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The UI-UC Consortium for Latin American Studies awards Summer Visiting Scholarships to faculty from non-research U.S. universities and colleges to support library research on a Latin American topic. Two Scholarships will be awarded (one for residency at the University of Chicago, another for residency at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Awards for 2007 include a stipend of $2,500 for residence at Urbana or $3,000 for residence at University of Chicago, and up to $500 for travel to and from the recipient's home institution to either school. Successful applicant must verify eligibility to receive the award. Recipients are expected to present a final narrative report upon completion of their residency.
The deadline for application to the 2007 Competition is Wednesday, February 28, 2007. To apply, please send a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, one letter of reference, and a brief project proposal (approx. 500 words). There is no additional application form. Please mail all material to:
Josh Beck
University of Chicago
Center for Latin American Studies
5848 S. University Ave, Kelly Hall 310
Chicago, IL 60637
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
2002
- 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.
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- 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
2000
- 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.
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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.
1999
- 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.
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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.
1998
- 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.
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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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