National Resource Center

Resources: What can you find in this section?

• Academic's Series

• Invite Special Speakers to your Classroom

• Lending Library

• On-line Resources

Academic's Series

1. The 20th-Century Latin American Revolutions: Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua
   
   • Maps
     • Bolivia
     • Cuba
     • Mexico
     • Nicaragua
     
     
   • Timelines
     Bolivia Cuba Mexico Nicaragua
     
     
   • Bibliography
     Theoretical Perspectives Bolivia Cuba Mexico Nicaragua

Invite a Special Speaker to your Classroom

Faculty and students at Georgetown University conduct research and write about a wide range of topics relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean. As a National Resource Center (NRC), the Center for Latin American Studies is committed to making these scholars available to the community as guest speakers and educational consultants for educators in the DC area. If you are interested in requesting a faculty member or a student as speakers for your school or class, please contact Associate Director for External Affairs, Paula Ramírez-Uribe to make the appropriate arrangements.

Paula Ramírez-Uribe
Associate Director for External Affairs
E-mail: ramirezm@georgetown.edu
Tel.: (202) 687-0145

Topics
Listed below are a variety of topics researched and studied by faculty and graduate students at the Center for Latin American Studies. Additionally, the Faculty Research Focus section offers more specific descriptions of faculty interests and expertise.

• By COUNTRY
  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Bolivia
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • El Salvador
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Venezuela
    
  
  
• By THEMES

  Crime and Corruption	Globalization	Latin American Literature	Refugees
  Democracy	Governance	Law	Revolutions
  Drug Trafficking	Government	Migration	Social Movements
  Economic Policy and Development	Human Trafficking	Peace Processes	Social Justice
  Environment	Indigenous Peoples	Poverty and Inequality	Spanish
  Film	International Business Relations	Public Security	Trade
  Gender Issues	Latin American History	Religion	US Policy towards Latin America

  
  

Faculty's Areas of Specialized Research

• By DEPARTMENT
  • CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
    
    • Shelton Davis - Poverty, Social Exclusion, Racial Justice, Indigenous Peoples - Brazil, Guatemala
    • Gerard Martin - Political Sociology, Governance and Democracy, Civil Society, and Local Governance - Research Director of the Colombia Program
    • Michael Shifter - Sociology of Development, Democratic Consolidation, Political Leadership - the Andean Region
    • Luis Jacome - Latin American Banks and Monetary Institutions, Political Economy of Latin America
    • Robin King - Trade and Financial negotiations in Latin America, Intellectual Property in the Latin Music Industry, Economic Development in Latin America - Mexico, Bolivia
    • Barbara Kotschwar - Economic Integration in the Americas, Latin American Trade, US Trade Policy towards Latin America - OAS, Central America
    • Gasper Lo Biondo - Development in the Third World, Grassroots Development, Inter-American Interests - Chile, Peru
    
    
  • ENGLISH
    • Ricardo Ortiz - US Latino/a Literature and Culture, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture - Mexico, Canada
    
    
  • GOVERNMENT
    • John Bailey - Comparative politics; public and comparative administration, politics of trade and integration, organized crime and corruption - Mexico
    • Marc Chernick - Political Violence, Drug Trafficking, Peace Processes and Democratization in Latin America - the Andes
    • Eusebio Mujal-León - Latin American Politics, West European Politics, Security Problems of Latin America - Cuba, Spain
    • Arturo Valenzuela - Origins and Consolidation of Democracy, US-Latin American Relations, Politics of Chile, Mexico and the Southern Cone - Director of the Center for Latin American Studies
    
    
  • HISTORY
    • Erick Langer - Andean Region, Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, Latin American Frontiers - Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil
    • Bryan McCann - Modern Brazil and Popular Culture, Latin American History - Director of the Brazilian Studies Program
    • John McNeill - Environmental History - Mexico, Argentina
    • John Tutino - Mexican History, Revolutions in Mexico, Gender and Culture in Studies of Mexican Communities - Mexico
    
    
  • INSTITUTE for the STUDY of INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
    • Patricia Fagen - Refugees and Migration, Post Conflict Re-Integration and Reconstruction, Human Rights Law and Policy - El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico
    
    
  • SOCIOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY
    • Joseph Palacios - Political Culture of US and Latin America, Social Theory, Sociology of Religion - Mexico
    • Timothy Wickham-Crowley - Development, Revolutions, the Political Sociology of Latin America - Brazil, Central America
    
    
  • SPANISH and PORTUGUESE
    • Hector Campos - Theoretical linguistics, Spanish Linguistics
    • Michael Ferreira - Spanish/Portuguese Philology and Linguistics, Paleography, Textual Edition
    • Gwen Kirkpatrick - Modern Latin American Literature, Gender Studies, Poetry - Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay
    • Naomi Moniz - Brazilian and Portuguese Literature, Modernism and Post-Modernism, Identity Formation - Brazil
    • Joanne Rappaport - Historical Anthropology, Ethnicity and Ethnic Movements, Literacy - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
    • Veronica Salles-Reese - Latin American Literature and Culture, the Colonial Period, the Andean Region - Bolivia, Peru, Mexico
    • Vivaldo Santos - Brazilian Popular Culture especially Music, Cinema, Art and Literature - Brazil

Lending Library

As a National Resource Center we strive to help teachers incorporate Latin American content into the classroom. To do this we have assembled a library of resources relevant to different topics throughout the region. Our collection is made up of books, media, and cultural resources that can all be incorporated into your curriculum. All materials are available free of charge to teachers in the DC-area. Below, please find brief descriptions of the different resources within the Lending Library and recommendations as to appropriate grade level usage. We hope that these resources can offer an introduction to the many elements that make up the Latin American reality and assist your students to further understand the region.

To check out a book, please fill out a Lending Agreement and return it to us before placing your first order. For subsequent orders, you may request up to three items via mail, email, phone, or fax and keep it for up to three weeks.

For more information on the Lending Library, its contents or its policies, please contact: Paula Ramírez-Uribe at ramirezm@georgetown.edu or by phone at (202) 687-0145.

On-line Resources on Latin America

• Resources for Teaching about the Americas* (RetaNet)
  A web site for secondary educators with Latin America content for teaching and an on-line interactive learning community of teacher peers.

• The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
  Is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin. LANIC has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and UT Austin's College of Liberal Arts. LANIC is a key component of the International Information Systems, also based at UT Austin. LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region.

• Smithsonian Latino Center
  Belongs to the Smithsonian Institute.

• The Latin American Resource Center
  The Latin American Resource Center at Tulane University, formerly known as the Latin American Curriculum Resource Center, promotes the study of all subject matter relating to Latin America at the K-12, community, and university levels. In order to ensure accurate, integrated content for the classroom, services such as teacher training workshops and conferences, free lending library curricular materials, documentary and feature film series, slide and curriculum publications, faculty and graduate student speakers, and personalized consulting are provided.

• Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies
  Belongs to Tulane University

• Researching Brazil
  Researching Brazil, devised as a tool to support research in Brazilian history and social sciences, is oriented toward Brazil specialists and non-specialists alike. The site is currently under revision to update its search technology and will not be available for use until mid-2007. Interested researchers may contact the site's author, Dr. Luis A. González at luisgonz@indiana.edu

• WWW Virtual Libray: International Affairs Resources: Latin America
  The Virtual Libray provides links to country-specific search engines and index pages, as well as an annotated list of other useful Latin American web sites. Has everything from current news sites to trade policy information links. Sponsored by Elizabethtown College and Created by Professor Wayne A. Selcher.

• Latin America Links
  Latin America Links is an information gateway with links organized by country and by subject. Topics indluce Recreation, Economy, Education, Government, Humanities, Internet, Libraries, Media Arts, Research Resources, Science, Social Sciences, Society Issues, Sustainable Development and Travel/Tourism. Each link in the directory has been studied by an editor before inclusion on the website. Descriptions of the links are also provided.

• The Latin America Data Base (LADB)
  LADB is an on-line publisher and information resource. LADB produces three weekly electronic publications and maintains an on-line searchable data base of over 24,000 articles as well as Latin American journals. Links are organized by subject, including documents, statistics, news sources, politics, scholarly resources, events, and a special section on Central America. LADB is an invaluable source of current information on Latin America. Users include research universities, small colleges, multilateral institutions, private corporations, and non-profit organizations worldwide. The organization is affiliated with the University of New Mexico, one of the first schools to offer degrees in Latin American studies. The Data Base is organized in conjunction with the University's Latin American & Iberian Institute.

• Latin American History Resources
  Latin American History Resources is a website with links to history-related topics on Latin America. Subjects include the Conques, independence, indigenous history, Mexican, Cuban, Dominican and South American History. A great resource for History teachers.

• The Sources and General Resources on Latin America
  This website belong to the Oberlin College. It is an on-line resource with links to current and historical information on Latin America. Topics are divided by country and subject matter, with subjects ranging from colonial history to human rights and democracy issues. There are special sections for databases, economic information, and for organizations and activists working on Latin America. In addition, the site highlights specific links each month.

• The Latin American Collection
  This Collection from Yale University provides selected internet resources about Latin America. Links are divided into separate categories including: associations and organizations, country information, dictionaries, government documents and international agreements, history resources, international organizations, journals, literature, maps, news sources, and statistical data. Ideal for research and background information on Latin America.

• Resources for Teachers
  This source of information belongs to the Latin American and Iberian Resources website. It offers a number of important resources to provide teachers with the information they need to teach about Latin America. Teachers can access the Latin America Data Base, search for curriculum materials and learn about important topics in Latin American history, economics, politics, and society.

• Latin American School and Education Resources (LASER)
  LASER is operated by Michigan State University, and is a website for middle and high school teachers and students who are learning about Latin America in social sciences and humanities classes. The site can be used to learn more about Latin Ameirca and the Caribbean countries, to obtain information to incorporate into lessons, view sample lesson plans and ideas for teaching, and access resource lists to take advantage of a wide range of Latin American resources. Teachers can access country fact sheets and short essays written by MSU faculty, accompanying links and suggestions for additional materials. The website also provides access to maps and images to be used as supplements in the classroom.

• The Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
  This Center belongs to the University of California at San Diego and offers a Teacher's Resource Page, providing web resources, lesson plans and information on a variety of subjects related to Latin America. Topics include: geography, currencies, music, books, and current news sources.

• The Resource Center of the Americas
  The Center is a human rights advocacy organization with links to information on a wide range of subjects on Latin American history, culture, politics, and economics. The organization doubles as an alternative news source, providing resources, activities and education to promote cross-cultural understanding. The News & Info section provides information on each country within the region, including important policy and program updates. A good source for current news on Latin America.