Jack Brown is a Ph.D. student of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Romance Studies. He is interested in modern and contemporary Latin American fiction, especially Gothic fiction and its relation to sociopolitical issues in the region.

Rocío Salas-Lewin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. Her research interests include social movements, electoral behavior, populism, and public opinion in Latin America. She focuses on the relationship between institutional and extra-institutional political participation, and the effect of social movements on public opinion and elections.

Isabel Padilla Carlo (she/her/ella) is a dance scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. At the intersection of memory and body studies, Isabel’s research examines how dance and performance play a role in challenging or reinforcing particular social imaginaries in the Hispanophone Caribbean, helping shape collective identity on the archipelago and the diaspora.

Harry Churchill is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. His research focuses on the political economy and cultural history of alcohol in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chile, Argentina and Southern Brazil. He interrogates economic processes of trade, immigration, urbanization, and agricultural production.

Marcos Pérez Cañizares is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. He focuses on Colonial Latin America, and his dissertation is a spatial history of the North Pacific and the Pacific Northwest within the Spanish Empire from the 1600s to the 1810s. It examines the two century spanning construction of a Spanish North Pacific space that was intimately tied to Continental North America. He was born in Havana, grew up in Toronto, and is happy to join LACS to help enrich the intellectual community of Latin Americanists and Caribbeanists at Cornell.