2001 LASA Papers

Every year CLAS funds graduate student participation in the meetings of the Latin American Studies Association. LASA meet during September 6-8, 2001 in Washington DC and CLAS funded a total of eighteen students who presented research papers in a variety of disciplines.

Selected papers:

Avri Gabrielle Beard
Department of Sociology
"Democratic Oligarchs: Elites and Political Change in Guatemala and El Salvador"

Nicole Caso
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
"El dedo en la llaga: de articulaciones y fluidaridad. La negociación de identidades en Guatemala después de los acuerdos de la paz"
(in spanish)

Thad Dunning
Department of Political Science
"Structural Reform and Medical Commerce: The Political Economy of Cuban Health Care in the Special Period"

Benjamin Goldfrank
Political Science Department
"Deepening Democracy Through Citizen Participation? A Comparative Analysis of Three Cities"

Daniel A. Graham
Department of Geography
"Public-Private Partnerships in Violence: Hydroelectric Development in Honduras"

Karen Macours, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
"Land Rental Markets in the Dominican Republic: For Whom Do They Work?"

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez
Comparative Ethnic Studies Department
"This is our house! Dancing, singing and playing our ways to Queer Latina/o musical citizenship"