Little Liberia was an agricultural business and transborder activist community in northern Baja California, Mexico in the early twentieth century. They sought to counter the forces of White supremacy ...

The UCLA Latin American Institute is a vital regional, national, and international resource on Latin America.

Mariko Tamanoi, Professor in the Anthropology Department, is author of Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women (1998) and Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in ...

Karl Swinehart joined the Department of Anthropology at UCLA in Spring 2026. He is the author of Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia: Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti (Bloomsbury, ...

Ben Eischens is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. His research focuses primarily on phonology, phonetics, and the interaction between the two, with most of his work ...

Immigration and Ethnicity, Latin American studies, sociology of language.

Keywords: Latin America, Brazil, Literature, Venezuela, Caribbean, Latinos in the US Alejandro Castro is a writer and scholar whose work moves between U.S. Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American ...

Beth Rosnblum is a lecturer in the Department of Art History. She teaches courses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Chicanx art. She has also taught upper division surveys on Cuban art, Caribbean art, ...

Elena Phipps, has her PhD from Columbia University in Precolumbian Art History and Archaeology, 1989. She worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 34 years as a textile conservator as well as a ...

Compiled from the Latin American Studies M.A. program course list and faculty email submissions.

Keywords: Literature, Comparative Latin America, Cuba, Caribbean, Latinos in the US Ana Ugarte is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, with a focus on modern and contemporary Latin American, ...

Giancarlo Cornejo Assistant Professor Department: Gender Studies gcornejos@ucla.edu Keywords: Gender, Brazil, Peru, Comparative Latin America, Colombia Giancarlo Cornejo is Assistant Professor in the ...