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Katherine MacDonald |
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Katherine MacDonald is a Lecturer at the School for Field Studies, Peru. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from York University. Her dissertation, ‘Rupununi Imaginaries’, explores how Makushi and Wapishana ontologies are counter-imagining places by re-engaging with the imaginaries of their ancestors, producing a complex set of alternate geographies, and creating positive change within their communities. She continues to explore the fluvial landscapes of Amazonia while researching Indigenous responses to large-scale environmental and land use change, including through IBCH adaptation and cultural management of natural resources. |
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Kavin Paulraj |
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Kavin Dayanandan Paulraj received his Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Pittsburgh's department of History, for his dissertation "Jamaica Brasileira: The Politics of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil, 1968-2010." He has been affiliated with Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies for the past ten years. His current interests include environmental history, ethnomusicology, comparative race/caste/ethnicity, and the history of marijuana. |
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Kimberly Bennett |
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Kimberly Bennett is a J.D./M.I.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. She is Senior Editor of Panoramas and JURIST. She holds an undergraduate degree in Spanish and Political Science, and a Certificate in Latin American Studies. She is studying international human rights and civil rights law. |
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Kelcey Hadden-Leggett |
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Kelcey Hadden-Leggett is an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh pursuing a degree in Spanish, a Certificate in Latin American Studies, and a related area Certificate in Portuguese. She recently completed the Pitt in Ecuador program in the Amazon. |
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Yann Kerevel |
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lewis University. My research interests include the study of legislative behavior, electoral systems, election administration, Mexican Politics, Latin American Politics, and Latino Politics. I have previously published articles in The Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Latin American Politics & Society and Social Science Quarterly, along with several book chapters. |
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Kevin M. Anzzolin |
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Kevin M. Anzzolin, Assistant Professor of Spanish, arrived at Dickinson State University in 2016, where he teaches a wide range of classes in Spanish and English. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2014 after writing a dissertation entitled Guardians of Discourse: Literature and Journalism in Porfirian Mexico (1887-1912). Therein, he analyzes the representation of journalism in literary texts from Porfiriato Mexico. His research focuses primarily on Mexican narrative from the 19th- to 21st centuries, while his publications have appeared in Letras hispanas, Céfiro, and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. For more information: https://dickinsonstate.academia.edu/KevinAnzzolin |
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Lisa Kowalchuk |
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Lisa Kowalchuk is a sociologist at the University of Guelph. Prior to her recently completed study of nurses’ labor situation in El Salvador and Nicaragua, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), she researched social movements against health care privatization in El Salvador and the media’s coverage of those issues. She has also researched peasant protest to both extend and defend agrarian reform in that country. Kowalchuk teaches on social movements, gender and international development, and Latin America. |
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Kristen Martinez-Gugerli |
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Kristen Gugerli is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Political Science, pursuing a BPhil in International and Area Studies, minoring in Religious Studies, Spanish, and Quechua, and earning a certificate in Latin American Studies. She studied abroad in the summer of 2017 in Cusco, Peru, and then conducted research abroad in Valladolid, Mexico in the summer of 2018 through the Center for Latin American Studies' Seminar and Field Trip program. She is particularly interested in issues involving indigenous and women's human rights in Latin America, and has tried to incorporate these interests into her studies. She is currently writing her senior thesis about existing trends in the political participation of indigenous peoples in Mexico. |
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Krystin Krause |
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Krystin Krause is an Instructor in Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University. In the Fall of 2015, she will join the faculty at Emory & Henry College as an Assistant Professor. She received her PhD in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and her MA in Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Her research examines the growing public security crisis in Latin America.
Webpage:
https://sites.google.com/site/krystinkrause/
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Kathryn Sampeck |
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Kathryn E. Sampeck (BA, MA, University of Chicago; PhD Tulane University) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Illinois State University. Her work appears in American Antiquity, Ethnohistory, Historical Archaeology, Mesoamérica, Ancient Mesoamerica, and Journal of Latin American Geography. She is the 2015-2016 Central America Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, previous fellowships include the John Carter Brown Library and numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, SSRC, and others.
Webpage:
http://soa.illinoisstate.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?ulid=ksampec
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