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.
Victoria Adams*
Research Topic: Material virtuality: The role of the virtual in the production of cultural-historical spatial imaginaries in Brazil
Supervisor: Dr Maite Conde
Email: vja27@cam.ac.uk
Andrea Aramburu-Villavisencio
Research Topic: Interactions between disruptive kinships, affect and aesthetics in contemporary Latin American cinema
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Email: aa2056@cam.ac.uk
Diego Azurdia*
Research Topic: The history of the sublime and the sublime as history in Latin America
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
Email: dra35@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
Joseph Brandim-Howson
Research Topic: Veillance Dynamics in Pseudo* States
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: jb2145@cam.ac.uk
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação *
Research Topic: Misplaced Ideas: the Contradiction of Science in Machado de Assis
Supervisor: Prof Maria Manuel Lisboa
E-mail: vc318@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
Jessica Hagley*
Research Topic: ‘De tantas veras y verdades’: Rhetorical Visions of Conquest in the Epic Poetry of the New World
Supervisor: Dr Rodrigo Cacho
Email: jdh76@cam.ac.uk
Rosanna Hunt*
Research Topic: State imaginaries in Peruvian and Colombian conflict narratives
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 of 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
Ben Quarshie *
Research Topic: Transnational Afro-descendant cultural identity in Latin American and Caribbean music and literature
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
E-mail: bq201@cam.
Carlyn Rodgers
Research Topic: The NGOization of Pro-Black Activism in Urban Brazil: An Investigation of Agency in the Relationship Between Brazilian Pro-Black Activists and International Nongovernmental Organizations
Supervisor: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Email: crr38@cam.
Rachell Sánchez-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
Research Topic: Populist Narratives on Twitter in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
Supervisor: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Email: pas89@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