Marina Arias Salvado (September 2022 – December 2022)<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in the Department of Musicology at the Complutense University of Madrid, working on a dissertation entitled \u201cEl reggaet\u00f3n en Espa\u00f1a: industria musical, identidades, hibridaci\u00f3n cultural y corporalidad.\u201d At Boston University she will pursue research on \u201cSpanish Reggaet\u00f3n and \u2018Latinized\u2019 Musical Personae: The Ambiguities of Spanish Artists Within the Latin Urban Music Scene.\u201d<\/p>\n Carlos Blanco (July 2016 – present)<\/strong> holds a doctorate from Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias Econ\u00f3micas y Sociales. He has taught several courses on Latin American politics at Boston University. His present research has been to analyze the process through which the Venezuelan military got to seize the State under Hugo Chavez\u2019s command and continued in power for several constitutional terms.<\/p>\n Waldemar Dalenogare Neto (September 2022 – January 2023) <\/strong>received his PhD from the Department of History, Pontif\u00edcia Universidade Cat\u00f3lica do Rio Grande do Sul\/Brazil in 2020 with a dissertation titled “The United States and the Operation Condor.” The dissertation won an award from the Fulbright Commission, which is funding Neto’s four-month stay at Boston University. While at BU, he will pursue research on the US role in the 1964 coup in Brazil, using our libraries as well as the Lincoln Gordon personal papers at the JFK library.<\/p>\n Carolina Freitas (February 2022 – November 2022) <\/strong>holds a PhD in Sociology and Culture from the University of Brasilia. Her research investigates the potential of Oswald de Andrade\u2019s modernist concept of \u201cantropofagia\u201d for interpreting Brazilian culture. She analyzes how \u201cantropofagia\u201d has been thought and practiced in Brazil by a large range of cultural expressions since the colonial period until nowadays, passing through the modernism of the 1920s to arrive at the recent proposal of \u201cre-antropofagia\u201d (2018) by Indigenous artist Denilson Baniwa. [April 29, 2022 presentation<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n Jaime Puig (September 2020 – December 2020, September 2021 – December 2021)<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in the department of Literatura Espa\u00f1ola e Hispanoamericana at the University of Seville in Spain. While a virtual scholar, Mr. Puig has participated in Prof. Pineda’s seminar on Mexican literature and cinema. He has also been completing the bibliography for his research on \u201cThe Poetic Night in Mexico\u201d as part of his PhD in philological studies. [December 1, 2021 presentation<\/a>]<\/p>\n G\u00fclnihal Ahter Yakacak (January 2020 – February 2021)<\/strong> is spending a 12-month research period at Boston University pursuing research on \u201cElectoral Timing as an Empowerment Tool of Executive Power in Presidential Systems.\u201d She is a PhD candidate in the Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University in Turkey.<\/p>\n Fernanda \u201cFell\u201d Vieira (September 2019 – August 2020)<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at Rio de Janeiro State University. She is researching the auto-ethnographies of indigenous women and how these writings help decolonize Brazilian identities. Her focus on indigenous women writings is both an academic and political choice, especially considering the recent turn of events in Brazil. Vieira herself is of mixed-race and indigenous background and is an indigenous and LGBTQ+ activist in Brazil. 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