The Museum of Anthropology will welcome Elina Hartikainen, Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia, on February 16th for a discussion on her research into African religious and racial identity politics in contemporary Brazil. Specifically, she will examine how Brazilian practitioners of Candomblé, an African diasporic religion, imagine and perform [...] Read more »
Summer research in Guatemala has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember. When I heard about the possibility of doing a project in a foreign country that would be financially backed by the Reynolds Scholarship, my thoughts immediately jumped to the study that I would end up conducting this past [...] Read more »
Wake Forest’s global footprint is larger thanks to a focus in the last year on Latin America with new programs in Nicaragua, a semester-abroad program in Chile and a summer course in the Galápagos Islands. With extensive programs in Europe and Asia, offering Latin American programs was imperative, says Dr. Kline Harrison, Associate Provost for [...] Read more »
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program is pleased to announce a new grant scholarship, the Chauvenet Award. The purpose of the Chauvenet Award is to provide a competitive grant for a summer abroad research project to a student minoring in Latin American and Latino Studies. The recipient must meet the standards established by [...] Read more »
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program is part of the Undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences at Wake Forest University.
