Enlace Year in Review 2014 2015

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

From the Director

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Bolivar House Visitors

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Lecture Series

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Event Highlights

11 Class of 2015 12 Students 16 Faculty 18 Public Engagement

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (CLAS) STAFF Director Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo Associate Director Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann Program Coordinator Laura Schilling (Interim) Business Administrator Laura Quirarte Public Engagement Coordinator Molly Aufdermauer

19 Alumni Update Cover photo: Facade of the Santo Domingo Cathedral in Oaxaca City, Mexico. Courtesy of Stanford Bing Overseas Program, Biocultural Diversity. Oaxaca 2015.

Above: Market scene courtesy of José Sarukhán, CONABIO, Mexico.

FROM THE DIRECTOR Once again, it is time for Enlace; our annual opportunity to reflect upon the year that has passed and look with optimism towards the horizon. What a truly amazing year this has been; eventful, emotive, and full of wonderful prosperity for our CLAS and Stanford community of Latin Americanists. As we take measure of all that has transpired before our eyes, we should also take time to relish in the incredible opportunity and good fortune to be counted as part of this diverse and powerful community. As Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) it has been my privilege to watch our beloved center flourish in the past years and as I write this, my final edition of Enlace, I find myself humbled to have witnessed so many great minds, leaders and young new generations pass through our doors, including faculty, students, visiting scholars, and members of the general public, from elementary school

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kids to high-ranking officials. I can honestly say that my efforts as Director would have counted for nothing were it not for the support, guidance, assistance, and welcoming attitude of each and every person who has helped shape our CLAS community these past six years. For this I will be eternally grateful. As my chapter in the CLAS story draws to a close, I take great comfort in knowing that my passion for the natural sciences and for the Latin American region have found in CLAS a most pleasant niche. Thank you all!

As I have said, there is a plethora of exciting memories and occurrences to recall; far too many to try to list. However, I would like to mention some of the highlights of what has been a truly banner year/6-year period for the Center for Latin American Studies. • Advisory Board. CLAS now has an outstanding Advisory Board comprised of a rich faculty (14) from 10 different academic units, whose scholarly expertise cover a broad range of areas of relevance in Latin American studies—including not only the humanities, but also the hard sciences.

Not only can we boast wonderful diversity in our faculty and their fields of study, but we have also laid the foundations for CLAS to be a strong interdisciplinary academic unit of excellence within Stanford, and in the entire country. Furthermore, our Advisory Board is doubly strengthened now, with the recruitment of Prof. Lisa Surwillo, the new Director of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. This is very important and exciting as it represents a great potential to strengthen synergistic efforts between the two institutions.

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• Affiliated faculty. Comprised of 67 faculty from 24 departments across the university, this is indeed a most valuable asset. Among such intellectual heavy-hitters, I am delighted to include Prof. Ivan Jaksič fro Bing Overseas Studies Program Santiago. He has been a great help and support to me in particular, and CLAS in general. That being said, it is my view that strengthening interactions with Santiago and other BOSP units (e.g. Madrid) and courses (e.g.

Community Health and Bio-Cultural Diversity, both in Oaxaca), as well as with other universities, in particular CLAS-Berkeley (with which we have started renewed collaborations) is an agenda that warrants further effort.

I also have opened a dialogue with the new Madrid Program Director; and he is very interested in working with CLAS. • The M.A. in Latin American Studies program. After evaluations by H&S and C-GS Committees, as well as the University Senate, I am thrilled to report that we have once again been given new approval of our M.A. program on Latin American Studies—for another 5 years. That said, there will always be room to make this M.A. even stronger and two important opportunities come to mind: i) the possibility of expanding the program to a full 1-year, or even a 2-year program to include research opportunities for students; ii) the possibility of running two programs: one as currently is the case, and an extended one. This evidently needs major discussion on the part of the University and CLAS leadership going forward.

• The Lecture Series. Due to the overwhelming success and popularity of this element of our program, I am happy to report here a very positive dilemma, which is the consistent lack of space to accommodate the hordes of attendees that pack Bolivar House almost every single session. Too many hungry and eager minds and not enough physical space!

• Visiting scholars. The Tinker Professors program continues to be a great success; however, some challenging issues remain, particularly regarding low numbers of course enrollments in some cases. This comes as a sharp juxtaposition to the increasing requests from visiting scholars to be part of the CLAS experience. The Nabuco Scholars is a good, but challenging program given the low amounts of financial support this program provides to visiting scholars.

CLAS might have to think creatively about how to make the most of this modest program.

• Title VI and recognition of CLAS as an National Resource Center program. The fact that this prestigious award and recognition has been granted again to our Center, represents a major accomplishment and has allowed us to maintain, and in some aspects even expand, many programs, particularly

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those related to outreach activities. Our efforts on this front, have earned CLAS three significant recognitions, two within the University, and one from the Federal Government.

Another exciting project discernable on the horizon is the first Summer Institute for Science Teachers, which will take place this year in Mexico and will address the issue of ecology and sustainability science. I try to imagine the multiplicative effects this could have for the teaching of science in schools of the country. Looking back upon all these great moments, I also take great pleasure in reflecting upon the very important efforts that CLAS has made towards servicing kids from underserved communities. Our most recent one, “STEM for Latina Girls” (in partnership with the Mexican Consulate in San José), is now in its third year, and though it gives me great joy to see this particular project thriving, the level of excitement visible in those young girls as their eyes are opened towards new possibilities and brighter futures is a reward greater than any recognition.

• CLAS’s 50th Anniversary.

Perhaps one of the single most memorable events that will be forever branded in my mind is the series of grand celebrations of our 50th anniversary. The Center’s half century of life marks the accomplishment of this wonderful and vibrant community that has taken up the stewardship of the promotion of the study and appreciation of the Latin American region, and the formation of young minds in so many different ways.

It has truly been a privilege and an honor to be present, and a part of this community during these six years—fascinating moments of great challenges and successes, and though I will always look back fondly on all that we have achieved, I will also keep a weather eye on the horizon, and look forward to witnessing much more success for the years and generations to come.

— Rodolfo Dirzo May 2016

BOLIVAR HOUSE VISITORS Tinker Visiting Professors Under this program, the Center for Latin American Studies brings leading Latin/Ibero American scholars to Stanford University to teach, conduct research, and interact with Stanford faculty. Frequently, a tangible product of these academic visits is the publication of articles, or even books, on the particular areas of their specialty.

Another important aspect of the academic activities of these scholars is to advise students in the areas of their expertise. Although the scholars typically stay in Stanford for a short period (a quarter), the consequences of their visits are long-lasting, including the establishment of continued interactions with Stanford faculty and students.

Violeta Arancibia

Isidoro Cheresky

Violeta Arancibia studied psychology at Universidad Católica de Chile, specializing in educational psychology. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Wales in the UK. She has worked at Universidad Católica de Chile for many years, where she has been a professor at the School of Psychology, director of the Faculty of Social Sciences, head of department of Educational Psychology, and director of the Graduate School of Psychology. Her research has been linked to issues of quality and equity of education in Chile and Latin America, school effectiveness, and in particular the issue of the teachers’ impact on the quality of students’ learning experiences. She has numerous publications, including books and articles in scientific journals. She has been invited as a visiting scholar at Harvard, and as a visiting professor at Yale and Radbough in the Netherlands. In 2000, she founded PENTA UC (the Center for the Study and Development of Talent), an innovative educational program for vulnerable students with academic talent, where she was the principal for ten years. For almost three years, she was the director of the CPEIP (the National Center of Training, Experimentation and Pedagogical Research) in the Ministry of Education of Chile. In that position, she led teacher policies relating to teacher education, teacher training, teacher evaluation, and principal training. She also participated in the design and presentation to Congress of a new law pertaining to teacher professional development. She has been a consultant to international organizations such as UNESCO, IDB, and World Bank, where she is currently a consultant in educational policies for Latin American. She was chosen as one of the 100 women leaders in Chile. During fall quarter 2014, Professor Arancibia taught EDUC 238X: Teacher Policies in Latin America.

Dr. Isidoro Cheresky obtained his first degree in sociology at the University of Buenos Aires and his Ph.D. in social studies at the University of Tolouse le Mirail in France. He is a researcher and professor. He is a member of the Argentinian National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and has been the director of its “New Political Forms” research group since the late 1990s. He is full professor and consultant at the University of Buenos Aires, where he has taught political theory since 1970. He has also been a visiting professor in several universities worldwide, such as Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris, University of Amsterdam, University of Laval-Québec-Canadá, New School UniversityNew York, Kellogg Institute-University of Notre Dame, and Stanford University. He served for several years as a consultant to the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) Buenos Aires office and has received honors for his work, among which stand out the Konex-Diploma Merit Award in the discipline of Political Science (2006, Argentina) and the distinction of Chevalier de Palmes Académiques, granted by the French government (2009). His main research interests are the mutation of contemporary democracy and the new citizenship, focusing on a comparative perspective including Argentina and Latin America. His publications include books, book chapters, and journal articles, as well as publications in mainstream media.

Among his recently published books are ¿Qué democracia en América Latina? (Editor, CLACSO-Prometeo, Buenos Aires, 2012); Sin programa, sin promesa. Liderazgos y procesos electorales (Co-editor, Prometeo, Buenos Aires, 2012); and El nuevo rostro de la democracia (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires, in press). During winter quarter 2015, Professor Cheresky taught POLISCI 244C: Political Change in Latin America: The contemporary challenge to democracy.

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Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva

Jorge Ramón González Ponciano

Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva is a full professor, and now professor emerita, in Education and RacialEthnic Relations at the Center of Education and Human Sciences at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. Through a selection process within the Brazilian Black Movement, Professor Gonçalves e Silva was appointed to the National Council of Education from 2002 to 2006. During this time she played a central role in writing The National Curriculum Guidelines for the Education of RacialEthnic Relations and The Teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture, which have since been implemented at all educational levels in Brazil. Professor Gonçalves e Silva’s many contributions to education were recognized in 2011 when she received Brazil’s Presidential National Order of Merit. Professor e Silva began her academic career in 1979 at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul where she completed a master’s degree in Education and then went on to complete a doctorate in the Human Sciences and Education in 1987. During her graduate studies, she attended UNESCO’s International Educational Planning Institute in Paris, France. Professor Gonçalves e Silva’s scholarship, which includes publications in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, addresses themes related to African and AfroBrazilian culture and history, the contributions of the Black Movement to the Brazilian educational system, as well as educational policy and ethnic-racial relationships. During winter quarter 2015, Professor Gonçalves e Silva taught CSRE126B| EDUC136B/236B| PUBLPOL126B| AFRICAAM 126B: Curricular Public Policies of Recognition of African & Indigenous Populations - Brazilian Experience.

Jorge Ramón González Ponciano holds degrees in Anthropology from Stanford University (MA) and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), and is a tenured professor at the Institute of Anthropological Research of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His current research focuses on the history of tourism and the construction of the exotic in the Mayan region. He is also working on a book about socio-racial formation in Guatemala. His recent publications include “The Shumo Challenge: White Class Privilege and the Post-Race, Post-Genocide Alliances of Cosmopolitanism from Below,” in Aftermath: War by Other Means in Post-Genocide Guatemala? (Duke University Press 2013); and “The MexicoGuatemala, Guatemala-Mexico Border: 1983-2013,” in co-authorship with A. Fábregas, Frontera Norte, 26(7-35) (Colegio de la Frontera Norte 2014). Professor Gonzalez Ponciano has been a CLAS Visiting Scholar since 2013 and was a CLAS Tinker Visiting Professor spring quarter 2015, during which he taught ANTHRO 122A/222A: Race and Culture in Mexico and Central America.

Visiting Scholars The Center for Latin American Studies sponsors visas and privileges at Stanford University Libraries for senior scholars conducting research on Latin America.

Jesús M. González Pérez

Jorge Ramon González Ponciano, Felipe Michelini, Petronila Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva

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Jesus M. González Pérez received his Ph.D. in Geography from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and is an associate professor at the Universidad de las Islas Baleares. Professor Pérez specializes in urban geography, urban planning, and regional planning. His research also includes territorialities and urban planning. Since 1999, he has taught several graduate courses at the universities of Barcelona, Baleares, and Santiago de Compostela.

BOLIVAR HOUSE LIBRARY REPORT During the 2014-15 year, CLAS supported Adán Griego, Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections, in attending international book fairs in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Guadalajara. Through his blogging for the Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), Adán keeps colleagues informed of many a bibliographic opportunity, including the following posts: Bogota International Book Fair http://salalm.org/2015/05/05/reporting-from-the-bogota-book-fair/

Buenos Aires International Book Fair http://salalm.org/2015/04/26/letter-from-the-rio-de-la-plata/

Guadalajara International Book Fair http://salalm.org/2014/12/05/reporting-from-guadalajaras-2014-book-fair/ Adán continues to play an active role as liaison to undergraduate research needs as well as providing educational engagement to first-generation students from Southern California as part of the Puente Program (http://cms.cerritos. edu/puente/). Adán hosts Puente student visits to the library, introducing them to primary sources from Stanford’s rare and unique Latin American collections.

Latin America in Video Database The Stanford University Libraries have added the Latin America in Video database that provides access to over 140 non-commercial videos from the region. Similarly, the Kanopy database continues to add streaming videos about Latin America and US Latin@ issues. Collectively, both electronic files augment the vast print holdings of more than 450,000 titles in Spanish and Portuguese.

Latin America in Video https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11351583

Kanopy https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/11055923

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LECTURE SERIES CLAS’s lecture series continues to be an iconic program of the institution and a useful window for the general public to become aware of the various cultural, educational, artistic, and scientific developments in the region. Attendees normally fill the lecture room on Fridays. Video recordings of lectures marked with an asterisk (*) can be found on the CLAS Channel at https://vimeo.com/album/3089639.

September 26, 2014

November 14, 2014

Strangers All Around: Immigration and the Transformation of the Individual American

State-Censorship of the Press and of Dissenting Voices in ‘Competitive Authoritarian’ Regimes: A Case Study of Venezuela (1999-2014)

Tomás Jiménez

October 3, 2014*

Ana Cristina Núñez

Carolina Guerrero, Izabela Moi, and Mariana Santos A round table discussion with Stanford’s Knight Fellows of Journalism—The media in Latin/Ibero America: Filling the gaps, searching for solutions

Violeta Arancibia

November 21, 2014

February 13, 2015*

October 10, 2014*

Hoyo Negro and the Oldest Most Complete Human Remains Ever Found in the Americas

Latinos Living in a Mobile Park Home in Palo Alto

December 5, 2014

February 20, 2015*

October 17, 2014*

Searching for Posada: ART and Revolutions; Film Screening, Lecture, and Exhibition

¿Qué desafíos plantea la actual calidad de la educación en América Latina?

Amado Padilla

Anne Fountain

José Martí: Writing About Race

Alberto Nava

Victor H. Mancilla and Jim Nikas

January 9, 2015*

Jose Manuel V. Fragoso

Monitoring in Support of Local, National and International Environmental Priorities

January 16, 2015* Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva

Geraldo W. Fernandes Brazilian biodiversity— Beyond the Amazon

Nuria González Martín

International Child Abduction

by One of the Parents and Mediation: The Mexico-USA case

February 27, 2015* Isidoro Cheresky

Notas sobre la poesía de Octavio Paz

October 31, 2014*

January 23, 2015*

Benjamin T. Wilder

Celia Cussen

Black Saint of the Americas: The Life and Afterlife of Martín de Porres

November 7, 2014* Daniel S. Karp

Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation and Food Production Across Tropical Countryside

Alberto Díaz-Cayeros

How ecologically sustainable was the Mexican Revolution?

The Case of Water

March 13, 2015*

A Historical Background to Ayotzinapa

Biodiversity Baselines and Conservation Opportunities in the Gulf of California

January 30, 2015*

April 3, 2015

The Character of Nature: on “Realism” in Rómulo Gallegos and Graciliano Ramos

The consequences of the Ayotzinapa disappearances for Mexico

Victoria Saramago

Anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity: Consequences for ecosystems and humans in Latin America and Africa

April 17, 2015*

Julian Homburger

Genetic results help elucidate the Ancestry and Demographic History of South America

April 24, 2015

Vera Candiani, Matthew Vitz, Lise Sedrez, and Zephyr Frank The Urban Environment Workshop

May 1, 2015*

William R. Summerhill Infrastructure in Latin America: Prospects and Problems in Historical Perspective

May 8, 2015

Charles Walker

The Tupac Amaru Rebellion

March 6, 2015* Mikael Wolfe

David Huerta

Rodolfo Dirzo

El nuevo rostro de la democracia en América Latina: Ciudadanía, Liderazgos e Instituciones/The new face of democracy in Latin America: Citizenship, Leadership, and Institutions

Education in Latin America: From the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” to the “Buen Vivir” proposed by Native Peoples

October 24, 2014*

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February 6, 2015

April 10, 2015*

James Cavallaro

May 15, 2015*

J. Ramón González Ponciano

Is Guatemala Really a Failed State? Ethnic Fear, Oligarchic Power and Militarization

May 22, 2015

Marília Librandi-Rocha Echopoetics According to Clarice Lispector

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS In addition to the CLAS lecture series (page 8), student working group events (page 15), and faculty conferences (page 16), CLAS organized, sponsored, co-sponsored, or financed many events during the 2014-15 year.

Following are a few highlights. For a complete list of events, please visit http://las.stanford.edu/events.

Video recordings of lectures marked with an asterisk (*) can be found on the CLAS Channel at https://vimeo.com/album/3089639.

October 2, 2014 Beatriz Magaloni

Understanding Police Use of Lethal Force in Rio de Janeiro Co-sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN).

October 23, 2014 David Huerta

Gabriel García Márquez y la Poesía

October 24, 2014 David Huerta

Notas sobre la poesía de Octavio Paz

November 11, 2014* Peter Kornbluh

A Secret Dialogue Between Washington and Havana with Peter Kornbluh Co-sponsored by the History Department, International Policy Studies

November 13, 2014*

Nancy Alonso, popular Cuban short story writer Cuba in 2014: A Conversation with Nancy Alonso

November 21, 2014 Alberto Nava

Hoyo Negro and the Oldest Most Complete Human Remains Ever Found in the Americas

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January 23, 2015*

Eliane Karp-Toledo

Book Presentation: In search for the rights of Indigenous Peoples in globalization: the case of Peru/ En busca de los derechos indigenas en tiempos de democracia y globalización en Perú

Alberto DíazCayeros A Historical Background to Ayotzinapa

April 15, 2015

Alejandro Toledo

A Conversation with Alejandro Toledo, Past President of Peru Co-sponsored by Stanford University Press, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

March 11, 2015

José Manuel Viera Fragoso

Sustainability of Indigenous Culture, Land and Resources in the Amazon Co-sponsored by Native American Cultural Center

April 3, 2015

April 12, 2015 Rodolfo Dirzo

El Capital Natural de Oaxaca (A conference for the Trique Indigenous Community; with simultaneous translation from Trique to Spanish) Co-sponsored by Consulado General de Mexico en San Jose

James Cavallaro The consequences of the Ayotzinapa disappearances for Mexico

April 16, 2015

April 19, 2015

Rodolfo Dirzo HUAXYACAC, Un Gran Teatro Ecológico Co-sponsored

by Consulado General de Mexico en San Jose

Antonio José Ponte

A public reading in Spanish by Cuban writer Antonio José Ponte Co-sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

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May 13, 2015

Spring Fiesta: Sabor Caribeño

CLASS OF 2O15 CLASS OF 2015

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES MISSION Drawing on a distinguished faculty with multidisciplinary experience and a long history of research expertise in Latin America, the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University (CLAS) offers academic programs for students, coordinates a range of academic conferences and lectures that span varied geographic regions and diverse academic disciplines, and fosters interdisciplinary research for students and faculty by providing fellowships and funding opportunities. Since its founding more than 40 years ago, the Center has regularly hosted eminent scholars, noted public figures, and internationally-prominent policymakers.

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

COMMENCEMENT Bolivar House 582 Alvarado Row Stanford, CA 94305 las.stanford.edu

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CLAS’s degree programs include a Master of Arts, Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors, and Undergraduate Minor.

Master of Arts in Latin American Studies graduates and their capstone projects

The 2015-16 Latin American Studies graduate students presented their capstone projects at the CLAS M.A. Capstone Colloquium on June 4, 2015.

Katherine Bellerose, From Military Coups to Presidential Impeachment: A New Pattern of Political Instability in Paraguay

The 124th Commencement of Stanford University was held on Sunday, June 14, 2015. The Center for Latin American Studies recognized ten graduates of the Master of Arts degree and one student of the undergraduate Minor in Latin American Studies. The keynote speaker for the CLAS Commencement ceremony was Marilia Librandi-Rocha, Assistant Professor in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures.

Three of the 2015 M.A. graduates, Shao Jie Ang, Imán Muñiz-Mella, and Srihari Seshasayee, also gave speeches to commemorate the occasion. Families and friends joined CLAS in the Bolívar House garden to celebrate with this year’s graduates. Congratulations, Class of 2015!

Above, top row: Imán Camila Muñiz; Srihari Seshasayee, Linda Madrid, David Kotulski, Rodolfo Dirzo, Victoria Virasingh, Gabriella Fulco, Katherine Bellerose, Jennifer Nguyen, Shao Ang Bottom row: Rodolfo Dirzo; Shao Ang; Marilia Librandi Rocha; Srihari Seshasayee

Shao Jie Ang, Panama: The Singapore of Latin America?

Gabrielle Marie Fulco, Brazil as a Laboratory for Participatory Budgeting: Poverty Alleviation and Citizen Empowerment Fajin Hu, Brazil-China Trade in the 21st Century: Myths and Realities David Kotulski, Interstate Conflict and Rivalry in the Andes: The War of the Pacific and its Consequences Linda Ivette Madrid, Contemporary Mexico Through a Historical Lens: A Failed State, Paradise or Chamber of Terror?

Imán Camila Muñiz, Understanding Dominican Immigration Reform: Dominican Economy and Haitian Labor Jennifer Tram Nguyen, Quieting Quechua: Linguistic Loss Endangering a Community Srihari Seshasayee, India-Latin America: Beyond Commodities?

Victoria Virasingh, Formation, Strength, and Defense: The Development and Role of Indigenous Activism in Response to Changing Interests of the Ecuadorian Government

Undergraduate Minor in Latin American Studies recipient Nicholas Joseph Radoff (B.A. in History)

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STUDENTS CLAS programs offer 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. Below is a visual representation of student research, study, and internship locations around the world.

John Joseph Keeley, III Vermont

Yuki Bailey, Gwendolyn Burke, Linda Madrid, Jennifer Nguyen, Victoria Saenz, Victoria Virasingh Stanford, CA

Mariana Barragán Washington, D.C.

Felicia Darling, John Schroeder Mexico

Maria Doerr, Camille Townshend Bluefields, Nicaragua

Allie Ballesteros, Callie Elizabeth Ward Brazil

Skye Picker San José, Costa Rica

“ I have had a most fruitful and enjoyable time in Peru and Brazil, and interviewed many people who have helped further my research on India-Latin America relations, a topic that is rarely studied ... I met with numerous businesspersons, diplomats, government representatives, journalists and scholars.

Their perspectives have added great value to my research on how India interacts with Latin America, and how the region sees India through a strategic, business or cultural lens.”

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— Srihari Seshasayee (’15)

Gabrielle Fulco Barcelona, Spain

Julia Mason Peru

Ana Cristina Núñez, Carlos SanchezMartínez Venezuela

Christopher Bernedo, Chelsea Green Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Srihari Seshasayee Peru and Brazil

Shu Yu Ling, N. Kyle Stephan Chile

Mariana de Heredia Uruguay

Rachel Grau Buenos Aires, Argentina

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MONICA MILLER WALSH GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

PESSOA-TREJOS GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS IN BRAZIL

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

Thanks to a generous gift renewal from Stanford alumna Ana Pessoa-Trejos and her husband, Raul Trejos, CLAS was able to award grants to support Stanford undergraduates in summer internships and graduate field research in Latin America, for a sixth year.

blueEnergy in Bluefields, Nicaragua Maria Doerr, Environmental Systems Engineering (’17) Camille Townshend, Mechanical Engineering (’17) blueEnergy is an internationally recognized, but locally based, NGO working on the country’s Caribbean coast to expand community access to clean water, sanitation practices, and renewable energy.

Mobile Metrix in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Christopher Bernedo, International Relations (’16) Chelsea Green, Political Science (’16) Mobile Metrix is a socially driven market research company serving low-income communities.

FLAS FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS CLAS administers Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing language training in less commonly taught languages of Latin America.

Academic Year 2014-2015 Yuki Bailey, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Portuguese Gwendolyn Burke, Graduate, Earth Sciences, Quechua Linda Madrid, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Portuguese Jennifer Nguyen, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Quechua Victoria Saenz, Undergraduate, International Relations, Portuguese Maria Doerr (’17) gives a presentation about her work at blueEnergy at the CLAS 50th Anniversary event.

Nearpod in Buenos Aires, Argentina Rachel Grau, Computer Science (’16) Nearpod is an Ed Tech company with an office in Argentina offering experience in iOS development.

Ideas en Acción in San José, Costa Rica Skye Picker, Urban Studies (’18) Ideas en Acción is a collaborative community that uses technology and empowerment strategies to identify, execute, and spread social innovation projects for sustainable development.

Victoria Virasingh, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Portuguese

Summer 2015 Allie Ballesteros, Graduate, Portuguese, Brazil John Joseph Keeley, III, Undergraduate, Portuguese, Middlebury College Callie Elizabeth Ward, Undergraduate, Portuguese, Brazil

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

Gabrielle Fulco, Latin American Studies

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CLAS GRADUATE RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS

CLAS CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Center for Latin American Studies supports Stanford graduate field research in Latin America.

The Center for Latin American Studies supports Stanford graduate students to attend and present on topics related to Latin America at professional meetings and conferences.

Felicia Darling, Anthropology, The Language of Math: The Yucatec Maya Way, Mexico Mariana de Heredia, ILAC, Uruguayan Cultural Publication Marcha and the Work of Angel Rama, Uruguay Shu Yu Ling, Music, Field recording, Composition and Performance for Ecology Conservation, Chile Julia Mason, Biology, A Social-Ecological System Study of Peru’s Small-Scale Fishery, Peru

Maria Fernanda Escallón, Anthropology, 113th American Anthropological Association Conference, Washington, D.C. Maron Greenleaf, Anthropology, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois

John Schroeder, Biology, Los Tuxtlas Biological Station, Mexico

Néstor Leonardo Silva, Anthropology, Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico

N. Kyle Stephan, Art and Art History, Cosmic Noise: Juan Downey and the Postcolonial Politics of Cold War Communication, Chile

SGS GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES GRANT

VENEZUELA RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS The Center for Latin American Studies invites proposals for Stanford graduate-student led research in Venezuela, funded through a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation.

Ana Cristina Núñez, Law School, State censorship of the press and of dissenting voices in Venezuela (1999-2014), Venezuela Carlos Sanchez-Martínez, Graduate School of Business, Revisiting Judiciary Independence: A Study of Court Outcomes in Venezuela, Venezuela

“ I acquired a comprehensive understanding of the history of global colonialism as well as theories of leading philosophers in the field ... These classes equipped me with another perspective to my work as a Latin Americanist, helping me in my pursuit to create inclusive solutions of international philanthropy and development.”

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Mariana Barragán, Graduate School of Education, 2015 Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Washington, D.C.

— Gabrielle Fulco (’15)

The Stanford Global Studies Division (SGS) provides funding to support summer internships, research abroad, language training or other activities that help graduate students address global and international concerns in their research, made possible by a generous gift from the Friends of Stanford University Foundation in Taiwan. Two CLAS students received grants in 2015: Gabrielle Fulco, Barcelona, Spain Gabby attended “Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons,” an international school held by Diálogo Global: A Center of Study and Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues.

Srihari Seshasayee, Lima, Peru, and Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia in Brazil Hari met with businesspersons, diplomats, government representatives, journalists and scholars on how India interacts with Latin America and how the region sees India through a strategic, business or cultural lens.

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CLAS STUDENT WORKING GROUPS A Working Group consists of a group of students, in collaboration with a faculty advisor, which organizes events such as lectures, speaker series, symposia, exchange of working papers, and collaborative research efforts.

The Center for Latin American Studies awarded grants to the following student working groups during the 2014- 2015 academic year: Intersections of Development in Latin America: Infrastructure and Building the Modern State graduate student symposium The objective of the graduate student symposium was to bring together a diverse and multidisciplinary group of greater Bay Area junior scholars to share and discuss research-in-progress concerning a broad topic that cuts across political, economic, and social lines in Latin America. This symposium/working group focused on infrastructure and its role in the development of Latin America. This all-day event took place on May 1, 2015, at Bolivar House and featured multiple panels through which graduate students discussed their current research amidst their peers. Sessions were moderated by faculty members from the History Department at Stanford University.

In this manner, graduates focusing on Latin American studies from the greater Bay Area’s research institutions were able to hone their arguments and seek constructive feedback while enjoying a semi-informal, collegial atmosphere conducive to networking and the exchange of ideas. The conference’s keynote speech was delivered

by Dr. William Summerhill of UCLA, a renowned expert on infrastructure in modern Brazil and Latin America.

Student Coordinators: Leonardo Barleta, Graduate Student, Department of History Mateo Carrillo, Graduate Student, Department of History Faculty Sponsor: Zephyr Frank, Professor of History, Director of the Program on Urban Studies, Founding Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)

Imagined Identities: Resisting Violence in the Caribbean Held on May 7, 2015, Violence and Resistance in the Caribbean was a presentation of scholarship and fine arts as methods to describe and explore realities of sexual violence in the Caribbean. The event developed a broad discussion of Caribbean history, culture, and politics as a way to understand the high rates of gendered and sexual violence reported in this region. The event took place in Bolivar House, where visual art productions were hung on the walls: sculptures, paintings, and installations by artist Gina Goico, from Parsons New School of Design. Her work around sexual violence in the Caribbean illustrates the intersections of race, class, and gender in Caribbean Culture, as well as highlights the importance of an accurate historical framework to understand violence culture in Latin Caribbean islands. Her gallery show and presentation was complemented by research conducted in the Dominican Republic with Haitian and Dominican women on their experiences with sexual and gendered violence. The researcher, Imán Muñiz, graduate student in Latin American Studies, introduced Gina and the results of a two-year study that looks at everyday micro and macro aggressions in the context of a hyper sexualized culture, the prevalence of sex tourism economy, and extreme poverty. The remainder of the time was allocated to engaging with the audience for Q&A and stimulating discussion on the topic of violence and resistance in the Caribbean.

Student Coordinators: Kate Bellerose, Graduate Student, Latin American Studies Gabrielle Fulco, Graduate Student, Latin American Studies Imán Muñiz-Mella, Graduate Student, Latin American Studies Cristopher Vazquez, Graduate Student, Modern Thought and Literature Faculty Sponsor: Yvonne Yarbro-Bejerano, Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures 15

FACULTY Faculty Conferences Educational and Entrepreneurial Initiatives to Support Youth in Places of Violence, April 28-29, 2015 Faculty Chair: Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Director of the CDDRL Program on Poverty and Governance Following in the footsteps of last year’s international conference on violence and policing in Latin American and U.S. Cities, the Program on Poverty and Governance (PovGov) at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) turned Encina Hall at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies (FSI) into a dynamic, instructive and stimulating discussion platform. The exchange of experiences, expertise and ideals that flourished within this space helped create a “dialogue for action,” as speakers and participants explored the various dimensions of youth and criminal violence in Mexico, Brazil and the United States, while advocating for the importance of opening up adequate pathways to hope.

In attempts to shed light to this very complex and fundamental issue that is claiming thousand of lives every year and deteriorating the social fabric across cities, PovGov’s two-day conference brought together a group of activists and practitioners from grassroots civil society organizations, community leaders, educators, professionals from development agencies, policy-makers, politicians and scholars—as well as some of the very individuals who have benefited from programs highlighted during the event—to discuss the many challenges faced by the youth population in these different locations and to share innovative and inspirational initiatives to generate opportunities and foster change.

This year’s PovGov conference was held in partnership with the Bill Lane Center for the American West; the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Mexican Initiative; and the Center on International Security and Cooperation. All speaker presentations were video recorded and can be found on the CDDRL web site along with conference materials and a full conference report.

Environmental Histories of Latin America Faculty Workshop, April 24, 2015 Faculty Chair: Mikael Wolfe, Assistant Professor of History

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES of

LATIN AMERICA Faculty Workshop • Friday, April 24, 2015 • Stanford University Open to the public. Light breakfast served at 8:30 am. Lunch and coffee refreshments provided during breaks.

Opening Remarks at 9:00 am by

Rodolfo Dirzo

9:15 am – 10:45 am

(STANFORD UNIVERSITY)

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

The field of Latin American environmental history has come of age. Whereas fifteen years ago, onlyLabor a handful of Transnational Conservation and the Environment scholars devoted their careers to researching, writing, and teaching on the historical interactions between humans and their environment in Latin America, dozens do so today. This workshop brought together sixteen of the leading scholars in the field from the United States and Latin America to exchange and discuss cutting-edge scholarly work-in-progress and ideas on future research and teaching agendas and resources.

Climate and Social Change

Sherry Johnson FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Mikael Wolfe STANFORD UNIVERSITY Eve Buckley UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE Mark Carey UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Frederico Freitas STANFORD UNIVERSITY Emily Wakild BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY Christopher Boyer UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO Sterling Evans UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

The Urban Environment

Vera Candiani PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Matthew Vitz UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Lise Sedrez FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO Zephyr Frank STANFORD UNIVERSITY 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Thomas D. Rogers EMORY UNIVERSITY Myrna Santiago ST. MARY’S COLLEGE Claudia Leal UNIVERSITY OF LOS ANDES, BOGOTÁ John Soluri CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

CESTA Conference Room - Wallenberg Hall - 450 Serra Mall, Bldg 160 - Fourth Floor -Stanford University For more information, please visit: environmentalhistorylatam.wordpress.com

Sponsored by Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Department of History, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Program on Urban Studies, Water in the West (Woods Institute for the Environment and The Bill Lane Center for the American West), and the Environmental Humanities Project.

This workshop was held in partnership with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Department of History, The Freeman Spogli Institute’s Mexico Initiative, Program on Urban Studies, Environmental Humanities Project, The Bill Lane Center for the American West.

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Publications Defaunation in the Anthropocene. Science, 345, 401-406. Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Mauro Galetti, Gerardo Ceballos, Nick J. B. Isaac, Ben Collen. (Theme of paper appeared in the cover of Science; this article was one of the 100 most cited articles in 2014.)

Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores. 2015.

Science Advances, 1:3140010. William J. Ripple, Thomas M. Newsome, Christopher Wolf, Rodolfo Dirzo, Kristoffer T. Everatt, Mauro Galetti, Matt W. Hayward, Graham I. H. Kerley, Taal Levi, Peter A. Lindsey, David W. Macdonald, Yadvinder Malhi, Luke E. Painter, Christopher J. Sandom, John Terborgh, and Blaire Van Valkenburgh. (One of 100 most cited articles in 2015.)

Faculty Updates Héctor Hoyos received Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Research Unit funding for “materia: Latin Americanist and Comparative PostAnthropocentrisms (2014-2016) as well as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers: Berlin, Summer 2015 and 2016.

Herb Klein was awarded the “Distinguished Service Award” of the Conference of Latin American Historians 2015.

Marilia Librandi-Rocha was awarded the Stanford Arts artsCatalyst grant in winter 2015 to teach the ILAC 367: João/Joyce: Guimarães Rosa and the World Novel (COMPLIT 317).

Amado Padilla served as the principal investigator on a 2014-15 National Security Agency STARTALK grant for a Mandarin Middle School Student Program for “true beginners” of Chinese with at least 50% of participants being Latino Students.

Joan Ramón Resina was awarded the Donald Andrews Whittier Fellowship from the Stanford Humanities Center from September 2014 to June of 2015, as well as the “Internationales Kolleg Morphomata” Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Cologne from April to July of 2014.

Thomas Sheehan taught the course “An Introduction to Heidegger” at Shanghai University in June 2014 and received a Faculty Fellowship in 2015 at the Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU).

Lisa Surwillo was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick (UK) from November to December of 2014.

Mikael Wolfe received an Honorable Mention in the Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Social Science Essay Prize for “The Historical Dynamics of Mexico’s Groundwater Crisis in La Laguna: Knowledge, Resources and Profit, 1930s-1960s” in addition to being awarded a CLAS Faculty Conference Grant to hold two-day workshop “Environmental Histories of Latin America: Sources and Resources for Teaching and Research” (see Faculty Conferences).

Rodolfo Dirzo received a Doctor Honoris Causa from his Alma Mater, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico, 2015. In 2015, he also received a Medal of Honor (Science) from the State Congress of his home state of Morelos, and a Merit in Ecology Medal from the Ecological Society of Mexico.

A complete list of CLAS-affiliated faculty can be found on the CLAS web site las.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 the K-12 and community college education systems. The 2014-15 year marked the initial year of the 2014-17 grant cycle, during which CLAS developed the following programs. During this cycle, CLAS is collaborating with the Stanford and Stanford World Language Project (SWLP), the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Lacuna Stories at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), and other Stanford Global Studies Centers to develop and offer professional development opportunities for K-12 and community college educators, including the following: Américas Book Award Workshop

RING IMMIGRATION E X PL O AND IDENTITY

Semiannual workshops for K-12 and community college instructors and librarians.

in the K-5 classroom using Américas Award Books Américas Award K-5 Teachers Workshop Friday, February 6, 2015 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Stanford University

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) are offering an exciting K-5 workshop focusing on strategies to incorporate Latin American and Latino children’s literature into the elementary school classroom.

Partners: SPICE, Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP)

Featured speakers include Duncan Tonatiuh, author of Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote (2013, Abrams Books for Young Readers) and Tomás Jiménez, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Stanford’s Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.

Registration is $25 and includes breakfast, lunch, and a copy of the book Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh. Please register by January 12, 2015, at http://tinyurl.com/ncks8sf or call 650.725.1480.

Summer Teachers Institute Abroad

Summer institute abroad for K-12 and community college instructors; the 2016 summer program will take place in Veracruz, Mexico.

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

The Americas Awards are administered by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Funding for this workshop is provided by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI

Summer 2016 Partner: Graduate School of Education’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET)

Heritage Spanish Teachers Seminar Series (academic year institute) Academic-year seminar series for K-12 teachers of Heritage Spanish.

Fall 2015 Partners: CSET, SWLP

Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) Academic year fellowship, semiannual workshops, and annual symposium for community college instructors; summer and academic-year institutes for K-12 instructors.

Workshops and summer institute started in 2014-15 year; fellowship program, symposium, and academic-year institutes began n 2015-16.

Partners: CESTA, CSET, SGS, SPICE

In addition to CLAS’ Title VI-funded activities, Director Rodolfo Dirzo brings the following student-centered programs to CLAS each year to learn more about the fascinating world of science and technology: STEM for Latina Girls

Stanford Science

Spring quarter program for elementary-school Latina girls to learn more about the STEM world through visits to eBay, Facebook, Stanford University, and the NASA AMES Research Center.

Fall quarter program for middle-school students from Cesar Chavez Academy of East Palo Alto to learn science at CLAS, in several Stanford science laboratories, and in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, including a tour of the rain forest ecosystem of the California Academy of Sciences.

Partner: Mexican Consulate of San Jose

Partners: Cesar Chavez Academy of Palo Alto

To learn more about CLAS’ K-12 and community college public engagement opportunities, visit http://las.stanford.edu/public-engagement.

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ALUMNI UPDATE Kathleen Bruhn (M.A. ’87) is a professor of Political Science at UCSB. During the 2014-15 year, Kathleen published “Choosing How to Choose: From Democratic Primaries to Unholy Alliances in Mexico’s Gubernatorial Elections.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Winter 2014: 212-240.

Diana Derycz-Kessler (M.A. ’88) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Los Angeles Film School, a college of media arts. In addition to her education activities, Diana serves as manager and general counsel to various investment companies that are co-owned with her husband Paul Kessler, a financier. These companies invest in emerging public and private companies in a variety of sectors, including cancer research, real estate, “comicon” conventions, and oil and gas.

Diana is the recipient of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Woman of Distinction Award and has appeared in CSQ Magazine, Beverly Hills Times, Latina Magazine and Financial Times.

Megan Goulding (M.A. ’13) worked for children’s charity ACER in São Paolo, Brazil from August to November 2014. She graduated from law school in August 2015 and has a training contract at Herbert Smith Freehills from August 2015 to September 2017.

Alejandro Gramaglia (M.A. ’13) is currently a Cambridge Trust Scholar focusing on Innovation, Strategy and Organizations at the University of Cambridge. He remains invested in sustainable democratic development, social innovation, and technology for development, and looks forward to meeting and collaborating with like-minded compañeros.

Veriene Melo (MA’12) currently works as a full-time researcher at the Program on Poverty and Governance (PovGov) at CDDRL, directed by political science professor Beatriz Magaloni. She participates in several research projects through the Stanford International Crime and Violence Lab in the areas of public security, policing and violence, and also acts as a co-principle investigator in the evaluation of a youth education program, all with a focus in Rio de Janeiro favelas and peripheries. Veriene, who is a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Science and Comparative Education at UCLA and a Lemann Fellow, has remained an active collaborator at PovGov since early 2012 while an M.A. student at CLAS. Jennifer Nguyen (M.A. ’15) is currently working at Collective Health, a health technology company. She is deferring medical school for a year to strengthen her work experience and published “Examining Women’s Health Issues Among Quechua Speakers in Peru” in Research in Political Sociology in 2015). http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/ S0895-993520150000023010

Antonia Powell (Honors ’00). After 11 years working in public health in Africa, Antonia, her husband, and two boys moved to Myanmar to experience life in a new region in August 2015. She joined Save the Children’s Principal Recipient team, which is dedicated to managing the HIV, TB, and malaria Global Fund grants for civil society organizations in Myanmar. Their team works with 18 sub-recipient organizations and manages a four year, $132 million grant for the three health areas. Though her Spanish has gotten a bit rusty in my many years outside of Latin America, she have always managed to find a group of Latinos in every country, and she says Yangon has a few nice Mexican restaurants and salsa nights. Visitors welcome!

Hayden Rodarte (Honors ’13, M.A. ’14) has been working at the Stanford Law School Human Rights Clinic since September 2014. In addition, he has been accepted to Yale Law School and will be attending in Fall of 2016. He will be pursuing human rights advocacy work in the Inter-American system.

Charles Rowcliffe (M.A. ’87) served with the U.S. Army Foreign Area Officers as Defense Attache in Asuncion, Paraguay and Brasilia, Brazil, and retired from active duty in 2005. From 2005 to the present, Charles has been working with the Department of State, Office of Inspector General, and Office of Inspections.

Srihari (Hari) Seshasayee (M.A. ’15) is currently serving as Project Officer (Latin America and the Caribbean) with the Confederation of Indian Industry. His recent publications include •D ilma Rousseff vs Left vs Right: http://indianexpress.com/article/ opinion/columns/dilma-rousseff-vs-left-vs-right/ • The end of Kirchnerismo: http://indianexpress.com/article/ opinion/columns/the-end-of-kirchnerismo/ • Brazil In Deep Crisis: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/ columns/brazil-in-deep-crisis/ • I ndia-Venezuela: oiling the wheels: http://www.gatewayhouse. in/india-venezuela-oiling-the-wheels/ • I ndia-Ecuador: growing past defence: http://www.gatewayhouse.in/india-ecuador-growing-past-defence/ • I ndia’s Rising Presence in Latin America: http://americasquarterly.org/content/indias-rising-presence-latin-america Joel Simon (M.A. ’91) is currently Executive Director at Committee to Protect Journalists and a columnist for Columbia Journalism Review. In 2014, Joel published “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom” (2014) http://cup. columbia.edu/book/the-new-censorship/9780231160643.

Alison Sprague (M.A. ’14) was promoted to Director of Analytics from Sales Operations Manager at iHeartMedia, Inc. in June 2015. She also got married in August 2015!

Walter Thompson-Hernandez (M.A. ’14) is currently a writer and journalist and will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA starting in Fall 2016.

A list of Latin American Studies Alumni can be found at on the CLAS web site las.stanford.edu.

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CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Stanford University 582 Alvarado Row Stanford, California 94305 las.stanford.edu

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