JOSHUA FRENS-STRING is a historian of modern Latin America and assistant professor in the Department of History. His research and teaching examine the history of revolution in modern Latin America, popular politics, labor history, global agricultural history, food politics, and U.S.–Latin America … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Frens-String
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Faculty Spotlight: Megan Raby
MEGAN RABY is a historian of science and environment whose research and writing highlight transnational connections in science between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. Her book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (University of North … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Megan Raby
Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar
By NOHELY GUZMÁN NARVÁEZ IN MARCH 2019, I had one of the most nurturing, delicate, and vulnerable experiences of my professional career. After years of having worked with Indigenous women from the Bolivian Amazon in whose territories Chinese capital has settled, I learned that the body knows, … [Read more...] about Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar
Faculty Spotlight: Mallory Matsumoto
ONE OF THE MANY FASCINATING ASPECTS of Classic Maya civilization (250–900 CE) is that a series of common cultural traits appear in settlements that are widely distributed geographically, yet they do not appear to have originated in one central location. “They were shared among populations that were … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Mallory Matsumoto
Faculty Spotlight: Amy E. Thompson
IN HER RESEARCH, Assistant Professor Amy E. Thompson (Department of Geography and the Environment) uses transdisciplinary approaches of geospatial methods with traditional archaeological techniques to assess wealth inequality, differential access to resources, and community formation among the … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Amy E. Thompson
Conference Preview: A Water-Centered Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean
2023 Lozano Long Conference WATER IS ESSENTIAL for biological life as we know it, but it is also essential for livelihoods ranging from the individual to the community, on regional, national, and transnational scales. It is no coincidence that the phrase El agua es la vida / Água é vida is the … [Read more...] about Conference Preview: A Water-Centered Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean
Dr. Manuel G. Galaviz: From Undocumented Youth to Scholar and Mentor
DR. MANUEL (MANNY) G. GALAVIZ will join the Division of Cultural Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2021. Dr. Galaviz earned his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin in December 2020. His … [Read more...] about Dr. Manuel G. Galaviz: From Undocumented Youth to Scholar and Mentor
Inside the Agrasánchez Collection of Mexican Cinema
BY DIEGO GODOY THE YOUNG HIGINIO GRANDA stood soldierly as he faced a mansion on Colón Street in Mexico City. Blond, svelte, and possessing a peninsular accent, he had the ability to pass as a “decent” person. But he was far from it, as his over twenty stints in jail might suggest. … [Read more...] about Inside the Agrasánchez Collection of Mexican Cinema
The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico
BY MATTHEW BUTLER and JOHN ERARD THE ROADS TO MICHOACÁN: MATTHEW BUTLER IT IS SAID that the history of a Mexican pueblo is the history of its lands. What better way, then, to explore that history than through land records such as Michoacán’s hijuelas books? I first came across these … [Read more...] about The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico
Decolonial Feminists Unite! Dorothy Schons and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
BY ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA BACK IN 1986, when Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz first started speaking to me in my dreams, I would be talking to her on the phone—that old rotary black phone my grandparents used to have—but I could see her clearly, wearing her black and white Hieronymite habit and my black … [Read more...] about Decolonial Feminists Unite! Dorothy Schons and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz