Despite the increasing presence of formerly excluded ethnoracial populations in state spaces across the Americas, research seldom investigates how race shapes their experiences within the …
The Return of the Contemporary seeks to frame debates about the semantics of our present through a hemispheric analysis of Latin American and Caribbean literature …
My dissertation explores the intellectual project of the Peruvian scientist and antiquarian Mariano de Rivero (1798-1857), focusing on a pioneering concept of technology that emerges …
This dissertation is a study of how imperial Brazil (1840-1889) shaped and was shaped by the history of international abolitionism. It traces the development of …
Through a study of the 1973 collapse of the world’s largest fishery, the Peruvian anchoveta (Engraulis ringens), my dissertation provides demonstrates that marginalized groups win …
There are increasing numbers of survivors of trauma in the general population, therefore, it is crucial to understand who does and does not develop PTSD …
This dissertation is a study of the shifting definitions and political currency of nationalism in Brazil from 1955 through the end of the dictatorship (1964-1985). …