Elizabeth
Harvey is a second
year in the M.A. program
in Latin American Studies. This summer
she is researching the historical growth of
Protestantism in the southeastern Mexican state
of Chiapas, a place currently experiencing rapid
religious change, with Protestant, Mormon and
Muslim groups growing at higher rates than in
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Bryce
Breslin spent
time in Santiago this summer. His research is
on migration to Chile in the post-Pinochet period,
from 1990 to the present day. Bryce will
be entering his second year in the Latin American
Studies MA program in August.
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Ryan
Rideau is a third year doctoral
student in the African Diaspora Studies program.
He has been in Havana, Cuba studying on identity
formation through Cuban hip-hop music, and,
more specifically, analyzing “the ways
that racial discourses of blackness circulate
through Havana’s hip-hop music scene”. |
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Elena
Foshay is a third year student in
the Masters of Social Welfare/ International
and Area Studies dual degree program. She has
been in Oaxaca, Mexico conducting an evaluation
of a child nutrition program and assisting
its strategic planning.
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Lindsey
Fransen has been
in Durango and Michoacán, Mexico interviewing
forestry engineers and community members as she
studies the forms of communal forest management
which have emerged in Mexico’s ejidos and comunidades
indígenas following a reform in the
agrarian law in 1992. |
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Rosangela
Bando is a second year student in
the Agricultural and Resource Economics program.
She has been in Guatemala City, Guatemala studying
the coffee value chain.
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Rita
Hamad spent four weeks in Pucallpa,
a city in the Peruvian Amazon, working on the
follow-up data collection of a study in conjunction
with PRISMA, an NGO that provides services to
the rural and urban poor throughout the country. |
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Lourdes
Rodriguez-Chamussy is working on a
research project in Mexico that analyzes the
potential effect of the poverty alleviation
public program PROGRESA-Oportunidades in the
local elections.
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Sarah
Moody studying literature in Argentina
and Brazil.
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Paavo
Monkkonen studying housing policy and
urban economics in Mexico City.
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Brooke
Finkmoore conducting
research in Pau
de Lima,
surveying knowledge of Leptospirosis through
in-person interviews.
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Matt
Sayre, an archaeologist at Peru’s
Chavín
de Huantar dig.
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Taylor
Boas,
studying presidential
campaigns
in Santiago, Chile.
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Heidi
Lehto, researching cultures
of medicine in poor Amazonian neighborhoods.
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Susan
Reese,
working on dengue and influenza transmission
in Managua, Nicaragua. |
Igor
Rodriguez, examining how the concept of
indigineity plays out in Colombia. |
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Allan
Young, working on cultural politics
in Spain and Catalonia in Barcelona. |
Maria
G. Cantu, a PhD candidate in Hispanic
Languages and Literature, is in Guanajuato,
Mexico, conducting research on Don Quixote
and Latin American Literature. She reports
that research is going very well. |
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Anna
Harkey is a second year doctoral
student in the Archaeology program. She has
been in Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia and various
archaeological sites across Peru studying Andean
archaeology, with a focus on the Late Intermediate
and Inca - Colonial periods (roughly 11th to
16th centuries CE). |
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