The Latin American Studies Program offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary set of course offerings on the histories, cultures, literatures, politics and economies of Latin America, the Caribbean and U.S. Latinos. Affiliated faculty include specialists in democratization, indigenous politics, struggles over globalization, human and community development, environmental conflicts, social movements, health, colonial and contemporary literature, poetry, performance, race and ethnicity, gender dynamics, and pre-contact archaeology and arts. Rather than simply providing a window through which North Americans may observe Latin America and the Caribbean, the Program seeks to serve as a bridge between them, hosting guest speakers, artists and activists, encouraging study abroad, and organizing faculty-led study courses in the region. We offer our students a strong liberal arts education enhanced by significant cross-cultural competence, skills that serve our graduates well in fields such as policy analysis, government, research, journalism, business, international development, higher education, graduate school, and activism in the U.S. and throughout Latin America.
The LAS Program and its affiliated faculty sponsor or work with the following UVM groups and programs: La Alianza Latina and La Casa Hispánica (student groups); The Hispanic Forum (conference held every Fall semester at UVM); UVM faculty-led courses to Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, and several Spanish Caribbean countries; UVM bilateral exchange program with La Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina) and other Latin American and Caribbean universities; Burlington-based community projects, such as the Burlington-Bilwi (Puerto Cabezas), Nicaragua Sister City Program.
Major Degree Requirements:
* Two additional semester courses selected from International Studies, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198; Economics 254; History 161, 162; or from courses recommended by the Program of Latin American Studies.
B. Plus six hours of advanced Spanish (Spanish 142, 274, 279, 281, 286, 287, 293, 294)
C. An additional twelve hours from related courses chosen in consultation with advisor
2. Completion of five of the following courses: Anthropology 161, History 61, History 161 or 162, Geography 56, Political Science 174, Spanish 185, Spanish 186, International Studies 195 or 196.
2. Completion of five of the following courses:
Anthropology
161,
History 61, History 161 or 162, Geography 56, Political Science 174,
International Studies 195 or 196.
*NOTE: All courses used to
meet
requirements of a Latin American Studies major or minor must have at
least 35% Latin American content.
Kit Anderson (Ph.D. Louisiana State 1996) is Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. She is a cultural geographer with an interest in ethnobotany.
Caroline Beer (Ph.D. University of New Mexico 2000) is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her current reseach focuses on democratization and political economy in Mexico.
Deborah Blom (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1999) is Associate Professor of Anthropology. She specializes in Andean archaeology and biological anthropology, focusing on the study of complex societies, health and nutrition, and the ways in which humans modify their bodies as a means of expressing identity.
Lynne A. Bond (Ph.D. Tufts University
1975) is Professor
of
Psychology and an affiliate of Women’s Studies. Her research
focuses on Community Psychology and Human Development, with particular
interest in citizen participation, grassroots and other community
development initiatives in
the U.S. and Latin America.
Ernesto
Capello (Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin 2005) is Assistant Professor of Latin
American History. Besides surveys of colonial and modern
Latin
America, Professor Capello's teaching interests include the
relationship between the arts, society, and politics in modern Latin
America, the Latin American city, global urban history, and cultural
and geograhical theory.
Catherine Connor-Swietlicki (Ph.D.
University of
Missouri-Columbia 1983)
is Professor of Spanish in the Romance Languages
Deparment. Her research focuses on early modern Spain and
Latin
America, with emphasis on performance, cognitive-emotive processes and
questions of gender and class.
Tina Escaja (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 1993) is Professor of Spanish. Her research focuses on women writers from Latin America and Spain from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Yolanda Flores (Ph.D. Cornell University
1995) is
Associate
Professor of Spanish. Her research focuses on comparative
literature of the Americas (Brazilian, Spanish American, and U.S.
Latino), theatre, performance, women's writing, feminist criticism, and
race and gender.
Adriana Katzew
(Ed.D.
Harvard University, 2005) is Assistant Professor of Art Education and
Director of the Art Education Program. Her research focuses
on
the intersection between Latin@s, art education, and visual
studies. She is also interested in the artistic and cultural
production of Mexicans on both sides of the "border."
Ignacio
Lopez-Vicuna (Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh 2005) is Assistant Professor of
Spanish.
His interests include the Latin American city in literature,
contemporary Southern cone literature and culture, urban theory, and
gender and sexuality.
Thomas Macias
(Ph.D.
University of Madison, Wisconsin) is Assistant Professor
of Sociology. Thomas Macias' areas of expertise include the
sociology of immigration,
race and ethnic relations, and political sociology.
Juan Maura (Ph.D. University of New Mexico) is Professor of Spanish. His research focuses on Spanish narratives of the Americas and the ‘black legend.’
Bill Mierse (Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley) is Professor of Art History. Besides his interests in ancient Near Eastern art history, Professor Mierse studies and teaches on precontact American art and culture.
Tim Murad (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is Associate Professor of Spanish. His research and teaching is on Spanish American literatures.
Richard Sicotte
(Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Assistant Professor of
Economics. His research interests are in the fields of
economic
history and industrial organization.
Alex Stewart (Ph.D. in Music from the Graduate
Center of the
City University of New York) is Associate Professor of Music.
His
articles and entries appear in Popular Music, Yearbook of Traditional
Music, Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, and Annual Review of
Jazz Studies.
Luis A. Vivanco (Ph.D. Princeton
University 1999) is
Associate Professor
of Anthropology and Director of the LAS Program
(2001-present).
His
research focuses on the culture and politics of environmentalism and
ecotourism
in Costa Rica and Mexico. He also co-leads a UVM course to
Oaxaca,
Mexico.
Catalina Vizcarra
(Ph.D. University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Assistant Professor of Economics.
John Waldron (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine) is
Assistant Professor of Spanish. (Romance Languages
Department).
His research is on contemporary Mexican and Puerto Rican literatures
and arts.
LATIN
AMERICAN NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION LINKS
Soceity for Applied Anthropology
American Historical Association
American Sociological Association
American Psychological Association
American Political Science Association
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