Max Le Moine, fourth-year industrial design student, recently returned home after a summer internship with in Medell铆n, Colombia. During his time there, Max designed an origami-inspired folding wheelchair ramp, an innovative and accessible solution to provide greater freedom for disabled folks.

Max’s experience with living in Colombia

“It was a pleasure to live in Colombia for three months and really immerse myself in the beautiful Latin American culture. Going down, I have heard great things about the country but I had a new understanding and appreciation for the culture and history. Throughout my travels, I got the chance to learn about Colombia’s history which was SO INTERESTING – and I’m not normally a history buff.

Another great opportunity I had was really getting to learn Spanish! I went from barely speaking to being comfortable in (simple) conversations making me more confident in my language skills. Living and traveling in Colombia was a life-altering experience.”

Max’s Project

“As an Industrial Design student, it was extremely beneficial for me to work with Universidad EAFIT’s engineering department. This had me focus on the technical and art side of design through the exploration of Origami which is important.

During the project, I had the opportunity to explore my interests (Accessible/Inclusive design) which resulted in a product that I’m very proud of! Working with the university, I also was taught how to use research to inform my design process which was really interesting. Working with Universidad EAFIT was definitely beneficial for my career path.”

For more information on his project, please see .

Check out about Max and his coworker’s experience in Colombia.

This internship was made possible by .

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LACS is delighted to welcome Professor Carieta Thomas to our affiliated faculty team!

Carieta Thomas, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, earned a doctoral degree in Sociology that connects her immigration law background with the sociology of carework. Her research uses intersectionality theory to compare how surveillance in the form of pre-employment screening impacts the lives and employment choices of illegalized/undocumented Caribbean women care workers in Canada and the U.S.

To learn more, see Carieta Thomas’ profile.

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Published in Lacuna Magazine, Professor Philip Kaisary鈥檚 piece titled 鈥淭hey鈥檙e eating the pets鈥�: The deep history behind Trump鈥檚 racist, anti-Haitian lies鈥� comments on Donald Trump鈥檚 recent false claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have been eating the town鈥檚 pets.

He situates these baseless claims in the long history of anti-Haitian denigration to demonstrate that the supposedly glorious American past to which Trump鈥檚 project seeks to turn back the clock is in fact a past in which systemic terror was waged against people of African descent.

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Content Warning: the following text discusses abortion, miscarriage. 

Drawing on her research in Latin America, Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore shares her observations and findings in The Conversation鈥檚 article entitled 鈥淚n Latin America, not only abortions but miscarriages can lead to jail time.鈥� The article highlights the inaccessibility and criminalization of services to terminate pregnancies.  Dr. Rivers-Moore explains the alarming consequences and severity of the anti-abortion laws throughout the region and how women resort to self-induced abortions.

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Award-winning CBC Ottawa anchor . Professor Harewood’s research focuses on the History of the Black Media/Press in Canada and the United States, Race and Diversity in Journalism, Community Radio, Caribbean Media in the Diaspora,  the Role of Media in Africa and the  Caribbean, Sports and Media, & Civil Rights History  and the Vietnam War. To learn more, please follow this link.

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LACS is excited to have Dr. Candace Sobers join our growing faculty team!

Dr. Sobers is Associate Professor at the Bachelor of Global and International Studies program. She is an historian of international history and modern international relations, specializing in twentieth century decolonization, movements of national liberation, and the global reach of Third World revolutionary internationalism, with a specific focus on African independence movements and United States (U.S.) foreign policy. She has written on foreign policy analysis, intelligence studies, revolutionary theory, and international history. Her current book in preparation traces the global efforts to support, and to obstruct, Angolan independence from Portugal in the 1970s. To learn more about her work, please follow this link.

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LACS is delighted to announce that a new specialist in Latin American studies, Dr. Marylynn Steckley, has joined our incredible team of LACS-affiliated faculty!

Dr. Steckley teaches at the Bachelor of Global and International Studies program. She is a  Geographer by training, and her work is located broadly in the field of Political Ecology, with a focus on food systems in Haiti, Thailand, and Indigenous contexts here in Canada. She is particularly interested in processes of social differentiation, displacement, and 鈥榦thering鈥� through food systems, with an emphasis on how class, race and gender intersect to influence food security, dietary choices, and access to land. For more, please follow this link.

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LACS is proud to announce that our first-year M.A. students Alexander Baillie, Bhreagh MacDonald, Ariel Mishkin, and Melissa Wilk presented their Master’s research proposals on April 19th, 2021. Such an excellent, generative way to conclude the Winter term!

Alexander Baillie (M.A. History with Specialization in LACS)
Research Project: “Financial Imperialism, a New Colonialism: Canadian Banks and the Caribbean 1947-57”

Bhreagh MacDonald (M.A. Political Science with Specialization in LACS)
Research Project: “Buen Vivir: CONAMAQ and the Bolivian State Between 2014 and 2020”

Ariel Mishkin (M.A. International Affairs with Specialization in LACS)
Research Project: “The War on Drug鈥檚 Impact on the Incarceration of Latin American Indigenous Women”

Melissa Wilk (M.A. International Affairs with Specialization in LACS)
Research Project: “Shock to the System: Exploring Food Systems Vulnerability and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Latin America”

Much congratulations to Alexander, Bhreagh, Ariel, and Melissa on completing this important step on your LACS Master’s research journey!

Warmest thanks to all our affiliated LACS faculty and graduate students who attended the session and offered generous feedback!

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Each year, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at 杏吧原创 University awards the Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship to one of its outstanding faculty members, in order to facilitate the completion of a major research project.

Professor Mark Anderson, an affiliated faculty with Latin American and Caribbean Studies, is the winner of the 2020-21 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship. He will deliver a lecture next Tuesday, March 16th on the research he is able to accomplish during his time as the Marston LaFrance Fellow. Entitled “Zombies and the Death of Certainty in the Land of Perennial Rebirth”, the annual Marston LaFrance lecture will showcase Dr. Anderson’s unique area of research as a historian.

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LACS is delighted to announce that Professor Sonya Lipsett-Rivera has won the 2020 Mar铆a Elena Mart铆nez Prize in Mexican History for her book  The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019).

The prize is awarded by the  for the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Mexico published during the previous year.

The LACS community sends the warmest of congratulations to Professor Lipsett-Rivera for this well-deserved award!

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