The Kansas Latin Americanist: 2024-2025
2024 Waggoner Research Colloquium
Populist Politics Takes Center Stage at the 33rd Waggoner Research Colloquium
A Look Back at KU’s Annual Celebration of Latin American & Caribbeanist Scholarship
As the 2024–25 academic year draws to a close, one standou
International Symposium: “Reflexiones sobre cinco siglos de colonialismo en Centroamérica”
The KU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Univ. of Arizona’s Center for Latin American Studies, the Univ. of Albany’s Department of African, Latin American, Caribbean, & Latinx Studies, and the Univ.
Lightning Talks, Lasting Impact: Reflecting on the 2025 Graduate Research Celebration
CLACS Honors Student Scholarship in Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Student Awards
We are very proud to have funded the following KU students for these awards: Stansifer, Oppenheimer, Tinker, Herzfeld, and FLAS.
Featured Graduate Student Research
Maya Voices from Petén and Yucatán: Exploring how Educators and Community Leaders are Preserving Mayan Language
by Juan David Martinez Zayas, Fulbright Scholar, Tinker Field Research Grant recipient, and PhD student in Educational Leadership and Policy Stud
CLACS Featured Study Abroad
Costa Rica
In late May 2025, 11 students (both undergraduate and graduate) participated in the KU School of Social Welfare’s study abroad program in Costa Rica, "International Social Services: A Costa Rican Perspective", receiving 3 hours of KU credit in 12 packed days of
Faculty Awards
Ryan Clasby, Anthropology
Grant Recipient ($10,000): KU New Faculty Research Development Award for "Art of the Indigenous Amazon: Deconstructing the Western Imagination of the Amazon Rainforest and Its People"
Faculty Publications
Melinda Adams, Daniel Sarvestani (Geography & Atmospheric Science | Indigenous Studies | Anthropology) Indigenous Peoples' Rights Discourse: Toward Hemispheric Indigenous Climate and Environmental Justice, Environmental Justice, 25 October,
Featured Faculty Research
Over the past year I have been deeply engaged in collaborative research & training initiatives that bring the resources of Kansas to bear on urgent health challenges in Amazonia. Working alongside Dr.
