The Johns Hopkins University
Program in Latin American Studies
Mobility and Exchange in Latin America: Past and Present
WHO ARE WE?
The Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) at Johns Hopkins University seeks to build interdisciplinary understanding among faculty and students of histories, cultures, societies, and politics of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Intercambio de PLASeres is a multidisciplinary network of graduate students with a research focus on Latin America. During the semesters, we meet one to two times monthly, and our goal is to provide a welcoming space for graduate students to meet on a regular basis. The groups' activities include forums to share on-going projects, papers, grant proposals, etc.; the conceptualization and planning of PLAS's annual conference in the Spring; sponsoring guest speakers and film series; promoting roundtable discussions of participants' summer research sponsored by PLAS; and no less important, the group also seeks to offer students the time and space to interact in a more informal setting. Finally our graduate student liaisons, in addition to organizing our regular meetings, provide students with a chance to voice their concerns and suggestions to the directors of PLAS.
Learn more about us at our website.
2014 Conference Organizer
Norah Andrews is a PhD Candidate in the History Department advised by Dr. Ben Vinson III. Her dissertation on free-colored royal tribute is an institutional and social history examining the effects of taxation on Afro-Mexican identities and late-colonial caste categories. In Spring 2014, she will teach a Dean's Teaching Fellowship course called "Gender in Latin American History." This is Norah's second year as conference organizer.
Learn more about Norah here.