Reflejos is a digital collection of academic reflections that CLAS assembles and distributes annually. Reflejos serves as a platform for CLAS students, alumni, visiting scholars, and faculty to share written work on themes relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dr. Ning Leng, assistant professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, published a new book Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge University Press, 2025). On February 3, 2026, Leng partnered with the Georgetown Americas…
Dr. Jenny Guardado, assistant professor in the Center for Latin American Studies and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, published a new book Venal Origins of Development in Spanish America (Cambridge, 2025). The book explores the roots of spatial inequalities in Spanish America…
Multiple professors associated with the Center for Latin American Studies presented at the 40th virtual International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association from May 5-8, 2022.
John McNeill, distinguished university professor in the School of Foreign Service, co-edited Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean, recently published by Oxford University Press.
Bryan McCann, professor and chair in the Department of History at Georgetown College, co-edited From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going: A Social History of the Beach on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, recently published by University of New Mexico Press.
Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano, adjunct professor in the Center for Latin American Studies, was recently interviewed by the Global Food Security and Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge about her work with rural women in Latin America.
Mike Amezcua, assistant professor in the Department of History at Georgetown College, published a book titled Making Mexican Chicago, which tells the story of Chicago as it was built by its Mexican and Mexican-American population.
Katharine Donato, director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration, contributed to a paper in the Harvard Data Science Review on the changing dynamics of misinformation about COVID-19 and the reception of Venezuelan migrants returning home amidst an ongoing refugee crisis.
