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PhD Career Outcomes

  • 2023–2024: 4 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Alexandra Lamiña Luguana Indigenous Geospatial Mobility: Agency, Gender, and Urban Development in Ecuadorian Amazonia Bjørn Sletto, Community & Regional Planning Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies, University of Connecticut University of Connecticut, Faculty page
    Ruth Matamoros Anticolonial Landscapes:  Land and the Emergence of Misktu People's Territorial Resistance in the Moskitia  Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Spanish & Portuguese  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography & the Environment, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill University of Carolina Chapel Hill, Faculty page
    Mary Moralez        
    Fátimia Valdivia Ramírez Drug Trafficking in Tarahumara: Colonial Continuities and Mestizo Criminal Masculinities at the Base of the Modern Mexican Colonial Fragmented State Christen Smith, Anthropology Co-founder, CECADDHI (Centro de Capacitación y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos e Indígenas, A.C.)  
  • 2022–2023: 1 Graduate
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Nathalia P. Hernández Ochoa Curanderas: Maya Women Resisting Violence through Theater That Heals in Guatemala Gloria González-López, Sociology Equity in Action Presidential Post-doctoral Fellow (2022–23), Kean University  
  • 2021–2022: 6 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Blanca Azucena Pacheco Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism and Public Health: Xinka Medicine as a Practice of Resurgence in Southern Guatemal Luis Urrieta, College of Education Assistant Professor in Latinx Community Health, Dept. of Chicano & Latino Studies, California State University Long Beach   
    Ana Isabel Braconnier Disputing Extrativism at the Court: Elite Countermobilzation and Backlash in a (Still)  Colonial Guatemala Daniel Brinks, Government    
    Rony Castillo Iseri Lidawamari:  Autonmia Territorial y Educativa en la Comunidad Garifuna de Vallecito en Honduras Luis Urrieta, Education Board of Directors Caribbean Central American Research Council  
    Adriana Linares Palma Ixil Political Geography During the Postclassic Period: Approaches from Archaeologicial Knowledge and Ixil Ontologies Enrique Rodriguez-Alegría, Anthropology Post Doc School for Advanced Research UT Austin  
    Davi Pereira The Future of Alcantra is not (just) Rocket Science: Quilombola Epistemologies and the Struggle for Territoriality Bjørn Sletto, Community & Regional Planning Professor, Postgratuate Program in Cartography and Politics in the Amazon at State University of Maranhão  
    Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera Grieving Geographies, Mourning Waters: Race, Gender, and Environmental Struggles on the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico Christen Smith, Anthropology Assistant Professor, Lake Forest College Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University, Faculty page
  • 2020–2021: 3 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre The Forest Frontier in San Juan Lachao (Oaxaca, Mexico):  Contested Environmental Conservation in Chatino Indigenous and Campesino Territories Bjørn Sletto, Community & Regional Planning Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies, Clemson University University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Faculty page
    Prisca Gayles Argentina También es Afro: Black Activists' Struggles for Visibility, Recognition, and Socila Justice in Argentina Javier Auyero, Sociology Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity, University of Nevada  
    Ricardo Velasco Trujillo Cultural Ecologies of Memory and Symbolic Reparation in Transitional Columbia: Practics of Memory by State and Civil Society Actors Durikng the Post-Conflict Transition Lorraine Leu, Spanish & Portuguese Engaged Scholar Postdoc UT Austin, College of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor, Spanish / Latin American Cultural Studies, Clemson University, Faculty page 
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