News & Announcements Archive


Thornton Wins Library of Congress’s Kluge Fellowship

Thornton Wins Library of Congress’s Kluge Fellowship
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 […]


LACLxS Spring 2023 Events

LACLxS Spring 2023 Events
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 […]


Thornton & Rodríguez Publish Special Issue of Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Thornton & Rodríguez Publish Special Issue of Cambridge Review of International Affairs
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."


Lurtz Wins ASLH Anne Flemming Article Prize

Lurtz Wins ASLH Anne Flemming Article Prize
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.


Angelini Awarded Hunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation

Angelini Awarded Hunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
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. Lurtz’s interview on JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly

Prof. Lurtz’s interview on JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly
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 […]