Ramón de Santiago (History of Art), a 25-26 CLACS Graduate Affiliate, takes a look at how the term "indio" for an Indigenous American developed as both a motivated mistake in geography and as an intellectual need and strategy of colonizing empires.
Flávia Leite, a 2025–26 CLACS Graduate Affiliate, writes about her research on Brazil's public housing program Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, My Home My Life). How do people in a program providing nearly free housing end up facing more debt and evictions?
Rafa Meza Duriez revisita la Campaña de Alfabetización de Nicaragua a través del legado de su madre para ofrecer un homenaje al amor maternal, la música folclórica latinoamericana y el poder silencioso de la lucha intergeneracional.
Rafa Meza Duriez revisits the Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign through his mother's legacy to offer a tribute to maternal love, Latin American folk music, and the quiet power of intergenerational struggle.
Leo Dunsker found his research on Wilson Harris, Kamau Brathwaite, and other Caribbean writers drawing him to England and archives of a research institute located above a bookstore in London.
Lily Medina documents some of the bureaucratic obstacles one has to face and overcome to do research with government documents.
Franchesca Araújo, doing research in Santo Domingo, discusses how experiencing the sanitized and touristic Zona Colonial side-by-side with less insulated life in other parts of the city helps to texture her research.
Emily Fjaellen Thompson highlights the photographers whose work was presented in the series Fotos Desaparecidas as they documented Peru's Internal Armed Conflict.
By Venicia Slotten Arenal Volcano viewed from the archaeological site La Chiripa. (Photo by Venicia Slotten). This July, supported by a Tinker Foundation and CLAS-funded research grant, I helped excavate a house structure in Costa Rica that was preserved by the eruption of Arenal Volcano around 3,500 years ago. This archaeological site, La Chiripa, is... Continue Reading →
By Eleni Anagnostopoulou Associate Justice Domingo Salgado explains the legal basis for the Venezuela's Supreme Court of Justice in Exile and its inner workings. (Photo courtesy of the Berkeley Law special committee). “This fight is not about ideology. It is about democratic, constitutional legitimacy.” These were the first words uttered to the crowd in a packed auditorium... Continue Reading →
