Sociology Professor and LACLxS Co-chair Christy Thornton wins Library of Congress’s Kluge Fellowship for her book project “To Reckon with the Riot.” The Kluge Center encourages humanistic and social science research […]

Last Thursday, February 2nd, the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, co-sponsored with the Program in International Studies, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins […]

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents its Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events scheduled for the Spring of 2023. We look forward to seeing you in person or […]

2023 Summer Travel Grants for Research on Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies. LACLxS offers small grants to support summer research and travel in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grants […]

As the result of an international, interdisciplinary conference convened at Johns Hopkins by the Latin America in a Globalizing World Initiative, Dr. Christy Thornton (Assistant Professor, Sociology) and Dr. J. Luis Rodríguez (PhD 2021, Political Science) have published a special issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs: "The Liberal International Order and the Global South: A View from Latin America."

The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) selected Casey Lurtz's article, “Codifying Credit: Everyday Contracting and the Spread of the Civil Code in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” for the 2022 Anne Flemming Article Prize.

Anthropology professor and LACLxS faculty Alessandro Angelini has received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a grant meant to support to support innovative writing projects to advance anthropological knowledge. Here are further details on the book project supported by the award.

Prof. Angelina Cotler acotler1@jhu.edu Monday & Wednesday 12:00-1:15 pm266 Mergenthaler HallAS.361.100 – Spring 2023 This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies’ ways of life, […]

Taught by Alexis Hernando (mherna50@jhu.edu)  Bloomberg 168, Thursdays 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. AS.360.111 (05) Course Description:  The aim of the following class is to introduce undergraduate students to the […]

Professor Casey Lurtz was interviewed for Faculty Focus on JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly (September 2022). Describe your primary research or scholarship, and tell us what is most exciting about […]