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    • Alumni Story: Jessica Elfstrom ‘07

      January 22, 2016

      In 2008 I joined the U.S. Navy. Today I am a Lieutenant pursuing a master’s degree in Mexico. Upon entering Dartmouth I knew that I wanted to study in the LALACS department. Everything about Latin America intrigues me: the history, culture, politics, geography, and people. As an interdisciplinary program, I was able to satisfy my interest in all these areas. Additionally, with the flexibility of the D-plan and the encouragement of the LALACS department, I was able to spend three terms of my Dartmouth experience in Brazil.

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    • Nicaragua trip with Dartmouth Students

      January 22, 2016

      Prof. Douglas Moody has been the faculty advisor for the Cross-cultural Educational Service Program (CCESP) for ten years and recently returned from an international service trip to Nicaragua with Dartmouth students.

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    • Celebrating the New Wave of Ibero-American Cinema

      December 21, 2015

      Dartmouth College will host an Ibero-American cinema festival between  January 13-February 17, 2016. Six films will be screened at the Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center. Full program can be found here.

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    • LALACS Chair wins Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching

      November 22, 2015

      Deborah Nichols, the William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Program in Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies, has received the inaugural 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching for their new course, “Who Owns the Past?”

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    • 2015-2016 César Chávez Fellow

      September 19, 2015

      Almita Miranda is the 2015-2016 César Chávez Fellow. Miranda is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her research interests are in cultural and political/legal anthropology, race/ethnicity, gender, (im)migration, citizenship, transnationalism, Latino families and grassroots organizing in the U.S. and Mexico/Latin America. 

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