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  CILAS Graduate Students

New M.A. Students: Class of 2011

Ahlberg, Meredith
Research Interest: Cultural tourism, preservation and development
Regional Interest: Brazil

Aviles , Daniella
Research Interest: Social inequality
Regional Interest: Peru

Copeland, Margaret
Research Interest: Health care delivery
Regional Interest: U.S. and Latin America

Ellstrand, Nathan
Research Interest: Political history and ideology
Regional Interest: Mexico

Gibson, Hannah
Research Interest: Contemporary art and visual culture
Regional Interest: Mexico

Gonzalez, Nasheili
Research Interest: Border identity, health, migration
Regional Interest: Mexico

Griesbach, Kathleen
Research Interest: Migrant Communities in the US
Regional Interest: US-Mexico border

Iatarola, Briana
Research Interest: Surf, sports, Latinos, discrimination, racism

Nicolás, Brenda
Research Interest: Oaxaca migration, social movements
Regional Interest: Mexico

Puentes, Verónica
Research Interest: Effects of economic crisis on migration
Regional Interest: Mexico

Puhl, Emily
Research Interest: Migration to the U.S., education policy

Ramirez, Erika
Research Interest: Broadcasting and Culture
Regional Interest: Mexico

Rimburg, Natalya
Research Interest: Corporate Responsibility in Latin America

Zhu, Longyang
Research Interest: Sino-Latin American relations
Regional Interest: Cuba



Continuing M.A. Students: Class of 2010

Cortes, Diego
Research Interest: Social movements, human rights, privatization of media, and political communication
Regional Interest: Colombia

Hartman , Georgia
Research Interest : International migration

Hawkins, Brian
Research Interest: International migration and US immigration policy
Regional Interest: Mexico, Brazil

Longenecker, Karen
Research Interest: Gender and sexuality

Metz, Cristina
Research Interest: Colonialism, race, class and gender
Regional Interest: Central America

Rodrigo Gonzalez, Paloma
Research Interests: Origins and consequences of the postwar situation
Regional Interest: Peru

Rodriguez, Norma
Research interest: U.S.-Mexico immigration, Immigration Raids, Human Rights, Community Organizing
Regional Interest: Mexico

Silva, Travis
Research interest: US-Mexico immigration flows, internal Mexican immigration, immigrant settlement in the US, immigrant education, indigenous immigration
Regional Interest: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, United States

Weaver Olson, Nathan
Research interest: Bolivian history
Regional Interest: Bolivia