The LATINAMERICANIST University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies | Volume 46, Number 2 | Fall 2015

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 46, Number 2 Fall 2015

Center for Latin American Studies resident the door for research collaboration 319 Grinter Hall PObama’s between UF and UH. Although additional PO Box 115530 December 2014 restrictions were placed on academic Gainesville, FL 32611-5530 announcement travel to Cuba by the Florida legislature (352) 273-4705 of a new policy in 2006, the Center formally launched www.latam.ufl.edu of normalization the UF Cuba Program in 2009. Since its with Cuba has launch, the Center’s Cuba program and presented UF affiliated faculty have been successful in with an historic deepening UF’s engagement with Cuba, 2015-16 Faculty opportunity including new cooperative agreements to expand with Cuban partner institutions and the its role as a launch of a Center-based project on Advisory Council national leader in academic engagement Cuban agriculture. Philip Williams, Ieva Jusionyte and scientific collaboration with Cuba. Chair LAS/Anthropology UF’s connections with Cuba date back With the removal of Cuba from the list LAS/Political Science [Catherine Tucker as far as 1930. During commencement of state sponsors of terrorism and the (LAS/Anthropology) ceremonies that year, UF President reestablishment of diplomatic relations, the Ida Altman filling in for fall 15] Tigert announced the establishment of Center’s Cuba program is leading the way History the Institute for Inter-American Affairs in expanding UF’s academic engagement Robert Lucero Richmond Brown Nursing (the forerunner to UF’s Center for Latin with Cuba. This past semester the Center LAS American Studies). To demonstrate joined with the International Center and Paul Losch the seriousness of the initiative, Tigert IFAS to organize a workshop on academic Silvio dos Santos UF Libraries awarded an honorary degree for the first engagement with Cuba. The Center has Music time to a Latin American citizen, Cuban been working with the College of Law in Jocelyn Peskin Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Orestes developing a new partnership with the law Richard Freeman LAS Ferrara. During Tigert’s tenure, the school at UH, including the visit of two law UF Libraries Cynthia Simmons Institute made scholarship opportunities faculty from UH and a UF law delegation to Glenn Galloway Geography available for students from Latin America UH that I accompanied in November. The LAS/MDP (including Cuba), and UF signed one of Center also co-sponsored Jorge Macle’s Robin Wright its first collaborative agreements with the (Archivo Nacional de Cuba) visit to deepen Religion University of Havana (UH). Prior to and the collaboration between UF Libraries after the Cuban Revolution, a number and Cuban institutions in the preservation of UF Latin American Studies faculty and sharing of research materials. For the Editor Graphic Designer conducted research related to Cuba and spring 2016 semester, we look forward Jocelyn Peskin, LAS Liquid Creative Studio maintained collaborative relationships with to hosting the Director of International Cuban academics. Despite the difficulties Relations from UH to discuss new for Florida-based universities to engage opportunities for scientific collaboration. with Cuba during the 1990’s, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, an important UF research program on Cuban agriculture got underway in IFAS in 1994, and this program opened

3 65th Annual Conference 8 Faculty News & Publications 4 Día de Ecuador 12 Student News 4 LAS Undergraduate Welcome Reception 13 Alumni News & Notes 5 Carmen Diana Deere Retires 14 Alumni Profile 7 UF International Educator of the Year 15 Staying Connected

The contents of this newsletter were developed under the National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily 2 represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. 65TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

MARCH 24-26, 2016 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES BY Francisco Goldman Author of “The Art of Political Murder” and “The Interior Circuit” Diane Davis Professor of Regional Planning and UrbanismU at Harvard University 8 Faculty News & Publications Finn Stepputat 12 Student News Senior Researcher in Peace, Risk and Violence at the 13 Alumni News & Notes Danish Institute for International Studies 14 Alumni Profile 15 Staying Connected Featuring a screening of "Dreams from the Concrete Mountain” by Alex Fattal 3 EVENTS

ver one hundred students, Center for Oacademics, and community Latin American members gathered at Emerson Studies Director Alumni Hall on Wednesday, October Philip J. Williams 14, 2015, to celebrate Día de Ecuador opened the UFIC Dean Leo Vilallón, UF President Kent Fuchs, Ambassador of Ecuador for (Ecuador Day). The Center for event. Eminent the United States Francisco Borja, and Center Director Philip Wiliams Latin American Studies partnered scholars with the U.S. Embassy of Ecuador from multiple sustainable development initiatives to organize the one-day academic disciplines attended to exchange undertaken in Ecuador. event that contributed to stronger ideas and discuss issues related educational cooperation, fruitful to agriculture, development, The academic panels were followed intellectual discussions, and deeper and the environment. The three by traditional Ecuadorian dishes and understanding of Ecuadorian culture. panels focused on challenges of a cultural event featuring the NYC- Amazonian development, sustainable based Afro-Ecuadorian band Chota The Ambassador of Ecuador for development initiatives, and issues Madre. the United States Francisco Borja, related to food sovereignty and small UF President Kent Fuchs, and the scale agriculture in the context of Contributed by Maja Jeranko, MALAS student

LAS Undergraduate Welcome Reception

On October 1, 2015, the Center for Latin American Studies hosted a welcome reception for undergraduate students pursuing a minor or certificate in Latin American Studies. The reception featured information, resources, and inspirational speakers from the field of Latin American Studies at UF. Approximately 30 people attended the event, which took place at the Hispanic-Latino Affairs Institute, popularly known as La Casita. The UF Student Body President, Joselin Padrón- Rasines, was our special guest speaker, and she shared her experience as a Latin American Studies Minor student. We want to thank all of the speakers 4 and students who made this a successful event! CENTER NEWS Carmen Diana Deere Retires After Distinguished Career in Latin American Studies

president of the Latin American Studies program; the Crime, Law & Governance Association and of the New England program; the Latino Studies Program; Council of Latin American Studies. the Cuba Program; and the Masters in Deere is the author of eight prize- Sustainable Development Practice, not ormer Center director (2004-2009) winning books and journal articles and all of which came to fruition during my FCarmen Diana Deere is retiring many other contributions in the fields of time as director. We formally launched from UF after a distinguished career. gender and development and agrarian the UF Cuba program in 2009, and I Dr. Carmen Diana Deere has been studies in Latin America. coordinated this program for the next appointed Distinguished Professor few years, forming an alumni board, Emerita of Latin American Studies and She is an associate editor of the journal facilitating faculty research exchanges Food & Resource Economics. She holds Feminist Economics, and serves or has with the University of Havana, and a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from served on numerous editorial boards. successfully obtaining external research the University of California, Berkeley, As of 2015, she is an honorary professor funding. We also implemented a new and a M.A. in development studies emerita of the Latin American Faculty governance structure to facilitate the from The Fletcher School of Law and of Social Science (FLACSO) in Quito participation of our affiliate faculty Diplomacy. She was Director of the where she is still teaching periodically. and developed links to alumni such UF Center for Latin American Studies as by establishing the LAS Alumni from 2004 to 2009. Before coming to What do you consider your biggest Advisory Board. I hired the Center’s UF, she was Professor of Economics accomplishment during the time you first development officer and designed at the University of Massachusetts, served as Director? our first-ever LAS Capital Campaign in Amherst, where she was Director of the I nurtured the development of a collaboration with deans from a number number of new programs, such as of colleges. Center for Latin American, Caribbean Continued on page 6 and Latino Studies. She is a past- the Law & Policy in the Americas

Welcome New Center Staff, Affiliates, and Visitors!

AFFILIATE FACULTY VISITORS Kaira Cabañas Carlos Suarez Carrasquillo Mehmet Emin Cagiran Art History Political Science Turkish Military Academy, Turkey Visiting Scholar Karen Garett Laurie Taylor Plant Pathology UF Libraries Delia Macias Universidad Oviedo, Spain David Kaplan STAFF Visiting Ph.D. student Engineering School of Sustainable Dayanara Hudson Infrastructure & Environment Communications Coordinator Karen Ponciano Universidad Rafael Landívar, Robert Lucero SiseneG Midget Guatemala College of Nursing Human Resources Assistant Visiting Scholar 55 What has been the most rewarding You are currently teaching in Ecuador What were some of aspect of your career at the Center? - would you like to share with us more the biggest challenges What I probably enjoyed most was about your current role there? you had to overcome? working with faculty and students I am currently teaching a Ph.D. course We held five searches for joint from across campus. The Center is at FLACSO-Ecuador on economic faculty appointments, not all of which uniquely positioned to develop and development of the Andes. I carried out were successful. One of my biggest facilitate inter- and multi-disciplinary a nationally-representative household frustrations was hiring junior faculty to activities. It was very rewarding to lead assets survey in Ecuador in 2010, and build these various initiatives and then such a diverse and talented group of still have a number of research topics, having them leave, as happened both Latinamericanists, all of whom share related to the findings of this survey, with the Latino Studies and the Crime, a passion for the people, culture, and which I want to pursue there. I recently Law & Governance programs. These complexities of the region. I also learned finished a paper on gender and class in programs are finally being consolidated a ton about how UF functions and its Ecuador’s credit market, and hope to now. Fundraising was also tough. While problems and challenges. It was also carry out some more interviews on this we were able to obtain three new gratifying to always have the support topic while in Quito. endowments and several new funds of the UF Administration, particularly while I was director, most of these to former President Machen, when new Since you have recently retired, are benefit students, we fell far short of the initiatives came up. there any aspects of the Center that Capital Campaign goals. you are already missing? Can you name one of the courses you I have been so busy teaching at Where any of these accomplishments taught that you enjoyed FLACSO, that I have not yet had the or challenges behind your decision teaching most? time to feel retired! But I tend to think to create the Carmen Diana Deere My Gender and Latin American of retirement as the opportunity to Director’s Fund upon your retirement? Development course was always be on “permanent sabbatical,” a time I learned a lot about the art of special, since I was able to integrate my when I’ll have more flexibility in terms fundraising during my tenure, but still research and teaching in a particularly of travel and research. Also, I’ll still found it difficult to ask people for fruitful way. My long-run research be involved in several projects at the money. Early on I realized that it would program has been on women’s Center. I am part of the UF-University be a lot more fun to give money away ownership of assets and its relationship of Havana collaborative project and than to ask for it. I decided to create an to women’s economic empowerment. hope to pursue field research in Cuba unrestricted fund upon my retirement It has been very rewarding to explore this coming spring with UF colleagues. I to give the Center director as much these ideas with students and to have am also a member of the International flexibility as possible in pursuing new many of them pursue theses and Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), an initiatives and exciting ideas. It is set dissertations related to these themes. initiative led by Amartya Sen, and will be up as a matching fund to encourage I also enjoyed participating in the co-authoring a chapter on gender and colleagues, former students, and friends design of the curriculum for the MDP the family for that report. Moreover, I to contribute to it, which I’ll then match program and teaching Foundations of still have several students that are in the through an additional bequest. Sustainable Development. pipeline, so it should be a very gradual transition to full retirement.

On September 29, Center faculty, staff, and friends celebrated Margarita Gandía’s retirement after 25 years of working at the Center – congratulations Margarita!

Jessica Caicedo (Center’s Sr. Fiscal Assistant) and Margarita Gandía 6 FACULTY NEWS UF International Educator of the Year

Center affiliate Stephen Perz (Sociology) was named UF’s 2015 Senior Faculty International Educator of the Year by the University of Florida International Center (UFIC). Perz works in the Amazon basin spanning Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia coordinating the efforts of universities, NGOs, and government agencies at the local, regional, and international levels. His fieldwork focuses on social and environmental impacts of infrastructure development and how the region’s communities integrate climate change into sustainable development strategies. UF President Fuchs and UFIC Dean Villalón presented the award to Perz at a reception held in the Keene Faculty Center on Perz with collaborators Johanna Espin, Flavia Leite, and Paula Pinheiro November 16, 2015.

American Academy of Nursing Fellows

Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini and collaborating with Robert Lucero, both Center researchers from affiliates from the UF College of Mexico and Peru Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini and Robert Lucero Nursing, have been elected as on an international Health Information Management fellows of the American Academy center for gender and health System for use by Latino caregivers. of Nursing. Stacciarini’s NIH- disparities. Lucero’s current Fellows are recognized for making supported research examines research, also supported by NIH, outstanding contributions to health inequalities and social is a study that aims to extend the effective nursing and show the isolation among rural Latinos, in use of an electronic personal health potential to continue making addition to her work as a co-PI record through a web-based Family significant contributions to the field.

7 FACULTY NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

Jessi Elana Aaron (SPS) was invited to present “Greater than any one of Brian Gendreau (LABE and Finance) was appointed as a Richardson us, yet nothing without us: On the role of perception and everyday life Faculty Fellow by the Finance Department effective in fall 2015, and was in language” as part of the Center for Language Science Speaker Series selected as the Warrington College of Business Administration’s 2015 at Penn State University in October 2015. International Educator of the Year.

Robert Buschbacher (SFRC) published “A Teoria da Resiliência e Ieva Juisonyte (LAS/Anthropology) published os Sistemas Socioecológicos: Como se Preparar para um Futuro the book Savage Frontier: Making News and Imprevisível?” Regional, Urbano e Ambiental (2014): 11. With Wendy- Security on the Argentine Border. Oakland, Lin Bartels and Denyse Mello, he completed 3-module field course CA: University of California Press, 2015. She “Metodologias de Mediação para Governança Socioambiental Municipal” presented “Crimescapes: Police, Journalists and for conservation professionals from Brazilian NGOs. Buschbacher also News Publics in Argentina” at the Latin American received a new grant to “Consolidate the Multi-Scalar Learning Network to Studies Association International Congress in San Strengthen NGO Initiatives for Municipal Socioenvironmental Governance Juan, Puerto Rico, in May 2015. Juisonyte was in Brazilian Amazon,” together with the RECAM NGO network. also awarded a Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Kaira Cabañas (Art History) published Art brut et art moderne au Brésil, Teaching Award in May 2015 and a National Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, No. 129, Fall 2015; Learning Science Foundation Senior Research Award from Cultural Anthropology from Madness: Mário Pedrosa and the Physiognomic Gestalt, October 153, and Law and Social Sciences programs for the multiyear study on Summer 2015, and Criatividade comun, in Histórias da Loucura: Desenhos “Emergency Services During Heightened Border Security”. de Juquery. São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 2015. Cabañas presented “Console and Classify, Therapy and Art: The Work of Modern Richard Kernaghan (Anthropology) published Cocaine’s Minor Destinies: Psychiatric Patients in Brazil,” at the New Worlds: Frontiers, Inclusion, Ephemerality and Legal Threat on the Margins of the Peruvian State. In Utopias, a conference organized by the Comité International de l’Histoire American Ethnologist 42, no. 4 (2015): 658-671. de l’Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 25–29, 2015. Bette Loiselle (LAS/WEC) and John Blake (WEC) published “Enigmatic Carmen Diana Deere (LAS - Emerita) presented “Who Borrows to Declines in Bird Numbers in Lowland Forest of Eastern Ecuador may be a Accumulate Assets? Class and Gender in Ecuador’s Credit Market” at Consequence of Climate Change.”PeerJ 3 (2015): e1177. the Latin American Studies International Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico in May 2015, and at the III Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Gerald Murray (Anthropology - Emeritus) was invited to participate Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO-Quito, in August 2015. She also presented in launching a European Union-financed consortium of Dominican “Gendered Paths to Asset Accumulation? The Role of Savings and Credit” and Haitian universities called Observatorio Binacional. He produced at the International Association of Feminist Economics Conference in a report entitled Dinámicas Ambientales Binacionales Informe Berlin in July. She published (with Jennifer Twyman and Pilar Useche Sometido al OBMEC, Observatorio Binacional De Haití y la República (LAS/FRE) Gendered Perceptions of Land Ownership and Agricultural Dominicana. Murray was an invited guest lecturer at two other colleges Decision-making in Ecuador, Land Economics, 91 (3), 2015: 479-500. on the topics of Afro-Caribbean religion and on the racial dynamics surrounding skin color and hair in the Afro-Caribbean. Richard Freeman (Smathers Libraries) published “Visual Representations of Vodou and Voodoo.” In The Voodoo Encyclopedia: Magic, Ritual, and Jeffrey D. Needell (History) edited Emergent Religion, ed. Jeffrey E. Anderson (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015), 327- Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power. 336. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015, and authored the introduction “An Attempt to Glenn Galloway (MDP) moderated and presented in the side event Grasp the Moment (1-12)”. Needell also published “Opportunities and Challenges for Harnessing Local Forest Management a review for the book Porous City: A Cultural to Improve Rural Livelihoods in Africa” in the FAO World Forestry History of Rio de Janeiro. By Bruno Carvalho. Congress in Durban, South Africa in September 2015. Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Karen Garrett (IFAS) published Seed Degeneration in Potato: The 2013. In Hispanic American Historical Review, 95:1 Need for an Integrated Seed Health Strategy to Mitigate the Problem in (Feb. 2015): 167-68. Developing Countries. Plant Pathology (2015), with Thomas-Sharma, S., A. Abdurahman, S. Ali, J.L. Andrade-Piedra, S. Bao, A.O. Charkowski, D. Susan Paulson (LAS) published Masculinities Crook, M. Kadian, P. Kromann, P.C. Struik, L. Torrance, and G.A. Forbes. and Femininities in Latin America’s Uneven Development. London and New York City: David Geggus (History) spoke on “The Formation of New American Routledge, 2015. She was invited to present “La States” at the John Carter Brown Library in May 2015. He published (Re)Producción de Diversas Socio-Ecologías Saint Domingue, le Marronnage, et la Révolution Haïtienne, in Sociétés Con Cambiantes Masculinidades” at the Primera marronnes des Amériques, ed. Jean Moomou (Matoury: Ibis Rouge, 2015), reunión internacional de la Red temática Género, 127-138; “Lesoulèvement de 1791: conséquence de la Révolution française?” Sociedad y Medio Ambiente in Mérida, México in Haïti entre permanences et ruptures, ed. André Calmont (Matoury: Ibis in November 2015. Paulson also presented Rouge, 2015), and “Haiti’s Declaration of Independence,” in The Haitian “What Would Degrowth Mean for Sociocultural Declaration of Independence in an Atlantic Context, ed. Julia Gaffield Inequalities Currently Linked to Expanding (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016), 25-41. His book Haitian Societal Metabolism?” at the American Revolution: A Documentary History was named a Choice Outstanding Anthropology Association Annual Meetings in Academic Title. Denver in November 2015. 8 RESEARCH & Charles A. Perrone (SPS) joined the Advisory Board of the revived UF- TRAINING based Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature. He published Da Titulação à ação dos Títulos: o Novo Livro de Salgado Maranhão, preface to the poet’s Ópera denaos (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2015), as well as Out of Alphabetical Order (Chicago: Moria Poetry, 2015). UF Center for Latin American Richard Phillips (LACC - Emeritus) has been named an honorary member of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), becoming the 3rd UF Latin Americanist librarian to receive Studies Receives New Grant this award. Others from UF include Irene Zimmerman (elected in1977) and Rosa Q. Mesa (elected in 1997). from US Embassy Panama

Jack Putz (Biology) and Claudia Romero (Biology) published a Futures of Tropical Forests (Sensu Lato). Biotropica 46.4 (2014): 495-505. The Center for Latin American Studies received Mary Risner (LAS) published Graduate Student Perceptions of a Globally a $273,000 grant from the US Embassy Panama Networked Course. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education to implement a new project, “Equal Justice for (JARHE), with Kumar, S. all in Panama: Supporting the Transition to the Marianne Schmink (LAS - Emerita) and Bette Loiselle (LAS/WEC) were Accusatory System in Rural and Indigenous awarded a grant by the Center for Latin American Studies for “Course Communities.” Center Director Philip Williams, enhancement to add a global classroom dimension to the graduate- level Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Amazon”. Schmink also published together with UF law Professor Larissa Lidsky, Differentiated Citizenship and the Persistence of Informal Rural Credit will be collaborating with two MALAS alumni Systems in Amazonia. Geoforum65, (2015): 266-277, with Mathews, Mason in Panama - Benjamin Goodman (Village Rights Clay. International) and Osvaldo Jordan (Alianza Kristen Stoner (Music) performed two solo Latin American flute Para La Conservación y el Desarrollo) - on compositions, “Otras variaciones sobre el mismo tema de Paganini” by Luis the project based on a national campaign to Carrera (Ecuador) and “Fantasia Andina sobre el tema de ‘El Condor Pasa’ de Daniel Robles” by Cesar Vivanco Sanchez (Peru) in recitals presented inform Panamanian citizens about the new in Italy, France, and England in June and July of 2015. Accusatory Justice System (AJS) with emphasis on vulnerable indigenous populations in remote Catherine Tucker (LAS/Anthropology) co-presented the poster “Effective Adaptation Strategies and Risk Reduction to Global Changes in Small rural areas. The project targets indigenous and Farmers in Mesoamerica” with A. Solano, E. Castellanos, H. Eakin, J. local residents in two rural districts of Panama: Barrera, R. Diaz at the Conference Our Common Future under Climate Santa Fe, Veraguas and Pinogana, Darien. The Change in Paris, France in July 2015. She also presented the paper “Community Based Development and Local Water Governance in activities include the development of culturally Honduras” at the Mountains of Our Future Earth Conference in Perth, sensitive AJS training materials, AJS capacity- Scotland, in October 2015. building workshops for community members, Denis R. Valle (SFRC) published Bias in Logistic Regression Due to and a broad AJS information campaign Imperfect Diagnostic Test Results and Practical Correction Approaches. utilizing radio and social media to reach local Malaria Journal 14.1 (2015): 434, with Valle, Denis, Joanna M. Tucker Lima, and indigenous communities. The Center will Justin Millar, Punam Amratia, and Ubydul Haque. be partnering with two non-governmental Nicholas Vargas (LAS/Sociology) published four articles: “Latina/o organizations to implement the project. Whitening?: Which Latina/os Self-Classify as White and Report Being Village Rights International brings specialized Perceived as White by Others?” Du Bois Review 12, no. 1 (2015): 119-136. With Anning Hu: “Economic Consequences of Horizontal Stratification knowledge in the application of indigenous in Postsecondary Education: Evidence from Urban China.” Higher legislation and the protection of human rights Education 70, no. 3 (2015): 337-358. With Kevin Stainback: “Documenting in indigenous rural communities in Panama, Contested Racial Identities among Self-Identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites in the U.S.” American Behavioral Scientist, Forthcoming. particularly in the Darien region. Alianza para Available via Online First. With Trieu, Monica, and Roberto G. Gonzales. la Conservación y el Desarrollo, a Panamanian “Transnational Patterns among Latina/o American and Asian American non-profit organization with ample experience Children of Immigrants in Southern California.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Forthcoming. Available via Online First. in participatory planning and research in indigenous communities, will provide in-country Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (LACC) published Continuity and coordination and support for the project. Transformation in Central Mexico: ‘The Legend of the Tepozteco’ and the people of Tepoztlan. In The Legacy of Mesoamerican Ancestors: Archaeological Heritage in and beyond Contemporary Mexico, edited by David S. Anderson, Dylan J. Clark, and J. Heath Anderson. Archaeological For more information contact Papers of the American Anthropological Association Vol. 25, 2015.doi: 10.1111/apaa.12046. Philip Williams: [email protected] 9 RESEARCH & TRAINING

Center for Latin American Studies Cuba Program

Center Director Philip Williams accompanied a delegation from the UF Levin College of Law to meet with counterparts at the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de la Habana. The Center is working with the law schools to initiate a new collaborative partnership to support faculty and student exchanges, joint research projects and From left to right: Tim McClendon (UF Law), Berta Hernandez (UF Law), Jon Mills (UF Law), Mayda Goite Pierre (Dean, UH Law) Marta Fernández publications, and a joint conference to be held in May 2016. Martínez (Vice Dean, UH Law), Philip Williams (UF LAS)

Disseminating Latin American Studies through Outreach

ince the emergence of the field As part of a recent initiative to recruit Sof Latin American Studies (LAS) students and promote the value of during the Cold War, LAS has evolved Latin American Studies coursework, and today transcends boundaries in an the Center’s outreach program increasingly globalized world. Studying produced a two and a half minute Latin America is important within video clip aimed at helping students a multitude of contexts, including see how LAS knowledge can leverage government, trade, science, and their career opportunities. To view the Go to www.latam.ufl.edu/home/why-las culture. Just as the study of LAS is video go to www.latam.ufl.edu/home/ to view video diverse, the demographics it reaches why-las. are equally multifaceted. The Center for Latin American Studies encourages For more information on outreach CLAS Outreach Activities transdisciplinary perspectives and services and to contact us about engagement with the region through potential collaboration, please visit on- and off-campus outreach efforts www.latam.ufl.edu/outreach. • Traveling Suitcases for K-16 educators, the community • Lending Library at-large, and businesses through a Contributed by Brigitte Pfluger, MALAS • Webinars variety of activities outlined in the box Graduate Assistant on the bottom right. Additionally, the • Workshops & Conferences program connects with individuals • Cultural Events through online learning networks and information sharing.

1010 OUTREACH OUTREACH

Forging a Career across Disciplines through Latin American Studies

n October, the Center for Latin American IStudies hosted “Forging a Career across Disciplines”, a workshop encouraging students to explore careers that fuse language skills, Latin American expertise, and professional degrees to prepare them for 21st century careers in an increasingly globalized world.

Professors, department chairs, and associate deans across departments moderated alumni panels representing business, legal, logistics and trade, government, and communications sectors. Although the alumni guests came from diverse industries, their core message was similar—they MALAS alumni Evan George (Law Office of Evan D. George) and José Sariego have excelled by building valuable relationships (Telemundo Network Group) participating as panelists at the career workshop and having a broad skill set with a combination of language, cultural, and technical expertise. A special feature of this workshop included a panel of current graduate students who shared tips about internships they recently experienced at multinational corporations and non-profits.

Nearly 150 participants attended the workshop throughout the day and evaluations showed that students felt empowered through information on how to work toward innovative careers. The workshop conveyed the impact University of Florida global programs and courses have on preparing students with opportunities to engage with the world, cultivate alumni connections, and collaborate across disciplines.

Students conversing with MALAS alumnus Jacob Schultz of the U.S. Foreign Service Contributed by Chloe Burke, Levin College of Law (far right)

11 STUDENT News SUMMER ‘15 & FALL ’15 GRADUATIONS Undergraduate LAS Minors & Graduate LAS Certificates Lauren Krebs Elvin Cabrera, MA Specialization: History Certificates Advisor: Lillian Guerra (History) (Urban & Regional Planning) Paloma Bone (Spanish) Thesis: La Revolución Preparada: Political Natalie Cooper, MS (SFRC) Nahil Carranza (Psychology) Tourism in Cuba, 1963-1978 Mariana De Maio, PhD Frances Chapman (Political Science) (Mass Communication) Lara Lookabaugh Seth Dagen (Systems Engineering) Robert Taber, PhD (History) Specialization: Development Studies Diana Durnas (Computer Science) Advisor: Carmen Diana Deere (LAS/FRE) Erin Zavitz, PhD (History) Scott Mckenzie (Int’l Studies) Thesis: Talking about the Weather in Chiapas, Mexico: Rural Women’s Approaches to Climate Amanda Mora (History) MALAS Degrees Change in National and Global Context John Patino (Political Science) Michelle Blanck Marina Rodrigues (Communications) Specialization: Brazilian Studies TCD Certificates Agassy Rodríguez (Public Relations) Advisor: Elizabeth Ginway (Spanish & Portuguese Studies) Hernán Álvarez, MS (WEC) Helen Roldan (Political Science) Internship Final Research Paper: Migrant Natalie Cooper, MS (SFRC) Daniel Patrick Ryan (Int’l Studies) Education: Success or Stagnation Yasmin Quintana Morales, MS (SNRE) Luke Smith (Animal Sciences) María Rios Marín, PhD (SNRE) Bryan Weaver (Physics) José Sierra Huelsz, MS (SFRC)

PORTUGUESE 2015 Marianne Schmink FELLOWSHIPS Todd Bertwell, MS (FRC) Outstanding Dissertation Award James Christ, MDP Raissa Míriam Nascimento Guerra & Crisne Lebron, MALAS (PhD) SNRE AWARDS Sarah Marek, BA (Political Science) Advisor: Marianne Schmink (LAS) Academic Year FLAS Mirelis Martínez, MALAS Dissertation Title: Feasibility of Payments for Macarena Moraga, MALAS Environmental Services in the Amazon Region: Fellowships Tools for Ex Ante Assessment Stephanie McComber, BA (Int’l Studies) The following students received U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language HAITIAN CREOLE 2015 Chuck Wood Outstanding and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships from Carissa Cullum, MALAS MALAS Thesis Award the Center for Latin American Studies for the Anna Porter 2015-16 academic year: Diana Moreno, MALAS Advisor: Carmen Diana Deere (LAS) Thesis Title: Mobilizing for Voice: The Bartolinas in Bolivia

NEW MALAS STUDENTS

Front, from left: Samantha Soffici, Carissa Cullum, Mirelis Martínez, Karen Cardona. Back, from left: Moises Moreno-Rivera, Maja Jeranko, Kerry White, Chris Lomelin, Juanita Duque, Akemi Inamoto, Ruming Yang 12 ALUMNI News

Kirsten Clanton (MALAS 2005) Board of Immigration Appeals in is an attorney for Southern Legal Virginia. This is her second term of ALUMNI Counsel, a Florida statewide not-for- duty in the Honors Program. profit public interest law firm that UPDATES is committed to the ideal of equal Brian Payne (MALAS 2000) is justice for all and the attainment of the Co-Director of Centro de basic human and civil rights. Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL) and lives in Minneapolis, Lindsay (Barnes) Arrieta Erika (Paola) Ghersi Minnesota. (MALAS 2012) received her JD from (MALAS 2006) holds the position The George Washington Law School of Professor of Latin American Ramon Ramos (LAS undergraduate in May 2015. After graduation, she Humanities and Languages at Santa certificate 1972) serves as the relocated to New York City to work Fe College (SFC) in Gainesville, FL. Director of Social Services at for Citigroup, Inc. where she will She has been teaching Languages Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical rotate across four business groups and Humanities, designing syllabi, Center in Miami, Florida. within Citibank’s Compliance coordinating the Language Lab, division as part of a two-year organizing the World Humanities Griselda Rodriguez (MALAS 2010) Management Associate program. Expo, and coordinating the Bilingual teaches at Hallandale Elementary Storytelling Project (BSP) at SFC School in Hallandale, Florida. Larissa (Ruiz) Baia for six years. In addition to teaching, (MALAS 1996) is the Vice President Ghersi has been conducting Geraldine Slean (MALAS 2005) is a of Student Services and Enrollment research with faculty from Sao Paulo Resident Physician at the California Management at Lakes Region State University (UNESP) since 2014. Pacific Medical Center. Community College in New Hampshire. She has been living in Eleanor Lewis (MALAS 2010) is Anouk St-Arnaud (MALAS 2005) Concord, NH with her husband, an Associate Attorney for Antone, works for Canada’s Department Carlos Baia, and their two children, Casagrande & Adwers P.C. of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Tatiana and Jonas. Development as a Diplomate, First Sarah Martin (LAS undergraduate Secretary (Development) at the Luis Caraballo-Burgos certificate & minor 2008) serves as Canadian Embassy in Ethiopia. (MALAS 2010) works as the UniServ attorney for the U.S. Department Director of the Orange County of Justice and was selected as Service Unit (an educator’s union) in an attorney by the U.S. Attorney Winter Park, Florida. General’s Honors Program at the

For Your Information: UF ACRONYMS

CAS Center for African Studies MAIB MA in International Business CIBER Center for International Business Education & Research MALAS MA in Latin American Studies CWSGR Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research MDP Master of Sustainable Development Practice FBLI Florida-Brazil Linkage Institute SAAH School of Art and Art History FMNH Florida Museum of Natural History SFRC School of Forest Resources and Conservation FRE Food and Resource Economics SNRE School of Natural Resources and Environment LABE Latin American Business Environment SPS Spanish & Portuguese Studies LAC Latin American Collection (UF Libraries) TCD Tropical Conservation and Development LAS Latin American Studies WEC Wildlife Ecology and Conservation LLC Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 1313 ALUMNI

ALUMNI CAREER PROFILE: Alan Bonderud (MALAS 1976)

s the son of a Guatemalan mother Aand a pioneering airline pilot, Alan Can you tell us more about what challenged me to be intellectually Bonderud embarked on a journey he you are currently doing? honest about my faith. I courted my hoped would lead to a career selling big Today, in addition to helping launch future wife there. Each of us in the airplanes in the Americas. After learning a prison mentoring ministry, I serve interdisciplinary MALAS program to fly and earning a BA in political science as Board Chairman of Metanoia pursued “different objectives with a certificate in Latin American Prison Ministries. Metanoia is a together”. It was an extremely Studies, Alan turned his attention to nationwide non-profit that engages satisfying experience in an intense the master’s program at the UF Center the Church to prepare prisoners challenging environment, immersed for successful return to family, in diverse national cultures, for Latin American Studies. Advisors church, work, and society. working harmoniously in close tailored a program for him to study community, where failure was not economic development, underpinned What aspect of your career have an option. by language, history, culture, and politics. you enjoyed the most? He earned his MA in Latin American I’ve enjoyed being on the front What would you most encourage Studies in 1976, after submitting a thesis end of things, taking new products MALAS students to take away involving a summer of research in South and programs, to new customers, from their experience at the America. Alan then earned his MBA, and in new settings, employing Center for Latin American a commercial multi-engine pilot license. new innovative strategies Studies? and approaches in complex First, “start with the end in mind” Alan started his aviation career environments. I’ve enjoyed hiring in tailoring your own unique with Mooney Aircraft selling high- and working with people with foundation. Have as clear an performance planes in the southeast character, teaching them our craft, understanding about what you U.S. and Latin America. Thirty years and equipping & motivating them want to accomplish then take later, in partial response to his wife’s to do hard things well, bringing advantage of the outstanding illness, he took early retirement from long-term, high-value campaigns to faculty and broad range of Lockheed Martin where by this time fruition. programs available to you through the Center and UF. Second, be he was responsible for the company’s How did your MALAS degree and intellectually honest in every area international sales of multi-engine the Center help you prepare for of your life. Don’t let popular transport aircraft. Since then, Alan your career? culture, political correctness, or has pursued what he devotedly calls In a not-so-successful period of extreme currents - either liberal “merciful service”. He served for a college life, I actually failed as or conservative, dominate your season as executive director of a free, an undergraduate. UF gave me a world views. Finally, use this time to charitable air ambulance that flew second chance. I was mentored build character, understanding that indigent patients in a jet equipped as by two remarkable professors organizations would rather bring on a mobile intensive care unit. Alan then who helped me thrive in an people with character and teach moved on to accept various leadership academically rigorous environment. them the work at hand, rather than roles in Christian ministry to prisoners. I came to understand influences hire people with certain skill sets on decision making at national and and only hope to find character. regional levels. Other students 14 Thanks to Our Donors

The Center for Latin American Studies would like to express its gratitude for the generosity of those who have contributed to the Center’s funds and endowments.

Carmen Diana Deere Director’s Fund Ophelia M. Schutte LAS Alumni Graduate Student Travel Ida Altman & Richmond Brown Anita Spring Fund Anonymous Spiro E. Stefanou Hannah H. Covert Florence E. Babb & Victoria Rovine Victoria Condor-Williams Fiona R. & Grenville Barnes & Philip J. Williams Schmink Fund for Innovation Margaret Boonstra in Tropical Conservation and Tatiana Borisova & Oleg Y. Kargaltsev Carol French Doughty Memorial Fund Development Carmen Diana Deere Rosalind & Brian A. Sterling Margaret L. & Richard H. Wallace Don W. Deere Cornelia B. Flora Hower Memorial Endowment Tropical Conservation and Linda D. & Brian C. Gendreau Neale J. Pearson Development Fund Glenda J. & Richard F. Hodges Ane A. Alencar Karen A. Kainer & Jonathan L. Dain Latin American Studies Endowment Anonymous Sherry L. Larkin & John E. Tucker Deborah E. & Mark P. Kisker Maria L. Digiano & Jean-Gael Emptaz- Fiona McLaughlin & Consuelo S. & Anthony P. Maingot Collomb Leonardo A. Villalón Patricia R. & Donald Ramos Suzana M. & Claudio V. Padua Cindy J. & Andy Naranjo TCD Student Group Susan Paulson Latin American Studies Fund Laurie Wilkins Maria K. Rogal & Raul Sanchez, Jr. Lygia S. & Donald M. Bellis Janet Bente Romero & Todd L. Romero Charlotte A. & Julian C. Bridges Estela P. & Frederick S. Royce Ofelia M. Schutte Marianne C. Schmink Eugene F. Taggart

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