Enlace Year in Review 2021-22

2021–22

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

Letter from the Director

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Library Report

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Bolivar House Visitors

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Event Highlights

10 Commencement 2022 11 Student Funding Recipients

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (CLAS) TEAM Director Alberto Díaz-Cayeros Associate Director Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann

14 Faculty Funding Recipients

Events and Communications Officer Sara Clemente Vásquez

14 Faculty Publications and Announcements

Academic and Student Services Officer Megan Bonilla

16 Public Engagement

Public Engagement Coordinator Molly Aufdermauer

18 Alumni Updates 19 Class of 2023 Cover: Holly Henry, CLAS M.A. '22, took this photo “The Power of Iguaçu Falls” in Iguazu Falls, Brazil.

Curator for Latin American, Iberian & Mexican American Collections Adán Griego

Above: Yangran Gao, CLAS M.A. '22, captured this photo, “At the Monument to the Revolution” in Mexico City, Mexico.

These student photos were submissions from the annual Stanford Global Studies student photo contest.

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LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros This will be a brief director’s letter, not due to an uneventful year but because I want to make a single point that may get lost in a longer exposition. Bolivar House has continued to be a thriving space as can be attested by many activities, conferences and events, international visitors and students engaged in teaching, as well as research, and outreach to our local and larger communities. I am particularly proud of the way in which Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann deftly kept our course through stormy weather and the way our CLAS team, Sara, Megan, and Molly, worked tirelessly during the 2021-22 academic year with a commitment to the center that goes beyond their job description – they love Latin America and our community. From that love we have a team in place that can make beautiful things happen.

This reflection takes me to the Americas. The counted death toll from the World Health Organization’s official figures in our hemisphere is almost three million lost lives (as of November 12, 2022): a third of the world mortality figures. The most accurate studies (for example, a Lancet study published in April 2022) tell us there are millions more unregistered deaths, since we know excess mortality is very high in places like Mexico and Brazil. Alongside the sorrow of such unimaginable loss, this is a time to also be grateful. We must thank the nurses, doctors, volunteers, healers, counselors, health professionals, and family members who cared for our sick. We must thank the epidemiologists, virologists, medical research-ers, public health officials, policy makers, and even some politicians who helped put in place vaccines and non-clinical measures that prevented even more deaths. Tlazocomati, obrigado, gracias, chaltumay!

The current Enlace issue, hence, attests to the resilience of our local community, and for that we express our gratitude: our librarian, Adán Griego, continued to make the digital and book materials that nurture our research and teaching accessible; we continued our Tinker Visiting Professorship and the Latin American Perspectives Lectureship and brought our first Luksic Visiting Scholars to campus; we carried out the virtual series “Conversations on Race and Ethnicity” with the Latin American Studies Association section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) and the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in preparation for our in-person conference in Mexico City; we graduated another cohort of bright and passionate M.A. students; our faculty and students organized conferences, workshops, and working Throughout the year I have been conmovido – which is not groups; and we continued funding language training, quite translatable, since it means “to be moved” but in the internships, encounters with authors, teacher outreach company of the other, given the particle “con” – by the way programs, and field research thanks to the generosity of the Tinker Foundation, the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho the individuals who make up Bolivar House, including our Foundation, Edward J. and Margaret S. Soares, Monica team, students, and visitors, are kind, patient and Miller Walsh and David Walsh, Ana Paula Pessoa Trejos, and generous. But let us also remember that the togetherness the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National of our physical space is only made possible by custodial Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies staff, gardeners, food preparers, delivery persons, Fellowships grants. maintenance crews, and service workers who often go unnoticed and have made it possible to realize academic Our gratitude extends to everyone in our community of activities during COVID-19. We have survived a once-in-alearning, and all the persons that are behind the lifetime pandemic, and we should remember the people institutions and organizations that make programming at who made this possible.

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LIBRARY REPORT After an 18-month hiatus, Stanford’s curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections, Adán Griego, returned to campus on September 13, 2021, ready to engage a group of scholars eager to consult the libraries’ vast Latin American collections, not to mention future users from the incoming class of 2025.

During the pandemic months, the libraries continued to receive research materials from the region. Likewise, as the region’s economies began reopening, publishing output also showed signs of renewed activity. Although scholarly publishing is a predominantly print-based industry, the months of confinement have shifted reading habits toward digital copies. It is likely that the industry will also move toward e-books, a trend that has started to be reflected in the libraries’ acquisition of online copies in Spanish and Portuguese over the last two years: 1600 and 335, respectively.

In addition to e-books, the libraries added the Cuban Periodicals: Cultural Magazines database, providing access to publications from the renowned Casa de las Américas organization for the years 1960-2009, which include the theater journal Conjunto, the music journal Boletín de Música, Anales del Caribe, and Casa de las Américas. There are now over 70 databases with scholarly content from and about Latin America available to Stanford users.

Griego was also able to attend book fairs in Guadalajara (November 2021) and Bogota (April 2022). He met with the libraries’ onsite vendors, making an extensive recorrido through the exhibit halls to find items that defy commercial distribution channels and are only available at book events.

During the spring semester, the libraries had a specialized presence (virtual and in-person) with Griego as an embedded librarian for the writing seminar course class for the Latin American Studies Master’s program. The students’ final projects are now archived in the Stanford Digital Repository and are available to both internal and external users.

Recent books from Latin America arrive at Stanford Libraries (September 2, 2021).

Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá (April 21, 2022 ).

Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (November 27, 2021).

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BOLIVAR HOUSE VISITORS Tinker Visiting Professors Cristián Bellei Carvacho, University of Chile

Cristián Bellei is an associate researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education and a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Chile, and a coordinator of the Research in Education Initiative at the Austral University of Chile. He is a Doctor of Education from Harvard University. He also has a sociology degree from the University of Chile and a master degree in education policy from Harvard University. Professor Bellei Carvacho taught SOC 238: Market Oriented Policies in Education (EDUC 238) in spring quarter 2022.

Claudia Nunes Duarte Dos Santos, Carlos Chagas Institute - Fiocruz

Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos received her B.A. in biology (1982), M.Sc. in genetics (1987), and Ph.D. in molecular virology (1994) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She obtained her post-doctoral degree from the Pasteur Institute in Paris (1995) and sabbatical professorship at the Rockefeller University (2018). Professor Nunes Duarte Dos Santos taught BIO 189: Emergent and Re-Emergent Viruses as a Global Threat to Human Health (BIO 289) in spring quarter 2022.

Latin American Perspectives Lecturer Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, CIESAS Mexico Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo is a professor and senior researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. At Stanford, Professor Hernández taught a graduate workshop on collaborative research and feminist ethnography and delivered a public lecture titled “Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves”. Her academic work has promoted indigenous and women’s rights in Latin America.

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Luksic Visiting Scholars Enzo Sauma Santis, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Enzo Sauma is a professor at the School of Engineering and director of the UC Energy Research Center at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He holds both Ph.D. (2005) and M.S. (2002) degrees in industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Sauma also holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in industrial engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His interests include power systems economics, environmental economics, mathematical programming, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy.

Carolina Parra,

Federico Santa María Technical University

Carolina Parra received her Ph.D. in applied physics from the Federico Santa María Technical University (USM) in Chile, (2009) and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University (2013). Currently, Professor Parra is head of the interdisciplinary Laboratory of Nanobiomaterials within the physics department at USM (http://nanobiolab.usm.cl/) and is an associated researcher at the Technological Scientific Center of Valparaíso.

EVENTS 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.

Carolina Curvale

October 22, 2021 Ecuador During the Pandemic: New Government and Polarization

Sebastian Mazzuca Alison Post

September 24, 2021City Size and Public Service Access: Evidence from Brazil, India, and Indonesia

Kristof Gosztonyi

October 1, 2021 From Afghanistan to Apatzingán: Comparing Counter-insurgency and Counter-crime Militias in Afghanistan and Mexico

Vidal Romero

October 8, 2021 Security and Illegality in Cuba’s Transition to Democracy: Violence in the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds

January 21, 2022 Mandates, Massacres, and Migration: The Politicization of Transitional Justice in Central America

October 29, 2021 Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America

Ernesto Domínguez, Darsi Fernández, Sachie Hernández, and Mikael Wolfe November 5, 2021 Cuba en el siglo XXI

Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo November 19, 2021 Digging for Hope in Mexico: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves

Diana J. Montaño

April 15, 2022 Electrifying Mexico: Technology and Transformation of a Modern City

Carlos SchmidtPadilla

January 28, 2022 Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development

Javier Mejia

April 22, 2022 Modernizing Elites in Latin America: Social-network Evidence from the Emergence of Banking in Antioquia

Enzo Sauma

February 4, 2022 The Value of Flexibility in Long-term Energy Planning Decisions

Rebecca Herman

Cheyla Samuelson

October 15, 2021 Negotiating Alternative Narratives of Violence in Contemporary Mexico

Terry Karl

February 11, 2022 The Social Histories of U.S. Bases in World War II Latin America

Emiliana Cruz, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Suzi Hutchings, and Brian Noble January 14, 2022 Transcontinental Dialogues Book Presentation

Andrés Reséndez

February 25, 2022 Conquering the Pacific

María Josefina SaldañaPortillo

Lynn Stephen

April 29, 2022 Stories that Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos

April 1, 2022 La Reconquista: Indigenous Migrants and Their New Geographies of Mestizaje

May 13, 2022 Hantavirus: Development of Novel Reagents for Improved Diagnosis and Prognosis Outcomes

J. Luis Rodriguez

Cristián Bellei Carvacho

April 8, 2022 Latin American Reactions to the Ukrainian Crisis

May 27, 2022 Is There a Way Out of Neoliberalism? The Contentious and Uncertain Chilean Process to Transform a Market Oriented Educational System 7

EVENTS Highlights Below are a few of the diverse virtual events that CLAS organized, sponsored, co-sponsored, and/or funded during the 2021-22 year. Please visit our CLAS past events page for more information.

September 8-10, 2021

Conversations on Race and Ethnicity: Continuities and New Challenges in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic

November 17, 2021

Collaborative Field Research and Feminist Ethnography Workshop

October 19, 2021

La justicia exiliada: el caso reciente de Guatemala

January 24, 2022

Indigeneity, Afro-descendants, and Other Marginalized Populations in Latin America

November 11, 2021

Conversations with Latin American Authors: Africanness in Action

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February 16, 2022

Contemporary Challenges in Latin America, presented by the Stanford Society for Latin American Politics

May 23, 2022

Cuba’s Life Task: Combating Climate Change (Documentary Screening)

May 4, 2022

Queer Latinidades in Children’s Literature

“Culture” and its Friday, Discontents in May 27 Early Modern Iberian Studies 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST Implied Geographies: Language as Culture in Viceregal Peru and Early Modern Spain, Leonardo Velloso-Lyons, Stanford University

May 27, 2022

“Culture” and its Discontents in Early Modern Iberian Studies

Between Knowing & Reporting: Jesuits in Estado da India in the Sixteenth Century, Shruti Rajgopal, University College Cork Failed Antiquity in La Florida, Nicole T. Hughes, Stanford University

May 20, 2022

The Queer Caribbean: Inheritance, Embodiments, and Possibilities

1:30 - 2:45 pm PST Collation and Persuasion: Knowledge Making in fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Nahua Scriptorium, David H. Colmenares, Boston University “Going Native”: On Cultural Particularity and Cultural Reductionism Alexandra Cook, Columbia University

3:00 pm PST Response by Federico Navarrete Linares, UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Zoom https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99944682720? pwd=Rkx2eG8vQzE2VHRLOFFYNkYrWGcvQT09 More info: nthughes@stanford.edu

Passcode: 685043

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COMMENCEMENT Congratulations to the Class of 2022!

June 12, 2022

The classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 with CLAS director Alberto Díaz-Cayeros (Left) and keynote speaker Paul Wise.

CLAS M.A. Students Julian Acevedo

Sean Howard Gallagher

Eliza Stephanie Moreno

Advisor: Héctor Hoyos

Advisors: Harold Trinkunas and Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

Advisor: Zephyr Frank

Claudia Andrea Bobadilla

Holly Henry

Shannen Torres

Advisors: Saumitra Jha and Julia W. Novy-Hildesley

Advisor: Jonathan Rosa

Isabella Caro Montini

Natasha Jain-Poster

Harvey Arthur Wang

Advisor: Beatriz Magaloni

Advisor: Zephyr Frank

Advisor: Guillermo Solano-Flores

Yangran Gao

Alberto Mora

Advisor: Mikael Wolfe

Advisor: Tomás Jiménez

Advisor: José David Saldívar

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STUDENT FUNDING RECIPIENTS CLAS offers research grants and fellowships, internships, scholarships, language study opportunities, and other funding options to students 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.

Julian Acevedo, Claudia Andrea Bobadilla, Sara Mercedes Damore, Sean Howard Gallagher, Natasha Jain-Poster, Eliza Stephanie Moreno, Shannen Torres Stanford, CA

Davíd Morales, Esteban Salmón Perrillia, María Gloria Robalino Mexico

Maria Gloria Robalino Ireland

Xavi Luis Burgos, Laura Menéndez Gorina Cuba

Weronika Tomczyk Hungary

Xavi Luis Burgos Dominican Republic and Haiti Luísa Abreu Genes Costa Rica

Jaime Landinez Aceros

Colombia Anna Perronne Ecuador

Claudia Andrea Bobadilla, Maria RidgewayElsner, Natasha Jain-Poster Brazil

María de la Luz Daniel Chile

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STUDENT FUNDING RECIPIENTS 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.

• Julian Acevedo, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Isabella Caro Montini, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Kim Juárez Jensen, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships 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 2021-22 Nahuatl Stanford University • Claudia Andrea Bobadilla, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Shannen Torres, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22

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.

• Claudia Andrea Bobadilla, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Maria Cristina Fernandez Escobar, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Holly Henry, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Sean Howard Gallagher, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Alberto Mora, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Hannah Smith, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22

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 eighteenth year in a row.

Paz y Esperanza, Guayaquil, Ecuador • Anna Perronne, B.A., Undeclared, ’22

Portuguese Stanford University • J ulian Acevedo, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Sara Mercedes Damore, M.S., Community Health and Prevention Research, ’22 • Sean Howard Gallagher, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Natasha Jain-Poster, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Eliza Stephanie Moreno, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22

Student-Led Working Group Grants

Summer 2022

Cafecito Quechua Working Group

Portuguese University of Florida Language and Culture Program, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Claudia Andrea Bobadilla, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22 • Natasha Jain-Poster, M.A., Latin American Studies, ’22

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.

Tulane University Summer in Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil • Maria Ridgeway-Elsner, B.A., Civil Engineering, ’23

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 2021-22 academic year:

Student Coordinators: • Adela Zhang, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’23 Faculty Sponsor: • Marisol Necochea, Quechua Instructor, Stanford Language Center

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Hemispheric Racializations: Ideologies, Enactments, and Communities The Hemispheric Racializations working group seeks to engage interdisciplinary scholars in the study of ethnoracial formations throughout the context of the western hemisphere. As scholars with unique research on diaspora and homeland populations from Caribbean, Central American, and South American contexts, this working group aims to center voices and theories that may unsettle our current framings of race and racial formations and further the work of CLAS to advance knowledge that bolsters racial, social, economic, and environmental justice in the Caribbean, Latin America, and their diasporas.

Student Coordinators: • Xavi Luis Burgos, Ph.D., Education: Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE), ’27 • Marina Machado de Oliveira, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, ’27 • Alexandros Orphanides, Ph.D., Education: Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE), ’26

Field Research Travel Grants CLAS supports Stanford graduate field research in Latin America.

Chile • María de la Luz Daniel, J.S.M., Law, ’22 Research: Consumers’ Literacy and Decision-making: The Case of the Private Health Insurance Market in Chile Colombia • Jaime Landinez Aceros, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’24 Research: The Uses of Biodiversity: Technoscience and PostConflict Aspirations in Colombia Costa Rica • Luísa Abreu Genes, Ph.D., Biology, ’25 Research: The Role of Dispersal and Recruitment Limitation in the Recovery of Tropical Secondary Forests Cuba • Laura Menéndez Gorina, Ph.D., Iberian and Latin American Cultures, ’23 Research: Narratives of Homes in Modern Barcelona and Havana Mexico • Esteban Salmón Perrilliat, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’24 Research: The Administration of Impunity: An Ethnography of Criminal Prosecution in Mexico City

Tinker Graduate Field Research Grant

Faculty Sponsor: • Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education

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

Conference Travel Grants

Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti • Xavi Luis Burgos, Ph.D., Education: Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE), ’27 Research: Sacred Epistemologies in the Caribbean: The Pedagogical Possibilities of Afro-diasporic Religions

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

Mexico • Davíd Morales, Ph.D., Education: Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE), ’26 Research: Towards a Theory of Intercambio: Social Justice Teaching and Movement-building Across Empire

28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Budapest, Hungary • Weronika Tomczyk, Ph.D., Anthropology, ’22 The Renaissance Society of America, Dublin, Ireland • Maria Gloria Robalino, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, ’22

Mexico • María Gloria Robalino, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, ’24 Research: Heightened Worlds: Vertiginous Imaginaries in the Latin American Pacific Weronika Tomczyk in Budapest, Hungary, at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.

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FACULTY FUNDING RECIPIENTS

FACULTY

CLAS Faculty-Led Events Grants

Vincent Barletta

CLAS Faculty-Led Events Grants offers 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.

Conversations on Race and Ethnicity: Continuities and New Challenges in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic September 8 - 10, 2021

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor, by courtesy, Political Science, Stanford University

Publications (Co-editor) Unusual Gardens: Towards a Poetics of Cultivated Earth (Dibur Literary Journal; 2021) Ximena Briceño (Co-editor) Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región (Plural Editores, 2021) Enrique Chagoya (Creator) Popol Vuh de la abuelita del Ahuizote (Magnolia Editions, 2021)

Decolonial Theory and Praxis in Art, Film, and Media May 19 - 20, 2022

Usha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, Stanford University Emanuele Lugli, Assistant Professor, Art and Art History, Stanford University

Cuba’s Life Task: Combating Climate Change May 23, 2022

Mikael Wolfe, Associate Professor, History, Stanford University

Groups in Conflict and the Legacies of Violence May 26, 2022

Didi Kuo, Senior Research Scholar, Associate Director for Research, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

Rodolfo Dirzo (Co-author) José Mario Molina: Life and Legacy of a Man Who Helped to Save Earth’s Ozone Layer (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; 2021) Héctor Hoyos (Author) Narrativas de cadáveres e a teleologia da história da World Literature (Cadernos de letras; 2021, 63: 101-126) (Author) The State of a Field in Five Books (Revista Hispánica Moderna; 2021, 74.1: 103-115) (Author) Los iluminados (Tusquets Editores, 2022)

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Herbert Klein (Co-Author) Historia Social do Brasil Moderno (Imprensa Oficial of São Paulo, 2021) (Co-author) Ensayos sobre Real Hacienda del Imperio Español (España, Mexico, Peru y el Rio de La Plata, Siglos XVI-XVIII) (Colección Itinerarios del Instituto Mora, 2021) (Co-author) O tráfico legal e ilegal de escravos no Brasil no século XIX (Novos Estudos de História Econômica; 2022) (Co-author) The Rise of Modern Maize Production in Argentina and Brazil (Historia Agraria: Revista de agricultura e historia rural; 2022, 86: 1-36) (Co-author) The Development of a Modern Cellulose Industry in South America (Latin American Research Review; 2022, 57.4) (Author) Social Change, Industrialization and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020 (Stanford University Press, 2022) Thomas Andrew O’Keefe (Co-contributor) “Chapter 12: Energy Cooperation in South America: The Case of MERCOSUR.” Energy Law, Climate Change and the Environment (Elgar Publishing, 2021)

Guillermo Solano-Flores (Author) Boolean Analysis of Inter-observer Agreement: Formal and Functional Evidence Sampling in Complex Coding Endeavors (Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice; 202, 40.2: 26-36) (Author) The Semiotics of Test Design: Conceptual Framework on Optimal Item Features in Educational Assessment across Cultures, Countries, and Languages (Frontiers in Education; 2021)

Faculty Highlights Vivian Brates received the Friends of Haas Award from the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University.

Enrique Chagoya received a John Simon Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship. His survey work “Borderless: Artist’s Books by Enrique Chagoya” was exhibited at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, CA. His collaboration with Kara Maria “Double Trouble” was exhibited at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in Sonoma, CA. Gretchen Daily was appointed senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Center for International Studies, for the period of February 1, 2022, through January 31, 2025.

Héctor Hoyos was promoted to full professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature.

Guillermo Solano-Flores served as a steering committee member on the Study on Implementation and Use of Balanced Assessment Systems from the National Academy of Education for the 2021-2022 period.

Lyris Wiedemann was recertified as an American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI), Writing Proficiency Test (WPT), and Oral Proficiency Interview - Computer (OPIc) tester.

Mikael Wolfe was promoted to associate professor of history at Stanford University. He was also awarded a Stanford University Arts and Humanities Off-Campus Enhanced Sabbatical Fellowship.

(Co-author) Academic Achievement in a Language Revitalization Context: A study on the Influence of Language and Socioeconomic Factors (Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; 2021) Mikael Wolfe (Author) “Una revolución es una fuerza más poderosa que la naturaleza”: Fenómenos meteorológicos extremos y la Revolución Cubana, 1959-1964 (Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC); 2021) (Author) Book Review: Land, Liberty and Water: Morelos After Zapata, 1920-40 (Hispanic American Historical Review; 2021)

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

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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 2021-22 academic year.

CLAS owes its success to its 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 Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies); Stanford World Language Project (SWLP, Stanford Graduate School of Education); Stanford University Libraries; Stanford Language Center; Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA); Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Inclusion, Community and Integrative Learning Stanford History Education Group; Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP); University of California, Davis Hemispheric Institute on the Americas; University of California, Los Angeles Latin American Institute; University of California, Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies; University of Utah Center for Latin American Studies; San José State University’s College of Education and Department of World Languages.

Educator Participation

Língua Portuguesa Professional Development Program

K-12:

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 2021-22 course was led by native Brazilian Portuguese language instructor Valéria Caldas Vieira and included conversation practice sessions with Priscila Bordon.

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October 2021 to May 2022

Summer Institute

Community College:

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2022 educator exchange program “Intercambio DocenteEducador: Enseñanza, justicia social y docentes como activistas a través del imperio,” which took place throughout central Mexico. The program was led by Davíd Morales, a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education and Nora Lorena Estrada, a traditional chef from Xochimilco who uses instructor in the Indigenous techniques from the chinampas in her craft.

Stanford Teacher Education Program. The program featured visits to various popular and alternative education projects in Mexico and brought together educators from urban and rural contexts in Mexico and California to discuss teacher activism, social justice pedagogy, and movement-building.

July 4 - 13, 2022

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Américas Book Award Author Workshop

Indigenous Languages of Latin America Workshops CLAS offers annual workshops for instructors of Indigenous languages of Latin America from universities across the U.S. and Latin America to discuss curriculum design, pedagogy, and the use of technology in the Indigenous language classroom.

Workshops featured lesson demos and ongoing discussions on Indigenous language epistemologies and pedagogies.

December 4, 2021; May 13, 2022

Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC)

Ernesto Javier Martínez ‘98 presents his book Cuando amamos cantamos/When We Love Someone We Sing to Them during the Queer Latinidades in Children’s Literature workshop.

CLAS co-sponsored the 2022 CLASP Americas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, awarded to Child of the Flower-Song People, written by Gloria Amescua and illustrated

by Duncan Tonatiuh, and to My Two Border Towns, written by David Bowles and illustrated by Erika Meza. This year’s award activities included a virtual teacher workshop, a virtual award ceremony streamed over the Library of Congress’ YouTube channel, and the 2022 Global Read Webinar Series. The virtual workshop and webinars featured Américas Award-recognized authors Aida Salazar, Angela Burke Kunkel, Yamile Méndez, and Ernesto Cisneros, and author/illustrator Raúl the Third. CLAS also co-hosted a virtual author workshop with Stanford University Libraries and the Office of the Associate Vice Provost for Inclusion, Community and Integrative Learning: Queer Latinidades in Children’s Literature, led by Dr. Rigoberto Marquéz and featuring guest writers, scholars, and educators Ernesto Javier Martínez, Isabel Millán, and Juan Ríos Vega. Recordings of these events are available online.

October 11, 2021; February 3, March 22, April 13, May 4, May 18, and June 16, 2022

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 2021-22, EPIC welcomed 10 community college fellows and offered four multi-day courses, 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.

The 2022 Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) Symposium was held at the Bechtel Conference Center on May 21. Photo credit: Rod Searcey.

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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 article on LGBTQ+ elders in Latin America in Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America and has shepherded the expansion of SAGE’s capacity-building work to support efforts of partners in Latin America and Asia.

Rolando Arango (M.A. ’80) retired as the CEO of Systems Architects Engineers.

Taylor Boas (Honors ’99) became chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University on July 1, 2022. His book Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in early 2023.

Mary Boyer (M.A. ’16) welcomed a second baby into her family in November. Mary is continuing her Stanford CEE M.S. studies.

Ricardo G. Huerta Niño (M.A. ’96) is a senior initiative officer at the San Francisco Foundation, leading strategy development and partnerships to move the region towards more equitable and sustainable housing, transportation, land use, and climate resilience. He continues to teach city and regional planning, and global poverty and practice as a lecturer and Chancellor’s Public Scholar at UC Berkeley.

Gustavo Lisboa Empinotti (M.A. ’17) is continuing to pursue his Ph.D. in political science at New York University.

Humberto Cruz (M.A. ’12) is the director of Second Generation Programming at the Jeremiah Program.

Raymundo Lopez (M.A. ’21) completed his first year of Ph.D. studies at Michigan State University and was recently awarded the John A. Garcia and Diversity Scholarship by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. He also recently published a video on ATOM Laboratories (@atomlabs).

John Dinges (M.A. ’77) published Los Años del Cóndor: Operaciones internacionales de asesinato en el Cono Sur (Penguin Random House, 2021). He was awarded the Orden de Bernardo O’Higgins by the government of Chile (President Bachelet’s administration).

Hari Seshasayee (M.A. ’15) is a prolific writer. Some of his recently published work includes "Latin Americaʼs Tryst with the Other Asian Giant, India,” and “Ukraine War: The Economic Impact on India." He was was on episode 72 of the Redline Podcast “Can Europe Survive Without Russian Gas?”

Adriana Díaz-Ross (M.A. ’11) is a Spanish-language medical interpreter at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Josh Stech (M.A. ’09) founded Sundae 4 years ago, which has since raised roughly $160M of venture capital and employed approximately 500 people in a fully remote work environment.

Sundae was honored by Forbes as part of the coveted “Next Billion Dollar Startup” list and also landed a huge partnership with Dr. Phil in order to reach more homeowners who need help.

Nathan dos Santos (M.A. ’21) went to Uzbekistan a second time to conduct an eco-engineering course with rural high school students. In April, he joined Human Rights First, an international nonprofit dedicated to assisting asylum seekers from Central America, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. He was recently selected to participate in Viadrinicum 2022, a conference organized by Ukranian academics at the German-Polish border city of Frankfurt-Słubice about the role of the university as a societal actor in times of crisis/war. There, he will work with European University’s Planners.Lab to develop a transmedial oral history platform for the city’s refugee population.

Amelia Farber (M.A. ’16) moved to the United Kingdom to begin a Ph.D. program in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. She is currently preparing for fieldwork in the Galapagos Islands, where she will be looking at student perceptions of local ecological knowledge and environmental learning. Recently, she was able to present her undergraduate and master’s research at the Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales in Mexico City, and present a scoping review that she conducted on the presence of social science research on Galapagos at the Cambridge Department of Education Kaleidoscope Conference.

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Libby Glass (M.A. ’13) earned her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law. In September 2021, she started her role as an attorney at Quarles & Brady LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. In the coming months, she will be providing pro bono support to Afghan asylum seekers in the U.S.

Thomas Stelzer (M.A. ’84) is currently the dean and executive secretary of the International Anti-Corruption Academy.

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

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

CLAS WELCOMES THE CLASS OF 2023

Minah Choi

Emilio Espinal

Darrow Hornik

Evan Lewis

Chris Maudlin

Maya Návar

Annie Obernoster

Estefania Ramirez

José Luis Sabau

Daniel Tovar Medina

CLAS THANKS OUR GENEROUS DONORS The Center for Latin American Studies extends its sincere appreciation to our contributing alumni, parents, students, and friends for their generous support. Financial support provides core funding to strengthen our existing programs and help create new ones where needed.

For more information about CLAS’ initiatives and to discuss advancing our academic community as we learn from and engage with the Americas’ diverse ethnic, linguistic, cultural, biological, and historical geographies, kindly contact Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann, CLAS associate director, at esaenz@stanford.edu.

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