The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (ALARI), Harvard University, has selected the 2024 Class for the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies. The fifteen members of the seventh edition of the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop were selected from a pool of sixty-two applicants from Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Haiti, Spain, United States, and Venezuela. Their work on variety of topics and time periods reflects the richness of Afro-Latin American Studies, with contributions from the fields of Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Education, Ethnography, History, Humanities, and Law. The 2024 Class of the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop includes:
Ladjane Alves Sousa, Universidade Federal da Bahia
“PROFISSÃO DOCENTE: Presenças e atuações femininas e re-existência negra na primeira greve de professores no Brasil no período pós-abolição”
Carla Andrés Bauzá, Pompeu Fabra University
“Maroon Women in Guerrilla Communities: Gender, Race, and Insurgency in Eastern Cuba”
Maryluz Barragán González, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
“La cuestión racial en el derecho constitucional”
Karina Beras, Cornell University
“Stuck in Limbo: Time and Space in the Dominican Republic”
Yair Andre Cuenu-Mosquera, Texas A&M University
“¿Qué es eso a lo que se llama negro en Colombia?”
Harion Custodio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
“Cronotopos da Escravidão em Memorial de Aires, Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha e Another Country”
Daniele Ferreira Evangelista, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
“Casa de santo – a vida cotidiana de um terreiro de candomblé”
Santiago Manuel Gimenez, Universidad de Torino
“Pata Santa, el ladrón más célebre de Buenos Aires: La orquestación visual-racial de un “delincuente innato” en el paso del siglo XIX al XX”
Lucas Koutsoukos-Chalhoub, University of Michigan
““Um preto sem educação e sem convívio social”: Patronage, Black Activism, and Police Racism in 1930s Porto Alegre”
Juliana Cintia Lima e Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Museu Nacional
“”Éramos cinzas e agora somos fogo”: quando os objetos se tornam sujeitos de sua própria história”
Eduarda Lira de Araujo, Harvard University
“To Tame the Evil Hearts of the Whites: Fugitive Ecologies in The Last Decades of Slavery”
Aline Maia Nascimento, Museu Nacional/ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
“Black mothering against Genocide: claiming rights and re-creating Black sociability”
Vania Reyes Muñoz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“Al cruzar las fronteras: derivas sobre el barrio, el cuerpo y la movilidad social”
Georgia Soares, Harvard University
“School as a Site of Self-Discovery: Black Subjecthood as an Identitarian Turn in Afro-Brazilian Fiction”
Francisco Sosa, Universidad de Buenos Aires
“Experiencias y trayectorias de afrodescendientes en Paraná (Entre Ríos, Argentina) durante la posabolición”
