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February 23, 2021
The following profile on Yale College alumna Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia was part of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Undergraduate Fellows Network and its Career Conversations series launch. Ruth was an Ethics, Politics, and Economics and...
February 16, 2021
The following interview is part of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies’ Alumni Spotlight series focusing on alumni who majored in Latin American Studies in Yale College. 1. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself? I’m from...
January 20, 2021
Using singular terms such as “complicity” to characterize the participation of Africans in the Atlantic slave trade is doubly problematic. Not only does it call upon - inadequately - the language of morality to approach a set of historical processes...
Panelist Ana Elisa Pérez-Quintero relates lessons learned in resiliency from running an agroecological farm in Vieques PR.
January 11, 2021
The third session of the ongoing series Resistance & Resilience: Responses to the Climate Crisis from Cuba & Puerto Rico focused on local, just, and resilient agrifood systems on the islands, how expertise in this field is being understood...
December 21, 2020
The following interview is part of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies’ Alumni Spotlight series.  Could you tell us a little bit about yourself? From a young age, I knew I would dedicate my career to making the world a more inclusive,...
Professor Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
December 7, 2020
Professor of Archeology in Yale’s Department of Anthropology, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos earned his Ph.D. in 1996 at Vanderbilt University. His dissertation focused on the pre-Columbian city of Cotzumalhuapa, near Guatemala’s Pacific coast. In...
December 7, 2020
On November 20, Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) through the Center for...