Traveon Rogers, Ph.D. Student in African American & African Diaspora Studies and a 2025 Tinker Field Research grant recipient, takes a culinary approach to research, using food to investigate the Afro-descendant impact and "Caribbean-ness" in Veracruz, Mexico and Cartagena, Colombia.

Pablo Eduardo Paredes Burgos, a Ph.D. student in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and a 2025-26 CLACS Graduate Affiliate, explores Bad Bunny's powerful homecoming at the 'No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí' residency, celebrating Puerto Rican pride and cultural roots.

2025 Summer Dissertation Fellow Adriana P. Ramírez has spent years researching the experience of children who, after growing up in the United States, return to Mexico because of their or their parents' immigration status.

Rodney Padovani, estudiante de doctorado de Música, aborda la metáfora de José Luis González sobre la cultura puertorriqueña y los cuatro "pisos". Raymond Torres-Santos le añade un quinto piso, tecnológico, que aborda la movilidad cultural y musical del país frente a las estructuras históricas de clase. Padovani examina tanto la metáfora original como su interpretación musical a través de una lectura crítica de la cultura musical puertorriqueña

Carolina de Wit began her research in Brazil, looking at the intersection of medical, political, and legal policies trying to control populations that authorities deemed a threat, and found a similar phenomenon in the Caribbean.

Greg Louden, CLACS Publications and Infrastructure Coordinator, works with the Coletivo de Tradutores Berkeley-Brasil to translate and publish Revista Pihhy, which highlights "Indigenous knowledge from Indigenous scholars." In July 2025, they traveled to central Brazil to visit the program which gave rise to the publication and the environment in which it is produced.

Cristina S. Méndez reflects on a recent panel at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, where participants discussed the challenges faced by women doing field research in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Derek Allen, in reading Terra sonâmbula (Sleepwalking Land) and O comboio de sal e açúcar  (The Train of Salt and Sugar), examines how post-independent Mozambique continues to experience the traumatic afterlives of colonialism and remains plagued by internal struggle.

Sandra Oseguera Sotomayor is co-organizing a panel at the upcoming Latin American Studies Association Congress in San Francisco.  In this blog, she reflects on what led her and her compatriots to create a space to connect around fieldwork and gender.

Sandra Oseguera Sotomayor está coorganizando un panel en el próximo Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos en San Francisco. En este blog reflexiona sobre lo que la llevó a ella y a sus compatriotas a crear un espacio para conectarse en torno al trabajo de campo y el género.