Visiting Scholars
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Due to a transition in technology systems at The University of Texas at Austin, the processing of visiting scholar applications is taking longer than normal. Please submit your application to us with as much advance notice as possible, preferably at least 3 months in advance if you do not need visa assistance and 4-6 months in advance if you need visa assistance. Thank you for your patience with this process and we apologize for any inconvenience.
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LLILAS welcomes visiting scholars who visit campus either by faculty invitation or on an independent basis.
Visiting Resource Professors
Visiting Resource Professors (VRPs) are invited by UT Latin Americanist faculty members to lecture for one to two weeks in either undergraduate or graduate classes. Information for UT faculty on this program is available here under Hosting Visiting Academics. UT faculty may nominate a VRP. View the call for nominations.
Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow Programs
Due to the outstanding Benson Latin American Collection and the large and distinguished Latin Americanist faculty affiliated with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), many scholars choose to spend sabbatical or other research leave at The University of Texas at Austin. A limited number of research fellowships are available through Becas LLILAS Benson.
For more information on Visiting Scholar Programs, contact LLILAS_VisitorsProgram@austin.utexas.edu
Current and Recent Visiting Researchers
Paola Danae Benassai, Summer 2026, Becas LLILAS Benson
A PhD candidate in History at the National University of San Martín, Paola Benassai studies debates about women’s rights during Argentina’s democratic transition. During her summer visit to the Benson Latin American Collection, she consulted the Martha Cotera Papers and the Acosta-Winegarten Collection to examine the circulation of feminist ideas and the work of Chicana and Tejana activists.
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Silvina D’Arrigo, Summer 2026, Becas LLILAS Benson
Silvina D'Arrigo is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the National University of Rosario in Argentina, where she studies transnational Latin American feminist networks and abortion rights. Her research at the Benson Latin American Collection examined the connections and tensions between Latin American and Chicana feminists through the Martha Cotera Papers, Gloria Anzaldúa Papers, CMAS Records and LLEGÓ records.
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Carlos Piccone-Camere, Summer 2026, Becas LLILAS Benson
A professor of Theology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Piccone-Camere is studying the correspondence of Nicaraguan priest, poet, and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal. His project considers how Cardenal negotiated religious authority, personal conscience, and revolutionary commitment during the Sandinista period.
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Carlos Felipe Suárez Sánchez, Summer 2026, Becas LLILAS Benson
An art historian and curator at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Suárez Sánchez is consulting the Vicente Riva Palacio Archive and the Genaro García collections to investigate how politician and literary figure Vicente Riva Palacio used printed images as historical evidence, political argument, and a means of shaping Mexican national identity.
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Nancy LaGreca, PhD, 2025–26 Research Fellow
Nancy LaGreca was professor of Spanish at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX, and Affiliate Research Fellow at LLILAS for the 2025–2026 academic year. In April 2026, she was named Provost at the University of Hartford in Connecticut.
Her publications explore how intellectuals of the turn of the 19th century sought to expand definitions of selfhood in the face of strong nationalist discourses of ideal citizenship. She is the author of Rewriting Womanhood: Early Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in The Latin American Novel, 1887-1903 (Penn State UP, 2009) and Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernismo (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). She is working on a manuscript tentatively titled “Dawn of the New Woman: Latin American Women’s Narrative of Modernism,” which posits how the movement created space to imagine the modern woman in Latin America.
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