UF Center for Latin American Studies
With over 190 experts on the region, the Center is recognized today as one of the top-ranked centers internationally.
The Center has been continuously designated as a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education since 1961.
This edition features writer in residence Gabriela Alemán, alumni award winner Marcela Márquez García and other students, faculty, and alumni
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This year’s edition incorporates sustainability and equity as vital factors in post-Covid recovery by presenting a series of case studies
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Take a look back at our time with the inaugural Kislak Family Foundation Writer in Residence, Ecuadorian author and scholar Gabriela Alemán
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The UF Center for Latin American Studies is thrilled to host the Latin American Research Review (LARR) for the first time in its history, from January 2021 until December 2025. Our LARR team is led by Dr. Carmen Martínez Novo, the publication's first woman editor in chief, and includes Dr. Heather Vrana (LAS-History) and PhD student Nelson Marín Alarcón (editorial assistant), among other distinguished colleagues from fellow Latin American Studies programs. The LARR publishes a journal issue in March, June, September, and December each year.
Delve into Latin America and the Caribbean through the various events that are planned throughout the year! Don't miss a moment of the action; check out our Calendar of Events.
"After graduating from UF in April, I moved to Providence Rhode Island to start working as a union organizer for The American Federation of Teachers/AFL-CIO. Currently, I am working with graduate students at Brown University in an organizing campaign to create a graduate student union. The Center not only provided me with the tools to become a better scholar but it also allowed me to prepare myself for the professional work I am doing."
MALAS Alumna"I am currently the Manager of the Agriculture & Livelihoods portfolio for Catholic Relief Services in Guatemala and Mexico, based in Guatemala City. Our current agriculture portfolio reaches over 10,000 farming families in the two countries. The MDP program and the Center allowed me to combine a course load which fostered the development of higher-level skills such as strategic design and the overall context and macro trends of international development, while also providing the opportunity to develop more practical skills such as development administration (budgeting!) and monitoring and evaluation."
MDP Alumnus"Through courses and networks such as TCD, I was able to engage with the Center’s disciplinary range of Amazonian specialists. The MALAS program helped me generate a political ecology of resource conflicts that connects space and power with dimensions of class, gender, and ethnicity. After graduating from the program, I transitioned to the Geography department at UF to begin my doctoral research where I continue to utilize an interdisciplinary political ecology framework to research human-environment systems in Florida involving water consumption and ecological degradation."
MALAS Alumnus"After graduating from UF in April, I moved to Providence Rhode Island to start working as a union organizer for The American Federation of Teachers/AFL-CIO. Currently, I am working with graduate students at Brown University in an organizing campaign to create a graduate student union. The Center not only provided me with the tools to become a better scholar but it also allowed me to prepare myself for the professional work I am doing."
MALAS Alumna
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