Mike LaRosa:
Dr. LaRosa published, with Victoria Peralta, a second edition of Los colombianistas (October 2015, Bogot谩: Academia Colombiana de Historia).
He was invited to Rollins College in October 2015 to give a talk titled 鈥淐hronicle of a Peace Forestalled鈥 and served as a panelist for the conference 鈥淗istorical Conflicts and the Prospects for Peace in Colombia,鈥 held at Vanderbilt in March 2016.
Professor LaRosa published a new edition of Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in US-Latin American Relations, a volume co-edited with Frank Mora (2015).
Professor LaRosa published the Spanish-language version of Colombia: A Concise Contemporary History with Germ谩n Mej铆a, Professor of History at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogot谩.
He gave an invited talk on Colombia at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 3, 2014.
He also gave a presentation titled "Colombia: Chronicle of Unexpected Change" to a group of former Peace Corps Volunteers assigned to Colombia at Vanderbilt on June 20, 2014.
Jeanne Lopiparo:
Professor Lopiparo published a book co-authored with Julia Hendon and Rosemary Joyce, Material Relations: The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras銆(University Press of Colorado) in February 2014.
Professor Lopiparo continues her work as principal investigator of the Proyecto Chinikih谩 de Arqueolog铆a. She has performed laboratory analysis at the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico (UNAM) in Mexico City.
Elizabeth Pettinaroli:
Professor Pettinaroli published "The Critical Metageographies of the Indies in Andr茅s Gonz谩les de Barcia鈥檚銆Introducci贸n al Ensayo Cronol贸gico para la historia general de la Florida"銆in Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment銆36.1 (Fall 2013).
She is co-editor of Troubled Waters: Rivers in Latin American Imagination (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) with Ana Mar铆a Mutis.
Her chapter, "Visions of Nature: Colombian Literature and the Environment from the Colonial Period to the Nineteenth Century," is in a volume under contract with Cambridge titled銆History of Colombian Literature, ed. Raymond Williams.
She presented "Nuevas 贸pticas de la globalizaci贸n en M茅xico en 1554" at the Asociaci贸n Internacional de Hispanistas meeting in Buenos Aires, July 2013.
Professor Pettinaroli "Imagination and Anxiety in the Poetry of Cervantes; The Emergence of Form, Voice, and Character in the Poetry of Cervantes" and organized panels for the Society of Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry and Renaissance Society of America in commemoration of the publication of Cervantes鈥檚 Viaje del Parnaso銆(1614) in New York City, March 2014.
She was also invited to moderate the panel, "Hispanic Baroque Project: First Transatlantic Culture," at the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Vanderbilt, October 2013.
Alberto del Pozo Mart铆nez:
Professor del Pozo Mart铆nez was awarded an Faculty Development Endowment grant for Summer 2014. The funded project is titled, "Pinochet鈥檚 Legacy in Roberto Bola帽o鈥檚 Narrative and the Problem of Literature beyond Utopia in the Southern Cone (1973-2003)."
He published "Lo literario como problema en la obra y la cr铆tica sobre Roberto Bola帽o: notas para un debate." A contracorriente 11.2 (Winter 2014).
He also presented "De De sobremesa a Los detectives salvajes: diarios, viajes y feminicidios en un siglo de novelas de artista en Hispanoam茅rica" at the Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica, Santiago de Chile on July 15, 2013.
Professor del Pozo Mart铆nez presented "Roberto Bola帽o frente a la teor铆a y la pr谩ctica de la cultura de masas en Latinoam茅rica" at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Chicago, May 2014.
Amy Risley:
Amy Risley, Stanley J. Buckman Professor of International Studies, has published several studies of immigration policy and the treatment of child migrants in the United States. In 2023, Professor Risley published a journal article in the International Journal of Children鈥檚 Rights. 鈥淒oing Harm Was the Point鈥 analyzes the consequences of the Trump administration鈥檚 family separations policy. A second article, which discusses the influence of interest groups on immigration policy, appeared in Social Justice. A chapter on reproductive violence and the criminalization of migrant motherhood will be included in a volume that Priscyll Anctil Avoine is editing for Palgrave Macmillan (Feminist Security Studies in the Americas: pushing the fronteras). Professor Risley also contributed a chapter on migrants鈥 rights to a forthcoming volume titled (edited by ). The book investigates ongoing efforts to realize the rights promised by the Convention on the Rights of the Child three decades since its inception:
Each of these studies calls for immigration policies that respect the rights and dignity of all people鈥攁nd especially children.
Dr. Risley was awarded a 2016 Buckman Curriculum Development Award to participate in a CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar in Havana, titled 鈥淐ontemporary Cuban Transformations: Social Inequalities and Social Policy in Cuba.鈥
Professor Risley published a book titled, Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies: Pathways to Participation with Palgrave (June 2015).
Professor Risley published "It鈥檚 Not Easy Being Green: Environmental Advocacy and Policy Making in Chile" in Society & Natural Resources 27.4 (April 2014).
An article titled, 鈥淧rotecting Children and Adolescents in Uruguay: Civil Society鈥檚 Role in Policy Reform,鈥 was published in October 2014 in Social Sciences.
She gave a paper presentation on the same subject at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Chicago, May 2014.
She also co-organized and moderated a special invited panel ("Taking It to the Streets: Perspectives on Recent Mass Mobilizations in Latin American Democracies") and served as Co-Chair for the Civil Society and Social Movements Track for the Latin American Studies Association Congress.