Faculty News
David Colmenares Awarded Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship
Please join us in in congratulating our colleague, David Colmenares, who was selected for the Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship. Read more
A Conversation with David Carballo about the Fall of the Aztec Empire
David Frum talks to David Carballo, Associate Professor of Archaeology and a specialist on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico, Read more
Immigrant Activism Today
In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding DACA, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music, Chair of Read more
Jeffrey Rubin and Gana Ndiaye on Bolsonaro’s Response to COVID-19 in Brazil
Prof. Jeffrey Rubin, Professor of History at Boston University and an affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies, has Read more
Adela Pineda presents El Hogar
On Friday, May 8, Prof. Adela Pineda, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, presented the novel El Hogar Read more
Maria Datel Wins Teaching Award
Maria Datel, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, has won a Frank and Lynn Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching. Congratulations, Maria! Read more
James Iffland at “Roque Dalton and the intellectuals: then and now” in El Salvador
The Multidisciplinary Faculty of the West (FMOcc) of the University of El Salvador (UES) hosted the second day of the Read more
James Iffland at Vicerrectoria Academica Facultad Multidisciplinaria de Occidente Editorial Universitaria
Adela Pineda Franco’s Book Presented at the National Film Archives (Cineteca Nacional)
Adela Pindeda Franco's book Steinbeck y Mexico was presented at the National Film Archives (Cineteca Nacional) in Mexico City on February Read more
Adela Pineda Guest Speaker for “The Rest does the West: Global Uses and Experiences of Western Civilization”
Over the centuries, the notion of Western Civilization (or its equivalents) has been used, both within and outside of what Read more