Latin America

Guillermo Rosas studies the economic consequences of political regimes and the effects of political institutions on political elite behavior, especially in Latin America.

WashU Spanish students collaborated on a joint research project with students from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Ciudad de México campus.

Having worked in Haiti for more than 30 years, Lora Iannotti has witnessed the country’s dire health problems and specifically, the lack of young child nutrition in resource-poor settings.

In her award-winning book, Diana Montaño explores the perspectives of users of electricity on the ground—people and their ambitions in how they employ technologies.

Washington University continues to increase its outreach across the globe with new programs that may help detect and treat Alzheimer’s.

Two scientists from Washington University are reconstructing past climate and cultural shifts in the Peruvian Andes.

“Bedlam in the New World” recounts the history of the Hospital de San Hipólito in Mexico City, the first hospital of the New World to specialize in the care of the mentally disturbed. Christina Ramos, assistant professor of history, has won the Bandelier/Lavrin Prize for her book “Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment.” Sponsored […]

Lauren Eldridge Stewart, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, is on research leave while she works on a book-length manuscript about Haiti’s classical music tradition.  Lauren Eldridge Stewart, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, has been awarded a six-month Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. This new award funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, […]

Interview with Faculty Fellow Javier García Liendo By the early 1940s, the Peruvian state knew it had a problem and an opportunity: In a country of 7 million people settled across an area twice the size of France, the biggest portion of their population lived in relatively autonomous mountain regions, and many had little connection […]

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, led by seismologist Douglas Wiens, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & ­Sciences, recently completed one of the first seismic studies of the Patagonian Andes. In a new publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, they describe and map out local subsurface dynamics. The icefields that stretch for […]