{"id":5887,"date":"2020-05-21T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:29:36","slug":"latin-american-studies-essay-contest-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/2020\/05\/21\/latin-american-studies-essay-contest-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Studies Essay Contest Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latin American Studies Essay Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a means of fostering the study and appreciation of Latin America at Boston University, earlier this spring the Center for Latin American Studies announced, on March 19, an essay contest with separate prizes for graduate and undergraduate students and separate juries for each competition. Gradaute essays were judged by David Colmenares, Assistant Professor of Spanish; Paul Hare, Professor of the Practice of International Relations in the Pardee School of Global Studies; Luis Men\u00e9ndez-Antu\u00f1a, Assistant Professor of New Testament at the School of Theology; and Veronika Wirtz, Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the School of Public Health. Undergraduate essays were judged by Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music in College of Fine Arts; Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of Interational Relations at the Pardee School, and Jeffrey W. Rubin, Associate Professor of History.<\/p>\n

The competition was open to students in any concentration in any school or college of the University. The rules called for essays up to 3000 words, written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish, on any topic related to the societies and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean as viewed from regional and global perspectives, as well as on Latinx topics. We were looking for essays that inform, engage, and entertain readers.<\/p>\n

We were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response to the competition (we received 21 graduate and 33 undergraduate essays), reflecting the deep interest in Latin American Studies across the University, as well as by the high caliber of the essays submitted. The selection process was not an easy one for the juries!<\/p>\n

A list of the winners and their essay titles follows:<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Prize Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st Prize<\/span>
\nAnthony Aguirre (Political Science, 2021)
\nMexican Deaths, Mexican Killers, U.S. Guns<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2nd Prize<\/span>
\nSamantha E. de Jes\u00fa (International Relations, 2021)
\n#RickyRenuncia, Reggaet\u00f3n, and Puerto Rico\u2019s Uncertain Political Future as of December 2019<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

3rd Prize<\/span>
\nBella Faber Rico (Psychology, 2023)
\nSeeds of Change: Fruit and Chicana Ecological Activism in Lorna Dee Cervantes\u2019s Poetry<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention<\/span>
\nMax Crossan (Political Science and Business Administration, 2020)
\nThe United States\u2019 21st Century Response to Cuban Medical Internationalism<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Graduate Prize Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st Prize<\/span>
\nDavid Shames (PhD candidate, Hispanic Language & Literatures)
\nSeeing the City: Intellectuals and Visual Media in 1920s Mexico City<\/em><\/p>\n

2nd Prize<\/span>
\nDamaris Posadas (Master of Theological Studies candidate)
\nBuried in the Desert – Miriam Seen Through the Eyes of a Mujerista<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

3rd Prize<\/span>
\nCristina Hernandez (Master of Divinity & Master of Social Work candidate)
\nCoca in Every Day Life: An Exploration of the Life, Culture, and Beliefs of Indigenous Andeans through Traditional Coca Practice<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Braden Marshall Clinger (PhD Candidate, Hispanic Language & Literatures)
\n\u201cMi Gauchito Gil\u201d: Musical Reflections on a Folk Saint<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention<\/span>
\nAna Mar\u00eda Rodriguez Alfonso (Master of Divinity candidate)
\nNeomexicaneidad y el culto religioso de los concheros<\/em><\/p>\n

Constanza Andrea Robles Sepu\u0301lveda (PhD candidate, History of Art & Architecture)
\nFaces of Memory: Public Space and Interventions in the Fa\u00e7ade of Londres 38, Memory Site<\/em><\/p>\n

Edgardo Tormos (PhD candidate, Hispanic Language & Literatures)
\nReveling in Filth: Ecocriticism and Biopolitics in Independent Mexican Cinema of the 1970s<\/em><\/p>\n

Francis Vanaria (PhD candidate, American & New England Studies Program)
\nNeoliberalism and Dialogism: \u2018Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s S\u00f3lo con tu pareja\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Luis Nogales Baena (PhD candidate, Hispanic Language & Literatures)
\nWar and Peace in Chiapas, or 1994-1996: Mexican Writers in the Face of the Zapatista Uprising<\/em><\/p>\n

Karina Sembe (PhD candidate, Hispanic Language & Literatures)
\nThe Natural Man: Biopolitics of Racialization in Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed and Mario de Andrade<\/em><\/p>\n

Sebasti\u00e1n Wanumen Jimenez (PhD candidate, Musicology and Ethnomusicology)
\nC\u00e9sar L\u00f3pez\u2019s Escopetarra: Colombian Caringscape, Technologies and Apparatuses for Care<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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