In the NACLA Report on the Americas, one of the premier sites for in-depth reporting and analysis on the Americas regions that serves as a bridge between academic researchers and the public, Jackson faculty Vanessa Freije and Daniel Bessner co-edit the March 2020 issue titled “A People’s Policy for the Americas,” with contributions by Jackson School Latin American & Caribbean Studies faculty Angelina Godoy and Tony

‘Secret and unaccountable’: Where some immigrant teens are being taken by ICE Blake Ellis-Profile-ImageMelanie Hicken By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN Updated 6:12 AM ET, Thu October 24, 2019 (CNN)Angelina Godoy started digging for answers more than a year ago. The human rights researcher had heard that ICE agents occasionally swept up migrant kids

“Here at Fundación Arias, I am on a research team investigating ammunition trafficking throughout Latin America. I’ve been creating a database of the quantity and caliber of ammunitions seized by police in each Latin American country with the goal to articulate which calibers are the most commonly used and trafficked. The Foundation, along with other organizations

“Art and the Politics of Blackness and Indigeneity in Peru’s Past and Present” By visiting three different regions of Peru (Lima, Chincha and Cusco), this program offered students the opportunity to think critically about identity and diversity in a setting outside the United States. In particular, the program focused on the study of Blackness and

Congratulations to LACS Office Assistant, Ximena Abigail Perez The Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) selected Ximena Perez as one of the recognition scholarship recipients and was honored for her achievements at the annual Celebration banquet where she also participated as the Student Scholar Speaker. This scholarship and annual event honor OMA&D students who

Congratulations to LACS Chair Jose Antonio Lucero and LACS Faculty and Executive Committee Members, Maria Elena Garcia & Ricardo Gomez The Latino Center for Health at UW selected Dr. Jose Antonio Lucero, Dr. Maria Elena Garcia and Dr. Ricardo Gomez to be recognized at the Latinx Faculty Recognition Event, May 2 2019. This annual event honors the scholarly achievements of Latina and Latino faculty across the

The Latino Center for Health at UW has selected Dr. Maria Elena Garcia and Dr. Tony Lucero to be recognized at the Latinx Faculty Recognition Event, May 2 2019. This annual event honors the scholarly achievements of Latina and Latino faculty across the three-campuses of the University of Washington for the academic year 2018-2019. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ María Elena García is

Our department’s congratulations go to Professor Megan Ybarra, whose book Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest, won the 2019 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Publication Award at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference in Washington, D.C.! As profiled in this article on the website for the UW Center for Human Rights, the

A push to bring US-backed food and medicine into Venezuela ended in chaos on Feb. 23, as trucks carrying supplies across the Colombia-Venezuela border were set aflame and several hundred people are reported injured in clashes. The humanitarian aid could have brought some relief to Venezuelans facing a humanitarian crisis — 90 percent live in poverty, and the dire

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced $14.8 million in new grants to support 253 humanities projects nationwide. Comparative History of Ideas Professor María Elena García is being awarded $40,000 to complete Gastro-Politics, Race, and Species in Peru, a book-length study about the recent culinary boom in Peru that has made Lima one of