Professor Pérez-Montesinos studies social, economic, and political transformations in Mexico and Latin America in the second half of the nineteenth-century and the early twentieth century, with an ...

Giancarlo Cornejo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and ...

Karl Swinehart joined the Department of Anthropology at UCLA in Spring 2026. He is the author of Voice and Nation in Plurinational Bolivia: Aymara Radio and Song in an Age of Pachakuti (Bloomsbury, ...

Compiled from the Latin American Studies M.A. program course list and faculty email submissions.

Immigration and Ethnicity, Latin American studies, sociology of language.

Orchid is the Director of the Latin American Institute's Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). Orchid received her BA in History and Latin American/Caribbean Studies from York University, and ...

A study of the Mexican immigrant worker contrasting the image of the bracero in literature with a composite drawn from interviews with sixteen former braceros from Michoacán and with a depiction of ...

The UCLA Latin American Institute is a vital regional, national, and international resource on Latin America.

Helen Burgos-Ellis, a native of El Salvador, trained as an art historian. Her research interests include pre-Columbian and colonial art, Amerindians (pre-Columbian to modern), maize domestication, ...

Rodrigo Pinto is an Assistant Professor of Economics. Professor Pinto has a series of papers on the economics of human capital accumulation of early childhood interventions and policy evaluations. His ...

Justin Dunnavant is an archaeologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. His current research in the US Virgin Islands investigates the relationship between ecology and enslavement in the ...

Professor Susan Plann’s research focused on the experiences of Moroccan youth who migrate to Spain as unaccompanied minors. Initially training in theoretical linguistics, over the course of her career ...