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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR IBERIAN AND ILAS LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SUMMERC 2007 IN THIS ISSUE: 3 Mexican Migration Field A Productive Year: Research Program 4 Annual CILAS Graduate Research Symposium CILAS in Perspective 4 Opportunities for Study Abroad by Misha Kokotovic, 5 Culture & Violence Conference Latin American Studies Program Director 6 Graduate Field Research he Center for Iberian and Latin American 8 Community Outreach Events Studies started off the 2006-2007 9 Spanish Instruction Workshop T academic year with news that the U.S. 9 Congratulations to the Department of Education renewed our status as a Class of 2007 National Resource Center for the next four years 10 Helen Edison Lecture Series: beginning in September 2006. For nearly 20 years, Alma Guillermoprieto CILAS, along with the Center for Latin American 10 Salsa Night at CILAS Studies (CLAS) at San Diego State University, has achieved consistent recognition and support from 11 CILAS Fellowships & Grants the U.S. Department of Education as one of the 12 Visiting Professors at CILAS nation’s leading centers for the study of Latin 13 New Courses on America. In conjunction with our designation as a 13 Where Are They Now... National Resource Center, CILAS and CLAS were awarded a $2.2 million grant in Title VI funds in 14 Visiting Scholars at CILAS support of our ongoing research projects, visiting Students entering CILAS’s M.A. Program from 2007 are 14 New CILAS Affiliated Faculty professorships for Latin American scholars, (alphabetically): Stephen Cook, Jessica Córdova, Kimberly Dodge, 15 Affiliated Faculty Publications conferences, graduate student fellowships, outreach Sara Kozameh, Cory Molzahn, Jessica Novak, Annie Nyborg, Jessica Sisco (not pictured), Erica Skog, Laura Vázquez, and events, film series, and lecture series. Ana G. White. The CILAS Fall Lecture Series included two S TAFF panels on Latin American politics. In the first, the Historian Elizabeth Dore presented her preliminary Christine Hunefeldt Director Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Executive Director findings from oral history interviews of Cubans still Misha Kokotovic René Zenteno and Political Professor Scott on the island regarding their experience in the Academic Director Desposato interpreted the results of the recent Cuban revolution. Cuban poet Carlos Alberto Ruth Padrón Mexican and Brazilian presidential elections. In the Aguilera spoke about contemporary Cuban poetry Program & Outreach Coordinator second, renowned scholars from several disciplines and avant-garde culture, and Professor Kevin Sarah Poole León gathered to evaluate the recent political shift to the Delgado of SDSU presented his research on the Student Affairs Officer left in Latin America. Professors James Holston, effects of tourism on Afro-Cuban sacred music and Martha Salinas Nancy Postero, Carlos Waisman, Jaime Concha and ritual. CILAS also hosted distinguished Argentine Business Officer Cecilia Ubilla discussed the political situation in scholar and former Minister of Culture Torcuato Di To reach the Center for Iberian several countries, including Venezuela, , Tella, who examined the comparative politics of and Latin American Studies, please call (858)534-6050, or Brazil, and Bolivia. The Winter Lecture Series, Argentina and Chile. In the Spring, our Lecture you may email us at organized in cooperation with the UC-Cuba Series was devoted to Spain and its relationship to [email protected] initiative, focused on Cuba and the Caribbean. Latin America. Speakers included Luis Martín- http://cilas.ucsd.edu > see CILAS,page 2 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 2

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CILAS > continued from page 1 Littín to UCSD for a talk and discussion Cabrera of UCSD, Alda Blanco of the of his work. In ad- University of Wisconsin, and Professors dition, CILAS also Emeriti Carlos Blanco and David R. screened Argentine Ringrose of UCSD. documentaries In addition, we organized the annual Title curated by Pablo VI CILAS Conference, which continued last Hadis. year’s research theme of Culture, Power and This year we Violence in the Andean Region. (see p. 5) admitted an out- Distinguished speakers included CILAS standing cohort of Visiting Professor Rodrigo Montoya of the new M.A. students, Oaxaca panelists (from left to right): Max Parra, Everard Meade, Misha Kokotovic Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Moderator), Felipe López, and Ramona L. Pérez (San Diego State University). and welcomed back in Lima, Peru, Charles Briggs of UC our continuing M.A. students, who returned opportunity to meet each other and learn Berkeley, Guillermo Delgado of UC Santa from their field research sites to begin more about CILAS. Cruz, and Juan Poblete, also of UC Santa writing their theses on a wide range of CILAS is actively multiplying and Cruz. The talks from last year’s conference subjects including Latin American deepening our campus partnerships, and 2 will soon be published in an edited volume immigration to Spain, Central American we will be working with the Institute of from Sussex Academic Press. migration across ’s southern border, the Americas, the School of Engineering Our community outreach initiatives, also indigenous movements in nineteenth- (UCSD), the University of Pittsburgh, and funded by the Department of Education, century Bolivia, and the indigenous Aymara ERIP/LASA, on next year’s research theme were spearheaded by our dynamic new population in the Chile-Bolivia border which will culminate in an interdisciplinary Outreach Coordinator Ruth Padrón. Ruth region. Our first-year students are currently conference on issues concerning natural organized an informative teacher training preparing to travel to their field sites to resources and indigenous populations in workshop attended by 40 local high school research such topics as bilingual Aymara- Latin America, at which scholars from teachers. This year’s workshop focused on Spanish education in Bolivia, populations across the country and Latin America will Latin American music in the classroom. Jose internally displaced by violence in present their research. Luis Orozco, a musician and author, , and Zapotec immigrants from Perhaps one of the most promising demonstrated several Latin American Mexico in Southern California. collaborations that CILAS has been pursuing ballads that young children can easily learn The Center has long been a valuable this year involves the Universidad Complutense and enjoy. Heidi Feldman, a Visiting academic resource for graduate students in in Madrid, (UCM). My fellow director Professor in the Department of Latin American Studies and related Christine Hunefeldt visited Spain this year Communication, presented key teaching disciplines. This year, in collaboration with and launched an institutional agreement techniques that encourage students to the Office of Graduate Studies, the Office of which lays the foundation for the creation participate in musical dialogues in the the Associate Chancellor and Chief Diversity of a West Coast Spain Center at UCSD, classroom. Officer, California Cultures in Comparative modeled on the existing King Juan Carlos The Fall quarter Film Series featured films Perspective, the Chicano/Latino Arts & Center at New York University. Through from Peru, in the Winter quarter we Humanities Program, the Cross Cultural negotiations with UCM, the Luso-American screened films from the Caribbean, and the Center, the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Foundation and university administrators, Spring quarter was devoted to films focusing Student Life, the Chicana/o Latina/o Staff CILAS hopes to found and house this on migration to Spain. CILAS collaborated Association, the Literature Department, the institution, where renowned scholars will with the organizers of the International Ethnic Studies Department, and the History conduct research on issues related to the Education Week in its presentation of “State Department, we contributed to graduate Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. of Fear”,a documentary about the work student social life as well by organizing a This past year has been a very productive of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation dinner and an evening of live Salsa music by one, and we look forward to working with Commission. In cooperation with the San the Quinteto Caballero. More than 100 our partners on and off campus on Diego Latino Film Festival, we brought students, faculty, and staff from across the continuing programs and new initiatives in renowned Chilean film director Miguel campus enjoyed a relaxed and informal the coming year. ■ 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 3

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Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program

– Laura Vázquez, LAS graduate student

our first-year M.A. students from Groups of students also went to Union worked in groups on writing drafts of CILAS participated in the Mexican City, California and Oklahoma City, chapters to produce a final manuscript. F Migration Field Research and Oklahoma to conduct follow-up interviews Next year, students will conduct research in Training Program sponsored by the Center with migrants who have settled in these a new site in Oaxaca, Mexico. ■ for Comparative Immigration Studies at cities. Finally, in the spring, the students UCSD. The program was established in 2004 by Wayne Cornelius, Gildred

Professor of Political Science and U.S.- 3 Mexican Relations and Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD. Jessica Córdova, Kim Dodge, Jessica Sisco, and Laura Vázquez were part of a team of 25 UCSD undergraduate and graduate students who participated in the year-long program led by Professor Cornelius, and CILAS alumnus, Assistant Professor of Sociology, David Fitzgerald. The program is designed to give students first hand experience conducting field research in international migration studies. Students learned about field research methods, the history and culture of the research sites, and survey construction. In 25 UCSD undergraduate and graduate students participated in the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training January 2007, the UCSD students were Program in Jalisco, Mexico (Photograph courtesy of Jonathan Hicken and Peter Nichols). joined by colleagues from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social de Occidente (CIESAS), Guadalajara, Mexico as they began the field research in Jalisco, Mexico. The field researchers conducted more than 800 interviews over the course of two weeks in two towns in Jalisco. The research period coincided with the town’s annual fiesta which included a beauty pageant, dances, and church services. 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 4

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Variety of Interests: The Annual CILAS Graduate Research Symposium offers students a chance to present research findings

by Jennie Daniels, LAS graduate student

ach year the Center for Iberian Zenteno of the Center for U.S.-Mexican her preliminary dissertation research on and Latin American Studies Studies. the effects of affirmative action in Brazil, E offers travel grants to UCSD The presentations covered a broad Jennie Daniels shared research results graduate students for preliminary theoretical and geographic expanse, yet about recent collaboration between 4 dissertation and thesis research. In 2006, similarities could be discerned. One theme businesses and nonprofit organizations in CILAS awarded fifteen grants to students was the question of power relations and Brazil, and Lissa Ziegler discussed from various departments, including citizen integration in immigration. preliminary research on state-society History, Political Science, Visual Arts, and Elizabeth Ackert researched Latin networks and taxation in Argentina’s Latin American Studies. They conducted American students in the Spanish school provinces. summer research in Mexico, Chile, system, and Angela Garcia presented her The participants expressed gratitude, AArgentina, Brazil, the Dominican study on local immigrant selection in not only for support of their research via Republic, Bolivia, and Spain. CILAS rural Spain. Mei-Chi Wu discussed the CILAS travel grant but also for the hosted its annual Graduate Research xenophobia against Chinese immigrants opportunity to share their enthusiasm, Symposium on April 17, 2007 where grant in Mexico in the early twentieth century. experiences, and findings with an engaged recipients shared their results, moderated Presenters also addressed how political and supportive audience. In addition, one by Elana Zilberg of Communications, and economic programs and initiatives student will be selected to be published in Scott Desposato of Political Science, achieve – or fail to achieve – their the CILAS Working Paper series. ■ Nancy Postero of Anthropology, and René intended reforms. Eloise Nelson presented

ROADEN OUR ORIZONS B Y H diversity -the Aztec, Zapotec, Toltec, Mayan, with Mixtec, and Olmec structures reveal StudyAbroad different stylistic approaches in ancient architecture. by Adam Gardner, LAS Undergraduate Student The only apparent unifying factor of each Anyone with a basic familiarity of Latin vastly different cultures coexisting within place was the (and even America knows that it is a region of many Mexico’s borders. that wavered in areas where indigenous diverse cultures; languages, art, and customs The fast-paced cosmopolitan life in the languages dominate) and the people’s love vary greatly from place to place. During my capital, the economic hub of Monterrey, the for fútbol. Six months was not nearly semester abroad in , I realized slow pace on the ranches of Durango and enough time to explore the cultural that you do not have to travel far to the beach towns of Sinaloa, all demonstrate diversity that Mexico offers and I know I experience this depth of diversity and the the variety of the country. The ruins from will learn even more in a future trip to la Mexico’s pre-colonial past illustrate its República. ■ 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 5

C ENTER FOR I BERIAN AND L ATIN A MERICAN S TUDIES CILAS CULTURE VIOLENCE Conference by Ruth Padrón,& Program & Outreach Coordinator ver the past three decades, from throughout the UC system, the Andean region in Latin Stanford, California Western School America has witnessed of Law, and the Universidad Nacional 5 several different social Mayor de San Marcos (Peru). This upheavals:O indigenous movements in dialogue continued in this year’s Ecuador and Bolivia, land invasions in conference, with some interesting Colombia, the Shining Path in Peru. These additional topics: archaeological upheavals are recent expressions of deep- insights, the importance of envi- seated conflicts within Andean societies, ronmental isues, and the various especially in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, levels of cultural communication that have longstanding historical roots. and miscommunication. Chilean Arpillera (Curated by Chilean Cecilia Ubilla) Moreover, when we analyze these societies’ Keynote speaker at both annual long-term history we become aware of the conferences was: Rodrigo Montoya, cyclical of erupting conflicts that CILAS, History and Anthropology Visiting ■ Nancy Postero, Anthropology, UCSD recurrently have ethnic and cultural under- Professor, from the Universidad Nacional ■ Hilda Sabato, Center for Latin American and pitch-tones. Mayor de San Marcos, Peru. Presenters and Studies, Stanford University CILAS, with the support of the U.S. commentators at this year’s conference ■ Estelle Tarica, Spanish & Portuguese, Department of Education, organized the were: UCB The conference was accompanied by a second conference on Culture and Violence ■ Charles Briggs, Anthropology, UCB Chilean Arpillera exhibition with a special in June 2, 2007. The day long event was ■ Guillermo Delgado, Latin American & held in the Deutz Conference Room at the Latin Studies, UCSC presentation by curator Cecilia Ubilla, OASIS Language and Writing Coordinator Institute of the Americas on the UCSD ■ Paul Goldstein, Anthropology, UCSD campus. at UCSD. On Sunday, June 3, 2007 from ■ John Haviland, Anthropology, UCSD Topics presented and discussed included 12:00-3:00 p.m., the Chilean Arpillera ■ Christine Hunefeldt, History, UCSD race, culture and nature in the Andes and exhibition was open to the public. ■ ■ Corina Kellner, Anthropology, UCSD the Amazon. These topics are a part of the current academic debate, and at the same ■ Misha Kokotovic, Literature, UCSD time critical conflict arenas in the region ■ Miguel La Serna, Graduate Student, today. The first conference held last year History, UCSD summoned 10 experts on the Andes and 30 ■ Cecilia Méndez, History, UCSB attendees, a setting of intense ■ Rachel O’Toole, History, UCI interdisciplinary dialogue. Speakers came ■ Juan Poblete, Literature, UCSC 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 6

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hen I arrived in La Paz The community of students, professors, necessary to continue my research and a on the eve of Bolivia’s and researchers working at the archives greater understanding of the importance W Independence Day, the provided valuable guidance for my study of my topic. Asamblea Constituyente was beginning to of the 1899 indigenous rebellion led by Going to La Paz not only allowed me to rewrite the constitution with the partici- Zárate Willka using the works of Bolivian research Bolivian history, it also facilitated pation of indigenous groups. This set the historians not found in most North the kinds of exchanges and conversations stage for an exciting 6 weeks of work: the American libraries. Ideas and questions between North American students of country buzzed with debates about the flowed over almuerzos and mid-morning History and their Latin American 6 new government of Evo Morales and, salteñas, delicious empanadas found on counterparts that are central to the field amidst these discussions, I began my nearly every street corner in La Paz. At of Latin American Studies. ■ research at the Archivos de La Paz. the end of my stay, I left with the sources

The Transit State: Immigration Control Policies in Mexico

by Ann Kimball, LAS graduate student

housands of Central investigating the driving Americans cross multiple forces behind recently Undocumented Mexico/Guatemala border crossing on the Rio Suchiate T borders and spend time in enacted restrictive Mexico en route to the . immigration policies. Migrante’, a safe house that provides The journey is incredibly dangerous: My fieldwork began in Mexico City room and board to migrants for three migrants fall off trains and are killed or interviewing high-level immigration days. I immersed myself in the world of injured, and human rights abuses are officials from the Instituto Nacional de transit migration, and engaged with committed by local gangs and Mexican Inmigración (INM) and NGOs dedicated migrants during their respite from their authorities. The Mexican government has to immigration issues. Then I embarked dangerous journey through Mexico. This taken a stringent gatekeeper stance on the long journey to Tapachula to provided an important human against these immigrants as they move interview more INM officials, NGOs, perspective to a policy issue. My through Mexican territory. My research Grupo Beta officers, and Central fieldwork proved to be an enriching and focuses on the anti-transit migration American consulates. I had the invaluable intense academic and personal projects of the Mexican state and on experience of living in a ‘Casa del experience. ■ 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 7

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Popular Rebellion in Rural Nineteenth-Century Mexico

by Zachary Brittsan, History graduate student

fter arriving in Mexico City papers. The mayor of Tepic and the political bosses and regional newspapers. in early October, I began a conference organizers unveiled a bust of I also plan to review ecclesiastical A two-week trip to the cities of Manuel Lozada in the central plaza of his documents related to the rebellion in the Tepic, Nayarit and Guadalajara, Jalisco town of birth, San Luis de Lozada, on the archdiocese and return to Tepic. where I visited more than six different conference’s final day. This event allowed Although I have become a much more archives. My stay in Tepic, the geographic me to interact with interested scholars effective researcher during my seven center of the popular rebellion I am and non-academics and absorb recent months in Mexico, the process remains studying, also coincided with a scholarship. unpredictable and, at times, exhilarating. 7 conference about Manuel Lozada, the I am currently conducting research in ■ rebellion’s leader, in which many two of Guadalajara’s larger archives. I am prominent Mexican historians presented reviewing letters and telegrams sent by

The Nostalgia of Change:A history of the impact of Mexican return migration to the town of Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, from 1930 to 2006

by Jesús Pérez Varela, History graduate student

y study looks at the history reflected in the town’s traditions today. Acámbaro in terms of economy, culture, and impact of return A pivotal moment occurred in the and society. Such changes are evident in M migration in the town of 1940s when its residents began documents found in Acámbaro’s local Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico, from immigrating to the United States under archive and at the Secretaria de 1930 to 2006. Acámbaro has played an the Bracero program (1942-1964) and Relaciones Exteriores in Mexico City. My important role in Mexican immigration began Acámbaro’s complex legacy of study includes interviews of four and served as a trampoline for various return migration. Contemporary changes generations of return migrants as well as groups in the 1930s, including Middle linked to immigration include the locals who have never been to the United Eastern, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian influence of a U.S.-style gang culture, States, whose perspective is vital in immigrants, to migrate to other parts of linguistic impacts, and the fomentation of understanding the effect of migration on Mexico and to the United States. This has further immigration. I argue that return Mexico. ■ left social and cultural impacts that are migration has permanently changed 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 8

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ILAS Community Outreach Events

– Ruth Padrón, Program and Outreach Coordinator

Chis academic year, CILAS musical performance, singing songs from skills, investigate organizational culture, and hosted a workshop for K-12 several regions. The participants learned learn career-related skills. CILAS would like T teachers and coordinated local songs and dances to teach in the classroom. to acknowledge Astrid Dorantes, Monika classroom visits. CILAS sponsored the Latin The traveling culture trunk Ancient Langarica, and Raúl Bernal, who each American Music in the Classroom work- Civilizations of Latin America: The Aztecs, completed a ten-week internship and shop with José-Luis Orozco and Heidi the Incas, and the Mayas continues to make assisted the Center with research and events 8 Feldman. Feldman from the Department of its rounds of schools in San Diego. The marketing. Astrid will be attending Soka Communication gave an informative and trunk can be checked out free of charge by University; Monika, a Gates Millennium engaging presentation on incorporating K-12 educators for up to one month. More Scholar, will be attending the University of Latin American music into the curriculum. information is available on the CILAS Southern California; and Raúl Bernal will She provided teachers, educators, and website. be attending San Diego State University. librarians with resources to integrate arts For the fourth consecutive year, CILAS Congratulations to all of our Preuss Interns education using examples of the rumba, hosted student interns from the UCSD and good luck in all of your future congo, and punto. José-Luis Orozco, author Preuss School. Through these internships, endeavors! ■ and recording artist, presented a lively Preuss students polish communication

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ongratulations América Latina: Cto the Class of Temas Trascendentes para el Siglo XXI 2007! Many outstanding students graduated from the CILAS graduate and under- by Lynn Eddy-Zambrano, Outreach Coordinator, graduate programs this year. We wish Center for Latin American Studies, SDSU them well in their future endeavors!

o stay in peak professional form, An optional, educational field trip to Latin American Studies language teachers need to Tijuana has been scheduled for Saturday, M.A. Recipients regularly exercise their proficiency June 30, 2007. The first “Tijuana actual” T Jeannine Bessette 9 in the target language, update their cultural field trip last fall featured meetings with Meredith Cabell fluency and add to their repertoires of personnel from Grupo Beta, a federal Nancy Egan instructional strategies, which generally agency that provides humanitarian Jennie Daniels requires travel abroad. While exciting and assistance to migrants, and members of Alison Gaffney pleasurable, travel is expensive and not “Las Magdalenas” union for women Angela Garcia always practical. working in the sex trade. The day trip was Ann Kimball Spanish teachers have an alternative this so well received that a follow up, “(más) Jorge Montesinos summer. The San Diego Consortium for Tijuana actual,” was conducted in mid-May Leah Newman Maria Romero Latin American Studies , and San Diego and included visits to a Mixtec community, Edith Tejeda State University’s International Studies a shelter for Tijuana street children, and a Mei-Chih (Carmen) Wu Education Project (ISTEP) and Language meeting with local law enforcement agents Acquisition Resource Center (LARC), are to talk about safety and security issues in Latin American Studies pooling their respective strengths in a the city. B.A. Honors Recipients unique program that packages the Subsidized by funding from Title VI and Eva Amezola experiences Spanish teachers want in a the California International Studies Project, Raquel Hernández Valdivia venue close to home, at a fraction of the registration for Temas trascendentes has Siobhan Lozada cost. América Latina: Temas trascendentes been held to $150.00. Five units of UCSD Latin American Studies para el Siglo XXI, a 30-hour intensive Extension credit are available at an B.A. Recipients institute directed at K-12 Spanish language additional cost. Originally conceived as a Angela Bushard educators, will be conducted June 25-29 on commuter program that would serve San Mayra Cortez the campus of San Diego State University. Diego County’s population of Spanish Alanna Feldman All activities in the program, with the instructors, Temas trascendentes is attracting Adam Gardner exception of technology sessions, will be participants from around the state of Laura Gonzalez conducted in Spanish. This quasi- California and from as far away as Texas. ■ Elizabeth Huato Maldonado immersion experience will afford teachers Dominique Martinez the critical opportunity to discuss and For more information about the program, Sindy Tobias contact Lynn Eddy-Zambrano, Outreach interact in Spanish with presenters and Coordinator, Center for Latin American colleagues at an advanced level. Studies, SDSU, [email protected]

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HELEN EDISON LECTURE SERIES Alma Guillermoprieto: Truth and Beauty in Mexico

by Laura Vázquez, LAS graduate student

n April 24, 2007, the esteemed writer Alma Guillermoprieto O delivered a well received talk sponsored by the UCSD Cesar Chavez 10 Celebration Committee and the UCSD Helen Edison Lecture Series. Alma Guillermoprieto was born in Mexico City UCSD undergraduate and graduate students had the opportunity to have lunch with esteemed and has lived in Los Angeles and New York writer Alma Guillermoprieto. City. She has been writing about Latin America for over 25 years, frequently for describes the year she spent with impov- at UCSD as she swayed and danced along The New Yorker and The New York Review erished carnival-makers in . to the music. Guillermoprieto linked of Books. In her talk, Guillermoprieto gracefully Mexico’s history to its music and cinema She is the author of Looking for History: and eloquently described “What It Means highlighting its dynamic, vibrant culture. ■ Dispatches from Latin America (2001), to be Mexican” using clips of films and The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America songs. Her background as a professional Now (1994), and Samba (1990), which dancer was evident to audience members

SALSA NIGHT by Kimberly Dodge, LAS graduate student at CILAS On November 7, 2006, CILAS and the brought along two instructors to show numbers of attendees, CILAS’s first Salsa Cross Cultural Center hosted a Salsa Night beginners the basics. Salsa Night attendees Night was a great success, bringing in the Institute of the Americas Plaza formed several long rows to practice the together students, staff and faculty to share enjoyed by undergraduates, graduate steps and turns. The instructors also a night of Latin American-inspired fun. ■ students, faculty, staff, and friends. performed their own choreographed Quinteto Caballero, a local Latin Jazz routine for the crowd. After their energetic quintet, played salsa, cha-cha-cha, and performance, students and staff alike merengue. Dancers of all levels followed continued to dance for the remainder of the salsa beats, and Quinteto Caballero the quintet’s set. Evidenced by the high 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 11

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This year, graduate students Academic Year FLAS across several disciplines were Kimberly Dodge, Latin American Studies- Brazilian Portuguese Whitney Duncan, Anthropology- Mixtec awarded grants for language Meghan Edwards, Latin American Studies- Brazilian Portuguese study and research abroad. Jedidiah McClure, Anthropology- Brazilian Portuguese Awards include the CILAS Travel Melanie McComsey, Anthropology- Zapotec Grant for predissertation Summer FLAS field research outside the United Jessica Cordova, Latin American Studies- SDSU Program (Zapotec) 11 States; the CILAS Dissertation Whitney Duncan, Anthropology- SDSU Program (Mixtec) Field Research Grant for Ph.D. Rebecca Franklin, Sociology- NRCSA Program (Garífuna) Henry Lesperance, Latin American Studies- SDSU Program (Zapotec) students conducting research in John McGraw, Anthropology- Corazon Maya Program (Tz'utujil Maya) Latin America or the Iberian Maria Ramos, Visual Arts- Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Nahuatl) Peninsula; and grants for Jesse Rubin, IR/PS- PUC- Rio de Janeiro/Harvard Univeristy (Brazilian Portuguese)

language study, including Dissertation Grants academic year and summer Ricardo Fagoaga, History- En medio de una y otra America: Regions, Markets and Indigenous Economic Participation in Guatemala and Chiapas, 1750-1850 Foreign Language and Area Ricardo Gomez-Vilchis, Political Science- Presidential Approval in Mexico: Studies fellowships (FLAS). Determinants and Effects Awards are sponsored by the Barbara Zepeda-Cortes, History- Empire, Reform, and Corruption: Jose de Galvez and Political Culture in Colonial Spanish America, 1759-1787 Department of Education, the Office of Graduate Studies Travel Grants Jacob Allen, IR/PS- Private Pension Reform in Latin America: Rates of Return, (OGS), and CILAS. Corporate Governance, and Income Inequality Congratulations to this year’s Sarah Baitzel, Anthropology- Mortuary Behavior and Ethnic Identity at the Rio Muerto Archaeological Site in Moquegua, Peru award recipients! Scott Boehm, Literature- Imperial Identities in Spain and the United States, 1898-9/11 Kimberly Dodge, Latin American Studies- Cultural Practices and Social Struggles: The Dynamics of Andean Music Performance, Production, and Purchasing in Present-day Peru and Bolivia Sara Kozameh, Latin American Studies- Democracy or Authoritarianism: Misiones Bolivarianas en Venezuela Kate Levitt, Communication- Policing the Party: the Paradox of Public Security in Mexico City > see Grants, next page 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 12

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t was an honor to host two Chancellor of Academic Affairs through distinguished Visiting Professors the Department of Anthropology and I from Latin America during the partially supported by the U.S. Department 2006-2007 academic year. of Education Title VI grant funds.

In Spring 2007, Rodrigo Montoya Also in Spring, Gabriela Dos Reis taught a graduate seminar on “Ethnicity Sampaio taught a graduate seminar on and Indigenous Political Movements in “History and Literature: Culture and 12 Latin America,” and an undergraduate Society in Brazil.” Sampaio is a Professor course on “Indigenous Peoples of Latin America: Ethnicity, Politics, and Identity.” Rodrigo Montoya delivers keynote address at the Culture & Violence conference in 2006. Montoya, Professor Emeritus at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San and the cultural history of Latin America. Marcos in Peru, is a leading expert on Professor Montoya’s appointment was co- ethnicity, indigenous political movements, sponsored by CILAS and the Senior Vice

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Travel Grants (continued) Gabriela Dos Reis Sampaio is a professor of history at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. Jedrek Mularski, History- Sounds of the People, Songs of the State: The Political Use of Music during the Allende Era of History at the Federal University of Jessica Novak, Latin American Studies- Political Migrants and NGOs: Human Bahia in Brazil and an expert on the social Rights Representation in Bogotá, Colombia and cultural history of nineteenth-century Marisa Peeters, Anthropology- Millenarian Protestant Churches and the Shaping, Effect, and Memory of Trauma in : A Comparison between a Seventh day Brazil. Her research interests include the Adventist Church and the Assembly of God in San Juan Opico social history of slavery and race relations, Erica Skog, Latin American Studies- The Venezuelan Women’s Suffrage Movement as well as the social history of medicine in Comparative Perspective and religious practices. ■ Ana Pimentel Walker, Anthropology- Democratic Planning in Brazil: The Dialectics between Institutional Information and Political Culture in Porto Alegre and Recife Ana G. White, Latin American Studies- Gender Objectivities: Migration as a Transforming Process for Paraguayan, Bolivian, and Peruvian Migrants in Argentina 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 13

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ECONOMICS Spring 2008 (tentative) HIUS 180/280/ETHN 134 LTSP 174 Topics in Culture and LTSP 258 Spanish -American Immigration & Ethnicity in Politics Prose ECON 161 Global Integration of American Society Latin America LTSP 224 Golden Age Studies LTSP 272 Literature and Society Studies ECON 162 Economics of Mexico Spring 2008 (tentative) Winter 2008 (tentative) HILA 102 Latin America/ LTSP 130B Development/Spanish POLITICAL SCIENCE HISTORY Twentieth Century Literature HILA 115 Latin American City, Fall 2007 (tentative) Fall 2007 (tentative) LTSP 133 Contemporary Latin A History American Literature 105A Latino Politics in the U.S. HILA 100 Latin American- HILA 122 Cuba: From Colony- Colonial Transformations LTSP 142 Latin American Short 181A Field Research Methods for Socialist Republic Story Migration Studies: Seminar HILA 121 History Of Brazil HILA 132 History of LTSP 150B Contemporary HILA 167/267 Scholarship/Latin Winter 2008 (tentative) Contemporary Mexico Chicano/a-Latino/a Literature American History/2007 Colonialism 127 Politics- of Developing HILA 169/269 Latin American LTSP 177 Literary and Historical HIGR 248A Research Seminar/ Countries Scholarship (20th Century) Migrations Latin America National Period 134D Selected Topics in Latin HIGR 248B Research Seminar/ LTSP 275 Latin American(ist) American Politics Winter 2008 (tentative) Latin America, National Period Literary and Cultural Theories 146A The U.S. and Latin America: HILA 101 Latin American Spring 2008 (tentative) Political and Economic Relations Independence 1810-1898 LITERATURE LTSP 116 Representations/ 150A Politics of Immigration 13 HILA 102 Latin America/ Fall 2007 (tentative) Spanish Colonialism Twentieth Century 181B Field Research Methods for LTSP 130A Development/Spanish LTSP 137 Caribbean Literature Migration Studies: Practicum HILA 131 History of Mexico: Literature 1821-1924 LTSP 138 Central American Spring 2008 (tentative) LTSP2008 138 Central American Literature HILA 168/268 Latin American Literature 134I Politics/Southern Cone/ LTSP 174 Topics in Culture and Latin America Scholarship (19th Century) LTSP 140 Latin American Novel Politics 181C Field Research Methods for LTSP 142 Latin American Short LTSP 175 Gender, Sexuality and Migration Studies: Data Analysis Story Culture WhereWhere areare theythey now…now… ACADEMIC YEARS 2002-2003 2005-2006 Alisa Garni (’03) just received her Ph.D. Katherine Becvar (’06) is currently 1997-1998 from the Department of Sociology at the enrolled in the Master of Library and Neilan Barnes (’98) is an Assistant University of California, Los Angeles (’06). Information Science (MLIS) program at the Professor of Sociology at California State University of California, Los Angeles. University, Long Beach. 2003-2004 Andres M. Jarrin (’04) is working for the Jade Power (’06) is a Ph.D. Candidate in 1999-2000 Global Learning Semesters in Nicosia, Cyprus. the Department of Theater and Dance at the David Fitzgerald (’00) is an Assistant University of California, San Diego. Professor of Sociology and Field Research Michael Velarde (’04) is working on a law Director Center for Comparative Immigration degree at the University of Southern California. Surangi Ranasinghe (’06) is an instructor Studies at the University of California, San 2004-2005 at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, CA. Diego. Robert Donnelly (’05) is the Project Annalise Romoser (’06) is the Senior 2000-2001 Coordinator for the Trans-Border Institute at Associate for the U.S. Office on Colombia. Erik W. Lee (’01) is a Program Officer of the the University of San Diego. Megan Strom (’06) will begin her Ph.D. in Merage Foundation for the American Dream. Stephanie Lombard (’05) is the Outreach the Department of History at the University of 2001-2002 Assistant for the Quaker Bolivia Link. California, San Diego. Guillermo Gallardo (’02) is a Ph.D. Daniel Quirós (’05) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Candidate in Latin American History at the the Department of Literature at the University University of California, San Diego. of California, San Diego. Apha Thirakaroonwongse (‘02) is the First Secretary for the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Argentina. 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 14

CILAS C ENTER FOR I BERIAN AND L ATIN A MERICAN S TUDIES 2007ISITING SCHOLARS VEvery year CILAS hosts an array of Visiting Scholars from Latin America, Spain, and the United States. Scholars come to CILAS to conduct research on their respective projects. Visiting scholars at CILAS in 2006-2007 were:

AMANDA HERNÁNDEZ PÉREZ MARTA LATORRE CATALÁN Ph.D. candidate in Advanced Latin Ph.D. candidate University Complutense American Social, Political and Economic of Madrid (UCM), School of Political Issues, Instituto Universitario de Science and Sociology in the Investigación Ortega y Gasset (affiliate Department of Sociology I (Social of Universidad Complutense de Change) 14 Madrid), Spain Areas of Expertise: LaTorre is an expert Areas of Expertise: Hernández is an in political sociology, culture and politics. expert on social and gender history. She also studies social and political change related to international migration. Country of Expertise: Mexico Country of Expertise: Spain Project title: Agrarian Transformations and the Participation of Women in Rural Areas:The Case of Female Agricultural Workers in Sinaloa 1970- Project title: Political and citizenship processes during Franco's regime 2000 Current Research Project: LaTorre is studying the processes of Current Research Project: The project objective is to explain how political socialization of Spanish migrants in foreign countries during ■ social and economic politics have affected or impacted farming. More Franco's dictatorship. specifically, this investigation explores the living conditions of Sinaloa’s female workers from the post-revolutionary states to the present.

CILAS New Affiliated Faculty by Annie Nyborg, LAS graduate student This year, ten Latin Americanists from various Hugh Mehan, Professor of Sociology, departments have joined the CILAS affiliated faculty. received his Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in 1971. Mehan’s research interests include David Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor in expert on behavioral transmission of blood classroom organization, educational testing, Sociology, received his Ph.D. from UC Los borne viral infections among high-risk tracking and untracking, computer use in Angeles in 2005. His interests include populations domestically and abroad. schools and the construction of identities international migration, race, ethnicity, such as the “competent student,” the John Haviland, Professor in transnationalism and nationalism with a “learning disabled student,” and the “genius”. Anthropology, received his Ph.D. from focus on U.S. and Mexican regions. Harvard in 1971. Haviland is an Mario Molina, Professor in Chemistry Richard Garfein, Associate Professor in anthropological linguist, with interest in the and Biochemistry and the Center for Family and Preventative Medicine in the social life of language. His major research Atmospheric Sciences, received his Ph.D. Division of International Health and Cross has been on Tzotzil (Maya) in highland from UC Berkeley in 1972. Molina is a 1995 Cultural Medicine, received his Ph.D. from Chiapas, Mexico, and its neighbors. Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for his Johns Hopkins University. Garfein is an > see Faculty, next page 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 15

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research on the threat to the ozone layer in the include comparative politics, political African-American and Californian history. stratosphere of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. economy, and institutions. His work examines expressive culture, race and ethnicity, and political radicalism. Rafael Núñez, Associate Professor in Steffanie Strathdee, Professor in Cognitive Science, received his Ph.D. from the Family and Preventative Medicine, received Winifred Woodhull, Associate Professor University of Freiburg, Switzerland in 1993. her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in in Literature, received his Ph.D. from the Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, Núñez 1994. Strathdee is an expert on epidemiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. investigates how the human mind creates infectious diseases, border health, and global Woodhull is an expert on literatures of France, abstraction and conceptual systems. health. Africa, and The Caribbean, critical gender studies, and postcolonial studies. ■ Sebastian Saiegh, Assistant Professor in Daniel Widener, Assistant Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from New History, received his Ph.D. from New York York University in 2004. His research interests University in 2002. Widener is an expert on

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DEPARTMENT OF (ERIC VAN YOUNG, Professor) DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY La ciudad y el campo en el México del siglo POLITICAL SCIENCE XVIII: La economía rural de la región de GEOFFREY BRASWELL, Associate Professor WAYNE A. CORNELIUS, Gildred Professor Guadalajara, 1675-1820. Mexico City: Fondo of Political Science; Director, Center for “Lithic Analysis in the Maya Area.” In Maya de Cultura Económica, 1990. (Spanish Comparative Immigration Studies Archaeology at the Millennium. Ed. Gregory translation of Hacienda and Market; a Borgstede and Charles Golden. London: second edition, with a new introduction, to Reforming the Administration of Justice in Routledge Press. (forthcoming) be co-published by Fondo de Cultura Mexico (Co-edited with David Shirk). Notre Económica and Universidad de Guadalajara, Dame, Indiana and La Jolla, California: NANCY POSTERO, Assistant Professor 2006.) University of Notre Dame Press and Center Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Postmulticultural Bolivia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF RELATIONS AND SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF PACIFIC STUDIES COMMUNICATION CARLOS H.WAISMAN, Professor RICHARD FEINBERG, Professor Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America HEIDI FELDMAN, Visiting Professor Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America (Co-edited with Richard Feinberg and Leon Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African (with Carlos H. Waisman and Leon Zamosc) Zamosc) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. LEON ZAMOSC, Associate Professor Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America DEPARTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF (Co-edited with Richard Feinberg and Carlos LITERATURE HISTORY H. Waisman) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. SARA JOHNSON, Assistant Professor ERIC VAN YOUNG, Professor Kaiso! Writings By and About Katherine Hacienda and Market in Eighteenth-Century Dunham. Co-edited with VeVe Clark. Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Guadalajara Region, 1675-1810. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981; Second Edition (forthcoming) 52776 CILAS_SUMMER_07 6/29/07 1:32 PM Page 16

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