CLALS Graduate Research Symposium

Where graduate students who received the 2021 CLALS Summer Research Grant will be sharing their ongoing research.
The Nancy Farris Graduate Student Paper Award will be announced during the event.

Presentations:

• Carmen Torre Pérez, Romance Languages. “Friki” History: Building a Digital Archive of Cuba’s Underground Cultures (1980-1999) | Advisor: Odette Casamayor-Cisneros
• Daniel Morales-Armstrong, Africana Studies and History. ¿Un Tema Agotado? Reading and Writing Post-Emancipation Labor Contracting in Puerto Rico | Advisor: Grace Sanders Johnson and Roquinaldo Ferreira
• Michael Martin Shea, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. Neoliberal Visions: Crisis Landscapes and Poetic Sights | Advisor: Ashley Brock
• Lenin Lozano Guzmán, Romance Languages. Rethinking Rural Peru and Colombia: The Realist Novel during the Neoliberal Era | Advisor: Ericka Beckman
• Miguel Durango-Loaiza, History. "La llave de la Tierra Firme”: Trade and Imperial Trasnformation in a Black and Indigenous Caribbean (1748-1808) | Advisors: Marcy Norton and Roquinaldo Ferreira
• Taylor Elizabeth Dysart, History and Sociology of Science. The Scientist and the Jaguar: The Science of Enchanting Plants in Amazonian Worlds, 1849 – 2000 | Advisor: Sebastián Gil-Riaño
• Randall C. Burson, History. Practicing Plurinationality: Mapuche Participation in Chile’s Changing Political Landscape | Advisor: Adriana Petryna

Moderator: Dr. Tulia Falleti, CLALS Director.