Announcement: PhD Workshop in Latin American and Caribbean Studies | Department of Economics at Columbia University

We are excited to share with you the launch of an exciting and unique initiative at the Institute of Latin American Studies: the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Workshop. We ask that you please share the attached call for applications with PhD students in your department whose work focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean. The Workshop is a year-long, interdisciplinary, and methodologically pluralistic space designed to strengthen graduate student research and training while building a community of scholars. This year, the workshop invites students whose work speaks to one or more overarching themes: Governance, Inequality, and Civic Life in Latin America and the Caribbean.

With the support of a grant from the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), the Workshop will host six to eight PhD students from across the social sciences. Given the Workshop’s deeply interdisciplinary nature, we welcome applications from students in the social sciences and those whose research has a strong social science component from other departments and schools, including, but not limited to, the School of International and Public Affairs, the Mailman School of Public Health, the Climate School, the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Teachers College, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures. Among the additional application requirements are that students have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus and have conducted at least a sustained period of preliminary collection and analysis of empirical data.

Can you please circulate this to the PhD students and faculty in your department?

The deadline for students to apply is January 23rd.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the Workshop or the application process.

Thanks in advance for your attention,

Gustavo S. Azenha, PhD

Executive Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

Director, MA Program in Latin American & Caribbean Studies (MARSLAC)

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