Ignacio Martín Baró Prize Lectureship

Each year CLAS invites advanced doctoral students from all divisions and disciplines  to apply for an Ignacio Martín Baró Prize Lectureship in Latin American Studies. This award supports the teaching of a one-quarter undergraduate course of your own design, focusing on a major Latin American political issue or question pertaining to human rights in Latin America. Priority is given to course proposals appropriate for cross-listing in Human Rights. Pending funding, one lectureship will be awarded, with a salary of $5,000. To be eligible, the student must have defended the dissertation proposal, or have scheduled the dissertation proposal defense for no later than the quarter in which the course is to be taught.

Applications for the 2013-2014 Ignacio Martín Baró Prize Lectureship are now opened. This year, applications will be submitted online via webform.  Letters of recommendation from dissertation advisers may be submitted online via webform, or in person to Jamie Gentry in Kelly Hall 109A.   For any questions, contact  Jamie Gentry at the Center for Latin American Studies, 773.702.8420.

Martín Baró Prize Lectureship 2013-2014 Guidelines

Martín Baró Prize Lectureship 2013-2014 Application

 

APPLICATION SUBMISSION

Online Application Submission

online Letter of Recommendation Submission

 

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 by 5:00 PM

The Ignacio Martín Baró Program was established to honor the memory of slain colleague and distinguished member of the University of Chicago community, Father Ignacio Martín Baró, who lived a life committed to the human values of democracy, social justice and service to the poor, silenced, and dispossessed. Ignacio Martín Baró was an ordained Jesuit priest, born in Spain in 1942. Upon joining the Jesuit order, Martín Baró was sent to El Salvador where he studied psychology. He came to the University of Chicago in 1976 to pursue graduate studies and three years later received his doctorate in Social Psychology. Upon returning to El Salvador, he found himself in the midst of a violent civil war, which had been ravaging the country for more than a decade. Despite many death threats and brutal acts of repression suffered by colleagues, students and friends, Father Martín Baró continued to pursue a brilliant teaching and research career as pastor of a rural parish on the outskirts of San Salvador. On the morning of November 16, 1989, Father Martín Baró, along with five Jesuit brothers, their housekeeper, and her daughter, became victims of their commitment to the dispossessed of El Salvador. That morning armed soldiers took them away and executed them. The Ignacio Martín Baró Endowed Program was created by then-President of the University of Chicago Hannah Holborn Gray to honor the life and memory of this extraordinary individual. The endowment is administered by the Center for Latin American Studies and supports an annual Lectureship awarded to an advanced graduate student to teach a course of his/her design related to politics and human rights in Latin America.

Past Ignacio Martin Baró Prize Lecturers

  • Meghan Morris (Anthropology): "Human Rights and the Environment in Latin America" (Spring 2013)
  • Adrian Anagnost (Art History): "Art and Politics in Twentieth-Century Latin America" (Spring 2013)
  • Laura-Zoe Humphries (Anthropology): "Intellectuals and the Cuban State" (Spring 2012)
  • Erica Simmons (Political Science): "From Castro to Chiapas: Contentious Politics in Latin America" (Winter 2011)
  • Amy Cooper (Comparative Human Development) "Medicine in Modern Latin America: History, Politics, Lived Experience" (Winter 2011)
  • João Felipe Gonçalves (Anthropology): "Cuba in Socialism and Diaspora" (Spring 2010)
  • Patrick Iber (History): "U.S. Imperialism in Latin America" (Autumn 2008)
  • Sarah Osten (History): "Women and Revolution in Latin America" (Winter 2008)
  • João Felipe Gonçalves (Anthropology): "Cuba in Socialism and Diaspora" (Spring 2007)
  • Aaron Ansell (Anthropology): "The Rise of Left-Wing Governments in Latin America" (Spring 2006)