Noah Wunanyun is a PhD student in the Department of Government specializing in international relations with a minor in Comparative Politics. 

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. 

Carmine Couloute is a PhD student in the Department of Government, concentrating in International Relations and Political Theory.

Her doctoral studies will ethnographically examine the enduring impact of French colonialism in Francophone West Africa. She aims to explore how telecommunications boycotts and protests over 'war taxes' facilitate practices of sovereignty and self-determination during political upheaval.

Danielle Obisie-Orlu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government, specializing in international relations with an interdisciplinary minor in international law, migration, and sustainable development. She researches how states’ popularly recognized memories of trauma can shape their international personas and the expectations about their responses to the challenges, rule of law, and novel opportunities in the international arena.

Alican Taylan, MArch, MEng, is a Ph.D. student in the History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) at Cornell University, where he studies nineteenth-century environmental and colonial history. His dissertation committee is co-chaired by Esra Akcan and María González Pendás (HAUD), and Aaron Sachs (History) is his third committee member. Recently, he curated Strategic Landforms (2024) at Cornell AAP, an exhibition about French military architectural production in Senegal over the nineteenth century.

Victoria E. Pihl Sørensen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. Her doctoral research examines population control and eugenics in Danish popular culture from an anti-racist feminist point of view. She holds an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center. She recently published "'In Women’s Hands': Feminism, Eugenics, and Race in Interwar Denmark" (2023), in the feminist journal Women, Gender & Research.