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Welcome to the
Latin American History home page at FIU!
In these pages we present
some of the features that make the Department of History's track on
Latin America so special. Amon g them
are the exceptional strengths in number and reputation of the faculty,
the careful oversight in training, the exciting research areas, the
University's comprehensive commitment to the study of Latin America and
the Caribbean, and Miami's extraordinary array of cultures, stretching
from Mexico to Argentina.
You will also find
information in this web site about the comprehensive examination
procedures for concentrators on Latin America, links to the application
process, sources of financial support, and institutional resources.
FIU's master's and
doctoral programs in History both offer a concentration on Latin
America. The master's degree
provides a strong foundation for professional or further academic work,
while the doctoral program's
emphasis on the Atlantic world affords Latin American concentrators the
opportunities to pursue cross-cultural research.
The Latin American track
in the Department of History's graduate program at FIU is regarded as
having one of the nation's strongest representations of faculty
dedicated full-time to Latin America. The graduate track in Latin
America serves as an intellectual nerve center of the
Department of History's comparative doctoral preparation.
The Latin American component of the doctoral program affords students the needed breadth of coverage
across time and space in general courses, while offering thematic focus
in seminars. Requirements for the Master's and Ph.D. programs,
along with graduate courses and seminars in the areas of Latin America,
Europe, United States, and Africa are available from the Department's on-line catalog.
Beyond the faculty in
History, students have at their disposal one of the country's richest
set of courses on Latin America spanning several social science and
humanities departments, including Political
Science, Sociology
& Anthropology, International
Relations, Modern Languages, and Economics. 
Florida International
University's commitment to Latin American Studies is reflected in its
exceptional strengths on the history of Latin America. You're invited
to explore our program and links to Latin American resources at FIU,
including the Latin American &
Caribbean Center, which serves as a
hub of scholarly activities and funding sources.
Ph.D. Program in
Latin American Studies
Students concentrating on Latin
America in the graduate program in History at FIU are trained by some
of the most highly respected scholars in the nation. The Latin American
track serves as an intellectual nerve center of the Department of
History's doctoral program in Atlantic Civlization. It affords
students both breadth of coverage through
courses that cut across time and space and thematic approaches provided
in seminars.
In the Latin American
concentration, students explore some of the most exciting developments
in the field. Nation-building, environmental history, demographic
transitions, race and group identities, family and society, the
development of the state, gender relations . . . these are some of the
most stimulating topics currently being investigated and taught in the
graduate program's concentration in Latin America.
Florida International University's commitment to Latin American Studies
is reflected in its exceptional strengths on the history of Latin
America. Students concentrating on Latin American History can also take
advantage of courses beyond the Department to fulfill breadth
requirements. FIU offers an extraordinarily rich array of courses on
Latin America across social science and humanities departments, Political
Science, Sociology & Anthropology,
International Relations,
Modern Languages,
and Economics.
In addition, the University's Latin
American & Caribbean Center serves as a hub of scholarly
activities and funding sources.
Faculty:
Latin America Specialists
| Faculty Expertise: Regions, Periods, Themes |
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Major Grants & Fellowships, Honors |
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N.
David Cook, Texas '73 Professor: Colonial Andes; Ethnohistory;
Historical demography
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ACLS, Guggenheim, Mellon, Wenner-Gren, Ford, Fulbright,
Doherty |
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Elizabeth
Cooper, University
of Chicago, '07, Assistant Professor: Modern Brazil;
Cuba; race
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Fullbright-Hays, Doctoral Fellowship,
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
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| Sherry
Johnson, Florida '95, Associate
Professor: 18th-19th Caribbean; Cuba; Women; Environmental |
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Mellon, Wilgus, Vance, Kislak Prize, Cabrera Prize, NEH |
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| Bianca Premo, UNC '01,
Assoc. Professor. Childhood,
Gender, Legal History,
Colonial Peru, Mexico) |
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ACLS, Fulbright, Ford
Foundation, American Philosophical Society
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| Mark D.
Szuchman, Texas '76 Professor: 19th-20th Southern
Cone; Family; Urban; Nation-building |
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Fulbright, NEH, SSRC, Doherty, Fulbright-Hays, Conference
Prize, PCCLAS Prize |
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| Victor Uribe,
Pittsburgh '92 Associate Professor: 18th-19th
Colombia; Mexico; Legal; Nation-building |
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Mellon, Fulbright, Tibesar Prize, NEH |
Environment
No other area in the United
States offers a richer or more varied Latin American environment than
Greater Miami. The numerous art galleries specializing in Latin
American painters and sculptors reflect the region's role as a center
of artistic exchange in the Americas. The musical setting
encompasses salsa to symphony, zapateo to tango. A fully bilingual
population melds the language of Borges and García Marquez
seamlessly with that of Hemingway
and Hiassen.
The annual Miami Film Festival
debuts a large number of Latin American productions, while commercial
theaters offer Spanish-language films on a regular basis. Restaurants
and cafés serve foods ranging from the zestful tastes of Mexico
to the beef and pasta of Argentina.Daily newspapers from throughout
Latin America add to the immediacy of the region's political, social,
and economic environments.
Financial
Aid
Graduate
Assistantships are available from the Department of History on a
competitive basis. Every assistantship offers both a stipend and
tuition waivers covering the academic year. In addition, history
graduate students in the Latin American concentration have been
successful in competing for fellowships offered through the Latin
American & Caribbean Center from various sources, including the
Mellon Foundation, the Foreign Language and Areas Studies program of
the Department of Education, and the Organization of American States,
among others. For additional information regarding costs and
financial support for graduate studies at FIU, check the College of
Arts and Sciences' Graduate
Support page.
Resources
The Green
Library. The eight-story Steven and Dorothea Green Library,
completed in 1998, towers above the University Park campus. With
its state-of-the-art electronic and networking capabilities, the
library offers some of the most advanced text retrieval mechanisms in
the State of Florida. FIU's library forms part of the powerful
consortium of Florida libraries, the FCLA. The holdings on Latin
America are significant. Moreover, the history collection stands
as the Latin American collection's strongest component, with special
stre ngths on Argentina, Mexico, Peru,
and the Levi Marrero manuscript collection on colonial Cuba.
The Latin American & Caribbean Center. LACC
is a federally supported National Resource Center for language and area
studies. LACC supports research and training endeavors through
its grants and fellowship programs.  The
Latin American History faculty and graduate students have benefited
from a long-standing collaboration ranging from co-sponsorship of
seminars and conferences to curricular activities. In addition,
LACC serves as the meeting ground for many of the
latinamericanist faculty from throughout the College of Arts and
Sciences, further enhancing the students' academic experiences.
The Cuban Research Institute. The CRI was established in 1991
by the Provost of Florida International University (FIU) upon the
recommendation of a faculty committee, so as to fulfill, in the area of Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies, the University's three-fold mission: research, teaching, and
service. As the largest institution of public higher education in
southern Florida, FIU (a part of the State University System of
Florida) has unique obligations and opportunities in developing
Cuba-related programs. The CRI has secured more than 1.2 million
dollars in external funds. It was awarded a Resident Fellowship
Program in the Humanities by the Rockefeller Foundation for the period
from 1994 to 1998 by which 14 scholars were brought from throughout the
world, including Cuba, to FIU for one-semester fellowships on the
program theme: "Island and Diaspora: National Identity, Sovereignty,
and Reconciliation in the 21st Century." CRI is now the editorial site Cuban
Studies, the leading journal in the field for over 25 years,
published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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