CLACS 2015 graduate students

COMMENCEMENT2015

RECIPIENTS OF THE CERTIFICATE IN LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STUDIES

GRADUATECERTIFICATES

Sebastián José Bowen Carranza

Master of International Development Policy

While at DukeFavorite Courses

Development, Security, and Violence—Natalia MirovitskayaSchool & Social Policy—Helen LaddIndigenous People & Development—Rosemary FernholzPoverty Reduction—Phyllis PomerantzLatin American NGOs—Jerry VanSant

Site Coordinator DukeEngage ChileSocial Policy Learning Games

The Chilean State & MapucheConflicts: Strategies to Address Structural Factors & Polarization

Thesis

Upon GraduationTravel  the  U.S.  and  return  to  Chile  to  work  on  

social  policies  to  improve  vulnerable  communities

Maria Carla Cella

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies

While at Duke

Favorite Courses

The Amazon with Paul BakerCreative Communities with Miguel Rojas-SoteloModernidades Brasileiras with Gustavo FurtadoPortuguese with Madga SilvaThe Darwinian Revolution with Jon Shaw

Thesis: Transforming Globalization--From Deterioration to Regeneration

Academic Year FLAS FellowshipGraduate Liberal Studies Research GrantCLACS Field Research Grant

Upon GraduationExplore  opportunities  in  sustainable  development  and  environmental  

conservation

Vanessa Freije

PhD in History

While at Duke

Disser tation:Journalists, Scandal, and the Unraveling of

One-Par ty Rule, 1960-1988

Favorite Professors: Jocelyn Olcott and Pete Sigal

• Katherine Goodman Stern Dissertation Fellowship• UCSD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Predoctoral Fellow• Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, U.S. State Department• Multiple Duke research awards

Upon Graduation

Dar tmouth Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship

Tenure-track faculty position University of Washington

Luis Felipe Gil Solis

Master of International Development Policy

While at Duke

Favorite Courses

Poverty Reduction with Phyllis PomerantzFiscal Decentralization with Roy Kelly

• Future International Development Leaders Program in Udaipur, India

• Fulbright Scholarship

• Co-President Sanford LAC

Public-Private Partnership in Peru: Peru’s Experience of the Works for Taxes Law

Thesis

Upon Graduation

Consulting with governments to provide more efficient delivery

of public services

Jessica Eileen Jones

PhD in Literature

While at Duke

• James B. Duke Fellow• Academic Year FLAS

Fellowship • Summer FLAS Fellowship for

Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro• CLACS Travel Grant

Feeling America Otherwise: Ground as an Earth that Quakes

Favorite Professors

Richard Rosa, Walter Mignolo, Fredric Jameson, Wahneema Lubiano, Nathaniel Machey

Dissertation

Publications

“El espectro descolonial de la izquierda Argentina, 1955-1976” In Pensamiento Argentino y la Opción Descolonial. Ed. Zulma Palermo. Buenos Aires. 2010

“Spatializing Sexuality in Jamie Hernandez’s Locas” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 2009

Felipe Ignacio Magofke Rodríguez

Master of International Development Policy

While at DukeFavorite  Courses

Global  Development  with  Gary  GereffiAssistant  Development  with  Anirudh KrishnaGovernance with  Phyllis  PomerantzStorytelling with  Catherine  AdmayBehavior  Economics  with  Dan  Ariely

• CLACS Grant for the Chilean Public Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.

• SEAD SAC Member• MIDP 1st Year Representative• Internship at the World Bank

Fostering Innovation: Moving from Star t-up to Build-up Entrepreneurship in Chile

Upon Graduation

Work in the U.S. for a few years (hopefully at the World Bank or in the Triangle)

Xiao Recio Blanco

Doctorate in Juridical Sciences, Duke Law

While at DukeFavorite Courses

Environmental Law and Policy with Jim SalzmanOcean and Coastal Law with Steve RoadyRisk Regulation with Jonathan WienerEnergy Law with Jonas Monast

Fieldwork conducted in Mexico (Baja California, Mexcaltitán)

Conferences at Cornell and University of Vienna

World Wildlife Fund Scholarship

Dissertation

Beyond Area-Based Ocean Management

Upon Graduation

Publish disser tation as separate law review ar ticles

Find work in an International Organization or NGO in the Washington, D.C. area

Luiz Alberto Teixeira Pinto, Jr

Master of International Development Policy

While at DukeFavorite Courses

• Policy Analysis and Development, Security, and Violence with Natalia Mirovitskaya

• Capacity Development with Frank Webb

Thesis: Bringing Peace to the Brazilian Amazon

Outreach to Durham public schools to teach about peace building policy

around the world

Upon Graduation

Develop an Amazon Peace Center NGO in Brazil

Daniela Tort-Sanchez

Master of International Development Policy

While at Duke

Thesis: Increasing Protection and Resilience of Unaccompanied Children

Favorite Professors

Phyllis Pomerantz, Cory Krupp

Rotary International Scholarship

Internship in India

Duke-UNC Consor tium Conference

Marie Veyrier

Master of International Development Policy

While at DukeThesis: Food Insecurity Among

Small Family Farms in Guatemala

Internship in Costa Rica with FUNDESDCID Training program in HaitiSanford Scholarship

Phyllis PomerantzFrank WebbRosemary FernholzFernando Fernholz

Favorite Professors

Upon GraduationProjects focused on improving rural development, agriculture, and food

security in Latin America