By Samuel Martínez Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola but are divided by a history of mutual conflict. It is often heard that the two countries have been adversaries since 1844, when the Dominicans won their independence from Haiti rather than a European colonizer (Haiti having brought both sides of […]
Author: Vasquez, Kimberly
Mexico’s Industrial Revolutions: Capitalism and the State in Monterrey, 1600-1915
Contributed by Rodolfo Fernandez El Instituto’s Assistant Professor in Residence Rodolfo Fernández finished a complete draft of a new book manuscript, titled Mexico’s Industrial Revolutions: Capitalism and the State in Monterrey, 1600-1915. This book is the culmination of a decade of work, begun while Fernández was a doctoral student in History at Georgetown University. The […]
MA Student Spotlight: Victoria Almodóvar Studies Latinx Greek Organizations
By Victoria Almodóvar Over the past two years I have taken on the role of Graduate Assistant for UConn’s Center for Fraternity and Sorority Development and Teaching Assistant for El Instituto. These experiences, as well as my own identities as a Latina and a sorority member, sparked my interest in doing what I can to […]
Mead Fellowship Goes to Randy Torres
The 2020 Robert G. Mead Fellowship as UConn’s most outstanding first-year Latin Americanist graduate student has been awarded to Randy Torres, a student in El Instituto’s Master’s program in Latina/o and Latin American Studies. This award was created in memory of Professor Robert G Mead, Jr, the founder of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at […]
Can inclusive programs reduce labor market discrimination?
Contribution by Jorge M. Agüero In Latin America, the poor are heavily underrepresented in their access to higher education. Less than ten percent of adolescents from low-income families are enrolled in college, while for their most affluent counterparts, the enrollment rate is close to 70%. To address these disparities, many countries in the region […]
Overmyer-Velázquez to Publish Updated Translation of Beyond La Frontera
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Professor in History and El Instituto and Director of UConn’s Hartford regional campus, is completing a revised and expanded version of his book Beyond la Frontera: The History of Mexico-US Migration (Oxford UP, 2011) for Spanish translation with the Editoriales del Colegio de San Luis and Colegio de la Frontera del Norte. Among […]
Instituto Professor Rodolfo Fernández interviewed on Identidad Latina
El Instituto Assistant Professor in Residence Rodolfo Fernández talks about his transition to on-line teaching during UCONN’s COVID classroom shutdown in this Spanish-language Identidad Latina interview with José Alonso Velásquez.
UConn Alumna Hilda Lloréns Wins LASA Silvestrini Prize
UConn Anthropology PhD and University of Rhode Island Associate Professor of Anthropology Hilda Lloréns was awarded the LASA Puerto Rico section’s 2020 Blanca G. Silvestrini Prize for the article that she co-authored with Maritza Stanchich (U Puerto Rico Rio Piedras) “Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto […]
Professor Scott Wallace reports on spread of COVID-19 among Indigenous People
UConn Journalism, Scott Wallace, reports on the spread of COVID-19 as it spreads among the Indigenous people in the Amazon, out today in National Geographic website.
A Letter to the UConn Community (COVID-19)
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