Learn more about some of the fascinating research and community outreach that Keitlyn Alcántara, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has been doing with her project on “Food and Resistance in Ancient and Contemporary Tlaxcala,” supported by a Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant:
http://blog.wennergren.org/2021/11/eag-keitlyn-alcantara/
John McDowell Retirement
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies would like to congratulate Dr. John McDowell in his retirement after a 46-year career in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. He also served as CLACS’ Interim Director in 1998. Dr. McDowell arrived at Indiana University in 1975 after studying Folklore at the University of Texas. His deep appreciation for Latin America spans from speech play and verbal art among Chicano children to indigeneity in the Andean region. McDowell says that connecting with students was essential to his time at IU. He loved teaching undergraduate students in Chicano Folklore and sharing his passion for Latin American language with graduate students. He also played an essential role in bringing the Quechua language program to the university. McDowell hopes that the future of Latin American and Caribbean Studies will focus on minority cultures and languages because they both bring deeper understanding to the cultural and social aspects of the region. We deeply thank Dr. John McDowell for his work and helping the center become what it is today.
Spring 2021 CLACS Photo Contest Winners
Congratulations to the photographers of this year’s winning submission and runner up submission!! CLACS would also like to sincerely thank the other participants for sharing their images and making the task of the judges so difficult.
Both photographers will receive a 12×16 professionally framed print, and everyone will be able to see copies of all the winning images from this year and years past in our growing gallery at the CLACS offices in the HLS building.
Winner
Photographer: Erin Brown
Title: Altamira
Details: The idyllic landscape of the Colombian coffee region (Filandia, Colombia)
Honorable mention
Photographer: Parker Floyd
Title: The Face in the Desert
Details: taken in the Atacama Desert (Chile) in 2017
CLACS Senior Lecturer Quetzil Castañeda receives book award
CLACS is pleased to announce that Quetzil Castañeda, co-editor with Naomi Leite and Kathleen Adams of The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward M. Bruner and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) received a book prize in November 2020. At their annual meeting, The Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (American Anthropological Association) awarded the volume the Edward M. Bruner Prize for second or subsequent book. The prize committee said, “Leite, Castaneda and Adams’s volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner’s work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many.” https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498516341/The-Ethnography-of-Tourism-Edward-Bruner-and-Beyond
Professor Emerita Darlene Sadlier Receives 2019 Coffee Table Books Award
Darlene Sadlier’s book “The Lilly Library from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection” (Indiana University Press, 2019) was awarded the 2019 Indies Winner Gold, Coffee Table Books.
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Eduardo Brondizio selected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together, as expressed in our charter, “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” The academy’s studies have helped set the direction of research and analysis in science and technology policy, global security and international affairs, social policy, education, and the humanities.
Professor Brondizio joins other notable members from founders John Adams, James Bowdoin, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Maria Mitchell, and Alexander Graham Bell. Other distinguished members include Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, Barbara McClintock, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, John Hope Franklin, Georgia O’Keeffe, I.M. Pei, and Toni Morrison. International Members include Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Mary Leakey, John Maynard Keynes, Akira Kurosawa, and Nelson Mandela.
Congratulations to Professor Brondizio for this milestone and recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Darlene J. Sadlier, finalist in 22nd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
The Lilly Library from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection, written by CLACS-affiliate Professor Darlene J. Sadlier, has been recognized as a finalist in the 22nd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
In this link you can find more information: INTERVIEW WITH DARLENE J. SADLIER
Provost Professor – Congratulations Deborah Cohn
We are thrilled to share the news that our very own CLACS-affiliate Professor Deborah Cohn (Department of Spanish & Portuguese) was recently named “Provost Professor,” one of four faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Provost Professors position, originally called Chancellor’s Professor, was created in 1995, and those who have received the honor have achieved local, national and international distinction in both teaching and research. Faculty selected for Provost Professorships will carry the title for the remainder of their careers at Indiana University.
Click the link for more about Professor Cohn’s academic achievements.
Provost Professor – Congratulations Peter Guardino
We are pleased to share the great news that CLACS-affiliate Professor Peter Guardino (Department of History) was named “Provost Professor” On January 27, 2020. The Provost Professors position, originally called Chancellor’s Professor, was created in 1995, and those who have received the honor have achieved local, national and international distinction in both teaching and research. Please join us in congratulating Peter on this accomplishment.
Click the link for more about Professor Guardino’s academic achievements.
Martins-Sadlier Award for Best Paper in Brazilian Studies
Deadline: April 3, 2020
IU Brazilian Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies invite student submissions for the Martins-Sadlier Award for best paper in Brazilian Studies. The $200 prize honors Professor Heitor Martins and Professor Darlene Sadlier of the IU Department of Spanish and Portuguese for their long-term collaboration in promoting Brazilian Studies at IU.
Note: Due to the canceling of our Spring Reception this year we will notify the winner of The Martins-Sadlier Awardat the end of April.
Eligibility:
1. Awarded to best essay addressing any topic related to Brazil.
2. Submissions may be in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or any combination of these languages.
3. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students at IU.
To apply:
1. Submit papers as PDF or Word documents with double-spacing and 12-point font
2. No page maximum or minimum.
3. To maintain anonymity please remove identifying information from the paper (including author, title, metadata).
4. Include all identifying information within the email submission.
5. Submit papers to clacs@indiana.edu with the subject line “Martins-Sadlier Award in Brazilian Studies.”