators and students who work across grade levels and content areas, promoting understanding about Latin American cultures and languages. Much of this work is sustained with the support of the LAII’s Title VI National Resource Center grant, which emphasizes working with young students of all ages, beginning in early childhood and continuing through high school. The LAII’s K-12 outreach takes the form of professional development workshops, curriculum development, and youth programming. All emphasize culturally relevant and critically-
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informed content. Particularly here in New Mexico, where Spanish is an official language and local history is informed by a legacy of exchange across the Americas, students benefit from culturally informed and accurate materials.
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K-12 RE S OUR C ES The LAII regularly develops resources such as curriculum and lending library materials. Curriculum may take the form of educator’s guides to specific novels, thematic units on topics such as Día de los Muertos, or bibliographies of relevant children’s and young adult literature. Our lending library includes classroom sets of culturally relevant books as well as cultural materials on countries such as Peru, Guatemala, and Colombia, among others.
C U R R I CULUM SPOTLIGH T: TEACHI N G CE N TR A L A M E R ICA The LAII regularly creates curriculum resources for K-12 educators. Among the materials produced in 2017-18 were resources focused on teaching about Central America. These materials were developed in partnership with the nonprofit education organization, Teaching for Change, which is located in Washington, D.C., and with whom the LAII has worked for many years. More than four million Central Americans reside in the United States today, yet the lack of resources in most schools on Central American heritage make the rich history and literature of the region invisible. Also missing from the curriculum is the direct connection between US foreign policy and Central American immigration to the United States. People from Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras moved in large numbers to the United States during the 1960s-1990s, when US-supported military dictatorships waged repressive wars against their populations. To address this omission, Teaching for Change launched a dedicated website to encourage and support teaching about Central America. They have collected lessons, booklists, biographies of noted historical figures, and readings for free use by classroom teachers. The LAII supported their work by contributing to the development of indigenous-related lesson plans and resources for the Teaching Central America initiative. Learn more at https://www.teachingcentralamerica.org/
P ROFE SS I ONAL D EV ELOP M E N T The LAII regularly organizes professional development workshops for K-12 educators, many in partnership with Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Spanish Resource Center of Albuquerque, and the UNM Art Museum. In 2017-18, topics included but were not limited to Frida Kahlo’s work and life, reparative justice in Peru and self-expression through comic books, piñatas and Mexican traditions, the life of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, Theatre of the Oppressed, Indigenous histories, poetry as peacemaking, cultural literacy related to Día de los Muertos, and decolonizing methodologies in education. Our workshops provide participants with contextual background information as well as curriculum, hands-on instruction, and suggested teaching strategies. We focus on providing resources that can be adapted across multiple grade levels and subject areas.
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WO RKSHO P SPOTLIGH T: ADDRESSIN G SOCIA L ISSU E S THR OU GH COM IC-M AK I NG W I T H PERUVI AN ARTIST JESÚS COSSIO As one of the leading influential authors of documentary and journalistic comic books, Jesús Cossio employs comics to document and depict human rights violations committed by state and insurgent forces during the country’s era of violence. He has published numerous books and zines, including El cerdo volador, Pánico, Juventud moderna, and Ciudades convertidas en selvas with publishers in Peru and other South American countries. In 2003, he was awarded a Rockfeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities along with two other authors (Luis Rossell and Alfredo Villar) , and is considered by critics as one of the most influential authors of documentary and journalistic comic books in Latin America. In Spring 2018, Cossio visited UNM to share his work with audiences from campus and the community. As part of the visit, he facilitated a professional development workshop with middle and high school educators. Fiorella Vera-Adrianzén, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, helped coordinate Cossio’s visit. She also spoke as part of the presentation, contextualizing his work by discussing the history of conflict in Peru and Peruvian
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communities’ ongoing work toward reparative justice and healing.
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WO RKSHO P SPOTLIGH T: XICANX IN STITU TE FOR TE ACHIN G A N D OR GA N I Z I NG In 2017, Albuquerque Public Schools joined a growing national movement to integrate Ethnic Studies into the official curriculum. In Fall 2018, several UNM departments supported that effort by organizing a 2-day workshop led the Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO), an urban education consulting collective. Teachers and administrators involved in Ethnic Studies courses within the APS community were invited to participate and learn from guest instructors Dr. Anita Fernรกndez and Sean Acosta, who spoke about decolonizing and rehumanizing theories and methodologies. The workshop was organized by the UNM Institute for Race and Social Justice, College of Education, and the LAII, in partnership with APS. Participants learned about researchbased best practices in culturally, socially, and historically responsive, sustainable, andempowering pedagogical approaches that have proven highly effective in supporting student success within underserved student populations, specifically with and for Xicano/Latinx youth.
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WO RKSHO P SPOTLIGH T: PIÑATAS: FR OM HISTOR ICA L TR A D ITION S TO PO P U L AR SY MBO LI SM The National Hispanic Cultural Center’s (NHCC) educational mission focuses on the preservation, promotion, and advancement of Hispanic culture, arts, and humanities, which aligns with the LAII’s own effort to promote a greater understanding of Latin American languages and cultures. On the basis of this shared mission, the NHCC and LAII frequently partner to provide engaging opportunities for K-12 educators. In Fall 2018, this took the form of a professional development workshop focused on the exhibit then on view at the NHCC, “The Piñata Exhibit (Sure to be a Smash Hit!),” which celebrated piñatas as a popular art form with over 175 examples from Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. Dr. Tey Marianna Nunn, NHCC Art Museum Director and LAS alumna, led educator attendees in a private tour of the exhibition and explained the significance of piñatas as an enduring artform. Afterward, one of the exhibit artists, Isaías D. Rodríguez, aka the Little Piñata Maker, discussed his work with participants and facilitated a hands-on demonstration of how to many his signature art form - mini piñatas. Rodríguez is an independent
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WO RKSHO P SPOTLIGH T: FRIDA KAHLO A N D SE L F ( R E ) PR E SE N TATION S The LAII regularly partners with the UNM Art Museum (UNMAM), whose educational mission centers on making artwork accessible, enjoyable, and intellectually stimulating for every visitor through a variety of programming and interpretive materials. In Fall 2017, UNMAM hosted the exhibition, “Frida Kahlo - Her Photos,” an international traveling exhibition featuring a rare and extensive selection of Kahlo’s personal photographs. Using the exhibit as a starting point, the LAII and UNMAM held several workshops that encouraged teachers to learn more about the woman behind the myth and to explore the similarities and differences in Kahlo’s own depictions of herself and how others portrayed her. In the process, participants were invited to critique the iconography and commercialism surrounding Kahlo’s life and her work, her ability to control representations of her body and life, her (de) construction of gender roles, and her position as one of the leading artists of her generation.
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L IT E RACY AND L I TER ATU R E PR O G R A M M I N G Literacy and literature are woven throughout the professional development, curriculum, and related resources that we provide to K-12 educators.
VA M OS A LEER BOOK GROUP AND BLOG Since 2011 the LAII has sponsored “Vamos a Leer,” a monthly book group and blog dedicated to teaching about Latin America through literacy and literature. Each month we read and feature books that offer authentic and engaging portrayals of Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States. Both the book group and the complementary Vamos a Leer blog encourage educators to use great literature to create globally literate students, to engage in authentic discussions of culture, and to think about social justice issues. Our blog provides educators all over the world with classroom ideas, reviews of children’s books and young adult novels, and suggested reading lists, among other resources. Learn more at teachinglatinamericathroughliteracy.wordpress.com.
LEN D I N G LI B R ARY OF C LASSROOM SETS Responding to teacher requests, we partnered with the Spanish Resource Center (SRC) and National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) to expand our lending library of classroom sets of bilingual books. The books are housed at the NHCC, where they are part of the SRC Lending Library.
A M ÉRI CAS AWARD FOR CHILDREN’ S A N D YOU N G A D U LT L ITE R ATU R E The LAII once more proudly supported the nationally-recognized Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature alongside the Consortium for Latin American Studies (CLASP) and peer institutions. The award continues to recognize exceptional children’s and young adult literature that authentically and engagingly portrays Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos/Hispanics in the United States. Per tradition, CLASP featured the winning authors during Hispanic Heritage Month in Washington, D.C., organizing an award ceremony at the Library of Congress, a teacher workshop at American University, and school visits with nearby elementary school. CLASP awarded the 2017 Américas Award to Susan Hood and Sally Wern Comport for Ada’s Violin (Simon & Schuster), and Alexandra Diaz for The Only Road (Simon & Schuster) on September 22, 2017 in front of 75 people at the Whittall Pavilion in the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress’ Hispanic Division and the Center for the Book co-sponsored the program. CLASP also recognized Nadia L. Hohn, author of Malaika’s Costume (Groundwood Books) and Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us, for their honorable mention titles. The annual Américas Award professional development workshop for K-16 educators, whose theme this year involved “Exploring the Diverse Roots of Migration in Latin America & the Caribbean,” was attended by 36 participants. This workshop, organized in collaboration with and hosted by American University on September 21, brought together educators from around the DC area to engage with authors Alexandra Diaz, Reyna Grande, and Nadia L. Hohn. Presentations were also made by educator and curriculum specialist Rebeca Gamez of the Johns Hopkins School of Education, and Coordinator of Teacher Engagement and Professional Development of Teaching for Change, Fayette Colon. Participants in the workshop brought home signed copies of 2017 award winner The Only Road and honorable mention titles The Distance Between Us and Malaika’s Costume. The LAII supported the program through co-sponsorship and by developing a curriculum guide to The Only Road. Both
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award-winning authors, Susan Hood and Alexandra
LENDING LIBRARY
Diaz, made school visits prior to the award ceremony. Thanks to CLASP’s continued partnership with An
»» The Surrender Tree / El árbol de la rendición by
Open Book Foundation, Diaz visited 85 students at
Margarita Engle
Wheaton High School in Montgomery County, MD,
»» The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez (30 copies)
while Hood visited with 42 third-grade students at
»» Cajas de cartón by Francisco Jiménez (30 copies)
Mount Rainier Elementary School in Prince George’s
»» Before we were Free by Julia Alvarez (30 copies)
County. Hood’s book was presented within both the music and language arts classes, making deep crosscurricular connections. An Open Book Foundation also distributed more than 90 copies of The Only Road at Wheaton and 59 copies of Ada’s Violin (including both English and Spanish versions) at Mount Rainier.
»» Antes de ser libres by Julia Alvarez (30 copies) »» The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph (30 copies) »» El color de mis palabras by Lynn Joseph (30 copies) »» *Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina (30 copies) »» The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya (30 copies) »» The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (30 copies) »» I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L.
The 2017 Américas Award was made possible by
Sanchez (15 copies)
Florida International University, Stanford University,
»» Wild Beauty by Anna-Maria McLemore (15 copies)
Tulane University, Vanderbilt University, University of
»» The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez (15 copies)
Florida, University of New Mexico, University of Utah,
»» Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (15 copies)
and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
»» Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh by Uma Krishnaswami (15 copies) »» The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary by NoNieqa Ramos (15 copies) »» Forest World by Margarita Engle (30 copies) »» The Wild Book by Margarita Engle (30 copies) »» Sylvia and Aki by Winifired Conkling (30 copies) »» Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings by Margarita Engle (30 copies) »» *Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh (30 copies) »» Book Fiesta! Celebrate Children’s Book Day by Pat Mora (30 copies) »» Sabores de America by Ana Maria Pavez and Constanza Hojas (30 copies) »» Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh (30
Image: Photograph of Américas Award-recognized
copies)
authors and illustrators following the award ceremony
»» Thematic Children’s Books: Frida Kahlo
held at the Library of Congress.
»» Thematic Children’s Books: Latinx Leaders and Biographies »» Thematic Children’s Books: Latinx Winter Celebrations »» Thematic Children’s Books: Día de los Muertos
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YO UT H PRO GR AM M I NG Each year the LAII proudly partners with community organizations to support programming that directly serves youth in public, private, and charter schools. Without fail, each year brings three exceptional programs to elementary, middle, and high school students. These events are organized by a cadre of community organizations whose missions align in support of providing New Mexico schools with enriching opportunities to deepen exposure to Latin American and Iberian languages and cultures. We also identify engaging speakers who bring their knowledge and experience directly to classrooms.
P OESÍ A ERES TÚ
CUE N TISTAS
SPA N ISH M O D E L U N
P OETRY CO N TEST
LITE R A RY CON TE ST
CON FE R E N C E
Now in its 18th year, this one-
This essay contest invites New
This Model United Nations
of-a-kind poetry contest invites
Mexico middle and high school
conference is conducted
elementary schools throughout
students to submit creative
entirely in Spanish and focuses
central New Mexico to send
writing samples in Spanish.
primarily on understanding
three students to represent
Non-native and native Spanish
Spanish-speaking countries.
each grade (first through).
speakers are encouraged to
Now in its eighth year, the
Competing students are
participate to help demonstrate
event continues to grow with
invited onto a performance
that the Spanish language
new private and public school
stage at the National Hispanic
is alive and thriving in New
participants. The classroom
Cultural Center, where they
Mexico. It is organized annually
preparation and formal debates
compete against their peers
by the Spanish Resource Center
stimulate the dissemination
for the most compelling,
of Albuquerque (SRC) and LAII
of the Spanish language and
beautifully enunciated, and
in partnership with the National
culture in a relevant, authentic
culturally-informed recitation
Hispanic Cultural Center and
context.
of an original Spanish language
Institute Cervantes.
poem. original Spanish-
The program was co-founded
language poem. An audience
in 2010 by teachers at Bosque
of fellow students, teachers,
School and Sandia Prep,
friends, and families applaud
and continues today under
their efforts. Prizes are awarded
the leadership of a teacher
for first, second, and third place
committee led by those same
in each grade.
founding educators, and with institutional support provided
In 2018, judges included
by the LAII, National Hispanic
doctoral student Diego J.
Cultural Center, and Instituto
Bustos and Dr. Carmen Julia
Cervantes.
Holguín of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Dr. Patricia Rosas Lopátegui of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
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SCHOOL VI SI T S P OTL I GH T: AU T H O R I SA BE L Q U I N T E R O & IL LUSTRATO R ZEKE P EÑA Author Isabel Quintero and illustrator Zeke Peña visited UNM to present on their recent collaborative publication, Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide (Getty Publications, 2018), an evocative and poetic graphic novel biography about renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide and her adventures around the world. Following their campus presentation, Quintero and Peña visited with high school students at Nuestro Valores Charter School and spoke with a group of young women who had read their previous publication, Gabi: A Girl in Pieces where Quintero spoke about the inspiration behind the gritty young adult novel; a high school art class at Albuquerque High, where Peña spoke about the process of converting Iturbide’s life into a graphic novel; and an elementary class at Cochiti Elementary, where Quintero shared her most recent book, Ugly Cat and Pablo, and encouraged the young students to revel in creative writing.
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SCHOOL VI SI T S P OTL I GH T: AU T H O R A N D PO E T M A R G A R I TA EN GLE Award-winning author Margarita Engle was designated as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019 by the Poetry Foundation as the Young People’s Poet Laureate, a position created to help raise awareness that young people have a natural receptivity to poetry and are its most appreciative audience, especially when poems are written specifically for them. Engle traveled around the country during her time, focusing on bringing poetry to underserved communities. With the generous support of the Poetry Foundation, Engle visited New Mexico in Spring 2018. She spoke on the theme of “Building Bridges, Not Walls: Poetry as Peacemaking” and signed copies of her books (in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and Bookworks) as part of a public presentation for teachers and graciously divided the remainder of her time among a plethora of school visits. Under the same umbrella of poetry as peacemaking, Engle spoke with students at Atrisco Heritage Academy, Sky City Community School, Zia Elementary, Dolores Gonzales Elementary, and Washington Middle School. “I love to write about young people who made hopeful choices in situations that seemed hopeless,” she says. “My own hope is that tales of courage and compassion will ring true for youthful readers as they make their own difficult decisions in modern times.” “Margarita’s writing, and stage presence when she reads, captivates young people. The vivid imagery in her historical novels makes reading them feel like time travel,” says Katherine Litwin, Poetry Foundation library director. “She’s been an inspiring Young People’s Poet Laureate.” Engle is the first Latino to serve as Young People’s Poet Laureate. She developed a deep attachment to her mother’s home country of Cuba during childhood summers there with relatives. These trips to Cuba sparked Engle’s literary imagination and had a great influence on her writing. Poet, novelist, and journalist Margarita Engle was born in Pasadena, California, to a Cuban mother and an American father. She is the author of many children’s books, including Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music (2015), The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist (2015), Mountain Dog (2014), When You Wander (2013), and Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian (2010). She has also authored the novels Singing to Cuba (1993) and Skywriting: A Novel of Cuba (1995), as well as several young adult novels in verse, including Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal (2016); The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist (2015); The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom (2008), which received a Newbery Honor and won a Pura Belpré Award; Tropical Secret (2009), winner of a Sydney Taylor Award for Teen Readers and a Paterson Prize; and Hurricane Dancers (2011), nominated for an ALA Best Books for Young Adults award. Engle has also authored the Pura Belpré Author Award–winning memoir Enchanted Air (2016). On the impact Cuba has had in her writing, she says, “For more than three decades, official US government travel restrictions made [visiting Cuba] impossible, so I used my imagination, remembering childhood visits, and wondering about the person I would be if that right to travel back and forth freely had not been taken away from me by a historical situation.” Engle lives in central California.
E N G L E S H A R E D “ P O E T R Y A S P E A C E M A K I N G ” W I T H S T U D E N T S AT : S KY C I T Y CO M M U N I T Y S C H O O L ( ACO M A P U E B LO) Z I A E L E M E N TA R Y AT R I S C O H E R I TA G E A C A D E M Y WA S H I N G T O N M I D D L E S C H O O L D O L O R E S G O N Z A L E S E L E M E N TA R Y
Academics Latin American Studies
The LAII’s Latin American Studies (LAS) program is a nationally prominent, competitive, interdisciplinary program that offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees. In addition to the MA in Latin American Studies, we offer dual degree options with five programs (Business Administration, Community & Regional Planning, Education, Law, and Public Health) in which students simultaneously earn the MA in LAS and a professional degree. The LAS academic program builds on a tradition of excellence in Latin American Studies at UNM that dates to the 1930s. Students within the academic program benefit from an unusually
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broad distribution of Latin American expertise across disciplines and colleges, as well as one of the premier Latin America-focused library collections in the US The degree programs are designed to be both rigorous and flexible, with robust foreign language study requirements and faculty advisement.
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With Title VI NRC funds, LAII supported the development of five new courses.
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During the academic year Title VI funding supported
Community & Regional Planning: “Cities and Social
the instruction of six sections of Quechua, taught by
Change in Latin America”
Regina Tupacyupanqui Arredondo (long distance from
Latin American Studies (CNM): “Power and Social
Centro Tinku in Cusco, Peru) and Maria Medrano Vasquez
Change in Latin America”
(in person); two sections of Quichua taught by Dr.
Art History: “Ancient American Pre-Columbian Art
Armando Muyulema (long distance from the University
and the Curatorial Vision”
of Wisconsin-Madison); and four sections of K’iche’ Maya
Geography & Environmental Studies: “Environments
taught by Dr. James Mondloch (in person).
and Peoples of Latin America”
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Geography & Environmental Studies/Anderson School of Management: “Economy, Creativity, and Development Strategies in Latin America”
Students were also able to choose from sixteen sections of Portuguese at the undergraduate and graduate level offered through the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
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M EXI CO ST U D I ES C H AI R P OS I T I O N C R E AT E D AT U N M In 2017-18, LAII collaborated with the Global Education Office (GEO) to establish a Mexico Studies Chair program at The University of New Mexico, an initiative which will bring a senior Mexican scholar to UNM for one semester each year to teach and conduct research. The first Mexico Studies Chair will serve in Fall 2018. This four-year agreement was developed in collaboration with the US-Mexico Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (COMEXUS), a nonprofit organization whose goal is to promote mutual understanding between Mexico and the United States by means of educational and cultural exchanges. Only three institutions nationwide join COMEXUS in bringing this program to their campus: UNM, University of Chicago, and University of Southern California. Each year a Mexican scholar will be recruited widely from among the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, and will be selected jointly by COMEXUS and LAII, with funding provided by the COMEXUS Fulbright-García Robles program. The Mexico Studies Chair program provides UNM students with a chance to study with leading Mexican scholars, while UNM faculty and graduate students will be able to build research collaborations and lasting connections with the Mexican scholarly community. “This is a tremendous opportunity for UNM departments to build scholarly connections with Mexico, and to learn from scholars who study various aspects of Mexican society and culture firsthand,” said Bill Stanley, Director of LAII.
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Academics LAS at CNM
With the support of Title VI NRC funding, the LAII has continued its innovative partnership with Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) to increase the college’s capacities in Latin American Studies. Students may now pursue a degree in Latin American Studies at CNM and the LAII has contributed financial resources to develop one new semester-long course, “Latin American Film,” as well as a study abroad course. A UNM doctoral student also assisted with the online offering of Portuguese. With support from the LAII, CNM faculty were able to attend regional and national Latin American Studies-related conferences, including some that focused on study abroad
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P R E S E N TAT I O N S Finally, we sponsored a lecture series in which 6 UNM faculty and doctoral students presented their research to through public lectures on topics such as the rise of the middle class in Brazil and Colombia, experiences in combining activism and scholarship in Colombia, capitalism and agriculture in Costa Rica, human rights and violence against women, and the historical migration of cannabis across Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
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S P OT LI G HT P ROGRAM: STUDY ABR OA D IN A N TIGUA , GUATE M A L A May 19-27, 2018 In May 2018, Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) and The University of New Mexico (UNM) celebrated the culmination of four years of collaborative planning as CNM students and faculty ventured on their first study abroad trip tied to the community college’s nascent Latin American Studies (LAS) program. Their destination: Antigua, Guatemala. Much like the ongoing partnership between CNM and UNM’s respective LAS programs, the trip was supported by the UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute’s (LAII) former Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. LAII Director Bill Stanley said, “Study abroad experiences are invaluable for students, especially when led by highly qualified faculty who know the study location well. Studying in Guatemala is eye-opening because of the country’s intersection of indigenous and Hispanic cultures, complex history, and challenging social issues, so we were especially pleased to have been able to help support this program.” CNM professors Brandon Morgan and Jessica Craig led the group of ten CNM students on the eight-day study abroad trip. Dr. Erica Volkers, Dean of the CNM School of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences, said, “One of the important considerations in the design of this study abroad experience was how we could make it accessible to nontraditional students who may work full-time, have families, and/or have fewer financial resources and I feel like we achieved that goal.” This was the first time that any of the students had visited Guatemala and, for a few students, was their first time outside of the U.S. For students and faculty alike, it was nothing short of an extraordinary and rewarding experience. The curriculum focused on anthropology, history, political events, and social relations. Casa Herrera, affiliated with the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin, handled the on-the-ground planning and arrangements for the
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program. Casa Herrera planned engaging activities for the group and took care of logistical details, including transportation and supporting a bilingual guide. One of many highlights of the trip was an excursion to the late-classical ruins of Iximché. Morgan said, “Several of the students have an interest in archeology and one in particular had studied Mesoamerican ball courts in great detail before the trip. We were all excited to stand inside the ball court.” Later in the week, the group visited women’s weaving cooperatives operated by local Maya women to cultivate their unique art form and provide crucial services, including educational opportunities, for their communities. Students also learned how to make pepián and jocón, two uniquely Guatemalan dishes, at La Tortilla Cooking School. “The cooking school was a particularly fun experience,” Craig said. “Perhaps the best part - having a delicious meal together at the end!” Throughout their time in Guatemala, students stayed with host families and were immersed in the local culture. Without exception, the students reported having excellent experiences with their families and said that the home stay aspect of the program was one of the best things about it. After eight days packed with activities and classes everyone was ready to return home to Albuquerque while contemplating a future return trip to Guatemala. [Photos provided courtesy of Brandon Morgan]
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International Partnerships
Through close collaboration between the LAII and Global Education Office (GEO), UNM maintains a vibrant network of over a hundred partnerships with universities in Latin America and Spain. These partnerships result in unique opportunities for collaborative research, student immersion, faculty-led study abroad programs, and more.
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FACULT Y-LE D STU DY AB R OA D Recognizing the value of immersive experiences, the LAII provides a range of international educational programs for individuals to study, research, and learn about Latin America and Iberia. Many of these programs are offered through the agreements established with universities outside of the United States, enabling the LAII to leverage shared expertise about the region. With funding provided by the LAII’s National Resource Center grant and community partners, we supported several unique opportunities for UNM students to study abroad in Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador.
G UATEMA LA : M AYAN LANGUAGE IN STITU TE 2 01 8 June 24 – August 3, 2018 Held annually in Nahualá, Guatemala, the Mayan Language Institute is a six-week summer immersion language program that helps students develop and advance proficiency of K’iche’ Maya and Kaqchikel Maya, and deepens their understanding of the cultural and political context affecting the historical preservation of Mayan languages. Participants study at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels with U.S. faculty and native speakers. Cultural activities, lectures, discussions, and excursions complement the formal study. In 2018, the LAII co-sponsored the program alongside Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American Studies, and the University of Texas-Austin’s Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. In addition to formally supporting the program, UNM sent two students, who built upon their language and cultural knowledge begun with the tutelage of Dr. Mondloch, LAII faculty affilate.
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EC UA DO R: CONEXIONES ECUADO R 2 01 8 May 28 - June 23, 2018 Led by the UNM Honors College in collaboration with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Conexiones is a faculty-led study abroad program that emphasizes field experience alongside integrated language and cultural studies. Begun in 1982, the program alternates annually between 4 weeks in Spain and 4 weeks in Latin America. In 2018, it was held in Ecuador for the second time. Participants studied at the Programa de Español para Extranjeros at the University of Cuenca, lived with host families, and participated in an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on the culture and society of Ecuador. Dr. Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Assistant Professor in the Honors College and faculty affiliate of the LAII, led the 2018 program in partnership with Conexiones veteran faculty member Dr. Margo Chávez-Charles, Professor Emerita, and Dr. Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The course syllabus centered on “Food, Sovereignty, and Development,” paying close attention to recent political changes in Ecuador related to food sovereignty, the rights of nature, and the political inclusion of the country’s many indigenous people. Food provided a lens by which students explored the politics, economics, and environmental sustainability of development in Ecuador. Students heard from local experts, traveled on field trips within Cuenca, and went on excursions outside of the city, including to the indigenous community of Saraguro, where they visited with agroecological organizations.
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MEX I CO : EXP LORING OAXACA TH R OU GH FOOD & CR A FT May 14-25, 2018 With support from the LAII, the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies offered a two-week field experience in Oaxaca, Mexico, exploring the social and economic dimensions of indigenous food and craft production. The course was led by Dr. Ronda Brulotte, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies and Associate Director of Academic Programs for the LAII. LAS doctoral student Javier Astorga accompanied the program as a Teaching Assistant. Participants lived with Oaxacan families and learned firsthand how regional culinary and artisan traditions are prepared for a global market. They visited local markets and food/craft production sites, including San Antonio Arrazola, known for its woodcarvings or alebrijes; Teotitlรกn del Valle, a Zapotec-speaking village internationally recognized for its woven wool textiles; and mezcal production centers. Participants studied basic social science methodologies through participant observation, interviews and mapping exercises, and developed an understanding of how food and craft production relate to geography, sustainability, and development in indigenous communities. At the end, students came away with an understanding of how indigenous history has impacted present-day realities relating to the environment, natural resource utilization and the evolution of craft technologies.
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MEX I CO : CA MERA CULTURE AND COYOACÁ N July 7-23, 2018 Dr. Jaelyn deMaria, Lecturer III in the Department of Communication & Journalism and faculty affiliate of the LAII, developed and led this course in Mexico City. Seven UNM students attended the course, and one Mexican student who was previously an exchange student at UNM participated in the class as a student of photography and as a guide to explain Mexico City from the perspective of a young person who grew up there. With a framework of “Camera Culture & Coyoacán,” the class explored the layers of visible and invisible cultural expressions in the landscape. Students critically examined the image and representation of pop culture icon Frida Khalo by visiting her home and studio in Coyoacán, and by exploring how her image translates in the urban landscape of Mexico City. Students also visited the archaeological sites of Teotihuacán and Xochimilco, where they gained a deeper understanding of the peoples who occupied space in these places over time and learned about some of the issues facing present-day communities in the area. The group visited the National Palace, Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Zócalo and the Museo del Templo Mayor as well as many other locations, where they were able to compare historic architecture with their own cultural understanding of the past and present.
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CO LO MBI A : CULTURAS INDÍGENAS D E COLOM BIA May 14-June 2, 2018 With the distinction of being UNM’s first study abroad program in Colombia, this two-week program gave UNM students the opportunity to visit a part of South America that had been off limits for years. The program was led by Dr. Richard File-Muriel, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and his wife, Maria del Pilar File-Muriel, PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and a native of Colombia. 14 students (4 undergraduate and 10 graduate) from various disciplines, including Latin American Studies, Spanish, Hispanic Linguistics, Journalism, Sociology and Political Science to the region of Cauca, Colombia. The course consisted of studying Nasa Yuwe, the native language of the Nasa people, one of the largest indigenous groups in Colombia, and attending colloquia given by professors specializing in language revitalization, ethno-education, and intercultural studies from the Universidad del Cauca. Students also learned about the sociopolitical context in Cauca relating to the indigenous movement. After acquiring basic language skills, they embarked on a week-long road trip in which they camped in the Andes Mountains in Cauca and visited three Nasa communities. They visited schools where they met with teachers and students, played soccer, sang and read poems, and shared experiences and world views around the Tulpa (sacred fire). This pioneering program pened the doors for UNM students to experience and learn from both public and indigenous universities in Colombia.
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MEX I CO : I TOWN DESIGN 2018 March 10–18, 2018 Designed as a regular Spring 2018 semester course, students traveled to Mexico over Spring Break under the leadership of an interdisciplinary group of professors affiliated with the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute (iD+Pi) at the School of Architecture and Planning at UNM: Francisco Uviña, Historic Preservation Program Director; Levi Romero, Assistant Professor, Chicana & Chicano Studies; Adelamar Alcántara, Director and Research Professor, Geospatial and Population Studies; and Theodore (Ted) Jojola, Regents’ Professor, Community and Regional Planning, and Director of iD+Pi. Some 16 UNM students attended the course, spending one week in the State of Puebla working with faculty from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla’s International Development Office (BUAP IDO) and the communities of Tlaxcalancingo and Santa Clara Ocoyucan. The course addressed methodology, tools and techniques of design and planning practice through innovative design analysis, critical mapping, production, representation, and communication in the evolution of the built environment. Students learned about community engagement techniques necessary for practicing and applying Indigenous design and planning practices among Indigenous communities. Through the process of digital storytelling, community asset mapping, and the analysis of settlements and demographic change, students built an understanding of the role of culture and identity in community development. They also learned how to identify the social, cultural, political, economic, and ecological forces that shape the built environments of Mexico. As a whole, the syllabus emphasized the process of Indigenous Planning as an agency in generative place making in various indigenous communities.
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Student Research & Awards
The LAII stimulates Latin American research and scholarship by supporting students within the Latin American Studies program and from affiliated departments across campus. Funding may take the form of fellowships or scholarship for field research, advanced doctoral studies, foreign language and area studies instruction, or professional development at conferences. Students at both undergraduate and graduate levels may benefit
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from this interdisciplinary, cross-campus support.
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F IELD RE S E AR C H GR ANT R E C I PI E N TS Each spring the LAII awards Field Research Grants (FRGs) to graduate students across campus who pursue research in Latin America or Iberia. FRGs offer graduate students an opportunity to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of Latin American languages, terrain and cultures; to familiarize them with information sources relevant to their studies; to conduct pilot studies and preliminary investigations that will inform their thesis or dissertation proposals; and to develop contacts with scholars and institutions in their fields of study.
EMILY MOES AN THRO P OLO GY
HAYLEY PEDRICK
Mexico: Stru ct ura l Vio le nce a nd Child re n: A P i l o t
LATIN AME RICAN STU DIE S
Stu d y on Differe nce s b e twe e n So cia l Cla ss of
Col om b i a: U r b an an d R u ral A p p ro ac hes
Ju ve n ile s in Colo nia l M ex ico
to Me m o r i al i zat i o n i n M e d e l l i n , Col om b i a
SARAH LEITER ANTH RO PO LO GY
ANTHONY MELUSO
B razi l : B razi l ’s C h an ging Religio us
GEOG RA P HY & EN V I R O N ME N TAL
Lan d s c ap e : E t h n o g ra phic I nsights
ST UD IES M exi co: S mallh old e r Far me r Re sista nce
MARIANA SIERRA
to Conste llation Bran d s Brewe r y
S PANIS H & PO RT UGUESE B razi l : D e m oc racy and L iterature
JESSIE WILLIAMSON
i n B razi l : M u l t i p l e Per spec tives
BIOLOGY Peru: Why Don ’t Bird s G e t Chro nic
ZSOFIA SZOKE
M ount a i n Sickn e ss
ANTH RO PO LO GY B ol i v i a: Th e L i t h i u m Eco no my: B o livia’s “ N ew ” Re s ou rce i n t h e Co ntex t o f
VALERIO DI FONZO
Re s o u rce E x t rac t i on H isto r y
ANTH ROP O LO GY Peru: Neolib e ralis m,
JENS VAN GEYSL
N e oext ra ctivism, an d
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E nv ironme n tal Con f licts in Pe r u
Parag u ay : Th e E f fe c t s o f L an g u age E n d an g e r m e n t on S an ap an a Vowel Pro duc tio ns
ANDRÉ NASCIMENTO S PANIS H & PO RTU G U E S E
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P HD FE LLOWS
H i sto ry Laura Powell: “Ayllus, Haciendas, and the State:
LAII PhD Fellowships are highly competitive awards
Indigenous Communities during Nation-Building in the
given to Latin Americanist doctoral students from
Nineteenth Century”
across campus in order to support their dissertation
L a n g u ag e , L i t e r ac y , & S o c i o c u lt u r a l Studies
research and writing.
American Studies María Lopez Calleros: “Female Disposability and the
Yuliana Kenfield: “Andean College Students Making
Intimate Economies of Precarious Work: Maquila
Sense of Their Quechua-Spanish Bilingual Practices
Workers and Domestic Workers in Mexico and the U.S.
and Language Attitudes”
Southwest”
Political Science
Anastasia Theodoropoulos: “Wholly Middle and Holy
Fiorella Vera-Adrianzén: ”Building Citizenship: The
Other: Constructing “Authentic Tradition” in Brazil’s
Effects of Reparative Justice on Individuals and
Rising Middle Class”
Communities in Post-conflict Peru”
A n t h r o p o lo g y
S pa n i s h & P o r t u g u e s e
Maria de PIlar File-Muriel: “The Construction
Diego Bustos: ” Middle Class Aspirations and
and Ongoing Collective Life of Colombia’s Peace
Citizenship in Brazilian and Colombian Contemporary
Communities’”
Fiction, 2000-2015”
Geneva Smith: “Governing GMO Soy: Policy-Making, Expertise, and Economic Justice in the Global South”
B i o lo g y Carlos Carrion: “Implementing a Monitoring Program to Catalog Zoonotic Pathogens Transmitted by Insectivorous Bats to Humans in Ecuador: Novel Infrastructure for Prevention and Prediction of Pandemics in Latin America” María Lopez
Anastasia
Pilar
Geneva
Carlos
Laura
Fiorella
Diego
C o m m u n i c at i o n & J o u r n a l i s m José Castro Sotomayor: “Translating Global Nature in Transboundary Sites: Environmental Discourses of Place and Space at the Border between Ecuador and Colombia”
José
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FO R E I GN LANGUAGE & ARE A ST UDI ES F EL LOWS
SU M M E R FL AS
G r a d u at e • Josúe Aciego, PhD student in Anthropology,
FLAS Fellowships are highly competitive awards that
Summer Mayan Language Institute, Nahualá,
recognize and assist meritorious undergraduate and
Guatemala, Tulane University
graduate students seeking intensive language training
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Jennifer Arnason, MA student in Spanish &
in less-commonly-taught languages of Latin America,
Portuguese, Middlebury Portuguese School,
including K’iche’ Maya, Quechua, and Portuguese.
Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College
Through support received from the U.S. Department of
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Chaz Clark, MA student in Latin American Studies,
Education, the LAII is able to offer academic year and
Language and Culture Program in Rio de Janeiro,
summers awards.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, University of Florida
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Sienna Dellepiane, MA student in Latin American
F L AS ACA DEMIC YEAR
Studies, Summer Quechua Language Study,
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Cusco, Peru, Centro Tinku
Josúe Aciego, PhD student in Anthropology, K’iche’ Maya
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Gustavo Garcia, PhD student in American Studies,
José Almeida, PhD student in Anthropology,
Intensive Summer Nahuatl Language and Culture
Quechua
Program, Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah
Jennifer Arnason, MA student in Spanish and
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Pablo Lituma, dual-master’s student in
Portuguese, Portuguese
Architecture and Community & Regional Planning,
Dunia Barahona, BA student in Speech & Hearing
Andes and Amazon Field School 2018: Ecuadorian
Science and Spanish, Portuguese
Quichua, Tena, Ecuador, University of Pittsburgh
Kalyn Finnell, dual MA student in Latin American
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Natalia Toscano, PhD student in American Studies,
Studies and Community and Regional Planning,
Intensive Summer Nahuatl Language and Culture
Quechua
Program, Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah
Lauri Gonzalez, MA student in Latin American
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Alexandra Villegas, dual MA student in Latin
Studies, Quechua
American Studies and Public Health, Basic-
Sarah Leiter, PhD student in Anthropology,
Intermediate Mixtec Language School, Cuidad
Portuguese
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, San Diego State University
Pablo Lituma, dual master’s student in Architecture and Community & Regional Planning, Quichua
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Estevan Pakozdi, BA student in Biology and Latin
U n d e r g r a d u at e • Ramon Galindo, BA student in Spanish &
American Studies, Portuguese
Portuguese, Language and Culture Program in
Hayley Pedrick, MA student in Latin American
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, University of
Studies, Portuguese
Florida
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Isaiah Romo, BA student in Latin American Studies, Summer Mayan Language Institute, Nahualá, Guatemala, Tulane University
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ST UDE N T CO NF ER ENC E P RES E NTAT I ONS We were able to provide modest support to LAS graduate students who were invited to present papers at professional conferences or participate in prestigious training programs.
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Dinka Caceres (PhD, LAS), Climate Scenarios and Implications for Ecuadorian Highlands Communities - 35th Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, San José, Costa Rica
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Sabrina Hernandez (MALAS/JD), Speciality Coffee and the Quasi-Solution to the Fiscal Precarity of Coffee Growers - University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association
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Alexandra Villegas (MALAS/MPH), La Ruta Mixteca: Migration, Health Disparities, and the Role of Decolonized Diets - Conference for the Society for Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA
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Devon Lara (MALAS/MPH), Sharing the Medical Platform: Biomedical Perspectives of Traditional Guatemalan Midwives and Their Role in Healthcare - University of Oklahoma, XIII Annual Tierra Tinta Conference
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Marco Torres (MALAS), Toco, huelo y gusto: cerrando la brecha de poder entre mujeres y hombres en obras del Siglo de Oro
Image: MALAS/MPH student Alexandra Villegas, while participating in a FLAS summer program which later informed her conference presentation on health disparities within Mixteca communities at the Society for Applied Anthropology.
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Faculty Research & Awards
The LAII is sustained and enhanced by the research, teaching, and service of its affiliated faculty across campus. Over one hundred faculty contribute to these efforts and are affiliated with the institute. To support this broad community, the LAII awards funding for field research, conference travel, course development, and study abroad programs.
W E H AV E
100+
A F F I L I AT E D FA C U LT Y R E P R E S E N T I N G OV E R
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D E PA R T M E N T S
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FAC ULT Y SPOTLIGH T: FULBRIGH T SCHOL A R HE A DS SOU TH TO STU DY TH E H I STO RY O F FARMING IN EXTREM E CL IM ATE S UNM anthropology professor, Frances Hayashida, was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to support teaching and research in Chile this Fall. She will take part in an ongoing research collaboration on prehispanic water management and land use in the high-altitude Atacama Desert. Along with colleagues in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago and the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Universidad Católica del Norte in San Pedro de Atacama, Hayashida will be studying how farmers created field and irrigation systems that allowed them to thrive in their extreme environment, what their relationships were with each other and the landscape along with what happened when the region was conquered by the Inka Empire. “I’m very grateful, particularly to the host institutions, my Chilean and Spanish colleagues and to the indigenous communities in our study area,” said Hayashida. “I also thank the Fulbright Program, UNM’s Department of Anthropology, and UNM’s Latin American and Iberian Institute, who provided a seed grant in 2013 that helped support my initial fieldwork in Chile.” Her time in Chile will include teaching in the graduate program in archaeology at the Universidad de Chile and advising students. The Fulbright US Student Program is the largest US exchange program offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, primary and secondary school teaching worldwide. The program currently awards approximately 1,900 grants annually in all fields of study, and operates in more than 140 countries worldwide.
P ROFE SS I ONAL M EETI NGS
Conference, New York
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Jeremy Lehnen, Spanish and Portuguese,
The LAII provided professional development funds
“Cartographies of Exclusion: Justicia, Juizo, and
to 16 faculty to present papers at academic and
Morros dos Prazeres,” Mid-Americas Conference
professional conferences in the U.S. and abroad.
on Hispanic Literature, St. Louis
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“Dead Bodies and Living Memory: Illicit Military
Singing Pain, Performing Desire, You say C D
Adoptions in Speilbersg’s Documentary Finding
E, I say Do, Re, Mi: Conceptual and Cultural
Oscar,” Southwest Council of Latin American
Differences in Spanish and English Music Studies,”
Studies Conference, Austin
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is to Resist, To Resist is to Create: The Fallacy
isla minima,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language
of Neutrality in Architecture and Librarianship,”
Association Conference, Spokane // “Ciencia
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American
ficción y estrategias alternativas de representación
Materials LXIII, Mexico City
de la violencia de género en Mexico: El silencio de
Kency Cornejo, Art and Art History, “Los Siempre
los cuerpos,” Southwest Council of Latin American
Sospechosos de Todo: Love, Intervention and
Studies Conference, Austin Anna Nogar, Spanish and Portuguese, “Exploring Privacy in Mexican Contexts from the Colonial
Ane Gonzalez Lara, Architecture and Planning,
Period to the Twentieth Century,” Modern
“To Create is to Resist, To Resist is to Create:
Languages Association Conference, New York
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Jamie Nuñez, Political Science, “Managing supply,
Librarianship,” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin
sewage, and scarcity: The politics of water in Latin
American Materials LXIII, Mexico City
America,” LASA International Congress, Barcelona
Les Field, Anthropology, “Connecting the Dots
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Wendy Pederson, University Libraries, “Edición
of 1982: The Dynamics of Left and Right in Latin
Cartonera como posible apuesta para descoloniza
America,” LASA International Congress, Barcelona,
el mundo editorial y las bibliotecas,” Seminar on
Matías Fontenla, Economics,“International
the Acquisition of Latin American Materials LXIII,
Economic Integration: Return Migration and
Mexico City
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Suzanne Oakdale, Anthropology, “Ritual Resources
Association International Conference, Vancouver
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Elizabeth Hutchison, History, LASA International
Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Madrid
Congress, Barcelona
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International Congress, Barcelona
Development,” 93rd Annual Western Economic
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Miguel Lopez, Spanish and Portuguese, “Detecting Dictatorship in El secreto de sus ojos and La
The Fallacy of Neutrality in Architecture and
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Stephanie Beene, University Libraries, “To Create
Decoloniality in Central American Art,” LASA
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Kimberle Lopez, Spanish and Portuguese,
Ana Alonso-Minutti, Music, “Chavela’s Frida:
LASA International Congress, Barcelona
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Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Linguistics, “Word-level
Margaret Jackson, Art and Art History, “Moche
prosody in Kukama: The interplay of stress and
Creation Stories: The Pleiades Narrative at Huaca
vowel recognition,” Amazonicas VII Conference,
de La Luna and Huaca Cao Viejo, Peru,” 106th
Baños
Annual Conference on Art of the Americas, LA
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Leila Lehnen, Spanish and Portuguese, “Throwing Stones and Words: A Cartography of Democratic Culture in Brazil,” Mid-Americas Conference on Hispanic Literature, St. Louis // “Democracy in Brazilian Culture,” Modern Languages Association
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F IELD RE S E AR C H GR ANT R E C I PI E N TS Every Spring semester, the LAII holds a competition for faculty grants to support field research in Latin America, Spain, or Portugal. These grants give UNM faculty members the means to begin field research on new projects or to complete, supplement, or add a comparative dimension to field work conducted previously. In 2017-18, we supported the following faculty researchers:
RUTH GALVĂ N TRINIDAD LANG UAG E , LITE RACY, & S O CIO CU LTU RAL ST UDI ES M ex i co : Co u n te r - m i g rat i on an d (re)i n co r p o rat i o n to M ex i c an s oc i e t y : I d e ol og i e s of C h i l d re n Re t u r n ees to M ex i c an S c h oo l s an d Th e i r Te ac h e r s
LOIS MEYER L ANG UAG E , L I TER ACY, & SOC IO C ULT URA L ST U DI E S Mexi co: P rote st as Pe d a g o g y, Pe d a g o g y a s Prote st: Re -map ping I nd ig e no us bil ingu al te ach e r ac tiv ism fro m So uth to Nor th
JENNIFER TUCKER COM M UN I TY & RE GIO NAL P LANNING Pa ra guay: Citie s th at Wo r k: The M a king o f P ro - Po or Econo mie s
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Publications LADB
One of the longest running premier news and educational services on Latin America, LAII’s Latin America Digital Beat (LADB), formerly known as the Latin America Data Base, features three weekly electronic publications: NotiCen, NotiSur, and SourceMex and a fully searchable archive with over 29,000 articles that provide timely information and historical perspective
A F T E R N E A R LY 3 0 Y E A R S OF PUBLISHING, LADB HAS
on various Latin American issues.
A SEARCHABLE ARCHIVE The LADB editorial team includes professional journalists in Latin America who produce weekly articles in English, providing
OF 28,000 ARTICLES
in-depth analyses and highlighting key developments in the region on a variety of topics. LADB currently has approximately 170 individual subscribers and 38 institutional subscribers, with a readership of about 3,500. LADB is free to all UNM faculty, students, and staff, as well as to K-12 educators nationwide.
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Our People
The LAII functions as a network of faculty, students, independent scholars, K-12 educators, and community members. Our programs sustain this network and benefit from it, contributing to UNM’s rich environment for the study and teaching of Latin America and Iberia. These diverse affiliates regularly come together to share approaches to understanding the region.
LAII FOSTERS A DY N A M I C C O M M U N I T Y O F SCHOLARSHIP WITHIN AND B E YO N D U N M
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Our People SOLAS
The Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS) is an independent, student-government funded group comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students who share an interest in Latin America. It is open to both LAS students and students
S O LAS O FFI C E RS Kalyn Finnell, President Alin Badillo-Carillo, Vice President
in other departments with an interest in Latin America. SOLAS
Alexandria Lyons, Coordinator
often sponsors speakers from within and outside of the UNM
Devon Lara, Treasurer
community and it maintains a website (www.solasunm.org) that features articles written by students. SOLAS also coordinates an annual film festival, Sin Fronteras, that features Latin American and Latino films. The festival is held at an independent theater in Albuquerque and draws significant attendance from community members. Film showings are frequently enhanced by directors’ presentations. In Spring 2018, the festival included six films screened at UNM and the Guild Theater, with topics touching on taco trucks and social equity, Pele’s meteoric rise to soccer stardom, and music as resilience, among others. All screenings were made available at no charge thanks to the generous support of partners on campus and in the community.
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Our People K-12 Advisors
The LAII Teacher Advisory Committee is composed of New Mexico educators who serve the vital role of guiding LAII K-12 community education programs. Committee members assist the LAII by expressing classroom instructional needs; reviewing and evaluating existing LAII activities; and developing
K-1 2 T E AC H E R A DV I S O RY CO M M I T T E E Keira Philipp-Schnurer, Chair
recommendations for enhancing and expanding resources. Given
Colleen Elder, Cien Aguas International
the LAII’s collaboration with institutions across the country, the
Corina Fraire-Duran, Cochiti Elementary
committee has the potential for national as well as local impact.
Carolyn A. Gonzalez, Emerson Elementary Allison Hawks, Washington Middle Toni McRoberts, Cibola High School Kaycie Robinson, Atrisco Heritage Maria Sheldon, Ortiz Middle School Candice Stanford, Eugene Field Magdalena Vazquez Dathe, Dorn Charter
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Our People Affiliated Scholars
Through its affiliated scholars programs, the LAII facilitates research opportunities by providing access to UNM’s wealth of Latin America-related resources.
RI C HA RD E. G REENLEAF VISITING L IBR A RY SCHOL A R S The LAII awarded three grants to Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholars for a total of $10,000; scholars were from the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Pennsylvania State University. The LAII has granted 49 Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar awards since 2004, when the program was established through a generous gift from the late Dr. Richard E. Greenleaf
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Alicia Assini, Doctoral Student, University of Texas, Austin, Iberian and Latin American Linguistics, “Speaking New Mexico: The Intersection of Spoken and Computer-Mediated Language,” (February-March 2018)
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Esther Brown, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, “A Language Contact Perspective on New Mexican Phonology,” (January 2018).
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Jonathan Steuck, PhD Candidate, Pennsylvania State University, dual degree in Hispanic Linguistics and Language Science, “Ready for What Language Comes Next: Factors Spanish-English Bilinguals in New Mexico May Utilize to Anticipate Code-Switches in Discourse,”(January-February 2018).
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ASS OCI AT E A ND RES EARCH SCHO L A R S In addition to Visiting Library Scholar, the LAII offers two designations to its affiliated scholars: Visiting Scholar and Research Associate. Visiting Scholar is a title reserved for scholars who are visiting the University and participating in some way in its teaching or research functions, while Research Associate is a title used for independent researchers whose primary function is to conduct individual research or collaborate with university researchers. Recent affiliates include:
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Eric Griego, PhD student, University of New Mexico, Department of Political Science. He will conduct field research for his dissertation which deals primarily with theory-building and qualitative data collection to assess the perceptions and lessons of the cooperative economic development model in Mondragón, Spain. He is a Research Associate from June 2017 to August 2017.
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Ivan Sandoval-Cervantes, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas-El Paso, Sociology. Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Texas-El Paso. He is currently involved in two research projects. The first analyzes the ways in which globalization shapes the mobility of indigenous communities in Mexico and look at questions such as who counts as a migrant, and how gender, indigeneity, race, and citizenship are interconnected through internal and transnational migrations in Latin America. The second studies how human and non-human bodies interact in the borderlands, especially by looking at the historical changes of animal rights activism in the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso community. He is a Visiting Scholar from June to July 2017.
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Lance Blythe, Independent Researcher. Research for the initial stages of a global comparative study of pastoral borderland conflict not just in New Mexico, but also Argentina, South Africa, the Northern Caucuses, and Australia during the same time period. Visiting Scholar through April 2018.
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Maria del Mar Castillo Martinez, Secondary Education Spanish teacher, Malaga, Spain. Continued work on the end of 19th Century drama genre, specifically dramas by two authors from Granada who were brothers, Manuel and Antonio Paso; looking at how they were influenced by earlier Spanish authors, as well as how they influenced later authors; and finally looking at the similarities between these two brothers and two other authors who were also brothers, Antonio and Manuel Machado, from southern Spain. Visiting Scholar through December 2017.
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Thomas E. Chávez, Independent Researcher, Historian, Consultant. Research project titled “Benjamin Franklin Documents in the Archives of Spain,” which compiles documents pertinent to Franklin’s activities including correspondence, summaries of meetings and official reports, all dealing with his sometimes secret negotiations concerning the independence of the United States. The research will result in a three volume series to be published in Spain. Visiting Scholar through May 2019.
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Francine Cronshaw, Independent Researcher. Cronshaw’s area of research is mid-20th century Colombian politics and more particularly, the politics of patronage, she is at writing stage for a book on patronage politics in Colombia from the early 20th century to 1957. Visiting Scholar through March 2019.
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Richard Flint, Independent Researcher, Historian, Author. Completion of book in publication process at UNM Press: A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective. Also, engaged in an agreement with the Center for Southwest Research for simultaneous online publication of the large database of documentary information on which the book is based. Visiting Scholar through June 2019.
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Shirley Cushing Flint, Independent Researcher, Historian, Author. Completion of book in publication process at UNM Press: A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective. Also, engaged in an agreement with the Center for Southwest Research for simultaneous online publication of the large database of documentary
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information on which the book is based. Visiting Scholar through June 2019.
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Stanley M. Hordes, Independent Researcher, Historian, Consultant, Author. Dr. Hordes continues to work on the multiyear project to research the history of crypto-Jewish settlement in the Spanish Caribbean islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and pre-British Jamaica; research efforts also include use of primary documents from the National Archive of Spain in Madrid and from the Archive of the Indies in Sevilla. Visiting Scholar through June 2018.
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Merideth Paxton, Independent Researcher, Historian, Author, Editor. Continued research on book that resulted from the Fifty-third International Congress of Americanists, held in Mexico City (July 19-24, 2009); work includes introduction and one chapter, as well as coordination of translation to English. Visiting Scholar through June 2020.
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Our People Faculty Committees
The LAII draws together a diverse community of affiliated faculty from across campus who comprise our Faculty Concilium. To ensure disciplinary representation in our programs, awards, and events, we also have five committees that provide guidance:
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Executive Committee
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Grants and Awards Committee Operations Committee
G U I DA N C E TO T H E L A I I
Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies (ICLAS)
The collective advice gathered through the committees is put into action by professional staff who carry out the day-to-day operations of the Institute.
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EXECU TIVE COMMITTEE 2 01 7-2 018 Elizabeth Hutchison, President History Margaret Jackson, Vice President Art and Art History Lindsay Smith, Secretary Anthropology Allison Border, Representative Teaching Education, Educational Leadership, and Policy Kency Cornejo, Representative Art and Art History Carlos LĂłpez-Leiva, Representative Language, Literature, and Sociocultural Studies Jami NuĂąez, Representative Political Science Hayley Pedrick, Representative SOLAS Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Representative Honors College Ronda Brulotte, Ex-Oficio Latin American and Iberian Institute William Stanley, Ex-Oficio Latin American and Iberian Institute
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G RA N TS A N D AWARDS COMMITTE E 2 01 7-2 01 8 William Stanley, Chair Latin American & Iberian Institute Adán Ávalos, Representative Cinematic Arts Melissa Axelrod, Representative Linguistics Ronda Brulotte, Representative Latin American Studies Joseph Cook, Student Representative Biology
William Fleming, Representative Community & Regional Planning Frances Hayashida, Representative Anthropology Sabrina Hernandez, Representative SOLAS Leila Lehnen, Representative Spanish & Portuguese Enrique Sanabria, Representative History Cliff Villa, Representative Law
Claudia Diaz Fuentes, Representative Economics
O P E RATI O N S COMMITTEE 2 01 7-2 01 8
Suzanne Schadl, Representative Inter-American Studies Program, University Libraries
Adán Ávalos, Chair Cinematic Arts
Rosa Vallejos Yopán, Representative Linguistics / Spanish & Portuguese
Allison Borden, Representative Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Policy Sienna Dellepiane, Representative SOLAS Richard File-Muriel, Representative Spanish & Portuguese Miguel Lopez, Representative Spanish & Portuguese Barbara Reyes, Representative History
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I NT E RDI SCI PLINARY COMMITTEE ON
Cassy Dorf, Representative
L AT I N A MERI CAN STUDIES (ICLAS )
Political Science
201 7-2 01 8 Judy Bieber, Representative Ronda Brulotte, Chair
History
Latin American and Iberian Institute Levi Romero, Reresentative Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Representative
Chicana and Chicano Studies
Honors Ray Hernández-Durán, Representative Ruth Trinidad Galván, Representative
Art and Art History
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies Kalyn Finnell, Student Representative Eva Rodríguez González, Representative
Latin American Studies
Spanish & Portuguese Manuel Montoya, Representative International Management
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Our People Staff
William Stanley
Carlos Navarro
Director
Writer/Editor for LADB
Ronda Brulotte
Keira Philipp-Schnurer
Associate Director for Academic Programs
Supervisor of Community Education Programs
M. Robyn CĂ´tĂŠ
Krista Savoca
Program Manager
Associate Director for Program Development
Katrina Dillon
Amanda Wolfe
K-12 Education Consultant
Associate Director for Program Development (departing)
Merle Garcia Administrative Assistant II Vickie Madrid Nelson Associate Director for Business Operations
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T H E U NI V E R S I TY O F N E W M E X I CO LAT I N AM ER I CA N & I BE R I A N I N ST I T UT E l ai i .u n m.e d u