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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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.
[more]Professor Lisa Baldez’s Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women’s Rights is the winner of the American Political Science Association's 2015 Victoria Schuck Award, awarded annually for the best book published on women and politics.
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Scholarship, as well as a chance meeting, brought Reena Goldthree, an assistant professor of African and African American Studies, to Dartmouth in 2010, where she has been studying the history of modern Latin America and the Caribbean.
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After Leandra Pilar Barrett ’15 finished high school in Alice, Texas, she came to Dartmouth unsure of her long-term goals but knowing the College had many strong academic programs and focused on undergraduates. Her major—Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies—is interdisciplinary, but Barrett is most interested in border studies, race, ethnicity, and the prison system.
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