Past PhD Students at the Centre of Latin American Studies
Alphabetically listed (year of conferment)
Andrea Aramburu-Villavisencio (2022)
Research Topic: Curatorial Constellations: Relationality, Matter and Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Women’s and Queer Comics
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Emily Baker (2016)
Research Topic: Nazism and the Second World War in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Supervisor: Dr Rory O’Bryen
Oliver Balch (2019)
Research Topic: Pulp fictions: An ethnographic critique of the use of Corporate Responsibility in Foreign Direct Investment
Supervisor: Dr Sian Lazar
Jordana Blejmar (2012)
The Truth of Fiction: Second-Generation Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentine Culture
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Lucy Bollington (2018)
Research Topic: Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Email: ljb82@cam.ac.uk
Joseph Brandim Howson (2022)
Research Topic: Veillance Dynamics in Pseudo* States
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Ramona Braun (2014)
Laparoscopy as a neo-eugenic practice in gynaecology, 1940s-60s
Supervisors: Professor Sir Richard Evans; Dr Charles Jones
Daniel Carter (2013)
Politics and Culture in Chile before the Coup: A Study of Urban Society in Temuco 1964-1973
Supervisor: Dr Charles Jones
Katy Critchfield (2017)
Research Topic: The Intersections of Politics and Aesthetics in Post-Dictatorship Southern Cone Culture
Supervisor: Dr Rory O’Bryen
Celia Dunne (2013)
Identity, Site, and Participation in the Work of Lourdes Grobet, Francisco Mata, and Gabriel Orozco
Supervisor: Ms Erica Segre
Cherilyn Elston (2015)
Modernity's Rebel Daughters: Feminism, Writing and Conflict in Contemporary Colombia
Supervisor: Dr. Geoffrey Kantaris
Dunja Fehimovic (2016)
Contemporary Cuban film in Relation to National Identity
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
Jessica Fernandez de Lara Harada (2022)
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
Niall Geraghty (2015)
Kafka and his Progeny: Toward an Immanent Critique of Capitalism and Political Violence in the work of César Aira, Marcelo Cohen and
Ricardo Piglia
Supervisor: Dr. Joanna Page
Ann Hapka Morkassel (2011)
Venezuelan Overseas Oil Strategy, 1998-2009
Supervisor: Dr Charles Jones
Rebecca Jarman (2015)
Spatial Transformations in Contemporary Representations of the Venezuelan City (1989 onwards)
Supervisor: Dr. Geoffrey Kantaris
Edward King (2012)
Mapping the Control Society: Science Fiction Tropes and Digital Technologies in Contemporary Argentine and Brazilian Narrative
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Natalie Krol (2012)
Islands within the Island: The Implications of Islandness, the Literary City and the Dialectics of Identity and Exile in post-Soviet Cuban Narrative
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen
Alejandro Lerch (2020)
Research Topic: Drug Trafficking and the state of Mexico
Supervisor: Dr Graham Denyer-Willis
Grace Livingstone (2015)
Research Topic: British Policy towards the Southern Cone Dictatorships 1973-82
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Jones
Geoffrey Maguire (2015)
Political Postmemory: Childhood, Memory and Politics in Argentina's Post-Dictatorship Generation (2003-2013)
Supervisor: Dr. Joanna Page
Katherine Anne Mato (2021)
Research Topic: Gender and Space in Contemporary Cuban Art
Supervisor: Dr. Erica Segre
Catriona McAllister (2014)
Rewritings of Independence in Contemporary Argentine Fiction
Supervisor: Dr. Joanna Page
Paul Merchant (2017)
Research Topic: Figures of house and home in contemporary Argentine and Chilean cinema
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Chandra Morrison (2014)
Saturated Cities: Graffiti Art in São Paulo and Santiago de Chile
Supervisor: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (2015)
Touched Bodies: Corporeal Ethics in Latin American Art at the Onset of the Media Age
Supervisor: Dr. Geoffrey Kantaris
Rachel Randall (2015)
Research Topic: Representations of childhood/adolescence in contemporary Brazilian and Colombian film and literature
Supervisor: Dr. Geoffrey Kantaris
R. Sánchez-Rivera (2020)
Research Topic: What Happened to Mexican Eugenics? :Racism and the Reproduction of the Nation
Supervisor: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Juan Pablo Scarfi (2014)
The Intellectual History of Pan-Americanism and International Law in the Americas, 1900-1942
Supervisor: Dr Charles Jones
Parvathi Subbiah (2021)
Research Topic: Populist Narratives on Twitter in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
Supervisor: Dr. Mónica Moreno Figueroa
Minyan Sun (2018)
Research Topic: Zen Buddhism in the short stories of Julio Cortázar
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Erika Teichert (2022)
Research Topic: Political propaganda and artistic practice in contemporary Argentine culture and politics
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Andrew Tillman (2013)
The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Venezuela
Supervisor: Dr Charles Jones
Elsa M. Treviño (2015)
Belonging Elsewhere: Fictional Space and New Approaches to Identity in Mexican Narrative at the Turn of the Millennium
Supervisor: Ms. Erica Segre
Sandra del Valle Casals (2022)
Research Topic: The construction of Otherness and national identity in contemporary Chilean cinema
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Page
Callie Vandewiele (2019)
“Pic’bil”: digital repatriation and textile production as cultural revival in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala
Supervisors: Dr Francoise Barbira Freedman; Dr Susanna Rostas
Joseph Whitfield (2015)
Punitive Cultures of Latin America: Power, Resistance and the State in Representations of the Prison
Supervisor: Dr Rory O'Bryen