Meet Our Majors

• Hannah Ankeny ‘12
• Emmetsburg, Iowa
• Study abroad: Concepción, Chile
• LAS interests: Transnational relations, migration, resistance to repression, religious organizations and theological movements, political martyrdom, and cinematographic representations of Latin America.

• Maddy Blain ‘15
• Evansville, Wisconsin
• Study abroad plans: Undecided
• LAS interests: Public health and women’s health in Latin America, indigenous rights and culture, U.S. immigration policy

• Caroline Davidson ’13
• Lexington, Massachusetts
• Study abroad: São Paulo, Brazil
• LAS: interests: Political position of indigenous groups, effects of migration, and US immigration system.

• Gabriella Gomez ’14
• Queens, New York City, New York
• Study abroad: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• LAS interests: Development and growth of Latin American cities

• Isela Gomez ’13
• East Los Angeles, California
• Study abroad: Nicaragua
• LAS interests:

• Elsa Gossen ’15
• Topeka, Kansas
• Study abroad plans: possibly the Border Studies program in Mexico
• LAS interests: Nonviolent movements, women’s roles in peace-building, and U.S. policies related to Latin America

• Alex Harley ’15
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Study abroad plans: Peru with the SIT program
• LAS interests: Indigenous cultures and rights

• Mattie Hill ’13
• Liberty, Missouri
• Study abroad: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• LAS interests: Environmental infrastructures, Indigenous rights, and the shaping of cultural/social relationships

• Andrea Jackson ’13
• Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota
• Study abroad: Managua, Nicaragua
• LAS interests: Representations of protest and revolution in Latin America (music, images, theatre), labor rights, maquiladora industry, United Farm Workers.

• Rebecca Jackson ’13
• El Paso, Texas
• Study abroad: Bolivia
• LAS interests: Andes, Indigenous rights, media as a tool for social change, theories of decolonization generated from the grassroots, cultural studies, utopianism

• Marian Michaels ’15
• Somerville, Massachusetts
• Study abroad plans: Undecided
• LAS interests: Women’s political activism, U.S. influences, social movements, protest and revolution

• Carly Silva ‘13
  Fairfield, Connecticut
  Study abroad: Costa Rica
  LAS interests: Central America, indigenous rights, and environmental activism.

• Jeanne Stuart ’14
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Study abroad: La Paz, Bolivia
• LAS interests: Leftist social movement innovation, Indigenous political mobilization, “Boom” era literature, all about the Andes

• Graham Sutherland ’13
• Seattle, Washington
• Study abroad: Cochabamba, Bolivia
• LAS interests: Indigenous rights; Cold War-era politics and their effect on Central America.