PhD Candidate Emma Oslé earns fellowship in American Art with the Smithsonian Museum
Emma Oslé, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and former lecturer in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, recently earned the Big 10 Academic Alliance/Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in American Art with the Smithsonian Museum. The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) offers the Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship to doctoral candidates who are enrolled in one of the Big Ten Academic Alliance universities. The specific fellowship Oslé will be part of is also funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and admits students whose research is in the field of American Art.
As a studio art and art history major during her undergraduate years, Oslé found a passion for research when working on her senior thesis. This passion led her to do her graduate studies at Rutgers, where she also taught classes in art history, Latino art, and more. One class, "Latinx Art and Representation in Visual Media", which was designed by Oslé herself, takes an interdisciplinary approach in the exploration of the history of Latinx representation in media and the history of art created by Latinx communities in the United States.
Speaking with The Daily Targum, Oslé explains that one of the benefits of this fellowship is the "several collections at the Archives of American Art, which is just downstairs from the Research and Scholars Center, and I'm able to go there during my fellowship and engage with the archives".
This fellowship is an incredible achievement and the Rutgers community eagerly awaits to see and hear more about Olsé's research during this program.
CLAS hosts its Fall 2024 Research Symposium
This past Friday, November 15, 2024, the Center of Latin American Studies hosted their Fall 2024 Research Symposium, in which several Rutgers graduate students, PhD Candidates, and post-docs presented their work on Latin America. Below you'll find a list of presenters, as well as a link to read their abstracts, and pictures from the event.
Presenters:
Laura De Moya-Guerra
Sandra Acocal
Vierelina Fernandez
Gabriela Duncan
Jian Ren
Javier Gonzalez
Nia Cambridge
Javiera Barrientos
Alexander Liebman
Jennifer Vilchez
Anderson De Andrade
Mildred Lopez Escudero
Nathan Darmiento
Gloria D’Alessio
Lauria Rosa
Clive Echagüe A.
Tamara Velasquez Leiferman
Diana Iturralde
Abstracts are available here.
PhD Student Dalia Griñan wins Lydia Cabrera Award
Dalia Griñan has won the Lydia Cabrera Award for her paper "Tracing Intimate Knowledge: African Women in Nineteenth Century Urban Cuba". The Lydia Cabrera Award was awarded by the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) and aims to support the study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868. Rutgers faculty member Kathleen Lopez is also the Chair of the Prize Committee for this award.
Griñan is a PhD student in the Rutgers New Brunswick History department with concentrations in Atlantic/Diaspora and Gender histories. She graduated from City College of New York with a B.A. in Black Studies and Gender Studies in January 2019 and has worked at the intersections of anti-sexual and gender-based violence and anti-racism. Her proposed dissertation project applies methods from critical historiography and Black Feminist theory to study the experiences of Black women in nineteenth-century Cuba and Jamaica.
Applications are open for CHPRD Governor’s Hispanic Fellows Program
Please read below for a message from the State of New Jersey's Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development (CHPRD) Program Development Assistant, Arely Hernandez, MHS:
I’m pleased to share that the Center for Hispanic Policy, Research, and Development (CHPRD) is currently inviting applications for the 2025 class of the Governor’s Hispanic Fellows Program. We are aiming for the largest class in the program’s history, welcoming 35 students to participate in leadership development and internship opportunities.
Key Details:
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- Eligibility:
- Must be a resident of New Jersey
- Must be of Hispanic descent
- Must be enrolled in a 2 or 4-year college or university program
- Application Deadline: December 9, 2024
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This fellowship provides invaluable leadership skills, mentorship, and professional experiences that can significantly impact your academic and professional journey.
You can learn more and apply here for the 2025 Governor’s Hispanic Fellows Program. For additional details, please also view the official press release here.
Prof. Ulla Berg and other SAS faculty receive fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
Professor Ulla Berg, an Associate Professor at the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Anthropology, has received a fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, alongside fellow Rutgers faculty Jessey Choo, Marisa J. Fuentes, Eric Gawiser, and Alex Kontorovich.
Berg's research focuses on historical and contemporary processes and experiences of migration and mobility within Latin America and between this region and the United States. She has several publications on this topic, including the book Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S, and most recently, she is working with Aldo Lauria-Santiago on the book Latina/o New Jersey: Histories, Communities, Politics, as well as a book project with Carolina Sanchez Boe on the social history of the Elizabeth Detention Center and of immigration detention in New Jersey and the United States.
With her IAS fellowship, Berg will continue studying mobility in Latin America by conducting research on deportation and its aftermath between the Andean region of South America and the United States.
To view Professor Ulla Berg's profile and learn more about the Institute of Advanced Study, visit here.