Rhodes students Jazmin Montes ’24, Alex Moreno-Espinosa ’27, Lucy Page ’24, and Yesica Trejo ’26, who are pursuing majors and minors in Latin American and Latinx studies, presented their research at the Latin American and Latinx Studies Symposium held at Rollins College on March 22 in Winter Park, FL. Students from across the country gathered at this interdisciplinary forum to showcase original research and creative projects conducted at their institution.
Rhodes students were generously supported by the Office of Fellowships and Undergraduate Research. They presented projects focusing on comparative studies of the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States and Chile; the intellectual legacy of Puerto Rico’s Anarchist movement; Gloria Anzaldúas emancipatory notions of resistance, and extractivism in Latin America respectively.The topics were studied in the survey of Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS 200) and the Senior Seminar (LALS 485) courses during the fall and spring semesters under the guidance of Dr. Elizabeth Pettinaroli.
Students worked on topics of key importance to the region and engaged new epistemological approaches emerging from Latin American and Latinx scholarship. According to Pettinaroli, their projects offered new ideas and perspectives emerging from the region and its diaspora at the symposium, reminding us of the importance of interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary work in expanding diverse perspectives that inspire and support the study of this fascinating, complex region of the world through the liberal arts.