Student Highlight: Kency Cornejo
Kency Cornejo is a pioneer in a field of the arts that has not been deeply explored yet. As a PhD candidate in the Art, Art History and Visual Studies Department at Duke, Kency teaches a course called “Art, Visual Culture & Politics in Central America,” which counts for CLACS’s Certificate…
Faculty Highlight: Charlie Thompson
Charles Thompson is director of the B.N. Duke Scholarship Program as well as the undergraduate program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He holds the faculty position of Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke and he is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion.…
Faculty Highlight: Paul Baker
Professor Paul A. Baker is geochemist and a member of the Earth and Ocean Science Department at Duke. His academic field specialties are paleoclimatology, global climate change, geochemistry and oceanography. Baker received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Geology from University of Rochester, a Masters of Science degree from The Pennsylvania State…
CLACS Awarded Mellon Grant
CLACS was recently awarded a $31,000 Mellon grant for a project titled "Democratizing Knowledge Production in Latin American and Caribbean History." This project, led by History Professor Pete Sigal, and in partnership with FHI’s Lab in Digital Knowledge, seeks to use online forums, blogs, and open peer review to bring scholars, students…
Faculty Highlight: Manuel Leal
Professor Manuel Leal is a member of Duke’s Department of Biology. His research attempts to “bridge the gap between theoretical concepts in behavioral and physiological ecology and basic principles of evolutionary biology, with the ultimate goal of elucidating how behavior can impact evolutionary processes.”
About Prof. Leal
Manuel was born and…
Ambassador Duddy's Spring 2013 Courses
Ambassador Patrick Duddy will be teaching 3 courses next Spring. Ambassador Duddy served as the U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence at Duke for 2 years. Prior to coming to Duke, Ambassador Duddy served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela where he oversaw one of the…
Spring 2013 Course List Available
This list contains area studies courses from many different disciplines related to Latin American & Caribbean Studies. These courses count towards the Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Other courses may count as well. For language courses in Haitain Creole, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, please see ACES under these titles.
To…
Pfaff and Shapiro Awarded Research Grant on Conservation Incentive Program in Mexico
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies council members, Dr. Alexander Pfaff and Dr. Elizabeth Shapiro, have been awarded a three-year, $438,000 grant from the Tinker Foundation to conduct research on an innovative government program in Mexico that helps create local institutions in which other local actors pay rural landowners to…
New faculty focus on Brazil
Lamonte Aidoo (PhD Brown) and Gustavo Furtado (PhD Cornell) join the Romance Studies department at Duke! Professor Aidoo is interested in the myth of racial democracy in Brazil and is currently teaching the following courses: "Brazil: Race, Sex, and the Body" and "Brazilian and Lusophone African Studies" Professor Furtado will begin…
Haitian Creole Poetry
Jacques Pierre's latest publication, "Omega" is one of Haitian poetry and Haitian proverbs. Professor Pierre is Visiting Lecturer in French, Haitian Creole and Culture, in the Romance Studies department at Duke.
