BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
LATIN
AMERICAN
STUDIES
Summer 1999
Newsletter
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
BRANDEIS PANEL HIGHLIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS
Latin American Studies is thriving on the
eve of the millennium, with dedicated
students and faculty and large course
enrollments. This past year was an active
one, with numerous events highlighting the
visibility of Latin America on campus.
Particularly gratifying were the fascinating
reports by students who traveled to Latin
America last summer. Three more set off
this summer for Mexico, Trinidad and
Tobago, and Argentina.
This fall two new faculty members join us,
Mireya Solis in Politics and Javier Urcid in
Anthropology. The program is poised to
grow even more in the coming decade as the
Latin0 presence in the U.S. expands and as
Brandeis continues to strengthen its ties to
Latin America.
During the spring semester I took a
sabbatical leave to complete my book on
Containing the Poor: The Mexico Citv Poor
House, 1774-1871. I thank Donald Hindley,
Acting Director, and Marilyn Brooks,
Administrator, for running the program
smoothly in my absence. With the book now
in the hands of Duke University Press, I
return with renewed vigor.
I look forward to working with all of you
in the coming year to enhance Latin American Studies at Brandeis.
Latin American Studies was prominently represented at Brandeis
University’s 50” anniversary celebration. Jennifer Casolo ‘83 and
Dessima Williams (Sociology) were two of the featured speakers at the
symposium “Human Rights: The Unfinished Agenda” held October 16.
Ms. Casolo is the coordinator of the Women’s Pastoral, a churchbased project in Honduras. She worked as coordinator for the Texasbased Christian Education Seminars in El Salvador following her
graduation from Brandeis. Ms. Casolo formerly was the executive
director of Voices on the Border, a network of U.S. groups and
individuals aiding grassroots organizations in their efforts toward
sustainable development in El Salvador and Honduras. She is the
recipient of numerous human rights honors including the Thea Bowman
Award and the Denver Peace and Justice Award.
Professor Williams was Grenada’s ambassador to the Organization of
American States and deputy governor to the World Bank. She was
active in the restoration of democracy in Haiti and was one of seven
experts who served on a panel on human rights violations in Haiti that
led to the establishment of a Truth Commission.
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Silvia Marina Arrom
(1. to r.) Human Rights panelists Shen Tong, Morris B. Abram,
Dessima Williams, Jennifer Casolo, Joseph Wronka
(Photo by Brand& University staff)
LAS EVENTS AT BRANDEIS, 1998-99
The following events were sponsored or co-sponsored by
the Latin American Studies program:
Lectures:
RIMA DE VALLBONA (Costa Rican author and critic),
reading from her works, September 24. Public talk: “The
Tenth Muses: Sor Juana InCs de la Cruz and Anne Bradstreet: Patriarchal, Religious, and Socio-Cultural Repression During the Colonial Period,” September 25.
BENJAMIN SINGERMAN ‘99 “Sustainable Development, NGOs, and Indigenous Organizations in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A Report on Summer Field Research,”
October 1.
SUSANNAH GLUSKER ‘62 (Mexican author): “Anita
Brenner and the Mexican Renascence of the 192Os,”
October 15.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF AFRICAN PEOPLE (TRINIDAD AND
TOBAGO): “Africans in Trinidad and Tobago,” October
22.
YASMIN HOWES ‘99 (1998 Jane’s Travel Grant recipient): “The Volcanic Crisis in Montserrat,” October 28.
AVIVA BEN-UR (writer/photographer) and RACHEL
FRANKEL (architect): “New Discoveries from Suriname’s Forgotten Jewish and African Jungle Cemeteries,”
October 29.
ACHY OBEJAS (Cuban-American author): reading from
her work We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could
Dress Like This?, November 2.
GABRIELLE DICKERMAN ‘99 (1998 Jane’s Travel
Grant recipient): “The Jews of Honduras: Tradition
Within Assimilation,” November 12.
DAVID BARKIN (professor, Universidad Autonoma
Metropolitana, Mexico): “Responses to Mexico’s Crisis:
From the Centers of World Power to the Grass Roots,”
December 3.
HOMER0 CASTANIER (M.A. ‘99 and 1999 Jane’s
Travel Grant recipient): “Economic Value of Ecosystems
Services: The Case of Punta de Manabique, Guatemala,”
April 13.
Concert:
SOL Y CANTO musical group, September 25.
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Symposia:
WOMEN AND SPIRITUALITY, lectures and art exhibit,
co-sponsored with Fine Arts, Women’s Studies, and the
Helmsley Fund, in conjunction with a month-long exhibit
of the works of Deborah Huacuja, Mexican-American
artist, Dreitzer Gallery, February 2.
Mexican Film Series:
MEXICO: THE FROZEN REVOLUTION, September
24.
DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT, October 1.
LA ROSA BLANCA, October 13.
ROJO AMANECER, November 15.
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE, December 8.
BOSTON AREA CONSORTIUM ON LATIN
AMERICA SPONSORS FIVE SEMINARS
The Boston Area Consortium on Latin America was
headquartered at Brandeis for the eighth consecutive year.
It consists of nine colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston and serves as a means for faculty and
students with interests in this area to communicate with
each other, to find out about events at other institutions,
and to supplement their own resources with those
available at other locations.
During 1998-99 BACLA sponsored the following
faculty seminars, which were free and open to the public:
“PINOCHET AND HISTORY: RETURN OF THE
REPRESSED,” Peter Winn (History, Tufts), Marguerite
Feitlowitz (Expository Writing, Harvard), and Peter
Rosenblum (Human Rights, Harvard Law School),
December 1.
“THE GUATEMALAN MILITARY PROJECT: A
VIOLENCE CALLED DEMOCRACY ,” Jennifer
Schirmer (Harvard), December 7.
“THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTING INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES,” Kay Warren (Anthropology, Harvard) and
David Maybury-Lewis (Anthropology, Harvard, and
Director, Cultural Survival), February 23.
“REBELLION IN CHIAPAS,” Carlos Tel10 Diaz
(Mexican author), Maria de1 Carmen Legorreta Diaz
(Mexican author), and John Womack, Jr. (History and
Economics, Harvard), May 3.
“BITTER FRUIT: THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN
COUP IN GUATEMALA,” Richard Nuccio (former
senior policy adviser, State Department), S t e p h e n
Schlesinger (co-author of Bitter Fruit, director of the
World Policy Institute), and Jennifer Schirmer
(Harvard), May 13.
WILLIAMS RECEIVES FACULTY GRANT
Dessima Williams, assistant professor of Sociology,
was awarded this year’s Jane’s Faculty Research Grant to
help support her study on “Women Leaders and Transformation in the Developing Countries.” She will travel to
Dominica, Grenada, and Curacao.
SINGERMAN WINS 1999 JANE’S PRIZE
NEW FACULTY MEMBERS JOIN LAS
Benjamin Singerman ‘99 was awarded this year’s
Jane’s Essay Prize for “The Amazon Worlds Story.” The
prize is given to an undergraduate for the best paper in
any area of Latin American or Caribbean studies. He
completed the research for his senior thesis last summer at
the Amazon Worlds Museum in Ecuador, where he
worked as an intern in cultural tourism and sustainable
development.
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Two Mexican scholars will join the Latin American
Studies program faculty and committee this semester. We
are pleased to welcome them to Brandeis.
Professor Mireya Solis (Politics) received her Ph.D.
from Harvard University in 1998. Her dissertation was
“Exporting Losers?: The Political Economy of Japanese
Foreign Direct Investment.” Her research interests are
international political economy, international relations,
and comparative political economy.
Professor Javier Urcid (Anthropology), received his
doctorate in 1992 from Yale University. His dissertation
was “Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing.” He is the recipient
of numerous teaching grants and has done extensive field
work in various areas of Mexico. Professor Urcid is the
author of more than two dozen articles in his field.
SID DIRECTOR ADDED TO FACULTY
Homer0 Castanier, Sharen Bidaisee, and Benjamin
Singerman receiving awards at the LAS luncheon.
(Photo by Julian Brown, Brandeis Public Affairs Office)
JANE’S TRAVEL GRANTS RECIPIENTS
One undergraduate and two graduate students were the
winners of this year’s Jane’s Travel Grants to fund
research in Latin America. Sharen Bidaisee ‘99 is doing
research on “Making Art in Trinidad and Tobago,” and
Katerina Ailova (Anthropology) travels to Mexico to
study “The Power of Tradition: Festival and Religious
Imagery in Oaxaca, Mexico.” Homer0 Castanier (SID)
has completed his travels and research in Guatemala on
“Evaluation economica de1 area de protection especial
Punta de Manabique.”
Ms. Bidaisee and Ms. Ailova will present the findings of
their research to the LAS faculty and students this fall.
Mr. Castanier spoke to the LAS community in April.
Professor Laurence Simon (SID) has joined the LAS
faculty and its advisory committee. He is the institute
director of the Brandeis Institute for Sustainable
International Development and an economic geographer
specializing in regional planning. He has been a director
at Oxfam and an advisor to the United Nations
Development Programme and World Bank on poverty
alleviation. He has done fieldwork in Nicaragua, El
Salvador, Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica, among other
countries.
JANE’S TRAVEL GRANT WINNERS GIVE
PRESENTATIONS, INTERVIEWS
Gabrielle Dickerman ‘99, Yasmin Howes ‘99, and
Andrew Levine ‘98 were recipients of last year’s Jane’s
Travel Grants. All had interesting, rewarding experiences
during their time abroad.
Gabrielle Dickerman spent five weeks in Honduras
researching its Jewish community. Her family, who
immigrated there from Europe two generations ago, still
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has members living in the capital, Tegucigalpa. She found
that “the Jewish community in Honduras is about 200
people divided between two congregations, one in the
capital and one in San Pedro Sula. Each city has a Hebrew
school, but neither congregation has a rabbi. The Jewish
community there is changing as lots of the children go to
college in the states and then go back. The dynamics were
very interesting, and the entire trip was a terrific experience.”
Yasmin Howes went to Montserrat to research the
impact of the 1996 volcano on that island. “1 wanted to
get a sense of the impact that the volcanic activity was
having on the politics, economics, and social dynamics of
the island. The northern portion was still quite lush and
verdant, while just six miles south the land was completely destroyed.” She added, “I would absolutely
encourage others to travel to Latin America and explore
its richness and diversity.”
Andrew Levine was unable to present his findings at
Brandeis due to scheduling conflicts, but he submitted a
report on his research. He traveled to Brazil, studying that
country’s death squad phenomenon. “For three semesters
while I was at Brandeis, I focused on Brazilian extralegal
violence. I used my Jane’s Grant to visit Brazil for a
second time. I found that Brazilian abuse of deadly force
is an extreme form of coercive sociopolitical control, used
almost exclusively against poor, dark-skinned, marginalized males living infhvelas.”
Homer0 Castanier (M.A. ‘99, SID) was awarded his
1999 Jane’s Travel Grant early to allow him to travel to
Guatemala to help carry out an economic assessment of
Punta de Manabique. “This is a very poor, isolated area
with no roads going to it. This was the first economic
evaluation done for a protected area in Guatemala; much
more needs to be done here and in other Latin American
countries. I think many Latin American countries offer
interesting and challenging research opportunities for
Brandeis students, and I urge them to take advantage of
the possibility of traveling there.”
BRANDESIANS IN LATIN AMERICA
Wendi Adelson ‘01, a 1999 Ethics and Coexistence
Fellow, is spending the summer in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, working with La Linea Fundadora de Las
Madres de Plaza de Mayo. She is conducting interviews
with families of those who disappeared during the military
dictatorship.
Benjamin Singerman ‘99 was awarded a Fulbright Student Award for the 1999-2000 academic year. His project,
entitled “Cooperation in Development of the Ecuadorian
Amazon,” will examine the evolving relationship between
indigenous federations and non-governmental organiza-
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tions working in the Ecuadorian Amazon to promote
economic development, environmental preservation, and
cultural revalorization.
Rebecca Smith ‘99 entered the Peace Corps in El Salvador. She will be working on an agricultural education/extension assignment. She plans to apply to graduate
programs after completing her tour there.
LATIN AMERICAN DISSERTATIONS AND
SENIOR THESES
Two students in the Florence Heller Graduate School for
Advanced Studies in Social Welfare received their
doctorates for research on Latin American-related topics:
Esteria Barreto-Cortez, “The Contributions of Participatory Action Research to the Development of Culturally Appropriate Self-Evaluations of (Latino) Empowerment Training Programs: A Case Study”; and Sandra
Maria Magafia, “Puerto Rican Mothers of Adults with
Mental Retardation: The Impact of Cultural Values on
Lifelong Caregiving.” Undergraduate senior theses were:
Jessica Garcia-Kohl (Psychology), “Violence, Class and
Culture: An Investigation of Domestic Violence within
Indigenous Communities of Mexico”; Damian Payiatakis
(Economics), “Multinational Ownership in Service Dynamics of Internationalization in Argentine Retailing”;
Jason Schweitzer (Anthropology), “An Emerging
Transnational Community: El Salvadorans in Boston”;
Benjamin Singerman (LAS), “The Amazon Worlds
Story.”
HONORS, AWARDS TO LAS STUDENTS
Christine Aragon DeLeon, cum laude, Martin Luther
King Scholar, McNair Scholar, Maurice I. Shaer Memorial Prize for an outstanding student on financial aid;
Vanya Green, cum laude, Justice Brandeis scholar;
Janice Lorde, cum laude, Bruce R. Mayper Memorial
Award; Elsa Silva, cum laude; Suzi Silva, cum laude;
Jessica Miller, magna cum laude, Justice Brandeis
Scholar; Emily Richman, magna cum laude, Justice
Brandeis Scholar; Rebecca Smith, magna cum laude,
McNair Scholar; Damian Payiatakis, summa cum laude
with high honors in Economics, Justice Brandeis Scholar,
Brandeis University Scholar, Sachar Scholarship, Morris
and Anna Feldberg Prize in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa;
Jason Schweitzer, summa cum laude with honors in
Anthropology, Justice Brandeis Scholar, Betty and Harry
S. Shapiro Award for an outstanding scholar in
Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa; Benjamin Singerman,
summa cum laude with highest honors in History and
Brandeis Scholar, J. V. Cunningham Award, Phi Beta
Kappa, Jane’s Essay Prize in Latin America Studies, Doris
Brewer Cohen Award for the best senior honors thesis in
the social sciences.
LATIN AMERICAN FACULTY NOTES
Silvia Arrom (History) organized a session on “Cuba in
Transition” at the October meeting of the New England
Council of Latin American Studies and participated in
sessions of the American Historical Association in
January and the Berkshire Conference on the History of
Women in June. She joined the editorial board of the
Mexican periodical Signos. She continued as director of
BACLA and as an affiliate of the David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard.
Roxanne DBvila (ROCL) presented “La nostalgia y el
discurso urbano: Una aproximacion a Las batallas en el
desierto de Jose Emilio Pacheco,” at the Congreso de
Literatura Mexicana in March.
Dora Older (ROCL) mentored Wendy Adelson, an Ethics
Center Student Fellow, in preparation for her summer
research trip to Argentina. Professor Older is the advisor
to AHORA, the Hispanic Club.
Angela Maria PCrez (ROCL) was awarded the Mazer
Faculty Grant for her project “The Buccaneers in the
Darien Region” and did research in Seville on this topic at
the Archive de Indias. She also received a grant to
develop a graduate course on women in Latin America,
which she will co-teach as part of the Radcliffe Consortium on Women’s Studies next spring.
Faith Smith (English/AAAS) was the recipient of the
Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship for 1998.
She delivered the paper “Gentlemen and Jamettes: Creole
Speech in 19’h-Century Trinidad” at Tulane University in
January and chaired a panel entitled “Women and Popular
Culture” at the Caribbean Studies Association meeting in
Panama in May. She edited a special issue of Small Axe
on the topic “Genders and Sexualities.” She spent the past
academic year at the Center for Historical Analysis at
Rutgers University.
Dessima Williams (Sociology) is the advisor of the
Caribbean Students Association and member of the board
of the Brandeis Intercultural Center. Professor Williams
was a recipient of the 1998 United Nations Association of
Greater Boston’s Leadership Award for the promotion of
international understanding and human rights and the Ker-
mit H. Perlmutter Award for Teaching Excellence at
Brandeis.
Robert Zeitlin (Anthropology) completed “The Zapotec
Imperialism Argument: Insights from the Oaxaca Coast”
with A.A. Joyce, Current Anthropology, Vol. 40, 3, (June
1999). He is the principal investigator and project director
of the “Archaeology of Tehuantepec” Project.
HURRICANE, EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
AIDED BY BRANDEIS STUDENTS
The Brandeis community demonstrated its support for
victims of Hurricane Mitch, the November 1998 storm
that struck Central America, and the Colombian earthquake which devastated the coffee-growing region of that
country in January.
Daniel Losk ‘99 and Christina DeLeon ‘99 organized
the November Actos de Solaridad event, part of the
Hurricane Mitch Relief Campaign. Faculty members
described
the devastation that followed the storm,
especially in Honduras and Nicaragua. Speakers included
Professors Silvia Arrom (History), Roxanne Davila
(ROCL), Angela Perez (ROCL), and Dessima Williams
(Sociology). Donations of money, food, clothing, and
health-related goods were collected and sent to Oxfam
America.
“Solidarity with Colombia Day” was held in February,
bringing members of the university’s faculty and student
body together to aid earthquake victims. Professor Perez
helped organize the event; funds and clothing donated
went to various Colombian relief agencies.
STUDENTS CELEBRATE CARIBBEAN,
LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES
The second annual Hispanic Heritage Month ran from
September 15 to October 15, sponsored by AHORA!, the
university’s Latin American student group. The theme was
“Our Past, Our Presence, Our Future.” Events included a
reading by Costa Rican writer and critic Rima de
Vallbona, a Latin Jazz Cafe, the Sol y Canto band, and the
documentary “Courageous Women of Colombia.”
The first week of March highlighted the influence and
interests of Caribbean students on campus. “Caribbean
Week 1999” included panels on African-American/ Caribbean Relations and Political Issues and Reform in Haiti, a
Caribbean cultural fest, and a talent showcase.
COURSE ON LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN
TO BE OFFERED IN FALL SEMESTER
Professor Silvia Arrom (History) will introduce a new
course, History 173b, “Latin American Women: Historical
Perspectives.” The seminar is designed to provide a broad
overview of Latin American women’s history from the
16”’ to the 20’h centuries. It seeks to replace the stereotype
of the passive and subjected Latin American woman with
an appreciation of the historical diversity of women of
different races and classes in different times and places. It
also explores the methodological problems involved in
understanding women’s experiences in the past.
ALUMNI NOTES
Carlos Baia ‘94 is completing his second masters in
public administration at the University of Florida. He was
a recipient of the B. Harold Farmer Scholarship for his research into local and city government in Florida.
Donna Guy ‘67 was a member of a roundtable discussion
on “Gender Analysis and the Transformation of Political
History” at the Berkshire Conference on the History of
Women in June.
Temma Kaplan ‘64 spoke on “Leadership and Grassroots Activism in Latin America” at the Berkshire
Conference on the History of Women in June.
David Quil Lawrence ‘94 is a reporter in Colombia. He
covered the country’s earthquake, drug wars, and peace
talks this year for National Public Radio.
Clara Lida ‘63 is a professor at el Colegio de Mexico,
Mexico City, and a National Research Fellow at the
Sistema National de Investigadores, Mexico. She is the
co-author of Espafia y el imperio de Maximiliano (1999).
Karen Martin ‘97 is a volunteer with the October 22”d
Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the
Criminalization of a Generation, the Mobilization to Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Reclaim the Streets. She lives in
San Francisco.
Larissa Ruiz Baia ‘94 was chosen as a national training
fellow by Brooklyn College’s Office of Research for Religion in Society and Culture for a national study on religion among Latinos in the U.S. Her paper, “Rethinking
Transnationalism: Reconstructing National Identities
Among Peruvian Catholic Immigrants in New Jersey” was
accepted for publication by the Journal of Interamerican
Studies and World Ajjbirs.
Deborah Wailer Meyers ‘93 co-authored “Temporary
Protection: Towards a New Regional and Domestic
Framework,” Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol.
12, 4 (1998). She was a member of a panel on “U.S.Mexico Binational Study on Migration and Other Binational Collaborative Efforts” at the annual conference of
the International Studies Association in February.
Ramon Barquin ‘96 is attending law school and is the
senior public policy consultant for the Puerto Rico
Institute of Strategic Studies.
Ly-Minh Pham ‘95 has been accepted to the master’s
program in industrial/organizational psychology at
Montana State University beginning in September.
Kim Coughlin ‘85 teaches math and science to ESL
elementary students and is also the ESL coordinator in
V a n Nuys, CA. She recently received her M.A. in
Marriage and Family Counseling.
Sergio Reyes ‘98 enters the Ph.D. program in Political
Science at the University of Chicago this fall.
Matthew Freeman ‘97 was the U.S. travel operations
coordinator for American Field Service Intercultural Programs USA. He will begin a master’s program in Health
Policy at Yale University in September.
Susannah Glusker ‘62 received a grant from the U.S.Mexico Fund for Culture to edit and annotate Anita
Brenner’s journals from 1925-1930. Ms. Glusker is the
author of a monthly column for the online publication
“Mexis” at www.mexis.com.mx.
Adam Greenwald ‘98 is assistant director of alumni relations in the office of development at Brandeis.
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Eduardo Saenz-Rovner Ph.D. ‘89 published “Hate
medio siglo: El context0 econ6mico intemacional en la
Cpoca de El Bogotazo,” Anuario Colombiano de Historia, Social y de la Cultura, 25 (1998) and edited
Lecturas criticas e n a d m i n i s t r a c i d n ( U n i v e r s i d a d
National Siglo de1 Hombre Editores, 1998). He teaches at
the Universidad National de Colombia.
Aileen Walborsky-Josephs ‘86 is an attorney in West
Palm Beach, FL, with a specialty in immigration law.
LAS PROGRAM GRADUATES TWELVE
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES COMMITTEE
The Latin American Studies Program graduated one
dozen students this year. Our congratulations to them all
and our best wishes for their continued success. The
majors (concentrators) are:
Christine Arag6n DeLe6n - additional major in Sociology and program in Education;
Vanya Green - additional independent major in
Neuro-Anthropology;
Jason Schweitzer - additional major in Anthropology;
Benjamin Singerman - additional major in History;
The minors (programs) are:
Jeannette German - major in Psychology and
program in Education;
Janice Lorde - major in Politics;
Jessica Miller - major in Politics;
Damian Payiatakis - major in Economics;
Emily Richman - major in History, additional minors
in Spanish and Legal Studies;
Elsa Silva - major in Politics, additional minor in Economics;
Suzi Silva - major in Politics, additional minor in ,Economics;
Rebecca Smith - major in History.
The following faculty members helped guide the Latin
American Studies Program this year. They also served as
advisers for students interested in their fields of expertise:
Silvia Arrom (History), Lynette Bosch (Fine Arts),
Roxanne Davila (ROCL), Donald Hindley (Politics),
Robert Hunt (Anthropology), James Mandrel1 (ROCL),
Ricardo Morant (Psychology), Wellington Nyangoni
(AAAS), Dora Older (ROCL), Angela Perez (ROCL),
Benson Saler (Anthropology), Faith Smith (English),
Dessima Williams (Sociology), Luis Yglesias (ROCL),
Robert Zeitlin (Anthropology).
ITEMS FOR MILLENNIUM NEWSLETTER
Don’t miss the opportunity of seeing your name in print
in the LAS newsletter in the year 2000! Please let us
know what’s been happening in your professional lives.
Contact Marilyn Brooks, administrator of Latin American
Studies via e-mail: Mbrooks@brandeis.edu; fax 78 1-7362273; our web page at www.brandeis.eduldepartments.1
latinam; snail mail at LAS/MS 036, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA 02454.
Faculty, students, and friends at the Latin American Studies luncheon on May 5.
(Photo by Julian Brown, Brandeis Public Affairs Office)
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES COURSES OFFERED DURING 1998-1999
Fall
ANTH 55a
HIST 17Sa
LAS 98a
LAS 99d
POL 144a
POL 151b
SECS 169a
SOC 107a
SOC 17la
SPAN lllb
SPAN 164b
SPAN 192a
Spring
AAAS I 17a
AAAS 126b
AAAS 167a
LAS 98a
LAS 99d
POL 144b
POL 146b
POL 180
SPAN 11 lb
SPAN 164b
SPAN 164b
Development and the Third World
The Making and Unmaking of the Mexican Revolution
Independent Study
Senior Research
Latin American Politics I
Seminar: Nationalism and Development
Columbus: Encounters and Inventions
Global Apartheid and Social Movements
Women Leaders and Transformation in Developing Countries
Introduction to Latin American Literature
Power, Marginality, and the Latin American City
Hispanic Women’s Fiction
Hunt
Arrom
Staff
Staff
Hindley
Morganthau
Perez
Williams
Williams
Perez
Davila
Mandrel1
Communications and Social Change in Developing Nations
Political Economy of the Third World
African and Caribbean Comparative Political Systems
Independent Study
Senior Research
Latin American Politics 11
Revolutions in the Third World
Sustaining Development
Introduction to Latin American Literature
Studies in Latin American Literature/Humor in Latin American Literature
Studies in Latin American Literature/Latin American Avant-garde
Berhame-Selassie
Nyangoni
Nyangoni
Staff
Staff
Hindley
Hindley
Morgenthau
Perez
Davila
Davila
Latin American Studies
Newsletter Editor: Marilyn Brooks
Olin-Sang 215/MS 036
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02454-9110