Latin Americanists?

[Encomendero]

reid is one of my favourite people, period. had a seminar with him last semester and it was easily the best seminar i've ever had, as an undergraduate or grad student. he can be tough and he has high expectations. i would freak out a little bit before turning in papers because i didn't want to disappoint him. as an academic, i really love his work. i had read "blacks in sao paolo" before coming to pitt and read "afro-latin america" while i was here, and i'm all about what he's trying to do. as a human being, he is just lovely. witty, kind, patient, thoughtful. very humble guy, too, which is not easy to say about an academic as widely read as he is. i don't have a bad word to say about him, truly.

the other latin americanists at pitt are great, too (lara putnam and alejandro de la fuente). my advisor, prof. putnam, beyond being a really nice person, definitely puts me through my paces and challenges me to push myself conceptually. in the short time that i have worked with her and with reid, i can easily say it's made me a stronger historian. very rigorous expectations but also very approachable. we've got a strong cohort of latin americanist grad students, too. i'd say at least a third of all the grad students here, possibly more, study latin america or the caribbean.

Really? Whats the ratio of Colonialists to Modernists?

[TMP]

Looking at the results search, it looks like you guys are having a banner year!

Makes me wish I had brushed up my Spanish and taken some of my Latin American papers more seriously (not that I never want to see them again but they're always a possibility.)

[StrangeLight]

Really? Whats the ratio of Colonialists to Modernists?

1:7. it's almost entirely modernists. the only colonialists here study atlantic history and the caribbean, so it's stuff like piracy, bootlegging, maroons, sailors. while their regional field is still technically "latin america," i think they'd classify themselves more as atlanticists or maritime historians instead.

they're scheduled to hold a job search for another latin americanist next year and having a colonialist would definitely be nice.

and i decided to actually count it... 16 students (37%) are latin americanists. 3 faculty members (or 9%) are latin americansts.

Edited February 20, 2010 by StrangeLight

[ChibaCityBlues]

So, where did everyone end up?

I'll be going to the University of Michigan. For those on wait lists, I recently declined offers at Pittsburgh and UT Austin.

[StrangeLight]

congrats. be sure to fawn over rebecca scott and julian scott (no relation) for me.

[froggerz9]

I do Cold War US-Latin American relations. I've focused primarily on US modernization/devleopment programs in Venezuela. I just finished an interdisciplinary MA at NYU and have applied both as an American historian and a Latin Americanist, depending on the program.

I applied to Duke, Rutgers, Fordham, Vanderbilt, Princeton, CUNY and NYU.

Was the MA at NYU the Latin American Studies program? Any thoughts/advice? I'm trying to decide between NYU/Georgetown for nxt year!

[Schaudenfreuded]

Hey any thoughts on the University of Chicago Latin American Studies program? I'm interested in medical anthropology and sexuality and their course offerings and advisors seems to have great experience in that...but any thoughts?

[Schaudenfreuded]

Also got into NYU so...

[dblalock]

Hello all!

I applied to MA programs at Vandy (2 programs), Arizona State, Arizona, New Mexico, and UTEP (2 programs). As of now, I've been rejected @ Vandy and ASU and accepted @ Arizona, UNM, and UTEP (LA/Border studies, waiting to hear from the Hist. dept.). I'm fairly sure I'll be accepting Arizona's offer because it does come some funding and the department has some great professors in my area of interest (20th century Southern Cone, dictatorships and their effects on daily life/society/culture/etc).

Anyone else going to Arizona?