Research

Rachel O'Donnell (Writing Speaking, and Argument Program/Susan B. Anthony Institute) published a number of contributions related to her work: "Maya Q'eqchi' Women of Sepur Zarco: The Demand for Justice and Reparations after the Guatemalan Civil War. " in a Women and Social Movements special issue; "Caribbean Healers in the Botanical Archives." in Peitho, Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.; "Maya Women Speak about Warfare and Community in Guatemala in the 1980s," in Women and Social Movements International.

Alanna Radlo-Dzur (Department of Art History) published “Scrolls of smoke and sky: an analysis of scent and sound in the Borgia group manuscripts.” In Art and the Senses in ancient America. Materiality & meanings. Edited by Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Ana García Barrios, and Megan O’Neil, 213-229. Archaeopress, Oxford. doi.org/10.2307/jj.23338165.19

Karma Frierson's (Department of Black Studies) Open Access Book, UC Press, is available for pre-order Local Color: Reckoning with Blackness in the Port City of Veracruz . Make sure to order your copy (and ask past libraries you have been affiliated with to do the same).

Benjamín Castañeda (Department of Biomedical Engineering) had the following accepted proceedings publications and presentations at the 2025 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium: "First Exploration of H-Scan Ultrasound Imaging in Diabetic Foot: a Feasibility Study”; "Automated Analysis of Fetal Heart Rate from VSI-Based Ultrasound Using Segmentation-Guided Optical Flow”; and “Standardizing Obstetric Ultrasound Segmentation Using Unpaired Domain Translation Techniques”. He also submitted to Breast Cancer Research: “No Sonographer, no Radiologist: An AI-enabled Comprehensive Breast Ultrasound Diagnostic System for Low-Resource Settings.”

Maya Abtahian (Department of Linguistics) published a phonetic sketch of "Garifuna" in the Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2024) and is starting to work on additional descriptive work of the language.

Agnes Mondragón (Department of Anthropology) published "The problem of criminal charisma: State authority and the politics of narcocultrua in Mexico's drug war" in American Anthropologist (2024).

Jedediah Kuhn (Department of History) published "Dividing the Indian Race: Manhood and Native-Mexican Relationality in the Works of John Rollin Ridge" in Ethnic Studies Review (2024).

Pablo Sierra Silva (Department of History) held a successful book launch at Hipocampo books for his new source reader, Mexico, Slavery, Freedom: a Bilingual Documentary History, 1520 - 1829 (Hackett, 2024).

Molly C. Ball (Department of History) published an open-access textbook Latin American Economic History: an Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development (Routledge, 2024).

Rachel O'Donnell (Writing Speaking, and Argument Program/Susan B. Anthony Institute) published her first translation of Mexican fiction. Her translation of "The Poisoning of Hector Cañas Pershing" by Aura Estrada can be found in Denver Quarterly. v58.3.

Daniel R. Reichman (Department of Anthropology) published the monograph Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil (Cornell, 2023).

Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi and colleagues Vialcary Crisóstomo and Raquel Alfaro (Modern Languages and Cultures) hosted the Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies workshop on Saturday, October 5, 2024.

Anna Remus (graduate student, mechanical engineering) was second author on an article "A macroblock 2D finite element model for assessing the roots of failure of Huaca de la Luna's main pyramid (Peru) under seismic action" in Engineering Failure Analysis (2023).

Julia Tricomi (class of '27) secured a summer '25 internship with Rochester Refugee Resettlement.

Dariel Guerra (class of '25) got into the Peace Corps for the Dominican Republic, although he opted not to pursue the opening.

Bond Faculty Scholar Program

October 1 (Application due for spring 2026)

This program provides support and a $4,500 stipend for faculty interested in integrating industry projects into academic courses as an assignment for their students, using project-based learning.

Center for Community Engagement course operational grant

December 1 (Application due for spring 2026)

Community Engaged Learning Course Operational Grant provides funds (up to $3,500) to faculty and staff whose projects or courses combine academic learning and community engagement opportunities for undergraduate students. The purpose of these grants is to: support valuable community-university partnerships; address community-identified needs; and enhance student learning.

Community-Engaged Learning Course Development Grant (CDG)

November 30 (Application due for AY 2026/2027)

This grant funds $10,000 to faculty who plan on developing a new course that combines academic learning and community-engagement opportunities for undergraduate students in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Hajim School of Engineering. The purpose of these grants is to: support valuable community-university partnerships; address community-identified needs; and enhance student learning.

Grupo: Humanities Center

GRUPO is an interdisciplinary workshop funded through the Humanities Center that brings together scholars across disciplines at campuses interested in pursuing projects related to Latin America, the Caribbean and Latinx Studies. Participants met monthly and pre-circulate an original research project (up to 35 pages in length) a week before our monthly meetings. Pre-circulated material have included articles, chapters, book proposals, and grant proposals.

The group is open to faculty regardless of rank or track, as well as to advanced graduate students. If you are interested in participating, please contact the program to be added to the GRUPO list-serv.

México Now: Storytelling, Power, and Resistance in the 21st Century

The Mexicanists of Central New York working group invites paper proposals for the symposium to be held at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, on October 31 and November 1, 2025. Proposals should include a title, a 200-word abstract, and a brief bio, and should be submitted through this form. Acceptances will be made on a rolling basis. Thanks to the generous support of the CNY Humanities Corridor, there is no registration fee.

New England Council for Latin American Studies (NECLAS)

Call for Papers: Please use this link to submit your proposal. The EXTENDED DEADLINE is September 1, 2025.

Borders, Crossings, and Environments: Narratives, Archives, and Encounters, to be held on Friday and Saturday, November 7–8, at the University of Vermont. NECLAS welcomes proposals for both individual presentations and panels from undergraduate and graduate students.