Latin American History
Convenor: Cynthia Radding
Program Description
UNC's graduate program in Latin American history has a long tradition, with library resources and institutional support to match. We admit only two or three students a year, and we are committed to seeing all of them get a Ph.D. Our students get ample teaching experience, and they can expect to teach at least one course with full responsibility before entering the job market (where our recent graduates have been quite successful). The program draws further advantage from participation in the Consortium in Latin American Studies that UNC shares with Duke University, allowing students to take courses on both campuses. Other benefits are the summer travel grants that all our recent students have received to conduct preliminary research. Many students also receive Foreign Language and Areas Studies grants for training in Portuguese.
The Graduate Program
Current dissertation topics in the program have clustered around issues of cross-cultural relations, race and ethnicity, national and regional identity, and popular and political culture. Many of our students have chosen to focus on the nineteenth century, and many on Cuba. We emphasize cross-disciplinary approaches and place a premium on clear, vigorous prose of the sort that finds its way easily into print. Prospective students interested in exploring their "fit" with UNC's graduate program in Latin American history are encouraged to contact Pérez, Chasteen, or Burns by email.
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Faculty
| Kathryn J. Burns | Associate Professor | Harvard | Gender/women's history, Colonial Latin American |
| John C. Chasteen |
Daniel W. Patterson Distinguished Term Professor |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Latin America |
| Louis A. Perez, Jr. | J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor; Dir., ILAS; Editor, Cuban Jnl | New Mexico | Latin America, Caribbean, Cuba |
| Cynthia Radding | Gussenhoven D.P. | UC-San Diego | Colonial Latin America, early republic, environmental history, ethnohistory, comparative |
Graduate Students
(This list includes both graduate students formally pursuing a degree in Latin American History and graduate students interested in Latin American History, while nevertheless working primarily in another major field.)
- Devon Bixler
- Randy Browne
- Enver Casimir
- Jeffrey Erbig
- Michael Huner
- Rachel Hynson
- Jason Kauffman
- Bonnie A Lucero
- Clarisa Mondejar
- Robert (Toby) Nathan
- Matthew Radford
- Benjamin D Reed
- Jeffrey W. Richey
- Eliot P Spencer