Current Graduate Students
Teresa Alvarado-Patlan
Home Department: History
My research looks at military forts in the Midwest and Southwest that have served as centers for detention and incarceration from the19th century until present.
Sarah-Louise Dawtry
Home Department: History
My dissertation, “From Boom to Bust: Responses to Working Conditions by Mexican Hardrock Miners in Mexico and the American Southwest, 1880-1940,” is a transnational and regional study of Mexican and Mexican-American industrial miners in Mexico and the United States.
Larissa de Paula
Home Department: Political Science
My research centers around decolonial theory, feminist theory and Brazil’s military history.
Jalin Jackson
Home Department: African American Studies
My research focuses on the intersections between Afro-Latin America and videogames. Specifically, I am interested in what it means to play race/racism and to theorize blackness in the virtual space alongside representations of Latin America in videogames. I am also interested in Afro-Latin American experiences with videogames and gaming communities in Latin America.
Alicia Nunez
Home Department: Spanish & Portuguese
My thesis, “Shadow Kids: The Child in Central American Migrant Narratives,” examines the literal and figurative roles childhood plays in discourses surrounding Central American migration. I examine the queer racialized child migrant that not only transgresses borders, but breaks with normative conceptions of gender and sexuality.
Daniela Maria Raillard
Home Department: Anthropology
Daniela (she/her/ella) is a PhD candidate and anthropological archaeologist with a focus on the pre-colonial Andes. In collaboration with local and descendant community members, she leads a multi-site archaeological project on Chachapoya above ground mortuary architecture in rural northeastern Peru.
Sophie Reilly
Home Department: Anthropology
Sophie (she/her) is an archeologist who studies the deep histories of food (in)security. Her research specifically investigates the impacts of Inka and Spanish colonialism on food availability and access among Chachapoya communities in the Northeastern Andes from the 14th to 17th century.
Jesse Rothbard
Primary Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Area(s) of Research Interest: Transatlantic crime fiction, contemporary Latin American film, media studies and queer theory. Jesse's current research project, centered on queer criminalization and criminality in the first half of the 20th century in Latin America, has received support from the Brazilian Studies Association, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and Fulbright.
Jacob Wilkenfeld
Home Department: Spanish & Portuguese
My research examines the ways in which modernity and cultural hybridity have been thematized in 19th and 20th-century writings of Brazil and the United States, particularly in literary expressions of diasporic and immigrant communities. My dissertation focuses on 20th-century Brazilian and U.S. American Jewish fiction.
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