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unusual facts about Latin American studies


Robert Arthur Humphreys

Robert Arthur (Robin) Humphreys OBE (6 June 1907 - 1999) was the founder of Latin American studies in the United Kingdom.


Luis López Álvarez

He also received a bachelor's degree in Political Science (1957), a master's degree in Sociology of art (1970), and a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Paris III- Sorbonne.

Marc Becker

Marc Becker is a professor of Latin American Studies at Truman State University.

Sussex Academic Press

It describes itself as an academic publisher with "core subject disciplines of Middle Eastern Studies, Theology & Religion and History" and additional publishing ventures in other subject categories such as "Latin American Studies, First Nations and the Colonial Encounter, Spanish History and Asian Studies."


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24524 Kevinhawkins

Hawkins attended GlenOak High School in Canton, Ohio and currently attends Miami University in Oxford, OH majoring in Zoology and Latin American Studies.

Bjørn Sletto

As part of the Institute of Latin American Studies’ (LLILAS) Research Initiative in Participatory Mapping, he works closely with partner institutions in South America to further international scholarship on representational politics and social justice in vulnerable communities.

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

John Kirk, professor of Latin American Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada (Kirk has published several books about Cuban international relations, history and culture. His most recent publication, co-authored with Professor Michael Erisman, 'Cuba's Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution and Goals', was published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan).

Janet Dudley-Eshbach

Dudley-Eshbach has an undergraduate degree in Spanish and Latin American studies from Indiana University, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar, and holds a doctorate in Hispanic literature from El Colegio de México.

Roberto Castillo

Roberto Castillo Sandoval, Chilean author and professor of Latin American studies and comparative literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania