Current LAS Graduate Students
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Blair, Addison
Graduating Fall 2019
Research Interest: 20th Century Politics, Military Dictatorships, History of U.S. -Latin American Relations
Hometown: Spanish Fork, Utah
Email: a2blair@ucsd.edu
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Campbell, Amelia
First year graduate student
Research Interest: Gender essentialism and symbolism in women's visual art and literature, border culture, female authors of the Mexican Revolution and post-revolutionary era, faith in YA literature of Latin America.
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Email: acampbel@ucsd.edu
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Cruz, Lorena
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: International Migration
Hometown: Lawrence, Massachusetts
Email: lcruz@ucsd.edu
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Etlin, Stuart
Graduating Fall 2019
Research Interest: History, Culture, Politics, Economics, and Public Policy. LGBTQ rights and realities in Latin America. Spanish languages.
Hometown: Malibu, CA
Email: setlin@ucsd.edu
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Fei, Yingjie
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: Dictatorship, reconciliation, US-LAC-China relations
Hometown: Jiangsu, China
Email: yifei@ucsd.edu
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Godoy, Samuel
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: History of US- Latin America relations, Colombian history, and neoliberalism
Hometown: Cali, Colombia
Email: sgodoy@ucsd.edu
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Gomez, Nelly
Graduating Fall 2019
Research Interest: International Migration, Latin American Diaspora, and History.
Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina
Email: ngomezam@ucsd.edu
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Guzman Dominguez, Jose
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: History, state violence, and the Catholic church in Mexico during the 1900s
Hometown: Cloverdale, CA
Email: jguzmand@ucsd.edu
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Hussak van Velthen Meira, Raduan
Graduating Fall 2019
Research Interest: Politics
Hometown: Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil
Email: rmeira@ucsd.edu
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Husson, David
First year graduate student
Research Interest: International Migration
Hometown: Brookline, MA
Email: dhusson@ucsd.edu
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Longley, David
Graduating Winter 2020
Research Interest: Colonial legacy in the Caribbean with a focus on race, identity, and power.
Hometown: Brunswick, Maine
Email: dlongley@ucsd.edu
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Martinez, Darlene
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: Latin American politics, human rights, transnational social movements, the intersection between technology and social change, and Latin American feminism
Hometown: Tustin, CA
Email: dem009@ucsd.edu
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McWhorter, Ashley
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: The influence of hispanic culture upon the US market economy and business strategy
Hometown: Lewiston, Maine
Email: amcwhort@ucsd.edu
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Meyer, Leslie
First year graduate student
Research Interest: Migration, borders, ideologies of racism and nationalism, and global environmental change
Hometown: Iowa City, Iowa
Email: lmeyer@ucsd.edu
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Morales, Krystal
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: Sustainable Development; Environmental Studies; Gender Studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Resource Extraction; Human Rights
Hometown: El Paso, Texas
Email: krmorale@ucsd.edu
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Navarrete, Claudia
First year graduate student
Research Interest: International migration, education, US-Latin America relations
Hometown: Riverside, CA
Email: cpnavarr@ucsd.edu
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Olvera Cáñez, Paulina
Second year graduate student
Research Interests: International Migration, Haitian migration in Brazil and Mexico, Central American history, Latin American Literature.
Hometown: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Email: polverac@ucsd.edu
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Ortega, Pam
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: Immigration, US-Mexico relations, Latin American Politics, Drug policy, Latin American journalism
Hometown: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Email: p1ortega@ucsd.edu
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Pena Hernandez, Leslie
Graduating Fall 2019
Research Interest: Race and ethnic relations, immigration.
Hometown: Villa Guerrero, Mexico/ Ixtapan de la Sal, Mexico
Email: lpenaher@ucsd.edu
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Reese, Shelby
First year graduate student
Research Interest: Political sociology of Latin America, social movements, indigenous movements, processes of democratization, human rights
Hometown: Linwood, PA (outside of Philadelphia)
Email: smreese@ucsd.edu
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Saiag, Valerie
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: Latin American art with an interdisciplinary emphasis on Andean history, religious practices, indigenous documentation and representations and their intersections with Europe and the European art world.
Hometown: Paris, France
Email: vsaiag@ucsd.edu
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Valerio, Karen
Graduating Fall 2019
Research Interest: Decolonial Restorative Literature, Migration and Dislocation, Afro-Carribean Diaspora, Critical Race Theory, Post-colonial Feminism.
Hometown: Newark, New Jersey and Nagua, Dominican Republic
Email: kavaleri@ucsd.edu
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Waterhouse, Beatrice
Second year graduate student
Research Interest: The Jewish Diaspora of Latin America, transitions theory, the Southern Cone
Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA
Email: bwaterho@ucsd.edu
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Recent Gradautes
Cheyenne Jennings (2019)
Faculty Committee Memebers: Christine Hunefeldt (History), Hanna Garth (Anthropology), Wayne Yang (Ethnic Studies)
Joshua Bingham (2019)
"A Decade of Hell: How Repression and Violence Shaped Local 22’s Shift to Oligarchy"Faculty Committee Memebers: Abigail Andrews (Sociology), Matthew Vitz (History), Jeffrey Haydu (Sociology)
Haley Daigle (2019)
"Words Really Can Hurt You: The Potential Impacts of Political Rhetoric on Secondary School Students in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region"Faculty Committee Memebers: David Fitzgerald (Sociology), Rafael Fernández de Castro (GPS), Phoebe Bronstein (6th College)
Bianca Martinez (2018)
"Puertorriqueña Power and Testimonio: Puerto Rican Women's Fight for Reproductive Rights in the 1930s through the 1970s"Faculty Committee Memebers: Jillian Hernandez (Ethnic Studies), Phoebe Bronstein (6th College), Sara Johnson (Literature)
Patrick Ruhl (2018)"Rekingling the Flame: How International Conflict Restored Colombia's Relationship with the United States after the Ranama Secession, 1900-1922"Faculty Committee Memebers: Christine Hunefeldt (History), David Mares (Political Science), Matthew Vitz (History)
Scott Alvarez (2018)"Competing for the U.S. Market: Assessing Heroin Industries in the Western Hemisphere"Faculty Committee Memebers: Christine Hunefeldt (History), Scott Desposato (Political Science), David Mares (Political Science)
Christopher Brennan (2018)"The MAPU-Lautaro Then and Now: The Chilean Struggle to Spark Revolution Through the Creation of Revolutionary Subjects"Faculty Committee Memebers: Nancy Postero (Anthropology), Christine Hunefeldt (History), Scott Desposato (Political Science)
Nancy Turtletaub (2018)"Myth-Making and Mineral Water: Identity, Industry, and Indigeneity in Monterrey, Mexico"Faculty Committee Memebers: Nancy Postero (Anthropology), Gloria Chacon (Literature), Matthew Vitz (History)
Yesenia Sanchez-Garcia (2018)"Luchadoras: Central American Women Navigating Border Externalization in Mexico"Faculty Committee Memebers: David Fitzgerald (Sociology), Nancy Postero (Anthropology), Abigail Andrews (Sociology)
Michael Angel Rodriguez Vazquez (2018)"From Vasconcelos to DeVos: Identity, Politics, Education, and the Politics of Identity within Education in the Alta-Baja Borderlands"Faculty Committee Memebers: David Gutierrez (History), Olga Vazquez (Communication), Makeba Jones (Education Studies).
Nikola Bulajic (2018)"Céu do Mapiá: Social Organization and the Role of Ayahuasca in the Amazonian Santo Daime Community"Faculty Committee Memebers: Christine Hunefeldt (History), David Mares (Political Science), Leon Zamosc (Sociology)
Itzel Garcia Orozco (2018)"Effects of the New Mexican Immigration Policy on the Human Rights of Migrants in Transit"
Faculty Committee Memebers: Scott Desposato (Political Science), David Fitzgerald (Sociology), Abigail Andrews (Sociology)
Gabriela Maritza Lopez Alvaro (2017)"Gender and Development in Popular Education: The awareness raising and agency experience of indigenous women from rural Quito - Ecuador"Faculty Committee Memebers: Nancy Postero (Anthropology), Abigail Andrews (Sociology), Luz Chung (Education Studies), Rosaura Sanchez (Literature).
Courtney Tarrant (2017)"Local Boundaries of "Illegality": A Case Study of Local and Federal Police Collabroations on Immigration Enforcement"Faculty Committee Memebers: David Gutierrez (History), Natalia Molina (History), David Fitzgerald (Sociology)
Susana Aguilera (2016)"Security, Autonomy, and Indigenous Justice: The Alternative Security Model of Cheràn, Michoacan"Faculty Committee Members: Milos Kokotovic (Literature), Max Parra (Literature), Nancy Postero (Anthropology)
Sara Bivin (2015)"The Ngabe-Bugle Fight to Maintain Territorial Sovereignty"Faculty Committee Members: Leon Zamosc (Sociology), Richard Feinberg (GPS), Christine Hunefeldt, (History), Nancy Postero, (Anthropology)
Miguel Castañeda (2016)Research Interest: Mexican Immigration; History of Civil and Labor Rights Organizing; Chicana and Chicano History Accepted into UCSD PH.D Program in History
Daniel Gutierrez (2015)"Ciudad de la memoria y ciudad del olvido: Changes in the Everyday Life of Tijuana's Working Class Under Neoliberalism 1964-2014"Faculty Committee Members: Rosaura Sanchez, (Literature), Christine Hunefeldt, (History), Curtis Marez, (Ethnic Studies)
Megan Horton (2015)"Burning Memory : Amnesty Against Justice? Historical Memory and Continued Polarization in Postwar El Salvador"Faculty Committee Members: Christine Hunefeldt, (History), Milos Kokotovic (Literature), Nancy Postero, (Anthropology)
Sofia Lana (2016)“Women surviving in and out of prison in Quito, Ecuador: weaving alternative lives through the sale of drugs” Faculty Committee Members: Nancy Postero, (Anthropology), Leon Zamosc (Sociology), Dennis Childs (Literature)
Veronica Noriega Gonzalez (2015)"Negotiating Formal Membership in Mexico and the United States: The case of Federations of Mexican Hometown Associations in Los Angeles County"Faculty Committee Members: David Fitzgerald, Sociology, Steven Erie, Political Science, David Gutierrez, History
Lupita Ruiz-Tolento (2016)"The Dynamism of Small Spaces: Trends and Patterns of Political Participation and Engagement in the Municipality of Villamar, Michoacán"Faculty Committee Members: Christine Hunefeldt (History, Chair), Scott Desposato (Political Science), Max Parra (Literature)
Areli Palomo Contereas (2016)"Friendly Mistrust: Coping with the Rule of Gangs in a Salvadoran Community"Faculty Committee Members: Elana Zilberg (Comm), David Fitzgerald (Sociology), David Pedersen (Anthropology)
Claudia Vizcarra (2015)"The Globalization of Knowledge Productions: Comparison of UNAM and UCSD’s Philosophy Departments and Their National Communities"Faculty Committee Members: John Blanco, Literature, Jaime Concha, Literature, Daphne Taylor-Garcia, Ethnic Studies
Weijun Yuan (2016)“Rodor con los Golpes: State Responses and Protest Tactics: The Case of the Chilean Student Movements (2011-2015“Faculty Committee Members: Leon Zamosc (Sociology), Daniel Hallin (Communications), Peter Smith (Political Science)
