Current PhD Students at the Centre of Latin American Studies

An asterisk * ​denotes a student registered in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese who is also a member of the Centre of Latin American Studies, via the Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium.

David Bailey *

Research Topic: Currently working on same-sex desire in the novels of nineteenth-century Portuguese author Eça de Queirós
Supervisors: Prof Maria Manuel Lisboa and Prof Brad Epps
Email: djb211@cam.ac.uk

Oliver Balch

Research Topic: Pulp fictions: An ethnographic critique of the use of Corporate Responsibility in Foreign Direct Investment
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
E-mail: owb20@cam.ac.uk

Lucy Bollington 

Research Topic: Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture​
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: ljb82@cam.ac.uk

James Douglas

Research Topic: An ethnography of western Amazonian curanderismo apprenticeship
Supervisor: Dr Françoise Barbira Freedman
E-mail: sjd78@cam.ac.uk

Carlos Ezcurra 

Research Topic: Body and Subjectivity in Contemporary Argentine Film
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
E-mail: cee28@cam.ac.uk

Jessica Fernandez de Lara Harada

Research Topic: Encounters between East Asia and Latin America through an examination of Japanese migration to Mexico from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century
Supervisor: Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa
E-mail: jaf83@cam.ac.uk

Lucy Foster*

Research Topic: Literary and visual culture associated with the Mexican coastline
Supervisor: Dr Erica Segre
email: lf383@cam.ac.uk

Helen Glaisher-Hernández *

Research Topic: Postcolonialism and cultural identity in twentieth-century Latin American classical music
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: hg227@cam.ac.uk

Rosanna Hunt*

Research Topic:
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
​email: ​rh649@cam.ac.uk

Paul Hyland *

Research Topic: A comparative study of experimental fiction in the Iberian Peninsula from the 19th Century to the present day
Supervisor: Prof Steven Boldy
Email: ph379@cam.ac.uk

Alejandro Lerch

Research Topic: Drug Trafficking and the state or Mexico
Supervisor: Dr Graham Denyer-Willis
email: al771@cam.ac.uk

Katherine Anne Mato

Research Topic: Gender and Space in Contemporary Cuban Art 
Supervisor: Dr. Erica Segre
E-mail: kam95@cam.ac.uk

Rachell Sá​nchez-Rivera

Research Topic: Race, Eugenics and Sterilization: An Alternative Evaluation of Mexican Reproductive History and Nation-Building Process ​
Supervisor: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa ​
Email: rs871@cam.ac.uk

Parvathi Subbiah

Minyan Sun 

Research Topic: Zen Buddhism in the short stories of Julio Cortázar
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Email: ms821@cam.ac.uk​

Erika Teichert

​Research Topic: Political propaganda and artistic practice in contemporary Argentine culture and politics
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Email: ept27@cam.ac.uk

Sandra del Valle Casals 

Research Topic: The construction of Otherness and national identity in contemporary Chilean cinema
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
E-mail: sd749@cam.ac.uk

Callie Vandewiele

Research Topic: Mayan textile traditions in Guatemala
Supervisors: Dr Francoise Barbira Freedman; Dr Susanna Rostas
Email: cv298@cam.ac.uk

Elizabeth Vargas*

Research Topic: Conceptualization of narratives that construct and/or de-construct categories that define African spaces, bodies, and voices
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris 
email: ev287@cam.ac.uk​

Tatiana Vargas Ortiz*

Research Topic:
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
​email: atv25@cam.ac.uk