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Center for Latin American Studies
1103 E. Second St
P.O.Box 210076
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: (520) 626-7242
Fax: (520) 626-7248
Department Director
Dr. Linda Green
Harvill Building, Room 343
P.O.Box 210076
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: (520) 626-7242
Fax: (520) 626-7248
Guatemala, Efrain Rios Montt on trial for genocide, click on the banner link for recent updates and trail information ... read more
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NYTimes article reporting on the visit by U.S. Senators to the border cites CLAS Ford Foundation study by Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martinez, Scott Whiteford, and Emily Peiffer in its discussion of immigration reform. ... read more
Marcela Vásquez-León PhD, recieves a Fulbright Scholarship to continue her work with fishermen of the Gulf of California, Mexico! Marcela is an Associate Professor in Anthropology and holds a joint appointment in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, School of Anthropology, and the Center for Latin American Studies. She is also co-chair of Global Studies. Marcela's fullbright scholarship project is titled "Fishing at the edge of extinction: Vaquita conservation... read more
Welcome to Center for Latin American Studies
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) was named a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and received a Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Grant (2010-2014). CLAS hosts an outstanding faculty with particular expertise regionally in Mexico, Brazil and Central America. Thematic strengths include Environmental Studies, Border Studies, Power & Inequality, and History & Culture. The Center offers an undergraduate major and minor; a Masters Degree, with dual degree programs in Journalism, Law, Public Health and Public Administration; as well as a PhD minor option. The Center for Latin American Studies coordinates a broad range cultural events, faculty & student research, outreach and teaching.
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Her Fulbright Scholarship project is investigating the first large-scale application of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) for a marine conservation effort in Latin America: the PACE-vaquita program in the Upper Gulf of California-Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve, which started in 2008 and has become the site of one of the most intensive single-species conservation efforts in the global...
