David Faflik’s “Plus Minas: Profiles in Brazil’s Beautiful Game”

Against the backdrop of a public health crisis that has cost more than two million people (and counting) their lives, football, or “soccer,” remains the world’s most popular spectator sport, and Brazilians lay claim to having perfected, if not invented, what locals call the “beautiful game.” It would be easy to dismiss professional footballers’ COVID-era […]

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Kathleen McIntyre’s “‘Arriba las Metodistas’: Educación protestante, deportes y sufragio transnacional”

“‘Arriba las Metodistas’: Educación protestante, deportes y sufragio transnacional” explores the intersection of transnational suffrage movements, sports participation, revolutionary nationalism, and new debates about the role of Protestant education in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. I argue that Protestant girls’ schools helped pave the way for women’s activism by encouraging girls to play team […]

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Ignacio Perez-Ibanez’s “Metatheater in the Spanish Golden Age”

Although there are some studies that focus on specific aspects of Metatheater in the Spanish Golden Age (mostly centered in specific comic plays), no scholar has undertaken a comprehensive examination of this topic, especially with respect to serious dramas. This collaborative volume will collect works from 14 of the most reputable international experts in the […]

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Melissa Villa-Nicholas’s “Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications”

This book is concerned with the history of Latina information workers in the United States, during and after the 1973 EEOC v. AT&T case and is in production with Rutgers Press. The 1970s were impacted by the aftermath of the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, increasing legislation on affirmative action in the […]

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Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award 2020

On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru’s Montaña Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Borderland between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds (1543-1880) Ximena Sevilla, Multicultural Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, History Dr. Sevilla’s project focuses on the environmental and ethnohistory of the montaña region—densely forested eastern slopes of the Andean highlands in northern Peru. […]

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Humanities Subvention Grant Award 2020

Hilda Lloréns, Associate Professor, Anthropology Decolonizing Feminisms: Antiracist and Transnational Praxis, University of Washington Press. Forthcoming, Fall 2021. MotherLand brings to life the histories and testimonies of Afro-descendant women of Puerto Rico’s coastal communities, for too long marginalized in historical and anthropological accounts of the archipelago. Through life-affirming practices, Afro-Puerto Rican women challenge poverty, racism […]

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