Category: Features
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Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Frens-String
JOSHUA FRENS-STRING is a historian of modern Latin America and assistant professor in the Department of History. His research and teaching examine the history of…
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Beyond the Music: Daniel Party on Víctor Jara and the Many Facets of Musicology
MUSICOLOGIST DANIEL PARTY was Tinker Visiting Professor at LLILAS during spring 2023. He is an associate professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he…
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Finding God over the Airwaves: Is Religious Media Driving Protestant Growth in Latin America?
BY GUSTAVO FUCHS PROTESTANTISM HAS BEEN ON THE RISE across Latin America for decades. Scholars have tackled this historic trend by examining the underlying social…
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Which Box to Check? The Adoption Story at the Center of My Master’s Thesis
BY ANA KEARNEY I was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1993, but have spent the majority of my life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am…
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A Town amid the Waters: The Building of a Hydroelectric Dam in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia
By CINDIA ARANGO LÓPEZ Leer en español EL PEÑOL AND GUATAPÉ are two towns in the mountains of the central Colombian Andes, in the Eastern…
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Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar
By NOHELY GUZMÁN NARVÁEZ IN MARCH 2019, I had one of the most nurturing, delicate, and vulnerable experiences of my professional career. After years of…
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Silks and Swords: Sumptuary Laws and Gender in Colonial Mexico
By HALEY SCHROER On June 8, 1685, Don Diego de García, cacique, or Indigenous leader, from Tlapa (now in modern-day Guerrero), petitioned the viceroy of…
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Black Women Who Move Mountains: Responding to Crisis in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo do Alemão
By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO Ler em português IN TIMES OF CRISIS, people come together for mutual support. This has not changed since the first months…
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In Memoriam: Nora England, Visionary Linguist and Mentor
By SUSANNA SHARPE NORA ENGLAND’S PASSION FOR LINGUISTICS was sparked in college, where, almost on a whim, she enrolled in a field methods course. “That…
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Estampa: A Walk with Mauricio Tenorio
By RODRIGO SALIDO MOULINIÉ Historian Mauricio Tenorio Trillo was the opening keynote speaker at the 2022 Lozano Long Conference, “Archiving Objects of Knowledge with Latin…
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Street Protests and Land Use: Theorizing Spatial Inequality in Brazil
By FERNANDO LUIZ LARA IN JUNE OF 2013, over forty UT Austin faculty members and a similar number of Brazilian officials met in the halls…
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To the Reader
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread…