The Summer 2021 edition of UCONN ECE Magazine featured a story on the work of Associate Director and Associate Professor Anne Gebelein in supporting Early College Experience classes in Latin American Studies in high schools around the state. The article focused specifically on Gebelein’s lectures on cyclical violence in Central America, human rights at the […]

Ismael García-Colón UConn Anthropology PhD Alumni and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, has been awarded the 2020 Frank Bonilla Book Award by the Puerto Rican Studies Association. According to the book prize selection committee, García-Colón’s book, Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican […]

In this UConn today article, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights, and Instituto faculty affiliate César Abadía-Barrero studies the integration into human rights concepts and measures of the holistic indigenous world view of “buen vivir” and relates recent mass protests in Colombia to the country’s structural inequalities, lack of educational opportunities, land use policies, […]