Josh Anthony, a Ph.D. Student in the History Department who specializes in Latin American and Global and Comparative History, won a fellowship at the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, where he will be doing independent research on their Mexican collection as well as helping the curatorial and archival staff.

After several years of being closed, the Hispanic Society is opening again to the public and the Rockefeller Brothers Curatorial Research Fellowship provides Josh the opportunity to not only assist with its reopening but also allows him to participate in their large exhibition commemorating the painter Joaquín Sorolla. He is eager to gain experience with a variety of public exhibitions within their art museum. In addition to this work, he and the other fellows will be asked to present their own research projects. All of which will directly benefit him as he continues to work on his dissertation.

Congratulations to Josh Anthony!

CLAS Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Briana Nichols will be teaching a new course this spring term on Mexican and Central American Migration themes.

This seminar will track both the shifts and continuities in migration from Mexico and Central America.  Taking the U.S. framing of migration across the southern border as a “crisis” as our starting point, we will work to complicate this “crisis” framing, interrogating the political, economic and social conditions that have generated the emergence and persistence of migration within and from Mexico and Central America.  We will explore the mobility of Central American and Mexican peoples following the work of anthropologists, historians, geographers, and political scientists but also through film, art and music. 

Though a focus on one specific region, this course covers several topics related to migration and mobility including: border construction and militarization, life along the migrant pathway, the political economies of migration, interfamilial bonds and transnational forms of care, racialization, colonialism, citizenship and national identities, environmental change, social violence, as well as the construction and management of migrant categories.  We will consider broad questions over the course of the semester, like, how do individuals, families, and communities produce and make sense of the new forms of existence brought forth by migration? Who has the right to migrate, and conversely, what would a right of non-migration might look like? What responsibilities do nation-states have towards mobile peoples?  And how might continued human mobility reframe how we understand belonging and rootedness?

The Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce its Student Grant Competition

CLAS Student grants support the work of Rutgers students interested in research and training in Latin American Studies. Awards are competitive and based on need and the merit of the proposed project. No more than $1500 may be requested. Payment will likely be made through payroll if grant recipient is an employee. Please consider this when designing the budget. Non-employee awardees will be reimbursed via check request.

Eligible applicants are graduate students whose research focuses on Latin America and undergraduate juniors with a record of study in Latin American Studies or Caribbean Studies. Undergraduate applicants need a brief letter of support from a faculty advisor or mentor.

Preference will be given to students who have been active in CLAS-sponsored events and activities, have provided leadership in CLAS programs or mentoring to LAS students, and who have demonstrated a commitment to the Center and its mission and event participation. Priority is also given to undergraduate majors and minors in CLAS and Caribbean Studies (LatCar).

Past recipients are eligible but will receive less priority. If you have a report from a past grant you have to submit your report ASAP and present at our faculty and student research conference on Friday March 31 (10AM-1PM)

Deadline: 1 March 2023.

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There's a new 3-credit course being offered for the Spring 2023 semester. It will be taught by Professor Hernandez-Matos and will be held on Monday/Thursday from 10:20 - 11:40 am. See the flyer below for more information:

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