Latin American Studies ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
ROOTLESS - The Body ReMembers what the Mind has Forgotten, Helena Omana-Zapata
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Bearing Earth: Colonization, Conservation, and Political Ecology in Costa Rica (Coto Brus 1948 - Present), Pablo Alonso Arias-Benavides
"Un pedacito de nuestro pais": Salvadoran Rootedness in Central Los Angeles, Ericka Arias
CAUTIVIDAD: DECONSTRUCTING NOTIONS OF RACE AND NATION IN ARGENTINA 1776–1840, Whitney Rue Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Congress and the Fall of Jacobo Arbenz: A Narrative of Cold War Fears and Redemption, David Erik Lindwall
Q’iij Metaphysics: Vico’s Theologia Indorum and the Gods, Ancestors, and Idols of the 16th Century K’ichee’ Mayas, Phillip Salazar
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
HOW DO FARMERS EXPERIENCE AGROECOLOGY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES OF NORTHERN ECUADOR?, Neil Michael Ayala Ayala
El Duende: Folktale, oral history, and the construction of gendered and racialized discourses in Quito, Carolina Bucheli Penafiel
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN HIGHLAND ECUADOR: INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, GEOGRAPHY, AND KNOWLEDGE IN FARMING COMMUNITIES, Dinka Natali Caceres Arteaga
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Critical Discourse Analysis of Human Rights Education: Defensoría del Pueblo Program in Ecuador, Monserrat Fernandez-Vela
Climate in architecture: revision of early origins, Ursula Anna Freire Castro
Science for All: Exploring Science Communication for Public Engagement in Culturally Diverse Scenarios in The Americas, Denisse Helena Vasquez-Guevara
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
KNOWLEDGE SHARING AS A MEANS FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN ECUADOR, Yolanda E. Ledesma Silva
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
DRINKING OUR STORIES:FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN ECUADOR AND AMAZONIAN RUNA RELATIONS WITH MANIOC AND GUAYUSA, Jacqueline Michelle Kramer
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Governing through Malaria: Biopolitics, Health Discourses, and Mining/Border Communities in Post-Colonial Suriname, Javier Eli Astorga
The Right to City in Argentina: Building Capacity through Hecho en Buenos Aires, a Street Newspaper, Keira Philipp-Schnurer
Spatial Transitions and the Political Economy in Latin America's Memorial Museums: The ex-ESMA and the Memorial Da Resistência, Julia Youngs
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
From Garbage to Gardens: Urban Agriculture in Mexico City, Edwina duBois
Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony, Joseph J. García
Gold, Water, and Governance: the Stakes in the Santurbán Páramo Debate, Amanda Hooker
The right to work in Argentina : job policy and economic rights in a worker cooperative, Patricia Kent
A Tropical Flour: Manioc in the Afro-Brazilian World, 1500-1800, Joseph Leestma
"We Know Where We Stand": Contesting and Constructing Knowledge in Nicaragua's Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic, Sarah Leister
Changing relationship with the land and one another in Pindoyú, Paraguay, Kathryn E. Peters
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Envisioning the Farms of the Future: In Pursuit of Sustainable Agriculture in the Rio Grande valley, Matthew Draper
Beyond the paint and ink: ASAR Oaxaca resistance and getting up Arte Pal Pueblo, Mike L. Graham De La Rosa
We Put Down Our Guns and Picked Up Microphones: Community Radio as a Conduit for Community Development in Guatemala, Elizabeth Halpin
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Process of definition and development of the Haitian-Dominican borderland, Carolina Bonilla Elvira
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Alternative Income Generating Opportunities: A Case Study in Mezquital, Mexico, Kristen Mattila
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Cooperatives as a Possible Answer for Women Living with Violence and Poverty on the US/Mexico Border, Nubia Restrepo Collaros
"God Must Have Been a Feminist to Make Me": Writings from the Girls of El Hogar la Buena Esperanza, Anna Lapera
Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847., Javier Ernesto Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Campesino Participation in Rural Paraguay: Practical and Theoretical Challenges, Joseph J. Garcia
From Bomb Zone to Boom Town: Real Estate Trends and Community Based Practice in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Ivis Garcia Zambrana
The City as a Growth Machine: Reynosa, MX, Victoria Hirschberg
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Identity Politics in Search of Community-Based Development: A Case Study of the Indigenous Movement in Costa Rica, Susanna Francesca Schaller
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Excavating Mexican American Voices in California History: The California Testimonials, Michelle E. Morton
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Silver Mining and Social Conflict in Seventeenth-Century Peru: The War of the Nations in Laicacota, 1665-1667, Meredith Dunham Dodge
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Sacred-Secular Complementarity In Al Filo Del Agua And Pedro Paramo: An Inquiry Into Mythmaking, Floyd F. Merrell
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
El Periodismo Paraguayo Y Su Actitud Frente A La Guerra De La Triple Alianza Y Francisco Solano LóPez., Gladis Fois Maresma
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
The Argentine Labor Movement in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Robert F. Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Economic Integration As A Tool Of Development In Central America., Walter John Phair
La Novela HistóRica PuertorriqueñA., Edgar Ortiz Rivera
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
A History Of Population In The El Paso-Ciudad Juarez Area, J. Lawrence McConville
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
The Techo de la Ballena Studies in Alienation, Jacquelyn Ketterer
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
The Latin American Policy Of The Truman Administration, 1945-1952., Bernice Kaplan
