UF Center for Latin American Studies
The Crime, Law, and Governance in the Americas (CLGA) Specialization is designed to train students in the interdisciplinary, comparative study of crime, law, violence, justice, and related areas in Latin America and the U.S. This specialization also prepares students for research and applied careers in the fields of law and governance in the Americas.
To help students and advisors to navigate the vast and constantly shifting curricular landscape supporting Latin American Studies at UF.
To foster connection and collaboration around shared interests among current and prospective UF faculty, students, and partners.
Theory and Topics Courses:
Methods Courses:
Before each semester, the Center compiles and posts online a Guide to hundreds of LAS-related courses available the coming semester. Some courses contributing to specializations are offered every semester, others once every few years. The list of courses provided here is not intended to guarantee any curricular offerings, but rather to open horizons to topics that have been and may be offered in widely varied programs around UF.
Each specialization offers students the opportunity to craft personalized programs of study and to add their own contributions. Students may identify additional courses relevant for a specialization, including new and one-time offerings, and may seek approval from the Specialization Coordinator to count such courses toward specialization credits.
Jeffrey Adler (History) U.S. Urban History, History Of Violence And Social Conflict, History of American Criminal Justice, and Nineteenth-Century America
Rebecca Hanson (Latin American Studies/Sociology; Venezuela and Colombia) Crime and Citizen Security, Political Sociology, Human Rights, Global Studies, Urban Sociology, Social Movements and Citizen Participation, Gender; Latin America, Qualitative Methods
Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol (Law) Civil Rights, Comparative Law, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, International and Regional Human Rights (Inter-America and Europe), International and Transnational Law, LGBT Issues, Marriage Equality, Race & Race Relations Sovereignty, War and War Crimes, Women, Gender and the Law
Richard Kernaghan (Anthropology; Peru and Amazonia) Legal Anthropology, Ethnography and Ethnographic Writing, Roads and Indigenous Populations
Marvin Krohn (Criminology) Juvenile Delinquency, Adolescent Substance Use, Sociology of Law
Jodi Lane (Criminology) Fear of Crime, Crime Policy, Corrections, Juvenile Justice, Evaluation Research
Carmen Martinez Novo (Latin American Studies)
Jodi Schorb (English) History of U.S. Prison
Joseph Spillane (History) Development of Drug Addiction Research, Police Practice Relative to Illicit Markets
Heather Vrana (History; Central America) Student and Social Movements, Social Class, Race, Disability and History of Medicine, Nationalisms, Youth Politics and Culture, Popular Culture
