The LATINAMERICANIST University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies | Volume 45, Number 1 | Spring 2014

Inside this Issue 2 Director’s Corner 8 Faculty News & Publications

12 Student News

15 Thanks to our Donors 1 DIRECTOR’S Corner The LATINAMERICANIST Volume 45, Number 1 Spring 2014

his has Other highlights of the semester were Center for Latin American Studies Tbeen a busy talks by David Carrasco (Professor 319 Grinter Hall (should I say of Anthropology, Harvard University), PO Box 115530 hectic?) but very Maxine Margolis (Professor Emeritus of Gainesville, FL 32611-5530 (352) 392-0375 successful spring Anthropology, UF), Frank Mora (Director, www.latam.ufl.edu semester. Much Latin American and Caribbean Center, of the semester FIU), and David Samuels (Professor of Center–Based Faculty & was taken up Political Science, University of Minnesota). Professional Staff with candidate Also, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (Latin Philip Williams, Nathalia Ochoa Director Program Coordinator interviews for American and Caribbean Collection) (LAS) three senior and Lillian Guerra (History) curated an Efraín Barradas positions in Latin American Studies. The exhibition inspired by recent donations LAS/Spanish & Jocelyn Peskin, Portuguese Assistant Director, depth and quality of the applicant pool was to the Library’s Special and Area Studies Administration (LAS) a testament to the Center’s reputation as a Collections, “Revolucionarias: Women and Richmond Brown national leader in Latin American Studies. the Formation of the Cuban Nation.” Associate Director, Mary Risner, Associate Academic Programs Director, Outreach & We’re delighted to have hired three new (LAS) LABE (LAS) social scientists: Dr. Susan Paulson (Miami Finally, some of our faculty members University) will hold a 100% appointment received prestigious awards this past Emilio Bruna Patricia Delamônica in Latin American Studies; Catherine semester. Emilio Bruna (LAS/WEC) LAS/WEC Sampaio TCD Program Tucker (Indiana University) will hold a joint was selected as a new member of UF’s Jonathan Dain Coordinator (LAS) appointment in Anthropology and Latin Academy of Distinguished Teaching LAS/SNRE American Studies; and Robert Walker Scholars in recognition of his outstanding Marianne Schmink Carmen Diana Deere LAS/Anthropology (Michigan State University) will hold a and innovative teaching. Leslie Anderson LAS/FRE joint appointment in Geography and Latin (Political Science) and Susan Jacobson J. Richard Stepp American Studies (p. 5). We look forward (WEC) received UF’s Doctoral Dissertation Glen Galloway LAS/Anthropology Director, MDP (LAS) to welcoming them to the Center! Advisor/Mentoring Award. Lillian Guerra Welson Tremura (History) was awarded a fellowship from Ieva Jusionyte LAS/Music In addition to the three successful the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial LAS/Anthropology Pilar Useche searches, we also held the Center’s 63rd Foundation to support her project, Making Karen Kainer LAS/FRE annual conference, “Panama Considered” Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1959. If that LAS/SFRC (p. 4). The conference brought together wasn’t enough, the Latin American Studies Charles Wood Bette Loiselle LAS/Sociology the foremost experts on Panama to discuss Association (LASA) also named Guerra’s Director, TCD Program the country’s past and future from diverse book, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, (LAS/WEC) perspectives. Many of the participants Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 as (including several alumni) highlighted UF’s the recipient of the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Editor Graphic Designer Jocelyn Peskin, LAS Liquid Creative Studio many contributions and connections to Award for the outstanding book in Latin Panama. Moreover, we were delighted that American Studies published in the United a large number of prominent “Zonians” States (p. 6). were able to join us for the conference.

S ENT 3 Rembering Gabríel Garcia Márquez 10 Outreach CONT 4 Immigration Reform and Beyond? 11 Alumni Career Profile 5 Center’s New Faculty Hires 11 Alumni News & Notes 6 Faculty Spotlight: Lillian Guerra 12 Student News 8 Faculty News and Publications 15 Staying Connected

2 “From your victim, Gabriel”: Remembering Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

n 1978, I was living in New York City. title of one he liked very much. It II had a fellowship that allowed me was a poem by the great Cuban to finish my doctoral dissertation writer José Lezama Lima. I said and work on my first book. Still I the title of the poem out loud. had some time to explore the city He looked down to the side of and meet new friends. One of them the desk to where I was sitting, informed me that he had found out smiled, and thanked me. After through another friend who had the class was over, we had a brief a friend who was a secretary at but wonderful conversation about Columbia University that the next Caribbean literature and music. I told him I only wrote criticism. He day Gabriel García Márquez was said that writers were the victims going to lecture in a creative writing García Márquez knew very well of critics, that I should write poems class. Immediately we decided to that the following day the number or short stories instead. I defended crash the class. When we got there, of visitors to the class was going literary criticism; I told him that we found out that many others to increase, so he suggested we all without critics writers would be had the same idea. The fairly large meet at Macondo Books, a Spanish working in a vacuum, that critics classroom was packed. I sat on the language bookstore on West 14th construct a literary canon. But he floor, next to the desk where García Street. So many fans came to the insisted in his idea. I knew that he Márquez was sitting. He did not bookstore that it had to be closed. would not convince me. So I got a lecture, but talked very casually Nevertheless, we had a chance to copy of El coronel no tiene quien le about poetry. He recited several speak, and he asked me if I was escriba, his favorite novel of all that poems from memory, but forgot the writing a novel. he had written to that date, and he inscribed it: “Para Efraín, de su víctima, Gabriel, 1978.”

Since then I have treasured the book. Now that García Márquez has died, I have donated it to the Rare Books Collection at Smathers Library. There it will be preserved. I am sure that in the future someone will wonder why he wrote such a strange inscription. I hope this note will make it clear that he was not my victim. But I will always wonder if he was right, if I should have written 10 Outreach short stories instead of criticism. 11 Alumni Career Profile Who knows? 11 Alumni News & Notes Contributed by Efraín Barradas, 12 Student News Professor of Latin American Studies 15 Staying Connected and Spanish & Portuguese 3 EVENTS

Immigration Reform & Beyond?

The 5th Conference on Richmond Brown, Ida Altman, Lauren Krebs, Michael Conniff, and Karen Kainer at the conference opening reception Immigration to the US South October 23 – 25, 2014 Center’s Annual Conference University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA Spotlights Panama The 5th Conference on Immigration to the US South (formerly Conference The theme of the Center’s 63rd Annual Conference was “Panama Considered: on Immigration to the Southeast) is a Remembering the Past, Embracing the Future.” In part, the conference marked multidisciplinary meeting on immigration the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal in August 1914. to the US South. The conference will also engage in comparative analysis of The conference took place on the UF campus other regions and bring in transnational March 19-21, 2014, and featured more than 30 and global perspectives. Now that expert presentations on Panama. Highlights comprehensive immigration reform is back included addresses from Jorge Quijano, CEO on the legislative agenda, the conference of the Panama Canal Authority; Dr. Rubén seeks to promote an understanding of Berrocal, Secretary General of Panama’s the short-term and long-term challenges National Secretariat of Science, Technology Panama Canal Authority CEO Jorge Quijano of immigration reform with an emphasis and Innovation; Angeles Ramos Baquero, with Joe and Beverly Wood on finding practical and realistic policy director of the Museo del Canal Interoceánico alternatives. de Panamá; and historians Julie Greene, author of the award-winning The Canal Builders (2009) and Michael Conniff, 2014 UF Bacardi Scholar and the author of The conference is co-sponsored by the Panama and the United States (2012). A special evening University of Florida’s Center for Latin panel featured former Florida Governor and US Senator American Studies and the Program for Bob Graham, who was joined by former US ambassadors Immigration, Religion, and Social Change to Panama, Simon Ferro (UF JD, 1978) and Ambler (PIRSC); Kennesaw State University Moss, and was moderated by former Center Director Center for Conflict Management; the Terry McCoy. Conference presentations focused on Jesuit Social Research Institute (JSRI) such diverse topics as paleontology, geology, forest of Loyola University; and the Centro de conservation, finance, tourism, politics, Afro-Panamanian Investigaciones Sobre América del Norte heritage, indigenous peoples, and popular culture. of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. The conference also served to highlight UF’s contributions and connections with respect to Panama, Former FL Governor & U.S. Conference Registration Opens: Senator Bob Graham and and several of the presenters were UF alumni and Matthew Ubben August 1, 2014 faculty. A number of UF scholars work closely with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The For more information, contact Nathalia Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) recently won a multimillion NSF/ Ochoa: [email protected]fl.edu PIRE grant to fund research and educational outreach in connection with the ongoing canal expansion. As FLMNH scientist and curator Bruce MacFadden explains, the expansion offers a “once in a century” opportunity for scientists. In addition, the UF George Smathers Libraries recently acquired the substantial holdings of the Panama Canal Museum, formerly based near St. Petersburg, Florida, a labor of love for a group of devoted “Zonians” who thought it important to commemorate and preserve the history of the US experience in Panama. The UF libraries have been awarded close to half a million dollars in grant funding to curate the collection and to make it publicly accessible.

4 Contributed by Richmond Brown, Associate Director of Academic Programs FACULTY NEWS

Susan Paulson Dr. Susan Paulson will be moving to Gainesville from Europe, where she helped to launch a new graduate program in Culture, Power and Sustainability at Lund University, Sweden, and also taught courses on sustainability at Miami University’s Luxembourg campus. During seven years UF Rising at Miami University, Ohio, she directed the Program for Latin American, and the Latino/a and Caribbean Studies. Paulson earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and has carried out research in diverse contexts in Latin America Center’s New looking at interactions among gender, class, ethnicity and environment. Long involved with political ecology, lately she has been engaged with ideas emerging around degrowth, postcolonial Faculty Hires and critical race theories, and masculinities. Based in Latin America for 15 years, Paulson taught in graduate programs at CESU in Bolivia, Centro Bartolomé de las Casas in Perú, and FLACSO- The Center for Latin Ecuador. Paulson will join UF for the upcoming fall semester as Professor in the Center for Latin American Studies is American Studies. pleased to announce three new faculty hires – two of Catherine Tucker which were made possible Dr. Catherine Tucker is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the through a partnership Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. Tucker earned her PhD between the Center in Anthropology at the University of Arizona and her MA in Anthropology and UF’s Preeminence at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is an ecological and Initiative. Building on the economic anthropologist whose research focuses on human-environment Center’s status as the interactions in Latin America, using transdisciplinary approaches. Her work oldest and one of the most integrates interests in institutional analysis, community-based natural resource management, prestigious Latin American globalization, political ecology, and sustainability. Currently her major research projects address Studies programs in the coffee producers’ adaptations to market volatility and climate change in Mexico and Central nation, Latin American America, and the role of collective action to protect a community-managed forest and watershed Development was chosen reserve in Honduras. Tucker will join UF in the fall of 2015 as an Associate Professor with a joint as one of the priority appointment in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology. areas for the first round of Preeminence funding as Robert Walker part of the university’s UF Dr. Robert Walker is an economic geographer with a PhD in Regional Rising initiative. Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida. Most recently, he taught at For more information, Michigan State University, and for the past two years has also held a go to: visiting appointment at the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. In the early http://rising.ufl.edu/ 1990s, Walker lived in Puerto Rico, where he worked at the International facultyFunding/ Institute of Tropical Forestry, US Forest Service. Dr. Walker’s research focuses on the human funding.html. drivers of land change, particularly in the tropical forests of South America, where he has studied deforestation, forest transition, forest fragmentation, and land-climate interactions. His personal approach to research involves a combination of field surveys, remote sensing, and spatial statistics. Walker will join UF this fall as a Professor with a joint appointment in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Geography.

AFFILIATE FACULTY VISITORS Spanish & Portuguese Anne Fountain Studies San José State University Welcome New Center Affiliates, Susana Braylan Visiting Professor Kathryn Dwyer Navajas Staff & Visitors! Ximena Moors Clara Sotelo 55 FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: Lillian Guerra

r. Lillian Guerra is a Professor of Hidden Heroes, Public Spectacle DCuban and Caribbean History at the and the War that Toppled Batista, University of Florida. She received her 1947-1959, a forthcoming book she PhD in Modern Latin American History considers a prequel to Visions from the University of Wisconsin-Madison of Power. Additionally, Guerra in 2000 and has been faculty member of received the 2014 John Simon UF’s History Department since 2010. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and notes that the self- Guerra at the top of a watchtower at Iznaga Plantation near This year has proven to be a banner year reflective nature of the application Trinidad, Cuba for Guerra, who won several prestigious made writing the application a graduate students who also will be in the awards, both locally and nationally. Guerra very positive experience. She intends to writing phase upon her return from Cuba. has been named the 2014 recipient of the use the fellowship to spend some time in When she is not busy writing, Guerra Latin American Studies Cuba to continue her works to strengthen UF’s linkages to Association (LASA) writing. Here at UF, Cuba by creating institutional agreements Bryce Book award Guerra won the UF through the Center for Latin American for her work Visions History Department’s Studies, coordinating the exchange of of Power in Cuba: 2014 Graduate Teaching materials with Smathers Library and the Revolution, Redemption, Award. Cuban National Library, and organizing and Resistance, 1959- student trips to Cuba. 1971. The award is On receiving several given each year to the prestigious awards in She is currently working on a book about outstanding book on the same year, Guerra the Cuban Revolution and the political Latin America in the relates that it was an Guerra (middle row, far right) and a group of rehabilitation of groups viewed as social sciences and students at Havana’s El Morro fortress, Cuba assurance that the politically and socially problematic by the humanities published in sacrifices she made communist state. English. In addition to LASA’s Bryce Book to write the books were worthwhile. Award, Guerra was awarded the 2014-2015 She considers writing to be a refreshing Contributed by Amber Jennings American Council of Learned Societies process and looks forward to the MALAS student (ACLS) Senior Faculty Fellowship for opportunity to engage with current her project Making Cuba Revolutionary:

Bacardi Family Eminent Scholar: Michael Conniff

The Center for In addition to teaching two courses this relationship between the two countries, Latin American semester, one at the University of Florida calling attention to the success of Panama Studies was and one at San José State, Conniff in its management of the canal since the pleased to has engaged in a number of outreach United States ceded control of the Canal welcome Dr. activities, including lectures on Panama in 1999. Michael Conniff as at the University of South Florida and the 2014 Bacardi Florida International University. He Conniff has published a number of Eminent Scholar. also presented papers at the American books on modern history, most recently Dr. Conniff is Historical Association and SECOLAS Panama and the United States (2012), A a Professor of conferences. History of Modern Latin America (2005, history at San José with Lawrence Clayton), Populism in State University (SJSU) and previously At this year’s Center for Latin American Latin America (2012), and Africans in the served as founder and director of SJSU’s Studies conference, Panama Considered, Americas (2003, with T. J. Davis). Global Studies Initiative. Dr. Conniff is a Conniff delivered the Bacardi Lecture prolific scholar of modern Latin American titled “What happens when the United Contributed by Lauren Krebs history with a focus on 20th century Brazil States gives a small country what it MALAS student and Panama. wants?”, in which he detailed the storied 66 FACULTY NEWS

Richard Phillips Retiring from the Latin American and Caribbean Collection

Paul Losch, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, Angie Soto, Jossie García, and Richard Phillips in the newly renovated LACC

ichard Phillips is set to retire May managed grants, and assisted countless services. Phillips oversaw the recent R29, 2014 after 21 years as Head students and faculty with research. renovations – the LACC is now open Librarian and Bibliographer of the Latin Under Phillips’ leadership, UF’s Latin in newly renovated quarters on the American and Caribbean Collection American and Caribbean Collection 3rd floor of Smathers Library. Paul (LACC) at the University of Florida. ranks among the finest in the world. Losch, currently Operations Librarian, In his two decades at the LACC, he The Latin American and Caribbean has been named the Acting Head of developed the collection, hired a Collection itself is one of a small the Latin American and Caribbean team of LACC librarians and technical number in the United States that is Collection upon Richard’s retirement. assistants, guided materials and staff housed separately and that maintains through multiple moves and remodels, its own reading room and reference Contributed by Lara Lookabaugh MALAS student

Emeritus Faculty Receive Recognition for Their Lifelong Work

Martha (MJ) Hardman, Maxine Margolis, Professor Emerita Professor Emerita of of Anthropology and Center affiliate, Linguistics and Center will be awarded the Brazilian Student affiliate, was awarded Association’s (BRASA) Lifetime the 2014 Woman of Contribution Award at a ceremony Distinction Award from the that will be take place at BRASA XII Association of Academic in London in August 2014. Margolis Women (AAW). Hardman’s is recognized for her forty-plus years pioneering work in the Andes with the Jaqi languages of extraordinary and unflagging commitment to the mission and work on perception, gender, and violence, a of BRASA - the promotion of Brazilian Studies in the United lifelong endeavor that she began in the 1950’s as States. She pioneered research on Brazilian immigration and a field researcher in Peru, was recognized by the raised the profile of Brazil-US relations in the process. Margolis AAW as “the type of unselfish leadership that is an began research on the Brazilian Diaspora a full decade before inspiration to others.” M.J. Hardman has extensive others had even identified the relevant trends. Dr. Margolis publications on Aymara, Jaqaru, and Kawki. served BRASA in a number of capacities over the years, including taking on leadership roles on various committees.

7 FACULTY NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

Simone Athayde (TCD/LAS) presented “Amazon Dams Music and Musicians, Second Edition. New York: Oxford Program: Advancing Integrative Research on Social- University Press, 2013. ecological Dynamics of Hydroelectricity Production in the Brazilian Amazon” (with S. Bohlman, B. Loiselle, David Geggus (History) presented “Saint Domingue, D. Kaplan and J. Dutka-Gianelli) at the 4th UF Water Marronnage, et la Révolution haïtienne” at an international Institute Symposium in February 2014. She is a World conference in November 2013, Les marronnages et leurs Social Science Fellow with the International Social Science productions sociales, culturelles du XVII°-XX° siècles, that Council/UNESCO and Science Case Network Fellow he helped organize in Saint-Laurent du Maroni, French with NSF. Athayde published Aprendizagem colaborativa, Guiana. At the Kongo Atlantic Dialogues conference in transdisciplinaridade e gestão socioambiental na Amazônia: Gainesville in February he acted as commentator on the abordagens para a construção de conhecimento entre panel “Kongo Across the Waters.” He also completed a academia e sociedade (with W.L. Bartels, R. Buschbacher, book, The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History. and R. D. R. Seluchinesk). RBPG, 10(21): 729-756. She is Cambridge: Hackett (in press). Principal Investigator on Seed Grant: Integrated Network on Disaster Risk Reduction (IRDR), International Social Susan D. Gillespie (Anthropology) published Gendering Science Council (ISSC) and START. the Hero Twins in the Popol Vuh. In María J. Rodríguez- Shadow and Susan Kellogg, eds., Género y Arqueología en Florence E. Babb (CWSGR) bids farewell to UF this spring Mesoamérica: Homenaje a Rosemary A. Joyce. Mexico City: to become the Anthony Harrington Distinguished Professor Centro de Estudios de Antropología de la Mujer, 2013. of Anthropology at UNC, Chapel Hill. She is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Marta Hartmann (Agricultural Education & Anthropology and is on the Committee on World Communication) was awarded the Association for Anthropologies. She published Sexualities in Latin America International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) and the Caribbean. In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin Fellow Award 2013. She was invited to present on “The American Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Role of Gender and Culture in Sustainable Development” Babb lectured at the University of Bergen in November and at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) gave the keynote, “Gender, Race, and Indigeneity in Andean and Higher Education for Development (HED) Women’s Peru: Provocations from Decolonial Feminism,” at the Leadership Program Partners’ global meeting: “A Shared UNC-Duke annual conference in February. Vision for Promoting Women’s Leadership through Higher Education” in Kigali, Rwanda, in July 2013. Amy Jo Coffey (TEL) was awarded the 2013-2014 Faculty Research Award and the 2013-2014 Faculty Service Award Ieva Jusionyte (LAS/Anthropology) organized and chaired by the College of Journalism and Communications. She will the panel “In/visible: In/secure” (with D. Goldstein) at present the paper “U.S. Hispanic Bilinguals: A Qualitative the American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting in Analysis of Language, Genre, and Viewer Preference” at the Boston in April 2014. She presented the paper “States World Media Economics and Management Conference in of Camouflage” at the Annual Meeting of the American Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in May 2014. She was also a featured Anthropological Association in Chicago in November speaker on a panel, “Student News Aircheck: Español,” in 2013 and the paper “Hide-and-seek” at the American Las Vegas, NV, in April 2014. Ethnological Society Spring Meeting in Boston in April 2014. She also published For Social Emergencies ‘We Are 9-1-1-’: Carmen Diana Deere (LAS/FRE) and Fred Royce (ABE) How Journalists Perform the State in an Argentine Border co-organized the Symposium on Food Sovereignty: A Town. Anthropological Quarterly, 87(1): 151-182. Dialogue on an Alternative Future with La Vía Campesina, held at UF in January. Deere was a visiting professor at Karen Kainer (LAS/SFRC) published Tradeoffs in Basal FLACSO Ecuador for the Spring 14 semester. Area Growth and Reproduction Shift over the Lifetime of a Long-Lived Tropical Species. (with C.L. Staudhammer Silvio J. dos Santos (Music) received the 2014-2015 and L.H.O. Wadt). Oecologia, 173(1): 45-57; Is Certification Scholarship Enhancement Fund Award for his research Associated with Better Forest Management and on Music and Politics of Modernity in Brazil, 1945-1964. Socioeconomic Benefits? A Comparative Analysis of Three He published “Assad, Sérgio”; “Barbosa-Lima, Carlos”; Certification Schemes Applied to Brazil Nuts in Western “Carvalho, Eleazar (de);” and “Kampela, Arthur.” In Charles Amazonia. (with A.E. Duchelle and L.H.O. Wadt). Society Hiroshi Garrett, ed., The American Grove Dictionary of and Natural Resources, 27(2): 121-139; Logging in Bamboo- 8 dominated Forests in Southwestern Amazonia: Caveats and uma Vida em Letras. Rio de Janeiro: Editora UFRJ, 2013; Opportunities for Smallholder Forest Management (with translations of poems by Antonio Carlos Secchin in Malpaís C.A. Rockwell, M.V.N. d’Oliveira, C.L. Staudhammer and C. Review 4.1 (2013) and Antologias ABL. Rio de Janeiro: Baraloto). Forest Ecology and Management, 315 (1): 202-210. Academia Brasileira de Letras, 2013. Perrone was lead author in Series 4 of p.o.w. with “halves and have nots.” Joseli Macedo (URP) presented the paper “The Future Edinburgh, Scotland: Unit4art, 2014. of International Development Planning: New Paradigms for Pedagogy” (with Gabriella Carolini) at the Rethinking Mary Risner (LAS) published The Business of Languages International Planning Education Workshop at M.I.T., in in the Classroom Today: A Model for K-12 Professional Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 2013. She presented Development (with Linda Markley). Global Business “Equitable Distribution of Green Space: Urban Parks Languages, 18: 121-130. in Curitiba, Brazil” (with Mônica Haddad) and led the panel “Rethinking International Planning Education” (with Richard Stepp (TCD) published Pedagogy and Botany Gabriella Carolini) at the joint Association of European of the Columbian Biological Exchange: The 1491 Meal. Schools of Planning/American Collegiate Schools of In C.L. Quave, ed., Innovative Strategies for Teaching in Planning - AESOP/ACSP Conference in Dublin, Ireland, in the Plant Sciences. New York: Springer Press, pp 154- July 2013. Macedo published Brasília and Putrajaya: Using 160. He contributed to Measuring Traditional Ecological Urban Morphology to Represent Identity and Power in Knowledge: Does Knowledge Mean Skill? (with E.P. Kightley, National Capitals (with Levu V. Tran). Journal of Urbanism: V. Reyes-García, K. Demps, R. Magtanong, V. Ramonez, G. International Research on Placemaking and Urban Thampy) Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 9: 71; Sustainability, 6(2) 2013: 139-159. Emergent Risks and Key Vulnerabilities. Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Susan Milbrath (FMNH) published Seasonal Imagery in Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014; Toward a the Ancient Mexican Almanacs of the Dresden Codex Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity (with and Codex Borgia. In Das Bild der Jahreszeiten im wandel Gavin, M., C.A. Botero , C. Bowern, R.K. Colwell, M. Dunn, der kulturen un zeiten, Thierry Grueb, vol. ed. pp. 117-142. R.R. Dunn, R.D. Gray, K.R. Kirby, J. McCarter , A. Powell Morphomata, Band.7, Gunter Blamberger and Deitrich , T.F. Rangel, M. Trautwein, J.L. Verdolin, and G.Yanega). Boschung Series eds. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich: 2013. BioScience, 63(7): 524-535. She presented the papers “Evidencia de Agro-astronomía entre los antiguos mayas,” and “Coloquio: Relación Maya Stanfield-Mazzi (SAAH) published Introduction to sociedad-naturaliza entre los mayas” at the Festival Part I: Time and Its Transformations from the Old World Internacional de la Cultura Maya 2013 in El Paisaje, Merida, to the New. Special Issue of Religion and the Arts on Mexico, in October 2013. Christianity and Latin American Art, 18 2014: 5–10; Cuzco Miter. Initiative for the Study of Materials and Visual Culture Gerald Murray (Anthropology — Emeritus) was invited of Religion, Yale University, 2013. http://mavcor.yale.edu/ by the Haitian government to give the keynote address conversations/object-narratives/cuzco-miter. “L’évolution du régime foncier en Haiti: Les leçons de l’Anthropologie” at their international conference on land Diego Valderrama (FRE) and Richard Spagna (FRE) tenure reform in Haiti. He was also invited to teach two presented the paper “Shellfish Aquaculture in the summer courses at Sichuan University in China, comparing Caribbean Sea: Investigating the Feasibility of a Regional the evolving social, cultural, and linguistic situation of China Model for Scallop Production” at the 106th Annual Meeting with that of the Caribbean and Latin America. of the National Shellfisheries Association in Jacksonville in April 2014. Charles A. Perrone (SPS) published “Laudas, Lances, Lendas e Lembranças: Haroldo na Austineia Desvairada.” Denis Valle (LAS/SFRC) published a response to the In Transluminura [São Paulo] (2013); “A força dos elos da critique by Hahn et al. entitled Conservation and Malaria ‘Corrente’. ” In Rinaldo Fernandes, ed., Chico Buarque: o in the Brazilian Amazon. The American Journal of Tropical Poeta das Mulheres, dos Desvalidos e dos Perseguidos: Medicine and Hygiene, 90(4): 595-596. Ensaios sobre a mulher, o pobre e a repressão militar nas canções de Chico. São Paulo: LeYa, 2013; “Happy Birthday, Here’s to Career Achievement.” In Maria Lucia Guimarães de Faria and Godofredo de Oliveira Neto, eds., Secchin: 9 OUTREACH Preparing Students for the Global Workplace: A Webinar Series

his semester, the Center for TLatin American Studies launched “Preparing Students for the Global Workplace” through the Network of Business Language Educators (NOBLE) learning community. Since the series’ inauguration in December 2013, Associate Director Mary Risner has hosted two sessions each month with participants and presenters from both K-12 and post-secondary positions. The webinars are designed to connect educators interested in developing innovative ways to prepare students for global careers through language and culture studies. Sessions have addressed topics such as building a career abroad, developing a high school “Spanish for Leadership” course, are interested in integrating business to try in my own classes, and a new teaching practical application skills concepts into their language class.” name to add in my list of colleagues who in “Spanish for Healthcare” courses, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign work on languages for specific purposes and using case studies in the foreign Spanish professor Annie Abbott (LSP).” The NOBLE community and language classroom. also commented on the benefits of webinar series were recently featured in participating in the webinar sessions. the National Capital Language Resource The series has featured guest speakers “As one of the webinar presenters and Center “Business Language Column” from throughout the United States, as a regular attendee, I enjoyed being able and can be accessed here: http://nclrc. well as Chile and Spain. Cristin Bleess, to share ideas with people outside my org/teachers_corner/business_language. a webinar speaker and high school usual network in a comfortable, flexible html Spanish teacher in Colorado, felt that and free space…I always come away “doing the webinar was a great way with something: a new resource on the Contributed by Adam Reid to connect with other teachers who internet to explore, a teaching activity MALAS student

UF’s Brazilian Portuguese Club

The UF Brazilian Portuguese Club This year has been an active one for the promoting the study of the Portuguese (BPC) is an organization that provides BPC. In the fall, the organization held language and the culture of Lusophone opportunities for students studying a Brazilian churrasco at Lake Wauburg countries. Portuguese to practice their language with over 50 attendees. The students skills in a fun and relaxed environment. were able to try typical Brazilian food, For more information on BPC and BPC meets every Wednesday at 5 p.m. listen to Brazilian music, and of course, to find out about events, please near the Starbucks at the HUB. Each play futebol. In the spring semester, visit: https://www.facebook.com/ week, students have the opportunity BPC organized a Brazilian lunch where groups/25946617146/?fref=ts. to use their Portuguese and meet students had the chance to try empadão Brazilians at UF, many of whom are (a chicken pot pie) and pão de queijo or Contributed by Carol Movshowitz in Gainesville as exchange students cheese bread. Due to the interest in the BPC President through the Brazilian Scientific Mobility events this year, BPC hosted another Program. churrasco in the spring to continue 1010 ALUMNI CAREER PROFILE: Ed Johnson

Can you tell us about How did your interest in Latin America r. Johnson has worked the your current position and how it lead you to a career in consulting? last eight years at Deloitte M relates to Latin America? When I was hired by Deloitte, they Consulting and is currently a Deloitte is a professional services firm were excited about my international Senior Manager responsible with many facets, such as auditing and background and my experience in for commercial strategy, tax preparation. However, I work for including pricing and profitability Latin America. Deloitte was definitely Deloitte Consulting, specifically the management in consumer interested in my ability to speak strategy consulting division, specifically products. Previous to his tenure at Portuguese and knowledge of Brazil and Deloitte Consulting, Mr. Johnson doing consulting for consumer packaged Latin America. The research you do as a worked as a Financial Analyst at good companies. Most of my projects student is pretty similar to consulting. I Johnson & Johnson Vision Care focus on helping them grow profitably continuously have to conduct research and as a Research Analyst at the through better pricing, in-store and use my findings to come up with the Federal Reserve Board. promotions, and customer incentives. best solutions to my clients’ problems.

Mr. Johnson earned dual MALAS/ There are plenty of large food and How did a MALAS degree help you in MBA degrees in 2006 from UF’s beverage companies in Latin America, your career? business school and the Center from beer and soda companies to The opportunity I had to study of Latin American Studies. His packaged snack companies, and Portuguese and my specialization in specialization in the MALAS most countries have 1 or 2 major Latin American Business Environment program was Latin American national players as well as the typical helped me understand more of the Business Environment and his international firms that do business culture and professional environment MBA specialization was Finance there (Coca-Cola, Kraft, Nestle, etc). I of the region. The research I had to do and Strategy. He received his have done consulting in the US, Mexico, as a MALAS student was important Bachelor of Arts in Economics Brazil, and Argentina, as well as the to expand my knowledge of issues and Spanish from The College Caribbean. Over the course of my such as the political and economic of William and Mary. Since 2011, career, about half of the work I have environment, the business culture, and Mr. Johnson has served on the done is related to Latin America. advisory board of the Center for the opportunities available in the region. International Business Education When you have more knowledge about and Research at the University of a topic, it gives you more credibility Florida. when speaking to clients. Hence, the MALAS degree was crucial for my development as a professional.

Erica Felker-Kantor (MALAS 2011) Ana S.Q. Liberato (MALAS 2001) is received a second graduate degree (MPH) in an associate professor with University Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of of Kentucky’s Department of Sociology. Public Health where her research primarily She recently published the book Joaquín ALUMNI focused on Nicaragua and Haiti. She Balaguer, Memory, and Diaspora. currently works for the Center for Disease News & Notes Control and Prevention in the Haiti office Steven Minegar (MALAS 2010) is a and plans to pursue a doctoral degree this Partnership Manager in the Miami office coming year. of AFEX (Associated Foreign Exchange), a global payment and risk management solution company. 1111 STUDENT News Spring 2014 Graduations Undergraduate LAS Minors & Certificates MALAS Degrees Dylan Attal (Spanish) Berthrude Albert Sara Awartani (History) Specialization: Development Studies Michael Bird (Finance) Advisor: Ben Hebblethwaite (LLC) Samantha Baraoidan (Agricultural & Life Sciences) Thesis: Linguistic Apartheid Jasmine Bensinger (Psychology/Portuguese) Matthew Boles (Spanish and Portuguese) Sarah Benton Samantha Bonenclark (Spanish) Specialization: Development Studies & URP Chloe Burke (Political Science) Advisor: Charles Wood (LAS) Jeffrey Butensky (Linguistics) Thesis: (Un)safe and (In)secure at Home: Variations in Residential Joane Cadet (Biology) Security in Brazil Anthony Castro (Women’s Studies) Mariana DeVita (Political Science/History) Thiago Cunha Martina Faillace (Political Science) Specialization: Development Studies Advisor: Carmen Diana Deere (LAS) Thomas Fairbanks (Business Administration) Thesis: Paradise in the Andes: the Recent Migration of Americans Brittany Finkelstein (Portuguese) to Cuenca, Ecuador Rongeline Francois (Religion) Carley Fuller (Agricultural & Life Sciences) Adam Reid José García (Political Science) Specialization: History Aminta Gleim (Spanish) Advisor: Lillian Guerra (History) Doris Guevara (Political Science) Thesis: Borders and Bridges: Negotiating Ethnic and National Gaston Gros (Political Science) Identities in Argentina’s Anarchist Movement, 1890-1930 Constance Hackler (English) Hollie Harrison (Portuguese) MDP Degrees Chrsitine Joesbury (History) Leandra Clough Tasheik Kerr (History) Specialization: African Studies Genesis Lara (History) Advisor: Brian Child (CAS/Geography) Mirelis Martínez (Political Science/Religion) Capstone Field Practicum: Situational Analysis of Mangalene, Ashley Mayor (International Studies) Mozambique for a Community-Based Natural Resource Project José Miranda (Political Science) Michael Muñoz (Journalism) Taryn Devereaux Amber Paoloemilio (Spanish/Women’s Studies) Specialization: Gender and Development Patricia Patino (Political Science) Advisor: Carmen Diana Deere (LAS) José Pérez (Interdisciplinary Studies/LAS) Capstone Field Practicum: Gender Dynamics in the Adoption Lissette Porticarrero (Political Science) of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices: A Case Study in Cauca, Megan Ratiano (Anthropology) Colombia Valeria Segui (Anthropology) Spencer Smigielski (Anthropology) Jessica Jefferson Wilmide Vernet (Civil Engineering) Specialization: Global Health Advisor: Rick Rheingans (CAS/Environment and Global Health) Kathleen Warman (Psychology/Spanish) Capstone Field Practicum: Soy Capaz! Plus: Integrating Gage Ziehmn (International Studies) Environmental Stewardship into Health Outreach (Peru)

Graduate LAS Certificates Antonia Lliteras Stephanie Borios (Anthropology) Specialization: Gender and Development Cristóbal González (Sociology) Advisor: Marianne Schmink (LAS) Flavia Leite (Sociology) Capstone Field Practicum: Effects of Leadership Training on Self- Elisabet Liminyana Vico (Spanish) Efficacy and Equal Access Skills for High School Students: Today Danny Pinedo (Anthropology) for Tomorrow (Paraguay) José Tovar-Aguilar (Anthropology) 12 MDP Degrees (cont.) Sebastian Pazmino Daniel Stirling Specialization: Nonprofit Organizational Leadership Specialization: Global Health Education Advisor: Christina Gurucharri (Landscape Architecture) Advisor: Rick Rheingans (Environment and Global Health) Capstone Field Practicum: Tierra Despierta: A Social and Physical Capstone Field Practicum: Health Barrier Analysis in Toledo, Study of the Agriculture Land in Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador Belize

José Juan Pérez Orozco Raina Zantout Specialization: Sustainable Agriculture Specialization: Global Health Advisor: Danielle Treadwell (Horticultural Sciences) Advisor: Jeffrey Ullman (Agricultural & Biological Engineering) Capstone Field Practicum: Understanding Farmers’ Challenges and Sandra Russo (UFIC) and Evaluating Impacts of a Sustainable Agriculture NGO in Capstone Field Practicum: Analysis of Human Health Risks Communities of Southern Guatemala Linked to Irrigation with Treated Wastewater in Oued Souhil, Tunisia, and Gender Roles in Agriculture

Student Funding 2014 Summer Research Grant Recipients

ach year, the Center for Latin American Studies and the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) program Eaward funding to UF students to conduct summer research. This year, 28 students from 10 different departments received funding to carry out their field research in Latin America and in Latino communities in the U.S. These awards are made possible by the following funding sources: • Boonstra Family Research Fellowship • Carol French Doughty Memorial Fund • Center for Latin American Studies grant overhead • Charles Wagley Research Fellowship • Panama Canal Museum Research Fund • TCD Ford Foundation Endowment • Tinker Foundation

The Center would like to congratulate the following students on their 2014 field research awards. Each student, their degree program, and country where they will conduct their field research is listed below.

Alice Alonso (PhD ABE) Costa Rica Yasmin Quintana Morales (MS SNRE) Guatemala Arianne Boileau (PhD Anthropology) Belize Caitlin Schroering (MALAS) Brazil Marlón Carranza (PhD Anthropology) Honduras José Sclofsky (PhD Political Science) Brazil Farah Carrasco Rueda (PhD SNRE) Peru Ana Silva (MALAS) USA Nathalie Cooper (MS SFRC) Brazil Joanna Troufflard (PhD Anthropology) Brazil Katherine Cummings (MS SNRE) Panama Marcela Varona (MA Art History) Petra Cunningham-Smith (PhD Anthropology) Belize David Vázquez Hurtado (PhD Spanish & Portuguese Studies) Jorge García (PhD Anthropology) Colombia Spain Elizabeth Getman (MALAS) Guatemala Cristobol González (MA Sociology) USA 2014 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Matthew Hallett (PhD SNRE) Guyana David Hanson (PhD Geography) Grenada (FLAS) Fellowship Recipients Xavier Haro Carrion (PhD SNRE) Brazil The following UF students received U.S. Department of Amber Jennings (MALAS) Brazil Education Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Lara Lookabaugh (MALAS) Mexico Fellowships from the Center for Latin American Studies: Amanda Monroe (MALAS) Mexico Flavia Montano Centellas (PhD WEC) Bolivia Wagner Braga (BA) Portuguese Claudio Moraga (PhD SNRE) Chile Kerri Blumenthal (PhD) Quechua Mauricio Nuñez Regueiro (PhD SNRE) Argentina Clarissa Felima (MPH) Haitian Creole Sebastián Palmas Pérez (PhD SNRE) Mexico Sarah Kennedy (PhD) Quechua Anna Porter (MALAS) Bolivia Bryan Weaver (BA) Portuguese 13 Field Research Clinic & Poster Session 2014

he Center for Latin American Studies and the Tropical TConservation and Development (TCD) Program awarded 25 field research grants for UF graduate students to carry out master’s thesis and pre-dissertation fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2013. Held at Smathers Library East on February 28, the 12th annual Field Research Clinic (FRC) gave students the chance to learn about the various research projects sponsored by the Center and TCD, and to stimulate debate with students from a broad range of disciplines. The clinic also provided an opportunity for grant recipients to showcase their work and to disseminate the results of their research to a wide audience of students and faculty members.

The second half of the clinic was devoted to the research poster competition. Posters were evaluated by Richmond Brown (LAS), Pilar Useche (LAS/FRE), and Denis Ribeiro do Field Research Clinic: Pictured left to right: (back row) Ronit Amit Rojas, Valle (SFRC). Philip Williams, Eshe Lewis, Skyler Simnitt (front row) Christina Callicott, Sarah Kennedy

The FRC is one of several graduate student support activities sponsored by the Center over the course of the academic year. These events serve to enhance the learning and professional preparation of LAS students.

2014 POSTER COMPETITION WINNERS

Grand Prize Changing Food Practices During Spanish Conquest in Peru Sarah Kennedy, Anthropology (MA)

Grand prize winner Sarah Kennedy 1st Prize Master’s Level 2nd Prize Master’s Level Honorable Mention En las montañas se oye cantar: Manufacturing Empowerment? Tropical Ecology and Music and Shamanism in Peru Skyler Simnitt, MALAS Conservation from Above: Chrsitina Callicott, Anthropology Aerial Insights into Tree Species 2nd Prize PhD Level Diversity in a Tropical Agricultural 1st Prize PhD Level Rancher’s Motivations to Prevent Landscape Intimate Partner Violence Among Damage by Jaguars and Pumas in Sarah Graves, School of Forest and Afro-Peruvian Women Costa Rica Resource Conservation (MS) Eshe Lewis, Anthropology Ronit Amit Rojas, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 1414 Thanks to Our Donors The Center for Latin American Studies would like to express its gratitude for the generosity of those who have responded to our mailings and to the University of Florida Foundation’s annual appeal. Carol French Doughty Memorial Fund R. Hunt & Jeanne G. Davis Jessica H. & Thomas Long Margarita C. & Edmundo E. Gandía David P. Geggus Center for Latin American Studies Endowment Rosalyn Howard Deborah & Mark Kisker Angel Kwolek-Folland & Nathan O. Folland David E. Lewis Colonel Glenn A. Farris Scholarship Bette A. Loiselle & John G. Blake Christine A. & Thomas L. Farris Gerald F. Murray & María D. Álvarez-Murray Deborah Pacini & Robert L. Garofalo Cuba Program Fund Leah R. Rosenberg Jay S. Brickman Ofelia M. Schutte Marianne C. Schmink Latin American Studies Fund Philip J. Williams & Victoria Condor-Williams April B. & David M. Baer Linda M. Witheford Chris E. Baker & Karen Schwartz Julian C. Bridges & Charlotte A. Bridges Schmink Fund for Innovation in Tropical Conservation and Donald J. & Geraldine A. Fraser Development Michael Muñoz Amy E. Duchelle Richard W. & Wanda S. Oberdorfer Eugene F. Taggart Tropical Conservation and Development Fund Bette A. Loiselle & John G. Blake Safa Graduate Student Travel Fund Florence E. Babb & Victoria L. Rovine Vivian G. Nolan Graduate Fellowship H. Russell & Carole M. Bernard Charles H. Denny III Charitable Trust Margaret Boonstra Eric A. Wagner Richmond F. Brown & Ida Altman The Cheka Fund at the Miami Foundation Wagley/Carter Fellowship Fund Alice Colin-Warren Maxine L. Margolis & Jerald T. Milanich Taraneh M. & Frank A. Darabi

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