Latin American and Caribbean History
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo collaborates with artist Bad Bunny to tell Puerto Rico’s History
Professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo recently collaborated with artist Bad Bunny on his latest project. Accompanying the songs on Bad Bunny’s sixth album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”, 17 visualizers were released on January 5. The visualizers feature …
Marla Ramírez and Undergraduates Present at Oral History Conference
Professor Marla Ramírez and two undergraduate students, Lezly Vejar and Zevdah Drizin, presented on their original research at the 2023 Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland this October. The presentation, titled “Latinxs in …
Marla Ramirez Won the Oral History Association’s Article Award
Professor Marla Ramirez won the Oral History Association’s Article Award for her essay titled, “Gendered banishment: Rewriting Mexican repatriation through a transgenerational oral history methodology.” This award was created to recognize an article or essay …
Alum Tamara Feinstein Publishes New Book
Alum Tamara Feinstein (Ph.D., 2013) recently published a new book titled, The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left. Description: Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path conflict’s effect on …
Welcome New Faculty
The Department of History is excited to welcome three new faculty members – Khaled Esseissah, Michael Martoccio, and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo! Khaled Esseissah joins us as a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with …
Welcome New Faculty
The Department of History is excited to welcome three new faculty members – Simon Balto, Marcella Hayes, and Matt Villeneuve! Simon Balto joins us as a historian of the twentieth-century United States, with a particular …
Professor Pablo Gómez Publishes New Book
Professor Pablo Gómez has a new book published this week, titled The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). The book was co-edited by Diego Armus, a professor of …
Alumna Geneviève Dorais Publishes New Book
Congratulations to alumna Geneviève Dorais (Ph.D. 2014) on the publication of her new book, Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). “The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) was a Peruvian …
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