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AuthorTitleDateDegree
Adams, Lindsay RoseMaking other economies possible: inequality, consciousness-raising and the solidarity economy in Chile2010MA
Ajcalón Choy, RigobertoMasculinity, gender and power in a Mayan-Kaqchikel community2014MA
Andrade Camacho, AlanA political analysis of the TIPNIS conflicts2012MA
Aparcio-Soriano, LeticiaWater pollution and indigenous identity: a perspective from a cooperative water association called La Sociedad de Aguas La Guadalupana2011MA
Aramayo Canedo, Lucia IsabelLas pieles que habitamos: Chuquiago, la ciudad-mercado2012MA
Avila Loera, Adriana MelissaPerceptions of (narco) violence in Monterrey, Mexico2010MA
Bacellar, Sarasvati de AraujoSurrounding Amazonia: the 1637-39 Teixeira expedition, knowledge and representation2012MA
Bariola, Nino"Acá al revés es la cosa": migration, gender and ethnicity in an indigenous community in Lima2014MA
Batz, GiovanniExpressions of Maya identity and culture in Los Angeles: coloniality of power, resistance, and cultural memory2010MA
Bellows, Elizabeth CarmichaelMexican law in Texas courts and the role of judicial interaction2010MA/JD
Berenter, Jared StevenExpanding the Central Bank mandate in the “Soy Republic” : an assessment of the impact of Central Bank governance on agricultural competitiveness and interest articulation in Argentina2013MA/MGPS
Bosquez, Monica DoloresFear and discipline in a permanent state of exception: Mexicans, their families, and U.S. immigrant processing in Ciudad Juarez2011MA/MS
Brill, Robert JeffreyNoncontributory pensions, cash transfers, and documentation in Brazil and Latin America2013MA/MPAff
Brown, Zachary ZoethValorization as an educational project: schooling, Afro-Brazilian cultural organizations, and the struggle against racial exclusion in Salvador da Bahia2010MA
Carney, Sarah JacquelynThe first hundred years of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología of Guatemala2013MA
Casey, Regina Suzanne¡Súbete al Progreso!: narratives of progress and social mobility surrounding the Santo Domingo Metro2011MA/MS
Chen, YuRethinking informality in time of crisis and changes: self-employment and petty entrepreneurship in Havana2011MA
Cigarroa, Maria CristinaSilence isn't helping and we need to put our stories into action: the role of narratives for the dreamers2013MA/JD
Coplin, Daniele ElizabethRacist geographies: legacies of socio-political discrimination against Afro Costa Ricans in Limón2013MA
Coronado-Ruiz, AnabellaThe ethics of ruins in Petén, Guatemala: problematizing architectural conservation in the context of people, practice, and politics2013PhD
Day, Erin ElizabethMeaningful access: proposal for Spanish language proceedings in Hidalgo County, Texas2012MA/JD
Diaz, Omar OscarParticipatory research with children in informal settlements: understanding child perspective through the use of drawing exercises in Los Platanitos, Dominican Republic2011MA/MS
Die, Rachael AnnTroubling tourism: tourism, development, and social justice in Bocas del Toro, Panamá2012MA/MS
Durst, Noah JosephThe rise of renters and renting in Texas colonias2013MA/MPAff
Dyer, Zachary KoenigExtracting identity : universal social policy in post-neoliberal Bolivia2012MA
Ellis, Olivia JaneOrganizing indigeneity among the Xukuru do Ororubá of Brazil2010MA
Engelman, Lindsey TamarThe forgotten case of Esmeraldas: perceptions of contamination and collective action in an Ecuadorian refinery town2011MA/MS
Fletcher, Kanitra ShenaeDamage control: black women's visual resistance in Brazil and beyond2011MA
Friday, Shayna AshleySelling culture: reinventing the past to create a future2014MA
Gamboa-Gutiérrez, LauraCampaigning with empty pockets: why the Liberal Party wins regional elections in Colombia2010MA
Gordon, Edmund WyattAccess to water and sanitation in Atlantic Nicaragua2011MA/MPAff
Hershaw, Eva RoseDe Sol a Sol: The Limits to Union Organizing in the Nontraditional Export Plantations of Northern Peru2012MA/MA
Hervas, Liana StelaPoliticizing food in Quito: food sovereignty and the Canasta Comunitaria Ciudad Viva2012MA
Hollingsworth, Lora LeeBorrower protests and the failures of microfinance in Nicaragua2011MA
Huitzil, Cintia M.Lost in translations: transnational indigenous migrants re-defining public social services in Los Angeles, California2014MA
Hunter, Brandon M.Working in the spaces of taboo: civil society responses to commerical sexual exploitation of children in Mexico City2011MA
Kawachi, KumikoConstructing notions of development: an analysis of the experiences of Japan cooperation volunteers and the Peace Corps in Latin America and their interaction with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian highlands2013PhD
Kihm, Hadyn LindseyParticipatory budgeting in Córdoba: a policy approach to strengthening democracy in Latin America2010MA/MPAff
Kinney, Emily RoseLeaving the United States for the "land of liberty": postbellum confederates in Mexico2011MA
Leid, LeonLlegó la luz: a case study of the impacts of photovoltaic solar electricity in Las Balsas, Ecuador2014MA
Linares-Palma, Adriana MaríaArchcaeology and the community: constructing bridges for knowledge of the past in Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala2014MA
López, CandaceWalking contradictions: Latina lesbianas, immigration and citizenship2010MA
Macias, Anthony WilliamMining memory: contention and social memory in a Oaxacan territorial defense struggle2014MA
Mann Carey, AlysiaRacialized gendered violence: a study about violence against black women and genocide in Brazil2014MA
Marquez, MayraPayments for ecosystem services: opportunities and challenges in the Brazilian Amazon2013MA/MPAff
Marquez Marquez, AlejandroChihuahua’s missing labor movement : the role of emotions in maquiladora work2013MA/MGPS
Martinez, Lorena M.Brazil's whiteness unveiled: a discussion on race with Cooperifa participants, Capelinha residents and Universidade Federal de Bahia (UFBA) students and professors2010MA
Martinez, Vanessa HopeDebating legality in Fremont, Nebraska: migrant political participation and the growing trend of local immigration enforcement2012MA/MS
McGue, Mary ColleenExamining transportation's role in social vulnerability: São Paulo, Brazil2011MA/MS
McQueen, George GenungHeritage tourism in Latin America: cultural routes and the legacy of Simón Bolívar in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela2011MA/MS
Medel, Monica CristinaBleeding Mexico: an analysis of cartels evolution and drug-related bloodshed2012MA/MPAff
Miranda García, PerlaRecuperando nuestro idioma: language revitalization of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya Zapotec2014MA
Molina, Luciana NataliaFrom Bolivar to Katari : indigenous representations in the legislative assembly of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, 20122013MA
Mora-Brito, Daniel IgnacioBetween social harmony and political dissonance: the institutional and policy-based intracacies of the Venezuelan system of children and youth orchestras2011MA
Neumann, Pamela Jane"Era un pleito": gender dynamics and the politics of immediate needs in Loma Verde, Nicaragua2011MA
Nichols, Denton PatrickJustica en reforma: a diagnostic of Mexico's criminal procedure reform in early-implementer jursidictions2011MA/JD
O'Brien, Elizabeth AislinnMeasuring maternal worth: racial science in Mexican obstetrics, 1869-19362012MA
Osorio, Jessica RosalynThe privatizaton of social suffering in a Guatemalan finca2012MA
Paiz Aragón, LorenaRescuing our cultural past: Santa Isabel and the archaeological rescue projects in Guatemala City2014MA
Palacios, Albert AnthonyPreventing heresy: censorship and privilege in sixteenth-century Mexican publishing2013MA
Perera, Daniel AlejandroThe ends of recognition: elite retrenchment and the rise of a post-multicultural governance project in neoliberal Guatemala2013MA
Pérez Santiago, MarielInstitutionalized amnesia: the (mis)representation of paramilitarism in Colombia2013MA
Perrine, Alida Louisa(Self) representations of domestic workers: race and gender politics in Brazil2013MA
Preciado Rodriguez, Nancy AureliaWater dispossession at the Llano en Llamas : a research study by a daughter of Mexican farmworkers in the land of her consciousness2013MA
Ramirez, Allison MarieHuman rights strategies in the context of changing political opportunity structures: the case of two transnational networks in El Salvador2012MA/MGPS
Richardson, Natalie LilaBolivan Andean textiles, commercialization and modernity2013MA
Rizzo Lara, RosarioDeveloping alternative markets in Veracruz : the case of totomoxtle2012MA
Rodriguez, Claudia AnaWomen's empowerment programs as advocacy tools for potential human trafficking victims2010MA
Rojas, Roxana JaquelynLas complejidades del retorno: a Xicana perspective on the social impacts of U.S. deportations in Mexico2012MA
Román-Ramírez, Edwin RenéLiving the sacred landscape: the process of abandonment of the Early Classic Maya group of El Diablo at El Zotz, Petén, Guatemala2011MA
Romero, LynnCycles of denial: US reception of drug-war refugees from Mexico through the asylum system2014MA
Schaefer, David M."It was the doing of the '6-Sky' lord": an investigation of the origins and meaning of the three stones of creation in ancient Mesoamerica2011MA
Schele, Elaine DayThe Untold Story of Alberto Ruz and his Archaeological Excavations at Palenque, México: A Micro- and Macrohistorical Approach2012PhD
Serrano, Samantha LynnSuelen callar: the institutional perceptions and treatments of the sexuality and sexual abuse of people with intellectual and psychological disabilities in Guatemala2011MA
Spangenberg, Emily J.Hacerles creer que hay plomo (Convincing them there is lead): health, environment, and power in Abra Pampa, Argentina2011MA
Stoner, Spencer WinstonShooting the morro: favela documentaries and the politics of meaning2013MA
Straubhaar, Rolf Jacob"Tienes que Poner Atención: the benefits and drawbacks of Mexican immigrant students' previous academic experiences in an urban central Texas school2010MA
Stringer, Lindsey MichelleThe LGBTQ movement in Argentina: a study of activists in Córdoba2010MA
Tapia Arce, AngelaThe Kakataibo indigenous peoples: the sense of belonging2013MA
Torres, Adam J.Wastewater expenditure effects on in-stream bacteria pollution in the Rio Grande / Río Bravo post-NAFTA : evidence from panel data estimations2014MA/MPAff
Torres, Dalila NoletoAffirmative action in Brazil: affirmation or denial?2012MA
Usher, Kelly AnnPatterns of privilege: school inputs in Brazil2012MA/MGPS
Vail, Meghan ElizabethMedia cold warriors of Operation Pedro Pan: examining the impact of U.S. Cold War rhetoric on contemporary U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba2011MA/MPAff
Van Dembroucke, CelinaAbsent yet still present: Family pictures in Argentina's recordatorios2010MA
Van Horn, Ross D.Holding Brazilian mayors accountable: evidence for retrospective voting in Brazilian social policy2014MA/MGPS
Vavrus, Joseph EdwardEconomic research institutions, policy discourse, and channels of influence in Brazil (1995-2005)2010MA
Victoria, NashiellyDeveloping the rural landscape: sustainability efforts through women home gardens in a Yucatec Maya community2011MA
Wahlberg, Molly AnneA project for tourism development in the Serra Gaúcha2013MA
Wallace, Joseph BrandtOutward appearance, inward perceptions: preservation of identity among K'ichee' women2011MA
Whitworth, Gregory BrianRemembering remains: the texture of memory in post-Proceso Argentina2011MA
Woodward, Nicholas JoelDe un Día al otro: expression and effects of changing ideology in national curriculum and pedagogy in Nicaraguan secondary schools2011MA
Xum Palacios, Brenda EstelaLights and shadows of the education reform process in Bolivia and Guatemala2014MA
Zegarra-Coronado, Aurea GabrielaAdaptive capcity & resilience to natural disasters in Latin America: a case study on the 2007 Ica, Peru earthquake2011MA