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Featured FLAS Fellow: Viana Rodrigues
Viana Rodrigues is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Viana is pursuing a major in Public Health with a minor in Portuguese.
"I am studying Portuguese…
Featured FLAS Fellow: Cullen Roth
Cullen Roth is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Cullen is pursuing a double-major in Foreign Language Education and Spanish and was also a FLAS fellow in…
CLAS awarded $1.15 million in Title VI FLAS funding from U.S. Dept. of Education for 2022-2026
The Center for Latin American Studies is excited to announce that it has been awarded $1,154,640 in Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of Education, through its Foreign Language and Area…
CLAS Supports Black Studies Across the Americas Project
For the past two years, CLAS has enjoyed a fruitful collaborative relationship with Borough of Manhattan Community College, partnering with Dr. Judith Anderson of the Department of Ethnic and Race…
American Renewal: Comparing the U.S. and Chilean Constitutional Conventions
By: Blake Marbaugh, CLAS Student Intern, Summer 2022
This year, the U.S. was not the only country celebrating the 4th of July in the Americas. The day that marked the Thirteen…
A Tale of Two Colonies: Examining the Filipino and Colombian elections and their victors
By: Blake Marbaugh, CLAS Student Intern, Summer 2022
On June 19th, 2022, Colombia elected its first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, and first African American vice president, Francia…
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 2022
On February 24th, 2022, Russian troops invaded Ukraine to "demilitarize and denazify" the country from its defensive military and…
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…