Recent Dissertations

“Visiones de Buenos Aires: pobreza e imaginarios urbanos en el siglo XX”
Agnese Codebò
Sponsors: Graciela Montaldo and Carlos J. Alonso
May 2017

“The Unofficial Archive: A Critique of Archival Culture in the Dominican Republic, 1865-1927”
Wendy Muñiz
Sponsors: Carlos J. Alonso and Maja Horn
May, 2017

“Stages of History: New World Spectacles and the Theater of the World in the Sixteenth Century”
Nicole Hughes
Sponsor: Alessandra Russo
May 2017

“Every Knowable Thing: The Art or Ramon Llull and the Construction of Knowledge”
Noel Blanco Mourelle
Sponsor: Jesús R. Velasco
May 2017

“Frontier Identities and Migrating Souls: Re-conceptualizing New Religious and Cultural Imaginaries in the Iberian Worlds”
Ana Méndez-Oliver
Sponsor: Patricia Grieve
April, 2017

“Gramsci in Latin America: Reconstitutions of the State”
Anne Freeland
Sponsors: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Graciela Montaldo
March 2017

“Recomposing the Global Iberian Monarchy through the Lisbon Press of Pedro Craesbeeck (1597-1632)”
Rachel Stein
Sponsors: Alessandra Russo and Jesús R. Velasco
January 2017

“Lydia Cabrera, the Storyteller as Collector”
Elise Arnold-Levene
Sponsor: Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
October 2016

“La vanguardia en los tabloides: reconfiguración cultural en la prensa argentina de los años veinte”
María Carolina Baffi
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
September 2016

“’Here to Stay’: New York Puerto Ricans and the Consolidation of Latino New York, 1931-1951”
Cristina Pérez Jiménez
Sponsors: Frances Negrón Muntaner and Maja Horn
May 2016

“Entertaining Culture: Mass Culture and Consumer Society in Argentina, 1898-1946”
Sarah Goldberg
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
April 2016

“On Violence and Tyranny”
Verónica Rodríguez
Sponsor: Jesús Rodríguez Velasco
March 2016

“A Retaguarda da Vanguarda: modernidades contestadas em três tempos: Bilac, Aranha e Lobato”
Daniella Diniz da Silva
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
November 2015

“Figures of Conflict: Culture, Politics, and State in Colombia, 1920-1970”
Benjamin Johnson
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
October 2015

“Translation Spaces: Mexico City in the International Modernist Circuit”
Valeria Luiselli
Sponsors: Claudio Lomnitz and Graciela Montaldo
September 2015

“Printing Presses, Typographers, and the Reader as People: State Publishing in Cuba, Venezuela, and Chile (1960-present).”
Jessica Gordon-Burroughs
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
September 2015

“La desigualdad como tarea
. Crítica literaria y masificación editorial en Argentina (1950-60)”
Guido Herzovich
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
May 15, 2015

“The Consumer Dictator:
 Theories and Representations of Agency in Neoliberal Argentina, 2001-2010”
Jessica C. Dzaman
Sponsor: Carlos J. Alonso
February 18, 2015

“Pertenencias pasajeras. La escena subterránea en Perú durante los años ochenta”
Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
November 7, 2014

“The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes of Translation in Contemporary Latin American Fiction”
Heather Cleary
Sponsor: Carlos J. Alonso
September 12, 2014

“Amateur Citizens: Culture and Democracy in Contemporary Cuba”
Paloma Doung
Sponsor: Carlos J. Alonso
August 28, 2014

“La palabra y el fuego. Insulto, política y cultura en la historia de Colombia”
Juan Álvarez
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
May 6, 2014

“Beyond the Material
 Energy, Work, and Movement in the Cultural Imagination of Restoration Spain”
Oscar I. Useche
Sponsor: Wadda Ríos-Font
March 4, 2014

“‘En todo se hallaron los tlaxcaltecas’: The Measure of Conquest in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”
Jannette Amaral
Sponsor: Alessandra Russo
November 22, 2013

“Spectacular Peripheries: Cultures of Leisure and Entertainment in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina”
Lara Tucker
Sponsor: Graciela Montaldo
October 4, 2013