Site-Wide Activity

I want to look at the foreign policy pursued during the Cold War, specifically in the Caribbean, and see how it led to a growth in national identity for Cubans. On one side, there was mass aggression by the […]

Peyton O’Laughlin

In January of 2020, the body of a well-known environmental activist, Homero Gómez, was found in a well at the Michoacán Butterfly Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico. Gómez’s body was said to have […]

My narrowed research topic is the philosophy of Hugo
Chavez and how he cultivated the movement known as the Bolivarian Revolution, with
him at the forefront. I am interested in what personal experiences shaped […]

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Monday, February 24 @7pm in Luce’s Global Café (Luce Basement 001)

How successful are mass-mobilized protests in changing public policy in Chile? 

I am going to focus on Chile’s modern mass mobilization movements. For example in 2006 and 2011, Chile experienced some of the […]

For my research project, I want to look at the racial and social hierarchies or the casta system created by the Spanish in Latin America and the long term affects it had on Latin American countries. Racial […]

The question that I wish to research is the involvement the United States plays in the drug war. Furthermore, how has the United States approached the drug war and what have they done to combat it from the demand […]

I have decided to
look at indigenous women in Latin America. My research question is, “What does
indigenous women activism look like?” It is significant because indigenous
women have been extremely und […]

For my research I will be analyzing the Church Committee and its dealings with the CIA. I want to look at the investigations that took place and examine the findings in relation to the influences the Cold War had […]

Global economy has played a huge role in the 19th Century Latin America, as they overthrown the Spanish monarchy. Chile was liberated by Don José de San Martín in 1821 after declaring war on Sep 18 of 1810. A […]

For my research topic I want to examine the economical significance of the growth of soccer in Latin American countries, specifically Brazil. I want examine how soccer came to be so culturally significant and […]

My research question
is: How did gendered violence in Argentina’s Dirty War lead to the
development of the female-led Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo movement, and how has
gender affected the way this movement has b […]

Peyton O’Laughlin

My research question is Does the history of Panama consistently become framed in a lens of economic advantage? Panama, along with various Central American countries, is famously d […]

For my research paper, I want to explore the systems instilled and upheld in which come together to form what we perceive as modern-day American society, regarding the Critical Race Theory. To narrow this down, of […]

I will be focusing my research on the new wave of feminism that is becoming very popular around the world. Originally created in Chile by Las Tesis, the global ‘rape song’ is one about power dynamics and vio […]

For my research topic, I would like to explore something related to the Puerto Rican independence movement post-1945. Something interesting within that broader topic might be the contemporary independence movement […]

My project will look at the depiction of the various groups
in Jamaica during the nineteenth century. The question I will explore, and
answer is, how did the social structures of Jamaica exemplify the […]

For my research project, I want to cover something related to Latin American culture, possibly solely Nicaraguan culture. Culture has always been something that has fascinated me, and I think one really gets to […]

I would like to investigate the political relationship between Cuba and the United States. This topic is useful for understanding Latin American history because it is a significant example of U.S. intervention in […]

For my research topic I would like to explore the issues pertaining to the use of native peoples as slave labor during the early colonization of Latin American, and how that has developed into an underclass labor […]