Latin American Studies
Field Description
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) offers a graduate minor in Latin American studies. Resources include courses, library facilities, a video lending library, faculty and graduate weekly seminars, publications, summer travel grants, and access to research networks. Research and training foci include historical processes, political and economic change, the processes and consequences of agricultural development, urbanization, population issues, science and technology policies, and United States-Latin American relations.
Students who minor in Latin American studies integrate specialized training in area studies with advanced study in a particular discipline. Faculty members may supervise the research of degree candidates who focus on Latin American topics and may serve on the student's special committee.
Contact Information
Website: https://lacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/Email: lacs@einaudi.cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-1468
190 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Subject and Degrees
Concentrations by Subject
Latin American Studies
- Latin American studies (minor)
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: The configuration of geographic spaces, collective identities, geopolitical projects, and political allegiances in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: Racial formation, cross-cultural exchange, historicity, and coloniality in the visual and material culture of the Andes; legacies of colonialism in contemporary Latinx art
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: I am a historian of modern Latin America with research and teaching interests in the intersections of space, politics, and everyday practice. My books include Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes (Duke UP, 2004; Sp. trans. UNAM, 2013); The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile (Oxford UP, 2016; Sp. trans. LOM, 2017); and Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age (PM Press/Spectre, 2022; Sp. trans. forthcoming, Prometeo, 2025). My home department is History and I have affiliations with Romance Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Latino Studies and work with students from a wide range of disciplines and with a particular focus on the history of modern Latin America and the intersection of history, geography, and social theory.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: electronic media art, Latin American art and architecture, critical theory and the intersections of these fields
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: Latin American political economy
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: Latinos in the United States; (im)migration; refugees; asylum seekers; climate refugees
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
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- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
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- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
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- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: Democracy, inequality, and political representation in Latin America; parties, populism and social movements.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Latin American Studies: Latin American studies
- Research Interests: social movements in Brazil