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History 1930: Literature and Social History: A View from Brazil

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Professor Sidney Chalhoub. The objective of this course is to study major authors and works of nineteenth-century Brazilian fiction. Writing fiction from a spot deemed to be in the “periphery” of the western world meant a difficult and complex engagement...

AFRAMER 199X/History 1937: Social Revolutions in Latin America

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Professor Alejandro de la Fuente. This course seeks to explain why social revolutions have taken place in Latin America and analyzes their impact on the region. The objective is for students to gain a critical understanding of the origins, development...

History 2046/HLS 3046: Legal History Workshop: Legal Pluralism

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Professor Tamar Herzog. This workshop aims to provide students with an historical perspective on the phenomenon of legal pluralism world-wide, but with a focus on the medieval and early modern worlds, Europe and its colonies. Assignments and class...

Petra Kuivala

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Dr. Kuivala conducts postdoctoral research in the fields of history, theology and religious studies, and Cuban studies. She received her doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 2019 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of...

Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz

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Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz is the Tanner-Opperman Chair of African Art History in Honor of Roy Sieber at Indiana University. An art historian with expertise in African and Caribbean artistic, visual and religious practices, his work challenges traditional...

Nohora Arrieta Fernández

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Nohora A. Arrieta Fernandez is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University and a ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow (2020-2021). Her dissertation project, Bittersweet Poetics: Politics and Aesthetics of the Sugar Plantation in Contemporary Brazilian...

Lucas Koerner

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Lucas entered the doctoral program in 2020 with a focus on Latin American History. After completing his B.A. in sociology and Spanish at Tufts University in 2014, he lived in Caracas, Venezuela for five years, working as a staff writer and editor at the...

Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira

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Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira is a Ph.D. candidate at the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo (Department of Philosophy and Theory of Law). He has a bachelor's  and a master's degree in Law from the same University. For his master's degree, he...

Kevin Blacutt

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Kevin is a PhD student in Latin American History. His research centers on how notions of human difference –– especially those anchored in ideas about race –– were used to define the boundaries between “us” and “them” in the eighteenth- and nineteenth...

Noga Marmor

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Noga Marmor is studying the history of royal slavery in the Spanish Caribbean in the eighteenth century. She is interested in understanding the workings of Spanish imperialism by looking at royal slaves as uniquely positioned, and involuntary, imperial...