Visiting Scholars
Alberto Simpser moderates a Latin American Briefing Series public lecture on "The Militarization of US Foreign Relations with Latin America" by Lisa Haugaard, Executive Director of the Latin American Working Group, Joy Olson, Executive Director of the Washington Office on Latin America, and Adam Isacson, Program Director at the Center for International Policy.
Faculty and students at the University of Chicago benefit enormously from the presence of outstanding scholars, teachers, and practitioners regularly hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies. Visiting scholars, in turn, benefit from access to University of Chicago academic community.
Summer Visiting Scholars Research Grant
The University of Illinois-University of Chicago Consortium for Latin American Studies invites applications for short-term library research fellows for residencies from May 15-November 30, 2009.* Fellowships will be awarded to Latin Americanist faculty at non-research US colleges and universities who do not have regular access to major university library collections. Fellows will be expected to pursue independent research in residence at the University of Illinois or the University of Chicago library. They will enjoy full access to the libraries and to the academic life of the university. Fellowships are open to scholars in all disciplines. Priority will be given to research proposals that demonstrate a strong likelihood of contributing to the fellow's course development, or a strong likelihood of resulting in publication.
Since 1976, the University of Illinois-University of Chicago Consortium for Latin American Studies has been designated a National Resource Center in Latin American Studies with financial support from the U.S. Department of Education. The Consortium's libraries represent one of the greatest concentrations of Latin Americanist research materials in the US, with particularly strong collections on Mexico, Brazil, and the Andean countries, unique resources on Latin American indigenous languages, a robust slide collection of pre-Columbian, colonial, and modern Latin American art, and special collections on the history of Mesoamerican anthropology.
Awards for residencies of 1-2 weeks include a stipend of up to $1,000 to help defray the costs of travel and residency. Awards for residencies of 4 weeks or longer include a stipend of up to $3,000. Applicants must be tenured faculty, or on a tenure-track or continuing appointment at a United States college or university, and must verify eligibility prior to receiving the award.
To apply
Please complete and submit the attached application along with a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, one letter of reference, and a brief project proposal (approx. 500 words). You may submit electronic documents in .DOC or .PDF format to clacs@uiuc.edu, with subject line: LIBRARY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION. All application materials must be received by February 6, 2009.
* A second call for applications will be announced in August 2009, due in October 2009, for proposed research residencies between December 1, 2009-May 15, 2010.
2007
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ALEXANDRA PUERTO, Assistant Professor of History at Occidental College, specializes in the modern history of Latin America and of U.S.-Latin American relations. As Summer Visiting Scholar, Dr Puerto conducted research in the Regenstein Library Special Collections in preparation for a book manuscript tentatively titled, "Organizing ‘Folk Culture': The Chicago Paradigm in Maya Ethnology of the 1930s and 1940s", drawing upon the papers of Robert Redfield, Margaret Park Redfield, and Sol Tax in particular
2006
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VICTOR MACIAS-GONZALEZ, Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, specializes in transnational Mexican/Mexican-American culture and identity, looking particularly at homosexuality, masculinity, and class in early 20th-century Mexican history. During his 2006 residency as Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago he researched social networks and spaces of gay male Mexicans living in Chicago, 1900-1950. His research focused on famed Mexican operatic tenor José Mojica.
2005
- ANDREW FISHER, Assistant Professor of History at Carleton Collage specializes in Latin American history, society and culture, the comparative topics of slavery, obstacles to nation-building, and the role of race and ethnicity in colonial and postcolonial settings. During the summer of 2005 his research focused on religious confraternities and the role they played in local societies and economies in the early-modern Catholic world, as well as in the study of mercury exploration and supply in New Spain.
2004
- ANGELA VERGARA, Assistant Professor of History at University of Texas – Pan American, researches issues of labor history and engages with questions of working-class identity, class formation, industrialization, and U.S. imperialism in postwar Chile. Her research at the University of Chicago during the summer of 2004 centered on her project Labor International Business and Domestic Politics: Chilean Cooper Workers and their Struggle for Equality (Potrerillos – el Salvador, 1945-1990s). Her future research will include the history of the struggle against occupational disease in the Chilean mining industry.
- JULIO NORIEGA, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, researches migrant indigenous literature. He spent summer 2000 in Spain researching the manuscripts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, and Jose Maria Arguedas. His research this summer has focused on Arguedas, and specifically on the writings from the latter part of his life in Lima during which time he wrote poems in Quechua producing what Noriega theorizes is an Andean migrant manifesto against the Peruvian academy
- LAURA LEWIS, Associate Professor of History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA, examines race and identity in Latin America with particular emphasis on African-descent Mexicans. Her research at the University of Chicago served as background for a book-length project on narratives of history, race and place in the construction of black Mexico.
- 2001
- MARY ANN GOSSER ESQUILIN, Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, specializes on race and gender in contemporary Caribbean literature. Her research at the University of Chicago focused on a comparative analysis of Puerto Rican and Cuban pre-1898 law governing miscegenation. She is working toward publication of a book on miscegenation in Hispanic Caribbean literature
- ANNE RUBENSTEIN, Assistant Professor of History at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, specializes in Mexican cultural studies and twentieth-century Mexican historiography. Her research at the University of Chicago focuses on the papers of anthropologist Robert Redfield, as well as several microforms relating to popular culture in early twentieth-century Mexico. She is working toward the publication of a book investigating the relationship between media and the state in Mexico after 1920.
- MIEKO NISHIDA, Assistant Professor of History at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, has extensive experience researching racial and ethnic identities, emancipation, and gender in Brazil. She proposes to articulate gender, race, and ethnicity among Black and Japanese Brazilian women in S‹o Paulo since emancipation in 1888. Research draws from Brazilian newspapers and government reports held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library.
- PRISCILLA HANDY, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Social Work at Mississippi Valley State University, specializes in the study of political and family violence across cultures and institutional frameworks. Her research focused on the resolution of political differences in Argentina over the past twenty-five years, primarily utilizing resources from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library.
- JOAN MEZNAR, Associate Professor of History at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, specializes on the subject of the Virgin Mary from a historical perspective. During her residence at the University of Chicago, she researched the role of Maria Imaculada in the Portuguese Expansion in Brazil (1549-1700), utilizing in particular the writings of the Jesuits José de Anchieta and Antonio Vieria.
- FRANCISCO DURAND, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas-San Antonio, has extensive experience in the field of economic history. His project sought to determine the factors that provoked changes in business-government relations and to assess their consequences for Peruvian democracy during the García administration (1985-1990) and with respect to Fujimori's election.
- SETH MEISEL, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, specializes in the study of race and nation-building in Argentina, colonial Latin America and modern Latin America. During his stay at the University of Chicago, he researched the military and social reforms of the Bourbons in the Río de la Plata and their influence on ideas about authority and citizenship in early nineteenth-century Argentina.
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