Student Work
Fall 2025
LACS 20.04 / ARTH 63.01 MEXICAN MURALISM
Spring 2025
Honors Thesis Presentations
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- Los Que Se Quedan: Climate Change and Migrations in Rural Honduras by Olvin J. Abrego Ayala '25
- Latinos and Greek Life: A Dartmouth Perspective by Giselle Curiel '25
- From Puebla to el Barrio: Migration, Identity, and the Making of a Mexican Enclave in Passaic by Melissa Reyes '25
LATS 37 Migrant Lives and Labor in the Upper Valley: Latinx Studies for Community Engagement
With Prof. Israel Reyes (Spanish and Portuguese)
Winter 2025
LACS 20.03 Mexicanidad: Race/Raza, (trans)Nation, and Mexican(o/a/x) Cultural Identity
This term students explored print portfolios in Sherman Art Library's special collections. These portfolios have come into the library's collection between the 1930s and 60s and have never been studied or explored.
- 25 prints of Leopoldo Méndez
- Carlos Merida, Trajes regionales mexicanos
- Carlos Merida, Mexican costume
- Carlos Merida Carnival in Mexico
- José Clemente Orozco
- 8 lithographs (Jose Clemente Orozco, Jiquilpan)
- José Clemente Orozco, 10 reproductions of his mural paintings
- Diego Rivera. : [Reproductions of Mexican frescoes]
With Professor Mary K. Coffey
LACS 24.25 Making Video Essays
- Video Essay: O.T.M. (Other than Mexican) by Nicolaus G. Dahl
- Video Essay: Selena by Haely D. Mendoza
- Video Essay: Addiction by Margaux L Van Allen
With Professor Desirée Garcia
LACS 30.01 (old LACS 8) Politics and Culture in Transnational Central America
Alondra Ajpacaja '28, "Modern Indigeneity in Guatemala and Assimilation to the US"
With Assistant Professor Jorge Cuellar