Post Doctoral Associate Evelyn Autry Receives the 2023 Feminist Formations and NWSA Paper Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Autry for receiving the award for her paper “Singing Feminist Ch'ixi+Art Music from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus”. Her work will be published in the academic journal Feminist Formation in their Winter 2023 Edition.
Dr. Autry received her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Georgia. Her research creates a conversation between various fields of knowledge, particularly Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies, literature, cultural studies on (de)coloniality, and gender studies, through the analysis of Andean women’s identity formations.
The competition was open to scholars at all ranks, including independent scholars and artists. Multiple modes of knowledge production were considered, including but not limited to traditional scholarly articles, essays, poetry, and visual imagery. Applicants needed to be a member of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA).
Best wishes to Dr. Autry for this significant accomplishment.
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Post Doctoral Fellow Briana Nichols Publishes an Article in Anthropology & Education Quarterly!
Congratulations to Dr. Briana Nichols for publishing a new article titled: "Contesting Educational Imaginaries at the Intersection of Migration and Transnational Development in Guatemala" in the Anthropology & Education Quarterly for the American Anthropological Association. First published on September 4, 2023, this article draws on 18 months of ethnographic engagement in Guatemala with Indigenous youth, local community organizations, and transnational nongovernmental organizations. It examines how young people imagine and work toward alternative futures at the intersection of extensive migration and a developmentalist push for educational attainment. Dr. Nichols shows how, within the development infrastructures generated by migration, contrasting futures are rendered, with concerns over education being a key site for this imaginative and future-oriented work.
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Call for Papers: 2024 Conference of the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS)
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The 2024 Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies (MACLAS) conference, Hemispheric Horizons: Publics, Power, and Place in the Americas, is set to take place on March 15-16. This year's conference aims to explore and discuss topics regarding how Latin American societies can draw on extant knowledge and past experiences to best meet challenges appearing on the horizon post the pandemic. While MACLAS encourages papers that engage with the conference themes, other submissions are welcome. Applications are due on October 20, 2023. Application Link Here Visit MACLAS Website More information on the conference is below:
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Lisette Varón Carvajal Joins Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia as an Assistant Professor in the History Department
Lisette Varón Carvajal recently graduated from Rutgers with a Ph.D. in History. She recently completed an internship with Neogranadina, where she worked with historians Santiago Muñoz (UT Austin) and Antonio Jaramillo (Universidad del Norte) and started to develop a podcast of Colombian colonial history tentatively titled “Zona Colonial." The goal of this project is to reach high-school students and teach them about unknown aspects of colonial society. Lisette was in charge of developing an episode devoted to women, particularly to abortion, during the colonial era.
Now, Lisette will continue her journey in academia at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, as an assistant professor. She started on August 1st, 2023, and will be teaching an introductory course on Colombian history this semster as well as Colonial Colombian History next semester. Lisette decided to take this position because it is one of the best places in the world to work as a historian of Colombia. She has a wonderful community of peers and amazing support for her research and projects. She also has a great community of students. Lisette hopes to receive tenure through this new role and will be working at Universidad de los Andes for years to come.
Congratulations to Lisette for all her achievements and all the best for future endeavors!
Professor Kenneth Sebastian León Publishes: "Code of the Street 25 Years Later: Lasting Legacies, Empirical Status, and Future Directions"
Title: Code of the Street 25 Years Later: Lasting Legacies, Empirical Status, and Future Directions
Congratulations to Kenneth Sebastian León, Assistant Professor at LCS and Criminal Justice Program at Rutgers, and Jamie J. Fader, Associate Professor within the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University, for publishing a new review for the Annual Review of Criminology. This review, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Code of the Street (1999), considers the legacies of Elijah Anderson’s groundbreaking analysis of the interactional rules for negotiating street violence within the context of racism and structural disadvantage in Philadelphia.
Empirical testing has yielded substantial support for Code of the Street’s key arguments. In the process of assessing its generalizability, such scholarship has inadvertently flattened and decontextualized the theory by, for example, reducing it to attitudinal scales. The authors identify a more politically conscious analysis in the original text than it is generally credited with, which we use to argue that “code of the street” has outgrown its reductive categorization as a subcultural theory.
They conclude that the pressing issue of urban gun violence makes now an ideal time to refresh the theory by resituating it within the contemporary structural and cultural landscape of urban violence, analyze the social-ecological features that shape the normative regulation of violence, and study the prosocial and adaptive features of the code.
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