STANFORD UNIVERSITY

CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

ENLACEYEAR IN REV IEW

2013—2014

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03 FROM THE DIRECTOR 06 BOLIVAR HOUSE VISITORS10 BOLIVAR HOUSE LIBRARY REPORT 11 CLAS LECTURE SERIES 2013-2014 12 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS 14 STUDENTS AND CLAS17 FACULTY CONFERENCE 18 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT21 CLASS OF 201423 FACULTY AND ALUMNI UPDATE 26 AFFILIATED FACULTY27 ADVISORY BOARD & CLAS STAFF

Cover photo by LAS MA’14 Student, Walter Thompson-Hernández

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“Life is memory, memory is life”

Those were the words of the prominent, galacti c star in the arts of our ti mes, Steven Spielberg, as part of his refl ecti on, earlier this year, on occasion of the commemorati on of the 65th anniversary of the liberati on of the Auschwitz concentrati on camp insti tuted by the Nazis during WW-II. Spielberg tells us that it is imperati ve to keep in our collecti ve memories the atrociti es of the holocaust as a means of refl ecti on and hope that no social tragedy of that type is ever repeated.

Painful as it is, I fi nd that such refl ecti on is not only perti nent but also completely relevant today in the context of Lati n America, where a number of signifi cant atrociti es took place during 2014. More importantly, some of these run the risk of Machiavellicaly being pushed aside, shift ed into oblivion, and therefore risking that their perpetrators –both material and intellectual– escape from justi ce, and that the causes and consequences of such atrociti es are disregarded, and completely forgott en. Among the several brutaliti es that took place on the subconti nent, that of Ayotzinapa stands out not only for the unimaginable pain and torture infl icted upon the missing students themselves, but also for the empti ness and lack of closure with which their families, the Mexican people and the global society at large has had to endure.

Undoubtedly, events such as these are unspeakably painful, but they also serve as a grim and stark reminder (just as Spielberg alludes to in his speech) of the imperati ve need to remain fi rm in our collecti ve social responsibility, and stand against apathy and complacency by not simply accepti ng a claimed “historical truth” like that which pretends that we should turn the Ayotzinapa page.

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I recall, for instance, with vivid pain our Ayotzinapa vigil at CLAS, on November 5th 2014, with one of the missing students’ father and uncle in att endance, and though the pain is readily available in my memory, I fi nd some comfort as I report that, as a follow up, last quarter, CLAS’s affi liated professor Alberto Díaz Callero presented a most illuminati ng talk in our lecture series, providing the historical, geographic and social context in which Ayotzinapa has been imbedded, as a means to refl ect on the multi plicity of variables that contributed to the unfolding of this tragedy. Furthermore, a few weeks ago, again in our CLAS lecture series, Stanford Professor James Cavallaro, vice president of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, addressed our community with the presentation “The consequences of the Ayotzinapa disappearances for Mexico”, thus helping to educate us and to observe our responsibility of keeping Ayotzinapa in our memories.

Our Ayotzinapa vigil and subsequent lectures not only helped us to maintain the tragedy present in our memories, but more importantly, sparked the interest of faculty and students to engage in a discussion of initi ati ves –parti cularly in the area of educati on– to present to the Ayotzinapa community for their considerati on. Professors Díaz Calleros and Angela García have been leading the discussion of potential initi ati ves, together with other faculty and some students. In additi on, I myself, am coordinati ng with some students and colleagues from UNAM –the Nati onal University of Mexico–about providing in situ courses on environmental sustainability and human wellbeing. Collecti vely, we hope to help keep Ayotzinapa in our memories and engage in practi cal, hands-on, service initi ati ves going forward.

Just as we remember Ayotzinapa, so too we remember that this year marks the 100th anniversary of another genocide we cannot let slip into oblivion; the Armenian Genocide. Though making note of this might seem to be of litt le direct relevance to Lati n America, there are at least two reasons why this is not the case. On the one hand, Lati n America became home of some Armenian refuges—hard working people who not only enriched the region’s cultural diversity and social fabric, but the descendants of whom became important Lati n American citi zens, playing important roles in society in numerous areas, including the arts and the sciences. On the other hand, a very visible Lati n American person, Pope Francis, made a powerful statement of refl ecti on on occasion of the commemoration of this genocide. His statement represents an important example of honoring human diversity and dignity by not letti ng this tragedy escape from our memories. (Incidentally, it is now evident that Pope Francis also played a vital role in the orchestrati on of the initi ati on of relati ons between Cuba and the USA—an aspect of crucial relevance representi ng a watershed in the modern history of Lati n America!)

Apart from appalling situati ons like the ones menti oned above, academic year 2014 brought also reasons for refl ecti on on occasion of other important commemorati ons. For example, the year also marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of several Lati n American luminaries in the arts and culture: the great Argenti nian novelist Julio Cortázar (referred to by Carlos Fuentes as “the Simon Bolivar of the novel”), and the iconic Mexican poets Octavio Paz (the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature) and his contemporary Efrain Huerta (whose book “Los Hombres del Alba” is regarded as one of the

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most prominent jewels of the Lati n American poetry of the 20th Century). Also, 2014 was the year of the death of the great Gabriel García Márquez in his Mexico City home, and whose loss saddened not only Colombia and Mexico, but also the cultural world at large. In an eff ort to make sure this signifi cant year of the Lati n American culture would not go unnoti ced, CLAS invited the stellar Mexican poet David Huerta (Efrain Huerta’s son) to grace us with his presence, and illuminate us with his knowledge, which came in the way of two outstanding conferences he presented; one on García Márquez and another on Paz. These two commemorati ve lectures represent a landmark in the history of CLAS as a promoter of culture among the academic community of the university –students and faculty– and of the general public. It is our great hope to maintain our ti es with such a prominent scholar, as he is a specialist not only on Paz, García Márquez and Huerta, but also on Góngora, Lope de Vega and Cervantes. This note allows me to report, as described further in this editi on of Enlace, that our CLAS lecture series conti nues to be an important contributi on to the disseminati on of Lati n American art, culture and science

among the Stanford community and the public at large, and we aspire to conti nue doing so.

It is my sincerest hope that you will fi nd this editi on of Enlace a useful conduit to becoming aware of our programs, accomplishments and aspirati ons going forward. However, I cannot close without making a reference to two important developments in the life of CLAS. One is that thanks to the ti reless eff orts of its staff , our insti tuti on, recognized as an NRC (Nati onal Resource Center), has been awarded a Title Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Educati on. The other development is that 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the foundati on of the Center for Lati n American Studies. During the fall quarter of the present academic year, we will be conducti ng a series of acti viti es to celebrate and to refl ect on our role in the academic study and appreciation of the signifi cance of this region to this country and to the world at large.

We will be announcing the commemorati ve events soon, and I hope you will join us to make sure CLAS’s endeavors remain in our memories and that our center conti nues to be full of life, and purpose.

Rodolfo Dirzo

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TINKER VISITING PROFESSORS

Under this program, the Center for Latin American Studies brings leading Latin/Ibero American scholars to Stanford University to teach, conduct research, and interact with Stanford faculty. Frequently, a tangible product of these academic visits is the publication of articles, or even books, on the particular areas of their specialty. Another important aspect of the academic activities of these scholars is to advise students in the areas of their expertise. Although the scholars typically stay in Stanford for a short period (a quarter), the consequences of their visits are long-lasting, including the establishment of continued interactions with Stanford faculty and students.

Claudio Ferraz

Claudio Ferraz is an associ-ate professor of economics at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and a research af-fi liate at the Bureau for Re-search and Economic Anal-ysis of Development and the Abdul Latif Jameel Pov-erty Action Lab. His areas of interest are development, political economy, and pub-lic economics. In particular,

his research focuses on governance and accountability in de-veloping countries and the resulting consequences for politics and public service delivery. His ongoing projects examine how voters react to information campaigns; whether pay-for-per-formance improves the quality of education; whether increases in the quality of politicians positively aff ect public policies; the consequences of natural resource booms; and the impacts of policies that aim at reducing violence in urban areas. Professor Ferraz is co-director of the Political Economy Network of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and as-sociate editor of the journals Economía and Latin American Economic Review. His research has been published in leading academic outlets such as American Economic Review,

Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Public Econom-ics. During winter quarter 2014, Professor Ferraz taught POLIS-CI 243C: The Political Economy of Development.

Márcio Garcia

Márcio Garcia has been an associate professor at PUC-Rio, Brazil, since 1991, having served as the department chair-man and director of both Graduate and Undergraduate Stud-ies. During 2013, he was a visiting scholar with the Sloan School, MIT, and the

National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds a Ph.D. from the Stanford University Department of Economics. His areas of research are International Finance and Monetary Economics. Professor Garcia has been a visiting professor/scholar at the Economics Departments of Stanford, Chicago, and MIT in the U.S., and at the Paris School of Economics (then, DELTA) and Université D’Evry-Val-D’Essone in France. Professor Garcia has consulted for international and Brazilian institutions, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the World Bank. His academic papers and Op-Ed articles can be found at http://www.econ.puc-rio.br/Mgarcia/. He is a member of the Bellagio Group. During winter quarter 2014, Professor Garcia taught ECON 122: Eco-nomic Development of Latin America.

Juan-Pablo Montero

Juan-Pablo Montero is a pro-fessor of Economics at the Pontif icia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Chile) and has held visiting posi-tions at the MIT Sloan School of Business and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Govern-ment. He received a civil engineering degree from PUC-Chile, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. His research concentrates on

industrial organization, environmental economics, and resource

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economics and has appeared, among other outlets, in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal, and Journal of Economic Theory. Professor Montero is co-author of Markets for Clean Air of Cambridge University Press (jointly with Profes-sors Ellerman, Joskow, and Schmalensee of MIT). He has been a consultant for the Government of Chile, private corporations, and international organizations. During winter quarter 2014, Professor Montero taught ECON 253: Energy Markets: Theory and Evidence from Latin America.

Eduardo Becerra

Eduardo Becerra is an as-sociate professor of Latin American literature and director of the M.A. pro-gram in Publishing and Editing at Madrid’s Univer-sidad Autónoma. He has been a visiting professor at various European, Ameri-can, and Asian universities and is the author of Rubén Darío y su obra (2000) and Pensar el lenguaje; escribir la escritura (experiencias

de la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea) (1995). He is also the editor of Ciudades posibles. Arte y fi cción en la consti-tución del espacio urbano (2010); El arquero inmóvil. Nuevas poéticas del cuento (2006); Desafíos de la fi cción (2002); Salva-dor Elizondo’s Farabeuf (2000); the seminal anthology Líneas aéreas (1999); Rubén Darío’s Poemas escogidos (1997); and Ar-turo Uslar Pietri’s Las lanzas coloradas (1995).

Professor Becerra contributed to Historia de la literatura his-panoamericana (1995) and authored three chapters in volume III of such Historia (Cátedra, 2008). Author of more than sev-enty articles on Spanish American narrative, poetry, and the essay, between 1999 and 2003 he was the Director of the Span-ish American series for Spain’s Editorial “Lengua de Trapo.” In 2009, he coordinated a monograph devoted to Juan Carlos Onetti, published by Spain’s Centro Virtual Cervantes, and di-rected the conference Bienvenido Onetti, held in Madrid on the occasion of Onetti’s centennial. He also edited Alejo Carpentier’s Cuentos completos and El acoso for Akal publishers (in press, 2014) and coordinated the volume El surrealismo y sus derivas: visones, declives y retornos (Abada, 2013). During spring quar-ter 2014, Professor Becerra taught ILAC 254: Surrealism in Latin America and Spain (Poetry and Fiction).

Eulàlia Bonet

Eulàlia Bonet studied Catalan Philology at the Univer s i t at Autònoma de Barce-lona and received her Ph.D. from MIT in 1991, with a thesis entitled Morphology after Syn-tax: Pronominal Clitics in Romance. She is cur-rently professor (pro-f e s o r a t i t u l a r d’universitat) at the Department of Cata-lan Philology, Univer-

sitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT) at the same university. Her work fo-cuses mainly on Catalan, but she has also worked on Spanish, Italian, and Basque, among other languages. Professor Bonet has published two books (Manual de transcripció fonètica, with Maria-Rosa Lloret and Joan Mascaró, and Fonologia catalana, with Maria-Rosa Lloret) and several articles and book chapters, including “Feature structure of Romance clitics” in Natural Lan-guage and Linguistic Theory (1995); “More on Alignment as an alternative to domains: the syllabifi cation of Catalan clitics,” with Maria-Rosa Lloret, in Probus (2005); “The Person-Case constraint and repair strategies” in Person Restrictions (2008); “Contextual allomorphy,” with Daniel Harbour, in The Morphol-ogy and Phonology of Exponence (2012); and “A challenge for Harmonic Serialism with Optimal Interleaving” in Phonology (2013). During spring quarter 2014, Professor Bonet taught LINGUIST 171: Iberian Languages: Structure, Variation & Context.

Faviola Rivera Castro

Faviola Rivera Castro, Professor at the Institute of Philosophical Re-search of the Universi-dad Nacional Autónoma de México, holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Har-vard University. Her cur-rent research focuses on the relation between liberalism and laicism in

Mexico. In some of her publications she has explored how lib-

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eralism led to laicism as a solution to the political and ideo-logical confl ict with a dominant and powerful Church and reli-gion. She is now working on a book focused on the idea of “liberal laicism” in Mexico today. Professor Rivera Castro has also published books and articles on various topics on ethics and political philosophy. She was a Humanities and International Studies Fellow (2007-08) at the Stanford Humanities Center and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and visiting professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica and the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia). She is chief editor of Dianoia, a philosophy journal in Spanish, and has served as director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UNAM. Dur-ing spring quarter 2014, Professor Rivera Castro taught PHIL 176C/276C: Two Views on the Place of Religion in Politics: Religion in the Political Sphere and Laicism.

María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni

Dr. Vázquez S e m a d e n i holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from El Colegio de Michoacán, where she is p r o f e s s o r with the Doc torate on Social S c i e n c e s .

She is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on Mexican political culture in the nineteenth century, the formation of a republican political language in Latin America, and the history of Freemasonry. Professor Vázquez Semadeni is working on a book about the sociopolitical networks created in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean by Freemasonry. Many of her publications examine the role played by Freemasonry in the formation of a republican political culture in Mexico, as well as the relationship between Mexican and American Freemasonry and its implication in Mexican politics. Her recent publications include La formación de una cultura política republicana. El debate público sobre la masonería, México 1821-1830 (UNAM/El Colegio de Michoacán, 2010) and the co-edited volume 200 Emprendedores Mexicanos. La formación de una nación (Lid Editorial, 2010).

Professor Vázquez Semadeni was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM (2008-2010), where she taught courses on liberal political culture in Latin America in the graduate program, and conducted research about the redefi nition of political alliances in Mexico after the fi rst decade of independence. She was awarded a fellowship from the California Masonic Foundation and UCLA to be a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of History (2010-2011). She is a member of the Center of Historical Studies on History of Spanish Freemasonry and founder of the Center of Historical Studies on History of Latin American and Caribbean Freemasonry. During spring quarter 2014, Professor Vázquez Semadeni taught HISTORY 172A: Mexico: From Colony to Nation, or the History of an impossible Republic?

VISITING SCHOLARS

The Center for Latin American Studies sponsors visas and privileges at Stanford University Libraries for senior scholars conducting research on Latin America.

Jorge Ramón González Ponci-ano

Dr. González Pon-ciano holds de-grees in anthro-pology f rom Stanford Univer-sity (M.A.) and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.) and is a tenured professor at the

Institute of Anthropological Research of the Universidad Nacio-nal Autónoma de México (UNAM). His current research focuses on the history of tourism and the construction of the exotic in the Mayan region. He is also working on a book about socio-racial formation in Guatemala, which analyzes the dilemmas of Whiteness and Indigenismo, and the politics of racism and anti-racism in Mesoamerica. Many of his publications examine the formation of the Mexico-Guatemala border, the interplay between territorial and symbolic borders in transnational migra-tion, public policies aimed at indigenous people, and the role of racial ideologies in authoritarianism and nation building in Mesoamerica. His recent publications include the co-edited volume México y Guatemala: Entre el liberalismo y la democra-

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digenous rebellions and resistance, as well as Indigenous peo-ples of South America and their politics of ethnicity in today’s democracies. She is presently member and director of the Global Center for Democracy and Development, headquartered in Lima, working on issues such as ethnicity and poverty, social inclusion, and the implementation of related policies and proj-ects in Latin America. The Center also contributed to the creation of an Indigenist Chair (“Jose Maria Arguedas”) at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where she is a visiting professor. She was Peru’s First Lady, supporting the creation of a National Commis-sion for the Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, which became the fi rst national institute with ministerial rep-resentation. Professor Karp-Toledo has published numerous books in Spanish with extensive use of the Quechua language, such as Allin kausaynapaq, Interculturalidad y participación; La diversidad cultural y los ciudadanos del Sol y la Luna, Propues-tas para la inclusión social y el desarrollo con identidad de los pueblos originarios del Perú; and Los pueblos indígenas en la agenda democrática, Estudios de caso en Bolivia, Ecuador, México y Perú. She has also contributed to publications that documented and cataloged Peru’s cultural heritage and has been a strong advocate for the return of the Machu Picchu ar-tifacts held illegally by Yale University.

While at CLAS, she worked on a book project to off er concrete proposals to improve Latin American Agenda with direct impli-cations on the inclusion of Indigenous peoples to the “common good” and the “rule of law.” Her book, El Perú invisible: en busca de los derechos indígenas en tiempos de democracia y globalización, was published in 2014.

cia multicultural (2009) and “The Shumo Challenge: White Class Privilege and the Post-Race, Post-Genocide Alliances of Cosmo-politanism from Below” (McAllister and Nelson, eds., 2013). González Ponciano was previously a researcher at UNAM’s Centro de Estudios Mayas and a tenured professor at the Uni-versidad Autónoma de Chiapas. He has been an invited re-searcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Me-soamérica in Antigua, Guatemala, and Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Guatemala. He has also served as a profes-sor with the University of California’s Education Abroad Program, UNAM’s Graduate Program in Mesoamerican Studies, and the Graduate Program of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas.

Eliane Karp-Toledo

Eliane Karp-Toledo was a visiting schol-ar at Stanford Uni-versity from 2012-2014. Prior to that she taught in the Department of An-thropology at Stan-ford University from 2006-2009, where she special-ized in Andean ethno-history, the Inca state, and In-

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In 2013, Adán Griego, Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections, attended international book fairs in Buenos Aires, Guadalajara, and Madrid.

Through his blogging for the Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), Adán keeps colleagues informed of many a bibliographic opportunity, including the following posts:

Guadalajara International Book Fair: http://salalm.org/2013/12/06/print-digital-rare-share-stage-guadalajaras-2013-international-book-fair/

Madrid Book Fair: http://salalm.org/2013/10/09/book-hunting-at-liber-madrid-2013-and-beyond/

Domestic events like the inaugural International Latina/o Studies Conference also provide venues where Stanford’s Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections asserts the importance of libraries, as evident in Adán’s post about his experience at the July 2014 conference in Chicago: http://salalm.org/2014/07/22/international-latinao-studies-conference/.

Closer to home, Adán keeps an active role as one of the Library’s liaisons to undergraduate research needs, ranging from classes for the Program in Rhetoric and Writing (PWR) to those of the Language Center. More recently, he also hosted a group of fi rst-generation students from Southern California as part of the Puente Program (http://cms.cerritos.edu/puente/) and introduced them to primary sources from Stanford’s rare and unique Latin American collections.

Adan’s expertise in outreach to library users and application of new technologies has also provided teaching opportunities abroad. In July of 2014, he led library-related workshops in Chiapas and Mexico City, both sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

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11CLAS LECTURE SERIES

CLAS’s lecture series continues to be an iconic program of the institution and a useful window for the general public to become aware of the various cultural, educational, artistic, and scientifi c developments in the region. Attendees normally fi ll the lecture room on Fridays.. SEPTEMBER 27, 2013José FragosoComplex Interactions between Biodiversity and Indigenous Cultures

OCTOBER 4, 2013Jorge Ruffi nelliLuis Buñuel: Treinta Años Ausente

OCTOBER 11, 2013Alberto Díaz-CayerosCan Contract Failures Foster Ethnic Assimilation? Evidence from Cochineal in Mexico

OCTOBER 18, 2013Andrés Moreno-EstradaPatterns of Genetic Diversity in Latin America: Insights from Human Population Genomics

OCTOBER 25, 2013Avi TuschmanOur Political Nature: The Economics and Biology of Political Spectrums in Latin America and Beyond

NOVEMBER 1, 2013Enrique ChagoyaIllegal Alien’s Guide to Greater America

NOVEMBER 8, 2013Jaime ConchaChile, país dividido: 1973, antes y después

NOVEMBER 15, 2013Eliane Karp-ToledoIndigenous Peoples and Social Inclusion in Democracy: the Case of Peru Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2013Jorge Ramón González PoncianoFrom the Indian Problem to the Shumo Problem: Anti-Indian Racism and Class Prejudice in Post-War Guatemala. DECEMBER 6, 2013Ivonne del ValleThe Drainage of Mexico City Lakes: Christianity, Technology and Secularization in Colonial Mexico

JANUARY 10, 2014Rodolfo DirzoHuaxyacac: An Ecological Theater of Countless Biocultural Plays

JANUARY 17, 2014Faviola Rivera CastroTwo Variants of Laicism

JANUARY 24, 2014Claudio FerrazPolice Presence, Crime, and Violence: Evidence from the Pacifi cation of Rio’s Favelas

JANUARY 31, 2014Ciara WirthForagers in the Classroom: From “Savage” to “Civilized”?

FEBRUARY 7, 2014Márcio GarciaMonetary Policy, Capital Flows and Capital Controls

FEBRUARY 14, 2014Dorothy KronickCauses of Venezuela’s Violent Crime Wave

FEBRUARY 21, 2014Lawrence S. CobenArchaeology and Economic Development in Latin America: Friends, Foes or Something More?

FEBRUARY 28, 2014Tom WinterbottomThe post-capital dilemma in contemporary Rio de Janeiro: architecture and decadence in the Cidade Maravilhosa

MARCH 7, 2014 Juan-Pablo MonteroDriving Restrictions and Other Transport Reforms in Latin America: Have They Worked?

MARCH 14, 2014Lisbeth HaasIndigenous Histories of Colonial and Mexican California

APRIL 4, 2014 John W. Rick20 Years of Archaeological Research at Chavín de Huántar, Perú: Implications of a Multidisciplinary Project

APRIL 11, 2014María Eugenia Vázquez SemadeniFreemasonry in Mexico and the Formation of a Republican Political Culture, 1820-1830

APRIL 18, 2014Ken WilsonIndigenous Movements and the Biocultural Paradigm in Latin America: The Experience of the Christensen Fund

APRIL 25, 2014Eduardo BecerraEl pensamiento histórico en la narrativa de Alejo Carpentier

MAY 2, 2014 Martha Honey, William H. Durham, Peter Jordan, and Charlene MusicWest Coast Film Premier - The Goose with the Golden Egg: Tourism on Costa Rica’s Pacifi c Coast

MAY 9, 2014William H. DurhamHuman Dimensions of Conservation in Galapagos: How Natural & Social Sciences are Better Together

MAY 16, 2014 Eulàlia BonetFrom Spanish and Portuguese to Pirahã: Language Diversity and its Consequences

MAY 23, 2014Jorge BernyCrop Domestication and Agricultural Development in Mesoamerica, and the Importance of the Extant Wild Crop Relatives

MAY 30, 2014Herbert S. KleinThe Soccer World Cup, and the Rise of the Middle Class: Challenges for Brazil

Ivonne del Valle, Ph.D.

Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Ph.D.

Jorge Ruffi nelli, Ph.D.

Ciara Wirth, Ph.D. Candidate

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In addition to the CLAS lecture series (page 11), student working group events (page 14), and faculty conference (page 17), CLAS organized, sponsored, cosponsored, or fi nanced many events during the 2013-14 year. Following are a few highlights. For a complete list of events, please visit http://las.stanford.edu/events.

JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH

On December 5, 2013, CLAS and the Consulate General of Mexico in San Jose, California, presented “José Guadalupe Posada’s 100th Anniversary of Death” with Jim Nikas. In this conference to honor the artist’s legacy, Jim Nikas, private collector and co-founder and curator of the New World Prints Collection, talked about the work of Jose Guadalupe Posada and the exhibition that was displayed at the Mexican Consulate in San Jose from September to December of 2013.

ANCIENT CHAVIN: TOWARD A NEW SYNTHESIS IN THE PERUVIAN FORMATIVE PERIOD

This two-day event took place on January 12-13, 2014, and was sponsored by the Historical Society, Global Heritage Fund, Stanford Archaeology Center, and CLAS. The meetings brought together a series of Chavin Project members, along with key colleagues working in other Formative Period sites in the Andes, experts in similar societies, and interdisciplinary

colleagues. Presentations covered innovation in ancient religion, architecture, art, iconography, economy, technology and related issues in other sites and societies.

PENSANDO VENEZUELA: A TRANSFORMATION IN RETROSPECT

CLAS, along with the Stanford Program in Law & Society and the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, sponsored this conference led by Stanford’s Venezuelan Student Association. The conference took place at the Stanford Law School on February 22, 2014, and brought top Venezuelan and international experts to analyze the main factors that brought ex-president Hugo Chávez to the Venezuelan presidency and further led him to carry the transformations that took place during his early mandates.

SPRING FIESTA 2014On Wednesday, June 3, 2014, CLAS hosted its annual Spring Fiesta at the Bolivar House gardens. Themed “Jarana Peruana,” the fi esta showcased traditional food, Peruvian music and dance performances, and comments on the artistic expressions and cultural diversity of Peru by former President and former First Lady of Peru Alejandro Toledo, FSI Visiting Professor, and Eliane Karp-Toledo, CLAS Visiting Scholar.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Jose Guadalupe Posada’s 100TH Anniversary of Death, December 2013

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Legacies of the Bracero Program, February, 2014

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

LEGACIES OF THE BRACERO PROGRAM, 1942-1964

CLAS, along with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University (FSI) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), hosted “Legacies of the Bracero Program, 1942-1964” on February 27, 2014. CLAS Director Rodolfo Dirzo and FSI Director Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar spoke on the signifi cance and legacy of the Bracero Program, and former high school teacher Ignacio Ornelas Rodriguez, who currently conducts research on the Bracero Program with the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford, spoke about ways teachers can interactively engage students in the study of the Bracero Program. Following the talks and dinner, ten former braceros were honored and presented with certifi cates from Stanford University, the California State Assembly, and Monterey County

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CLAS STUDENT WORKING GROUPS

CLAS congratulates all student working group members for an outstanding job during the academic year!

A Working Group consists of a group of students, in collaboration with a faculty advisor, who organizes events such as lectures, speaker series, symposia, exchange of working papers, and collaborative research efforts. The Center for Latin American Studies awarded grants to the following student working groups during the 2013- 2014 academic year:

FORUM FOR COOPERATION, UNDERSTANDING AND SOLIDARITY: US-MEX FOCUS

The central goal of this working group was to develop and strengthen a network of young leaders committed to fostering academic, cultural, technological, and diplomatic exchange between the United States and Mexico. FoCUS began as a CLAS working group in 2012-13 and has expanded signifi cantly on campus during the 2013-14 year, partnering with Stanford in Government (SIG) and the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), along with organizations like the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and groups within Stanford’s Law School. On November 5-9, 2013, 30 student delegates from top universities in Mexico and the U.S. attended the Stanford FoCUS Summit to discuss U.S-Mexico relations with top-level speakers. The Mexico FoCUS Summit for the 2014 student delegates and speakers took place on April 1-5, 2014, in Mexico City and focused on cross-border business. www.usmexfocus.com

Student Coordinators: Francisco Corte, Undergraduate Student, Department of Economics and Public Policy; Santiago Marti, Undergraduate Student, Department of Economics; Gustavo Robles, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science; and Yael Wulfovich, Graduate Student, Department of International Relations

Faculty Sponsor: Beatríz Magaloni, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Director of the CDDRL Program on Poverty and Governance

LOCAL COMMUNITIES, GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: ARCHAEOLOGIES OF FRICTION IN THE SPANISH COLONIES

Over the course of the year, this working group organized six events, including meetings between graduate students and faculty interested in the archaeology and history of Spanish colonization in Latin America as well as fi ve roundtable lecture/discussions with subject experts from U.S. and international universities, followed by dinners at which select students had the opportunity to interact with the speakers. Relationships formed through these events directly led to students being asked to participate in conference sessions and publications organized by the speakers as well as a general strengthening of faculty-student interaction and collaboration.

Student Coordinators: Marguerite L. De Loney and Guido Pezzarossi, Graduate Students, Department of Anthropology

Faculty Sponsor: Barbara Voss, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

REIMAGINING AFRO-LATINIDAD

The symposium/lecture series “Reimagining Afro-Latinidad” was designed to promote the exploration of issues relevant to the African American and Latin@ experience in the U.S and in Latin America. The goals of the symposium were to (1) provide opportunities for prominent scholars and students to share their research on issues related to the Afro-Latin@ experience in the U.S and abroad and (2) foster discussion and collaboration between scholars, the Stanford community (both undergraduate and graduate), and the broader community, about the history, current context, and future of the Afro-Latin@ relationship/experience in the U.S.

Student Coordinator: Walter Thompson-Hernandez, Graduate Student, Latin American Studies

Faculty Sponsors: Gary Segura, Professor of American Politics, Chair of Chican@/Latin@ Studies; Samy Alim, Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology and Linguistics, Director of the Program in African & African American Studies; and Al Camarillo, Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor and Professor of American History

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MONICA MILLER WALSH GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

Thanks to a generous gift renewal from Stanford alumna Monica Miller Walsh and her husband, David Walsh, CLAS was able, for the tenth year in a row, to award Monica Miller Walsh grants to support Stanford undergraduates in summer internships in Latin America.

Adriana Baird - B.A. International Relations, 2015Internship: Ashoka, Chile, Rio de JaneiroAdriana Baird interned at Ashoka, a non-profi t organization in Santiago, Chile. At Ashoka, Adriana focused on three main projects: Ashoka Fellows; Ashoka U, the division of Ashoka that aims to connect and support university social entrepreneurship programs; and the programming and organization of the Festival Internacional de Innovación Social (fi iS).

Donghun Michael Kim - Undeclared, 2017Internship: Global Center for Development and Democracy, PeruMichael Kim interned at the Global Center for Development and Democracy, a non-profi t organization in Lima, Peru. There, Michael assisted on the live streaming of a conference with six ex-presidents from Latin America and Professor Francis Fukuyama from Stanford. He also worked on several computer-related projects, including the expansion of their website and social media.

Darian Orozco - B.S. Chemical Engineering, 2016Internship: blueEnergy in Bluefi elds, NicaraguaDarian Orozco interned with blueEnergy in Nicaragua, an internationally recognized, but locally based, non-governmental organization (NGO) working on the country’s Caribbean coast to expand community access to clean water, sanitation practices, and renewable energy. Darian’s project consisted of three major components: design a solar energy training course, go to the communities and give the course to benefi ciaries with solar home systems, and perform maintenance on the installed systems while in the communities.

PESSOA-TREJOS GRANT RECIPIENTS FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS IN BRAZIL

Thanks to a generous gift renewal from Stanford alumna Ana Pessoa-Trejos and her husband, Raul Trejos, CLAS was able, for the fi fth year in a row, to award Pessoa-Trejos grants to support Stanford undergraduates in summer internships and graduate fi eld research in Latin America.UNDERGRADUATE:

Amelia Dreyer - B.A. Human Biology, 2016Internship: Associação Saúde CriançaAmelia Dreyer interned at Associação Saúde Criança, a non-profi t organization in Rio de Janeiro, which empowers a group of parents, mostly mothers, of sick and hospitalized children to improve their living conditions at home and support their children more comprehensively. Amelia assisted on day-to-day activities such as creating recreational spaces for relatives of ill children.

Barbara Hoff er - B.A. Public Policy and International Relations, 2015Internship: Mobile Metrix, Rio de JaneiroBarbara Hoff er interned at Mobile Metrix in Rio de Janeiro. Mobile Metrix is a socially driven market research company serving low-income communities. Local young adults are employed and trained to collect demographic/consumer data door-to-door in their own neighborhoods using handheld technology. Mobile Metrix clients use the information collected to more eff ectively channel their products and services to marginalized populations.

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Amelia Dreyer - B.A. Human Biology, 2016Internship: Associação Saúde Criança

the communities.

to marginalized populations.

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FLAS FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS

Stanford University’s Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) administers the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing language training in less commonly taught languages of Latin America.

Academic Year 2013-2014Sage Behr, Undergraduate, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, PortugueseValeria Collazo, Graduate, Latin American Studies, PortugueseHayden Rodarte, Graduate, Latin American Studies, QuechuaRachel Taube, Graduate, Latin American Studies, PortugueseKiah Thorn, Graduate, Latin American Studies, PortugueseAlexandra Miller, Graduate, Law School, Portuguese

Summer 2014Sage Behr, Undergraduate, Quechua, PeruBradlee Birchansky, Undergraduate, Portuguese, BrazilCaroline Egan, Graduate, Nahuatl, Yale UniversityMonica VanBladel, Graduate, Portuguese, Middlebury CollegeGladis Xiloj, Undergraduate, Kaqchikel Maya, Guatemala

AYACUCHO FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS

The Ayacucho Fund was established with a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation to award fellowships to Latin American graduate students at Stanford University. Ana Cristina Núñez, Law SchoolHayden Rodarte, Latin American Studies

SOARES FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS

The Soares Fund was established with a generous gift from Edward J. and Margaret S. Soares to provide full fellowship to Latin American Studies graduate students at Stanford University.WalterThompson-Hernández, Latin American Studies

CLAS GRADUATE RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Center for Latin American Studies supports Stanford graduate fi eld research in Latin America. Annette Esquibel, Anthropology, Ecotourism, PeruSam Holley-Kline, Anthropology, El Tajín archeological site, MexicoLuis Muro, Anthropology, Fieldwork in San Andrés de Sametabaj, Guatemala

VENEZUELA RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Center for Latin American Studies invites proposals for Stanford graduate-student led research in Venezuela, funded through a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation.Ana Cristina Núñez, Law School, State censorship of the press and of dissenting voices in Venezuela (1999-2013), Venezuela

CLAS CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Center for Latin American Studies supports Stanford graduate students to attend and present on topics related to Latin America at professional meetings and conferences.Elena Dancu, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, 12th Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, London, EnglandMarguerite De Loney, Anthropology, Society for Historical Archeology, 47th Annual Conference, Quebec City, CanadaSarah Quesada, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, 7th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicDiego Román, Education, I Foro de Estudiantes Ecuatorianos en América del Norte, Quito, EcuadorFatoumata Seck, French, Ethnologie haitienne et ethnologie d’Haiti Conference, Port-au-Prince, HaitiWalter Thompson-Hernández, Latin American Studies, 12th Annual Alumni of Color Conference, Harvard UniversityTom Winterbottom, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, American Comparative Literature Association’s Conference, New York City

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SGS GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES GRANTA generous gift from the Friends of Stanford University Foundation in Taiwan enabled the Stanford Global Studies Division to award “Global Perspectives” grants to help fund summer SGS graduate student research in 2014. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, Latin American Studies graduate student, was one of 11 SGS students to be awarded and spent six weeks in Brussels, Belgium, studying the impact of immigration on race relations, assimilation, and identity.

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BORGES AND PHILOSOPHY TODAY

MARCH 6-7, 2014

Faculty Chair: Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

The Borges and Philosophy Today two-day interdisciplinary workshop was sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the departments of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and of Philosophy, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Philosophy and Literature Initiative, and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. The workshop brought fi ve scholars from across the U.S. and featured a student colloquium, which allowed the Stanford community at large to apprehend and interpret the provocative musing of this great Argentine thinker and writer.

https://dlcl.stanford.edu/events/borges-and-philosophy-today-workshop-day-1

VIOLENCE AND POLICING IN LATIN AMERICAN AND U.S. CITIES

APRIL 28-29, 2014

Faculty Chair: Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Director of the CDDRL Program on Poverty and Governance

The Violence and Policing in Latin America and U.S. Cities Conference was hosted by the Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and was sponsored by CLAS, the Bill Lane Center for the American West, the ‘Mexico Initiative’ at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Center for

International Security and Cooperation. Scholars, law enforcement offi cials, business leaders, community activists, and three keynote speakers, including the current governor of Antioquia, Colombia Sergio Fajardo, gathered at Stanford for a two-day conference to examine violence and policing in Latin America and the United States.http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/povgov/publication/conference-report-violence-and-policing-latin-american-and-us-cities

ELLAS FILMAN/THEY MAKE MOVIES

MAY 12-14, 2014

Faculty Chair: Jorge Ruffi nelli, Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

This three-day fi lm workshop was sponsored by CLAS and the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. It brought six Mexican female directors, a fi lm critic, and an actress to Stanford to showcase their latest fi lms and engage in discussions about the directors’ experiences and the issues contemporary Mexico faces. The workshop also paid tribute to Mexican actress Cecilia Suárez.https://dlcl.stanford.edu/events/ellas-fi lman-para-el-siglo-xxi-they-make-movies-xxi-century

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WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST APPRECIATION TO THE 2013-14 SAAGE INSTRUCTORS:

Autumn QuarterMolly Aufdermauer, Public Engagement Coordinator, Center for Latin American StudiesMargaret Sena, El Centro Chicano y Latino, Department of HistoryEliane Karp-Toledo, CLAS Visiting Scholar, AnthropologistRamón González, CLAS Visiting Scholar, Professor at the Institute of Anthropological Research at UNAM

Winter QuarterAlejandro Toledo, CDDRL Visiting Scholar, Former President of PeruBeatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor, Department of Political ScienceFaviola Rivera Castro, CLAS Tinker Professor, Professor at the Institute of Philosophical Research at UNAM

Spring QuarterRodolfo Dirzo, Bing Professor in the Biology Department and Director of the Center for Latin American StudiesWe also extend special thanks to our SAAGE graduate student assistant, Makaela Anderson, LAS ‘14.

CLAS is a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, receiving funding to further Latin American language and area studies at Stanford as well as in the K-12 and community college education systems. The 2013-14 year marked the fi nal year of the 2010-13 grant cycle. During this time, CLAS’s Title VI funding was instrumental in the development of the following K-12 and community college outreach programs.

CLAS RECEIVES U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER GRANT

We are honored to announce that CLAS was once again selected as a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education for the 2014-17 grant cycle. During this cycle, CLAS will collaborate with the Stanford Graduate School of Education’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET), the Freeman Spogli Institute’s Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), Lacuna Stories at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), and SGS Area Studies Centers to develop and offer professional development opportunities for K-12 and community college educators, including the following:

• Américas Book Award Workshop(Winter 2015)• Latina Girls in STEM (Spring 2015)• Summer Teachers Institute Abroad (Summer 2015)• Global Studies Summer Teachers Institute (Summer 2015)• Spanish Teachers Institute (Academic Year 2015-16)• Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum

(EPIC) (Academic Year 2015-16)

To learn more about CLAS’ K-12 and Community College public engagement opportunities, visit http://las.stanford.edu/public-engagement

STANFORD ACADEMIC ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL ENRICHMENT (SAAGE)CLAS hosted another successful year of the Stanford Academic Alliance for Global Enrichment (SAAGE), a year-long high school course taught by CLAS affi liated faculty. A partnership with Puente de la Costa Sur, Pescadero High School, and East Palo Alto Academy, SAAGE provided students with expansive knowledge of various aspects of Latin American Studies. The 2013-14 course culminated in a lively student debate on the political, social, and environmental ramifi cations of the use of mega-dams in the Amazon rainforest, presented at the year-end graduation in the presence of students’ families and SAAGE faculty and partners.

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STANFORD HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INITIATIVE (SHREI)

CLAS collaborated on the fourth year of SHREI to produce curricula and teaching materials that advance the teaching of interna-tional human rights and area studies in community colleges across California and nationally. SHREI community college instructor fellows met monthly to discuss human rights education with guest faculty speakers and developed curriculum materials on inter-national human rights with relation to gender, children, digital culture, STEM education, and establishing human rights courses and degrees at the community college level. This year, SHREI off ered two day-long workshops for community college teachers in addition to the annual SHREI Symposium, which took place on June 7, 2014. The third annual Outstanding Student Project Award for com-munity college students was presented to students from De Anza College and Evergreen College. More information on this year’s SHREI program, including curriculum materials and videos, are available at shrei.stanford.edu.

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We also extend our deepest appreciation to the following faculty for serving as featured speakers during the 2013-14 SHREI year:

Gordon Chang, Professor of American History, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies

Rodolfo Dirzo, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies

Larry Diamond, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

Thomas Freeland, Lecturer, Oral Communication Program of the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking

Katherine Jolluck, Senior Lecturer, Stanford Department of History

Francisco Ramirez, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education

Patricia Gibbs Stayte, Sociology, Foothill College

Mary Conroy Zouzoulas, Global Studies, Psychology, Child Development, San Jose City College

CLAS congratulates the 2013-14 SHREI fellows on a successful year:

Celso Batalha, Physics, Evergreen Valley College

Chesa Caparas, English, De Anza College

Jordan Hayes, English, Foothill College, College of San Mateo

Lesley Louden, Photography, Foothill College, Cabrillo College, West Valley College

Julie Maia, English, Women and Gender Studies, West Valley College

Erica Onugha, English, Foothill College

Patricia Gibbs Stayte, Sociology, Foothill College

Mary Conroy Zouzoulas, Global Studies, Psychology, Child Development, San Jose City College

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In addition to CLAS’ Title VI-funded activities, CLAS Director Rodolfo Dirzo led the second year of Stanford Science, a CLAS-Cesar Chavez Academy of Palo Alto partnership focused on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).

In Stanford Science, middle-school students from Cesar Chavez Academy learn science at CLAS, in several Stanford science laboratories, and in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, including a tour of the rain forest ecosystem of the California Academy of Sciences. This partnership provides a fabulous opportunity for interaction between Stanford professors/instructors and students from an underserved community of the Bay Area. The program culminates with a student exhibit at the Cesar Chavez Academy, and the experience has proven to be a stimulating and encouraging success. It is our hope now to be able to secure funds to continue with this new Stanford

Science for Kids Initiative.

CLAS also co-funded HealthyU, a web-aided educational intervention focusing on nutrition, exercise, healthy weight, and sleep. HealthyU is a mixed stealth health program for underserved, at-risk children and includes a rigorous service-learning component and a science-based curriculum that can be integrated into regular school curriculum. Stanford undergraduates worked during spring quarter 2014 under guidance of Co-PI Rodolfo Dirzo to develop a web-based environmental education video. PI Dirzo also led 6th-grade students in an experiential learning field trip to Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in October 2015.

Finally, Professor Dirzo invited a group of young students to Bolivar House, serving as a guest speaker for STEM for Latina Girls, a program coordinated by the Mexican Consulate of San Jose, California. During this week-long program, 25 Latina girls had the opportunity to learn more about the STEM world through visits to eBay, Facebook, Stanford University, and the NASA AMES Research Center. The goal is to inspire Latina girls, thereby creating a future in which more Latina women integrate into the fascinating world of science and technology. Professor Dirzo hosted the group at Bolivar House on November 5, 2014. The success of this program has led to the co-sponsored launching of the program under full co-sponsorship of CLAS, Fundación Televisa, and the Mexican Consulate in San Jose, starting spring 2015.

AMÉRICAS BOOK AWARDThe Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University supports the Américas Book Award. The Américas Award was founded by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) in 1993 to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality

children’s and young adult literature that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States; and to provide teachers with recommendations

for classroom use. The 2014 award winner was Parrots Over Puerto Rico, illustrated by Susan Roth and co-authored by Susan Roth and Cindy Trumbore, Lee & Low Books Inc. As a Title VI National Resource Center, CLAS will be providing teacher professional development workshops featuring Américas Award books, author, and illustrators, starting winter 2015. For more information, visit http://las.stanford.edu/americas-book-award-workshop-k-8.

Stanford Science Program, Fall 2013

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CLAS’s degree programs include a Master of Arts, Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors, and Undergraduate Minor.

The 2013-14 Latin American Studies graduate students presented their capstone projects at the CLAS M.A. Capstone Colloquium on June 6, 2014.

The 123rd Commencement of Stanford University was held on Sunday, June 15, 2014. The Center for Latin American Studies recognized eleven graduates of the Master of Arts degree and one student of the undergraduate Minor in Latin American Studies. The keynote speaker for the CLAS Commencement ceremony was Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Director and Senior Fellow at FSI, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute, and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science. Two of the 2014 M.A. graduates, Makaela Anderson and Hayden Rodarte, also gave speeches to commemorate the occasion. Families and friends joined CLAS in the Bolívar House garden to celebrate with this year’s graduates. Congratulations, Class of 2014!

Center for Latin American Studies Director Professor Rodolfo Dirzo

MA in Latin American Studies Recipient Makaela Anderson

Stanford Professor of LawMariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Master of Arts in Latin American Studies graduates and their capstone projects:

Colomba Alcalde Peñafi elSocioeconomic and Academic Segregation in Chile: A Debate in Context of Future Educational Reforms

Makaela AndersonThe Freedom of Press in Peru and Mexico

Valeria Collazo-CañizaresOrlando-Ricans or Latinos?: The Prospects of Pan-Latinidad in Central Florida

Lisa McKinnon MundeWill the Cure be Worse than the Disease? Autodefensas in Mexico and Lessons from a Comparative Analysis of the Rise and the Aftermath of Government-Sanctioned Armed Civil Defense Groups in Mexico and Colombia

Hayden Miles RodartePolitics and Trade Patterns in the Andes: Prospects for the Pacifi c Alliance in the Andean Community (Certifi cate of Excellence for outstanding achievement in the study of Latin America)

Rachel Hana TaubeWhy Welfare Does Not Work: The Case of Oportunidades in Modern Mexico

Walter Thompson-HernándezFrom Concrete to Farmland: The Transmission of Racial Ideologies in Rural California

Kiah Charsyl Mylese ThornGetting “Enough”/Comiendo “lo sufi ciente”: Protection, Provision, Love and Childhood Obesity in the Mexican-American Community

Alix Kiersten Van ZandtThe Paradox of Panama: Addressing Inequality in an Economic Powerhouse

Stefanie Welsch CasasThe Ayuquila River Basin: Dynamic Adaptation

Haynes Hamilton WinklerUpon the Precipice of Change: Environmental Pressures in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Undergraduate Minor in Latin American Studies recipient:Sophie Wiepking-Brown(B.A. in International Relations)

CLASS OF 2014

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FACULTY NEWS

Rodolfo Dirzo, Bing Professor in the Biology Department and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, published numerous articles during the 2013-14 academic year, including the co-authored article “Defaunation in the Anthropocene.” 2014. Science 345:401-406 (available online). This article was selected among the 100 most cited articles, in all fi elds, in the year 2014, being featured in hundreds of newspapers and magazines, as well as in TV programs in countries around the world and in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, and Russian. Also, the term “defaunation” has become a new entry in Wikipedia. Professor Dirzo also published “Declines in large wildlife increase landscape-level prevalence of rodent-borne disease in Africa.” 2014. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111:7036-7041 (PDF). In 2014, the international journal Biological Conservation reported that the article Galetti, M. & Dirzo, R. 2013. “Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world.” Biodiversity Conservation 163: 1-6 was the article that received the most hits in the year. In addition, Professor Dirzo was elected as Member of the Board of Science Education within the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, published the book Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Columbia University Press) in January 2015.

Tomás Jiménez, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, was awarded tenure in the spring of 2014. Congratulations, Tomás!

John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities in the Department of Linguistics, Professor, by courtesy, of Education, and Pritzker University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, was Vice-President and President Elect of the Linguistic Society of America in 2014 and became President of the Society at the end of the annual meeting in Portland, Jan 8-11, 2015, for the current year.

ALUMNI NEWS

Ileana Abreu (M.A. ‘11) has advanced to candidacy in a doctorate program at Pepperdine University. She is studying Education with a focus on Organizational Leadership and expects to be done with her investigations by December 2015. Abreu is studying the impact of international service-learning on host communities in Latin America. The coursework that she completed is for an Ed.D. (Educational Doctorate) program. She also has a two-year-old daughter, Isolina Hortensia.

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Makaela Anderson (M.A. ‘14) has been working with Cheetah Mounts, a Stanford Alumni-owned internet start-up based in Puerto Rico. She started by creating product manuals and has branched out into managing the company’s websites and Amazon product pages. She is now also a key member of the development team and oversees the product pages in the Spanish, German, Italian, French, Canadian, and UK markets. Makaela started working at the Phoenix offi ce and is now preparing for her second trip to Puerto Rico.

Janet Crawford (M.A. ‘94). Over the past two years, Janet’s business, Cascadance, has increasingly focused on the intersection of neuroscience and issues of gender inclusion and equity. In 2014, she founded The Women & Innovation Lab, a forum for exploring unconscious barriers to gender equity and their eff ect on innovation and wealth generation, as well as working with several companies on their gender climate and delivering a TEDx talk on implicit bias, The Surprising Neuroscience of Gender Inequity.

Austin Cruz (M.A. ‘13) is currently working as a research assistant for Professors Dirzo and Durham, as part of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment’s program INOGO. His current work within INOGO is to assist in the development of LAPA (“Laboratorio de Palma”), INOGO’s program on the biological diversifi cation of the oil palm plantations that are massively proliferating in the Osa-Golfi to region of Southern Costa Rica. LAPA is aimed at improving the biological and economic diversifi cation of this agricultural monoculture in Costa Rica and beyond.

Diana Derycz Kessler (M.A. ‘88) continues to be a businesswoman who invests in companies. She also currently acts as CEO and President of the Los Angeles Film School.

Stephanie Early Green (Honors ‘05) continues writing professionally after leaving the practice of law two years ago.

Bernabé NC García, Jr. (Honors and M.A. ‘02). Since graduating from Stanford University, Bernabé has been almost exclusively full time in the ministry, doing volunteer missionary work in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Nicaragua. He is pastor of a small church in Prescott, Arizona, on a non-salaried, volunteer basis. Currently, Bernabé feels led to bring his talents to bear in another direction: helping others through teaching and through law. To that extent he is actively seeking job opportunities that will allow him to touch and aff ect people’s lives through the teaching profession and pave the way for law school, realizing a lifelong dream of providing legal services to non-profi t entities and their members.

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Alejandro Gomez (M.A. ‘80) reports, “All is well in 2015. Same job, same marriage, same address, same addictions, new dog though...” For many years, Alejandro has been active in the Ag business as owner and manager of a large commercial dairy on the outskirts of Bogotá as well as a separate Angus beef operation. Presently his son, Andres, has been assisting him in management, having graduated from Cal Poly, SLO (B.S. Dairy Management), and Massey University, N.Z (M.S. Ag Business). Alejandro is planning a new venture with sheep farming.

Meg Goulding (M.A. ‘13) is in her fi nal months of law school in London and will graduate in August 2015 before beginning work at a law fi rm in London. In 2014, she spent 6 months working in and travelling around Latin America. She worked at an NGO, ACER Brasil (Associação de Apoio à Criança em Risco), in the greater São Paolo area from August to November. ACER Brasil is a community centre that aims to provide a space for children and young people in the community of El Dorado, Diadema, to enjoy themselves and develop their sense of self-esteem in various classes (music, dance, capoeira, English, art). Meg reports that it was an incredible experience that not only improved her Portuguese signifi cantly (!) but opened her eyes to stories of communities she would never have gotten to know otherwise. She also made a short fi lm documentary to tell the stories of those working at ACER and how they had arrived there. After her time in São Paolo, she travelled for another month around Brazil (Salvador, Rio, Minas Gerais, Pantanal), through Bolivia into Peru, did the Inka Trek up to Machu Picchu, and fi nally fl ew up to Colombia and spent a couple of weeks there.

Ricardo G. Huerta Niño (M.A. ‘96) received his Ph.D. from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley in 2013, where he is currently a lecturer in the department, teaching the “Introduction to City Planning” and “Urban Communities” courses. He is also a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) and an affi liated scholar at the Center for Research on Native American Issues.

Nathan Keegan (M.A. ‘12) was awarded the Boren Fellowship to Brazil for 2014-2015. The fellowship supports a year of research in Rio de Janeiro, where Nathan is working on various cybersecurity projects. Currently, he is based at LabLua, a programming research laboratory founded by former CLAS Visiting Scholar Roberto Ierusalimschy, with whom Nathan fi rst became acquainted through his M.A. in LAS at Stanford. “I’m really fortunate to be able to do cutting-edge cybersecurity research in one of the world’s most vibrant cities,” says Nathan,

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“and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity without the academic foundation, network, and application support I received from CLAS and Stanford.”

Julie Padilla (B.A. ’90) splits her teaching day between teaching math to elementary school children and coaching elementary school teachers. Recognized as a teacher leader in Denver Public Schools, Julie also has three children who attend Denver Public Schools, one of whom is a senior at Denver School of the Arts and has applied to Stanford. Cross your fi ngers!

Nico Palazzo (Honors ‘07) graduated from Harvard Law School in May of 2014. Currently, he is a Public Service Venture Fund legal fellow with New Economy Project in New York City. In this position, he works with community organizations across the state on policy advocacy campaigns and legal strategies around issues of predatory lending, immigrant banking rights, and insurance price discrimination.

Stephanie Miranda Pries, J.D., (M.A. ‘92) has been in her position as Director of Investment Legal Aff airs at the Notre Dame Investment Offi ce in Indiana for over seven years.

Fabiola Puerta (M.A. ‘07). After a few years as a freelance writer, Fabiola went back to a full time position as a content manager for eBay Latin America. This role allows her to combine her passion for editing, her background as a journalist, and her knowledge of the Latin American culture. Plus, she says it is very exciting to be part of an e-commerce company and work on products that have the potential to reach millions of users around the world! This year, she is looking forward to visiting her home country, Peru, and spending some time with her family in Lima.

Maria Luisa Puig (M.A. ‘10) celebrated the year with a new job and new baby! She started working for Eurasia Group as Latin America Analyst, based in London, in January 2014. Her daughter, Julia Huaman de los Heros Puig, was born in July 2014.

Ellen Moore (M.A. ‘12) continues her work as the Guatemala Programs Coordinator for the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA).

Lucrecia Santibañez (M.A. ‘98). As of July 2014, Lucrecia moved from the RAND Corporation to associate professor at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Educational Studies.

Stacy B. Schaefer, Ph.D., (M.A. ’82) recently retired after 23 years as a professor of Anthropology, initiating her career at the University of Texas-Pan American (8 years) and fi nishing at California State University, Chico, (15 years) where she was also

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the Co-Director of the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology. Schaefer’s books published by the University of New Mexico Press include People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion and Survival (co-edited with Peter T. Furst); Huichol Women, Weavers and Shamans (to be released in Spring 2015); and her most recent book Amada’s Blessings from the Peyote Gardens of South Texas (to be released Fall 2015).

Elizabeth Snyder (M.A. ‘08), formerly Elizabeth Dumford and Elizabeth Chavez, is currently a second-year medical student at the Stanford School of Medicine. She is the Spanish interpreter chair for a free clinic, teaches a medical Spanish course, and conducts research about Spanish-speaking pediatric surgery patients. She also completed a surgery research project in Mozambique this year, where Portuguese skills learned during her M.A. in Latin American Studies were essential.

Alyson Sprague (M.A. ‘12). Upon graduating, Alyson started a position as operations manager at the W Hotel in San Francisco. She was recruited from there for a sales operations management position with iHeartMedia where she managed a team of six and worked strategically with the market president and VP of sales to develop and track ROI successes of multi-million dollar marketing campaigns. She was recently promoted to a manager of Strategic Business Insights. Alyson regularly cruises the Mission neighborhood, excited to see the direction of the mural community (trending towards tech-interactive with QR codes, interactive websites, and “phone-to-learn-more” features of the murals). She also shares the exciting news that she and Leilani bought their fi rst condo in San Bruno in 2013 and got married on their 8th anniversary, August 2014!

Rachel Taube (M.A. ‘14) has been working at a public health non-profi t in San Francisco called Operation Access. She

coordinates patient care for low-income Bay Area residents, and she gets to speak both Spanish and Portuguese every day as the majority of their patients are not U.S. citizens and many are Latino. She now lives in the East Bay, which she says is amazing, and she likes to spend her free time biking and rock climbing.

Walter Thompson-Hernández (M.A. ‘14) continues as a researcher at the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC in Los Angeles. He recently applied to Ph.D. programs in Sociology and is awaiting word from those programs.

Elizabeth “Libby” Young (M.A. ‘13) began working as a college coach on the Alumni Services team at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto in June 2014. She advises and mentors approximately 80 juniors and seniors in college as they transition from undergrad to professional jobs or graduate school. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the LAS program at Stanford, Libby was aff orded the opportunity to explore courses in the Graduate School of Education. Those courses directly infl uenced her transition to this new role at Eastside.

Alix Van Zandt (M.A. ‘14) is in Guatemala doing a Princeton in Latin America Fellowship at Antigua International School. She will be there at least until June but probably longer! Alix is developing curricula and teaching at a school.

Stephanie Welsch (M.A. ‘14) is working on several projects, including the translation of children books written in diff erent indigenous languages to promote Mexican authors and language diversity.

Haynes Winkler (M.A. ‘14) started working as the head of Customer Support and Operations at a company called MTailor in late August. MTailor designs custom-tailored dress shirts from the camera on your phone.

FACULTY AND ALUMNI UPDATE

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BING OVERSEAS STUDIES PROGRAM (BOSP)Iván Jaksic, Director, BOSP in Santiago

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCEGregory Asner, Professor

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONPaulo Blikstein, Assistant ProfessorMartin Carnoy, ProfessorAmado Padilla, ProfessorGuadalupe Valdés, Professor

HOOVER INSTITUTIONHerbert Klein, Senior Fellow

LAW SCHOOLJames Cavallaro, ProfessorJonathan Greenberg, LecturerThomas Heller, Professor Emeritus

SCHOOL OF EARTH SCIENCESPamela Matson, Professor

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGJenna Davis, Associate ProfessorLeonard Ortolano, Professor

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES

Department of AnthropologyCliff ord Barnett, Professor EmeritusGeorge Collier, Professor EmeritusLisa Curran, ProfessorCarolyn Duff ey, LecturerWilliam Durham, ProfessorJames Fox, Associate ProfessorAngela García, Assistant ProfessorJohn Rick, Associate ProfessorIan Robertson, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Art & Art HistoryEnrique Chagoya, ProfessorDepartment of BiologyGretchen Daily, ProfessorRodolfo Dirzo, Professor and CLAS DirectorHarold Mooney, Professor EmeritusPeter Vitousek, ProfessorVirginia Walbot, ProfessorDepartment of Comparative LiteratureRoland Greene, ProfessorJosé David Saldívar, ProfessorHans Ulrich Gumbrecht, ProfessorDepartment of EconomicsRoger Noll, Professor EmeritusDepartment of English Ramón Saldívar, Professor

Department of HistoryZephyr Frank, Associate ProfessorAna Raquel Minian Andjel, Assistant ProfessorMikael Wolfe, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Héctor Hoyos, Assistant ProfessorMarilia Librandi Rocha, Assistant ProfessorMichael Predmore, ProfessorJoan Ramon Resina, ProfessorJorge Ruffi nelli, ProfessorLisa Surwillo, Assistant ProfessorYvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, ProfessorDepartment of LinguisticsJohn Rickford, ProfessorDepartment of Political Science Stephen Haber, ProfessorTerry Karl, ProfessorBeatriz Magaloni, Associate ProfessorRobert Packenham, Professor EmeritusGary Segura, ProfessorMike Tomz, ProfessorDepartment of Religious Studies Thomas Sheehan, ProfessorDepartment of Sociology Tomás Jiménez, Associate ProfessorMichael Rosenfeld, Associate ProfessorFreeman Spogli Institute for International StudiesAlberto Díaz-Cayeros, Associate Professor and Senior FellowRosamond Naylor, Professor and Senior FellowProgram in Human BiologyAnne Firth Murray, Consulting Professor

SCHOOL OF MEDICINEMichele Barry, ProfessorGabriel García, ProfessorGrant Miller, Associate ProfessorPaul Wise, Professor

STANFORD LANGUAGE CENTERFernanda Consoni, LecturerAlice Miano, LecturerMarisol Necochea, LecturerAna Maria Sierra, LecturerAgripino Silveira, LecturerLyris Wiedemann, Senior Lecturer

STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESAdán Griego, Curator, Latin American and Iberian CollectionsEverardo G. Rodríguez, Curatorial Assistant, Latin American and Iberian CollectionsSergio Stone, Foreign, Comparative and International Law LibrarianRobert Trujillo, Curator, Special Collections

AFFILIATED FACULTY

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CLAS STAFF

Martin Carnoy, Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education

Jenna Davis, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment

Rodolfo Dirzo, Bing Professor in Environment Science, Department of Biology

William Durham, Bing Professor of Human Biology, Department of Anthropology

Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor of Latin American History, Department of History

Adán Griego, Curator for Latin American, Iberian and Mexican-American Collections, Stanford University Libraries

Stephen Haber, Professor, Departments of History and Political Science; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Marília Librandi-Rocha, Assistant Professor, Deparment of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Beatriz Magaloni, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

Hal Mooney, Paul S. Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology

John Rick, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Jorge Ruffi nelli, Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Paul Wise, Richard E. Behrman Professor in Child Health and Society, School of Medicine

ADVISORY BOARD

DirectorDr. Rodolfo Dirzo

Associate DirectorElizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann

Program CoordinatorAngela Doria-La (Through November, 2014)

Jessica Barajas (current)

Business AdministratorLaura Quirarte

Public Engagment CoordinatorMolly Aufdermauer

In November

2014, after six

years of working

with CLAS, Angela

Doria-La resigned

as program

coordinator to stay

home with her

son. We wish her

all the best!

In January 2015,

Jessica Barajas joined

CLAS as the new

Program Coordinator.

Welcome, Jessica!

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