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Pictures from some of our classes during the 2022-2023 academic year, including Prof. Erica Durante (bottom left), Prof. José Miguel (top right), and Prof. Luis Martín (top left & bottom right).

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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Email Forms

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The students in Professor Erica Durante's course “Around Latin America in 80 Days” recently participated in an inspiring and challenge exercise focused on the now La hija de la española (It Would be Night in Caracas).

Written by prominent Venezuelan author Karina Sainz Borgo and immediately translated into more than 26 languages, the novel offers an astounding, dark story of death, loss, and torture in Caracas during the ongoing Chavist regime. Through a unique exercise designed by Professor Durante, LACA students inhabited and transformed the book’s pages, superimposing their writing and drawings on words, margins, and blank spaces. They recreated the novel, inscribing the signs and scars of their reading on physical copies of the pages and recounting their own stories of empathy and resistance.

Karina Sainz Borgo was thrilled by how students metabolized her pages and was impressed by their ability to amplify and enrich the novel in return. We are thankful to her for enthusiastically embracing our initiative. The students will meet with the author online today, as she would like to convey her gratitude for the “heartbreaking gift” she has received from Brown students.

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This fall 2021, students attending professor Erica Durante’s course “Around Latin America in 80 Days: An Historical and Cultural Journey” had the pleasure of learning about Paraguay. Fernando Martínez Escobar, professor of Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), invited as a guest-lecturer, presented the past 150 years of Paraguayan history. Under prof. Escobar’s guidance students explored the three decades of Stroessner’s dictatorship and the political and institutional challenges faced by the country during the post-dictatorial period. During a successful workshop, students also experienced the guaraní language. Professor Martínez Escobar introduced them to basic vocabulary and encouraged them to improvise short conversations in this indigenous language, Paraguay’s second official language. Students felt empowered by the guaraní workshop and the opportunity to practice some of the phonetics they had passively experienced while watching two remarkable Paraguayan films, 108 Cuchillos de palo by R. Costa Pedromo and 7 cajas, by J. C. Maneglia y T. Schémbori.

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LACA DUG Leader Nia Callender (she/her/ella)

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LACA DUG Leader Nia Callender (she/her/ella)

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Nia is a senior from Cambridge, MA double concentrating in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Sociology. She has focused her studies on Latin American migration pathways and dance as an intrinsic part of Latin culture and resistance. Nia hopes to get a master’s degree in education policy post-graduation.

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LACA DUG Leader Mari Fajnzylber (they/them)

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LACA DUG Leader Mari Fajnzylber (they/them)

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Mari is a member of the class of 2023.5 from Bethesda, Maryland and Belo Horizonte, Brazil. They are concentrating in Latin American Studies and Environmental Studies, with a focus in global food systems. On campus, they help run the Brown Market Shares Program, are a barista at the Underground Coffee Shop, and teach sexual education to highschoolers in Providence. In their free time, Mari loves to swim, learn about botany and ecology, and make all of their friends listen to Música Popular Brasileira. They are so excited to be a DUG leader this year, and cannot wait to spend time with all the CLACS students, faculty, and staff.

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Emerging Victorious: Melanie Anaya '21, '25 MD featured in Brown Alumni Magazine

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Emerging Victorious: Melanie Anaya '21, '25 MD featured in Brown Alumni Magazine

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An alumna of the class of 2021 and an esteemed member of the CLACS community, Melanie Anaya was profiled in the Brown Alumni Magazine this past June in an article that highlighted seniors' stories of resilience throughout the pandemic. Melanie has worked tirelessly throughout her four years to increase access to better healthcare for Latinx community members both at home and in Providence. You can find the full article here

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LACA DUG Leader Shantal Hernandez Guerrero (she/her/hers)

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LACA DUG Leader Shantal Hernandez Guerrero (she/her/hers)

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Shantal is a senior from Monterrey, Mexico and Des Moines, Iowa, double concentrating in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and International and Public Affairs. On campus Shantal is a Company Director for Mezcla Latin Dance Troupe, a Minority Peer Counselor Coordinator for the Brown Center for Students of Color, and an Immigration Advocate for the Student Clinic of Immigrant Justice. Outside of campus, Shantal studied a semester abroad in Paris, France, and loves to spend time with her family and friends. In the future, she hopes to continue helping the immigrant community by going to law school and becoming an immigration attorney.

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We offer a variety of courses designed for students who would like to familiarize themselves with Latin America & the Caribbean and for those who would like to specialize in the region.
In addition to our core courses, we recognize courses on Latin America and the Caribbean offered by other departments at Brown. Check the list here.

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Our Center organizes weekly events dedicated to different aspects of the Latin American and the Caribbean region. These events are open to the community, and are designed to bring guest-speakers to campus so that they can share  their research on and insights into different countries and contemporary challenges. Migration, climate change, indigenous communities, political regimes, social inequality, humanitarian crisis, and epidemics are just some of the topics that we have recently covered from different perspectives and disciplines. See our upcoming events and events from our partners.

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We are there from the first day through graduation!

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We are there from the first day through graduation!

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Building and valuing students' excellence

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Building and valuing students' excellence

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Many of the students who attended our program have been recognized as excellent students at Brown and have received the highest academic honors, and continue to achieve great professional goals and to receive awards even once they join the job market after Brown.

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You can always find out the latest about CLACS through our social media presence. Check us out on your favorite platform: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram!

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Llamas, sloths, armadillos, turtles are emblematic animals native to the countries that we study. Therefore, they also represent our Center and its multicultural and transnational identity. When you will arrive on campus, come and visit us to get one of these stickers...
... And send us your ideas for the Class of 2024 mascot!

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Each year is a new opportunity to learn more

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Each year is a new opportunity to learn more

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Every year our program is nourished with new courses and Visiting Professors who join us from different Latin American and Caribbean countries. Prof. Guilherme Casarões will join us in Spring 2024. Prof. Kamala Kempadoo and Dr. Agustín Díez Fischer will be here for the entire 2023-2024 academic year.

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Our Visiting Professors are prominent scholars from different fields in the humanities and social sciences.
They join us at Brown for a semester or an entire year to teach undergraduate courses in our program.
They share their research,  expertise, and networks with our students and help them to conduct fieldwork and projects in the region.
This list shows just how diverse and unique their profiles are, the many disciplines they represent, and the courses they offer.

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Each new class is a new opportunity to build a community around shared ideas and values

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Each new class is a new opportunity to build a community around shared ideas and values

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Our classes are "hands-on" experiences. Students meet with writers, scholars, activists, artists and practitioners from the community.
This interaction makes them more aware of and concerned about the countries that they are studying.

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In our classes, we create an environment in which students feel committed to serving the community by connecting theory to practice and scholarly knowledge to social challenges. Meeting with practitioners from the local community such Brown alumna Ana González, a journalist and podcast producer for the Rhode Island Public Radio, was an amazing way to learn how to tell stories from the LatinX and Caribbean community around us.

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Is there a better way to teach than to give students a chance to create their own cartonera book so that they can learn about inequality and social justice in Latin America through the Eloísa Cartonera Project?

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Discovering important resources outside of the class

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Discovering important resources outside of the class

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Students visiting the precious documents of the John Carter Brown Library, the preeminent research collection in the world for the study of the Americas prior to 1825. This unique archive is located at Brown University.

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Students learning about Argentina as a country populated by Italian immigrants, while learning how to dance tango.
Tango music and lyrics are in fact the result of the encounter between Italians and locals in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

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Zander Chase concentrad in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and in Computer Science.

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Jack double-concentrated in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and International Relations.

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Sebastián concentrated in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Ethnomusicology.

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Ethan concentrated in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Political Science.

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The beautiful home of our Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Brown University

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Our Director of Undergraduate Studies, Prof. Erica Durante, invites you to listen to this brief video presentation of our exciting program in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Brown. Take a look at the video, ... or better yet, take a ride with us :-)

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We have asked some of the students who concentrate in Latin American & Caribbean Studies to share their impressions and feedback about our courses and their experience in our program. Check out what they have to say below...

Click here to learn more about our concentrators.

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Nia is a senior from Cambridge, MA double concentrating in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Sociology.

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Josué is a senior concentrating in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Melanie is a junior concentrating in Latin American & Caribbean Studies, very committed to the community-engaged component offered by our program.

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Adriana is a junior concentrating in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Political Science.
She is also serves as an udergraduate employee for our Center.

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Jackson is a senior concentrating in Latin American & Caribbean Studies.

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Andrea is a senior double concentrating in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Environmental Studies.
She has also served as an udergraduate employee for our Center.

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Dana is a senior double-concentrating in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Public Health.

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Ella is a senior concentrating in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and is also a Pre-med student.

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Prof. Patsy Lewis is the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Interim Director.
She specializes in the political economy and development challenges of the Caribbean region.

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Visit our Webpage and learn more about our program in terms of requirements and opportunities.

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Kate Goldman is our dedicated Center Manager. She is always willing to help our students and colleagues, and has a deep connection to Latin America.

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Some of our Brown students are also employed by our Center to help us with our numerous events and activities. This is a great opportunity for them to get to know us better and to gain professional experience during their college studies at Brown.