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American Renewal: Comparing the U.S. and Chilean Constitutional Conventions
By: Blake Marbaugh, CLAS Student Intern, Summer 2022(Left) Founding Fathers sign the Declaration of Independence, Painted by John Trumbull, 1826.
(Right) President of the…

A Tale of Two Colonies: Examining the Filipino and Colombian elections and their victors
By: Blake Marbaugh, CLAS Student Intern, Summer 2022(Left) Gustavo Petro Photo: AFP/SCANPIX.
(Right) Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Contributed Photo.
On June 19th…

From Castro to Putin: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the West's Sanctions on Russia through the lens of the Cuban Embargo
By: Blake Marbaugh, CLAS Student Intern, Summer 2022Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
On February 24th, 2022, Russian…

CLAS supports four students with FLAS Fellowships in Summer 2022
With support from its US Department of Education Title VI grant, the Center for Latin American Studies will be supporting two undergraduate students and two graduate students with Foreign Language…

Congratulations To Our Spring 2022 Whitten Scholarship Awardees!
Each semester the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Research Collection is…

CLAS Supports Artist Residency
With CLAS support, Cadine Navarro has served throughout the spring semester as a land-based artist-in-residence for several Central Ohio colleges, including Ohio State, Otterbein, Denison,…

CLAS co-sponsors 2022 Ohio Latin Americanist Conference
On February 25-26, 2022, OSU's Center for Latin American Studies partnered with Ohio University's Department of Modern Languages and Latin American Studies program to host the 18th Annual Ohio…

Congratulations To Our Autumn 2021 Whitten Scholarship Awardees!
Each semester the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the newly renamed Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection…

Hollander publishes OER textbook on racial and ethnic diversity with CLAS support
Professor Matthew M. Hollander of Marion Technical College has published an Open Educational Resource textbook on racial and ethnic diversity, with support from a CLAS Community…