Enlace Year in Review 2022-23

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (CLAS) TEAM

Director

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

Associate Director

Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann

Events and Communications Officer

Sara Clemente Vásquez

Academic and Student Services Officer

Megan Bonilla

Public Engagement Coordinator

Molly Aufdermauer

Curator for Latin American, Iberian & Mexican American Collections

Adán Griego

Cover: Gabriella Garcia, a student affiliated with Stanford Global Studies, took this photo “Machu Picchu” in Peru.

Above: Elizabeth Prosser captured this photo “Viviana” in the Dominican Republic.

The student photos featured in Enlace were submissions from the annual Stanford Global Studies student photo contest.

LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

The academic year 2022-23 can best be described as the period when we finally recovered a semblance of normality in our lives, as the COVID-19 crisis gave way to a disease that has become endemic. We closed the academic year with a reflection on this semblance of normalcy and with a token of gratitude to the thousands of medical professionals, including epidemiologists, nurses, doctors, and other health providers, who made it possible for us to survive the pandemic. Stanford’s Dr. Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado, our Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) commencement celebration speaker, rounded out the year by highlighting the challenges of health inequalities: she passionately encouraged our students to think about how to “use [their] voices to disrupt the silence of the marginalized,” and to think of their futures as something in which “sometimes you win, sometimes you learn,” but you never lose.

Our bright and incredibly committed M.A. students brought back the joy and energy that has always characterized the physical home of CLAS, our beloved Bolivar House. The M.A. program continues to encourage our students to think about Latin America and the Caribbean in a critical manner, building up skills and expertise that will hopefully contribute

to a better understanding and engagement with the region. This is relevant not only from the policy perspective of making Latin America and the Caribbean more intelligible in the world but also by bringing greater awareness about how a region with deep challenges responds to them through cultural, artistic, social, and political innovations that continue to fascinate and teach us about ways to move forward.

During the year we hosted a wide range of speakers, from the sitting President of Colombia to free-lance journalists and writers (and every intellectual endeavor in between). CLAS hosted Tinker Visiting Professor Arturo Izurieta Valery, who opened our eyes to the challenges and opportunities of conservation in the Galapagos Islands; as well as journalist Dawn Marie Paley, our Latin American Perspectives (LAP) Lecturer, who shed light on the drug war in Mexico. We brought award-winning filmmaker Roberto Hernández to the Humanities Center as the Bliss Carnochan International Visitor in the Humanities Center.

We kept a steady flow of outside speakers bringing their scholarly insight into our Friday lectures. During the fall quarter we sought to have a general theme with most of the lecture speakers teaching us about Afro-descendants; in the winter our speakers emphasized environmental sustainability; and during the spring the topics were related to Indigenous peoples. We organized several events in partnership with our neighboring academic institutions, such as San José State University and the University of California Davis, including a conference on the Left in Latin America. We worked with high school and community college teachers to improve their knowledge and teaching of Latin America through participation in educator programs in Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil, and Mexico. We continued supporting students’ training in indigenous languages from the region, including Quechua, Nahuatl, and now, Haitian Creole. We supported our affiliated faculty in their participation in conferences, research projects, and scholarly activities, and supported our students with opportunities for field research, conference participation, and internships.

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

We collaborated with the Centro Cultural Tlatelolco (CECUT) in Mexico to host the 4th Conference on Long Range Development in Latin America, a joint endeavor with Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and the London School of Economics. In collaboration with our friends from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), we organized the 7th biannual meeting of the Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) Section from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Mexico City. The conference brought together over two hundred voices of activists and scholars from throughout the region for one of the most important scholarly meetings related to the issues of race and ethnicity in Latin America.

The Latin Americanist community at Stanford continues enriching our university life with vibrant engagements, as expressed by a polyphony of voices, as well as extending our impact beyond our borders throughout California, the U.S., and Latin America.

I want to express my personal gratitude to our various benefactors, including the Tinker Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and several generous individuals

that provide a sound financial footing for CLAS activities. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to the CLAS team, steered deftly by our Associate Director Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann, always willing to put in extra effort and work, with kindness, grace, and joy. Thank you to our Stanford faculty who, in a generous gift of their time and knowledge, make it possible for our center to provide many services to our learning community. To our graduate peer mentors, who guided our M.A. students, but above all shared their enthusiasm and love towards learning. And thank you again to the service workers who tend our gardens, keep our premises clean and functional, prepare our food and, in general, make it possible for the University to work at all.

As this academic year has drawn to an end, I want to share with you that this is my last year as CLAS Director. It has been my privilege to be a member of this community and to have been able to support the active engagement of our students, faculty, and friends of CLAS. I hope to have served the community in tune with the scholarly quests of our members. With the rich array of social, political, economic, environmental, and cultural processes and events taking place in Latin America, I am confident the next director will be committed to ensuring the center continues to be a space that always privileges openness in debate, embracing a diverse set of perspectives, while sharing a moral commitment to making a positive difference in Latin America and the world.

Solving some of the most pressing challenges for justice, development, and empowerment that remain in the region requires deep thinking, innovative research, and creative ideas. I was fortunate to inherit from previous directors a legacy that has combined embracing scholarly diversity and multidisciplinarity with a commitment to the improvement of the lives of those who live in the region. Though specific individuals who direct the center will change, CLAS will remain a spring that quenches the thirst to learn from and with Latin Americans for many years to come.

Alberto Diaz Cayeros

July 20, 2023

Stanford, California, in the unceded territory of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe

CLAS Team left to right: Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Molly Aufdermauer, Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann, Megan Bonilla, and Sara Clemente.

This academic year has been one of extensive outreach for Adán Griego, Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections. He has continued to take advantage of library visits to showcase the multiplicity of resources, online and printed, special, unique, and rare from and about Latin America, which are available to Stanford classes and external users.

The year began with a week-long orientation for the incoming M.A. cohort in Latin American Studies, with a guided tour of the Cecil H. Green Library: Latinamericana holdings are not just in the “F” section, there’s economics in the “Hs,” politics in the “Js” and education in the “Ls.” Their excursion through the library’s information universe continued in winter term with Adán Griego as the embedded librarian for the LATINAM 397: Graduate Writing Seminar for Latin American Studies course co-taught with CLAS Director Alberto Díaz-Cayeros and CLAS Associate Director Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann.

During the fall and winter quarters, classes researching the Latin American immigration experience in the United States visited the Library to review primary source material housed in Special Collections. Material showcased ranged from digitized Mexican Bracero program

photos and letters (from the 1940s) to photos of an accordion children’s book.

Adán Griego also hosted a group of art class students from East Palo Alto Academy. One of the special items shown to the group was a collection of Central American migrants’ microstories as the “caravana migrante” crosses Mexico on its way north. The anonymous experiences are written in special paper made from residue of clothing left behind by migrants. The students created their own stories following the model of the original housed in Special Collections.

During spring quarter, a large group of students from Southwestern College and MiraCosta College visited “la Green.” They are part of the California state-wide Puente Project that works with first-generation students to strengthen their academic skills as they prepare to transfer to a four-year institution.

Adán Griego’s library unit, the Humanities and Area Studies Group, organized a series of pop-up exhibits to highlight the “special, unique, and rare” material on various topics such as sports, love, food, technology, and travel. Latin America was well represented in the series.

Adán Griego hosting a Stanford CCSRE class and showcasing material on Latin American immigration experiences.

M.A. in Latin American Studies Class of 2023 on a guided tour of the Cecil H Green Library

BOLIVAR HOUSE VISITORS

Tinker Visiting Professors

Arturo Izurieta Valery, Independent Consultant

Dr. Izurieta Valery has a post-doctorate degree at Charles Darwin University, Australia, with studies of participatory processes to evaluate the collaborative management of protected areas in the Northern Territory, Australia, and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in management of rural and natural systems at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was director of the Galapagos National Park and Marine Reserve from 1991 to 1995 and from 2013 to 2015, and executive director of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands from 2015-2020. He worked as advisor to the presidency of the Galapagos Government Council (CGREG) on international cooperation, linking projects of provincial need in the social and environmental fields with multilateral, bilateral, and NGO funding sources. Dr. Izurieta Valery taught HUMBIO 112G: Parks and People on Islands: Lessons for Sustainability in winter quarter 2023.

Latin American Perspectives Lecturer

Dawn Marie Paley, Freelance Journalist

Dawn Marie Paley is a journalist and the author of Drug War Capitalism and Guerra Neoliberal. She’s the editor of Ojalá, a new media outlet in English and Spanish dedicated to critical coverage of Latin America. Dawn Marie has a masters in journalism from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.

Photo: Gabriella Garcia captured this photo “Aguascalientes” in Peru.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Weekly Lecture Series

CLAS’ Friday lecture series creates a space for the general public to learn about the various cultural, educational, artistic, and scientific developments in Latin America. This academic year, our lecture series was held in a hybrid capacity.

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

September 30, 2022

Cuauhyotl Tlatlalantatacac

Oceloyotl (The Brave, the Miner of Deep Caves, the Courageous): Territorial Defense, Rent Extraction and Epidemiological Shocks in Colonial Mexico

Clayborne Carson

October 7, 2022

“Where Do We Go From Here?

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Still Unanswered Question”

Oliver Kaplan

October 14, 2022

Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves

Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

October 21, 2022

Intimate Histories: Enslaved Women, Religion, and the Problem of “The Slave”

Pedro A. Regalado

November 4, 2022

Fixing Capital: Drug capitalism, Latinxs, and the Ownership Crisis in Late 20th Century New York

Jonathan Rosa

November 18, 2022

Latinx Languages & Identities Beyond Borders

Maria Aguilar

January 13, 2023

Destruyendo la semilla: Children and Adolescents as Internal Enemies of the Guatemalan State

Mateo J. Carrillo

January 20, 2023

Disparate Development, Gendered Geographies: Ejidos, Urbanization and the Ciudad Juárez Maquila Industry

Myrna Santiago

January 27, 2023

Empire and Natural Disasters: The 1931 Earthquake and American Occupation of Nicaragua

Arturo Izurieta Valery

Februar y 3, 2023

A Journey to Achieving Sustainability: Lessons from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Mareike Winchell

February 10, 2023

Servitude Afterlives and the Demands of History in the Present

Odilia Romero March 3, 2023

Language is a Human Right, Not a Service

Lina Rosa Berio Palomo April 7, 2023

Exacerbated Inequalities: The Health of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Peoples in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Mexico

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante April 14, 2023

Voices and Sounds of Indigenous Liberation: Statements of Autonomy on Mapuche Lands

Catalina Muñoz April 21, 2023

Reflections on History as a Reparations Project: Insights from Colombia

Emiliana Cruz Cruz April 28, 2023

Linguistic Co-responsibility Between Indigenous Peoples and the Mexican State: There is a Stretch Between What is Said and What is Done

Cristián Bellei and Marcela Ramos

May 12, 2023

Education, the Broken Promise. Effort, Fears and Hopes of Chilean Families in the Educational Market

Dawn Marie Paley

May 18, 2023

Mexico’s Military Transformation

Gabriel Gatti

June 2, 2023

Cartografiar ausencias: Escribir y escuchar las nuevas desapariciones

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Below are a few of the diverse virtual events that CLAS organized, sponsored, co-sponsored, and/or funded during the 2022-23 year. Please visit our CLAS past events page for more information.

September 21, 2022

SGS Film Festival and CLAS Present: 499

Speaker: Rodrigo Reyes, Film Director

September 9, 2022

Long-Range Development

2022 Keynote: “Los colores de la nueva era”

Speaker: Diana Magaloni, Deputy Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

September 26, 2022

Ayotzinapa: Eight Years of Impunity

Speaker: John Gibler, Author and Journalist

October 3, 2022

Conversations with Latin American

Authors: De un mundo que hila personas

Speaker: Ángeles Eraña, Researcher, Philosophical Research Institute at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

October 28-30, 2022

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples Conference 2022

Panel: Colectivo Araucana

February 9, 2023

Presumed Guilty (Presunto culpable) Screening and Q&A

Speaker: Roberto Hernandez, Film Director

March 14, 2023

Sansón and Me Screening

Speaker: Rodrigo Reyes, Film Director

May 5, 2023

Challenges and (Re)definitions of the Left in Latin America

Speakers: Fernanda Perdomo Arciniegas, Equity, Access, and Inclusion Manager, City of Sunnyvale; Juan Pablo Luna, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Cinézio Feliciano Peçanha, Capoeira Angola Mestre; and Viridiana Ríos, Mexican Journalist and Academic

May 12, 2023

Environmental Public Policy: Conditions for Success

Speaker: Yolanda Kakabadse, President, Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands

March 16, 2023

Las Cortes y la lucha contra la impunidad en Guatemala

Speaker: Miguel Angel Gálvez, Guatemalan Judge

May 30, 2023

Quechua Night

Performers: Cafecito Quechua Working Group”

COMMENCEMENT

Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

June 18, 2023

Keynote address by Dr. Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity and Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics.

CLAS M.A. Students

Minah Choi

Thesis: Building Resilience from Below: A Case Study in the Wetlands of Paraná, Entre Ríos

Advisor: Zephyr Frank

Emilio Espinal

Capstone: The Violent Impact of Sanctions: Access to HIV/ AIDS Treatment in Venezuela

Advisors: Alberto DíazCayeros and Vivian Brates

Darrow Hornik

Capstone: Art As Empathy— Understanding the United States- Mexico Border Nepantla Through Art

Advisor: Alberto DíazCayeros and Vivian Brates

Evan Lewis

Capstone: Y Wladfa: Welsh Settler Colonialism in the Argentine National Project Advisor: Tomás Jiménez

Chris Maudlin

Capstone: The Pendulum Swing of Militarism in Mexico: Civil-Military Relations and the Expansion of the Military’s Role

Advisors: Alberto DíazCayeros and Harold Trinkunas

Maya Návar

Capstone: (Dis)assembled in the Desert: Maquiladoras and Feminicidio in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Advisor: Héctor Hoyos

Annie Obernoster

Thesis: The Role of Urban Agroecology Farms for Latinx Communities in East San José, California Advisor: Rodolfo Dirzo

Estefania Ramirez

Capstone: Transformative Reparations for the Mapuche in Chile

Advisors: David Cohen and Penelope Van Tuyl

José Luis Sabau

Capstone: Por un voto informado: Parafernalia en la elección presidencial de México en el 2000

Advisors: Alberto Díaz-Cayeros and Harold Trinkunas

Daniel José Tovar

Medina

Thesis: Distant Neighbors. The Role of Temporary Protection Status in Venezuelans’ Social and Economic Insertion in Colombia

Advisors: Diego Zambrano and Alberto Díaz

Left to right: Minah Choi, Annie Obernoster, Estefania Ramirez, Daniel José Tovar Medina, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, José Luis Sabau, Emilio Espinal, Maya Návar, Chris Maudlin, Evan Lewis, and Darrow Hornik

STUDENT FUNDING RECIPIENTS

CLAS offers research grants and fellowships, internships, scholarships, language study opportunities, and other funding options to students, faculty, and visiting scholars both in the United States and abroad. The map below is a visual representation of the student research, study, and internships carried out in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Fellowships

Ayacucho Fellowship

The Ayacucho Fund was established with a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation to award fellowships to graduate students at Stanford University.

• José Luis Sabau, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

• Daniel José Tovar Medina, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

Minah Choi, Emilio Espinal, Maya Návar, Annie Obernoster, Estefania Ramirez, Athena Sesma, José Luis Sabau, Cristian Soler, Daniel José Tovar Medina

United States

Michelle Ha, Melissa Franco, Matthew Gilbert, Víctor Manuel Márquez Padreñan, Katja Schwaller Mexico

Vivian SheperdMayen Costa Rica

Susan Caroline Bailey

Ecuador

Angelique CharlesDavis, Víctor Manuel Márquez Padreñan

Chile

Rita KamaniRenedo, Jameelah Morris, Sergio Sánchez López, Cristian Soler, Daniel José Tovar Medina Colombia

Daniel José Tovar Medina Venezuela

Nina Maria de Meira Borba, Sofia Penglase, Olavo Passos de Souza, Christian RoblesBáez, Sierra F. Wells Brazil

Minah Choi, VinhHuy Le Argentina

CLAS administers FLAS fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing language training in less commonly taught languages of Latin America. FLAS fellowships are made possible with funding from the U.S. Department of Education under the auspices of Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

Academic Year 2022-23

Portuguese, Stanford University

• Minah Choi, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

• Emilio Espinal, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

• Estefania Ramirez, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Quechua, Stanford University

• Maya Návar, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23 Summer 2023

Kichwa, Andes and Amazon Field School, Iyarina Field Station, Ecuador

• Susan Caroline Bailey, Ph.D, English, ’27

Maya (Yucatec), Self-designed Program, Campeche, Mexico

• Michelle Ha, Ph.D, Modern Thought & Literature, ’27

Nahautl, Utah Nahautl Language and Culture Program, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Athena Sesma, M.A., Art History, ’24, University of California Riverside

Knowles Fellowships

•Annie Obernoster, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Soares Fellowships

The Soares Fund was established with a generous gift from Edward J. and Margaret S. Soares to provide fellowships to Latin American Studies graduate students at Stanford University.

• Minah Choi, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

• José Luis Sabau, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

STUDENT FUNDING RECIPIENTS

CLAS Internship Grant

Monica Miller Walsh Grants for Internships

Thanks to a generous gift renewal from Stanford alumna Monica Miller Walsh and her husband, David Walsh, CLAS was able to support undergraduate internships in Latin America for the nineteenth year in a row.

SUMMA, Santiago, Chile

• Angelique Charles-Davis, B.A., Symbolic Systems, ’24

Puerta 18, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• VinhHuy Le, B.A., Economics, ’24

United Planet, Costa Rica

• Vivian Sheperd-Mayen, B.A., Undeclared, ’26

Pessoa Trejos

Thanks to a generous gift renewal from Stanford alumna Ana Pessoa-Trejos and her husband, Raul Trejos, CLAS was able to support undergraduate internships in Latin America.

Instituto Trabalho Decente (ITD) and Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab (HTDL), Maranhão, Brazil

• Sofia Penglase, B.A., Public Policy, ’25

Instituto Trabalho Decente, Maranhão, Brazil

• Sierra F. Wells, B.A., International Relations, ’23

Conference Travel Grants

CLAS provides funding for Stanford graduate students to attend and present on topics related to Latin America at professional meetings and conferences.

Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress

• Emilio Espinal, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

• Annie Obernoster, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

• Daniel José Tovar Medina, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23 Society for Psychological Anthropology 2023 Biennial Meeting: Ecologies of Mind

• Angela Marie Leocata, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’24 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring Conference 2023

• Esteban Salmón Perrilliat, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’24

IV Congreso Internacional De Transformación Educativa

• Davíd Morales, Ph.D., Education, ’26

Harvard-Mexico Conference

• José Luis Sabau, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Joint Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

• Jaime Landinez Aceros, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’24

Student-Led Working Group Grants

Student working groups collaborate with a faculty sponsor to organize events, including lectures, speaker series, symposia, collaborative research efforts, and the exchange of working papers. CLAS awarded grants to the following student-led working groups for in-person and hybrid programming during the 2022-23 academic year:

Cafecito Quechua

Cafecito Quechua promotes Andean issues and cultures, inviting members to share their experiences with the region. Through weekly in-person meetings, Cafecito Quechua engaged the Stanford and wider Bay Area communities on Quechua language and culture. This working group brought together academics, organizations, and practitioners working on or researching the Andean region.

Student Coordinators:

• Adela Zhang , Ph.D., Anthropology, ’23

• Andrea Leon, B.S., Bioengineering, ‘24

Faculty Sponsor:

• Marisol Necochea, Quechua Instructor, Stanford Language Center

Caribbean Revelations

Caribbean Revelations curates conversation and engagement with multidisciplinary scholarship on the (Afro)Caribbean and its diasporas via seminars and a colloquium with scholars from across multiple fields, such education, the humanities, social sciences, and art and art history.

Student Coordinator:

• Xavier Luis Burgos, Ph.D., Education, ’27

Faculty Sponsor:

• Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

Caribbean Symposium Series

Caribbean Symposium Series is a collaborative space for reading key Caribbean texts and allowing students present, build community, and engage with the Caribbean. It is a venue for intellectual engagement with Caribbean Studies, offering the forum for urgent scholarly discourse about the Caribbean by studying the history, culture, art, and ideas of countries from the region.

Student Coordinator:

• Kengthsagn Louis, Ph.D., Psychology, ’24

• Matt Randolph, Ph.D., History, ’25

• Joseph Wager, Ph.D., Iberian and Latin American Cultures, ’24

Faculty Sponsor:

• Fatoumata Seck, Assistant Professor, French and Italian

Field Research Travel Grants

CLAS supports Stanford graduate field research in Latin America.

Argentina

• Minah Choi, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Research: Mapping Socio-environmental Mobilizations in Argentina’s Paraná Delta Brazil

• Christian Robles-Báez, Ph.D., History, ’25

Research: The Making of a World Market From the South: Coffee in the Early Nineteenth Century Colombia

• Jameelah Morris, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’23

Research: Contesting Colombia’s Paradise: Youth, Violence, and the Struggle for Black Life Across Generations

• Sergio Sánchez López, Ph.D., Environment and Resources, ’27

Research: Social and Ecological Values of Colombian Peatlands

Mexico

• Michelle Ha, Ph.D., Modern Thought & Literature, ’27

Research: Early Twentieth Century Korean Indentureship on Yucatecan Haciendas

• Katja Schwaller, Ph.D., Modern Thought & Literature, ’25

Research: Unequal Landscapes of Digital Capitalism: Investigating the Relationality Between Neighborhoods in Mexico City and the Bay Area in Times of Remote Working Policies of Silicon Valley Tech Companies United States of America

• Annie Obernoster, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Research: Searching for Roots. The Role of Community Agroecology Farms for Latinx Communities in San José, California

Various: Colombia and Ecuador

• Cristian Soler, Ph.D., Iberian and Latin American Culture, ’23

Research: Curating Dehumanization in the Age of Hyperglobalization: Approach to Treating with World Latinx Artistic Practices

Tinker Graduate Field Research Grant

Thanks to the generosity of the Tinker Foundation, CLAS was able to support field research for graduate students developing an independent research project and conducting preliminary field research in Latin America.

Argentina

• Minah Choi, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Research: Climate Change Resilience in Argentina: Community and State Perspectives on Wetland Conservation and the Ley de Humedales

Brazil

• Nina Maria de Meira Borba, Ph.D., History, ’28

Research: Enslaved Lives in the Far West of Brazil: Building Family and Community

• Olavo Passos de Souza, Ph.D., History, ’26

Research: Liberal Networks and the Development of Brazilian National Identity

Colombia

• Rita Kamani-Renedo, Ph.D., Education, ’27

Research: Pedagogies of Border Thinking Across Hemispheric Contexts: Exploring the Intersections of Im/migration and Education in Colombia

• Daniel José Tovar Medina, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Research: Political implications of the Temporary Protection Status for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia: An Assessment of Rhetoric and Social Shift Through the Lens of Immigration Policy

Mexico

• Melissa Franco, Ph.D., Health Policy, ’27

Research: Health Policy Modeling of Breast Cancer in Mexico

• Matthew Gilbert, Ph.D., Music, ’26

Research: Hearing the Human: Sound, Rational Thought & Humanities Research

• Michelle Ha, Ph.D., Modern Thought & Literature, ’27

Research: Sisal/Henequén: A Study of Yucatecan Agave Taxonomy and Fiber Production

Various: Chile and Mexico

• Víctor Manuel Márquez Padreñan, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’28

Research: Pastoral Work and State-building Processes in Chiapas, Mexico, and Temuco, Chile

Venezuela Field Research Grant

Through a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation, CLAS supported Stanford graduate student-led research in Venezuela.

Colombia

• Daniel José Tovar Medina, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’23

Research: “Hermanos o vecinos?”: Sociopolitical Nuances of Regularizing Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia

FACULTY FUNDING RECIPIENTS

CLAS Faculty-Led Events Grants

CLAS Faculty-Led Events Grants offer faculty and students from Stanford as well as from other institutions the opportunity to present their current research and explore topics of common intellectual concern.

“Narratives of the Sociotechnical”

May 6, 2023

Hector Hoyos, Professor, Iberian and Latin American Cultures; Professor, by courtesy, Comparative Literature

“Ethics and Politics of the Energy Transition in Mexico”

May 18, 2023

Rodolfo Dirzo, Associate Dean, Doerr School of Sustainability; Bing Professor, Biology, Earth System Science; Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Stanford-Tinker Faculty Fund

Through the generous support of the Tinker Foundation, CLAS is pleased to announce the recipients of three recently established funds. These funds aim to enhance Stanford faculty scholarship and student engagement and to continue contributing to the generation of knowledge and learning about Latin America.

Stanford-Tinker Faculty Research Fund

Alberto Diaz-Cayeros

Project Title: Community Responses, Indigenous Health Inequalities, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Mexico

Diego Zambrano

Project Title: Surveying and Evaluating Judicial Reform Efforts in Latin America

Stanford Tinker Seed Fund

Ana Raquel Minian

Project Title: The Stanford Asylum Lab

Molly Schumer

Project Title: Drivers of Hybridization in Rapidly Changing Freshwater Ecosystems

FACULTY

Publications

Asad L. Asad (Co-author) Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Martin Carnoy (Co-Author) “Trends in the academic achievement gap between high and low social class children: The case of Brazil” (International Journal of Educational Development ; 2022, 94)

Gretchen C. Daily (Co-author) “25 years of Valuing Ecosystems in Decision-making” (Nature; 2022)

Rodolfo Dirzo (Co-author) “Tropical Dry Forest Restoration in an Era of Global Change: Ecological and Social Dimensions” (Sustainability ; 2023, 15.4)

Robert B. Dunbar (Co-author) “Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Have Modulated the Formation of Laminations in Sediments in Lago Fagnano (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) Over the Past 6.3 ka” (BOREAS; 2022, 52.1)

Nicole T. Hughes (Author) “Set in Stone: Jesuit Martyrdom at Land and Sea in Sixteenth-century Brazil” (Colonial Latin American Review; 2023, 32: 108-140)

Thomas O’Keefe (Author) “Human Rights Due Diligence Practices for Adequate and Effective Consultation with Indigenous Peoples.” A Guide to Human Rights Due Diligence for Lawyers (ABA Press, 2023)

Students and faculty members were joined by Dr. Luis Armando Hernandez Cuevas, Iberoamerican University, and by Congressman from Oaxaca Jose Antonio Estefan Gillessen to discuss the social impact of renewables in indigenous communities in Mexico during the “Ethics and Politics of the Energy Transition in Mexico” conference.

Rosamond Naylor

(Co-author) “A Global View of Aquaculture Policy” (Food Policy ; 2023, 116)

Agripino S. Silveira (Co-author) Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide (Routledge, 2023)

Faculty Updates

Natalia Almada was nominated for an ARIEL award (Mexican Academy Award) for her film Users.

Angela Garcia was awarded a Changing Human Experience Humanities Seed Grant for the interdisciplinary Desagüe Project in Mexico City.

Nicole T. Hughes was awarded a John Carter Brown Library ShortTerm Fellowship for Summer 2023.

Beatriz Magaloni was awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology 2023.

Rose Salseda was awarded a Changing Human Experience Humanities Seed Grant for her Latinx Art Beyond Museum Walls project.

Diego A. Zambrano (Co-author) “Militant Democracy Stages a Comeback in Brazil” (Lawfare; 2022)

Thomas O’Keefe served as Chief of Party of USAID’s Caribbean Business Enabling Environment Reform (CBEE-R) project based in Barbados between August 2022 and July 2023.

A complete list of CLAS-affiliated faculty can be found at clas.stanford.edu.

Photo: Daniel Tovar Medina, CLAS M.A. ’23, took this photo São Paulo não tem isso when visiting Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

CLAS is a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, receiving funding to further Latin American language and area studies at Stanford as well as in K-12 and community college education. The following professional development opportunities were developed and offered to K-12 and higher education educators throughout the 2022-23 academic year.

CLAS could not have been successful without meaningful collaborations. Special thanks to our partners:

Stanford Global Studies (SGS) programs and centers; Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET, Stanford Graduate School of Education); Stanford Program on International and CrossCultural Education (SPICE, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies); Stanford World Language Project (SWLP, Stanford Graduate School of Education); Stanford University Libraries; Stanford Language Center; Lacuna Stories (Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis); Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs; San José State University Department of World Languages & Literatures; University of California Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies; San José State University Department of World Languages & Literatures; University of California Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies; University of California Davis’ Hemispheric Institute on the Americas; University of California Los Angeles’ Latin American Institute; and University of Utah Center for Latin American Studies.

Educator Participation

K-12: 142

Community College: 90

University: 12

Língua Portuguesa Professional Development Program

This program brings together secondary and community college Spanish language instructors to study Portuguese language and culture with the goal of expanding Portuguese language programs in secondary and community college institutions. The 2022-23 course was led by Valéria Caldas Vieira and included conversation practice sessions with Guilherme Guimarães.

October 2022-May 2023

Heritage Spanish Teachers Seminars

This year-round professional development course is tailored to the pedagogical needs of the Heritage Spanish classroom in secondary education. The 2022-23 course featured scholars Ramón González, Ximena Briceño, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Arturo Izurieta Valery, and Adán Griego and was led by SWLP instructors Antonio Tunzi and Michael Silva. September 24, 2022, October 22, 2022, January 20, 2023, February 11, 2023 and March 11, 2023

Indigenous Languages of Latin America Workshops

CLAS offers annual workshops for instructors of indigenous languages of Latin America from universities and language programs and language programs across the U.S. and Latin America to discuss curriculum design, pedagogy, and the use of technology in the indigenous language classroom. The winter 2023 workshop was held on Stanford campus and featured lesson demos and ongoing discussions on indigenous language epistemologies and pedagogies.

March 2-4, 2023

Indigenous language instructors Abelardo de la Cruz, Adriana Roque Corona, and Marisol Necochea at the winter 2023 Latin American Indigenous Studies Alliance workshop.

Américas Book Award Author Workshops

CLAS co-sponsored the 2023 CLASP Américas Book Award, awarded to Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son by John Parra and Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos. This year’s award activities included a webinar with Alda Dobbs, author of Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, as part of the 2023 Global Read Webinar Series. CLASP also produced an educator guide to accompany the use of Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna in the classroom.

March 29, 2023

Library Access Grants

CLAS-Stanford Libraries Access Grants provide library access and travel funding for faculty from minority serving institutions and community colleges across the U.S. to conduct research using Stanford University Libraries.

2023 Grant Recipients: Ulysses Acevedo, Foothill College; Ricardo Aguilar, San Joaquin Delta College; Heidi Saleh, Santa Rosa Junior College.

Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC)

EPIC offers an annual series of outreach programs focused on strengthening the internationalization of curricula at community colleges and K-12 institutions. EPIC is a partnership between SGS area centers, CESTA, CSET, and SPICE. In 2022-23, EPIC welcomed 11 community college fellows and offered two workshops, a symposium, and a one-day fair for community college students interested in global studies and/or global careers. More information about these programs can be found at sgs.stanford.edu/ outreach.

Educator Institute

CLAS organized and co-hosted five educator professional development institutes in 2023, hosting over 50 educators across the following programs:

“History of the Américas: Migraciones y Fronteras/ Migrations and Borders”

Tijuana, Mexico, March 30-April 1, 2023

“Engaging with the Américas: The Galapagos Islands”

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, June 20-27, 2023

Nicole Young-Kirin, Joe Zermeño, and Stillman Bruhier participating in a sugar mill activity at “El Trapiche Ecológico Galápagos” in Santa Cruz, Galapagos.

“Educator Intercambio: Teaching, Social Justice, and Teachers as Activists”

Chiapas, Mexico, July 1-8, 2023

The “Educator Intercambio: Teaching, Social Justice, and Teachers as Activists” program brought together educators from urban and rural contexts in Chiapas, Mexico and across the U.S. to discuss teacher activism, social justice pedagogy, and movement-building. Program participants (Top row, left to right): Eloisa Madrigal, Alejandro Jurado, Luis Villanueva, Diego Gomez, Davíd Morales, Maria Elena Valenzuela, Érika Céspedes, Annie Abundiz, Leslie Quintanilla, Lauren Reyna Morales, and drivers: Julio Cesar and Roberto. (Second row left to right): Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann, Maisa Morrar, Kellee Matsushita-Tseng, Jonathan Montero, Dellanira Alcauter, Jazmin Citlali Mendoza, and Marilyn Travis.

“History of the Américas: Legacies of the Cold War”

Guatemala City and Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, July 11-18, 2023

“Língua Portuguesa in Rio: Intensive Portuguese Language Study”

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15-29, 2023

Author Ran Abramitzky delivers the keynote speech at the 2023 EPIC Symposium.

ALUMNI UPDATE

Michael Adams (M.A. ’90) is the CEO of SAGE, a non-profit organization focused on advocacy and services for LGBTQ+ elders. He recently published an op-ed in which he announced SAGE’s donation of $75,000 to the three leading national trans organizations to help the trans community fight back against discriminatory legislation.

Ronaldo Arango (M.A. ’80) is currently retired from CalSystems Architects Engineers, Inc.

Brian Bird (Honors ’03) is C.O.O. at Jarvis ML, Inc.

Humberto Cruz-Chavarria (M.A. ’12) became the Director of Early Care and Education for the Washington State’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

Gustavo Empinotti (M.A. ’17) is a Ph.D student at New York University.

John Dinges (M.A. ’77) is a Godfrey Lowell Professor of International Journalism Emeritus at Columbia University.

Amelia Farber (M.A. ’16) is heading into her third year as a Ph.D. student at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education, and the working title of her thesis is “Constructing Local Ecological Knowledge: How Students in the Galapagos Islands Learn About Their Environment.” She recently conducted fieldwork for two months in the Galapagos working with 9 year old (5th grade) students thanks to the Galapagos Conservancy and FUNCAVID and to Professors Bill Durham and Diego Roman for assisting with data collection guidance as well as Alejandra Mejia-Restrepo and her husband, CLAS visiting professor Arturo Izurieta Valery!

Andrea Flores (M.A. ’19) recently accepted a reporting position for the Los Angeles Times’ new De Los team.

Erin Foley (M.A. ’02) is manager of the Seagate C.T.O. Office Program Management Office at Seagate Technology.

Yangran Gao (M.A. ’22) returned to his hometown in Hangzhou, China, where he prepared for his Ph.D. application and contributed to the Spanish translation and localization of a video game. Starting this

August, he will be moving to Los Angeles to pursue a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Carlos Gervasoni (M.A. ’94) became chair of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His most recent publication is “Economic Dependence on the State and Pro-authority Attitudes: Evidence from 18 Latin-American Countries.”

Kim Juarez Jensen (M.A. ’22) is part of the Stanford Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab led by Beatriz Magaloni who won the Stockholm Prize in Criminology 2023.

Alejandra Kramer (M.A. ’89) is a lecturer in Anthropology at University of California Santa Cruz.

Jessica Magallón-Gálvez (M.A. ’20) is the Marketing & Development Manager at Upward Scholars.

Kai Medeiros (M.A. ’17) is currently Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice.

Albert Milo (A.B. ’73) served as a proofreader of Frank Sotomayor’s book, “The Dawning of Diversity; How Chicanos Helped Change Stanford University.” The book focuses on the Chicano classes of ‘73 and ‘74. Some of those alumni, including him, were participants in the Stanford-in-Mexico program.

Denis Minev (M.A. ’99) is based in Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon. He is head of BEMOL, the region’s largest retailer. He co-founded and served on the boards of Fundaçao Amazonas Sustentavel, Museu da Amazonia, and Parceiros Pela Amazonia.

Alberto Mora (M.A. ’22) recently became a notary public and tax preparer.

Jill Patton (B.A.H. ’03) is a resident fellow in Potter House in Sterling Quad at Stanford University.

Guadalupe Rojo (M.A. ’10) is a social development specialist at the World Bank.

Alumni from the Class of 2013 Alejandro Gramaglia, Megan Goulding, Andrea Da Motta Calvo, and Libby (Elizabeth) Glass in London reconnecting and reminiscing fondly of their time at CLAS.

Hari Seshasayee (M.A. ’15) joined the United Nations Development Programme as an Asia-Latin America specialist, and his primary role is to advise the Foreign Minister of Panama in April 2023.

Kiah Thorn (M.A. ’14) is a senior speech language pathologist at the Texas Children’s Hospital.

Maria Walker (M.A. ’17) is an attorney at the Oppenheimer Investigations Group LLP.

Dalia Wassner (M.A. ’02) is director of the Brandeis Initiative on the Jews of the Americas at Brandeis University.

Stefanie Welch (M.A. ’14) is a seasoned business manager at Merrill Lynch and has over a decade of experience in the financial services industry. She is also an active member of the Junior League of El Paso, Inc where she currently volunteers on the DIEB (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Belonging) committee and as the Christmas financial assistant chair. She is a doting mother of two boys and enjoys an active lifestyle of biking, tennis, and running. She just completed here first sprint triathlon.

Jessica Uno (M.A. ’12) finished her long medical training journey to become a fully licensed and board-certified physician in 2022, having graduated from University of California San Francisco, passing her licensing exams, and starting her new job as a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Bay Area Clinical Associates in a community clinic in Berkeley, C.A.

A list of Latin American Studies alumni can be found at clas.stanford.edu.

CLAS WELCOMES THE CLASS OF 2024

CLAS THANKS OUR GENEROUS DONORS

TheCenterforLatinAmericanStudiesextendsits sincereappreciationtoourcontributing organizations,alumni,parents,students,and friendsfortheirgeneroussupportandaction. Financialsupportprovidescorefundingto strengthenourexistingprogramsandhelpcreate newoneswhereneeded.

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