The University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute 2019-2019 Annual Report

2018-19 Annual R e p o r t

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Table of Contents About the LAII

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Letter from the Director

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Latin American Studies at UNM

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Latin American Studies at CNM

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Student Research & Awards

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Faculty Research & Awards

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Academic Lectures

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Commemorating LADB

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Annual Symposium

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Cultural Activities

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K-12 Educational Outreach

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International Connections

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Our People

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$40 for 40 Years: Giving Back

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Visit LAII.UNM.EDU for a digital copy of this report and to engage further with the LAII’s programs and people.

About the LAII

Because of the geographic location and unique cultural history of New Mexico, The University of New Mexico (UNM) has emphasized Latin American Studies since the early 1930s. In 1979, the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) was founded to coordinate Latin American programs on campus. Today, the LAII is committed to two core ideas: that peace and prosperity in the hemisphere depend upon deep mutual understanding among peoples of diverse cultural, linguistic, and historical backgrounds;

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HAS EMPHASIZED L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S SINCE THE 1930s.

and that such understanding depends on the rigorous training of area experts who have the knowledge base to conduct interAmerican relations into the future.

The LAII offers academic degrees, supports research, and provides development opportunities for faculty. In addition to the Latin American Studies (LAS) degrees offered, the Institute supports Latin Americanists in departments and professional schools by awarding student fellowships and providing funds for faculty and curriculum development. The LAII is also committed to expanding awareness, knowledge, and understanding of Latin America and Iberia among diverse constituents through its community education programs and outreach initiatives.

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Letter from the Director

As the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) enters its 40th year serving as a hub for Latin American & Iberian activity and scholarship on campus, this is a good moment to reflect on the depth and breadth of our scholarly community, and to appreciate The University of New Mexico’s (UNM) ongoing commitment to excellence in teaching, research, and service related to these world regions.

The 2018-2019 academic year started off on a rocky note, as we learned that the LAII was not renewed as a National Resource Center by the United States (US) Department of Education. This prompted quick action by LAII faculty and staff as well as university leadership to minimize impacts on students and safeguard core programs, while considering changes and reassessing our strategic goals as an organization. With guidance from the LAII’s faculty co-governance bodies, the Institute will emerge from this setback stronger and more resilient for decades to come.

Through these discussions, student success was maintained as a priority. The LAII continued to provide critical funding for student research through Field Research Grants and for doctoral candidates through funding to help them focus on the difficult work of crafting and finishing their dissertation. The Institute also maintained its commitment to indigenous language instruction in K’iche’ Maya, Quechua, and, thanks to the generous support of the University of Utah’s Center for Latin American Studies, Nahuatl. The LAII was also able to preserve its most important areas of support for faculty development, including field research grants, conference travel funding, and assistance to UNM colleges for Latin Americanist faculty hires.

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In addition to sustaining its programs, the LAII hosted our first ever Mexico Studies Chair, Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, through the COMEXUS Fulbright-García Robles program. Dr. Torres-Mazuera serves as a research professor at the Center for Research and Higher Education in Social Anthropology (CIESAS, for its initials in Spanish) in Mérida, Yucatán. During her semester at UNM she taught an interdisciplinary geography course that was cross-listed with other departments, fitting perfectly within our multidisciplinary Latin American Studies program. She brought new ideas, gave thoughtprovoking lectures, collaborated with faculty across many departments on main campus as well as the law school, and participated actively in LAII community events.

This year, thanks to the ongoing, generous, and visionary bequest by the late Dr. Richard Greenleaf, the LAII supported a symposium on Rural Transformation in Latin America’s Changing Climate, focusing on the joint impacts of climate and market changes on food production and security, ecology, political systems, and resources. This collaborative project resulted from the hard work of Dr. Chris Duvall (Geography & Environmental Studies), Dr. Jami Nuñez (Political Science), Dr. Marygold Walsh-Dilly (Honors College), and Dr. Benjamin Warner (Geography & Environmental Studies). A free symposium, it attracted participants from across the country and Mexico, featured presentations by senior scholars as well as graduate students, and drew large audiences. Papers from the conference will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Geography.

The LAII also continued the tradition of collaborating with the University Libraries (UL) to host two visiting scholars who made use of the UL’s unique Latin American collections, under another program endowed by Dr. Greenleaf. The partnership with the libraries extended into helping to preserve the LAII’s Latin American Digital Beat’s (LADB) three decades of articles and resources in perpetuity through adding them to UNM’s Digital Repository. In addition to these resources, at the LAII’s page in the Digital Repository, visitors are now able to download recordings from recent LAII lectures and symposia. This newly-developed collection of event recordings represents a rich collection of scholarship as evidenced by, during the past year alone, the LAII sponsored and co-sponsored over 75 events on topics ranging from Argentinian soccer chants to the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Tlatelolco to a panel on indigenous language preservation in Latin America. We always feel inspired by and privileged to be a part of these events.

This coming year, as we embark on our next decade, the LAII is undertaking a process of organizational renovation.

We welcome new staff, including Marleen Linares González as Communications and Outreach Specialist and Texanna Martin as Unit Administrator II; Associate Director Ronda Brulotte is leading a major redesign of the Latin American Studies program; the LAII is diversifying its funding base; and even our building is receiving some long overdue attention. Meanwhile, the LAII remains committed to maintaining and enhancing the robust programming you’ve become accustomed to. We hope to see you at our alumni event during homecoming week 2019, at any one of our lectures and events, at a K-12 teacher workshop, or at a community event co-sponsored by the LAII. Here’s to 40 more years of supporting learning and discovery about Latin America & Iberia.

Bill Stanley Director, Latin American & Iberian Institute Professor of Political Science The University of New Mexico

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Latin American Studies at UNM

The LAII’s Latin American Studies (LAS) program is a nationally prominent, competitive, interdisciplinary program that offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees which are conferred by the College of Arts & Sciences. In addition to the MA in Latin American Studies, we offer dual degree options with five programs (Business Administration, Community & Regional Planning, Education, Law, and Public Health) in which students simultaneously earn the MA in LAS and a professional degree. The LAS academic program builds on UNM’s long history of academic excellence in teaching, study, and research related to Latin America and Iberia.

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Students within the academic program benefit from a uniquely broad distribution of Latin American expertise across disciplines and colleges, as well as from having access to one of the premier Latin America-focused library collections in the US. The degree programs are designed to be both rigorous and flexible, with robust foreign language study requirements and faculty advisement. Students are able to build an academic program that meets their immediate academic interests while cultivating skills necessary for future career endeavors.

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L AT I N A M E R I C AN STU D I ES CO N T E N T CO U R S E S Latin American Studies (LAS) courses are offered in departments across campus. Undergraduate and graduate students have dozens of options each semester to use multiple and interdisciplinary lenses to examine essential questions relevant to Latin America, the broader hemisphere, and the world - to question human rights issues, governmental responsibilities, language preservation, healthy equity, and more. Throughout their coursework, LAS students become equipped with a malleable and marketable skill set, prepared to work for inter-American relations and mutual interests across public, private, and nonprofit sections. Below are a few highlights of courses offered in 2018-19.

MUS 447/547: Mexican Music Beyond Borders Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti This course takes as a point of departure an exploration of the music traditions of Mexican communities, in Mexico and in the U.S., to understand their cultural impact in both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Concentration is placed on indigenous, folk, popular, and art music traditions from historical, socio-cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. In this course, we will consider music as a means for identity formation and negotiation at individual, regional, national, and transnational levels. Image credit: CC Š Larry Lamsa.

CRP 474: Cultural Aspects of Planning: Race, Place, and Power Dr. Jennifer Tucker This course investigates the interrelationships between culture, race and place. Effective, justice-oriented community action requires in-depth knowledge of history, place and culture in order to adequately make sense of local conditions, identify possible pathways for change and the build the capacities necessary to enact transformation. Students will examine cases around the world, with an emphasis on the Americas, as contexts for applied exercises.

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L ANGUAG E COUR S ES AND R E S O U R C E S SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE (S&P): Teaching, learning, and scholarship related to Latin America relies on language proficiency and the ability to communicate with the diverse peoples of the region.

At UNM, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese plays a vital role in teaching the langues, cultures, and literatures of the Hispanic and Portuguese worlds. Their work, which plays an intrinsic role in the interdisciplinary Latin American Studies degree, approaches the languages as Spanish as a Second Language, Spanish as a Heritage Language, and Brazilian Portuguese. Their Hispanic Linguistics program was one of the first to be established in the country and is

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internationally ranked, and their Portuguese program dates back to the 1940s. Today, the breadth of faculty expertise in the department,

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including many affiliated with the LAII, helps to support robust Spanish and Portuguese courses.

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INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES: The LAII also encourages and facilitates the learning of indigenous languages of the region, including Quechua, K’iche’ Maya, and Nahuatl. Quechua is taught long-distance via instructors from the Centro Tinku of Peru; K’iche’ Maya is taught in-person by Dr. James Mondloch; and Nahuatl is taught through long-distance learning via instructors at the Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology (IDIEZ, for its initials in Spanish).

The Nahuatl courses were made possible with the generous support and partnership of the University of Utah’s Center for Latin American Studies .

Nahuatl learners on campus benefited particularly by a visit from instructor Eduardo De la Cruz of the IDIEZ. De la Cruz, a native Nahuatl speaker from the Huasteca region of Mexico, has taught Nahuatl to international students for several years and has recently begun teaching UNM students via long-distance learning courses organized by the LAII. He shared his time and knowledge generously while on campus, meeting with students individually as well as presenting on his research, “Cenyahtoc cintli tonacayo: huahcapatl huan tlen naman / El máiz sigue siendo nuestro muestro de ayer y hoy,” at Zimmerman Library; offering a cooking demonstration, “Fiesta de elotes y su comida sagrada: El caldo de pollo,” in partnership with

Image credit: Photograph of Eduardo De la Cruz sharing his linguistic and cultural knowledge of Nahuatl.

Chicana and Chicano Studies; and facilitating a workshop, “Taller de Nahuatl: Lenguaje, cultura y tradición” in partnership with El Centro de la Raza.

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FACULTY SP OTLIGH T: K’ ICH E’ MAYA IN ST R U C TOR D R . M ON D LOC H PU BL I S H E S N E W TRA N SL AT ION OF T HE POPO L W UJ

A new transcription and translation of the Popol Wuj, the sacred book of the K’iche’ Maya people, was published by Dr. James (Jim) Mondloch, a linguistic anthropologist and faculty affiliate of the LAII, and his colleague, ethnohistorian Robert (Bob) Carmack, Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Albany. It was edited by noted Nicaraguan historian Horacio Cabezas Carcache. Mondloch regularly teaches courses on K’iche’ Maya to UNM undergraduate and gradute students.

The book was released in October of 2018 by the Universidad Mesoamerica in Guatemala.

Shortly afterward, Mondloch traveled to Guatemala to celebrate its launch. Formal public presentations were held in Guatemala City and Quetzaltenango on October 4 and 5, 2018, with Mondloch presiding as the sole keynote speaker given that Carmack was unable to attend for health reasons. Photos and video from the presentations can be seen on the website of the Universidad Mesoamerica.

As Mondloch shared in an interview with the Guatemalan news source La Hora, “El Popol Wuj es impresionante. Nunca he visto un libro tan precioso. Por los comentarios que he recibido en las presentaciones del libro me parece que las personas están fascinadas con este texto del Popol Wuj, es un libro magnífico, no existe otro en América de esta calidad que presenta la cultura precolombina, es un tesoro para la lengua, todas las formas gramaticales del k’iche’ se encuentran allí.”

Mondloch and Carmack’s collaboration on this publication drew upon earlier co-authored works, including the transcription, translation, and annotation of several other sixteenth-century Mayan manuscripts: el Título de Totonicapan (1983), el Título de Yax (1989), and el Título Koyoi (2009). For this work, they divided the labor as they had in the past, with Carmack agreeing to contribute an analysis of the Popol Wu as well as commentary on previous English translations. Mondloch assumed responsibility for producing an updated transcription of the K’iche’ text which would employ the current alphabet in use for writing Mayan languages, contribute notes with linguistic observations of the text, and translate the text into Spanish.

Mondloch’s interest in Guatemala began when he moved there in 1965 as a Catholic missionary. He spent the best part of the next fifteen years living and working in the coastal K’iche’ speaking communities of Nahualá and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan in the Departamento de Sololá. During those years, he immersed himself in the study of the K’iche’ language and culture. He has written and published a number of books and articles on those subjects, including the only K’iche’ grammar book found in English, Basic K’ichee’ Grammar. He later earned his PhD in Linguistics and Anthropology from the State University of New York at Albany in 1981. In 1976, he married Maria Tahay Carrillo, a native of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan, Guatemala. They were forced to leave Guatemala in 1981 due to the terrible violence inflicted on the Mayan communities by the Guatemalan government military and police at that time. Since their arrival in the US, New Mexico has been home. Mondloch has long taught courses in the K’iche’ Maya language at UNM, beginning in 1991. His classes have a strong following of dedicated students. Recently, he also oversaw the K’iche’ Maya Oral History Project, which involved the digitization of over one hundred oral histories he recorded during his earlier years in Guatemala. In Spring 2019 he shared his research and the process behind his most recent publication through a public campus lecture.

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L AS GRADUATE STU D ENTS Graduate students in the UNM LAS program are diverse, drawing upon a range of academic, professional, and personal experiences related to Latin America. Each semester we welcome a new cohort, support those with degrees underway, and bid farewell to our graduating class. To learn more about each student, visit the LAII website (http://laii.unm.edu/ people/students/las-graduates/overview.html).

INCOMING (F18)

Javier Astorga

IN PROGRESS

Neil Michael Ayala Ayala

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Alin Badillo Carillo

Carolina Bucheli-Peñafiel

PhD

PhD

MALAS

MALAS

Geography &

Geography &

Public Health; Urbanism

Communication; Spanish

Environmental Studies;

Environmental Studies;

and Community

American Literature

Built Environment

Built Environment

Development

Dinka Natali

Santiago Carrasco García

Arturo Castillo

Sheena Chakeres

Caceres Arteaga

MALAS

MALAS

MALAS

PhD

Geography &

Gender Studies; History

Geography &

Geography & Environmental Studies;

Environmental Studies;

Environmental Studies;

Communication

Spanish Linguistics

Built Environment

Elisa Cibils

Chaz Clark

Fátima del Angel Guevara

Sienna Dellepiane

MALAS/JD

MALAS

MALAS

MALAS

History; Human Rights

History; Political Science

Indigenous Studies;

Indigenous Studies;

Anthropology

Art History

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Robert Donnelly

Jeremy Falson

PhD

MALAS

PhD

MALAS/JD

Sociology; Political Science

Sociology; Political

Geography and Environmental

Human Rights; History

Science

Studies; Built Environment

Ursula Anna Freire Castro

Sabrina Hernandez

Luis Sergio Hinojosa-Cantú

Nora Lamm

Devon Lara

MALAS

MALAS/MCRP

MALAS/MPH

MALAS

Spanish Linguistics;

Geography and

Communication;

History; Anthropology

Environmental Studies,

Public Health

Southwest Studies

David Lindwall

Urbanism & Community Development

Hayley Pedrick

Denisse

Monserrat Andrea

MALAS

Vásquez-Guevara

Fernandez Vela

MALAS/MPH Public Health; Geography &

Geography & Environmental Studies; Brazilian Studies

PhD

PhD

Communication & Journalism;

Communication;

Built Environment

Sociology

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Environmental Studies

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L AS P HD STUDENT SPOT LIGHT: UR SU LA FR E IR E

Ursula Anna Freire Castro successfully defended her dissertation, Climate in Architecture: Revision of Early Origins, and earned distinction to complete her PhD in Latin American Studies in Spring 2019 with concentrations in Built Environment and Geography and Environmental Studies, two disciplines that did not have PhD programs as a part of their regular offerings at the time. Dr. Freire Castro started her program in Spring 2015 as a part of the doctoral education programs for faculty members from Ecuador, with the support of Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE) where she serves as an architecture professor. Freire embraced the interdisciplinary nature of the LAS program and developed a distinctive PhD program tailor-made to her needs and academic interests.

Freire is a believer in the intent behind the initiative. “Ecuador is seeking independence from foreign teachers. When faculty come from abroad, they look at your country from the outside. This initiative is not to transform Ecuador externally, but to make it better from the inside. Developing faculty through further research and scholarship completes the journey,” she said. UCE, the country’s largest university, is “taking a big gamble” on its faculty studying at UNM, she said, adding, “There are risks for us, the country, and the university to do something to preserve the beautiful country we have.”

Combining architecture and geography are natural for Freire. “In Ecuador, sustainability is a way of life for many. You cannot help but be connected to nature because of the beauty of the land,” she said. The classes she took at UNM have provided opportunities to explore that consciousness in different ways.

Freire also built a strong connection with her faculty committee. Many commented on how easy and enlightening it was to work with her and other students from Ecuador. “You cannot find a more ideal student than someone who is already a faculty member. They know they still have jobs. They are thinking about what they are taking back to their own classrooms,” Dr. Maria Lane said, a faculty member from Geography & Environmental Studies.

“Ursula has brought to our classes a rich and multifaceted perspective: as an architect and an architecture faculty member in Ecuador, she is passionate about the current debates in architecture,” Eleni Bastea said, faculty member from Architecture. Architecture Visiting Lecturer David Schneider, also on Freire’s committee, encouraged poeticism in Freire’s work. Freire said of her project, “Doing a dissertation is a way of life. I spent these years analyzing lost artifacts and reading old texts which were written so beautifully, I got a glimpse into the soul of scientists, artists and nature lovers. Everyone did more than what their job required when I needed help or guidance. The work ethics of the academic community at UNM is something that I respect enormously, I want to bring that back [to Ecuador] in some way.”

After graduating Freire returned to her faculty position at UCE and is looking forward to teaching the next generation of Ecuadorian architects with this infused view of interdisciplinary nature of professional training.

Text credit: Adapted from UNM Newsroom article published in 2015 by Carolyn Gonzales. Icon credit: Flaticon.

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“ I N E C U A D O R , S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y I S A WAY O F L I F E F O R M A N Y. YO U C A N N O T H E L P B U T B E C O N N E C T E D T O N AT U R E B E C A U S E O F T H E B E AU T Y O F T H E L A N D.” – A R C H I T E C T U R E P R O F E S S O R U R S U L A F R E I R E , U N I V E R S I DA D C E N T R A L D E L E C UA D O R

Image credit: Photo of Cajas National Park, Cuenca, Ecuador, reprinted courtesy of Dan Romero on Unsplash

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2 01 9 DE PA R TM ENTAL CONVO C AT I O N Each spring, the Latin American Studies (LAS) program holds a convocation to celebrate its graduating students. As they honor their academic career among family, friends, and faculty, these students join the ranks of UNM’s distinguished alumni and become part of UNM’s long history of dedication to Latin America.

The 2019 convocation included comments by Dr. William Stanley, LAII Director; Dr. Ronda Brulotte, LAII Associate Director for Academic Programs; Hayley Pedrick, outgoing SOLAS president; and, as keynote speaker, Patrick Schaefer, a UNM MALAS alumnus and Executive Director of the Hunt Institute for Global Competitiveness at the University of Texas at El Paso. The afternoon was made extra special by a guest performance of the recently-formed Mariachi Juvenil student group, led in part by LAS undergraduate student Sandra Martinez. The following individuals were recognized:

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Mirna Cacho, BA Santiago Carrasco García, MALAS Arial Deherrera, BA Ursula Freire Castro, PhD Natalie Gulan, BA Nora Lamm, MALAS/MCRP Amber Martinez, BA Faith Myers, BA Hayley Pedrick, MALAS Raquel Sanchez, BA Pamela Simmons, BA Denisse Vásquez-Guevara, PhD Javier Venegas, BA

Image credit: All convocation photos courtesy of Carolina Bucheli, MALAS student and LAII graduate assistant.

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A LUMN US SPOTLIGH T: PAT RICK SC HA E FE R

Patrick Schaefer (MALAS, 2005) is the Executive Director of the Hunt Institute for Global Competitiveness, a regional resource located at the University of Texas at El Paso that produces detailed economic and legal analysis of the various markets that converge in the transboundary, Paso del Norte region. The Institute provides an open platform of regional databases, strategic sector analysis, comprehensive GIS sector mapping, and economic impact modeling in order to foster greater cohesion and resilience of the region’s markets by sharing with local, regional, and international stakeholders.

Prior to founding the Institute, Patrick held positions with the World Bank Group and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., where he advised client-states on legal reforms to improve their commercial and financial sectors. In particular, his work centers on the comparative commercial, financial, and natural resource laws within the Ibero-American context, with a special emphasis on Mexico, Spain, Brazil, and Portugal. He received his JD from The University of New Mexico School of Law and his LL.M. from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has also studied at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, the Universidade de São Paulo, the Université Paris 1: Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Hague Academy for International Law, the Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, graduating magna cum laude, and St. John’s College, where he received his undergraduate degree. He is an adjunct professor of NAFTA Law at the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at El Paso and has coached two teams from the Law Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez to two international arbitration competitions in Vienna and Los Angeles.

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Latin American Studies at CNM

The LAII started a partnership with Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) in 2014 to strengthen the relationship and leverage resources between the UNM and CNM Latin American Studies programs, the latter just recently established at that time.

Since its inception, the LAS program at CNM has attracted students to the study of Latin America. Housed within the CNM School of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences (CHSS), the program provides students with an interdisciplinary foundation for understanding the Latin American region through

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cultural anthropology, history, geography, language, and literature, among other disciplines. Students gain language skills and area competencies valuable in business, public service, and/or further training.

CNM students who seek to continue their Latin American Studies at UNM receive coordinated advisement from staff in each program. This seamless student support is made possible in part thanks to the close working relationship of CNM and UNM LAS administrators, particularly the leadership of Erica Volkers,

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Dean of CHSS, and the perspective brought by Dr. Brandon Morgan, who serves as the chairperson of Latin American Studies, as well as History, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Science, and Economics. Morgan earned his PhD in Latin American and Borderlands History from UNM in 2013. His research focuses on the ways that violence has both destroyed and forged communities along the New Mexico-Chihuahua border between the 1880s and the 1930s. For the past several years, he has worked on the partnership between the LAII and CNM to build a Latin American Studies Associate in Arts program. Along Image: Brandon Morgan

with coursework, the program includes study abroad opportunities in Latin America for CNM students. So far, the CNM Latin American Studies faculty has led a trip to Antigua, Guatemala, which they hope to repeat next spring.

CN M•UNM LATI N AM ER I C AN ST U D I E S LE C T U R E S E R I E S As part of the effort to bridge the programs at each campus, the LAII regularly coordinates the CNM•UNM LAS Speaker Series, as part of which dynamic faculty and graduate students from UNM visit CNM to present their research and experiences as Latin Americanist scholars. In 2018-2019, the following speakers spoke to enthusiastic students at CNM:

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Doris Careaga-Coleman, Lecturer III, Chicana & Chicano Studies - Afro-Mexican Cuisine in Tamiahua Laura Powell, PhD Candidate, Department of History - Indigenous Andeans: Race and Ethnicity from Colony to Nation Jennifer Tucker, Assistant Professor, Community & Regional Planning - Policing the City: From Albuquerque to Rio de Janeiro

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Jens Van Gysel, PhD Candidate, Department of Linguistics - Multilingualism, Language Contact, and Language Endangerment in Paraguay

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David Lindwall, Retired US Department of State Foreign Service Officer and MA student, Department of Latin American Studies - The US Embassy’s Role in Human Rights in Guatemala: How Foreign Service Officers Can Make a Difference

JO INT GRANT AWAR D ED TO S U PPO R T H U M A N I T I E S T R A N S FER STUDE N TS In Spring 2019 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a joint grant of $2 million to UNM and CNM to increase the number of students pursuing associate and bachelor’s degrees in the humanities and to support the transfer of those students from CNM and UNM. Faculty and administrators involved in developing the grant proposal drew upon the success of the LAII’s ongoing partnership with CNM, using the LAS collaboration as a model to think about how to best serve transfer students and to engage CNM humanities students after their arrival to UNM. Dr. Ronda Brulotte, LAII Associate Director for Academic Programs, serves on the steering committee and has advised on the development of the initiative.

“By working together through this grant, CNM and UNM can help many more students interested in the humanities receive the support they need to complete degrees and succeed in their chosen career,” said Erica Volkers, Dean of the School of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences at CNM. “Graduates of the humanities are instilled with important lifelong attributes that enhance the quality of work environments. We’re excited about the potential of this grant to help more students complete degrees in the humanities and become highly valued professionals.”

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Where first-time freshman students have a lot of resources built in at UNM – orientation, dedicated advisors, etc. – transfer students are often seen as self-guided, independent, and knowledgeable. But non-traditional students can benefit greatly from the same support afforded to freshmen. With their initiative to increase partnerships between community colleges and universities, the Mellon Foundation is helping to empower students who might otherwise be lost in the system.

“Greater communication and intentional partnerships across institutions can lead to greater success,” observes Dr. Irene Vásquez, Chair of the Chicana and Chicano Studies program and instrumental member of the steering committee.

“Collaboration with CNM allows us to imagine ourselves as sharing a pool of students. Connecting faculty and students will prepare people transferring to UNM by familiarizing them with admission and transfer policies and practices, navigating the campus, and understanding degree requirements and funding options.”

When transfer students have a clear path to earning their BA, it not only makes the process more pleasant and seamless, it can reduce the amount of time it takes for them to graduate. Part of this initiative includes bringing CNM students to the UNM campus to help create a sense of belonging in the UNM community. Through open houses and connections with faculty and fellow students, the goal is to ensure a holistic, supportive experience.

Image credit: Melisa Garcia, PhD candidate, Department of English; Mellon Graduate Student.

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Student Research & Awards

The LAII stimulates Latin American research and scholarship by supporting students within the Latin American Studies program and from affiliated departments across campus. Funding may take the form of fellowships or scholarship for field research, advanced doctoral studies, or professional development at conferences.

Students at both undergraduate and graduate levels benefit from this interdisciplinary, cross-campus support.

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F IELD RE S E AR C H GR ANT R E C I PI E N TS Each spring the LAII awards Field Research Grants (FRGs) to graduate students across campus who pursue research in Latin America.

FRGs provide graduate students an opportunity to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of Latin American languages, terrain, and cultures; to become familiar with information sources relevant to their studies; to conduct pilot studies and preliminary investigations that will inform their thesis or dissertation proposals; and to develop contacts with scholars and institutions in their fields of study.

Chris Anderson Cuba | Biology | Estimating the evolutionary history of Anolis lizards

Joseph Barnett Cuba | Biology | The Ecology of Ontogeny in Anolis Lizards

S c h u y l e r L i p h a r dt Panama | Biology | Bats as natural carriers of hantavirus disease in Panama

Juan Barrera Ortega Colombia | Spanish and Portuguese | Corpus FonMed. Habla de laboratorio

C a r lo s C o n t r e r as Mexico | Political Science | Sexual Assault and Harassment in Mexican Universities

Paige Lynch Mexico | Anthropology | Examining structural violence and resource access through stable isotopic analyses in Colonial Period Mexico City

P ROFE SS I ONAL M EETI NGS The LAII periodically provides conference travel support for undergraduate and graduate LAS students.

Isaiah Romo LAS & Economics | Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies | Tracing Son Jarocho’s Transnational Musical Networks

Alexandra Villegas LAS & Public Health | The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Conference | Foodways Across Borders and Shaping New Foodscapes

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P HD FE LLOWS LAII PhD Fellowships are highly competitive awards given to doctoral students across campus to support Latin Americarelated dissertation research and writing. The following students held fellowships during the 2018-2019 academic year.

K e i ko B e e r s Linguistics | Exploring Language Endangerment and Language Change in Tohono O’odham Her research investigates the degree and context of change within the grammar of Tohono O’odham, an endangered Native American language spoken in Arizona (US) and Sonora (Mexico), over approximately the last 100 years.

Diego Bustos Spanish and Portuguese | Middle Class Aspirations and Citizenship in Brazilian and Colombian Contemporary Fiction, 2000-2015 His comparative project broaches the cultural politics of class in Brazilian and Colombian literature through an analysis of contemporary literature from both countries and the dialectic relationship between the emergence of new middle classes and the formation of a national imaginary.

C a r lo s C a r r i o n Biology | Implementing a Montitoring Program to Catalog Zoonotic Pathogens Transmitted by Insectivorous Bats to Humans in Ecuador: Novel Infrastructure for Prevention and Prediction of Pandemics in Latin America His research focuses on the evolutionary history and species limits of bats of the genus Myotis and associated pathogens using molecular genetic techniques and developing monitoring protocols to reinforce national surveillance programs of infectious diseases in Ecuador.

J a m e s D av e n p o r t Anthropology | Hand of the Potter, Hand of the State: Communication and Imperial Control in Tawantinsuyu His dissertation research examines how empires provision objects used in ceremonies, rituals, and other activities which occurred in the subjugated provinces that are designed to promote imperial control.

M a r i a T e r e s a G u e va r a B e lt r á n Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies | Untold Stories of (lm)Migration, Language Learning and Socialization Her research focuses on the different ways in which Spanish-speaking immigrants’ narratives of migration, language learning, and socialization are shaped by intersections of identity, race, class, gender, nationality, language, citizenship and power.

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L a u r a P o w e ll History | Ayllus, Haciendas, and the State: Indigenous Communities during Nation-Building in the Nineteenth Century her dissertation explores the history of indigenous people of the Ecuadorian highlands during the 19th century and the developing relationships between indigenous individuals, indigenous communities, regional landowners, and the emerging Ecuadorian national government.

Beau Murphy Anthropology | Architecture and Imperialism at the Inka-Local Administrative Site of Turi, Northern Chile His research focuses on the Inka administrative site of Tiru in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile and how the visibility of its architectural symbols in frequent, mundane, contexts for subjects of the Inka empire in the fifteenth century may have been used as a tool to promote Inka supremacy.

G e n e va S m i t h Anthropology | Governing GMO Soy: Policy-Making, Expertise, and Economic Justice in the Global South Focusing on Argentinian soy production, her dissertation asks how policies and policy-makers in the Global South engage in scientific and economic controversies through the promotion of GMO soy.

D e n i ss e V รก s q u e z -G u e va r a Latin American Studies | Science For All: How Can We Communicate Research to Society?

Overcoming the Issues in Science Communication through Public Engagement in Latin America Her dissertation explores the emerging issues that researchers face with mass media, communication campaigns, and cultural aspects of their target audiences when they aim to develop strategies for developing science communication for society at large.

F i o r e ll a V e r a -A d r i a n z e n Political Science | Building Citizenship: The Effects of Reparative Justice on Individuals and Communities in Post-conflict Peru Specializing in Comparative Politics and International Relations, her research focuses on postconflict transitional justice in Latin America, as well as social welfare and grassroots development in the region.

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Faculty Research & Awards

The LAII is sustained and enhanced by the research, teaching, and service of its affiliated faculty across campus. Over one hundred faculty contribute to these efforts and are affiliated with

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the Institute. To support this broad community, the LAII awards funding for field research, conference travel, course development,

A F F I L I AT E D FA C U LT Y W H O

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P ROFE SS I ONAL M EETI NGS

D o m i n i k a L a s t e r Theater Hemispheric Institute, XI Encuentro The World Inside

The LAII provided professional development funds

Out: Disidentifying Borders: Migration and Coalitional

to 17 faculty to present papers at academic and

Futurity Across the Americas

professional conferences in the U.S. and abroad.

M i c h a e l R ya n History Modern Languages Association International

N ao m i S h i n Spanish & Portuguese/Linguistics Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

M a r g a r e t J ac k s o n Art & Art History

Symposium: An Empire of Alchemy

M a r y Q u i n n Spanish & Portuguese Renaissance Society of America: The Sense of Style in

American Society for Ethnohistory: The Plieades

a Neapolitan Dramma Musicale

Narrative: Moche Murals and North Coast Creation

S u s a n n a M a r t í n e z G u i l l e m Communication &

Stories

E va R o d r í g u e z G o n z á l e z Spanish & Portuguese Hispanic Linguistics Symposium: Word frequency, Verb Type & Phonological Neighborhood Density in L2 Spanish Verb Development

P at r i c i a R o s a s L o pát e g u i Chicana & Chicano Studies | Obras completes de Guadalupe Duenas: El asesinato de Elena Garro: 50 aniversario massacre de Tlatelolco

D a m i á n W i l s o n Spanish & Portuguese Hispanic Linguistics Symposium: Teaching Applied Linguistics in a Study Abroad Context

A n n a N o g a r Spanish & Portuguese Modern Languages Association Conference: Movida at the Margins: 18th Century Agredan Devotion from

Journalism | International Communication Association,

C h r i s D u va l l Geography & Environmental Sciences World Congress of Environmental History: The Coecologies of cannabis and trypanosomiasis in the 19th century Atlantic

K i m b e r ly G a u d e r m a n History Latin American Studies Association: Queering Asylum: Latin American LGBTQ

K e n c y C o r n e j o Art & Art History Conference: Sonic Healing in the Age of Border Imperialism: The Art of Guadalupe Maravill

S u z a n n e O a k da l e Anthropology Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Purported Love Affairs and the Demarcation of the Xingu Park

Mexico to Manila

L u i s H e r r á n Á v i l a History American Historical Association: Anticommunism, Right Wing Dissidence, and the Lexicon of Repression

FI E LD R E S E A R C H G R A NT R E C I PI E N TS

in 1960s Mexico

M i g u e l L ó p e z Spanish & Portuguese Cine-Lit IX: Ghosts of Gendered Violence in Spanish Film // Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association: Detecting Serial Killers in Cesar Silva Marquez La balada de los arcos dorados

K i m b e r l e L ó p e z Spanish & Portuguese Cine-Lit IX: Guerras Sucias and Adoptions Ethics in Film

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The LAII annually holds a competition for faculty grants to support beginning field research on new projects or to complete, supplement, or add a comparative dimension to field work conducted previously in Latin America, Spain, or Portugal. In this award cycle, we supported one project:

D r . S h i r l e y H e y i n g , UNM-Gallup, Arts & Sciences | Guatemala | Child Survivors of Genocide: Trauma, Resilience, and Indigeneity in Guatemala

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INT E RDI S C I P L I NARY P R OJ EC T D E V E LO PM E N T G R A N TS As part of the LAII’s efforts to foster stimulating teaching and scholarship on Latin America, we have issued a call for proposals for interdisciplinary project development awards. The awards are intended to assist UNM full time tenured or tenure-track faculty in developing interdisciplinary research and creative activities, including but not limited to writing and submission of extra-mural funding proposals related to Latin American and Iberian area studies. In this award cycle, we supported the following proposals:

S z u -H a n H o Associate Professor, Department of Art This proposal provided support funding for the completion of two video documentaries (longform and short-form) about Migrant Songs, a choral performance piece based on human and non-human stories of migration. Migrant Songs (conceived, directed, and, produced by Szu-Han Ho) is an experimental visual and sound performance that incorporates interviews with migrants living in the city of Albuquerque who come from many parts of the world, including Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Costa Rica, The Philippines, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tanzania, to name a few. These stories of human migration are woven together with bird songs from the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico to explore how we think about migration, our sense of home and dislocation, as well as the biological role of song in both humans and non-humans. The performance took place on March 28th and 29th, 2019 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center as part of the Revolutions International Theatre Festival. The aim of the project is to help shift the national discourses on migration, currently characterized by crisis and political deadlock. The long-form and short-form video documentaries about Migrant Songs will be used in community screenings and on social media to disseminate the project beyond the live performance events.

S h e r m a n W i l c ox Professor, Department of Linguistics R o c í o M a r t í n e z PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Buenos Aires (Dept. of Linguistics), CONICET In the past few years, a movement of deaf artists has been strengthening in Argentina. These artists have grown in popularity thanks to social media platforms (YouTube, Facebook, and others) as well as the organization of different artistic events in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In spite of the fact that within the Argentine deaf community these have been considered important steps in the recognition of their culture, there is still little knowledge about the deaf artistic movement outside the community. What is more, the deaf community in Argentina has been declaring that their visual language and culture have not received sufficient respect and legitimacy.

Thus, this project represents an effort to support the recognition and legitimacy of LSA and deaf art in Argentina and in Latin America. The aim of the project is to contribute to the knowledge of Argentine Sign Language (LSA) and the deaf culture in Argentina from an interdisciplinary point of view that merges Linguistics and Art. To achieve this goal, Dr. Wilcox collaborated with Dr. Rocío Martínez (a linguist who specializes in the grammar of LSA) and Diego Morales (a renowned Argentine deaf artist, a leader of the Argentine deaf community, and an LSA teacher) to be part of the research team that will make the first interdisciplinary approach to creative uses of space in storytelling, poetry, and song translation in LSA by Argentine deaf artists.

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Images: Migrant Songs photography by Stefan Jennings Batista, reprinted with permission.

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FACULTY PU B L I C ATI ONS

Dr. Anna Nogar, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

The University of New Mexico boasts a wide array

Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda and the lady in blue,

of Latin American and Iberian scholarship produced

1628 to the present. Southbend: University of Notre

through the intellectual efforts of our many

Dame Press.

Nogar, A. M. (2018) Quill and cross in the borderlands:

affiliated faculty. Each year, we acknowledge their accomplishments by highlighting their book and

Dr. Rebecca Schreiber, Department of American

related publications from the preceding calendar year

Studies

(2018). The moment allows us to acknowledge the

Schreiber, R. M. (2018). The undocumented everyday:

breadth and depth of scholarship that happens daily

Migrant lives and the politics of visibility. Minneapolis:

here on campus

University of Minnesota Press.

Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti, Department of Music

Dr. Naomi Shin, Department of Linguistics

Alonso-Minutti, A. R., Herrera, E., & Madrid, A.L. (2018).

Potowski, K. & Shin, N. (2018). Gramática española:

Experimentalisms in practice: Music perspectives from

Variación social. New York: Routledge.

Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press.

Shin, Naomi L. & Daniel Erker (Eds.). (2018).

Dr. Patricia Covarrubias, Department of Chicana and

Questioning theoretical primitives in linguistic inquiry

Chicano Studies

(Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy). Amsterdam:

Hall, B. J., Covarrubias, P. O., & Kirschbaum, K. (2018).

John Benjamins Publishing.

Among cultures: The challenge of communication. 3rd edition. London: Routledge.

Dr. Michael Candelaria, Department of Religious Studies

Dr. Mala Htun, Department of Political Science

Candelaria, M. R. (2018). The Latino Christ in art,

Htun, M. & Weldon, L. S. (2018). The logics of gender

literature, and liberation theology. Albuquerque:

justice: State action on women’s rights around the

University of New Mexico Press.

world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dr. Rosa Vallejos Yopan, Department of Linguistics Dr. Elizabeth Hutchison, Department of History

Overall, S. E., Vallejos, R., & Gildea, S. (Eds.). (2018).

Hutchison, E., Milanich, N., Klubock, T., & Winn, P.

Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages (Vol.

(2018). The Chile reader: Society, culture, politics, 2nd

122). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

Edition. Durham: Duke University Press.

Dr. James Mondloch, LAII Mondloch, J. & Carmack, R. (2018). Popol Wuj: Nueva traducción y comentarios. Guatemala: Universidad Mesoamericana Dr. Manuel Montoya, Anderson School of Management Montoya, M. (Ed.). (2018). Outside the margins: The blue book on the global refugee crisis. Albuquerque: UNM Anderson School of Management.

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L A I I A F F I L I AT E D FA C U LT Y P U B L I S H E D 1 1 B O O K S , 2 6 BOOK CHAPTERS, AND 98 ARTICLES IN 2018.

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FACULTY SP OTLIGH T: DR. GABRIE LA TOR R E S- M A ZU E R A

In Fall 2018, the LAII welcomed Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera to campus as the first scholar to hold the role of Mexico Studies Chair at UNM, a position jointly established by UNM and the COMEXUS Fulbright-García Robles program.

COMEXUS, or the US-Mexico Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 which represents a binational effort between the US and Mexico to promote educational and cultural exchange. Its academic exchange programs for students, faculty, and researchers from both countries are governed under the FulbrightGarcía Robles program. UNM is one of only three US institutions collaborating with the COMEXUS Fulbright-García Robles program to offer a Mexico Studies Chair position, and Dr. Torres-Mazuera is the first to hold the position in New Mexico.

Dr. Torres-Mazuera is a research professor at the Center for Research and Higher Education in Social Anthropology (CIESAS, for its initials in Spanish) in Mérida, Yucatán. Her field of study is contemporary rural and indigenous Mexico, with research emphasizing three axes, including the lags between official legislation, vernacular and indigenous “uses and customs,” the legal and political resistance of Indigenous peoples and peasant groups facing processes of privatization and commodification of their natural resources (land, seeds, water, forests), and the dynamics of governance of the rural, agrarian and indigenous societies in contexts of legal and institutional change.

During her time on campus, she met with UNM graduate students and faculty, taught a course on “Rural Development and Ecological Conservation in Mexico: A Critical Approach;” presented on her research, “Deregulating the Social Life of Property: Neoliberalism and Proliferation of Normative Dissonances in Mexico”; shared her experiences as a presenter in the Richard E. Greenleaf Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Rural Transformations in Latin America”; and spoke alongside a colleague, Dr. Vivette García Deister, with whom she authored a chapter in the edited anthology, Beyond Alterity: Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico.”

As Dr. Ronda Brulotte, Associate Director for Academic Programs for the LAII, shared, “We were thrilled to host Dr. Torres-Mazuera at UNM. Her work is very interdisciplinary in its focus and was of interest to students and faculty across campus. Her expertise in indigenous governance, rights and resource management in Mexico was particularly relevant to the local Southwest context.”

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During my stay, I taught a course focused on rural development and ecological conservation in Mexico. The experience of teaching a course to graduate students from LAII and from the Department of Geography and Environment Studies was very enriching even if it was a small group (three students). The dialogue established with the UNM students allowed me to have an approach to some of the socio-environmental problems in New Mexico. It was revealing to understand how much both countries, Mexico and the US, are connected when we consider the environmental issues and public policies with which they are addressed. It was also very interesting to observe the contrasts that exist in terms of property regimes, inter-ethnic relations, and recognition policies in both countries. The course allowed me to confirm a supposed basis of sociocultural anthropology: that the comparative approach allows a deeper understanding of any social phenomenon, especially when it comes to two neighboring countries that depend on each other in many aspects of their national development.

I also had the opportunity to present my research at events organized around campus. All the presentations, seminars and especially the graduate course allowed me to meet professors and students of the UNM, to know the problems of the region, to establish comparative analyzes between them and those that I observe in the region where I live and work, which certainly has contributed very positively to expand my networks of knowledge exchange and professional practice.

- Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, UNM Mexico Studies Chair, 2018-2019

Image credit: Dr. Torres-Mazuera, Chichen Itza.

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Academic Lectures

Image: Dr. Patricia Rosas Lopรกtegui presenting on the massacre of Tlatelolco as as part of THE LAII Lecture Series.

The LAII maintains a thriving outreach program that reaches across and beyond UNM. In addition to hosting our own events, we cosponsor a range of programs in partnership with departments and organizations across campus. Lecture series, invited presentations, and conferences all contribute to the dynamic learning experience at UNM.

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LA II LE C T U R E SE R IE S Each year the LAII Lecture Series brings together knowledgeable speakers on a range of topics, drawing on local and invited scholars. In 2018-19 we featured 21 faculty, independent scholars, authors, and artists:

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Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera, UNM Mexico Studies Chair — Deregulating the Social Life of Property: Neoliberalism and Proliferation of Normative Dissonances in Mexico

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Dr. Patricia Rosa Lopátegui, UNM Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, and colleagues Dr. Miguel López of the UNM Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Dr. Irene Vásquez of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies — 50 años de la masacre de Tlatelolco: Elena Garro y el 68: Violencia y persecución del Estado mexicano

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Mayra Orellano-Powell and Karla McNeil-Rueda, women entrepreneurs of color — Women in Coffee and Chocolate

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Dr. Catherine Rhodes, UNM Department of Anthropology, and colleagues Josefina Bittar, PhD student in the Department of Linguistics; Dr. Richard File Muriel, Associate Professor of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Josué Aciego, PhD student in Anthropology; and Dr. Melissa Axelrod, Professor Emerita of Department of Linguistics — Expert Practices: Ethical Considerations in Disseminating Findings About Indigenous and Politically Non-Dominant Languages

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Dr. Bruno Aguilera Barchet, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos — Trying to Resolve Political Issues through Law: The Spanish State and the Catalan Conflict

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Dr. Anna M. Nogar, Department of Spanish & Portuguese — Quill and Cross in the Borderlands

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Dr. Doris Careaga-Coleman, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies — La culinaria afrodescendiente de Tamiahua

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Dr. Larry Larrichio, LAII Research Associate — Merging Natural and Cultural Landscapes: Field Experiences Along the Camino Real del Quindío in Colonial Colombia

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Dr. Andrés Cibils, New Mexico State University — Raramuri Criollo Cattle and Climate Change in the Desert Southwest

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Dr. James Mondloch, LAII — Our Roles in the Conceptualization and Writing of Popl Wuj: Nueva Traducción y Comentarios

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Dr. Kimberly Gauderman Department of History and Rebecca Kitson, JD — Asylum Seekers’ Journey: Challenges Along the Path

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Simon Romero, journalist — From Brazil to the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Journalist’s Perspective on Reporting in the Americas

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Dr. Alice Driver, journalist — On the Road with the Migrant Caravan

MUS I CO LO GY LECTURES Under the leadership of Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti of the Department of Music, the 2018-19 Musicology Colloquium Series was once again a success. In addition to individual lectures, campus also benefited from an author panel organized as an extension of the 2019 Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Decolonizing Strategies in Ethnomusicology, Teaching and Performance: Perspectives from the U.S. Southwest and Latin America, held in Nov. in Albuquerque.

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Dr. Jason Borge, University of Texas at Austin — The Cruelty of Jazz: Toward a Hemispheric Politics of Sound

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Dr. Eduardo Herrera, Rutgers University — Embodying Fandom: Chanting in Twentieth-Century Argentine Soccer

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Dr. Ana Alonso-Minutti, Department of Music, and colleagues Dr. Eduardo Herrera of Rutgers University and Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid of Cornell University — Experimentalisms in Practice: Book Presentation with Authors

I NT E RDI SC I PLINARY LECT URE SE R IE S I N L I N G UI STI CS The LAII and Departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics once more partnered on an interdisciplinary series.

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Dr. Earl K. Brown, Brigham Young University, The Peer Pressure That Sounds Succumb to: The Effect of Cumulative Frequency in Contexts that Favor Reduction

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Dr. Eduardo Hernández-Chávez, Uses of Spanish and English in the Narration of a Mexican Immigrant Woman

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EV E NT SPOTL IGHT: PACKED FALL E V E N T HIGHLIGHT E D IN T E R E ST IN N E W MEX I CO ’S RI C H BILINGUAL H ERITAGE

The LAII proudly partnered with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Linguistics, Alumni Association, and National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) on an event that emphasized the richness and complexity of bilingualism in the State of New Mexico. The evening program took place November 8, 2018, at the NHCC and featured a breadth of speakers who addressed the state’s bilingual history.

At the center of the program was a book launch of Bilingualism in the Community (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a recent publication on code switching that brings to light exciting research documenting that, contrary to popular beliefs about language mixing, bilinguals are skilled at maintaining distinct grammatical structures in their two languages, while switching between them.

A panel of speakers took inspiration from the book’s findings, elaborating on the importance of Spanish bilingualism in New Mexico. Speakers included Eliso “Cheo” Torres, UNM Vice President for Student Affairs; Simon Romero, correspondent for the New York Times; Garland Bills, author with Neddy Vigil of The Spanish Language and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas; Joan Bybee, Distinguished Professor Emerita; Anna Nogar, Naomi Shin, and Damián Vergara Wilson, UNM; Daniel Abeyta, Bosque School; and authors Rene Torres Cacoullos and Catherine Travis. A reception followed, featuring student work from UNM’s Spanish as a Heritage Language program.

A N A U D I E N C E O F FA C U LT Y, S T U D E N T S , T E A C H E R S , A N D C O M M U N I T Y M E M B E R S F I L L E D T H E R O O M T O C A PA C I T Y A S T H E Y L I S T E N E D T O S C H O L A R S S H O W C A S E T H E S K I L L E D L A N G UAG E M I X I N G O F N U E VO M E X I C A N O S .

Commemorating LADB

The LAII’s Latin America Digital Beat (LADB), known for most of its existence as the Latin America Data Base, provided comprehensive coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean for more than three decades, from the mid-1980s to 2018. During this time, the news service covered many of the most important political and economic developments in the region, such as peacemaking efforts, migration, gender equity, environment and climate change, the drug trade, and economic integration.

Faced with competition from the flood of searchable news sources and free blogs, LADB’s subscriber base eroded in recent years.

Production of new articles ended in April of 2018.

L A D B WA S AT T H E F O R E F R O N T O F D I G I TA L J O U R N A L I S M , COV E R I N G THE REGION FROM THE MID-1980s TO 2018.

In 2019, the LAII honored its legacy with a series of public lectures involving noted New York Times Simon Romero and acclaimed journalist Alice Driver. At the conclusion of the semester, the LAII held a final, commemorative event, “LADB: A Retrospective: Three Decades of Journalism in the Americas,” featuring LADB Editor Carlos Navarro and former LADB staff and writers Dr. Nelson Valdés, Rebecca Hemphill, Vickie Nelson, Patricia Hynds, Kevin RobinsonAvila, Robert Sandels, and Deborah Tyroler.

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LADB’s three decades of journalism resulted in more than 28,000 articles, which evolved gradually into a searchable archive that allowed scholars and other researchers to track coverage of a particular topic. As the collection grew, LADB editors were able to cross-reference and link to previous, relevant articles, resulting in deeper depictions of the topic at hand. The searchable archive was especially valuable during the early days of the news service, when internet usage was relatively new and digital information not as plentiful. Today it remains a valuable resource for scholars, as the LADB’s consistently careful reporting standards and in-depth coverage allow researchers to trace how a given conflict or issue developed over time. LAII Director and political scientist William Stanley notes, “I found LADB invaluable as a research tool, tracking such issues as police civilianization, accountability for past human rights crimes, and justice-sector reforms.”

LADB editors and journalists strived for high-quality reporting, with an emphasis on more depth than is typical in daily newspaper coverage. Most articles were written by professional journalists or scholars who spent time in Latin America.

In its early years, reporting staff were based at UNM and used then state-of-the-art “webcrawler” programs to aggregate Spanish language press coverage from the region as primary sources. In later years, only LADB editorial staff remained housed at UNM, with journalists reporting from Latin America on a freelance basis.

As LADB Editor Carlos Navarro notes, “Over the years, LADB provided in-depth information to readers who wanted a more complete picture of what was happening in Latin America. Our articles put information into perspective, offering background and analysis on many topics relevant to a particular country or the region as a whole.”

This in-depth coverage came to be organized into three regional emphases (Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America) and published as the corresponding newsletters of SourceMex, NotiCen, and NotiSur. Nicaragua, Guatemala, Peru, and Mexico were particularly well reported, but many articles had implications across the entire region or multiple countries. One example of a topic with wide relevance was the sustained effort in the 1990s by former U.S. President Bill Clinton to bring together leaders from Latin American and Caribbean countries to create a hemispheric free-trade agreement. Another example was climate change, with LADB providing coverage of regional environmental cooperation, particularly following the signing of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (known as the Rio Treaty) in 1992, the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, and the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2016.

It was not uncommon for LADB writers to address long term issues that might not seem particularly newsworthy in any given week, but that had important implications for the region. As far back as 1988, LADB wrote how massive fires in Brazil’s Amazon Basin were both a likely consequence of climate change and a significant source of additional greenhouse gases emissions. “Scientists say that the destruction and burning of the Amazon forest are so vast that it may account for at least one-tenth of global carbon dioxide produced by human endeavors,” reported NotiSur. A year later, NotiSur followed ongoing climate negotiations as Buenos Aires hosted follow-up meetings on implementing the Kyoto Protocol. As early as 2011, NotiCen reported that formerly permanent rivers had become seasonal, signaling a trend toward drought and water scarcity that is a contributing factor to Central American migration to the United States today. More recently in 2014 and 2016, NotiSur addressed how warmer temperatures were threatening glaciers in Bolivia and Chile.

Covering politics and human rights was also important to LADB editors and journalists, particularly the impact of “dirty wars” of the 1970s and 1980s and subsequent peacemaking efforts in Central America and Colombia. The so-called dirty wars, which were endorsed by the US government, referred to the brutal campaigns of military leaders in South America against leftist opponents. The details of the repression were kept under wraps for many years, but LADB prioritized UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute | 2018-19 Annual Report

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reporting on the human rights violations and responses as information gradually came to light.

For instance, an article in NotiSur in 2000 reported that “Repression against opponents was most brutal in Argentina, where official figures list 9,000 victims of the ‘dirty war,’ and human rights groups say 30,000 people were killed or disappeared by the military government. Hundreds of political activists, union leaders, and human-rights workers died in Brazil, more than 3,000 were killed in Chile, and hundreds more were eliminated in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay.”

On the positive side, LADB covered the end of conflicts in Central America, including the Equipulas II agreement in 1987 which established a framework for negotiated settlements and elections, the electoral defeat of the Sandinista Front in Nicaragua in 1990 and subsequent demobilization of the so-called “Contra” insurgency, the sweeping 1992 agreement to end the war between the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front and the government of El Salvador, and the less successful 1996 agreement to end the civil war in Guatemala. These settlements, which unfolded over years of negotiations, particularly showcase the value of LADB’s sustained, detailed, and searchable news coverage.

For LADB, the peace agreement between the FARC and the Colombian government was especially significant, not only because an accord was elusive for many years, but also because the conflict of more than three decades coincided with the duration of the news service. In the November 5, 1983 edition of NotiSur, LADB reporters wrote “the national government announced that it had resumed negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

The (Virgilio) Barco administration had apparently dropped its previous demand that the rebels disarm before talks could begin.” As we know now, that effort failed, but in the August 4, 2017 edition, NotiSur carried this news. “With the handover to UN inspectors of the remaining weapons in their arsenal on June 27, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionaria de Colombia (FARC) guerrillas put an end-note on the longest and costliest internal war in Latin American history.”

The over 28,000 articles covering three decades have been put into a common format with consistent headline styles and keywords, and will be maintained as a searchable database, available through UNM University Libraries. The LAII will oversee the database in perpetuity, expecting that this will be a valuable tool for political, social, and historical researchers for years to come.

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Annual Symposium

Richard E . Gre e n l e a f I n te rdi s c i p l i n ary Sy mposium on L ati n Am e r i c a : Ru ral Transfor m ati on i n L ati n A me rica’s C h a n gi n g C l i m ate N OV EMBER 1 4-16, 2018 Focused on “Rural Transformation in Latin America’s Changing Climate,” the 2018 annual edition of the LAII’s Richard E. Greenleaf Interdisciplinary Symposium on Latin America was successful, sparking debate and interest among an audience of over 75 faculty, students, and practitioners. The symposium brought to UNM leading

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and junior scholars from across the United States and Latin America, each presenting research along four themes: water governance, agroecology and agrarian change, narco and other drug economies, and security threats. The symposium was unique in its efforts to spark interdisciplinary discussion across intellectual fields and geographical spaces.

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“I especially appreciated the generous time allotted for discussion following the keynote talks, which encouraged deep and fruitful conversations,” said William Stanley, director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute, who noted that this year’s symposium stood out for a more engaging and dynamic agenda, including varied formats of sessions, expansive time for question and answer sessions, and facilitated discussions.

Over the course of three days, participants addressed questions of how the rural sector in Latin America is changing in response to climate change and other drivers, including mining and other resource extraction, market integration, narco trafficking, as well as the local organizing and social movements that shape and negotiate these responses. The symposium focused particularly on smallholder, indigenous, and other rural people, which remain amongst the most vulnerable throughout Latin America. A key finding of the symposium was that climate change is just one of many tensions and stresses, which one conference participant described as “a tsunami of changes,” with which rural people must cope. An ambition of the conference was to develop interdisciplinary approaches to understand when and how academics and development practitioners can support rural people throughout Latin America meet their goals.

Symposium format and topics evolved under the guidance of the faculty steering committee, including Benjamin Warner and Chris Duvall of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Jami Nuñez of the Department of Political Science and Marygold Walsh-Dilley of the Honors College. Several UNM undergraduate and graduate students served as rapporteurs to help synthesize the research presentations and resultant discussions.

Benjamin Warner noted “The symposium was designed to allow attendees to step outside of their disciplines to challenge and broaden existing approaches to understanding rural development and change. In doing so, I think we have developed the foundation of a truly interdisciplinary approach that incorporates components from anthropology, sociology, political science, and geography…Part of what makes UNM unique and particularly effective is its commitment to support contributions from Latin America. This was evident in this year’s Greenleaf symposium.”

The Steering Committee plans to develop a special issue of a regional or interdisciplinary journal to publish the insights of the symposium. “The presentations and discussions from the symposium were incredibly rich and synergistic,” wrote Marygold Walsh-Dilley. “It was fascinating how the research from across Latin America spoke to each other. I think we can make a strong theoretical, empirical, and cross-disciplinary contribution by bringing together papers from the presenters into a single collection. We especially hope to publish in an accessible format, including open-access and in Spanish, so that we can reach scholars, development practitioners, and policymakers in Latin America as well as a North American audience.”

The symposium is made possible each year thanks to a generous endowment from Dr. Richard E. Greenleaf (1930-2011), noted Latin American historian and dear colleague. In 2018, it was further supported by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Department of Political Science, Honors College, National Security Studies Program, Office of the Provost, and the Phi Beta Kappa New Mexico Chapter.

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Cultural Activities

Image: Bracero Program photograph from Hermanos Mayos archives.

At the same time that we foster academic dialogue and scholarship on the UNM campus, we also serve the broader public by supporting cultural events that share the richness of Latin American and Iberian history, language, and arts with diverse audiences.

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The majority of our cultural programming is the fruition of partnerships with remarkable local community organizations such

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as the Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque, Spanish Resource Center of Albuquerque, National Hispanic Cultural Center, and many others.

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CU LT URAL S P OTL I GH T: ¡ C I NE M AG N Í FI CO !

Organized annually by the Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque in collaboration with community partners such as the LAII, the film festival promotes the richness of Latin American, Iberian, and Hispanic cultures found around the world. As it celebrates six years in 2018, the film festival has grown into a major event and is one of the few film festivals in the southwest to focus solely on cinema from and about Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos in the United States. As it has from the beginning, the festival continues to feature first-time filmmakers and established masters alike, bringing to New Mexico the best of award-winning comedies, documentaries, animation and dramatic masterpieces.

As in past years, the festival included the UNM campus in its venues and screens films free of charge for students and faculty. This year’s campus screenings Los adioses, a moving drama based on the life of renowned

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Mexican author and poet Rosario Castellanos, and Al Otro Lado del Muro, an emotionally gripping documentary about a Honduran family living with looming deportation fears and family separation in Mexico City. Screenings were held in the Student Union Building.

CU LT URAL S P OTL I GH T: B R AC E R O E XH I BI T In 2018, the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) History and Literary Arts Division organized an exhibit of stunning photography focused on the Bracero Program. Drawn from the archives of Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Relations, the collection of black and white photography explored the Bracero Program as it was seen by the men and women who lived it through the lens of the Hermanos Mayos, a renowned photojournalist collective comprised of five men who reached Mexico after fleeing the Spanish Civil War (Spain, 1936-39). Mexican historian John Mraz curated this traveling exhibit, pulling photos from the archives of the Hermanos Mayo to explore the immigration policies and personal stories behind the Bracero Program.

The Bracero Program, which grew out of a series of bilateral agreements between Mexico and the US, brought Mexican men to the United States to serve as short-term, primarily agricultural guest works. They came starting in 1942 to ease labor shortages and production needs during the early years of World War II. Throughout the course of the program, which ran until 1964, approximately 4.6 million labor contracts were signed, making it the largest such program of its kind in the entire history of the United States. This exhibit

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also highlighted the problematic nature of the program and the legal issues that arose from it.

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K-12 Educational Outreach

We provide outreach to K-12 educators and students who work across grade levels and content areas, promoting understanding about Latin American cultures and languages.

The LAII’s K-12 outreach takes the form of professional development workshops, curriculum development, and youth programming. All emphasize culturally relevant and criticallyinformed content. Particularly here in New Mexico, where Spanish is an official language and local history is informed by a legacy of exchange across the Americas, students benefit from culturally informed and accurate materials.

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WORKSHO P SPOT LIGHT: CENTRAL A M E R IC A : V ISUA L A N D C U LT U R A L LI TE R ACY

Muriel Hasbun, artist and founder of Laberinto Projects, facilitated a three hour visual literacy workshop for middle and high school teachers on using Central American art to foster dialogue about migration, and to better understand the history and culture of El Salvador. Participants learned how to integrate Central American resources into lesson plans, while encouraging critical thinking and a more culturally-equitable curriculum. Hasbun offered an overview of her art and work before engaging participants in writing and sharing exercises using visual materials from Central America. Hasbun is an artist and educator specializing in the art and culture of El Salvador. A Fulbright Scholar and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, her expertise focuses on issues of cultural identity and memory, while generating socially engaged art projects. One of Hasbun’s core initiatives, Laberinto Projects is an arts, culture and education platform that fosters art practices, legacy preservation, social inclusion and dialogue in El Salvador, Central America and its diaspora. This past summer, she also launched EDUCA, a professional development program for teachers to help develop visual and cultural literacy, specifically through the art, culture, and history of El Salvador. Image credit: Reprinted courtesy of Laberinto Projects: Chubasco. Serie: portales ancestrales, Portal Nonualco XXI, 2001. Acrílico.

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WORKSHO P SPOT LIGHT: POESÍA IN T HE C LASSR OOM

Inspired by the love of poetry that emerges each year in the annual Poesía eres tú poetry contest for elementary school students, this workshop focused on poetry in the bilingual classroom. The Saturday morning event began with Valerie Martínez, director of the NHCC History and Literary Arts division, sharing strategies for teaching poetry to all ages/ grades of students— understanding the special language of poetry (metaphor, symbol, connotation, indirection), poetic form and music, “unlocking” a poem’s meaning, and encouraging a love for traditional and contemporary poetry.

Martinez was the poet laureate of Santa Fe from 2008-2010 and has many years of experience in bringing poetry to youth and adults alike. The second half of the morning involved hands-on discussions and explanations about two local initiatives that foster a love of Spanish language poetry: Poesía eres tú and Un Poema: Tantas Voces. Antonio Caballero and Mayte Villa of the Spanish Resource Center, alongside LAII staff member Keira Philipp-Schnurer, spoke about Poesía eres tú, before NHCC consultant Stephanie Lawyer explained the Un Poema: Tantas Voces project, which invited elementary, middle and high school students reading, understanding and translating (into English) a contemporary poem written in Spanish.

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CURR IC U LU M SPOT LIGHT: BILIN GUA L GU ID E S F O R RAD IO A M BU LA N T E POD C ASTS A N D M OR E The LAII regularly creates curricular materials for K-12 educators. Among those produced in 2018-19 18 were bilingual resources focused on teaching about politics and societies of Latin America through podcasts and literature.

These bilingual materials focused on meeting the needs of advanced Spanish speaking classrooms, and were developed by Sheena Chakeres, an LAII graduate assistant and long-time faculty member at Santa Fe Prep

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school. Primarily tied to the Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language podcast distributed by National Public Radio (NPR), they also feature other fairuse educational excerpts and open-access materials that Spanish language educators can bring into the classroom to expose the complexities of politics and society in contemporary Latin America while deepening students’ Spanish language skills.

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Since 2011, the LAII has developed increasing programs and complementary resources to support multicultural education through diverse Latinx literature in the K-12 classroom. Our monthly “Vamos a Leer” book group and blog form the core of this work, remaining constant throughout the year with monthly meetings and regular book reviews. In recent years, this programmatic emphasis has expanded to include presentations to pre-service students in the UNM College of Education and CNM Teacher Education programs and special presentations in the community. In 2018-2019, we highlighted this

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work via presentations by Dr. Katrina Dillon, LAII Education Consultant, at the NHCC’s inaugural Bilingual Children’s Book Festival and the recently reconstituted NM Council for Teachers of English (NMCTE). We also continued to expand the classroom sets of children’s and young adult books available at no cost for classroom use.

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A M ÉRI C AS AWARD FOR CHILDREN ’S A N D YOU N G A D U LT LIT E R AT U R E The LAII once more proudly supported the nationally-recognized Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature alongside the Consortium for Latin American Studies (CLASP) and peer institutions. The award continues to recognize exceptional children’s and young adult literature that authentically and engagingly portrays Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinos/Hispanics in the United States.

2018 award winners were recognized in Fall 2018 with an award ceremony at the Library of Congress held during Hispanic Heritage Month. Honorees included American Street by Ibi Zoboi (HarperCollins Publishers, 2017) and Danza!: Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams Books, 2017); Honorable Mentions All the Way to Havana by Margarita Engle and illustrated by Mike Curato (Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2017) and Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar (Penguin Random House, 2017); and 12 Commended Titles.

2019 recipients were announced in May 2019 at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress, with honorees including: Undocumented written and illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh and Islandborn by Junot Díaz; Honor Books Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings by Francie LaTour and illustrated by Ken Daley and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo; and 12 commended titles. A complete, annotated bibliography of award winners is available on the CLASP website at claspprograms.org.

In honor of the award’s 25th anniversary in 2018, LAII partnered with CLASP to produce complementary resources to support classrooms, libraries, and the communities who use the award: an 11x17 poster with artwork by award-winning children’s book illustrator Rafael López and an extensive toolkit of “Resources to Honor Latinx Literature Within and Beyond the Classroom,” which highlights strategies tailored to different educational stakeholders and provides resources such as a “Read Across the Américas” map and classroom calendar of book suggestions.

“ . . .W E D E C I D E D T O F O C U S O N T H E M U LT I C U LT U R A L / I N T E R N AT I O N A L DY N A M I C , I N C L U D I N G T H E L AT I N X E X P E R I E N C E W I T H I N T H E U . S . , A N D I N C LU D I N G A L L O F T H E A M E R I C AS . . .” ~ J U L I E K L I N E , A M É R I C A S AWA R D F O U N D E R

YO UT H PRO GR AM M I NG Each year the LAII proudly partners with community organizations to support programming that directly serves youth in public, private, and charter schools. Without fail, each year brings three exceptional programs to elementary, middle, and high school students. These events are organized by a cadre of community organizations whose missions align in support of providing New Mexico schools with enriching opportunities to deepen exposure to Latin American and Iberian languages and cultures. We also identify engaging speakers who bring their knowledge and experience directly to classrooms.

P OESÍ A ERES TÚ

CUE N T ISTAS

SPA N ISH M O D E L U N

P OETRY CO N TEST

LIT E R A RY CON T E ST

CON FE R E N C E

Now in its 18th year, this one-

This essay contest invites New

This Model United Nations

of-a-kind poetry contest invites

Mexico middle and high school

conference is conducted

elementary schools throughout

students to submit creative

entirely in Spanish and focuses

central New Mexico to send

writing samples in Spanish.

primarily on understanding

three students to represent

Non-native and native Spanish

Spanish-speaking countries.

each grade (first through

speakers are encouraged to

Now in its eighth year, the

fifth). Competing students are

participate to help demonstrate

event continues to grow with

invited onto a performance

that the Spanish language

new private and public school

stage at the NHCC, where

is alive and thriving in New

participants. The classroom

they compete against their

Mexico. It is organized annually

preparation and formal debates

peers for the most compelling,

by the Spanish Resource Center

stimulate the dissemination

beautifully enunciated, and

of Albuquerque (SRC) and LAII

of the Spanish language and

culturally-informed recitation

in partnership with the NHCC

culture in a relevant, authentic

of an original Spanish language

and Institute Cervantes.

context.

students, teachers, friends, and

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The program was co-founded

families applaud their efforts.

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in 2010 by teachers at Bosque

Prizes are awarded for first,

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School and Sandia Prep,

poem. An audience of fellow

and continues today under

second, and third place in each The inaugural edition of the

the leadership of a teacher

NHCC’s Bilingual Children’s

committee led by those same

In 2018, judges included

Book Festival was held in Spring

founding educators, and with

doctoral student Diego J.

2019, featuring acclaimed

institutional support provided

Bustos and Dr. Carmen Julia

children’s book author Pat

by the LAII, National Hispanic

Holguín of the Department of

Mora as the keynote speaker

Cultural Center, and Instituto

Spanish and Portuguese, and

alongside numerous local

Cervantes.

Dr. Patricia Rosas Lopátegui of

and invited guests. With

Chicana and Chicano Studies.

an emphasis on year-long

In 2019 the keynote speaker

literacy programming for the

was David Lindwall, a current

community, the event was for

MALAS student and former

audiences young and old.

Foreign Service officer.

grade.

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International Partnerships

Through close collaboration between the LAII and Global Education Office (GEO), UNM maintains a vibrant network of over a hundred partnerships with universities in Latin America and Spain. These partnerships result in unique opportunities for collaborative research, student immersion, faculty-led study abroad programs, and more.

Each year these partnerships result in myriad study abroad opportunities, faculty-led programs, and community programs.

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P R OG RA M SPOTLIGH T: MAYA ART A N D A R C HA E OLOGY

May 11-20, 2019 From May 11-20, 2019, LAII staff led a new and innovative Maya Art and Archaeology Tour to 10 different Maya PreColombian sites and several modern-day Maya communities throughout the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Part of the LAII’s Community Trips Abroad Program, this was the first time that the LAII led a tour to Mexico on a trip with an art historical/archaeological theme. Nine community members were accompanied by UNM Associate Professor of Art History Dr. Margaret Jackson and LAII Program Manager Manon Robyn Côté on the 10-day tour through the Chiapas highlands, the jungle and rainforest of Campeche state near the Guatemalan border, and the Caribbean Coast of Quintana Roo to view some of the lesser-known and therefore less-visited Maya archaeological sites.

Logistical support was provided by Ecoturismo Yucatán, a company based in Merida, Yucatán, for an itinerary developed

by Jackson and Côte. The tour began in the modern-day Maya highland town of San Cristobal de las Casas. The group met with restorator Haydeé Orea from the Instituto Nacional de Arqueologia e Historia (INAH) who gave an overview of the process of restoration of the façade of the Santo Domingo church. The group then heard a fascinating lecture about the local Zapatista movement and the effects of climate change on local agricultural practices by Dr. Peter Rossett, Professor of Agroecology at the Colegio de la Frontera del Sur (ECOSUR). They visited the Tzotzil Maya community of Zinacantán where they learned about ancient and modern-day weaving techniques, then visited the 500 year old church in the community of San Juan Chamula. The church incorporates pre-conquest Maya customs and Spanish Catholic traditions, resulting in an unusual syncretism where curanderos perform healing rituals surrounded by statues of Catholic saints adorned with mirrors in a space with no pews over a floor covered with pine boughs and needles. Participants said it was a deeply moving experience.

The group then continued on through Maya villages and the dense rainforest where they visited the Maya archaeological sites of Toniná (1 AD – 1000 AD) and Palenque (250 BC – 900 AD), both of which played an important part in the rise and demise of the Maya Pre-Colombian culture. In Palenque they learned about Maya hieroglyphs, residential architecture, and funerary monuments of the Late Classic dynasty of K’inich Janaab’ Pakal, one of the most famous Maya kings who ascended the throne at the age of 12 and ruled the site of Palenque for 68 years. In the In the afternoon they visited the Palenque Museum where they met briefly with Museum Director Miguel Angel Vásquez del Mercado and saw the magnificent reproduction of Pakal’s tomb with its impressive sarcophagus, and beautiful incensarios and relief carvings of the kings and queens and their captives.

Afterward, the itinerary continued east through the southern part of the Yucatán Peninsula, near the Petén region and the border with Guatemala. There the group visited the archaeological sites of Hormigüero (300 AD – 950 AD), Bécan (600 BC – 1000 AD), Chicanná (200 BC – 1100 AD), Xpuhil (300 BC – 1200 AD), Balamkú (600 BC – 1000 AD), and the great site of Calakmul (250 BC – 900 AD), home of the “Ka’an” or “Snake” dynasty, one of the largest and most powerful city-states in the Maya region. In Calakmul the group climbed several pyramids and visited the ejido of 20 de noviembre, a small Maya community which contains a burgeoning ecotourism industry where locals produce and sell jewelry made from local seeds and feathers and sell medicinal honey and cosmetics produced from the honey of the stingless melipona bee, which are also cultivated in the area.

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From there, the program headed north along the Caribbean coast, stopping to visit the archaeological site of Kohunlich (300 BC – 1200 AD), famous for its large stucco masks of the humanized sun god. The site appears to have been a regional center connecting trade routes through the southern Yucatán from Campeche through the Rio Bec region into the Petén region in Guatemala and into Belize. The group stopped briefly at Laguna Bacalar, a fresh water lagoon 42 km long by 2 km wide, which runs parallel to the Caribbean coast and is known for its turquoise and blue colors, fed by underground rivers that are the same rivers that feed the cenote system on the peninsula.

The tour ended in the city of Tulúm, which is growing exponentially and becoming more similar to the Cancún-like atmosphere of Playa del Carmen. The group visited the archaeological site of Tulúm (564 AD – 1550 AD), a Late ClassicPostclassic site built on the Caribbean that most-likely functioned as a port city and was probably seen by Spanish explorers when they arrived on the Yucatán in 1511. In contrast to the nearly empty sites the group visited in Campeche, Tulúm was overrun by tourists and was a shocking wake-up call to the damage that tourism can do to ancient archaeological sites.

“ . . .T H E T O U R WA S A B S O L U T E LY M E M O R A B L E , W I T H A N E X T R A O R D I N A R I LY W E L L - P L A N N E D I T I N E R A R Y T H AT W E N T O F F W I T H O U T A H I T C H .” ~ D R . M A R G A R E T JAC K S O N , CO - L E A D E R

Image: Group at the Maya archaeological ruins of Tulúm, courtesy of Manon Robyn Côté.

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Our People

The LAII functions as a network of faculty, students, independent scholars, K-12 educators, and community members. Our programs sustain this network and benefit from it, contributing to UNM’s rich environment for the study and teaching of Latin America and Iberia. These diverse affiliates regularly come together to share

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approaches to understanding the region.

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Our People SOLAS

The Student Organization for Latin American Studies (SOLAS) is an independent, student-government-funded group comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students who share an interest in Latin America. It is open to both LAS students and students

S O LAS O FFI C E RS Hayley Pedrick, President Estevan Pakozodi, Vice President

in other departments with an interest in Latin America. SOLAS

Devon Lara, Treasurer

often sponsors speakers from within and outside of the UNM

Carolina Bucheli / Luis Sergio Hinojosa-

community and it maintains a website (www.solasunm.org) that

Cantú, Communications Coordinator

features articles written by students.

Chaz Clark, GPSA & LAII Executive Committee Representative

SOLAS also coordinates an annual film festival, Sin Fronteras, that features Latin American and Latino films. The festival is held at an independent theater in Albuquerque and draws significant attendance from community members. Film showings are frequently enhanced by directors’ presentations. In Spring 2019, the festival included five films screened at the Guild Theater, with topics touching on experiences in the indigenous communities of

Elisa Cibils, LAII Grants & Award Committee Representative Wally Gallart, LAII Operations Committee Representative Santiago Carrasco-García, Sin Fronteras Festival Coordinator

the Wayuu in northern Colombia and the Krahô from the north

Alexandra Villegas, Interdisciplinary

of Brazil, feminism and gender rights, economics, and history,

Committee on Latin American Studes

and more. All screenings were made available at no charge

Representative

thanks to the generous support of partners on campus and in the community.

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S O L AS SPOTL IGHT: A PERSONAL N OT E FR OM HAY LE Y PE D R IC K

With great pleasure I’ll describe some of the actions of the Student Organization of Latin American Studies (SOLAS) over the past academic year while sharing the joy of LAS graduates.

Every year in May, just after the wisteria has opened its fruity perfume and the apache plume awakens with its jellyfish-like plant feathers, the UNM campus is flooded with the scent of Spanish broom. As a native New Mexican, the smell of Spanish broom, like the hinting of winter with late fall’s chile roasting, is the prelude to summer. And for the graduates we celebrate in May, every year, the start of a warm, new, chapter of life.

The 2019 LAS graduates were in the classroom, lecture hall, seminar, archives, in the field, at conferences, in labs and at jobs-and-internships during the 2016 elections resulting in changes with US-international relations, and the seemingly real talk of a wall, a wall which would divide New Mexico from Mexico and divide the united states of America from its southern lying neighbors: Latin America.

Recent graduates of Latin American Studies, while laying the groundwork for their own futures, also grew throughout the crucial rise of the #metoo movement and the start of a new front-and-center discussion about identity beyond he/she, male, female and gay/straight. The newest generation of scholars, in thanks to work in feminist theory, can use queer/trans theory, indigenous praxes, and approaches that steer away from anthropocentrism all together. From business students to future health care professionals- these were a unique sequence of years for all of us to be studying Latin America.

The Student Organization of Latin American Studies (SOLAS) worked to give students a voice with continued representation in the LAII Executive Committee meetings, and are proud to have representation at a meeting with UNM President Stokes in regards to the ongoing conversation about UNM as a CIA Signature School, a status LAS students feel limits their access to research and jeopardizes their safety in some Latin American research-sites.

Further, SOLAS organized a successful three-day iteration of the Sin Fronteras Latin American and Iberian film festival in March at the Guild. Five new films, none of which had been screened in New Mexico, were made available at no cost for the greater Albuquerque community. Attendance exceeded expectations, with a mix of Sin Fronteras annual attendees and many new faces.

As a student group, while considering films and discussing options for speakers in our bi-monthly meetings, thoughts on on urbanization, the future of water, language revitalization, the particularities of Chilean, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, Uruguayan, Brazilian, Costa Rican, Panamanian, Guatemalan, Mexican, Colombian, Nicaraguan, Honduran, Paraguayan, Venezuelan, Salvadorian, Dominican (to name a few…) trade routes, growing seasons, histories of slavery, contributions to cinema, art and the humanities, technology and healthcare, and their respective dynamic and interconnected political climates emerged.

One SOLAS member volunteered in defense of human rights by preparing food at the Southern border during school breaks and collecting essentials like underwear for asylum seekers. Another SOLAS member engaged in local art

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installations to address issues of homelessness. SOLAS supported dialogue with young Nicaraguan activists who came to speak at UNM and showed further support at countless lectures from visiting scholars to the Field Research Grant Colloquium, highlighting student work, generously supported by the LAII and Tinker Foundation. As students and graduates, in a sense, we will always be part of SOLAS as we have committed to continue learning and engaging with Latin American studies ethically, rationally and emotionally.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead SOLAS, a unique group that changes every year in size and participation, motivations and goals, and through which I had many opportunities to lead and to be mentored.

Looking forward, I’ll end with a quote from a 20th century novelist, Jewish immigrant raised in Brazil, named Clarice Lispector: … “Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.”

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star From Hayley Pedrick, 2018-2019 President of SOLAS and recent recipient of the MA in LAS

Images: Photograph of festival co-coordinators Santiago Carrasco-García and Hayley Pedrick at Sin Fronteras 2019. Photo credit: Luis Sergio Hinojosa-Cantú.

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Our People Affiliated Scholars

Through its affiliated scholars program, the LAII facilitates research opportunities by providing access to UNM’s wealth of Latin America-related resources.

RICH ARD E . GR EENL EAF V I SI T I N G LI BR A RY S C H O LA R S The LAII awards grants annually to Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholars. The program began in 2004 with a generous gift from the late Dr. Richard E. Greenleaf, noted historian and dear colleague. In 2018-19, the following scholars received support to visit UNM and work with special collections related to their research.

S h e r y l F e l e c i a M e a n s , University of Kentucky (Scholar Period: June 3-July 27, 2019) Dr. Sheryl Felecia Means is a post-doctoral fellow in the UNM Department of Africana Studies, a position she assumed following her time as a Visiting Library Scholar. She holds a BA in English Literature from Spelman College and recently earned her PhD in Education Sciences, Philosophical and Cultural Inquiry from the University of Kentucky, with the latter focused on Black racial identity formation at Steve Biko Cultural Institute in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Means’ areas of inquiry include Afro-Latin America, racial identity formation, and comparative education studies. Her archival work as a Visiting Library Scholar involved several UNM collections of Central American political ephemera covering the 1970s to the 1990s, and focused on evidence of Afro/Indigenous politicians and movements within the Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) holdings. In her final analysis, Means examined eight political figures, movements, and moments during the era, highlighted the Afro/Indigenous politic, and suggested new research directions for the CSWR.

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S a r a A. P o t t e r , University of Texas – El Paso (Scholar Period: June 19-July 3, 2019) Dr. Sara Potter is an associate professor of Spanish in the Languages and Linguistics Department at the University of Texas at El Paso with a specialization in contemporary Mexican literature and gender studies. Her research and teaching interests include Latin American popular culture, Latin American avant-garde movements, media studies, representations of gender and sexuality, science fiction, graphic novels, theories of the body, and countercultural movements. Her first book, Disturbing Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies and Histories in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, is under advance contract with the University Press of Florida. The Greenleaf Fellowship provided invaluable support for her second book project, Transnational Solidarities. The book looks at transnational engagements with gender and avant-garde countercultures in Mexico and the United States from roughly 1920-1970 and examines questions of the body, politics, and notions of gender solidarity. Her focus is on women artists and writers who are significantly engaged in avant-garde and countercultural movements outside the countries in which they were born and the ways in which they negotiate motherhood, revolution, and artistic creation.

ASS OC I AT E AND R ES EAR C H S C H O LA R S In addition to Visiting Library Scholar, the LAII offers two designations to its affiliated scholars: Visiting Scholar and Research Associate. Visiting Scholar is a title reserved for scholars who are visiting the University and participating in some way in its teaching or research functions, while Research Associate is a title used for independent researchers whose primary function is to conduct individual research or collaborate with university researchers. Recent affiliates include: O’Neill Blacker-Hanson - research for a project tentatively titled “Rethinking the Left in 20th Century Latin America.”

Lance Blythe - research for the initial stages of a global comparative study of pastoral borderland conflict not just in New Mexico, but also Argentina, South Africa, the Northern Caucuses, and Australia during the same time period.

Thomas E. Chávez - research for project titled “Benjamin Franklin Documents in the Archives of Spain,” which compiles documents pertinent to Franklin’s activities including correspondence, summaries of meetings and official reports, all dealing with his sometimes secret negotiations concerning the independence of the United States.

Shirley Cushing-Flint and Richard Flint - research and completion of book under contract with UNM Press, A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective, and research with the Center for Southwest Research for simultaneous online publication of the database on which the book is based.

Stanley M. Hordes - research pertaining to multi-year project examining the history of crypto-Jewish settlement in the Spanish Caribbean islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and pre-British Jamaica, including the use of primary documents from the National Archive of Spain in Madrid and from the Archive of the Indies in Sevilla.

Merideth Paxton - research for book resulting from the Fifty-third International Congress of Americanists, held in Mexico City (July 19-24, 2009), including an introduction, one chapter, and the coordination of English translation.

Erin Zavitz - research for a chapter in the Cambridge History of the Age of Revolutions on 19th century Haitian history and literature.

Ryan Hechler - research for project in Ecuador titled “Proyecto Arqueológico Cochasquí-Mojanda.”

Lean Sweeney - research on transnational vigilantism along the Mexico-Guatemala border.

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Our People K-12 Advisors

The LAII Teacher Advisory Committee is composed of New Mexico educators who serve the vital role of guiding LAII K-12 community education programs. Committee members assist the LAII by expressing classroom instructional needs; reviewing and evaluating existing LAII activities; and developing recommendations for enhancing and expanding resources. Given the LAII’s collaboration with institutions across the country, the committee has the potential for national as well as local impact.

K-1 2 T E AC H E R A DV I S O RY CO M M I T T E E Keira Philipp-Schnurer, Chair Colleen Elder, Cien Aguas Escuela Internacional Corina Fraire-Duran, Cochiti Elementary School Carolyn A. Gonzalez, Emerson Elementary School Allison Hawks, Washington Middle School Toni McRoberts, Cibola High School Kaycie Robinson, Atrisco Heritage Academy Maria Sheldon, Ortiz Middle School Candice Stanford, Eugene Field Elementary School

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Our People Faculty

The LAII draws together a diverse community of affiliated faculty from across campus who comprise our Faculty Concilium. To ensure disciplinary representation in our programs, awards, and events, we have four faculty committees that provide guidance:

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Executive Committee Grants and Awards Committee Operations Committee Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies (ICLAS)

The collective advice gathered through the committees is put into action by professional staff who carry out the day-today operations of the Institute.

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EX EC UTIVE COMMIT T EE 2 01 8 -2 019 Elizabeth Hutchison, President History Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Vice President Honors College Richard File-Muriel, Secretary Spanish and Portuguese Allison Border, Representative Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Policy Margaret Jackson, Representative Art and Art History Carlos LĂłpez-Leiva, Representative Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies Jami NuĂąez, Representative Political Science Loa Traxler, Representative Anthropology Jennifer Tucker, Representative Community and Regional Planning Natalia Vidal, Representative ASM Organizational Studies Chaz William Clark, Representative SOLAS Ronda Brulotte, Ex-Officio Latin American and Iberian Institute William Stanley, Ex-Officio Latin American and Iberian Institute

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G RA N TS & AWARDS

OPE R AT ION S

IN T E R D ISC IP L I NARY

CO MMI TTEE

COM M IT T E E

COM M IT T E E O N L ATI N

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2018 - 201 9

A M E R IC A N STU D I E S ( IC LAS)

William Stanley, Chair

Stephanie Beene

Latin American & Iberian

University Libraries

Institute Allison Borden Ronda Brulotte

Teacher Education, Educational

Latin American Studies

Leadership and Policy

Joseph Cook

Heather Edgar

Biology

Anthropology

Claudia Díaz Fuentes

Wally Gallart

Economics

SOLAS

Les Field (Spring 2019) /

Miguel López

Frances Hayashida (Fall 2018)

Spanish and Portuguese

Anthropology Barbara Reyes Paul Figueroa

History

Law Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez Chris Koops

Spanish and Portuguese

Linguistics Susana Martínez Guillem Communication and Journalism Michael Ryan History Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz Spanish and Portuguese Jennifer Tucker

201 8- 201 9 Ronda Brulotte, Chair Latin American Studies Ana Alonso-Minutti Music/Fine Arts Cassy Dorff Political Science Kimberly Gauderman History Manuel Montoya International Management Eva Rodríguez González Spanish and Portuguese Ruth Trinidad Galván Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies Patricia Rosas Lopátegui Chicana/Chicano Studies Alexandra Villegas SOLAS Marygold Walsh-Dilley Honors College

Community and Regional Planning Benjamin Warner (Spring 2019) Geography & Environmental Studies Elisa Cibils SOLAS UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute | 2018-19 Annual Report

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Our People Staff

William Stanley

Carlos Navarro

Director

Writer/Editor for LADB

Ronda Brulotte

Keira Philipp-Schnurer

Associate Director for Academic Programs

Supervisor of Community Education Programs

M. Robyn CĂ´tĂŠ

Krista Savoca

Program Manager

Associate Director for Program Development

Katrina Dillon

Amanda Wolfe

K-12 Education Consultant

Associate Director for Program Development (departing)

Merle Garcia Administrative Assistant II Vickie Madrid Nelson Associate Director for Business Operations

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$40 for 40 Years: Giving Back

Whether the LAII helped you finish your dissertation, launch your career trajectory, conduct research, or simply strengthen your interest in Latin American studies, we’re proud of our alumni and friends and want to continue to help support future students embark on similar endeavors. On the eve of our 40th anniversary

ON THE EVE OF ITS 40TH A N N I V E R S A R Y, T H E L A I I

(2019-2020), the LAII is asking for donations of $40 or more to help support the myriad ways that we contribute to student and

ASKS ITS COMMUNITY GIVE

faculty success at UNM.

B AC K W I T H $ 4 0 F O R 4 0.

To donate, visit the UNM foundation website (unmfund.org) or contact the LAII at (505) 277-2961 or laiioutreach@unm.edu.

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Th e Un i ve r si ty of New Mex i c o Lat i n Am e r i c a n & I b e r i a n Inst i t u te LA I I .U N M .E D U

Report design and editing by Keira Philipp-Schnurer.