The associate professor of Spanish talks about her new book, which investigates the underlying themes of Jewish mysticism in modern Latin American art.
The Ticha Project, started by Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen and her collaborators, is an online explorer for a corpus of Colonial Zapotec texts. Photo: A Zapotec document at the Archivo General de Poder Ejecutivo de Oaxaca in Oaxaca City. Courtesy of the Ticha Project.
Professors Anne Preston and Anita Isaacs and a team of students are working to combat misinformation about immigration by sharing the personal stories of migrants deported to Mexico from the United States. Photos: Patrick Montero.
From Left to Right: Members of Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM) Maynor Alvarado and Daniel Alvarado; Professor of Anthropology Brie Gettleson; and students Mariana Ramírez, Natalia Mora, and Saúl Ontiveros presenting the Haverford College-GAM partnership at the Guatemala Scholars Network Conference in Antigua, Guatemala.
"Empty chairs and portraits" is a homage to the 43 Ayotzinapa students who were forcibly disappeared by the organized crime and officials in Iguala, Mexico in 2014. The students of Politics of Memory and Professor Aurelia Gómez Unamuno organized a series of activities including the visit to the campus of three relatives of Ayotiznapa students calling for justice.
Caribe Cuir: Sexual Aesthetics and Politics from the Hispanic Caribbean and its Diasporas is a digital course, bibliography and discussion by Professor Lina Martínez.
The Latin American, Iberian and Latinx Studies concentration is an interdisciplinary program that prepares students to explore and specialize in any of these areas from different perspectives.
The interdisciplinary approach of the program will provide you with an ample vision of past and current events in these areas. Also, it exposes you to a variety of theoretical frameworks to explore and think critically about phenomena such as migration, diaspora, race and gender, ecocide and forced displacement, language policies, language endangerment, Latinx and Chicano movements. Other topics you may explore include political violence and memory, Afro-descendents in the Caribbean and beyond, public health, feminisms and transgender rights, labor movements, gendered violence and feminicide, etc.
Pursuing the LAILS program will introduce you to essential interdisciplinary knowledge and intersectional thinking to develop research, projects, and problem solving. For these reasons, the LAILS program prepares you for a future beyond graduation. Whether you are majoring in social sciences or humanities, you may plan your courses in order to study the topics of your interest in breadth and depth.
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