Americas

Since 2010, Central Chile has experienced particularly dry and hot conditions, which caused more severe wildfires to spread and pose an increasing threat to the Chilean population.

Frances Bell’s research examines follows several thousand people who were taken as slaves from revolutionary Haiti to the U.S. by enslavers fleeing the revolution.

Changing climate requires resilient ecological systems, human communities, and built environments.

My project focuses on analyzing indigenous subjecthood in the Spanish Empire through examination of the Tehuantepec rebellion of 1660-1661.

My dissertation research seeks to develop a theory of citizen-state engagement in the context of Latin America’s urban informal settlements and how they engage with the state in the context of landslides and other environmental crises.

This project develops new visions for futurities directly informed from Nahua multidimensionality concepts of time traveling and re-envisioning futuristic indigenous migrant resiliency.

Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings.

Eren Jaye’s doctoral project considers theatres of the region from both a folkloric and ecological perspective.

This preliminary research will focus on exploring and more fully if/how public procurements in Brazil can be used to reward campaign donations from firm donors.

Aaron’s project contributes to his dissertation, A Revolutionary Gospel, which examines how Russian writers transformed their Christian heritage into a new socialist religion while exiled in the US and Italy between 1905 and 1917.