LatinAmericanist_Fall08.qxp:LatinAmericanist_Fall08 12/24/08 1:54 PM Page 1 e h t LATI NA MERICANIST University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies | Volume 39, Number 2 | Fall 2008 Dr. Terry McCoy Retires After Distinguished Career at Center

erry McCoy, Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and committees throughout Political Science and a former director of the Center for Latin campus. He regularly TAmerican Studies, retired in spring 2007 after 32 years at UF. taught Latin American To celebrate McCoy’s service and commitment to the field of Latin Politics, International Dr. Terry L. McCoy. American Studies and to the University, the Center hosted his Politics of Latin America, L retirement party in early November 2008. The party was held in and a graduate seminar on Inter–American Relations in the conjunction with the 2008 Latin American Business Symposium and Department of Political Science. At the Center, he developed the Career Workshop, which marked the 10th anniversary of the Latin curriculum for and designed and implemented the student training American Business Environment (LABE) program, which McCoy components of the LABE program. This included two new courses; founded. Many of his former students returned to Gainesville for this graduate concentrations for students in the MALAS, MBA and MSF celebration and also participated in the Career Workshop. In degree programs; study abroad opportunities; paid internships; and a retirement, he continues to serve as Director of the LABE program student–oriented biannual business symposium and career workshop. and also as Associate Director of CIBER (Center for International He also developed the joint MALAS–JD program with the UF Levin Business and Education Research) in the Warrington College of College of Law. Business Administration on a part-time basis. McCoy also has considerable international teaching experience, McCoy came to UF in 1975 and served first as Assistant Director having taught short courses and seminars in Uruguay, Colombia, and then Associate Director of the Center, with an affiliation in the Ecuador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Among Department of Political Science. He was the eighth Director of the his awards have been Fulbright fellowships to Brazil and Chile. Center, serving from 1985 to 1996. McCoy was an innovator with respect to study abroad. In 1978, he McCoy’s area of research specialization is the political economy of developed UF’s Brazilian Portuguese Language and Culture summer Latin America. In the 1970s his research focused on Latin American program in Rio de Janeiro. This program is the oldest and most population policies, a topic on which he published an edited volume successful summer overseas program in Brazil, having trained around and a co–authored book. In the 1980s his focus shifted to Caribbean 500 students. In 1999 he developed — and he continues to direct — migration. With Charles Wood (LAS), he conducted a study of West the summer Business in Brazil program at the Catholic University in Indian seasonal workers in the Florida sugar industry. On stepping Rio. In its eight years this program has attracted and trained over 70 down as Center director, McCoy created the LABE program under students. McCoy was a co–founder of the one–week Business Study which his research has dealt with the region’s business environment Tour, which rotates between Brazil, Chile and Argentina. In and trade negotiations in the Americas. Funded principally through recognition of his many contributions to internationalizing the CIBER, this research has been intimately tied with McCoy’s teaching, University, McCoy was named UF’s 2006 International Educator of training, and outreach activities. The main output has been an annual the Year. publication distributed widely, The Latin American Business Colleagues and former students have established The Terry McCoy Environment Report , now in its tenth year. Over the past decade he Latin American Travel Scholarship as a show of appreciation and in also participated in research projects on the Gulf of Mexico region. honor of his many years of service to the Center and the University. For three decades, McCoy was the pillar of the Center’s MALAS The income from the fund will be used to support graduate student (Master of Arts in Latin American Studies) program, supervising more travel grants for short-term study abroad courses in Latin America, than 70 theses. He also chaired five PhD dissertations in Political such as those that McCoy developed and promoted. Science and served as a member of many other theses and dissertation

Director’s Ricardo Faculty News Alumni News p2 Corner p3 Rodriguez p7 & Publications p16 inside: Keynote Speaker LatinAmericanist_Fall08.qxp:LatinAmericanist_Fall08 12/24/08 1:54 PM Page 2 e h Director’s Corner t LATINAMERICANIST Volume 39, Number 2 All Department of Education Title VI National Resource Centers are encouraged to Fall 2008 undergo an external evaluation during each grant cycle. These evaluations may be all encompassing or focused on a particular area of activities. The Center opted to focus Center for Latin American Studies our 2008 evaluation on our foreign language programs and study abroad activities. The 319 Grinter Hall foreign language programs at UF were reorganized during the summer, partly as a cost PO Box 115530

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A Gainesville, FL 32611–5530 C split up, resulting in a new, stand-alone Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. E I L A T All other languages, including Haitian Creole, were reorganized into a new Department 352–392-0375 NA Dr. Carmen Diana Deere of World Languages and Cultures. www.latam.ufl.edu Our external evaluator was Dr. John M. Lipski, the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Penn State University. As expected, he found that we had far fewer faculty than needed in Spanish given the size of both the undergraduate and graduate programs and the importance of Spanish to the State of Florida. Partly as a result of his visit, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies has been allocated 2008–2009 Faculty Advisory Council two positions from the State’s Tuition Differential moneys and searches to fill these positions are currently Carmen Diana Deere (LAS/FRE). Chair underway. Grenville Barnes (SFRC) With respect to study abroad, enrollments for summer and other short–term study abroad programs continue to Richmond Brown (LAS) be good, but we have had difficulties increasing the number of students enrolled in semester–length study abroad Hannah Covert (LAS) programs. For the second time we were forced to cancel plans for a UF–sponsored semester–length program at the Elizabeth Ginway (Spanish & Portuguese) University of Costa Rica due to insufficient enrollments. Lipski recommended that we continue to focus on Eric Keys (Geography) short–term study abroad opportunities as a stepping stone to developing greater student interest in longer term study in Latin America, and offer more entry–level courses on Latin America. Gerald Murray (Anthropology) Lipski also recommended that we proceed to offer a proposed Garifuna Language and Culture Summer Institute, Richard Phillips (UF Libraries) holding the program in Honduras rather than at UF. Garifuna is the language of the “Black Caribs” of Belize, Maria Rogal (Art & Art History) Guatemala and Honduras, and is of significant interest to anthropologists, linguists and scholars of the African Marianne Schmink (LAS/Anthropology) Diaspora, besides to Caribbeanists (see p. 11). Pliar Useche (LAS/FRE) The program highlights of the fall 2008 semester were a Film and Lecture Series on the Caribbean and the Latin Philip Williams (Political Science) American Business Environment Program’s Latin American Business Symposium and Career Workshop. The Florida Humanities Council–funded lecture and film series, “Through the Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida” brought three noted Caribbean specialists to campus, Karen Richman of Notre Dame University; historian Frank Editor: Hannah Covert, LAS Moya Pons of the Dominican Republic; and Pedro Sarduy, a Cuban writer and poet residing in London. All three Graphic Designer: Susan Duser, UF NAPA events drew packed audiences at the Hippodrome State Theater in downtown Gainesville. Each speaker also participated in other events either on campus or in the community. The series continues into the spring semester (see p. 12). The Business Symposium and Career Workshop were a great success, with over 100 students attending the November events (see pp. 3 & 11). Some 20 UF alumni participated on the panels during the two days. The weekend concluded with Terry McCoy’s retirement celebration, a very special event attended by many of his former students, colleagues and friends. We took advantage of the weekend events to hold our fourth LAS Alumni Board meeting. At the meeting, it was decided to expand membership in the advisory board to include both alumni who have graduated with a specialization in Latin American Studies and those whose careers have focused on Latin America. We generated ideas on how to expand our fundraising activities and began planning for the celebration of the Center’s 80th anniversary, to take place in spring 2011 in conjunction with the Center’s 60th Annual Conference. I urge alumni to contact me if they are interested in participating in any of the activities of the Alumni Board (see p. 19).

S 1 Dr. Terry McCoy Retires 9 Recent Faculty Book

T 3 Keynote Speaker Ricardo Rodriguez 11 New Programs in Latin America 4 Presidential Election & Latin America 12 Outreach News N 4 Fall Colloquium Series 14 Student Graduates, Awards, Funding E 5 Gift of Mexican & Cuban Film Posters 16 Alumni News & Notes T 5 New Center Affiliates 17 Center Director Search N 6 Research Program – ACLI 18 Thanks to Our Donors 7 Faculty News & Publications 19 LAS Alumni Board CO LatinAmericanist_Fall08.qxp:LatinAmericanist_Fall08 12/24/08 1:54 PM Page 3

EVENTS Latin American Business Symposium Private Equity Opportunities in Latin America

he Latin American Business Environment Program’s fourth views on the state of “Private Equity Opportunities in Latin America.” annual Latin American Business Symposium was held on Since Rodriguez began working in the region in 1980, Latin America has TNovember 7, 2008. The symposium had the objective of continued to be an area of geopolitical and economic importance to the deepening our understanding of recent developments in Latin America US. As Europe and parts of Asia have explored regional integration, and their significance for business. The one–day event featured two Rodriguez believes that the further development of the Americas is the panel sessions with corporate leaders who shared their insights and best hope for the US to reduce its dependence on those regions. experiences doing business in Latin America. Speakers on the first panel Beginning with the waves of trade liberalization and the privatization discussed the transportation industry, forestry investments, logistics and of state–owned enterprises that swept through Latin America in the late US–Cuba relations. It featured speakers from Kestrel Liner Agencies, 1980s, Rodriguez has primarily advised and invested in family–owned RMK Timberland Group, FedEx Express, and Squire, Sanders and groups that had previously thrived on low levels of competition. He Dempsey. On the second panel, the speakers dealt with equity stated that due to ineffective management from committees of second– investments, value–added IT distribution, and the entertainment and third–generation relatives of the founder, these companies had been industry. Panelists were from INCA Investments, Tallard Technologies, operating under a patriarchal structure that tolerated mediocre and HBO Latin America Group. performance. Rodriguez achieves value creation from his investments by Ricardo Rodriguez (BSBA Accounting 1974), founder and partner of reorganizing management, repositioning the company’s strategy to best the Southern Cross Group, delivered the luncheon keynote address at the suit its target market, and creating a meritocratic corporate culture. symposium. During his career in investment banking and principal One such example of Southern Cross’s success in Latin America was investing, Rodriguez has advised a variety of Latin American the group’s investment in La Polar, a chain of Chilean department stores. corporations, including the Bemberg Group and Seguros Comercial The family–owned chain was at risk of going out of business in 1998 America. Since the when it was purchased by Rodriguez’s firm for $33.3 million. By founding of Southern following their investment philosophy and their goal of “doing it the Cross ten years ago, old–fashioned way,” which Rodriguez defined as selling something better Rodriguez and his than what was bought, he stated that the partners of Southern Cross partners have been were able to turn around, refocus, strengthen, and expand the company committed to while realizing an excellent return on investment and internal rate of optimizing the return by the time they liquidated their position in 2006. management strategies Rodriguez concluded his remarks by answering questions from the of each company in audience, which questioned him on a wide range of issues, including the which they invest. potential impacts of the current economic crisis. Rodriguez believes that, Before a gathering of although the effects of the global downturn may be painful, the crisis 200 students, faculty, will still present opportunities for investors to create value and aid in the and business development of Latin America. professionals, —Contributed by Dave Harmel, MALAS student Rodriguez presented his

L Ricardo Rodriguez, UF alum and founder of Southern Cross Group, delivered the symposium’s keynote lecture.

L Mary Risner (LAS), Ali Boelter (MALAS), and William Hummel (MALAS) working at the symposium.

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EVENTS Austin provided commentary on the importance of Obama’s success The Presidential Election for Latinos in the US. In this election, Latinos, for the first time, tended to strongly identify with the Democratic Party. And, Latinos became and Latin America important in Obama’s strategy to deracialize his campaign and own political identity. Obama’s success represents real gains for the or the Center’s final colloquium of the fall semester, a roundtable Democratic Party; however, his ability to hold on to the new Latino Fdiscussion was held on what Barack Obama’s election as President votes will depend on whether issues that are important to Latinos are might mean for Latin America and Latinos in the years ahead. dealt with in an effective and timely manner. Moderated by Richmond Brown (LAS), the panel featured Osvaldo Overall, the panelists agreed that the key issues for Latin America and Jordan, a PhD candidate in Political Science, and Professors Sharon Latinos, including immigration reform, economic assistance to meet the Austin (Political Science) and Terry McCoy (LAS). financial crisis, and military intervention and aid in the war on drugs, Hope, one of the key buzzwords of the presidential campaign, was will cast how the Obama administration is seen over the next four years. also used by the panelists to describe their impressions of Obama’s —Contributed by William Hummel, MALAS student policies for Latin America, though as Jordan said, “hope with some uncertainty.” All three panelists agreed that the Obama administration will be given an opportunity by Latin America to prove that it is engaged in the world and that it seeks international cooperation. McCoy remarked, however, that he does not see the region as an overall priority for the new administration and that Latin America was the primary subject of only one speech from each of the candidates on the campaign trail. That said, McCoy hopes that the Obama administration can re–engage the world and in particular, work to solve the global financial crisis. This would do much to improve the standing of the US in the eyes of Latin America. Jordan provided the Latin American perspective on the election, commenting that the left and right in Latin America look forward to working with Obama, yet both sides have issues with some of his policies. Issues like free trade agreements, the Cuban embargo, and Sharon Austin, Osvaldo Jordan, and Terry McCoy provided drug violence all matter deeply to Latin American countries right now, L commentary on the US election and Latin America. so the new administration must tread a careful line in formulating policy.

F Aug. 28 Colombian Politics in the 2000s: Radical Change or More of the Same? A Christopher Abel, Reader in History, University College, London L L Sept. 4 Gender, Race and Class in Brazilian Lynching 2

0 Tim Clark, Assistant Professor, LAS/Criminology 0

8 Sept. 18 Where there’s a Will there’s a Way: The Significance of Scribal Variation in Colonial Maya Testaments C Victoria Bricker, Professor Emerita, Anthropology, Tulane University O

L Oct. 2 Contradictory Icons: Tourism and the Development of Jamaican National Literature L

O Leah Rosenberg, Associate Professor, English Q

U Oct. 16 María de Jesus de Agreda: Religious Symbols at War in the Spanish Borderlands

I Juliana Barr, Associate Professor, History U M Nov. 6 Seeking Sustainability in the Amazon: Shifting from Brazil Nut Exploitation to Conscious Management

S Karen Kainer, Associate Professor, LAS/SFRC E

R Nov. 20 Roundtable Discussion: The 2008 U.S Election and Latin America I

E Sharon Austin, Associate Professor, Political Science; Osvaldo Jordan, Doctoral Candidate, Political Science; Terry McCoy,

S Professor Emeritus, LAS/Political Science; Richmond Brown, Associate Director, Latin American Studies

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Gift of Mexican and Cuban Film Posters

amón Figueroa, Associate Professor of Spanish at Millsaps College of the socio–political forces in each country. Figueroa writes, “The Rin Mississippi, has generously donated his personal collection of posters are a great expression of a time when Mexico made an Mexican and Cuban film posters to the UF Smathers Libraries Popular investment in popular culture as a way to promote the values and virtues Culture Collection. that would unify society and consolidate power of the system. I think it Figueroa made the donation is very interesting that some of the poster artists (such as Josep Renau or in honor of Efraín Barradas Ernesto García Cabral) were also muralists. There is research to be done (LAS/Spanish and on the Mexican poster as an example of the aesthetic cohesiveness of Portuguese Studies), his government sponsored art in Mexico before the sixties. As was the case former professor and in Mexico before 1960, the Cuban revolutionary government became a friend. The collection great sponsor of popular consists of 250 Mexican culture for propagandistic film posters from the 1940s reasons. The power of the to the 1960s and 60 Cuban cultural products of the film posters from the 1960s Cuban revolution in Latin to the 1990s. There are also America is undeniable.” The several posters from France, UF Libraries are applying for Belgium, Poland, and Italy a grant to fund the for Latin American films. restoration and digitization of The Mexican posters are the the poster collection. rarest and most important ones of the collection since the Cineteca Nacional de México, the Mexican L Cuban poster for Fresa y Chocolate national film archive which designed by Ernesto Ferrán Fernández, 1993. housed film posters, was destroyed by fire in 1982. Due to Figueroa’s gift, UF now holds the largest public collection of L Mexican poster for Casa de Perdición, Mexican movie posters in the United States. 1954. The posters can be appreciated as both an art form and a reflection

Welcome New Center Affiliates, Staff and Visitors!

Center–Based Faculty Oral History Visitors Manuel Morales Mite (Ecuador) LAS/Sociology & Criminology Paul Ortíz (Latino Studies) Richard Acostupa Huaranca Moore Visiting Fellow Tim Clark (Peru) (Central & South America) Spanish & Portuguese Studies Moore Visiting Fellow Paula Pinheiro (Brazil) Ignacio Rodeño Moore Visiting Fellow Affiliate Faculty (Latino Studies, Caribbean) Dennis del Castillo (Peru) Art & Art History Moore Visiting Fellow Ludmila Ribeiro (Brazil) Maya Stanfield–Mazzi (Andes) Tourism, Recreation & Sport Visiting Scholar Management Carlos Teodoro Irigaray (Brazil) Center for Governmental Brijesh Thapa (Caribbean) Moore Visiting Faculty Amintas Rossete (Brazil) Responsibility Moore Visiting Fellow Timothy McLendon Staff Frederico Oliveira (Brazil) (Haiti, Brazil) Detnie Guerrier Visiting Scholar Edson Vidal (Brazil) Work Study Office Assistant Law Moore Visiting Fellow D. Daniel Sokol (General) Denyse Mello (Brazil) Moore Visiting Fellow

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Research Program Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative

F’s Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative (ACLI), launched in 2005, recently received a $2.3 million three–year renewal grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The program, jointly sponsored by the Center’s Tropical Conservation Uand Development Program (TCD) and the School of Forest Resources and Conservation (SFRC), is intended to enhance effective management of protected areas and frontier regions in the nine Amazon Basin countries. The program provides fellowships for conservation professionals from the Amazon region to enroll at UF graduate programs affiliated with TCD, or to conduct semester–long, non–degree independent learning programs at UF. There were seven non–degree professional visitors at UF during fall semester, from Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, and three ACLI graduate students entered the program in August. ACLI is also strengthening partnerships with three Amazonian universities with the goal of enriching and supporting graduate and post–graduate training and applied problem–based research through faculty exchanges and placement of post–docs. UF is working with the Federal University of Acre, Brazil (UFAC), the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil (UFMT) and the National University of the Peruvian Amazon (UNAP) to create and consolidate strong graduate training programs that produce useful applied research to address local and regional conservation problems and train local conservation managers.

Program Highlights:

L Five Master’s and 12 PhD students have received fellowships, eight from Brazil, three from Peru, and two each from Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia. L 27 professional visitors over four academic years have presented seminars, taken courses, written papers, studied English, done collaborative research with UF faculty and students, and prepared for subsequent graduate studies. L UF faculty, students and post–docs have offered short courses in research design, statistical techniques, conflict management, anthropology and development among others at UFAC, while three UFAC faculty have studied at UF. L ACLI has assisted the UFMT law school to develop a new distance education extension course, conservation clinic and legal journal, all aimed at training students and providing support to public prosecutors in legal procedures to control deforestation. L UNAP has developed a new Master’s program in Protected Area Management, and UF faculty have led field courses on community participation and research approaches to protected area management. L A December 2007 workshop presented exemplary cases of university teaching, research and extension, making valuable contributions to applied conservation to the graduate coordinators of 35 programs from multiple disciplines related to conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon. —Contributed by Bob Buschbacher, ACLI Program Manager Recent Faculty Book

L Bertha Hernández–Truyol and Stephen Powell New York University Press, 2009 Just Trade: A New Covenant Linking Trade and Human Rights This book makes a case for reaching a middle–ground between trade law and human rights law, acknowledging their co–existence and the significant points at which they overlap. Using examples from many of the 35 nations of the Western Hemisphere, the authors carefully examine human rights policies involving conscripted child labor, sustainable development, promotion of health, equality of women, human trafficking, indigenous peoples, poverty, citizenship, and economic sanctions, never overlooking the very real human rights problems that arise from international trade. The authors make suggestions of how the intersections in these two kinds of law may be navigated to promote an international marketplace that embraces both liberal trade and liberal protection of human rights.

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FACULTY Faculty News and Publications

Chuck Wood (LAS/Sociology) and Climate Change Conference in Oslo, Norway. Maria Coady (Teaching & Learning) Service Juan–Carlos Molleda (Public Relations) won He co–presented a paper with Tom Ankersen Learning with Vulnerable Populations: the 2008 UF International Educator of the Year (Law) on “Beyond Property, Beyond Ecology: Preservice Teachers and Migrant Farm Workers Awards. Four of the Center’s affiliate faculty Social-Ecological Resilience of Land and in North Central Florida (with P. Silver). also received the International Educator of the Resource Tenure in Latin America” at the Florida Journal of Teacher Education , 2008; Year award for their respective colleges: Alba Annual Conference on Legal and Policy Issues Personalmente: Home–School Communication Amaya–Burns (Public Health and Health in the Americas in Rio de Janeiro in May. In Practices with (Im)Migrant Families in North Professions), Tom Ankersen (Law), Jack Putz August, he organized a two–week graduate– Florida (with C. Flores and J. Davis). Bilingual (Liberal Arts and Sciences), and Sharleen level field course in Bolivia on forest policy in Research Journal , 2008; Solamente Libros Simpson (Nursing). conjunction with UF’s Working Forests in the Importantes: Literacy Practices and Ideologies Tropics program. Other organizers included of Migrant Farmworking Families in North Jack Putz (Botany) and UF graduate students Central Florida. In G. Li, ed., Multicultural Kelly Biedenweg, Alexander Shenkin, Ari Families, Home Literacies and Mainstream Martinez, Skya Murphy, and Margo Stoddard. Schooling . Albany: SUNY Press, 2009.

Juliana Barr (History) was awarded the Hannah Covert (LAS) has been selected to Berkshire Conference of Women Book Prize, participate in the 2008–09 Next Level one of the top international book awards for Leadership program sponsored by the UF female historians. Her book, Peace Came in the Office of Human Resources. She presented Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the “Student Experiences with the Latin American Texas Borderlands , was published in 2007. Studies Undergraduate Program at the L Chuck Wood and Provost Joseph Glover at the University of Florida,” at the Student Alliance International Educator of the Year awards Emilio Bruna (LAS/WEC) Effect of Sample of Graduates in Education Symposium in ceremony. Size on Estimates of Population Growth Rates Gainesville in June. Calculated with Matrix Models (with I. Fiske Florence Babb (Women’s Studies & Gender and B. Bolker). PLoS One 3(8) 2008: e3080. Carmen Diana Deere (LAS/FRE) presented Research) presented the paper “Gender, Race, “Pobreza, Activos y la Desigualdad de Género” and Cultural Tourism in Andean Peru and Cesar Caviedes (Professor Emeritus, in September at the International Meeting on Chiapas, Mexico” at the American Geography) has remained busy in retirement. Gender Statistics in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Anthropological Association Annual Meeting In 2005 and 2006, he taught in Germany at the She conducted a day–long training session on in San Francisco in November. She served as Center for American Studies at the University the same topic as part of the international co–editor with Jon Wolseth of a Latin American of Heidelberg and at Humboldt University in diploma on gender statistics at the Centro Perspectives issue on youth and cultural Berlin. In 2007, he was the keynote speaker at a Andino de Altos Estudios, DANE, in Bogotá in politics. Publications: Entre la chacra y la olla: symposium on climate and society hosted by November. Publications: The Feminization of Cultura, economía política y las vendedoras de the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Agriculture? The Impact of Economic mercado en el Perú . [Translation of 1998 book, gave a talk on El Niño in Colombia and Restructuring in Rural Latin America. In S. with new preface.] Lima, Peru: Instituto de geographical analysis of electoral results in Razavi, ed., The Gendered Impacts of Estudios Peruanos, 2008; Youth in Cultural Chile. He continues to serve on the editorial Liberalization . London and New York: Politics in Latin America (with J. Wolseth). boards of five international journals and is Routledge, 2008. Latin American Perspectives , 35(4), 2008: 3–14; Contributing Editor of the Handbook of Latin Out in Public. In Real World Latin America: A American Studies . Publications: Impacts of El Kitty Emery (FLMNH) A Zooarchaeological Contemporary Economics and Social Policy Niño-Southern Oscillation on Natural and Test for Dietary Resource Depression at the Reader . Boston: Dollars & Sense, 2008. Human Systems. In T.T. Veblen, K.R. Young End of the Classic Period in the Petexbatun, and A.R. Orme, eds., The Physical Geography of Guatemala. Human Ecology , 36(5) 2008: Grenville Barnes (SFRC) delivered an South America . New York: Oxford University 617–634. invited paper entitled “Experiencias de Press, 2007; Global Climatic Anomalies of the Reforma Catastral/Registral en America Latina: Past: On the Track of Ancient El Niños. Francisco Escobedo (SFRC) presented the Cobertura, Costo y Resultados” in May to Geographische Rundschau , 3(2) 2007; The paper “The Integration of Landscape Ecology incoming Paraguayan President Lugo and Southern Cone. Handbook of Latin American and Policy to Improve Air Quality in Latin several campesino and business leaders in Studies , 63, 2008; El Niño: Extreme Weather on American Cities” in Chengdu, China at the Asunción. He also delivered the invited paper the Increase? In M. Benton, ed., The Seventy International Union of Forest Research “Communal Land/Resource Tenure in the Great Mysteries of the Natural World . London & Organizations conference in September. South–West Amazon: Where do Carbon Rights New York: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Fit?” in October at the Rights, Forests and Faculty News and Publications continued on page 8

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FACULTY Faculty News and Publications continued from page 7 Alfonso Flores–Lagunes (FRE) delivered an documentary “Lost Cities of the Amazon” that from China” (with L. Solaun and K. Parmelee) invited paper on “Identification and aired in late November. Publicaton: Pre– in Mexico City at the Congress of the Americas Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Columbian Urbanism, Anthropogenic II in October. Publications: Withdrawal of Effects of a Treatment” in March at the Centro Landscapes, and the Future of the Amazon Vioxx in Brazil: Aligning the Global Mandate de Investigación Económica of the Instituto (with J.C. Russell, C. Fausto, J.R. Toney, M. J. and Local Actions (with T. M. Oliveira). In J.V. Autónomo de México in Mexico City. Schmidt, E. Pereira, B. Franchetto, and A. Turk and L. Scalan eds., The Evolution of Public Kuikuro). Science , 321(5893) 2008: 1214–1217. Relations: Case Studies from Countries in Clyde Fraisse (Agricultural & Biological Transition . Gainesville, FL: Institute for Public Engineering) organized a three–day capacity– Karen Kainer (LAS/SFRC) Market Relations, 2008; The Value of Authenticity in building workshop as part of his Inter– Integration and Livelihood Systems: A Global Strategic Communication: The New American Institute for Global Change Research Comparative Case of Three Ashaninka Villages Juan Valdez Campaign (with M. Roberts). grant on the impact of climate variability on in the Peruvian Amazon (with P. Peralta). International Journal of Strategic crop production in Paraguay and Rio Grande Journal of Sustainable Forestry , 27(1–2) 2008: Communication , 2(3) 2008: 154–174. do Sul at the University of Passo Fundo in 145–171; Shifting Cultivation Effects on Brazil Balancing Public Relations with Brazil in late October. The workshop Nut ( Bertholletia excelsa ) Regeneration (with J. Socioeconomic and Political Environments in introduced the 72 participants to the Cotta, L. Wadt, and C. Staudhammer). Forest Transition: Comparative, Contextualized application of modeling and climate Ecology and Management , 256(1–2) 2008: Research of Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela forecasting as a strategy to mitigate production 28–35. (with A. Moreno). Journalism and Mass risks associated with climate variability and Communication Monographs , 10(2) 2008: change. William Keegan (FLMNH) The Role of 116–174; Contextualized Qualitative Research Small Islands in Marine Subsistence Strategies: in Venezuela: Coercive Isomorphic Pressures of David Geggus (History) delivered an invited Case Studies from the Caribbean (with S. the Socioeconomic and Political Environments paper on “The Age of Revolution” in May at Fitzpatrick, K. Sullivan Sealey, M. LeFebvre and on Public Relations Practices. Journal of Public UCLA. He delivered another invited paper on P. Sinelli). Human Ecology , 36(5) 2008: Relations Research , 20(1) 2008: 49–70. “Comparative Perspectives in American 635–654. Studies” in June at the Institute for the Study of Jeffrey Needell (History) presented the the Americas in London. Maxine Margolis (Professor Emerita, paper “The Lost Way: Political History and the Anthropology) delivered an invited paper on Historiography of Brazilian Abolitionism” in Susan Gillespie (Anthropology) Aspectos “Brasileiros no estrangeiro: A etnicidade, a Washington, DC at the American Historical Corporativos de la Persona ( Personhood ) y la auto–identitidade e o 'outro,” in July at the Association/Conference on Latin American Encarnación ( Embodiment ) entre los Mayas del Primeiro Simpósio Internacional Diálogos History Annual Meeting in January. He spoke Periodo Clásico. Estudios de Cultura Maya , 31, Brasil–Estados Unidos at the Universidade de on the Panel Honoring Leslie Bethell’s 2008: 55–89; Chalcatzingo Monument 34: A São Paulo. She was the organizer and Contribution to Brazilian Studies at the Formative Period “Southern Style” Stela in the discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Studies Central Mexican Highlands. The PARI Journal , Brazilian Studies Association session “Brazilian Association in New Orleans in March. He IX(1) 2008: 8–16; Pájaro–Serpiente y la Immigration to the Southern United States” in presented “Glory at Dusk: Nabuco’s Activism, Gobernatura en Mesoamérica. In A. Cyphers March in New Orleans. Publications: Brazilian His Meditation, and the Choice for and K.G. Hirth, eds., Ideología Política y Americans. In R. Schaefer, ed., Encyclopedia of Diplomacy” at Yale University in April at the Sociedad en el Periodo Formativo, Ensayos en Race, Ethnicity, and Society . New York: Sage, centenary of Nabuco's speech at Yale as Brazil's Homenaje al Doctor David C. Grove . Mexico 2008; Brazilian Immigration to the US: Future first ambassador to the United States. He also City: Instituto de Investigaciones Research and Issues for the New Millennium. organized, “Racial Perception and Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional In L. Braga and C. Jouët–Pastré, eds., Becoming Representative Government: Politics and Autónoma de México, 2008; Culturas Locales y Brazucas: Brazilian Immigration to the US . Racism in Nineteenth–Century Brazil” for the Transformaciones Regionales: La Investigación Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. American Historical Association/Conference de la Socialidad Preclásica por su Materialidad. on Latin American History Annual Meeting in In Mesa Redonda Olmeca: Balance y Juan–Carlos Molleda (Public Relations) New York City in January 2009. Perspectivas . Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de presented the paper “The Value of Antropología e Historia y la Universidad ‘Authenticity’ in Global Public Relations: The Milagros Peña (Sociology) was awarded a Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008. New Juan Valdez Campaign” at the Distinguished Book award from the Latino/a International Public Relations Conference in section of the American Sociological Mike Heckenberger (Anthroplogy) and his Miami in March. He also presented the paper Association. Her book, Latina Activists across research on ancient urban networks in the “Advancing the Theory of Cross–National Borders: Women's Grassroots Organizing in Upper Xingu region of Brazil was featured in Conflict Shifting: An Analysis of International Mexico and Texas , was published in 2007 by the National Geographic Channel News Agencies’ Coverage of Lead–tainted Toys Duke University Press. Faculty News and Publications continued on page 9

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FACULTY Faculty News and Publications continued from page 8 Charles Perrone (Spanish and Portuguese) Boot, J. Sayer, D. Sheil, P. Sist, and J. Vanclay). the Amazon (with S. Brilhante, F. Brown, M. presented a paper on the “Intersections of PLoS Biology , 6(7) 2008: e166. Caldas, S. Ikeda, E. Mendoza, C. Overdevest, S. Literature and Popular Culture in Perz, V. Reis, J.F. Reyes, D. Rojas, C. Souza, and Transamerican Poetics” at the University of Maria Rogal (Art and Art History) received R. Walker). Philosophical Transactions of the Massachusetts Dartmouth in May. He was the first AIGA Design Faculty Research Grant Royal Society Bulletin 363(1498) 2008: chair and moderator of the session “Brazilian to continue her work on “Design for 1889–1895; Review of Gomercindo Rodrigues, American Literature” at the Brazilian– Development” projects that engage design to Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes . Journal Americans in Georgia and Beyond: A empower marginalized indigenous of Latin American Geography , 7(2) 2008: Multi–Disciplinary Symposium held at the communities in Mexico. AIGA is the national 176–178; Introduction: Working Forests in the University of Georgia in April. He gave two organization of graphic design, uniting Tropics: Policy and Market Impacts on interviews to Brazilian public television (TVE practitioners, educators, and students. Conservation and Management (with D. Zarin Rio de Janeiro) on “Livros na mesa” in and J. Alavalapati). Journal of Sustainable September and “Semana da Poesia” in October. Helen Safa (Professor Emerita, LAS) Forestry , 27(1–2) 2008: 1–5; Environmental Publications: Letras e Letras da MPB. Rio de Women and Household Change in the Special Governance and the Emergence of Forest– Janeiro: Booklink, 2008; Notas Para Facilitar a Period. In F. Scarano and M. Zamora, eds., Based Social Movements (with P. Cronkleton, P. Leitura de “Meu tio o Iauaretê.” Hispania , 91(4) Cuba: Contrapuntos de cultura, historia y L. Taylor, D. Barry, and S. Stone–Jovicich). 2008, 766–774; Review of Dossiê Guimarães sociedad . San Juan: Ediciones Callejón, 2007; Center for International Forestry Research Rosa, Special Issue of “O eixo e a roda.” Afro–Cubans in the Special Period. (CIFOR) Occasional Paper No. 49, 2008. Hispanic Research Journal , 9(3) 2008, 289–290. Transforming Anthropology , 16(1) 2008: 68–70; Hierarchies and Household Change in Cuba. Nigel Smith (Geography) had his work on Stephen Perz (Sociology) Road Networks Latin American Perspectives , 36(1) 2009. Amazonian fruits featured in a National and Forest Fragmentation in the Amazon: Geographic Magazine article entitled, “After Explanations for Local Differences with Marianne Schmink (LAS) presented the Acai, What Is Amazon's Next ‘Cinderella Implications for Conservation and paper “Amazon Forest Citizens: Work, Life, and Fruit’?” in October. The story can be found Development (with M. Caldas, R. Walker, E. Hope in Rio Branco, Acre 1989–2004” at the online at http://news.nationalgeographic.com Arima, and C. Souza). Journal of Latin Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Studies /news/2008/10/081014–amazon–fruit– American Geography , 7(2) 2008: 85–104; Association in March in New Orleans. She also missions.html. His photos accompany the Contributions of Racial–Ethnic Reclassification presented “Forest Heritage and Forest Future: story. and Demographic Processes to Indigenous Socioeconomic, Political and Cultural Population Resurgence: The Case of Brazil Challenges and Opportunities Among Rubber D. Daniel Sokol (Law) Order Without (with J. Warren and D. Kennedy). Latin Tappers in Acre, Brazil” at the Southeastern (Enforceable) Law: Why Countries Enter into American Research Review , 42(3) 2008: 7–3; Council on Latin American Studies Annual Non–Enforceable Competition Policy Chapters Climate Change, Land Use and Road Building: Conference in Tampa in April. She presented a in Free Trade Agreements. Chicago–Kent Law Prospects for Environmental Governance in paper on the experiments in socio– Review , 83(1): 2008: 231–292. the Amazon (with S. Brilhante, F. Brown, M. environmental development in Acre, Brazil in Caldas, S. Ikeda, E. Mendoza, C. Overdevest, V. Boca Raton at the Southeast Conference on Maya Stanfield–Mazzi (Art History) Reis, J.F. Reyes, D. Rojas, M. Schmink, C. Souza, Amazonian and Andean Studies panel entitled presented the paper “Hybridity’s Andean and R. Walker). Philosophical Transactions of “20 Years after Chico Mendes: The Search for History: Felipe Cossío del Pomar and the the Royal Society Bulletin 363(1498) 2008: Sustainability in Western Amazonia” in Cusco School of Painting” at the Southeast 1889–1895. September. Publications: Reducing Negative Conference on Amazonian and Andean Studies Impacts of Road Paving in the Amazon (with in Boca Raton in September. She also presented Francis “Jack Putz ” (Botany) Improved E. Mendoza, S. Perz, and D. Nepstad). Current “Christ of the Earthquakes Goes Outdoors: Tropical Forest Management for Carbon Conservation , 2(1) 2008: 19–20; Climate Interacting with the Divine in Colonial Cusco, Retention (with P. Zuidema, M. Pinard, R. Change, Land Use and Road Building: Peru” at the Southeastern College Art Prospects for Environmental Governance in Conference in New Orleans in September.

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Independent cultural exploration is also encouraged during the UF Summer Study Abroad program. On weekends and holidays, students are free to travel and experience the surrounding environs, such as touring Iguaçu Falls, Urban Planning in Brazil exploring quaint coastal towns or riding horses in the Pantanal region. Most students agreed that the course highpoint this year, however, was the interaction with their Brazilian counterparts at the federal universities in Maringá and Florianópolis. The Brazilians were eager to practice their English and introduce the North Americans to all–you–can–eat por kilo restaurants, caipirinha drinks, and the famous churrasco, or Brazilian barbeque. Understanding the social, economic, and environmental implications of urbanization is an important asset for anyone entering the planning profession. The Urban Planning in Brazil program exposes students to new ideas and problem–solving techniques, fueling the creativity needed for tackling complex urban problems in the 21st century. To learn more about the 2008 program, visit http://ufcuritiba.blogspot.com. —Contributed by Jennifer Cannon, graduate student in Urban and Regional Planning

L UF Urban Planning in Brazil participants overlook the metropolis of São Paulo. UF IFAS Hosts Caribbean raduate students interested in urban planning have the unique Gopportunity to study urbanization issues in a Latin American Food Crops Society context. The six–credit UF Urban Planning and Design in Curitiba study abroad program emphasizes the challenges confronting urban planning F/IFAS hosted the Caribbean Food Crops Society (CFCS) Annual in Brazil by offering hands-on experiences in diverse urban settings. The UMeeting in Miami in July 2008. The meeting was a crucial coming curriculum covers an array of subjects including sustainable urban together of agricultural, economic, and sociological experts from 22 development, affordable housing and informal settlements, urban nations. Farmers, business leaders, and government officials addressed planning and public health, and land use and transportation planning. critical issues such as the food crisis, invasive species, economic Field trips and lectures by guest speakers from area universities and local challenges for agricultural development, and urban agriculture in planning agencies afford students the opportunity to observe firsthand densely populated Caribbean nations. Florida’s 4–H programs were the results and progress of local planning initiatives. The director of the also presented and that session proved so popular that several program, Joseli Macedo, is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Caribbean nations have requested assistance from Florida’s Extension Planning and a Curitiba native. agents to begin similar programs in their countries. The meeting In summer 2008, the six–week class began in the mega–city of São reportedly drew the largest participation in the history of the CFCS Paulo, where issues associated with rapid urbanization and inner–city meetings with over 300 participants. decline are glaringly apparent. Many students were impacted by the juxtaposition of economic extremes in São Paulo where self–built shacks border ritzy skyscrapers. Next, students attended a week–long workshop Latin American Health in the city of Maringá, state of Paraná, to learn about the garden–city origins and economic development of this 50–year–old regional hub. Initiatives at UF College of This “medium–sized city” of 300,000 people is known for having a large concentration of green space as evidenced by the 1,100–acre park in the Medicine center of the city. After Maringá, students visited the beautiful island city he Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center (SNTC), housed at of Florianópolis, capital of the state of Santa Catarina, to gain awareness the UF College of Medicine, has undertaken several projects related of issues arising from a rapidly increasing tourism population. The final T to Latin American health issues. Michael Lauzardo, Principal four weeks were spent in Curitiba, globally recognized for its Investigator of the SNTC, is an affiliate faculty member of the Center implementation of ground–breaking planning initiatives, such as the for Latin American Studies. SNTC’s Latin American initiatives have pedestrian–focused urban spaces and highly integrated bus rapid transit included a Health Research in the Americas Symposium; web-based network conveniently serving 2.4 million riders daily. training conferences for professionals and students from El Salvador, For a final project, students were given the freedom to research the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Puerto Rico; one–week planning initiatives and policies as it pertained to their own interests. In comprehensive TB courses; and training and exchange with Mexican TB addition to studying the transportation system, students examined such physicians who screen legal immigrants to the US. The SNTC’s website topics as Curitiba’s unique recycling program and how community– is: http://sntc.medicine.ufl.edu/. building strategies are employed in informal settlements.

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Latin American Career New Programs in Latin America Workshop 2009 Garifuna Summer he Center for Latin American Studies hosted a half–day Latin Institute American Career Workshop on November 8, 2008 at the Keene T The Center is pleased to announce the development of the Faculty Center on the UF campus. The first hour of the program focused Garifuna Language Summer Institute to be offered in La Ceiba, on business programs and the training that they provide for students Honduras from May 10 – June 19, 2009. The Garifuna Summer who plan to seek out business prospects and opportunities in Latin Institute provides a unique opportunity for undergraduate and America. After this initial segment, focus then shifted to career graduate students to acquire proficiency in Garifuna, an opportunities in government, education, and non–profits. The panels all endangered Afro–Indigenous and Caribbean language. This focused on opportunities to apply knowledge of Latin America to these six–week intensive immersion course will familiarize students with sectors. Moderators Terry McCoy (LAS), Ana Margheritis (LAS/Political modern Garifuna language and culture through classroom study Science), and Jon Dain (LAS/SNRE) led panel discussions with a diverse and excursions to local sites. Students will take 6 credits of group of professionals that included a high school teacher, a former Beginning Garifuna (LAS 4956) and 3 credits of Garifuna Culture ambassador to Colombia, an NGO director, and a retired CEO, among (LAS 4956/LAS 6938). The Institute is a FLAS–approved program others. Most of the panelists were graduates of the Center’s MALAS and is funded in part by the Center’s US Department of Education program or other UF degree programs. Title VI National Resource Center grant. Along with faculty and invited guests, many of the Center’s MALAS The undergraduate program fee is $2766 and the graduate students were in attendance at the career workshop. Steve Minegar, a program fee is $3432. The program fee includes tuition, course first year MALAS student with a specialization in Political Science, was materials, lodging, lunches during the week, international health especially thrilled with the overall program, stating, “I’m really insurance with emergency medical assistance, and group impressed with all the different opportunities that seem to be available excursions. Round–trip airfare, most meals, personal travel, and to Latin America specialists and am enthused by the number of former personal expenses are not included. MALAS [students] who are sitting on the panels discussing how they are The application deadline is March 16, 2009. Non–UF students applying their degrees.” are encouraged to apply, as are non–degree students. Additional —Contributed by Matt Trokan, MALAS student program details, as well as information on how to apply online, can be found at: http://www.latam.ufl.edu/academic/abroad.stm. For further information, please contact the Program Director, Santiago Ruiz (PhD Anthropology), at [email protected], or Hannah Covert (LAS), at [email protected].

New Student and Faculty Exchange Programs in Costa Rica and Peru

The Center recently signed reciprocal student exchange UF alumni Ed Johnson, Robin Augello, and Jose Gonzalez L agreements with the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) in San spoke on the business panel at the Career Workshop. José and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP) in Lima. UF undergraduate and graduate students from any major can spend a semester studying at either of these Outstanding International Student Award universities while paying UF tuition and fees. Applicants must have completed the equivalent of five semesters of Spanish. Congratulations to Felipe Carvalho, TCD student (MS, The UCR exchange agreement also includes a faculty Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences), for receiving the UF College of exchange component. The faculty exchange program is open to Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Outstanding International faculty across campus and allows for the exchange of two Student Award! In addition, Felipe was also one of the three faculty per institution per year. For visits of two weeks or less, University–wide recipients of the 2008 Alec Courtelis the host institution will pay lodging for the visitor as budget International Student Award. Both awards recognize Felipe’s permits. For further details on these exchanges, contact Hannah academic achievements and community service. Covert ([email protected]).

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OUTREACH Outreach News Movie Screening: The Price of Sugar

n September 2008, The Price of Sugar was presented at the IHippodrome Cinema in downtown Gainesville to a theatre filled beyond capacity with students, faculty, and community members. The film seeks to raise awareness about where products we consume are produced and their social cost. This documentary, narrated by Paul Newman, profiles a courageous Spanish priest who works in the Dominican Republic to expose and stop the injustice of thousands of Haitian men who are forced to work in inhumane conditions to harvest sugar cane. Born to the Spanish aristocracy, Father Christopher began working with Mother Teresa in his early twenties and vowed to dedicate his life to working with those who suffer the most. This commitment brought him to the heart of the sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic where he fights for the rights and improved living conditions of those being held within his parish boundaries, bringing in food supplies and medical treatment. Battling daily with the Dominican government, Father Christopher meets public protests, smear campaigns, and calls for his resignation, inflaming the already volatile tension existing between the Haitians and the Dominicans. However, with unwavering support from the Bishop, Father Christopher pledges to continue his work until either the Haitians are guaranteed justice, he is removed by the Church, or he is killed. Father Christopher believes he was born to lead this fight for change and he has only one request — if this fight is what he dies Lending Library Featured for, he wishes to be buried with his people in a clandestine cemetery for Haitians that lies at the farthest corner of the plantation. He is Items: Traveling Suitcases hopeful that by capturing the words and images of the Haitian workers, this documentary will bring to light the grave situation The Outreach Lending Library is pleased to announce the plaguing the sugar industry and sound a call for a change. availability of two new traveling suitcases based on cultural Karen Richman, Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame themes. The Day of the Dead suitcase contains a collection of University, led a discussion immediately following the film by artifacts to be used in the creation of a Mexican altar. The reflecting upon Father Christopher’s wish for change. She asked the Latin American Music suitcase contains approximately 25 audience what they thought this change should be and what the US, musical instruments and CDs representing a variety of music the largest consumer of Dominican sugar, should do to ensure that from all over the region. Both suitcases include an inventory a change takes place. Ideas ranged from introducing human rights identifying and explaining the cultural use or significance of clauses into free trade agreements to suggestions that there should the artifacts, as well as supplementary materials that provide be greater consumer education and awareness about sugar teachers ideas for classroom activities. production. Also, thanks to the recent Fulbright–Hays curriculum The screening of The Price of Sugar was the first event of the development program, the Peru and Ecuador traveling suitcas- Center’s year–long film and lecture series called “Through the es have been completely updated with a wide variety of mate- Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida,” co–sponsored by the rials. New items include traditional indigenous clothing and Florida Humanities Council. Screenings of films about Cuban, accessories, product labels, textile samples, examples of Jamaican, and Puerto Rican migration to Florida will be held in agricultural crops, national symbols, and DVDs on topics 2009 in January, February and March. Please check the Center’s such as music, food, dance, archeological sites, events calendar, available at http://www.latam.ufl.edu, for dates and Afro–Ecuadorian communities, and more. film titles. —Contributed by Brie Bailey, MALAS student

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OUTREACH Outreach News con’t. Teacher Immersion in the Andes

The Center for Latin American Studies received a US Department of Education Fulbright–Hays Group Project Abroad grant to support a four–week curriculum development project in Ecuador and Peru in summer 2008. The project was entitled,“The Andean HATTS Project: Reaching High Achievement for Teachers and Students of Spanish in Florida Schools.” In July, a group of 12 K–12 Spanish teachers from across the state traveled to Ecuador and Peru under the direction of Mary Risner (LAS) and Cathy Cavanaugh (Teaching & Learning, UF College of Education). Cathy Cavanaugh provides a report of the project. hat happens when a dozen Spanish teachers are set loose in the L The Andean HATTS group at Machu Picchu, Peru. WAndes with cameras, iPods and video recorders? My fellow faculty member, Mary Risner, and I found out last summer as we tried to keep up with an energetic and excited group of teachers on Library Travel Grants our travels through the highlands of Ecuador and Peru. The four– week language and culture immersion experience was made possible he Center for Latin American Studies, with support from its US through US Department of Education Fulbright–Hays funding TDepartment of Education Title VI National Resource Center received by the Center for Latin American Studies in the spring. grant, made nine travel awards for summer research at the UF When Mary and I met the teachers early in the summer for our libraries in 2008. Scholars from the following universities orientation workshop, we were struck by the intensity with which the pursued research at the Latin American Collection: Cornell teachers approached their professional learning, as well as the blend University, Duke University, East Carolina University, Florida of seriousness about their work and humor about themselves. The International University, Peninsula College, University of New teachers appeared to bubble over with innovative teaching ideas that Mexico, University of South Florida, US Naval Academy, and Utah they developed on the fly for their students in K–12 classrooms State University. Many of the researchers worked with the around Florida. After the workshop, the teachers had a strong sense Collection’s extensive holdings on the Caribbean. Information on of the cultures they would be entering, they had skill for the 2009 Library Travel Grants program is available at: documenting their trip with cameras and other recording technology, http://www.latam.ufl.edu/Funding/travel.stm. and they knew how to pack for a new adventure! As we traveled, Mary and I marveled at the passion the teachers showed for interacting with new acquaintances at every stop, for Brazilian Music Institute understanding deeply the area of the world they were exploring and for sharing among their colleagues what they learned, all for the he 8th annual Brazilian Music Institute (BMI), under the benefit of Spanish students in the coming school year. Even as the Tdirection of Welson Tremura (LAS/Music), had another teachers faced challenges, including altitude sickness, contagious successful session in summer 2008. The BMI brings outstanding illness, labor strikes, and the prospect of eating beef hearts Brazilian musicians for an intensive week of instruction with (anticuchos), they were unwavering models of lifelong learning. musicians residing in the US. This year’s BMI provided a unique Among the group, tens of thousands of photos were taken, many opportunity for guitarists and vocalists to study with two hours of audio and video were recorded, and hundreds of pounds of exceptional Brazilian artists: Ulisses Rocha (classical and jazz guitar) books and other teaching materials were imported to Florida’s and Beatriz Malnic (Brazilian popular music and vocal classrooms. A few teachers did not wait to return home before improvisation). The institute featured guitar and voice workshops contacting their students and blogged regularly, even though the trip and daily rehearsals. Twenty US musicians and vocalists participated occurred during the summer. in the program, while 400 attended the concluding concert. The Since returning home and back to school, the teachers have taught BMI was co–sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies a wealth of new lessons. I expect the 12 Florida schools where these (with support from its US Department of Education Title VI teachers work to experience an increase in student interest in learning National Resource Center grant), the UF Center for World Arts, the Spanish. As the teachers reach out to their colleagues in other UF School of Music, UF Student Government, and Santa Fe College. classrooms through their professional conferences and other venues, Plans are already underway for the 2009 institute. more teachers and students will be inspired to learn the language, understand the cultures of the Andes and to travel to Ecuador and Peru. —Contributed by Cathy Cavanaugh, Professor, Teaching & Learning

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STUDENTS August 2008 GRADUATES

Undergraduate LAS Minors & Certificates Diego Arias, Telecommunication Matthew Gonzalez, Journalism Nicole Cure, Advertising Noriko Yamada, Economics MALAS Degrees Pauline Kulstad Advisor: Kathleen Deagan (FLMNH) Thesis: “Concepción de la Vega 1495-1564: A preliminary look at lifeways in the Americas' first boom town ”

Alexandra Anda Advisor: Charles Wood (LAS/Sociology) Thesis: “Judicial reform and democratization: Means vs. ends in perceptions of legal change in Ecuador ”

Maria Bardi Advisor: Terry McCoy (LAS/Political Science) Thesis: “Impact of remittances on business creation and sustainability in rural communities: A case study of Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador ”

Sergio Cabrera Advisor: Charles Wood (LAS/Sociology) Thesis: “The piqueteros and the dialectics of the desborde ”

Karl Slazinski Advisor: Maria Coady (Teaching & Learning) Thesis: “Limited English language proficiency and access to health care among US Latinos ” Doctoral Teaching Awards

The Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the spring 2009 and fall 2010 Latin American Studies Doctoral Teaching Awards. The three awardees, all PhD candidates, will develop and teach an upper–level undergraduate interdisciplinary seminar (LAS 4935). The winners and seminars are:

Maria DiGiano (SNRE) Rosana Resende (Anthropology) Globalization and Development in Latin America Marias, Machos, and Jezebels: Exploring Gender in Latin America Sean O’Neil (Religion) Religion, Pluralism and Identity in Latin America

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STUDENTS Student Funding 2007–08 Grant Recipients Congratulations to the following UF Latinamericanist graduate students who received financial support from outside funding agencies to support their programs of study or their thesis/dissertation research! Overall, these students raised more than $500,000 to support their studies during academic year 2007–08. Ane Alencar (SFRC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Simone Athayde (SNRE), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Carlos Bernal Pulido (Philosophy), Fulbright Program Ricardo Brown (SNRE), Fulbright Program Dave Buck (SNRE), National Science Foundation and Sigma Xi Seth Bybee (Entomology), National Science Foundation Amy Cox (Anthropology), Fulbright and National Science Foundation Lemane Delva (Food Science), Fulbright Program Maria DiGiano (SNRE), Inter–American Foundation and National Science Foundation Ana Eleuterio (Botany), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Jack Forbes (Music), Fulbright–Hays Program Lucas Fortini (SFRC), Environmental Protection Agency and National Science Foundation Wendy Franco (Food Science), Fulbright Program Mariano Gonzalez Roglich (SNRE), Fulbright Program Allison Hopkins (Anthropology), National Science Foundation Christie Klimas (SFRC), Agricultural Women’s Club and Explorer’s Club Ava Lasseter (Anthropology), American Philosophical Society and National Science Foundation Christine Lucas (WEC), Inter–American Foundation Mason Mathews (SNRE), Inter–American Foundation Paula Mejia (Botany), Schlumberger Foundation Karen Pereira (Anthropology), Wenner–Gren Foundation Winston Phulgence (Anthropology), Fulbright Program Jeremy Radachowsky (SNRE), National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency Claudia Rivero (Spanish & Portuguese), Fulbright Program Laura Schreeg (SNRE), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Organization for Tropical Studies Claudia Segovia (Botany), Proyecto Paramo Andino José Soto Shoender (WEC), Fulbright Program Joe Townsend (SNRE), Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Joanna Tucker (SNRE), Environmental Protection Agency and International Palm Society Arika Virapongse (SNRE), Phipps Conservatory and Botanic Gardens Matthew Watson (Anthropology), National Science Foundation Galo Zapata-Rios (WEC), Proyecto Paramo Andino Vivian Zeidemann (SNRE), Phipps Conservatory and Botanic Gardens

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ALUMNI

Profitability Management at Deloitte University of Bath, Free University of Berlin I Consulting in Atlanta, GA. and Sciences Po Paris, and is working on a N thesis called “Contestation of the Norm of

M NEWS Terri Kennedy (BA Journalism & LAS Sovereignty: The 2008 Colombian Incursion U Certificate 1977) is a Senior Executive L into Ecuador.” In September, he started a Producer for W3 Productions and WPN A NOTES Masters in Public Policy at the Hertie School of Productions and lives in St. Petersburg, FL. & Governance in Berlin, Germany. Robert Maguire (MALAS 1975) is Associate Alexandra Anda (MALAS 2008) is pursuing a Kevin Sullivan (BA History & LAS Certificate Professor of International Affairs at Trinity law degree at the Universidad San Francisco de 1975) owns Latam Medical which markets Washington University in Maryland. He Quito in Ecuador. medical equipment to Latin American recently became a Senior Fellow in the surgeons. He lives in Montclair, NJ. Kiran Asher (PhD Political Science 1998) is Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program of the Associate Professor of International United States Institute of Peace and will spend Carlos de la Torre (BA Sociology 1983), Chair Development and Social Change at Clark a sabbatical year working on a manuscript of the Political Science Department at University in Worcester, MA. Her book entitled tentatively entitled, “Allocating Resources for FLACSO–Ecuador, was selected as a Woodrow Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Stability and Development in Transitional Wilson International Center Fellow for Development, and Nature will be published by Societies: The Case of Haiti.” 2008–09. He is working on a research project Duke University Press in 2009. Kiran just called “Andean Radical Populism: The Foe or George Martinez (MALAS 1976) is Director of received a Fulbright Indo–American Essence of Democracy?” He recently co–edited, the Tampa Bay US Export Assistance Center. Environmental Leadership award for three with Steve Striffler, The Ecuador Reader: months of research on environmental Nick Rubio (BS Economics & LAS Minor 2004, History, Culture, Politics published by Duke conservation in India. MALAS 2006) works in the Office of University Press. Negotiation and Agreements of the Foreign Robin Augello (MS Management 2005, MA Lee Demetrius Walker (MALAS 1998, PhD Agricultural Service in Washington, DC. International Business 2006) is Supervisor of Political Science 2003) is Assistant Professor of Latin American Entertainment Sales Ernesto Sagás (MALAS 1988, PhD Political Political Science at the University of South Operations for Turner Broadcasting System in Science & LAS Certificate 1993) is an Associate Carolina where he specializes in Latin Atlanta, GA. Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State American politics, democratization, political University in Fort Collins, CO. Marcos Avellán (BA Political Science 1995, methodology, and survey research. MALAS 1998) has worked with both Sears Joseph Scarpaci (PhD Geography & LAS Holdings Corporation and Target. Currently, Certificate 1985) is a Professor at Virginia Tech Orlando Fals Borda (PhD Sociology he is the Store Manager of the St. Petersburg University and has been nominated to the 1955), one of the most prolific writers Sears store. He also serves as the Recruitment Editorial Board of Southeastern Geographer . He on Latin American social issues to Captain for Sears at UF. Marcos and his wife served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Chile at graduate from UF, passed away in his are expecting their first child in April and they the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in native Colombia in August. Fals Borda live in Tampa, FL. August 2008 and was awarded the 2008 wrote extensively on land reform and Geography Scholar Award by the Virginia on the need for applied sociology to Juliana Azoubel (BFA Dance 2001, MALAS 2007) Social Science Association. treat subjects as participants in solving is a dance professor at the Universidade Federal de problems. He was recognized as one of Paraná in Brazil. Billy Shields (MALAS 2006, MA Mass the founders of Participatory Action Communication 2007) is a writer for the Daily Thomas Brunton (MS FRE & LAS Research (PAR). Fals Borda founded Business Review and lives in Miami, FL. Certificate/MBA 1994) is a software engineer the Sociology Department and was with Convergys and lives in Royse City, TX. H.A. Smith (MALAS 1997) is a social studies Professor Emeritus at the Universidad teacher at Nease High School in St. John’s Avecita Chicchón (PhD Anthroplogy 1992) is Nacional de Colombia. He was the County, FL. Latin American and Caribbean Program recipient of many honors and awards, Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society Veronica Sparks (MALAS 2004) is a Sales including an honorary degree from in Bronx, NY. Representative for Pearson Education and lives the Universidad Central de Venezuela, in Zachary, LA. the Bruna Kresky Human Rights Kirsten (Anderson) Clanton (BA Spanish 2001, award, The Paul Hoffman United Luis Suárez–Isaza (BA Political Science & LAS MALAS/JD 2005) is a staff attorney at Nations award, the Malinowski Award Minor 2007) interned for the Western Southern Legal Counsel, a non–profit public of the Society for Applied Hemisphere team of the Institute for National interest law firm, in Gainesville, FL. Anthropology, and the LASA–Oxfam Strategic Studies at the National Defense Ed Johnson (MALAS/MBA 2006) is a Manager America Martin Diskin Memorial University after graduating from UF. He just for Corporate Strategy and Pricing and Lectureship. finished a joint MA (Euromasters) at the

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Center Director Search

Carmen Diana Deere, Director of the Center since August 2004, will step down in June 2009 at the end of her five–year appointment. A search for Deere’s replacement is currently underway. Both internal and external candidates are encouraged to apply. An abbreviated position announcement follows. Consult http://jobs.ufl.edu for complete details.

The Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida (UF), one of the premier Centers in the US, seeks to hire a Director with a broad vision, excellent communication and administrative skills, and a proven record combining scholarship with program leadership and development. The Center has a unique tradition of independence, and the Director reports directly to the Provost of the university. The Center encompasses a diverse range of Latin American interests that are reflected in the work of 150 affiliated faculty engaged in multi–disciplinary teaching, research and outreach programs spanning basic and applied scholarship in the biophysical sciences, social sciences, humanities, languages, and arts. The Director holds a tenured full professor appointment in an appropriate academic department at UF. Administrative responsibilities include program development and coordination, budgetary and personnel management, faculty recruitment, liaison work with affiliated units within and outside the university, fundraising, and promoting international linkages. The Director must have an earned doctorate or equivalent professional degree and demonstrate active involvement in the field of Latin American Studies through a distinguished record of research, teaching and related scholarly activities. The Director should also be able to communicate effectively with diverse constituencies in English as well as Spanish and/or Portuguese, and show evidence of fundraising and administrative skills, including a strong commitment to participatory governance. The University of Florida has offered Latin American area and language courses since the 1890s. The Latin American program was formed in the 1930s and renamed the Center for Latin American Studies in 1963. It was among the first institutions in the country to be designated a National Resource Center by the US Department of Education (USDE). Today, the Center is one of the top–ranked centers in the world. Students can choose from among 350 Latin American and Caribbean area and language courses routinely offered by 50 departments at UF. The Center offers a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies (MALAS), graduate and undergraduate certificates, an undergraduate minor, a joint law degree, and an interdisciplinary graduate certificate and concentration in Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD). There are specialized research and graduate training programs in such interdisciplinary programs as TCD, Latin American Business Environment, and Crime, Law and Governance in the Americas, as well as active programs in languages, arts and humanities. More information about the Center for Latin American Studies can be found at: http://www.latam.ufl.edu. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae; a letter of application describing experience, vision and qualifications related to this position; and names and addresses of four references. Address correspondence to: Search Committee, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, c/o Robin Bielling, PO Box 113175, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on February 1, 2009 and will continue to receive applications until the position is filled. The University of Florida is an Affirmative Action, Equal UF Acronymns Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and minority group members. The selection process will be conducted in accord with CIBER Center for International Business Education the provisions of Florida’s “Government in the & Research Sunshine ” and Public Records laws. FLMNH Florida Museum of Natural History FRE Food and Resource Economics LABE Latin American Business Environment Program LAS Latin American Studies MALAS MA in Latin American Studies SFRC School of Forest Resources & Conservation SNRE School of Natural Resources & Environment TCD Tropical Conservation & Development Program WEC Wildlife Ecology & Conservation

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ALUMNI

Thanks To Our Donors

The Center for Latin American Studies would like to express its gratitude for the generosity of those who have responded to our mailings and to the University of Florida Foundation’s annual appeal. The donations go towards the Latin American Studies Fund, the Alumni Graduate Student Travel Fund, or the new McCoy Latin American Travel Scholarship Fund. Gracias to the following people:

Latin American Studies and Graduate Student Travel Donors Lygia Sharkan Bellis Thomas Brunton William Harris Mark & Deborah Kisker We are also grateful to the following for their Bonnie Lincoln support of the Latin American Business Symposium: Murdo & Shena MacLeod Eugene Taggart Institutional Sponsors Eric Wagner Tallard Technologies, Inc. INCA Investments, LLC McCoy Latin American Travel Scholarship Donors FedEx Express Margaret Boonstra Kestrel Liner Agencies, LLC Tara Boonstra & William Petty RMK Timberland William Boykin, Jr. HBO Latin America Myra Brown US/Cuba Legal Forum Julie & Joseph D’Amico US Department of Education NRC Program Kathleen Deagan & Lawrence Harris Carmen Diana Deere UF Sponsors Christina Reid & Andrew Douglas Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER) William & Lourdes Fullerton International Center Max Grunbaum MBA Program James & Gayle Harrell MAIB Program INCA Investments, LLC Hough Program in Finance Michael & Emilia Kenney Office of the Vice-President for Research Ana Liberato Madelyn Lockhart Greg & Rosa Moreland Richard Phillips & Glenda Hodges Stephen & Barbara Powell The Center for Timothy & Valeria Power Janet & Todd Romero Latin American Studies Helen Safa & John DuMoulin Joseph & Gilda Machin Scarpaci would love to hear from its Chaitram Singh Philip & Victoria Condor Williams ALUMN I Charles Wood & Elisa Maranzana If you have not already done so, please complete our electronic Alumni Update Form online at:

http://www.latam.ufl.edu/ Alumni/update.stm

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LAS Alumni Board Report he fourth meeting of the Latin American Studies Alumni Board was held on November 8, 2008, with 16 members in attendance. It was decided Tat the meeting that membership on the Alumni Board will be open not only to LAS alumni (graduate or undergraduate), but also to UF alumni who have pursued a career in Latin America. The Alumni Board will continue to expand in size until the 80th anniversary conference in 2011 as a means of involving more alumni with the Center. All those who join, as well as current board members, will be asked to participate in one of three new standing committees. A decision will be made on the future size of the board at the 80th anniversary meeting. Between now and 2011, the affairs of the Alumni Board will be handled by a Steering Committee consisting of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Chairs of the standing committees. The standing committees are the: 1) Development Committee, which is charged with exploring the feasibility of constituting a Corporate Advisory Board and/or a Society of interested Latinamericanists who are willing to support the Center; 2) Program Committee, which is charged with organizing the program for the 80th Anniversary/60th Annual Center Conference in early 2011 and; 3) Communications Committee, which will assist the Center in outreach efforts, including how better to publicize its programs and accomplishments. We are delighted to announce that the following alumni have agreed to serve on the inaugural Steering Committee: President: Stephen Walroth-Sadurní (BS/Certificate 1980, Miami) Vice President: Steven Keats (BA/Certificate 1977, Miami) Secretary: Robert Turkovic (PhD/Certificate 1981, Miami) Development Committee Chair: Kathy Newman (BABS 1976, Miami) Program Committee Chair: Joan Flocks (MALAS 1988; JD 1991, Gainesville) Communications Committee Chair: Kirsten (Anderson) Clanton (MALAS/JD 2005, Gainesville)

Please contact Carmen Diana Deere, Center Director, at [email protected] if you are interested in joining the LAS Alumni Board and serving on one of its committees.

Giving to the Center for Latin American Studies

We rely on contributions from our friends and alumni to support certain special activities such as student travel to conferences and seed support for larger fund-raising efforts.

If you would like to make a donation to the Center, please fill out the form below.

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