The LATINAMERICANIST University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies | Volume 49, Number 2 | Fall 2018 Inside this Issue 2 Director’s Corner 7 Center News 11 Student Spotlight 15 LAS Alumni Awards 1 DIRECTOR’S Corner The LATINAMERICANIST Volume 49, Number 2 | Fall 2018 e began students from underrepresented Center for Latin American Studies the groups with expanded area and 319 Grinter Hall W PO Box 115530 fall semester language studies opportunities will Gainesville, FL 32611-5530 with some contribute to preparing more and (352) 392-0375 exciting news. better-qualified LAS specialists in www.latam.ufl.edu The Center areas of national need. Center-Based Faculty for Latin American In addition, the Center will be able Philip Williams Susan Paulson Studies to enhance its outreach to K-12 Director Assoc. Director, was again pre-service and in-service teachers, Academic Programs Efraín Barradas (LAS) designated as a Title VI National strengthen collaborations with (LAS/SPS) Resource Center (NRC) by the Minority-Serving Institutions and Rosana Resende Department of Education and community colleges, and expand Emilio Bruna Assoc. Director, FBLI Director, FBLI (LAS) received Foreign Language and outreach to business, media, and (LAS/WEC) Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship the general public. The FLAS Mary Risner funding for 2018-22. The Center will fellowship grant will support Joel Correia Assoc. Director, (LAS) Outreach & LABE receive approximately $1.9 million in graduate and undergraduate (LAS) funding during the four-year cycle. students to pursue language Jonathan Dain training in Portuguese and Haitian (LAS/SFRC) Tanya Saunders (LAS/CWSGR) With Title VI NRC support, Latin Creole during the academic year Glenn Galloway American Studies (LAS) faculty while supporting the study of these Director, MDP Marianne Schmink at UF will benefit from increased and other less commonly taught (LAS) (LAS) research and training opportunities languages during the summer. Elizabeth Garcia J. Richard Stepp through new interdisciplinary (LAS) (LAS/Anthropology) working groups and international Preparing the proposal is a Rebecca Hanson Welson Tremura collaborations. Students in our herculean effort and I am grateful (LAS/Sociology) (LAS/Music) undergraduate, graduate, and to all the faculty and staff at the professional programs will enjoy Center who worked so hard to Karen Kainer Catherine Tucker (LAS/SFRC) (LAS/Anthropology) increased international education make this happen, especially and research opportunities through Mary Risner and Lenny Ureña. Bette Loiselle Pilar Useche the new Research Tutorial Abroad These grants are a reflection of Director, TCD (LAS/FRE) (LAS/WEC) program, the Galapagos field the outstanding quality of Center- Nicholas Vargas school, and Business in Mexico based and affiliate faculty, staff, and Timothy Murtha (LAS/Sociology) program; greater access to new students across the University of (LAS/DCP) Robert Walker instructional resources, online Florida. (LAS/Geography) and technology-enhanced area studies and language course Editor/Layout Designer: Patricia Alba, LAS offerings; and enhanced academic and career advising. Providing UF 3 68th Annual Conference 9 Collaborating Across Undersea Cables 4 UF Latinx Studies Lecture Series 10 Center Outreach 5 Monstrosity, Drag and Human 11 Student News Liberation with Malayka SN 12 Faculty News & Publications 6 Learning from Madness: Brazilian 15 LAS Alumni Awards Modernism & Global Contemporary Art 16 Alumni Spotlight 7 Title VI NRC Designation 18 Thanks to Our Donors 2 Jews and the Americas: Center for Latin American Studies 68th Annual Conference ou are cordially invited to the Center for Latin being conducted on the Jewish experience in YAmerican Studies 68th Annual Conference the Americas. To this effect, we have invited over on Jews and the Americas. The conference will twenty scholars to present their research, including take place at the keynote speakers University of Florida Tamar Herzog from February 24-26, (Monroe Gutman 2019. Professor of Latin American Affairs, This multidisciplinary Harvard University) conference aims and Dana Rabin to explore various (Professor, facets of the Jewish Department of experience in the History, University Americas from of Illinois, Urbana- the 16th century Champaign). until today. This experience has The conference is been shaped by jointly sponsored intra-religious by the UF Center developments as for Latin American well as through Studies, the relations – actual, Alexander Grass spiritual, and Chair in Jewish imaginary – with Studies and the Jewish communities Isser and Rae Price outside the Library of Judaica Americas. It was, at the University of course, likewise of Florida. influenced by the Funding is also same political, provided by the economic, cultural, U.S. Department and social forces of Education and that shaped the the Bacardi Family societies of the Endowment. Americas more generally during the For more past five centuries. information and to register for the 9 Collaborating Across Undersea Cables The aim of the conference, please 10 Center Outreach conference is to bring together the fields of Latin visit the Center’s website at 11 Student News American and Jewish studies through different www.latam.ufl.edu/annual-conference/. 12 Faculty News & Publications disciplinary approaches. At the same time, the 15 LAS Alumni Awards organizers would also like to allow students, the We look forward to welcoming you at the Center’s 16 Alumni Spotlight academic community, and the broader public to 68th Annual Conference. 18 Thanks to Our Donors gain new insights into the multidisciplinary research 3 EVENTS UF Latinx Studies Lecture Series: Latinx Languages and Identities Beyond Borders Contributed by Will Boose and Anna Rodell, MALAS Students n Wednesday, November 7th, the University on students’ own perceptions of their use of language. Oof Florida Center for Latin American Studies hosted Professor Jonathan Rosa (Stanford University, Anthropology and Linguistics) for a guest lecture. Leading up to the event, Professor Rosa met with students and faculty from a wide range of academic units and programs across the university: the Center for Latin American Studies, Sociology, Sustainable Development and Practice, the College of Education, Anthropology, Linguistics, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Two MALAS students, Anna Rodell and Erika Davis, led Professor Rosa on a campus tour. Professor Rosa’s talk took place in Heavener 240 from 4:00 - 5:30 pm, in front of a capacity crowd of over 75 students. His lecture centered on how stereotypes about race and language shape constructions of U.S. Latinx identities. During his talk, Professor Rosa drew on his ethnographic research conducted in a predominantly Latinx Chicago public high school and its surrounding communities. His presentation approached Latinidad as a crucial site from which to analyze the creation of racial, linguistic, and national borders, as well as to reimagine worlds beyond these borders. Key insights included ways in which Latinx youth leverage their English and Spanish language resources, in combination with Professor Rosa is an Assistant Professor in the the effect of race on perceived differences between Graduate School of Education, Center for Mexican and Puerto Rican youth and their Spanish Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and language use. by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, at Stanford University. His research Professor Rosa built upon his recently released analyzes the interplay between racial marginalization, book, Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a linguistic stigmatization, and educational inequity. Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Professor Rosa is the author of the book Looking like Latinidad and his chapter “From Mock Spanish to a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Inverted English” in the edited volume Raciolinguistics: Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2018Q, How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race. Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the volume Following the presentation, Professor Rosa opened Language and Social Justice in Practice (2019, the floor to discussion and engaged with students’ Routledge). questions for roughly thirty minutes. This rich discussion included questions on linguistic standards, unfair testing methods for linguistic competence, and 4 EVENTS Monstrosity, Drag and Human Liberation With Malayka SN Contributed by James Everett, MALAS Student his fall semester, the Center for Latin American TStudies and UF's LGBTQ Affairs hosted guest activist, performer, and scholar Malayka SN (preferred pronoun they) for two events. The first event was the Gaytor Drag Race, a drag competition featuring student Queens and Kings, in which Malayka gave a special performance which was met with loud cheers and applause from the audience. The following day Malayka gave a lecture titled “Monstrosity, Drag and Human Liberation” in which they discussed their activism and message. Malayka SN's visit was organized by LAS faculty Dr. Tanya Saunders. Malayka is from Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where they are a graduate student at the Federal University of Bahia within the School of Fine Arts. Their name comes from the Swahili word for “Angel”. The “SN” means “Sem Nome” (nameless) drag performers who play with aesthetics to engage race, or “Sem Número” (numberless) to capture the genderless gender and sexuality are able to share their work in a nature of