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Recent Brazil Initiatives Brazilian alumni and CLAS recently established a Vanderbilt-Brazil Advisory Board to strengthen the ties that connect Vanderbilt to Brazil and raise the profile of Vanderbilt in Brazil. The founding members of the Advisory Board are leaders in their respective fields and are committed to building Vanderbilt’s reputation as an innovator in the field of Brazilian Studies. They are: Luis Paulo Rosenberg (Chair), Virgilio Almeida, Claudio de Moura Castro, Ibrahim Eris, Mauro Benevides

STEVE GREEN Filho, Jorge Jatobá, Francisco “Chico” Communidad Performance at Vanderbilt Stadium Mussnich, Ricardo Pratesi, Maria Regina Soares de Lima, Tom Trebat, and James Wright. Members of the Performance Artist Regina Jose Galindo new board were welcomed at the Alumni Reception in São Paulo on Involves Nashville in the Creation of Her October 14, 2016. Our annual Brazil Week was a great Latest Work, Comunidad success! The week began with a lecture by Vanderbilt alumnus James n November, CLAS hosted Guatemala’s leading performance artist, Regina José Galindo, as our Wright (FIA) and Professor of History visiting resource professor in collaboration with Candice Amich (English) and Mel Ziegler (Art). Born Marshall Eakin on “Brazil after Dilma.” in Guatemala City in 1974, Galindo began publishing poetry in the 1990s, but today is the most well- On Monday, CLAS hosted a reception Iknown member of a group of young women poets and artists who turned to provocative forms of body to welcome forty of Wright’s executive art in response to the amnesia of Guatemala’s post-dictatorship culture. Her work explores the universal MBA students who were in residence ethical implications of social injustice, racial discrimination, violence against women, and unequal power at Vanderbilt for the week. Other activi- relations in today’s society. Many of her works address the human rights violations perpetrated against ties included the annual futebol game, women and the indigenous both during and after Guatemala’s civil war. Galindo has received major inter- a screening and discussion of Eduardo Coutinho’s Ultimas Conversas, and a national awards for her work, including the Golden Lion award at the 2005 Venice Biennale for ¿Quien talk by Edilza Sotero (Brown University), puede borrar las huellas? (Who Can Erase the Traces?) and Himenoplastia (Hymenoplasty). ¿Quién puede “Mulheres em Movimento: Women, borrar las huellas? was composed in 2003 in protest of General Efraín Rios Montt’s recently announced Displacement and Action in the Flows presidential candidacy. Wearing all black, Galindo walks barefoot from Guatemala’s Constitutional Court of the African Diaspora.” to the National Palace, carrying a white basin of bright red human blood. Every few paces she dips her feet into the bowl, leaving the trace of her bloody footprints and memorializing the dead left in Ríos New this year was a program to host FIA undergraduate students at Montt’s wake. In Himenoplastia, Galindo undergoes reconstructive hymen surgery, which is forced upon Vanderbilt for the week. Eight Brazilian victims of sex trafficking to recreate their virginity. students were paired with Vanderbilt In a more recent performance, La Verdad (Te Truth), Galindo reads from the testimonies of Maya Ixil students, attended classes, and partici- women who witnessed atrocities committed by the army during the civil war. Seated at a small table at the pated in Brazil Week activities. The visit- Centro Cultural de España in Guatemala City, Galindo reads from transcripts of the April 2013 trial charg- ing students were also treated to a tour ing Ríos Montt with acts of genocide while a dentist periodically anesthetizes her mouth. She continues of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, reading as her speech becomes increasingly slurred and inaudible over the duration of the seventy-minute accompanied by Turner Family Center performance. In Looting, a dentist drills holes in Galindo’s eight molars and fills them with gold mined in for Social Ventures Director Mario Avila Guatemala, which is later extracted in Germany and displayed as art. and CLAS staff. The week ended with Galindo was in residence at Vanderbilt from November 6–16. During her time on campus, she a churrasco and capoeira presentation worked closely with senior art students, provided critical feedback to their work, led Candice Amich’s by Grupo Balança Capoeira Nashville, Gilman Whiting (African American and graduate seminar and graduate students on their own performance pieces, and delivered a powerful Diaspora Studies) and the Vanderbilt public lecture on her art. Te highlight of her residency was the creation of a new performance piece Capoeira Club. (Cont. on Pg. 3) titled Comunidad, which brought together over one hundred Latino and other residents Cont. on Pg. 11 DIRECTOR’S CORNER: EDWARD F. FISCHER

he Provost has formed a new working in Nashville, both to enliven things here with group to develop an international strategy greater diversity of perspectives and to increase for the university. Ingrid Wuerth and I are our profile and impact in countries around the chairing this initiative, and our goal is to support world. 230 Buttrick Hall T PMB 351806 your work more effectively, and we welcome We have an exciting series of events lined 2301 Vanderbilt Place your advice and suggestions. Our broad charge up for this academic year, including five Nashville, TN 37235-1806 is to look for ways to facilitate international conferences and a performance artist who will Tel: 615-322-2527 research and to raise Vanderbilt’s global profile. involve the Vanderbilt and Nashville communi- Fax: 615-322-2305 Web: vanderbilt.edu/clas Tis involves lowering barriers to international ties in the creation of a new work. Last year collaborations by faculty—making it easier to do we sponsored over 160 events on-campus and Director: Edward F. Fischer work abroad. But we also want to look for ways to off-campus, from visiting speakers to majors Executive Director: Avery Dickins de Girón Assistant Director: Nicolette Kostiw make our Nashville campus more international— conferences and teacher workshops. The Outreach Coordinator: Lisa Finelli our faculty, students, and physical plant never fail vibrancy of our community depends on our Administrative Assistant: to impress visitors, who then become our most meeting at such events, and we hope to see you Alma Paz-Sanmiguel effective ambassadors. at one soon. LAS Bibliographer: Paula Covington At a recent alumni reception in São Paulo, Marshal Eakin, Nicolette Kostiw, and I met Steering Committee 2016–2017 CLAS Fulbright FLTA for 2015-16, Diogo Candice Amich several generations of impressive Vanderbilt Oliveira do Espiritu Santo, created a series Jose Cardenas Bunsen alumni and visiting scholars. We had gradu- of three online instructional modules for Ashley Carse ates from A&S, Owen, and Peabody; former Portuguese called Say 33. The modules Celso Castilho recipients of FIPSE/CAPES and Humphrey were originally created for healthcare Markus Eberl fellowships; and a couple of previous visiting Jon Hiskey professionals, faculty and students, but professors. It was invigorating to hear them Marshall Eakin undergraduates and others wanting to learn Doug Morgan speak with such fondness and passion for Portuguese have found them useful. Check Vanderbilt; and it is amazing to see these Vandy out Say 33 at: canvas.instructure.com/ CLAS-Affiliated Faculty graduates using their education to make their courses/1004674 Rhonda Collier, Tuskegee University country and the world a better place. Events Join us for weekly Portuguese tables! (English) like these remind us of the life-changing impact Theron Corse, Tennessee State University This year, batepapo is led by doctoral (History) we have on our students and the importance student in Spanish and Portuguese Jacob C. Gregory Hammond, Austin Peay State of our teaching mission. It also brought home Brown, and is held on Friday evenings University (History) to me the importance of having more interna- at SATCO. Larry Harrington, Chief Deputy, Attorney tional students and visiting scholars on campus General, State of Tennessee Michael LaRosa, Rhodes College (History) Jana Morgan, University of Tennessee (Political Science) Stephen Morris, Middle Tennessee State University (Political Science) CLAS Welcomes Nicolette Kostiw Richard Pace, Middle Tennessee State University (Anthropology) as New Assistant Director Gerald Reed, Middle Tennessee State University (Political Science) icolette Kostiw has been appointed as the gender, and childhood. She will teach the Introduc- Christoph Rosenmuller, Tennessee State new Assistant Director of CLAS, and will tion to Latin American Studies and Introduction to University (History) serve as Director of Gradu- Brazilian Studies courses, advise LAS ate and Undergraduate Studies and as students, and coordinate our sum- Teacher Advisory Board N Andrea Beebe-Lopez, Hillwood FLAS Coordinator. Kostiw received mer awards. Before joining CLAS, High School her Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt Nicolette was the Research Coordina- Allison Brazzel, Glencliff High School University, with a specialization in tor for the Preschool Development Elyssa Cross, McGavock High School Brazil. Her research examines the end Grant (PDG) project at the Peabody Ana Christina da Silva, Peabody College, of slavery in Rio de Janeiro, looking Research Institute at Vanderbilt. Tis Dept. of Teaching and Learning Becky Hornsby, Glendale specifically at the ways in which grant allocated 70 million dollars Elementary School former slaves and their children to the State of Tennessee from the Stephanie Knight, Center for Applied navigated the country’s transition into U.S. Department of Education for the Second Language Studies the post-emancipation era through expansion and enhancement of Pre-K the analysis of legal records. She education and services in Nashville Edited by Avery Dickins de Girón uses this transitional period to focus and Memphis. on changing notions of race, class,

2 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Brazil Initiatives (Cont.) ast March’s Festa Junina boasted a huge project on identifying causes and consequences of turnout from the Brazilian community for an limitations in health care provision in Brazil. Fellows evening of music and dancing from North- will design their fellowship according to their inter- Leastern Brazil. Portuguese instructor Benjamin ests, which may include traveling to Brazil, working Legg and CLAS Assistant Director Nicolette are with Vanderbilt faculty in a survey lab, data analysis, working on plans for Festa Junina in 2017. Te event and participating in international research meetings. will again be in collaboration with Fisk, and their Te group will soon conduct a series of focus groups Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in Brazil on stigma and cognitive interviews for (FTLA), Joseline Caramelo Afonso. Twenty-five Fisk the healthcare satisfaction survey they are creating students are currently studying Portuguese. for their project in Rocinha, Rio. Led by Marshall Te Brazil TIPs group, “A Multidisciplinary Eakin, members of the TIPS group are: Tim Sterling, Approach to Assessing Healthcare in Brazil,” has Liz Zechmeister, Jessica Castilho, Celso Castilho, initiated its Undergraduate Research Fellows Troy Moon, Jane Landers, Ted Fischer, Catherine program for a project. Five undergraduate students McGowan, Peter Rebeiro, C. William Wester, Paula will be selected to participate in the group’s research Covington, and Aaron Kipp.

First Vanderbilt Students Enroll in CASA Cuba Program n March 2016, a group of Vanderbilt faculty in the inaugural opening of the program. Te course of the next two years. Fall 2016 is the and administrators traveled to Cuba to consortium plans to establish new study abroad first semester that Vanderbilt students have see Vanderbilt’s newest study abroad site sites in Latin America and beyond over the had the opportunity to participate in the CASA Ifirst hand and meet with representatives from Cuba program. Two students, Mathew Pendo our partner institutions in the Consortium and Hanna Roenfanz, are spending their fall of Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) which semester in Havana. include Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt’s Global Education Office Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, University of oversees student recruitment and program Pennsylvania, and Harvard. William Luis, admission. Requirements include the Cynthia Cyrus, Susan Barone, and CLAS completion of SPAN 3303 (or demonstration of Director Ted Fischer spent several days in intermediate level Spanish), a 2.75 cumulative Havana where they toured the Casa de las GPA, the completion of at least two semesters

Américas, met with students, and participated PHOTO: JORGE ROYAN at Vanderbilt, and good academic standing.

Mexico’s Consul General Visits Vanderbilt rancisco Javier Díaz de León, the new Consul General for Mexico based in Atlanta, visited campus on September 11 Fto meet with representatives from Vanderbilt and Tennessee State University to explore future educational and cultural exchanges between universities in Tennessee and Mexico. Diaz spoke highly of the Mexico-related research going on at Vanderbilt, including art history, entrepreneurship projects, the work of LAPOP and the various scholars examining immigration issues. “Te future of the United States is intricately linked to that of Mexico, and vice versa,” said CLAS Director Ted Fischer. “We are bound by our close geogra- phy; Mexico is one of our principal trading forward to working with Consul General Diaz enriches our campus and increases under- partners; and we have millions of Americans to increase academic exchanges and cultural standing between our two countries.” of Mexican descent living here. We look events, to do the sort of soft diplomacy that —Liz Entman

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 3 Marshall Eakin Receives 2016 Alumni Education Award rofessor of History and CLAS Director the Vanderbilt Travel program. Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, of Brazilian Initiatives Marshall Eakin Board member Tim Warnock, BA’84, Graham Stewart, associate vice chancellor received the 2016 Vanderbilt Alumni presented the award to Eakin during a surprise for alumni relations, Cary Allyn, director, PEducation Award. Te Alumni Association visit to a Latin American Studies class on Vanderbilt Travel Program, Lauren Duncan, Board of Directors selected Eakin for his signifi- April 5. Lauren Benton, dean of the College of alumni board member, and CLAS staff were cant contributions to educational programming Arts and Science, Joel Harrington, Centennial also in attendance. as a speaker for Commodore Classrooms and Professor of History, Jane Landers, Gertrude Tis is the second time Eakin has received the Alumni Education Award, a testament to his long history of supporting educational pro- grams for the Alumni Association. Eakin began teaching at Vanderbilt in 1983 and became the faculty director of the Ingram Scholarship Program in August 2009. He has taught a wide variety of courses in history and Latin American studies at all levels from first-year to Ph.D. students. He is the recipient of two Fulbright-Hayes fellowships, multiple grants and numerous teaching and advising awards. Te Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board of Directors has chosen a faculty member for this honor each year since 1982. He was given a cash prize and a silver tray. —VU Press

(L-R) Dean Lauren Benton, Lauren Duncan, Marshall Eakin, Joel Harrington, Jane Landers, Cary Allyn, and Tim Warnock Social Venture Founded by CLAS Director Ted Fischer Wins 15,000 Prize utriPlus, a social venture founded Mani+ is unique because it’s sourced by Ted Fischer, director of Latin and produced right in Guatemala. It’s a American Studies and professor of truly farm-to-table approach that not only Nanthropology, has won a Stephan Schmidheiny addresses a grave humanitarian need for those Award from the VIVA Trust in the Social who consume it but also provides economic Innovation category. Te award, a 15,000 opportunities for the farmers and technicians prize to benefit the winning project, recognizes who produce it—and ultimately for the vendors enterprises that have produced significant who will sell it. Te Mani+ program is the improvement in people’s lives. More than 500 result of years of interdisciplinary research by projects competed in 2016. Vanderbilt anthropology, business, nursing, has had in Guatemala.” NutriPlus produces a peanut-based biological sciences and education students and NutriPlus’ cofounder is local philanthro- pediatric nutrition therapy called Mani+ for faculty. And this year, Mani+ has shared its tal- pist and music business leader Steve Moore, the benefit of the 50 percent of Guatemalan ent with Vanderbilt in return: Lead nutritionist founder of Middle Tennessee nonprofit Te children who suffer from malnutrition. “It is Miguel Cuj, himself a Maya born and raised Shalom Foundation and former Country Music an honor to receive this recognition on behalf in the highlands, began a master’s program in Association CEO. Te foundation’s Guatemala of all of the students and colleagues who have Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt this fall. City headquarters houses Vanderbilt’s Guate- worked on this project over the years,” said “We have exposed our students to global health mala field office. Fischer. “Tere is far greater demand for our and international experiences working on this Te VIVA Trust was founded by Swiss life-saving Mani+ product than we can meet project in Guatemala, and it is beautiful that industrialist Stephan Schmidheiny to bring in Guatemala—malnutrition is endemic across it has also helped us recruit some of the best business and philanthropy together to promote large parts of the country. We will use the talent to attend Vanderbilt for their advanced sustainability and equality in Latin America award money to buy a new mixer and increase studies,” said Fischer. “Tis two-way street through innovation and entrepreneurship. our capacity.” illustrates the remarkable impact Vanderbilt —Liz Entman

4 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Landers Receives Prestigious ACLS Digital Extension Grant project directed by Jane Landers (His- of the project. Te focus was on Africans and tory) to preserve endangered African Afro-descended individuals, but the Catholic and Afro-descended slave records Church also recorded Europeans, indigenous Ahas been awarded an American Council of and Chinese individuals in the same books. Learned Societies (ACLS) Digital Extension Documents preserved among others include Grant for 150,000. “Enhancing the Ecclesi- 16th-century black baptisms, marriages and astical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies burials from the Cathedral of Havana. Digital Archive: A Project to Add Context, A series of additional grants from the Brit- Improve Technology, and Strengthen Col- ish Library Endangered Archives Programme, laborative Networks” is among five projects the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute, to receive this grant, which is funded by Te and the Diocese of St. Augustine have enabled Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Tis year’s the ESSSS team to expand its preservation grantees were selected from a highly competi- efforts to new churches and archives in members have provided significant assistance tive field of nearly 100 applications across the Colombia, Brazil, Cuba and St. Augustine, to the digital archive and website. Members humanities and humanistic social sciences. Florida. Te St. Augustine church records are of the project team in addition to Landers are “Each of the countries whose African the oldest for the nation, dating to the 1590s. Clifford Anderson, director for scholarly com- history we are tracking still struggles with the Te ESSSS archive now holds approximately munications at the library; Paula Covington, legacy of slavery and its political, economic and 600,000 images documenting approximately 4 Latin American and Iberian bibliographer and social consequences,” Landers said. “In each to 6 million individuals. senior lecturer in Latin American studies; Dale there is great scholarly and popular interest Te ESSSS project trains local archivists Poulter, coordinator of search and core services in African history and heritage, and each of and students at each of its sites in digital pres- at the library; Kara Schultz, doctoral candidate the modern nations in which ESSSS teams ervation. Many are themselves Afro-descended in Latin American and Atlantic history; and work must respond to this interest in defining and often live in impoverished communities Angela Sutton, lecturer in history. national identities in multicultural societies.” with few other educational opportunities. In addition to the ACLS Digital Extension Te Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Since 2003, several generations of Vanderbilt Grant, Landers has received other grants this Slave Societies database (ESSSS) was launched graduate students and graduate students from year in support of the ESSSS project: in 2003 with an initial grant from the National Canada, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia and Florida • National Endowment for the Humanities Endowment for the Humanities. Intensive also have worked on the ESSSS project, and Digital Enhancement Grant, 225,000, work in Cuba and Brazil resulted in the digital some are now incorporating their own students 2016-2018 capture of ecclesiastical records of more than into new ESSSS projects. • Mellon Faculty Fellowship in Digital 750,000 individuals during the first three years Jean and Alexander Heard Library staff Humanities, 20,000, 2016

Vanderbilt, Minpaku Scholars Join To Study Forced Resettlement During Spanish Conquest anderbilt University has signed an were used to administer them. Saito is the affiliation agreement with Minpaku, recipient of a five-year grant from the Japan Japan’s National Museum of Ethnol- Society for the Promotion of Science to host a Vogy and one of the largest anthropological series of workshops, symposia and conferences research institutes in the world, to facilitate on the Reducción and other forced-resettle- a series of symposia and lectures centered on ment projects throughout history, to culminate the effects of the Reducción General de Indios, in the production of two edited publications, which was a massive forced-resettlement in English and Spanish. Te inaugural interna- STEVEN WERNKE program imposed by the Spanish colonial tional symposium in this series was hosted at (L-R) Professor Akira Saito, Minpaku Director- government on the indigenous people of the Vanderbilt in November, with support from the General Ken’ichi Sudo, Associate Professor Andes in 1570. It moved more than a million College of Arts and Science. Steven Wernke, and Deputy Director-General indigenous people from small agricultural Te signatories were Provost and Vice Nobuhiro Kishigami settlements into planned towns, and remains Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente, one of the largest programs of compulsory NEH Digital Humanities grant with Brown Dean Lauren Benton of the College of Arts and urbanization ever undertaken. University historian Jeremy Mumford to Science, Minpaku Director-General Ken’ichi Te agreement will link scholarship develop online tools to crowdsource a compre- Sudo and Deputy Director-General Nobuhiro exchange projects led by Vanderbilt’s Steven hensive basemap of the Reducción General, and Kigishami. Te signing in Japan on Feb. 8 was Wernke and Akira Saito, professor of anthro- an online gazetteer to collate information about witnessed by Wernke and Saito. pology at Minpaku. Wernke shares a two-year these towns and the jurisdictional entities that —Liz Entman

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 5 Vanderbilt Hosts Workshop on Distance Learning for Indigenous Latin American Languages dministrators and faculty from many challenges to establish- Latin American Studies centers ing collaborations, as well as from around the country gathered practical questions regarding Aat Vanderbilt in March 2016 for the Work- technology and pedagogy.” shop on Sustainable Partnerships for Latin Workshop sessions illustrated American Less Commonly Taught Languages successful course-sharing (LCTLs) through Distance Learning. Te models, explored available conference was sponsored by the Centers for technologies, addressed the Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt and the challenges of distance learn- University of Utah, and the Consortium of ing pedagogy for language Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP). courses, and offered various “Vanderbilt and the University of Utah models for institutional share a commitment to the broader project partnerships. Vanderbilt’s to support the creation of viable, sustainable, partnership with Duke and and high quality instruction in LCTLs through the University of Virginia was course-sharing using distance learning tech- highlighted as an example of nologies,” said Rebecca Horn, Associate Profes- a successful distance learning sor in the Department of History and director partnership during the workshop. With this workshop participants about challenges facing of the Center for Latin American Studies at the collaboration, Vanderbilt offers K’iche’ Mayan language instruction for less and least com- University of Utah. She and CLAS Executive courses to students at Duke and UVa through monly taught languages. Abdel-Kadar received Director Avery Dickins de Girón co-organized a digital interface, and in turn, Vanderbilt his M.Ed. from Vanderbilt in 2003. the workshop. “Given the precarious nature of students are able to study Haitian Creole and Faculty and administrators from Yale, funding for instruction in indigenous and other Tibetan on campus. Workshop participants Columbia, Duke, Tulane, Florida International LCTLs, there has been great interest among were invited to observe a live K’iche’ class with University, Ohio State University, UCLA, Uni- area-studies centers in developing partnerships students from all three universities. versity of North Carolina, University of New that allow sharing of instructors and students Mohamed Abdel-Kader, Deputy Assistant Mexico, University of Arizona, Michigan State across universities,” said Dickins de Girón, who Secretary of International and Foreign Lan- University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is also Chair of the Language Committee for guage Education with the U.S. Department of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and CLASP. “Distance learning technology offers Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation us a viable means to do this, but there are still delivered the keynote address and spoke with attended the workshop.

Conference Addresses Prospects for Peace in Colombia n March 2016, scholars from Colombia, Colombia” conference. Organized by Lesley the Colonial Era, Colombia in the 19th Century, Canada and the United States gathered Gill and Jane Landers, the event was intended Remapping Power on Colombia’s Extractive at Vanderbilt University for the “Histori- to coincide with the signing of the peace Frontiers, Violence, Displacement, and the Ical Conflicts and the Prospects for Peace in agreement between leaders of the leftist Struggle for Human Rights. Te workshop was rebel army, the Frente followed by a reception in Special Collections Armada Revolucionaria de Vanderbilt’s Library. LAS Bibliographer Paula Colombia (FARC) and the Covington welcomed workshop participants Colombian government and showed off Vanderbilt’s impressive col- president after almost 50 lections of Colombiana from Manuel Zapata years of war. Olivella and J. Leon Helguera. Te confer- Te first half of the day- ence was sponsored by the Center for Latin long conference focused American Studies, Te Circum-Atlantic Studies on Colombia’s history, and Seminar of the Robert Penn Warren Center for afternoon panels addressed the Humanities, the Department of Anthropol- current issues. Session ogy, the Department of History and the Jean topics included: Colombia and Alexander Heard Library. and the Atlantic World in

6 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Blair Professor Tom Verrier Directs Bands in Latin America om Verrier has both deepened and Verrier is currently working on a project broadened his ties to Latin America between the University of Costa Rica and by directing bands in Costa Rica, Blair, which will bring two Costa Rican student TColombia, and Panama in particular. Verrier musician students to Vanderbilt for a semester was appointed Consultor Artístico for the residency. Verrier will team-teach the master Dirección General de Bandas–Ministerio de of music in band conducting program in band Cultura, Costa Rica, and has been an invited conducting. As part of this project, masters director with the following musicians: candidate Juan Carlos Meza will complete a • Banda de Conciertos de Alajuela, study residency with him at the Blair School in Costa Rica November 2016. He is also working with State • Invitado, Banda de Conciertos de Cartago, Department (U.S. Embassy in Bogota) on a proj- Costa Rica • Orquesta Del Mar, Sistema Nacional de ect titled, “Banding Together–Bandando Juntos” • Orquesta Caucana de Vientos, Popayán, Educación Musical, Ministerio de Cultura y to support cultural and musical interflow. Te Colombia Juventud, Costa Rica project will create a concert band comprised of • Latin American Music Workshop, Escuela • Orquesta Dominicana de Vientos – both university student musicians from the U.S. Angel Maria Herrera, Penonomé, Panamá Festiband de la Republica Domincana. and from Colombia that will tour the Colombia • Banda de Conciertos - Gendarmeria Nacio- • Orquesta Guatemalteca de Vientos, giving concerts, master classes, and lessons to nal Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina Guatemala young musicians participating in that country’s • Banda de Conciertos de Puntarenas, • National Youth Band of Panama, Latin rich tradition of community youth bands. Costa Rica American Music Workshop, Panamá

Vanderbilt Director of Jazz Ryan Middagh Brings the Music of Latin America to His Students

Jazz Camp in Manizales n June, a jazz quartet from the Blair the Dominican Republic in August. While School of Music visited Colombia through there, he worked with students at the conser- club during the concert, and Jose Sibaja joined the Centro Colombo Americano Jazz vatory and performed with local musicians. in as a special guest. Icollaboration program supported by the U.S. Most recently, Middagh was invited back to Since 2007, the Centro Colombo Americano Embassy. Blair’s Director of Jazz Studies, Ryan Colombia by the U.S. Embassy to perform in jazz collaboration program has promoted Middagh, led the quartet, which included Bogotá and at a jazz festival in Cartagena. cross-cultural understanding and international Blair senior David Rogers, sophomore Nic Middagh incorporates the musical and cul- dialog between U.S. and Colombian jazz artists. Townsend, senior Chase Coffee, and recent tural knowledge he gains in these exchanges CLAS is collaborating with the Centro Colombo graduate Jordan Nunnelee. Te musicians into his teaching at Blair. In preparation for Americano, Tennessee State University, the Ten- performed, taught workshops, and partici- the Blair Big Band’s Cuban Fire Concert that nessee Latin American Chamber of Commerce, pated in jam sessions with local musicians in took place on October 8, Middagh’s students and other organizations to host an international the cities of Medellín, Manizales, and Pereira. received dance lessons for salsa, cha-cha, and summit in Nashville in February 2017. Middagh also performed at a jazz festival in bachata. Ingram Hall was turned into a salsa

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 7 FACULTY PROFILE Andrew Dustan ndrew Dustan joined Vanderbilt in 2014 as assistant professor in connected to a lack of economic infrastructure locally and statewide. the Department of Economics. His research focuses on develop- Motivated by this experience, he completed a second major in Economics ment economics, the economics of education, and labor econom- and then later a M.A. in economics from Miami University in Ohio. His Aics in Latin America. Dustan is particularly interested in the mechanisms, decision to pursue a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics at the both personal and institutional, involved in school choice among students University of California-Berkeley was driven by the opportunity to work in Latin America, as well as issues of governance in public education. with Dr. Alain de Janvry and Dr. Elisabeth Sadoulet, prominent scholars His current project focuses on improving educa- of economic development in Latin America. As a doctoral candidate, tion in Peru. Te research is a collaboration with the Dustan conducted fieldwork in Guatemala, investigating the features of Peruvian Ministry of Education’s PRONIED, which aims the coffee cooperative industry and its governance. However, his primary to improve educational infrastructure, and Innovations focus became an in-depth study of school choice among high school stu- for Poverty Action (IPA), a research and policy NGO dents in Mexico City and whether attending an elite school mattered to focused on financial inclusion through developing eventual student outcomes. Some of his findings were recently published relationships between stakeholders to improve educa- in an article co-authored with de Janvry and Sadoulet: “Flourish or Fail? tion in Peru. As part of the project, Dustan also works Te Risky Reward of Elite High School Admission in Mexico City” for with Cuna Mas, a national program implemented by the the Journal of Human Resources. Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) aimed at improv- Dustan works primarily with master’s students in the Graduate ing early childhood development within high-poverty areas. Program in Economic Development (GPED) and teaches economic Dustan received his B.A. in economics and Spanish from the Univer- development seminars. He is proud of the program’s accomplishments sity of Oklahoma. As an undergraduate Spanish major, he studied abroad and the diverse array of students it attracts from around the world. in Puebla and interned through the Universidad de las Américas teaching He has enjoyed getting to know Nashville with his family and recently English. While working in Puebla’s public schools, he learned first-hand became a parent for the third time. about the shortcomings of Mexico’s educational system, which were

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Contributed by Paula Covington, Latin Viviana Quin- was held in Special Collections with an exhibit American and Iberian Bibliographer and tero, a doctoral of many of its treasures. Several Colombians Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies candidate from had worked here using the collection in the the University of spring and a number of conference attendees ur focus this summer has been on Wisconsin, also from U.S. and Canadian institutions have increasing both digital and physical worked diligently plans to return for in-depth research based on access to Vanderbilt’s unique Colom- this summer on their initial exposure to the broadsides, early bian collections. Tanks to assistance from O the ethnographic newspapers, pamphlets, and manuscripts. the NRC grant we are able to begin to respond collection, Tis fall we are fortunate to have two more to the requests from Colombians and other making transcrip- Library Dean’s Fellows, Jorge Delgadillo and researchers to make more of this material tions, digitizing Fernando Varela, who are working on adding available digitally. A number of researchers audio portions, digital content to the Helguera Collection of are also visiting us to use these collections, and helping to Colombiana. Tey are reviewing early 20th having become aware of them via our internet identify gems in century Colombian pamphlets and digitizing presence. the collection. key sources on a wide range of topics such as: Dean’s Fellows, Tiago Albuquerque Maran- She completed her thesis on Zapata Olivella in the Panama Canal and secession, literature, hão and Brad Wright, both doctoral candi- May. Abraham Liddell, doctoral candidate in border disputes, mining, race, and presidential dates in history, added digital content to the history, has been working to increase digital messages. Tey will be writing essays on key Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection this spring. access to the Zapata Olivella Voz de los Abue- themes that highlight the documents essays on Many ethnographic interviews and metadata los project, a series of interviews of unlettered selected themes and creating an online exhibit on Afro-Colombians and indigenous from all elderly (abuelos analfabetos) regarding their of significant materials relating to the regions of Colombia were added along with traditions, folkways, and beliefs. chosen themes. essays and an online exhibit on topics ranging It was wonderful to welcome a host of Te recent increase in scholarship on from health to Wayúu culture to street theater. Colombianists here for a conference in the Manuel Zapata Olivella and the upsurge in Te “Campus Curates” exhibit is on display late spring in anticipation of the long awaited visiting scholars using the Colombiana are in the library until March 2017 and features peace agreement. Tis was a great opportunity further testimony to the value of these their work. Te interactive component can be to showcase our Colombian collections, espe- digital projects! viewed in the gallery. cially the Helguera Colombiana: a reception

8 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES CLAS WELCOMES NEW FACULTY Faculty News Robert Barsky (French and Italian) Jada Benn Torres is assistant professor of anthro- University of Wisconsin-Madison. published two books in 2016. On the pology and a molecular anthropologist. She received His interests include comparative legal side, Undocumented Immigrants her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of New political behavior, representation, in an Era of Arbitrary Law was published Mexico and comes to Vanderbilt Latin American politics, political by Routledge Law, and on the literary from the University of Notre parties and partisanship, and side, his new novel is called Hatched, Dame. In her research, Benn Tor- class and inequality. His research published by Sunbury Press. This res explores the biogeographical examines how contexts condition summer he was a visiting professor at ancestry of several communities mass attitudes and behavior, the University of Edinburgh’s Institute throughout Caribbean, identify- and how these and other factors for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, ing West African origins and shape democratic representation. Lupu’s current where he started work on a new book examining the role of admixture project examines the effects of inequality, violence, for Cambridge UP on first encounters in the formation of contemporary and corruption on political attitudes and voter between representatives of host and African Caribbean populations. Her new project choice, and inequalities in democratic representa- home countries. expands this line of research to other populations tion around the world. Celso Castilho (History) just published of African descent in the Caribbean and South Jose Sibaja is associate professor of trumpet in his new book, Slave Emancipation and America. A second area of her research focuses on the Blair School of Music. A native of Costa Rica, Transformations in Brazilian Political women’s health disparities, in which she combines Sibaja studied at the New World School of the Arts Citizenship (Pittsburgh, 2016) that molecular anthropology with molecular epidemiol- and at the University of Miami probes the wide-ranging effects of the ogy in order to understand how genetic ancestry in Gilbert Johnson’s studio, and process on abolition on popular political and variation may influence the distribution of has a passion for both classical practice and the racial borders of diseases across populations. and popular music. He has held national belonging. It follows an edited Corey Brady is assistant professor in teaching and positions in the Miami Symphony, volume Castilho co-organized in Brazil, learning. He received his Ph.D. from the University the Sinfonietta de Caracas, and the Tornando-se Livre (EDUSP, 2015), and of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and comes to Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela, and two-prize winning articles published in Peabody from Northwestern University’s School of has performed as soloist with the 2010 and 2013, respectively. Currently, Education and Social Policy. Brady Springfield Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Venezu- he is writing a book on antislavery, race, develops and designs educational ela, and Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica. and theater in the Atlantic world, focus- technology, and previously He appears in more than 150 commercial record- ing on the dramatic representations of worked in industry, leading the ings with artists such as Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. design and development of and Alejandro Sanz, and has toured with Ricky Tom Dillehay (Anthropology) was Texas Instruments’ TI-Navigator Martin. As a teacher and clinician, he has been a awarded the Nacionalidad Diplomática system (2001-2006). His current visiting professor at conservatories in Venezuela, de Gracias, granted by the President focus is on mathematical and Finland, Singapore, and Poland, and has presented and Congress of Chile. He also received computational modeling, learning concerts and master classes throughout the world. a Doctor Honoris Causa from the environments that foster representational fluency At Vanderbilt, he will take over the trumpet position Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Peru and expressivity, and on activities that promote in the Blair Brass Quintet and will work closely with and a Doctor Honoris Causa from the collaborative and collective learning for classroom Blair’s burgeoning jazz program. Universidad de San Sebastián, Chile. groups. A former classroom teacher for middle Brent Savoie is instructor in clinical radiology and and high school students, Brady works extensively Earl E. Fitz (Portuguese, Spanish, Com- radiological sciences in the School of Medicine. with teachers to support the implementation of parative Literature) has contributed the Savoie is a physician and legal participation-based learning in real classrooms and essay “Indigenous American Literature: scholar with more than a decade conducts a number of workshops and presentations The Hemispheric Perspective” to the of experience working with rural in Mexico and Latin America. edited volume, The Routledge Compan- health programs and conducting ion to Native American Literature. His Benjamin Legg is our new senior lecturer in health and human rights research book Machado de Assis and Female Portuguese. Legg received his Ph.D. in Portuguese in Guatemala. Savoie holds a J.D. Characterization: The Novels has been and Brazilian Studies from Brown from the University of Virginia and reissued in paperback by Bucknell University. His research focuses a B.A. and M.D. from Vanderbilt. University Press. on the presence of the United Savoie was the recipient of the States in discussions of Brazilian prestigious Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship Jane Landers (History) took a team national identity in the twentieth that led him to Guatemala to study rates of pediatric including Professor Kathleen Deagan century, as well as questions of parasites in rural areas, and eventually to found the (University of Florida), Professor David gender and sexuality in Brazilian Primeros Pasos clinic in Quetzaltenango. The clinic Wheat (Michigan State University), literature, cinema and popular serves communities in a region with limited access and Vanderbilt graduate students Kara music, Brazilian popular music to health care, and is the site of numerous service Schultz and Abraham Liddell to Cape trends, and discussions of race relations in Brazil. learning programs for Vanderbilt undergraduate and Verde to do research on the oldest professional students. Savoie is the president of the African slave trade to the Americas in Noam Lupu is associate professor of political Inter-American Health Alliance (IAHA), and has long August. She presented a number of science and the new associate director of LAPOP. collaborated with CLAS on programs in Guatemala talks on her research in early 2016, Lupu received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton in his former role as a regional faculty affiliate. including: “The Challenges and Signifi- University and comes to Vanderbilt from the cance of Digitally Preserving the Oldest

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 9 Faculty News cont. VANDERBILT WELCOMES THREE HUMPHREYS FELLOWS FROM Records for Africans in the Americas,” LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN FOR 2016-2017 American Historical Association in Atlanta; “Forgotten Rebels of Saint Rolando Guzman Mar- organizational partnership design in order to Domingue,” Program in Latin American tínez, from El Salvador, is a develop an educational healthcare ethics pro- Studies and Department of History professor at the University gram upon her return to Venezuela. Through at Johns Hopkins University; “Slave of El Salvador where he this development, she will connect resources Conspiracies and Racial Anxiety in 17th focuses on teaching English to improve the education of undergraduate and Century Cartagena,” at the Southeast- as a second language and medical students on doctor-patient relation- ern Council of Latin American Studies coordinates the School of ships and improve standards of healthcare. Arts and Sciences’ Com- in Cartagena, and “The Ecclesiastical Margaret Campbell, mittee of the Administra- and Secular Sources for Slave Societies from Jamaica, is the Princi- tion of the Academic Personnel Career that Digital Archive: Biographical Sources for pal of St. George’s College, evaluates teachers’ performance. His previous Cuba,” El comercio de esclavos a Cuba: an all-male high school. As work includes the creation and publication of Nuevas perspectivas de investigación, the first female appointed to two series of textbooks for English language Casa de África, Oficina del Historiador this position, her attention is instruction for 7th and 8th grade classes that de la Ciudad in Havana. Landers is drawn to the academic gen- are currently being used in public schools in El the U.S. Representative, UNESCO der imbalance in Jamaica Salvador. Mr. Guzman Martinez is focused on International Scientific Committee of and has led her to become improving the quantity and quality of bilingual the Slave Route, for 2015-2019. interested in studying factors influencing edu- speakers in El Salvador via improved teacher cational outcomes for males. Ms. Campbell has Terry Maroney (Law) has been training. During his Humphrey year, he wants to previous experience teaching mathematics and selected for the 2016–17 class of focus on research-based pedagogical practices writing modules for effective school leadership. academic fellows at Stanford Univer- for teaching English as a foreign language, ways During her Humphrey year, she wants to study sity’s Center for Advanced Study in to increase motivation among teachers, methods instructional leadership, education administra- the Behavioral Sciences, a preeminent of action research, the use of instructional tion, program evaluation, and equity in education residential program that brings together technology in ELL (English Language Learner) with respect to gender and disabilities so that scholars from a diverse range of disci- classrooms, and reflective teaching. He intends she can make practical recommendations for plines “to confront the problems of the to apply his knowledge and skills to coordinate schools in Jamaica that will improve educational day” in a collaborative setting. Maroney an in-service teacher-training program for junior quality and effectiveness for all students. will be in residence at Stanford during high and high school English teachers as well the 2016–17 academic year as one as improve the ELL aspect of his university’s The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program of 38 fellows and one of only three blended learning teaching modality in El Salvador was initiated in 1978 to honor the late Senator representing the field of law. upon his return after the Fellowship. and Vice President and his life-long commitment to international cooperation and public service. Mitchell Seligson (Political Science), Geohanna Noel Matheus, The program brings accomplished educational Centennial Professor of Political Sci- of Venezuela, is a professor leaders from developing nations and emerg- ence and founder of the Latin American at the University of Los ing democracies to the United States for an Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), won Andes. She directs the academic year to study, gain related professional the Alexander Heard Distinguished Psychology Research Center experience, build their leadership capacity and Service Professor Award, which where she works with foster mutual understanding. The program recognizes scholarship that “increases medical students to improve provides a basis for lasting ties between US and informs our understanding of the patient-doctor relation- citizens and the Fellows while strengthening the problems confronting contemporary ships and healthier ethics, global exchange of knowledge and expertise. society” and “pays tribute to faculty coordinates medical education, and manages the Humphrey Fellows are selected based on their members who seek and propose evaluation programs. Her previous work includes potential for leadership and their commitment to solutions to the issues that confront creating a psychosocial program for pediatric public service in either the public or the private humanity.” oncology patients. As a psychologist, Matheus is sector. Liz Zechmeister (Political Science) was interested in the ethics of care of cancer patients elected vice president of the American and what can be done at medical schools to Political Science Association’s section train future and current medical professionals on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting about this topic. During her Humphrey year, she Behavior. She recently published a is looking forward to studying leadership skills, piece on “Terrorist Threat, Male Stereo- psychological intervention programs, behavioral types, and Candidate Evaluations” in research at the National Cancer Institute, and Political Research Quarterly. During the 2016 election season, her work on this topic has been cited in the Washington Post, Boston Herald, the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, El Mercurio, Folha de S. Paulo, and other media outlets.

10 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES VU PRESS Regina Jose Galindo (Continued from page 1) Vanderbilt University Press Announces New Series: of Nashville and Vanderbilt students Performing Latin American and Caribbean Identities to take part. Galindo’s vision for the work was to show a vulnerable anderbilt University Press is pleased studies of diverse media, genres and time periods. body supported by the community. to announce the launch of the book Performing Latin American and Caribbean Participants formed a block in the series, Performing Latin American and Identities is designed to appeal to scholars and middle of the Vanderbilt Stadium VCaribbean Identities, a forum for scholarship students of these geographic regions who rec- and carefully passed Galindo’s inert that recognizes the critical role of performance in ognize that through the lens of performance (or, body among their uplifted arms for social, cultural, and political life. Geographically what may alternatively be described as spectacle, forty minutes. Te performance focused on the Caribbean and Latin America ceremony, or collective ritual, among other served as a moving experience for (including Latinidad in the United States) but descriptors) we can better understand pressing all of those who took part and was wide-ranging in thematic scope, the series societal issues. Select volumes are intended for the artist’s first work to involve such highlights how understandings of desire, gender, broader commercial appeal. a large number of people. It was sexuality, race, the postcolonial, human rights Series Editor is Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, followed by a celebratory lunch on and citizenship, among other issues, have been Professor in the Department of Spanish and Por- the Studio Arts Center’s patio. explored and continue to evolve. Books in the tuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Troughout the month of series will examine performances by a variety of She is the author of Creating Carmen Miranda: November, videos of Galindo’s work, actors, with under-represented and marginalized Race, Camp and Transnational Stardom, and including ¿Quien puede borrar las peoples getting particular (though not exclusive) co-editor of Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, huellas?, Confesión, Tierra, and La focus. Studies of spectators or audiences are Identity and the Performing Arts. She is also an Verdad, were exhibited in the Art equally welcome as those of actors—whether editor of the journal, the Luso-Brazilian Review. Department’s gallery Space 204. A literally performers or others whose behaviors Authors interested in submitting proposals for gallery of her work is available online can be interpreted that way. In order to create a consideration should contact Kathryn Bishop- at: reginajosegalindo.com rich dialogue, the series will include a variety of Sanchez at [email protected] or Beth disciplinary approaches and methods as well as Kressel Itkin at [email protected].

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CLAS and VUSN Collaborations service learning from medical tourism and In October 2016, four students traveled to Continue to Grow sustainable global health initiatives. The three locations for their rotations: Global Health Journal Club also invited her to • Keslie Riemenschneider: Hospital Escuela CLAS and Vanderbilt’s School of Nursing have talk about midwifery practices in Guatemala Oscar Danilo Rosales Argüello, a teaching continued to develop programs and course- to enhance their cultural awareness and hospital in León, Nicaragua work on relevant issues in Latin America build competency in caring for the global for nursing students. Again for the 2016–17 communities. • Elizabeth Sherrill (med student, ISC) and academic year, CLAS is supporting Spanish Kristen Smith (nursing student, FGHL): language instruction for six pre-specialty Primeros Pasos Clinic, a rural pediatric clinic nursing students who will participate in inter- Medical Students Spend in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala professional experiences in Central America a Month in Latin America through Project Pyramid. Mariá Paz Pintane Learning about Health • Tom Klink: Child Family Health Interna- (Spanish and Portuguese) provides instruction Systems and Disparities tional’s intensive beginner Spanish and in grammar and vocabulary, and introduces healthcare rotation, in Quito, Ecuador Three Vanderbilt medical students spent them to Latin American cultures and customs October in Latin America to engage in month- –Elizabeth Rose to prepare them to successfully engage with long clinical rotations. As part of their rotation, staff and providers at their partner sites. they will work alongside physicians, nurses, Global Health and clinical officers to learn first-hand about Nicaragua Course health conditions, health systems, In summer 2016, the Global Health Nicaragua and health dispari- course brought together medical and nursing ties particular to students to study chronic disease on campus the region. These and in Nicaragua. Led by Dr. Neerav (Nick) month-long clinical Desai (Assistant Professor of Adolescent rotations are part Medicine) and Dr. Ben Smallheer (Assistant of the School of Professor of Nursing), the course covered Medicine’s Global global health ethics and sustainability, Nicara- Health Integrated guan history, and Nicaragua’s current system Science Course of healthcare delivery, with a specific focus on (ISC) in which prevalent chronic diseases in the Nicaraguan students’ clinical population including hypertension, cardiovas- experiences are cular disease, obesity, nutrition, and diabetes. supplemented In addition to participating in didactic sessions, by didactic global the class also emphasized weekly break-out health online sessions into “education” and “service” small modules, which groups. The education groups, which included have a focus Obesity/Nutrition, Cardiovascular Disease, and on foundational Diabetes, were tasked with the responsibility In March, Noah Dassel developed a video on sciences, and distance mentoring provided by of designing innovative, culturally-cognizant prevention of Zika in Spanish while in Ecuador the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. methods of educating Nicaraguan locals about with a team of School of Nursing and School the specifics of their disease processes and Students return from these courses with of Medicine faculty in partnership with the were responsible for the administration of a love of Latin American culture, a greater Center for Contemplative Justice. He plans to screening tests (e.g., a finger-stick blood test insight on health conditions and issues of translate the video to other languages as well. to examine blood glucose levels). The service social justice in the region, and a renewed In August, midwifery student Kristen Burns groups, which included Eyeglasses, Supplies, passion for medical work, as noted by Perrin conducted a needs assessment for Wuqu’ and Journal Club, worked to secure donated Considine (MD, ’16) upon her return from Kawoq. The clinic is one of CLAS’s partners eyeglasses and medical supplies for the trip to Copán, Honduras in February 2016: in Guatemala, and is currently is working on a Nicaragua, and identified a primary article from project to identify barriers to obstetrical refer- “My time in Copán was one of the most contemporary clinical research with updated ral for indigenous women in a very remote meaningful experiences of medical school for recommendations for the treatment of hyper- area of Guatemala. me. The opportunity to experience a different tension which informed discussions with health medical culture and take part in patient care care providers in Nicaragua. CLAS supported Last spring, CLAS Executive Director Avery in the LMIC [low- and middle-income country] Spanish language instructional sessions led by Dickins de Girón gave a lecture to students in setting has reminded me what a privilege it is Charles Geyer, doctoral student in Spanish & Enhancing Community & Population Health III to get to be a part of the medical profession.” Portuguese, in preparation for the trip. (N5305) on the importance of distinguishing

12 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES GLOBAL HEALTH (cont.) 2016 SUMMER AWARDS

In July, the students and instructors CLAS awards nearly $100,000 for summer research and language study in Latin traveled to Nicaragua for eight days. While America each year through Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships, Simon in Granada, the class worked alongside Collier Awards, and Tinker Field Research Grants. In 2016, CLAS awarded funding to 20 two local primary care physicians at Clínica students from a variety of disciplines (see p. 16-17 for Tinker grantees). Alabama, which is a small yet high-impact clinic established by the University of Simon Collier Travel Awards the status of contemporary scholarship and political movements surrounding Afro- Alabama. In Managua, the class rotated A historian of Chile with an expertise in Argentine movement in Buenos Aires. through Nicaragua’s National Ophthalmo- Argentine tango, Simon Collier served as a logic Hospital (CENAO), which hosted the former director of Vanderbilt CLAS and was Foreign Language and Area Studies group’s Journal Club as well as eyeglass chair of the Department of History. Simon Fellowships distribution service. Students presented Collier Travel Awards fund student research CLAS receives funding from the Department their experiences in a poster session on in Chile and Argentina, as well as other of Education to support FLAS fellowships campus on September 23, 2016.. projects on cultural arts elsewhere in Latin for intensive studies of Portuguese or America. Ranging from $500 to $2,000, Latin American indigenous languages these awards are available to both under- abroad. Both graduate and undergradu- Central American Cancer graduate and graduate students enrolled ate students are eligible to receive FLAS Control Leadership Forum at Vanderbilt. fellowships, and they must be U.S. citizens The Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Cory Weaver, a first year student in Latin or permanent U.S. residents. In 2016, CLAS was a lead partner for the first-ever American Studies, was the recipient of a awarded FLAS fellowships to nine students: Central American Cancer Control Leader- Simon Collier Travel Award in 2016. Weaver Vanderbilt undergraduate Jasmine Williams ship Forum Sept 7–9 in Antigua, Guate- conducted research in various locations and LAS M.A. students Caleb Hayes and mala. Douglas Morgan, M.D., M.P.H., of in Argentina on the historical significance Lynsey Sharp along with ASU student Mary the VUMC Division of Gastroenterology, of Black Argentines. He worked primarily Catherine Driese received funding to study Hepatology, and Nutrition and VICC served in the National Archive of Buenos Aires K’iche’; University of Arizona student Emily on the organizing committee for the event to confirm census data from the early Ellis was awarded a fellowship to study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute nineteenth century. In the archive, he also Kaqchikel; LAS M.A. student Heather Ewing Center for Global Health. The forum was acquired several novel documents that will and Vanderbilt undergraduates Jasmine designed to work with the Ministries of be an important component of his research Chaparro and Garrett Richards received Health to advance their national cancer and inform his thesis. Being in Argentina funding to study Brazilian Portuguese; and control plans. Cancer is an emerging global also allowed him to connect with scholars Penn State doctoral student Chris Valesey health priority—66% of cancer will occur and activists working on Afro-Argentine received funding to study Nahuatl. in low-middle income countries such as issues. This provided invaluable insight into Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador (the Central America-4). Expected are 1.7 new cancer cases and 1 million cancer deaths in Central and South America, with the leading cancers including lung, breast, cervix, colorectal, Graduate Certificate in LAS liver, and stomach. Dr. Morgan, along with he Center for Latin American Studies or an indigenous Latin American language, 3) colleagues from Vanderbilt and Central offers a graduate certificate in Latin participation in a minimum of five extracur- America, have research initiatives related American Studies for doctoral and pro- ricular activities sponsored by CLAS. CLAS to point-of-care screening and diagnostic fessional students. Te certificate allows students awarded graduate certificates in Latin American technologies for gastric cancer, chemo- T to document their regional specialization and Studies to four students in 2016: Emma Banks prevention trials, cancer registration, and molecular epidemiology. The transition of encourages them to study outside of their disci- (Anthropology), Kellie Cavagnaro (Anthropol- health problems from infectious diseases plinary specialization. Requirements include: 1) ogy), Alan Adame (IEPM), and Elizabeth Clark to global cancer and chronic diseases 12 credit hours in coursework on Latin America, (ELL). For more information on the graduate underscores the need for cancer informat- with at least six hours coming from outisde the certificate program, see as.vanderbilt.edu/clas/ ics, new biomarkers, and novel technolo- home discipline, 2) demonstrated conversational graduate-programs/certificate.ster gies for the CA-4 LMICs. or reading proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese,

CLAS Graduate Student Roundtable Highlights Diversity in Latin America our summer awards recipients presented documented, including Afro-Argentines, (Anthropology), and Elsa Mercado (Spanish their research at the CLAS Graduate Afro-Mexican, rural dwellers, and women, with and Portuguese). CLAS will host another Student Roundtable on September 21. All the goal of increasing their visibility. Presenters Graduate Student Roundtable in the first weeks Fof the presentations focused on minority popu- were Cory Weaver (LAS), Melanie Forehand of the spring 2017 semester. lations in Latin America that have been poorly (Spanish and Portuguese), Chelsey Dyer

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 13 CLAS Welcomes New M.A. Students iguel Cuj is from Guatemala and has and a minor in archaeology. After spending American Studies, and professional writ- a research focus on the relationship an undergraduate semester abroad at the ing and editing. At WVU, she researched between chronic malnutrition and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in race, slavery, and the law in order to better Mchronic disease in rural areas of his country. Lima, Peru, she wrote her senior honors thesis understand how slaves influenced and shaped In addition, he is interested in the social and on representations of Inca stone in twentieth- the legal sphere in the nineteenth century, cultural characteristics of rural populations in century Peruvian works of literature, pho- travelled abroad to study in Oaxaca, Mexico, Latin America, especially Central America, in tography, and advertisements. In addition and tutored students in Spanish. Following regard to social issues sur- to a fascination of the Andes, Andrea has a graduation, she served rounding hunger. Miguel passion for archaeology: she has excavated at as an English teaching holds a degree in nutrition the ancient Moche ceremonial site of San José assistant at the Univer- from the Universidad de de Moro on the north coast of Peru and has sidad de Salamanca in San Carlos in Guatemala, conducted ethnographic- Spain where she worked which was supported by archaeological research in their Department of the Maya Educational on undocumented Cen- Translation and Interpre- Foundation scholarship tral American migration tation. Jessica co-taught Cuj program. Miguel has with the Undocumented Fletcher with English professors, also served as a fellow in the Tobacco Control Migration Project (UMP) led independent lessons and tutorials, and Fellowship program of the Cardiovascular in Chiapas, Mexico. improved her Spanish by travelling and Surgery Unit of Guatemala (UNICAR) and She spent the last year engaging in cultural events across Spain. has worked in nutrition projects with Save Delgado working at the Harvard Her academic, abroad, and teaching experi- the Children Guatemala and Conferencias de University David Rockefeller Center for Latin ences motivated her to develop her skills as a Iglesias Evangélicas de Guatemala (CIEDEG). American Studies (DRCLAS) Brazil Office language educator, and when she returned she In the last three years he has led the nutri- in São Paulo, Brazil, and continued to travel. began teaching Spanish with the West Virginia tional program for Maní+ (see p. 4). Miguel is At CLAS she hopes to focus on Andean Department of Education. As an elementary a native speaker of Mayan Kaqchikel, speaks anthropology and further explore connections school Spanish teacher, she integrated Spanish, and is studying K’iche’ at Vanderbilt. between the discipline of archaeology and its language and culture into school leadership Andrea Delgado, a native of Massachu- many uses in the present. programs. At Vanderbilt, Jessica looks forward setts of Chilean-Peruvian descent, graduated Jessica Fletcher is from Morgantown, to gaining a strong foundation in regional lan- magna cum laude from Harvard College West Virginia, and attended West Virginia guages and cultures, learning Portuguese, and in 2015 with a B.A. in romance languages University (WVU) where she earned a B.A. continuing her research on the intersection of and literatures (Latin American Studies) in history with minors in Spanish, Latin legal history and race in Latin America.

Owen Student Spends Summer In Guatemala Working on Social Enterprise Initiatives aime Rincon is a second-year MBA student the opportunity to engage in projects with in Owen. After gaining experience in the different scopes. He assessed the financials financial industry at Bancolombia, he of proposed investment, which allowed him Jdeveloped a passion for social enterprise and is to sharpen his financial skills; worked in pursuing that interest at Vanderbilt. Rincon is a the strategy of Pomona’s co-working space member of the Board of Directors of the Turner (Impact Hub in Antigua); and created a busi- Family Center for Social Ventures, and received ness plan and a financial model for a Business a fellowship from the Turner Family Center Incubator, one of Pomona’s strategic to work on social enterprise initiatives with future investment. Pomona Impact in Guatemala for summer Jaime also leads the Latin Business 2016. Pomona Impact is a social investment Association with Julia Iyo this year. Tey are fund in Central America created five years organizing a week-long celebration of Latin ago to invest in profitable companies with a America starting March 13. Tey will also host measurable social impact. It has a portfolio the Latin Case Competition that week, which of 16 companies such as fair-trade coffee is the only case competition in the country growers (RUNA), luxury handicrafts made focused on Latin America. Five teams of by indigenous people (Wakami), and micro- business students from across the country will finance companies (Credilikeme). Because travel to Vanderbilt in March to compete in Pomona Impact is still a start-up, Rincon had the final round.

14 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Volunteers Around the World: Vanderbilt Chapter in Guatemala n May 2016, eleven Vanderbilt undergradu- nongovernmental organization is devoted to stayed with families in San Pedro la Laguna ate students participated in a two-week improving the standard of living for communi- and were fully immersed in the local culture medical outreach trip to the Lake Ati- ties with limited access to medical treatment, and language. To conclude the trip, the stu- Itlán region through the campus chapter of medication, nutritional security, clean water, and dents traveled to Antigua, where they visited Volunteers Around the World (VAW). Tis health education. VAW Medical Outreach runs La Hospital Nacional Pedro de Betancourt, mobile medical clinics in Albania, Dominican a free of charge regional hospital, met with Republic, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, and Pomona Impact, and met with a physician Tailand. who practices Mayan natural medicine. Tiaira For five days, the students volunteered Bester, trip participant, commented, “Being in clinics in Santa Clara La Laguna, Santa provided with the opportunity to immerse María Visitación, Panajachel, and others. Tey myself into a new culture while providing a assisted staff with taking blood pressure and service that everyone deserves allowed me blood glucose levels, shadowed and assisted to realize that there’s a cause bigger than you doctors during their patient consultations, and and me in life. It’s also nice to be able to put helped distribute medications prescribed by a second language to use & connect with a the doctors. Te students also participated in family outside of yours.” Prior to the trip, an Education Day at an elementary school in CLAS Executive Director Avery Dickins de San Juan La Laguna, during which they con- Girón prepared the group for their trip with a ducted several activities about dental hygiene talk on the culture and history of Guatemala. and sneezing, and distributed hygiene packs Te group looks forward to another year of (with a toothbrush, toothpaste, and dental recruitment, planning, and fundraising for floss) they collected through donations prior their next medical outreach trip in May 2017. to the trip. While in the Atitlán region, they

STUDENTS IN THE NEWS Alumni News fter many years working on issues in Caissa Revilla Minaya received an award from the Society of Anthropological Sciences the Middle East and South Asia for the to present her paper, “Ontological Variation and Individual-Level Perspectives in an Army, Colonel Samuel Kyle Simpson Amazonian Community” at the 2016 society meetings. AII (M.A., 2002) is getting back to studying and Three Vanderbilt students received a Fulbright award to spend the 2016–2017 year building relationships with our hemispheric in Latin America: partners as a student at the Inter-American • Kyle Harper, M.A. Latin American Studies (2016): Research grant, Brazil Defense College in Washington, D.C. CLAS held our annual alumni event in São • Keitlyn Alcantara Russell, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology: Research grant, Mexico Paulo on October 14. Luis Paulo Rosenberg • Grace Fuscoe, HOD/Spanish/Economics (2016): English teaching assistantship, Mexico hosted the lunch with Vanderbilt’s Office of Three anthropology students Dani Sheridan, Taylor MacDonald, and Theresa Miller Alumni Relations. presented the results of their original research at the Undergraduate Research Fair On campus, our Latin American Studies in September 2016. Working under the mentorship of Professor Tiffiny Tung, they Alumni Reception took place on October analyzed bioarchaeological samples to produce new knowledge about different dimen- 21, following a talk by CLAS Director Ted sions of diets and health in the Wari’ empire and after its collapse, with implications Fischer and LAPOP Director Liz Zechmeister: for understanding social-political dynamics. Their posters demonstrated their research “Research Meets Reality in Latin America.” findings: Te Vanderbilt Alumni Association will • Dani Sheridan: Provincial life during and after the collapse of the Wari Empire: take four alumni trips to Latin America in 2017: A stable isotope analysis of diet at Qasa Pampa, Peru Cuba: Revolution to Evolution led by Rebecca VanDiver (March), Discover the New Colombia • Taylor MacDonald: Documenting dietary effects of imperial collapse: Bioarchaeology led by Frank Robinson (May), Te Galapagos and stable isotope analysis at Huari, Peru Islands led by Alistair Sponsel (June), and • Theresa Miller: Childhood diets at empire’s end: A stable isotopic study of terminal Te Natural and Cultural Wonders of Chile Wari burials from Cheqo Wasi, Ayacucho, Peru (November).

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Funding from the Tinker Foundation and in Colombia, specifically with Witness for the College of Arts and Science supports Peace, and the role that it plays in informing graduate summer research projects. Awards United States citizen’s social consciousness are for up to $2,000 each and support travel and inspiring social action. expenses related to field research for gradu- Melanie Forehand, is a third-year Ph.D. ate students conducting pre-dissertation student in Spanish and Portuguese. After research in Latin America. This award is not the Mexican Revolution, the idea of a intended for advanced dissertation research, European-Indian mestizo became the but rather to support initial hands-on field dominant ideology for a national identity in research and the development of indepen- Mexico. While scholars have studied the dent research projects. CLAS awarded 10 exclusion of Afro-descendants from the Tinker Field Research Grants to the follow- historical narrative of Mexico, little has been ing students for summer 2016. said of the post-revolutionary mural’s role Jorge E. Delgadillo Núñez, a second- in creating a national identity that fails to year Ph.D. student in history, conducted recognize the contribution of the country’s archival research in Guadalajara. His trip was African heritage. Forehand’s project studies intended to explore various possible dis- sertation topics and determine their viability. Delgadillo’s research interests revolve around the history of African-descended and developmental needs of 56 students people in colonial Mexico. Having studied in eight communities in the river valley. To seventeenth-century Guadalajara before, determine the impact of the program on its his original intention was to look for various stakeholders, she traveled to each documental sources in the Historical Archive of the communities to conduct interviews, of the Archdioceses of Guadalajara and observations, and surveys with the teach- the Historical Archive of the Royal Court of ers, parents, and educational specialists Guadalajara. However, the archival findings involved. It was an excellent opportunity to proved richer than expected, opening new hone her mixed methods skills, improve her paths of inquiry. Spanish, and learn more about the educa- Chelsey Dyer, a first-year Ph.D. student tional system in Honduras. in anthropology, carried out fieldwork in Fernanda Bretones Lane, a third-year Bogotá with the nonprofit organization Wit- Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, ness for Peace. The primary aim of the trip conducted field research in Cuba for her was to develop a project for her dissertation how the government-commissioned murals dissertation “Empire and Liberation in the from the 1920s and 1930s have fomented a Caribbean: Cuba and Jamaica the Age of specific vision of Mexican national identity. Revolutions” In support of her research, she conducted (provisional fieldwork in Mexico City and Guadalajara, title). Bretones where she visited museums, historically Lane spent black towns, state archives, the Africa in two weeks in Mexico week conference, and the archives Havana, where of the Consejo Nacional Para Prevenir la she attended Discriminación (ONAPRED). The results of the 48th Annual her fieldwork and research suggest that Meeting of the the theme of miscegenation of mestizaje Association in Mexican murals have contributed to the of Caribbean silencing and marginalizing of Afro-culture. Historians and consulted research that examines the intersection Amanda Ketner is a second-year M.Ed. archival materials housed at the Archivo of the United States and Colombia. She candidate in international education policy Nacional de la República de Cuba. She spent conducted fieldwork throughout the city of and management. She spent her summer the rest of her five weeks in Santiago, work- Bogotá, exploring areas populated primarily designing, conducting, and analyzing a pro- ing at the local archive, the Archivo Histórico by tourists and contrasting their conditions gram evaluation for a special education ini- Provincial de Santiago de Cuba. The goal of with areas populated by locals. In addition, tiative run by a local NGO called Un Mundo her research trip was to collect information she worked with the two-person team in the Cangrejal River Valley in Honduras. from 18th- and 19th-century documents of Witness for Peace and learned about Given the lack of services provided by the regarding the topics of contraband, slavery, their work. She returned with a variety of Honduran government for the education of and abolition, to determine the feasibility of future research questions regarding the students with special needs in rural areas, her dissertation project. role of United States in solidarity tourism this program is addressing the educational

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Rosemary Lieske, third year Ph.D. student ideas for improvement, and describing major Kadiri J. Vaquer Fernández is a third-year in anthropology, had initially planned to challenges faced that pertain to the school Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese. There spend summer 2016 in El Salvador conduct- project. is a parallel between the embargo in Cuba ing a series of field tests at Ciudad Vieja and section 27 of the Merchant Marine Elsa S. Mercado, second-year Ph.D. to identify household areas, an essential Act, also known as the Jones Act, to which student in Spanish and Portuguese, devoted exercise for determining the practicality of Puerto Rico is subordinated. Both countries her summer to interviewing women about have been subjected to forms of economic their experiences in rural Jalisco, Mexico. domination. The embargo placed on Cuba by She was most interested in recording their the United States restricts trade and travel memories of the Christian War and storytell- and therefore is commonly held responsible ing traditions surrounding religion; however, for “blocking” the country’s economic the interviews took a life of their own. The development. Although amendments woman that she spent the most time with, have been made, a very small amount of American products make it to the country, and even fewer people have the resources to buy them, not to mention the travel limitations that remain. In the case of Puerto Rico, section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, prohibits the possibility of Puerto Rico carrying out her long-term research goals being able to trade with other countries and and designing a research project. However, consequently develop a more autonomous due to an increase in violence in the area in economy. Contrary to what occurs in March, archaeological work was halted, and Cuba, in Puerto Rico there is an excessive she was not granted permission to test at amount of American products, which makes Ciudad Vieja. Instead, she adjusted her plans it difficult for the small businesses and to find out if carrying out a project in the locally produced goods to compete. Vaquer area was even possible under the conditions Fernández proposes that both policies reveal “Mamá Eva,” touched on topics of the at the time. During her trip to El Salvador, a colonial dynamic that would prove Lola collective memory, the Mexican Revolu- Lieske worked at the National Museum of Rodriguez de Tió’s iconic verse: “Cuba y tion, the Christian War, religion/mysticism, Culture analyzing the ceramic sequence for Puerto Rico son de un pájaro las dos alas” women’s role, and the quotidian. The goal of the site, met with several government offi- (Cuba and Puerto Rico are two wings of the the interviews was to give voice to women cials, designed a security plan, and worked same bird) as current, accurate and relevant. who have historically been silenced from out housing and travel logistics. history and literature, by documenting their Antonio Villaseñor-Marchal, a first-year Caroline Martin, second-year M.Ed. accounts and thus including their essential Ph.D. student in anthropology, traveled to student in international education policy Arequipa, in Peru to conduct bioarchaeo- and management, conducted exploratory logical fieldwork in the southern Peruvian field research for a development nonprofit highlands at the site of Santa Cruz de Tuti, in the rural community of Chuscada in the now known as Mawchu Llacta. As part of Chinandega municipality of Nicaragua. The a large team of archaeologists and local nonprofit partners with the district Ministry workers, his goal at Mawchu Llacta was to of Education to construct and develop a assist in the excavation of key areas of this new K–12 school, with the goal of providing massive Spanish colonial reduction town. a quality education option to students and In particular, he was tasked with assisting families in this community for the first time, in the excavation of any burials that were and serving as a model for the Chinandega located throughout the site. district. The purpose of her research was to identify the major challenges for this project, as well as promising opportunities for collaboration between primary stakehold- ers. Accompanied by community members, Martin conducted interviews with parents, students, teachers, and members of the perspectives and roles they played in histori- Ministry of Education who had a direct cal narratives. All of the women interviewed influence on the Model School project. by Mercado are elderly and one suffered a Interviews were tailored for each group of stroke this summer, so Mercado’s research stakeholders, but all addressed key themes: was time-sensitive. She hopes to show the defining the purpose of the project and what large hole in the canon through a combina- success would look like, rating and describ- tion of interviews, transcription, ing current satisfaction with the project and and interpretation.

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 17 2016 Portuguese Language and Brazilian Culture in São Paulo he Portuguese Language & Brazilian and modern economic reform. In addition, de Janeiro next year. She summed up her Culture program is a six-week, Foreign instructors organized visits to museums and fieldschool experience: Language and Area Studies (FLAS)- plays, and students had enough free time to “My favorite part about the summer Teligible immersion program run by Tulane and also explore the city on their own. During the program in São Paulo was the opportunity it Vanderbilt. Te 2016 program was directed by six-week program, students lived in homestays provided to explore the city. Upon arrival, the Becky Atencio, associate professor of Brazilian with families (for graduate students) or in an program coordinators gave all of us bilhete cultural studies at Tulane, and was attended apartment with Brazilian university students unicos, which are rechargeable cards that by 25 students from across the country. Four can be used on the city’s trains, buses and Vanderbilt students received FLAS fellow- even for renting a free bike. Having that card ships to attend the program: Heather Ewing gave me freedom to easily and inexpensively (LAS/M.P.H. candidate); Jasmine Chaparro get from one side of the city to the other and (undergraduate major in Spanish and explore restaurants, museums, and in my Portuguese and Biochemistry), and Garrett case, yoga studios along the way. Most days Richards (undergraduate major in LAS). after class was over, a friend and I would hop Students took courses at the Pontifícia on a bus to Vila Magdalena, a neighborhood Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC- about 20 minutes from our classrooms at SP) with professors hired by CET Academic PUC-SP. We typically took a yoga class each Programs. Language classes had under ten (for undergraduates) in the neighborhood of afternoon, which turned out to be an amazing students and met four mornings a week for Perdizes, where PUC-SP is located and also way to learn Portuguese, and then went out four hours of intensive language seminars. near to the popular neighborhoods of Vila for dinner before returning home to our host Students also met twice a week for three Magdalena and Pinheiros. families. Having the freedom to explore the hour lectures with PUC-SP professors to Heather Ewing, who is pursuing a dual city made me feel at home in São Paulo and discuss the current political context of Brazil, degree in LAS/MPH, will use her proficiency gave me lots of opportunities to practice my including topics such as the history of slavery in Portuguese to study tuberculosis in Rio Portuguese outside of class.”

2016 Mayan Language Institute he Mayan Language Institute is hosted fellowships administered by CLAS. the language school and I will always appreci- each summer in Guatemala by Tulane Classroom lessons and guest lectures ate their kindness and hospitality, as well as and Vanderbilt and offers students touched on cultural themes the students willingness to teach me dances and songs Tfrom around the country the opportunity to encountered living in Nahualá, which included of Nahualá.” immerse themselves in the study of K’iche’ myths of the mountains, Nahualá history, the or Kaqchikel Mayan. Vanderbilt is one of the economics of weaving, and Maya midwifery. few universities in the country to offer courses Te students made excursions and visited L ATIN AMERICAN AND in K’iche’. However, students at Duke, UNC, the cradle of K’iche’ civilization, Q’umark’aj, CARIBBE AN STUDENTS and UVA are now able to study the language and engaged in local social events such as ASSOCIATION through Vanderbilt’s distance learning weddings and sports with their host families initiative that virtually connects classrooms at and friends. Sebastian Meyer and Gabriel Camargo- Vanderbilt to those at these institutions. Caleb Hayes (M.A. candidate, LAS) Toledo are leading LACS for the 2016–17 Rusty Barrett (University of Kentucky) describes his field school experience: year. The student organization kicked off directed the K’iche’ program in 2016, while “Attending the K’iche’ Maya school allowed October with their Fiesta Latina, featur- ing dance lessons and local band Revol- Judie Maxwell (Tulane) led the Kaqchikel me a chance to return to the country after fusion. Students were treated to salsa, course. Students spent the first week together I first went in 2014, but in an amazing new bachata, merengue, cumbia, samba, and in Antigua, with K’iche’ students moving to project. I began to study K’iche’ last year at Latin alternative. The monthly series of Nahualá for the remaining five weeks of the Vanderbilt, but actually spending every day cooking classes continues this fall, with program, where they lived with host families. alongside a family and meeting native speakers Brazilian food the focus of the October Seven students attended the K’iche’ program of the town’s markets or rural areas was a huge class. The organization is planning a in 2016: Emily Ellis (University of Arizona), and novel experience. It changed the way I conference for spring 2017. For more Amber Hall (Duke), Caleb Hayes (Vanderbilt), saw Guatemala as a whole by learning some information or to join LACS contact Heather Sands (UNM), Lynsey Sharp (Vander- about indigenous beliefs and aspects that are [email protected] or bilt), James Tandy (University of Kansas), tied into the fabric of the country’s modern, as gabriel.n.camargo-toledo@vanderbilt. and Jasmine Williams (Vanderbilt). Ellis, much as distant, history. Lastly, I was also able edu. Hayes, and Williams were recipients of FLAS to stay with my family for a short time after

18 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES CLAS OUTREACH Sonia Nazario Engages Audiences at Vanderbilt, Casa Azafrán, and Martin Luther King High School LAS and the Peabody College such as riding La Bestia, that informed her book. Department of Teaching and Learning She spoke to a full house of Vanderbilt faculty welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning and students in the Wyatt Rotunda, and tied the Cauthor Sonia Nazario to Nashville March themes from Enrique’s Journey to current issues 29-30. Nazario is an award-winning journalist regarding immigration. Later that day, Nazario best known for Enrique’s Journey, her story of gave a community talk at Casa Azafrán, and the a Honduran boy left in Honduras when his following day she gave a presentation to students mother emigrated to the United States, and at Martin Luther King Magnet High School. the perilous trip he embarked upon to find her. Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, Argentina, has written extensively from Latin Enrique’s Journey won the Pulitzer Prize for America and about Latinos in the United States. selection as the 2015 Don and Arvonne Fraser feature writing in 2003. She has been named among the most influential Human Rights Award recipient by the Advo- Trough a powerful lecture featured in the Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and cates for Human Rights. She was also named a Peabody Dean’s Diversity Lecture Series, Naz- a “trendsetter” by Hispanic Magazine. Her 2015 Champion of Children by First Focus and ario shared the challenging journey she expe- recent humanitarian efforts to provide lawyers a 2015 Golden Door award winner by HIAS rienced alongside Central American migrants, for unaccompanied migrant children led to her Pennsylvania.

Hillsboro High School Teachers Use LAPOP Data for Project-Based Learning LAS has partnered with the Interna- learning, communication, and international Te product of the externship was the tional Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Pro- mindedness. In July, a group of Hillsboro creation of new project-based learning gramme at Hillsboro High School for the High teachers participated in an externship curriculum using LAPOP data from various Clast six years to strengthen their curriculum. IB at Vanderbilt, in which they worked with countries in Latin America. Te new cur- is an in-depth, rigorous approach to education LAPOP staff to develop new material for their riculum is designed to challenge students with international standards centered on holistic program. Dr. Mariana Rodríguez (LAPOP) to interpret the relevance and complexity of introduced Adrian Bahan, Shelly Wilkinson, data, and can be used in math, history, and Paul Troy, and Emarie Elliotte to the innova- language classrooms. It will be implemented tive methods LAPOP uses to collect public by the teachers through a unit on social justice opinion data, and to the System for Online in February 2017, and upon completion of the Data Analysis (SODA) where LAPOP houses unit, the high school students will present its reports on individual attitudes, evaluations, their final projects at Vanderbilt. and experiences. CLAS Teacher Advisory Most recently CLAS has established a Board member Stephanie Knight also worked new formal partnership with the Nashville with the teachers to explore techniques to School of the Arts to promote awareness and enhance cross-curricular learning knowledge of Latin America among teachers through games. and students.

Institute for Coffee Studies Symposium n February, CLAS and the Institute for Tird Wave coffee and the impact it has had Coffee Studies hosted a workshop and on producers around the world. Nashville symposium on coffee in collaboration has emerged as a center of the Tird Wave Iwith Barista Parlor Golden Sound. Daniel movement, and the ICS is working to promote Reichman, Bradley Wilson, Tom Eisenbraun, a better understanding of what this means Bart Victor, and Ted Fischer participated for farmers. in the roundtable and discussed the rise of

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 19 CLAS OUTREACH Vanderbilt Hosts Collaborative K–16 Summer Institute Focused on Brazil history, and the Portuguese language, as well incorporating engaging Portuguese activities as current events, culture, education, music, and games in the classroom and received and cuisine in Brazil. introductory Portuguese classes with Lunara Vanderbilt’s faculty expertise in all things Gonçalves (UGA). Brazilian was showcased throughout the Workshop participants used the resources institute. Marshall Eakin, professor of history and knowledge they gained through the insti- renowned for his work on nationalism and tute to develop curriculum units, which they nation building in Brazil, discussed the history presented to the group on the final day of the n June, Vanderbilt University hosted of race in Brazil, as well as current events institute. Te richness of the knowledge pro- the second year in a four-year series of including the impeachment of the president, duced through the week was apparent in the Summer K–16 Institutes on Brazil in the Zika virus, and the Summer Olympics. creative new curricula they developed: lesson Icollaboration with the University of Georgia African American and Diaspora Studies’ Gil- plans for using capoeira to teach geometry, a and Tulane University. Tis year’s institute, man Whiting had all of the educators up and guide for introducing Brazil and Portuguese entitled “Somos Nós: Diverse Brazil,” brought moving during an interactive capoeira session. in a Spanish classroom, and a university-level educators from Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Ana Christina da Silva, professor in Peabody’s unit on the intersectionality of identity. CLAS Indiana, Florida, and Pennsylvania to Nash- Department of Teaching and Learning, led offered travel scholarships to a few teachers in ville to participate in a week-long institute. and facilitated daily curriculum building exchange for a finalized version of their unit Te agenda included presentations, films, sessions. Scholars from partner universities plan, and all of these resources are and engaging activities to enhance educators’ were featured as well; teachers participated in available through the CLAS online knowledge of diversity in Brazil, Brazilian a session with Megwen Loveless (Tulane) on curriculum resources.

FALL 2016 PROFESSIONAL A Hands-On Workshop in Artisanal Dyeing DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SCHEDULE and Weaving Thursday, September 22: Finding n April, CLAS offered a bilingual profes- history of traditional Maya weaving and gave a Diverse Voices Through the Américas sional development workshop for educa- backstrap weaving demonstration. Award, Washington, D.C. tors titled “From Guadalajara to Nashville: Teachers left the workshop with a starter Friday October 8: Black Resistance IA Hands-On Workshop in Artisanal Dyeing kit of basic materials needed to implement a and Negotiation in Latin America: and Weaving.” Geared toward art and Spanish standards-based lesson plan on natural dyes, Runaway Slave Communities, teachers, this workshop introduced teachers which was developed by CLAS and tailored University of Alabama at Birmingham to the natural dyeing and for elementary or middle weaving processes used school students. Participants Friday, October 21: Street Art Stories: Murals in Mexico and Nashville, by indigenous peoples in also received a copy of Carol Cheekwood Botanical Garden Mexico and Guatemala. Ventura’s book Maya Hair Fátima González Solano Sashes Woven in Jacaltenango, Wednesday, November 16: Fire and and Jessica López Sánchez Guatemala. Rain: An Exploration of Rainforests and from the Center of Art, Following the workshop, Volcanoes in Latin America, Vanderbilt Architecture, and Design González Solano and López University at the Universidad de Sánchez spent a day at Percy Friday, November 18–Saturday, Guadalajara led sessions Priest Elementary school with November 19: 125 Years of Zora that allowed teachers to get their hands wet Lisa Finelli and Alma Paz-Sanmiguel to share Neale Hurston, Tuskegee University exploring natural dyeing techniques and the the process that weavers in Latin America use For more information about upcoming use of natural materials to modify the pH of to create natural fibers and dyes from materials workshops and to register, visit: dyes to achieve different colors and shades. found in the environment. Students interacted vanderbilt.edu/clas/teacher-workshops Tennessee Technological University Professor with the materials, explored the processes in Carol Ventura discussed cochineal history both English and Spanish, and made keepsake and production in Oaxaca, Mexico, and bracelets adorned with the CLAS logo. Vanderbilt’s Mareike Sattler shared the cultural

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CLAS Announces New Culture Boxes CLAS CURRICULUM RESOURCES NOW ALIGNED or many years, CLAS has offered boxes allow students to have a stimulating, WITH ACADEMIC STANDARDS traveling “culture boxes” available for hands-on experience with cultural artifacts K–12 teacher checkout. As a part of our from different countries in Latin America. Teachers who seek high-quality teach- Feducational outreach initiatives, these culture Tis summer, CLAS Outreach Coordinator ing resources and lesson plans may Lisa Finelli updated the existing culture boxes find CLAS curriculum resources more and created seven new boxes. We now have accessible and user-friendly than in the boxes for Peru, Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, past. Not only is the system streamlined Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil. Tese to allow teachers to search materials new culture boxes not only come with a user- by country, grade level, subject area, topic, film or workshop, but many of the friendly catalog of the materials in each box, individual resources have been updated but also a variety of country-specific curricu- to include clearly stated academic lum resources and lesson plans. Request one standards, learning objectives, related online today at: vanderbilt.edu/clas/outreach/ content areas, procedures, and evalu- culture-boxes ation. All resources are free to use and Joy Guss of Bellevue Middle School are available online at vanderbilt.edu/ checked out the Guatemala culture box in clas/outreach/curriculum-resources September and had this to say: “Te box made Guatemala come to life for our students. I’ve done many projects with our students and this was by far my favorite. It was so educational and empowering for our Hispanic student population. One comment from a student was the epitome of this: ‘Tis is the first doll I’ve ever seen that looks like me.’”

External Evaluation Program n accordance with our designation as a and collecting feedback about the workshop Trough observations, interviews, and check- National Resource Center, CLAS maintains delivery. Tis year the Peabody team worked ing of student work, the case studies identified an extensive evaluation program that pro- to improve both the survey design for the K-16 CLAS training elements that were conducive Ivides ongoing feedback on the center’s impact professional development workshops and the to pedagogical application and some of the and programming. Now in place for six years, statistical analyses of the results. For example, challenges teachers face in integrating LA- our program is led by Dr. Xiu Cravens, a higher more information on schools was gathered related content into the current structure. education monitoring and evaluation expert at as a continued effort to provide training for Evaluations were carried out for six of the Peabody College. Cravens works closely with teachers from a wider diversity of schools, 150 CLAS events offered in AY 2015-16, which CLAS staff and an education graduate student especially schools with disadvantaged student were strategically selected based on topic intern to create, implement, and improve evalu- populations. Results show positive and statis- or audience. In addition to brief interviews, ation protocols. Amanda Ketner served as evalu- tically significant results in every workshop in this year the Peabody team implemented a ation intern for the 2015-16 academic year, and terms of satisfaction, usefulness of materials short paper-pencil survey at the end of each did an excellent job refining our assessment provided, and introduction of new content. event to gauge outreach, knowledge gained, tools and providing feedback through reports. Each workshop reached a more diverse and user-friendliness of the forum. Results Te evaluation team produced 20 documents group of teachers, particularly by increasing show that respondents reported that the providing analyses, summaries, and recom- the number of teachers from public schools events enhanced their knowledge in the LA mendations for CLAS programming, focusing with minority and low-income students, and region and helped them connect with other on the core target audiences of NRC funding there was a wider range of grade levels rep- individuals with common interests. Results and the program priorities. resented this year. In addition to the surveys, also indicated an increase in the diversity of Each of the six professional development the team conducted qualitative case studies at participants from various academic disciplines institutes CLAS offered was evaluated with Hillwood High and Meigs Middle School with and from institutions outside of Vanderbilt. surveys comparing pre- and post-workshop teachers who had previously participated in CLAS thanks you for your participation in teacher knowledge on the topic, measur- CLAS workshops to gauge the medium and our surveys and other evaluation protocols. ing educators’ comfort level with using the long-term knowledge transfer and impact materials specific to the training objectives, of teacher training on classroom teaching.

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 21 2016 Américas Award Winners Announced New Maymester he 2016 Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature was awarded Course in Brazil to Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Scholastic ixteen students had the opportunity TPress, 2015) and Out of Darkness by Ashley to spend May 2016 in southern Brazil Hope Pérez (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015). Honorable studying geology and ecology through mention went to Duncan Tonatiuh for Funny Sa new Maymester course—Volcanoes, Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calav- Rainforests, Caves, and Beaches in Brazil eras (Harry N. Abrams, 2015) and Matt Tavares (EES 3865). Led by Malu Jorge (Earth and for Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez To learn more information about the Améri- Environmental Sciences/Biological Sci- Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic cas Award, as well as information from this ences) and Guil Gualda (Earth and Environ- All the Way to the Major Leagues (Candlewick year’s ceremony and workshop, visit clasp- mental Sciences), students learned to use Press, 2015). programs.org. field methods to study geological processes Te awards were presented to the authors Twelve commended titles were selected related to the breakup of Gondwana into at a ceremony at the Library of Congress this year by the committee: today’s continents of South America and in Washington, D.C., on September 22. • A Handful of Stars written by Cynthia Africa some 130 million years ago. CLAS Outreach Coordinator and Américas Lord. Scholastic Press, 2015 Te latter half of the course focused on Award Co-cordinator Lisa Finelli and CLAS • Dream Tings True: A Novel written by tropical ecology, rainforest diversity, and Bibliographer Paula Covington attended the Marie Marquardt. St. Martin’s Griffin, conservation and management practices ceremony, along with 2015. in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest that Gabriella Ra’anan from • Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Cour- extends along Brazil’s coastline south of São Vanderbilt’s Office age Changed Music written by Margarita Paulo. Students visited a variety of areas in of Federal Relations. Engle and illustrated by Rafael López. the states of Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Students from the Oys- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Sul, and São Paulo, including Farol de Santa ter Adams Bilingual Young Readers, 2015. Marta, Serra Geral, Florianópolis, Alto School in Washington • Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: Ribeira Cave District, and Ilha do Cardoso. presented a Reader’s A Memoir written by Margarita Engle Teir experiences were recorded in a blog: Teater interpretation and illustrated by Edel Rodriguez. Ath- brazilmaymester.blogspot.com. Te course of the award-winning eneum Books for Young Readers, 2015. will be offered again in May 2018. title Echo. • Finding the Music/En pos de la música In addition to the ceremony, CLAS and written by Jennifer Torres and illustrated Tulane University hosted the annual profes- by Renato Alarcão. Lee & Low Books, sional development workshop for educators 2015. that accompanies the ceremony. Tis year’s • Island Treasures written by Alma Flor workshop, called “Finding Diverse Voices Ada and illustrated by Antonio Martorell through the Américas Award,” was a col- and Edel Rodriguez. Atheneum Books laboration with D.C. nonprofit Teaching for for Young Readers, 2015. Change. Te workshop featured 2016 com- • Maya’s Blanket/La manta de Maya writ- mended title author Alma Flor Ada ten by Monica Brown and illustrated by who discussed “Te David Diaz. Lee & Low Books, 2015. Power of Story,” and • My Tata’s Remedies/Los remedios de mi explored the ways tata written by Roni Capin Rivera-Ash- teachers can invite their ford and illustrated by Antonio Castro L. students and families Cinco Puntos Press, 2015. to become authors • Salsa: Un poema para cocinar/A themselves—authors Cooking Poem written by Jorge Argueta, of authentic self-pub- illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, and lished books. Katrina translated by Elisa Amado. Groundwood Dillion, educator and Books, 2015. curriculum specialist • T e Jumbies written by Tracey Baptiste. from the University of New Mexico’s Latin Algonquin Young Readers, 2015. American and Iberian Institute, explored the • T e Lightning Queen written by Laura importance of diverse voices in the classroom, Resau. Scholastic Press, 2015. and 2016 Américas Award winner Ashley • Two White Rabbits written by Jairo Buit- Hope Pérez shared teaching resources for her rago and illustrated by Rafael Yockteng. book Groundwood Books, 2015. Out of Darkness.

22 THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES LAPOP NEWS LAPOP Invited to Lecture at 200th Anniversary Celebration of Argentine Declaration of Independence anderbilt’s Latin American Public system of government Opinion Project (LAPOP) added a enshrined in the Argen- new trophy this summer to its long tine Constitution). Vlist of accolades. It was invited to address To address these the Encuentro de las Américas: Escenarios y issues Seligson presented perspectivas en los Bicentenarios Americanos results from LAPOP’s at the celebration of the 200th anniversary 2014/15 AmericasBarom- of the Republic of Argentina’s declaration eter. In response to the of independence. Sponsored by the Andean first topic he compared Development Corporation (CAF), the event results from national sur- took place in San Miguel de Tucumán, where veys in 27 other countries the Congress of Tucumán declared the United in the Americas, and Provinces of South America independent found that Argentines from Spain in July 1816. Te celebration was had the second highest organized by the government of the Province support for the classic Churchillean concep- 22 countries in the Americas) who were asked of Tucumán, which had created a Bicentennial tion of democracy, meaning support for the how trustworthy they thought the government Council for the event. LAPOP received the notion that “Democracy may have its problems, of the United States was. As can be seen in the invitation from Dr. Julio Saguir, Secretario de but it is better than any other form of govern- graph to the right, the average degree of trust Estado de Gestión Pública y Planeamiento ment.” Tis result is presented in the graph to the in the U.S. government is lowest in Argentina: of the Province of Tucumán. LAPOP was left, which shows mean degrees of support for just 32 degrees on the 0 to 100 scale. When represented at the event by LAPOP Founder democracy on a 0 to 100 scale for each country shown this result that Argentinians scored and Senior Advisor, Centennial Professor of in the 2014/15 AmericasBarometer. Te dots dead last in the Americas, cheers and applause Political Science Mitchell Seligson. indicate the estimated average degree of broke out, indicating a pride in Argentine Seligson, one of only two U.S.-based democratic support, and the gray bars indicate negative feelings about the government of academics to lecture at the event, spoke on the the confidence interval around that estimate. the USA. Tis reaction may have been fueled panel entitled “Te State of Democracy: Te Te chart shows that support for democracy is in part by nationalism surrounding the Challenges to Come.” He addressed two top- highest among the public in Uruguay, followed Bicentennial celebration, yet the applause also ics: 1) How strongly Argentines believe in the closely by Argentina. underscored the extent to which the Ameri- democracy they had founded two centuries While this first set of results likely pleased casBarometer survey took an accurate reading ago, and 2) Te perceived trustworthiness of the audience, the data about the second topic on the pulse of Argentine public opinion. the government of the United States (i.e., the caused an audible stir. Seligson displayed a one that helped inspire not only the Argentine graph based on a representative sample of declaration of independence, but the federal citizens (i.e., 1,500 individuals from each of

Black Resistance and Negotiation in Latin America Colloquium on “Runaway Slave Communities” with University of Alabama, Birmingham LAS partnered with the University of movement. Te colloquium was organized by de Palenque, Colombia gave a second keynote Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to host Vanderbilt alumnus John Maddox, assistant on Afro-Colombian culture, and Vanderbilt's the Black Resistance and Negotiation in professor of Spanish at UAB, and Graciela Jane Landers presented a paper. Te collo- CLatin America Colloquium on “Runaway Slave Maglia from Pontífica Universidad Javeriana, quium was complemented by a workshop for Communities” on October 7–8. Twenty-one Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Colombia. William K–12 Spanish teachers on the African Diaspora speakers representing various disciplines and Luis (Spanish) delivered the keynote address in Latin America, including Afro-Hispanic hailing from 11 universities and four different recognizing the historical importance of the music, literature, and culture. Teachers from countries generated new ideas on black identity Afro-Cuban testimony, Biography of a Runaway Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee attended and struggles for survival and justice through- Slave, by maroon Esteban Montejo on its fifti- the workshop. out the Americas in the cradle of the civil rights eth anniversary. Representatives of San Basilio

WWW.VANDERBILT.EDU/CLAS 23 CLAS 2016–2017 EVENTS

September 6 October 1 October 21 November 10 First Tuesday Lunch Series with CLAS Table on Cuba in the Reunion 2017 Talk by CLAS Director American Society for Ethnohistory Leonard Folgarait, Benjamin Legg, Global Villages Ted Fischer and LAPOP Director Reception hosted by CLAS and Jose Sibaja October 1 Liz Zechmeister: “Research November 12 September 8 LACS presents Fiesta Latina Meets Reality in Latin America” Regina José Galindo’s performance of GPED Forum presents Carolina Avalos October 4 October 21 “Comunidad” in Vanderbilt Stadium Burgos “Conditional Cash Transfers in First Tuesday Lunch Series: Corey Brady, LAS Alumni Reception November 14 El Salvador: Policy Evaluation of Beth Conklin, and Noam Lupu October 24 Talk by Matthew Restall “Cortés’ Tiger” Comunidad Solidario Rural” October 5 Public Talk by Katrina Dodson “Clarice November 16 September 11–16 The Religion in the Arts and Contem- Lispector Translated: A Conversation Teacher Workshop: Volcanoes and Brazil Week porary Culture program at Vanderbilt with Katrina Dodson, Translator of The Rainforests in Latin America with September 21 Divinity presents roundtable with Latin Complete Story” moderated by Prof. Malu Jorge and Guilherme Gualda; Latin America Trivia Night American Artists Jairo Prado, Yuri Figeroa, Earl Fitz Vanderbilt University September 22 Julie Sola October 27 November 18–19 Americas Award Ceremony and Teacher October 6 Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar Teacher Workshop with Tuskegee Workshop; Washington, D.C. Concert by Blair Big Band: Cuban Fire talk with Pablo Gómez (University of University: 125 Years of Zora Neale Wisconsin,Madison),” The Experiential September 23 Suite (and salsa dance club) at Hurston with Tiffany Patterson; Tuskegee Ingram Hall Caribbean” and David LaFevor University Talk by Alex Nading (Anthropology, (University of Texas, Arlington), University of Edinburgh) “Mosquitoes, October 7–8 “The Slave Ship Cicerón and the December 6 Microbes, and Toxic Chemicals in Colloquium: Black Resistance and Nego- Arguelles Affair” First Tuesday Lunch Series Global Health: The View from Medical tiation in Latin America: Runaway Slave October 27 January 19 Anthropology” Communities; University of Alabama at Latin American Photo Images Birmingham and Teacher Workshop Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources from September 26 Slave Societies Digital Humanities Panel Competition Reception Talk by Doug Morgan and Charlotte October 10 October 29 January 23 Buehler Cherry (VIGH): “Research, Department of Art presents a Lecture by Vanderbilt History Seminar pres- Service, and Career Opportunities in Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Día de los Muertos Festival at Cheekwood ents Beth Conklin, “Rethinking the Central America LMICs, from Neil Leonard Cannibalism:The Interplay of Sensation Genomics to GIS” October 11 November 1 and Emotion in an Amazonian Ritual” September 29 Nashville Public Library and CLAS pres- First Tuesday Lunch Series with Mariza Soares de Carvalho, Jada Benn Torres, January 26 Talk by GPED Alumni Professor Amelia ent the Amazing Twins Puppet Show at CLAS Graduate Student Roundtable Lucena (Central University of Venezuela) MLK High School and Jane Landers “Low Income Housing Programs in Latin November 6–16 February 22–24 October 14 Global Pathways Summit (Vanderbilt, America: Evaluation Ex-Post focus on São Paulo Alumni Reception CLAS Visiting Resource Professor the housing program implemented Regina José Galindo in residence Tennessee State University, and Centro in Honduras” October 21 Colombo Americano) Teacher Workshop, Street Art Stories: November 9 September 30 Public Lecture by Regina José Galindo March 16-18 Murals in Mexico and Nashville with InDigital II Conference BSRG presents “Slave Emancipation Leonard Folgarait; Cheekwood November 10 and Transformations in Brazilian Political Botanical Gardens Lecture by George Lovell “The Archive March 30-31 Citizenship: a book presentation by That Never Was: State Terror and Extractivism Workshop Celso Thomas Castilho” Historical Memory in Guatemala”

LAPOP RECOGNITION OBITUARY

Werner Baer, who taught at Vanderbilt from 1965–1974, passed In spring of 2016, LAPOP was awarded a new Cooperative away in April 2016. A specialist in Brazilian developmental in support of the public opinion Agreement from USAID economics, he devoted his scholarship to understanding the research in the Americas, in particular the AmericasBarometer challenges of industrialization, infrastructure and public policy regional survey project. in the development process. His books, The Development In fall of 2016, LAPOP welcomed new Associate Director Noam of the Brazilian Steel Industry (1970) and Industrialization and Lupu to the research institute. Economic Development in Brazil (1965), shaped the field, while his The Brazilian Economy: Its Growth and Development, now in LAPOP is currently conducting fieldwork for its latest round of its sixth edition and published in English, Portuguese, and other the , which will include national surveys in AmericasBarometer languages, has long been the most widely read text on Brazil’s over 20 countries across the Americas. LAPOP is also working economy. At the time of his death, Baer was still teaching at the in Nepal, and has been expanding its geographic focus via this University of Illinois and working on his latest book. project and collaborations with other faculty on campus. Recently, LAPOP Director Elizabeth Zechmeister was awarded a TIPs grant in order to support LAPOP’s expansion into new cross-disciplinary collaborations on survey-based research within and outside the Americas.

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