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Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, and her colleague Emma Hart of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland have won an International Research Network Grant from the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. The grant will be used in support of the “Global City: Past and Present” […]

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies, published an article on “Succession of Property, Sales of Meação, and the Economic Empowerment of Widows of African Descent in Colonial Minas Gerais, Brazil” in the May 2014 Journal of Family History. Abstract: Although Portuguese laws protected […]

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies, presented “Slave Women and Urban Labor in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” at the American Historical Association 2014 annual meeting in January. Her work also will appear as a chapter in the upcoming book Commodification, Community, and Comparison […]

Three History Department faculty members received College of Arts & Sciences awards for 2013-14. Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, won the Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award. Dr. Kevin Mattson, Professor of History, won the Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship in the Social Sciences Award. Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor […]

The Latin American Studies Program in the Center for International Studies invites faculty, students, and the general public to its Annual Lecture, “Patronage and Jobs for the Boys: Perspectives on Latin America,” on Monday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m., in Bentley Hall 227. Speaker Merilee Grindle will discuss examples of […]

By Dr. Yeong-Hyun Kim and Dr. Edna Wangui College of Arts & Sciences faculty are tackling the challenges of the 21st century by building interdisciplinary and team-taught courses around a new set of curricular themes. The Wealth and Poverty theme aims to address economic growth, wealth distribution, poverty, inequality, and […]