Graduate Students

 

Michael D. Aguirre (email), PhD student, History

Intellectual history and identity formation, 20th century US, 20th century Mexico, borderlands

Will Arighi (email), PhD student, Comp. Lit.

Theories of the literary in the 19th-century Philippines, and the Hispanophone and Francophone Caribbean.

Julianne Baroody (email), MS student, School of Forest Resources

Community-managed tropical forests, climate change and forest carbon conservation activities (tentative - Chiapas, Mexico)

Allen Baros (email), PhD student, English

Queer and Chicano identity, politics in literature and culture

Elizabeth Bieri, Communications

 

Avram Blum (email), PhD student, English

Novice multi-lingual English teachers (ESL) use of language learning experience as a teaching resource

Juan Calvijo (email), MA in Public Administration student, Evans School of Public Affairs

Development, education and indigenous rights in South America

Raj Chetty (email), PhD student, English

Caribbean literature and culture across Spanish, French, and English-speaking regions, performance and race/blackness

Javier Crespan Hidalgo (email) PhD student, Political Science

 

Yuliza E Curvelo Vidal, (email), MA student in School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Marine tourism with the indigenous communities in Colombia
 

Marisa Duarte (email), iSchool

 

Damarys Espinoza (email), Anthropology
Peru

Amal Eqeiq (email), PhC, Comparative Literature
Chiapas, Guatemala
 

Amanda Jasso (email), iSchool
Legal libraries in immigration detention centers drawing from the perspectives of Chicana feminism and borderland theory; Lipan Apache knowledge systems in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas.

Monica Farias (email), PhD student, Geography

Class formation, urban inequalities, and everyday cultural practices in Argentina

 

Amanda M. Fulmer (email), PhD student, Political Science

Role of international human rights law in conflicts around mines in Peru and Guatemal.  She studies the politics around controversial mining projects and how local communities have used human rights and international law in innovative ways to protect themselves from unwanted projects.

Jason Gilmore, Communications

 

Anne Greenleaf (email), PhD student, Political Science

Labor rights, law and society, China studies, comparative politics, Central America

Norma Kaminsky (email), PhD student, Comp. Lit.

South American anti-dictatorship and repression narratives, Southern Cone

Tamia Melo, (email), PhD student, Political Science

Brazil and Argentina.  Social movements particularly the Labor movement

C.T. Mexica (email), PhD student, Comp. Lit.

narcocultura, borderland narratives, falconry

Tavid Mulder (email), MA student, Comp. Lit.

20th century literary, cultural and political phenomena in the Southern Cone region

Kim Carter Muñoz (email), PhD student, Ethnomusicology
Huastecan Nahua and mestizo identity in Mexico

Britta Padgham (email), MA student, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs

Cameron Quevedo (email), MA student, Ethnomusicology, MA student, Communication
The ways in which social media technologies and Mexican traditional musics (son jarocho and mariachi, specifically) function as sites of cultural resistance to the rhetorics of colonization and imperialism

Amy Reed-Sandoval (email), Philosophy

Political philosophy, exploitation and undocumented migration, Oaxacan migrants working in the Pacific NW

Maria Y. Rodriguez, MSW (email), PhD student, School of Social Work
Contemporary social movements, anti-authoritarian movements established and sustained by people of color, community organizing and non-violent direct action, experiential education and community development, community organizing as a social work practice, and non-profit organizational development

Renee A. Shank (email), College of Education

 

Maura Shelton (email) 

 

Adrian Sinkler, (email) Political Science

 

Carolina Toscano (email), PhD student, Comp. Lit

Influence of Spanish explorations in the New World on English literature of the Early Modern Period, Spain, England, Colonial Latin America

Miriam G. Valdovinos (email), PhD student, School of Social Work

Violence against immigrant women, undocumented women living in the US who have experienced dating violence or intimate partner violence

 

Natalie White (email), MA student, Geography
Return migration, labor migration, Guatemala to US

Kirsten Millares Young (email), MFA student, English

Prose writer and investigative journalist, studied History and Literature of Latin America with a focus on Cuba, writing a novel based on the Olympic Peninsula

Steve Zech (email), Political Science

Dissertation topic: violence during internal armed conflict. Steve focuses on evangelical Christian groups in Ayacucho, Peru. He looks at how narratives influenced participation in civilian defense forces for religious actors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Box 353650, 122 Thomson Hall
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 685-3435
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Dr. José Antonio Lucero
Director
►jal26@u.washington.edu

Gai-Hoai Nguyen
Assistant Director
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Dr. Linda Iltis
Academic Advisor
(206) 543-6001
►iltis@u.washington.edu

Deb Raftus
LACS Librarian
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