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Dain Borges, Director and Associate Professor of History

The Director of CLAS, Professor Dain Borges, leads the Center in coordinating University interests in research and teaching on Latin America. His work centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American culture and ideas, with a particular focus on Brazilian social thought, 1880-1920. His current research project, "Races, Crowds, and Souls in Brazilian Social Thought, 1880-1920," centers on the ways in which Brazilian intellectuals used race sociology and social psychology to understand popular religion and politics. Borges teaches graduate seminars and classes for the doctoral program on Latin America in the History Department.

     
   
Hilary Parsons Dick, Lecturer

Hilary Parsons Dick (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2006), Postdoctoral Instructor in Anthropology, Latin American Studies, and in the Social Sciences in the College, is a Linguistic Anthropologist who focuses her research on Mexico-US migration including such topics as discourse analysis; the semiotics of social difference and political economies of language; transnational cultural formations; language and globalization; power relations; gender, class,and ethno-racial relations; kinship and family and the production of "home"; and the impact of policy on migration. The argument of her forthcoming book, Words of Passage: A Discourse-Centered Approach to Migration, is that speakers' sustained patterns of identification with images of persons encourage or discourage migration by regimenting the social trajectories speakers are more likely to follow.
     
 
Joshua Beck, Associate Director for Programs & Development

The Associate Director for Programs is responsible for planning and implementing the Center's research and outreach programming, and for supporting the Directors in Center policy making. Josh Beck manages development and evaluation of the Center's grant and fellowship programs, including a US Department of Education National Resource Center grant and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships, the Tinker Visiting Professorship, and the Tinker Field Research Grant. He is also responsible for matters related to language programs in Spanish and Portuguese as well as indigenous languages. Josh Beck fosters linkages with other academic units on campus, community organizations, and the Center's professional associations in order to extend the impact of the Center's research and outreach programming. Josh currently serves as Vice President/President Elect of the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs. An alumnus of the CLAS MA Program, Josh is always happy to speak to prospective students interested in Latin American Studies.
     
   

Christelle Marpaud, Outreach Coordinator and Office Manager

Christelle Marpaud received her B.A. in International Relations from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. She joined the Center for Latin American Studies in March 2006. As Outreach Coordinator she is responsible of the organization of conferences, symposiums and outreach programming.
     
   

Michael Wolfe, B.A. Colloquium Preceptor

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