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Graduate Certificate of Concentration in Latin American and Iberian Studies

Chair

K. David Jackson (Spanish and Portuguese)

Professors Ned Blackhawk (History; American Studies), Richard Burger (Anthropology), Marlene Daut (French), Enrique De La Cruz (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry), Carlos Eire (History; Religious Studies), Eduardo Fernandez-Duque (Anthropology), Paul Freedman (History), Aníbal González-Pérez (Spanish and Portuguese), K. David Jackson (Spanish and Portuguese), Albert Ko (Epidemiology; Internal Medicine), Daniel Markovits (Law), Catherine Panter-Brick (Anthropology; Global Affairs), Stephen Pitti (History; American Studies; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration), Claire Priest (Law), Ana Ramos-Zayas (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; American Studies; Anthropology), Cristina Rodríguez (Law), Carla Rothlin (Immunobiology; Pharmacology), Alicia Schmidt Camacho (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; American Studies), Claudia Valeggia (Anthropology), Noël Valis (Spanish and Portuguese), Lisa Voigt (Spanish and Portuguese), Elisabeth Wood (Political Science)

Associate Professors Paulo Brando (School of the Environment), Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos (Anthropology), Ana De La O Torres (Political Science), Marcelo Dietrich (Medicine), Marcela Echeverri Muñoz (History), Anne Eller (History), Moira Fradinger (Comparative Literature), Albert Laguna (American Studies; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration), Michael Murrell (Biomedical Engineering), Christen Smith (Anthropology; African American Studies), Aurélie Vialette (Spanish and Portuguese)

Assistant Professors Santiago Acosta (Spanish and Portuguese), Ángel Escamilla García (Sociology), Nicholas Jones (Spanish and Portuguese), Gana Ndiaye (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration), Catalina Ospina (History of Art), Didac Queralt (Political Science), David Sadighian (Architecture), Emily Sellars (Political Science), Erika Valdivieso (Classics)

Senior Lectors and Lectors (Spanish and Portuguese) Sybil Alexandrov, María Pilar Asensio-Manrique, María Carolina Baffi, Mercedes Carreras, María de la Paz García, Igor de Souza, Sebastián Díaz, Kevin Ennis, Alexander Gil Fuentes, Sarah Glenski, María José Gutiérrez Barajas, María Jordán, Rosamaría León, Mayte López, Jorge Méndez-Seijas, Luna Najera, Juliana Ramos-Ruano, Lissette Reymundi, Lucía Rubio, Ian Russell, Lourdes Sabé Colom, Margherita Tortora  

Affiliated Faculty Fadila Habchi (African American Studies; American Studies), María José Hierro Hernández (Political Science), Jana Krentz (Yale University Library), Ximena López Carrillo (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration), Florencia Montagnini (School of the Environment), Alejandro Roca (Voice and Opera), Maria Saez Marti (Economics)

A variety of Latin American Studies options are available for graduate students in history and other humanities disciplines, the social sciences, and the professional schools. Latin American area course offerings are available in twenty-five disciplines with distinct strengths in anthropology; history; political science; ethnicity, race, and migration; and Spanish and Portuguese. Latin Americanist faculty specialize in the Andes (Burger, Ospina, Valdivieso, Voigt), Argentina (Fradinger, Valeggia), Brazil (Jackson, Ko, Ndaye, Smith), the Caribbean (Daut, Echeverri Muñoz, Eller, Espín-Sánchez, Fradinger, Gil Fuentes, González-Pérez, Glover, Habchi, Hernández-Acosta, Neilson), Central America (Chinchilla, Escamilla-García, Sellars, Wood), Colombia (Echeverri Muñoz, Espín-Sánchez, Francis, Wood), Cuba (Espín-Sánchez, Laguna), Guatemala (Chinchilla), Haiti (Daut, Eller, Glover), Mexico (Caplan, De La O Torres, Espín-Sánchez, López Carrillo, Pitti, Schmidt Camacho, Sellars), and the Southern Cone (Fradinger). School of the Environment faculty (Ashton, Bell, Brando, Doolittle, Gentry, Mendelsohn, Montagnini, Queensborough) have tropical research interests or participate in educational exchanges with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Latin American content courses are also offered in the Schools of Architecture, Environment, Management, and Public Health as well as the Law School, the Divinity School, the David Geffen School of Drama, and the Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Students may pursue the Graduate Certificate of Concentration in Latin American and Iberian Studies in conjunction with graduate degree programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools. To complete the certificate, candidates must demonstrate expertise in the area through their major graduate or professional field, as well as show command of the diverse interdisciplinary, geographic, cultural, and linguistic approaches associated with expertise in Latin America or Iberia.

Admission is contingent on the candidate’s acceptance into a Yale graduate degree program, and award of the certificate, beyond fulfilling the relevant requirements, requires the successful completion of the candidate’s Yale University degree program. Active participation in the council’s extracurricular and research programs and seminars is also strongly encouraged.

Financial resources, such as CLAIS Summer Research grants, are available to graduate and professional school students for summer research. Information on grants is available at https://yale.communityforce.com/Funds/Search.aspx.

Specific Requirements for the Graduate Certificate of Concentration

Language Proficiency The equivalent of two years’ study of one language and one year of the other, normally Spanish and Portuguese. Less frequently taught languages, such as Nahuatl, Quechua, or Haitian Creole, may also be considered for meeting this requirement.


Coursework Six graduate courses in at least two different disciplines. No more than four courses may count in any one discipline.


Geographical and Disciplinary Coverage At least two countries and two languages must be included in the course work or thesis.


Research A major graduate course research paper or thesis that demonstrates the ability to use field resources, ideally in one or more languages of the region, normally with a focus on a comparative or regional topic rather than a single country.

The certificate adviser of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies will assist graduate students in designing a balanced and coordinated curriculum. The council will provide course lists and other useful materials.

Academic Resources of the Council

The council supplements the graduate curriculum with annual speaker and film series, special seminars, and conferences that bring visiting scholars and experts to campus. The council also serves as a communications and information center for a vast variety of enriching events in Latin American studies sponsored by other departments, schools, and independent groups at Yale. It is a link between Yale and Latin American centers in other universities, and between Yale and educational programs in Latin America and Iberia.

The Latin American Collection of the university library has approximately 630,000 volumes printed in Latin America, plus newspapers and microfilms, CD-ROMs, films, sound recordings, and maps. The library’s Latin American Manuscript Collection is one of the finest in the United States for unpublished documents for the study of Latin American history. Having the oldest among the major Latin American collections in the United States, Yale offers research opportunities unavailable elsewhere.

For more information on the Graduate Certificate, contact the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208206, New Haven CT 06520-8206; latin.america@yale.edu