Current PhD Students at the Centre of Latin American Studies
An asterisk * denotes a student registered in the Spanish and Portuguese Section 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
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
Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação *
Research Topic: Misplaced Ideas: the Contradiction of Science in Machado de Assis
Supervisor: Dr Rodrigo Cacho
E-mail: vc318@cam.ac.uk
Anna Corrigan
Research Topic: The relationship between photography and politics in the Southern Cone
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
E-mail: ac919@cam.ac.uk
María Fernanda Domínguez-Londoño*
Research Topic: The new sun worshippers: photography, print culture and extractivism in the American hemisphere between 1839 and 1859
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
Ange La Furcia
Research Topic: Sea antics: A Caribbean Case Study of care, body and emotional labour in Beauty Salons
Supervisor: Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa
E-mail: al995@cam.ac.uk
Lila Gaudêncio
Research Topic: Community banks and social currencies in Brazil
Supervisor: Dr Graham Denyer Willis
E-mail: ldg30@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
Nathan Huanacune
Research topic: The Andean world of welfare colonialism: social policy and ethnic boundaries in Peru
Supervisor: Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro
Email: nh549@cam.ac.uk
William Huddleston*
Research Topic: Uruguayan Football: an Investigation into Identity, Nationality, Modernity and Globalisation
Supervisor: Dr Maite Conde
Rosanna Hunt*
Research Topic: State imaginaries in Peruvian and Colombian conflict narratives
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
email: rh649@cam.ac.uk
Ana Lucía Martínez*
Research Topic: The emergence of the invisible: Rethinking materialities, vestiges and landscapes in 20th and 21st centuries Latin American poetry and visual arts
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
Daniela Meneses Sala
Research Topic: Contemporary Peruvian Feminism: A Queer Photographic Archive of Feelings
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Maguire
Andrea Morales-Loucil
Research Topic: Calamitous Genes: Conceptualizing Race, Nation, and Dissent the Spanish Caribbean, 1815-1898
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
Ana Lucía Pelaez Echeverría
Research Topic: How social media has impacted the articulation of indigenous resistance movements against hydropower companies in Guatemala
Supervisor: Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro
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.
Leslie Ramos *
Research Topic: Art from Latin America in the Venice Biennale since 1980
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: lr476@cam.ac.uk
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.
Beatriz Santos Bareto
Research Topic: LGBTQ movements in Argentina and Brazil: a queer analysis of collective identities, dilemmas, strategies, and results.
Supervisor: Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro
Email: bs656@cam.ac.uk
Jessica Sequeira
Research Topic: Literary relations between Latin America and South Asia, with a focus on India
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Email: js875@cam.ac.uk
Rafael Shimabukuro
Research Topic: Radical political economy, political theory, historical materialism and Latin American politics
Supervisor: Dr Pedro Mendes Loureiro
Email: ras242@cam.ac.uk
Axelle Tisseau
Research Topic: French Colonial exiles from St Domingue -both free and enslaved- in the early 19th century
Supervisor: Dr. Hank Gonzalez
Email: amet2@cam.ac.uk
Leo Temple*
Research Topic: Mytho-Technical Syncretism and the Economies of Scale in “Modernista” Latin American Poetics
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: lsmt27@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
Oliver Wilson-Nunn
Research Topic: Incarceration in Twentieth-Century Argentine Visual Culture
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
email: ojw33@cam.ac.uk