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2,567 search results for “laten american studies” in the Public website

• American Studies

  The interdisciplinary minor American Studies offers a survey of U.S. history, literature and culture from the establishment of the first colonies on the North American continent in the 15th century to the present.

• North American Studies (MA)

  The master’s programme in North American Studies at Leiden University takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the United States, with a particular emphasis on examining key aspects of American history, culture, and literature.

• Latin American Studies (BA)

  Latin America is a region with an immense cultural diversity and a colorful, fascinating and sometimes complicated past and present. Get to know the culture, history and the Spanish or Portuguese language of Latin America and develop yourself into a valuable region specialist with a critical worldvi…

• North American Studies North American Studies (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying North American Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Latin American Studies (MA)

  The master’s programme of Latin American Studies offered by Leiden University supports the teaching and research of the social, cultural, historical, and linguistic diversity of contemporary Latin America, a region of mind-blowing diversity and global impact.

• Latin American Studies (research) (MA)

  The two-year interdisciplinary research master’s in Latin American Studies addresses cutting-edge debates on the social and cultural issues in present-day Latin America and the Caribbean region.

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  Pilar Jimenez Galindo Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Latin American Studies (MA and Research MA) Latin American Studies (research) (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Latin American Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• American foreign policy and liberalism Research project

  The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

• Linguistic Advances in Central American Spanish Research output

  Covering all seven countries on the isthmus, this volume presents the first collection of original linguistic studies on Central American Spanish varieties, which have long been neglected in Hispanic Linguistics.

• Latin American Security and Intelligence Network (LASIN) Research project

  The Latin American Security and Intelligence Network (LASIN) brings together scholars, practitioners, government agencies and the diplomatic community to develop novel and interdisciplinary approaches to addressing key areas of security and intelligence in Latin America.

• Public Health and the American State Research output

  This book explores how public health concerns and political agendas influenced each other in the US over the past century.

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  Edmund Amann Professor of Brazilian Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

• White Skin, Savage Masks: Specters of Native Americans and the Revisiting of History Research project

  How to related figures of savages to conceptions of history?

• FDR in American Memory Roosevelt and the Making of an Icon Research output

  How was FDR's image constructed—by himself and others—as such a powerful icon in American memory?

• The Great War Analogy and the Sino-American Security Dilemma: Foreboding or Fallacious? Research output

  Drawing on the analogical lessons of the Great War, this article uses applied history to analyze how the four parallels discerned can help us make sense of contemporary Sino-American rivalry

• Language prescriptivism: Attitudes to usage vs. actual language use in American English Research output

  On December 18th, Viktorija Kostadinova succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Viktorija on this great result.

• “This is Roosevelt’s World”: FDR as a Cultural Icon in American Memory Research output

  This dissertation studies the construction of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a cultural icon in American memory, particularly by FDR himself.

• lives and deaths: an ethnography of life insurance amongst African Americans in New Orleans Research project

  Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.

• English as a Lingua Franca: Mutual Intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch and American speakers of English Research output

  The presents thesis investigates the extent to which Chinese, Dutch and American speakers of English are mutually intelligible. Intelligibility of vowels, simplex consonants and consonant clusters was tested in meaningless sound sequences, as well as in words in meaningless and meaningful short sent…

• LA cuidadora: Latin American female migration and elderly home-care work in Europe Europa Institute

  Through a lens that examines the intersection of ageing, gender, class, and migration, this project addresses the “care deficit” in European countries and the employment of migrant women from Latin America to fill this deficit.

• LA cuidadora: Latin American female migration and elderly home-care work in Europe Research project

  Through a lens that examines the intersection of ageing, gender, class, and migration, this project addresses the 'care deficit' in European countries and the employment of migrant women from Latin America to fill this deficit.

• American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers. Cooperation or Conflict Research output

  This book explores how changes in the patterns of cooperation and conflict among states, regional actors and transnational non-state actors have affected the rise of emerging global powers and the suggested decline of US leadership. Scholars, students and policy practitioners who are interested in the…

• South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon Research project

  This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.

• Management implications for invertebrate assemblages in the Midwest American agricultural landscape Research output

  Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

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  Marcella Schute PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity Research output

  Human Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century.

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  Nicolas Rodriguez Idarraga Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• 'First Americans': exhibition on turbulent past and present of native Americans News - 16 July 2020

  The First Americans exhibition in the National Museum of Ethnology showcases the resilience and creativity of native Americans. Striking artworks, fashion and prints show that the past is never far away. Artist Jacob Meders was inspired by 16th-century prints from the Leiden University Library. The…

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  Christopher Green Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus of American History

  Faculty of Humanities

• against impunity in Latin America: the contributions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to domestic accountability processes Research output

  On 3 December 2019, Hanna Bosdriesz defended her thesis 'Furthering the fight against impunity in Latin America: the contributions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to domestic accountability processes'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. L.J. van den Herik and Prof. M.A.H. van…

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  Channa Li Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Oran Kennedy Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pablo Isla Monsalve University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sara Polak University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South Research output

  This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective.

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  Soledad Valdivia Rivera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiao Luo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Philomeen Dol Team Leader / Foreign Language Teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Shirley Alexander PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amirardalan Emami

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Yujing Tan Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus Islam in South East Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Steven Hagers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Haneen Omari University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiong Xiong PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Boudewijn Walraven Professor emeritus of Korean language and literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geoffrey Cain PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jurre Knoest PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities