Georgetown Americas Institute

Ricardo Ernst, Baratta Chair in Global Business in the McDonough School of Business, co-published From Me to We: How Shared Value Can Turn Companies Into Engines of Change, which discusses shared value within the context of business and society, competitiveness, and globalization.

The Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas published its first policy brief on potential alternatives to international investment reform and mechanisms through which public officials can implement reforms to the existing international investment law regime.

The Georgetown Americas Institute has awarded its first round of collaborative research grants for faculty that focus on the institute's themes and fellowships for students to work with faculty on research projects.

The Center for Latin American Studies contributed to a research project in collaboration with other Jesuit institutions in Latin America, resulting in the publication of the book Crisis and Disenchantment with Democracy in Latin America (2021).

A grant from the Carnegie Foundation will support a collaboration between Georgetown's Institute for the Study of International Migration and Mercy Corps on a project focusing on climate change and its effects on migration in Central America.

Professor Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano published a policy brief (in Spanish) that focuses on social inclusion in Central American coffee chains. It includes recommendations for coffee production in the region to promote gender equality and avoid child labor.

Ian Almond, professor of literature at Georgetown University in Qatar, published World Literature Decentered: Beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal, asking how global literature would change if we stopped referring to the "West."

Susan F. Martin, founder of the Institute for the Study of International Migration and professor emerita, discussed the second edition of her book A Nation of Immigrants, published by Cambridge University Press. A recording of the launch is available.

Alvaro Santos of Georgetown Law's Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas co-authored the report "Trade, Economy, and Work" (in collaboration with Chris Wilson of the Wilson Center and other experts), which offers policy recommendations for U.S.-Mexican economic relations in…

Professor Andrea Gallelli Huezo, a specialist in Latin American art, was featured in the Department of Art and Art History’s spring newsletter for her spring seminar and current research on spectacle, race, and color in Latin America.

CLAS Professor Michael Reed-Hurtado published a piece on the 6,402 civilians killed and falsely passed off as combatants by the Colombian military during civil conflicts between 2002 and 2008. The article examines the path forward and the difficulties of obtaining justice for those killed.

Designed by faculty and students in the Center for Latin American Studies, the map shares developments throughout the region during this time of pandemic in the areas of governance and the rule of law, economic growth and innovation, and social and cultural inclusion.

Professor Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano shares her research on the effects of obesity in Latin America in a new paper (in Spanish) for the International Food Policy Research Institute. There is concrete evidence of the existence of a significant gender gap, with women being affected in a higher and…