University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies
Since the creation of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at Harvard University in 2013, a group of institutions and research groups across the Americas have been working together to consolidate the field of Afro-Latin American Studies. Our main goal is to transform higher education across the Americas, institutionalizing an academic field that centers the experiences of Africans and their descendants and prepares a new generation of educators to produce the antiracist cultural shift toward equity and inclusion that we need. With support of Ford Foundation, the University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies is the embodiment of collaborative networks that we can now deploy to institutionalize the field of Afro-Latin American Studies, transforming it into an engine for racial justice and inclusion. for more information: https://alari.fas.harvard.edu/university-consortium-on-afro-latin-american-studies/
Latin American Social and Public Policy (LASPP)
The Latin American Social and Public Policy Program of the Center for Latin American Studies addresses the need to equip future leaders, public officials, and analysts with the skills necessary to design and implement social and public policy programs appropriate to development in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Click here for information on the CLAS Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference.
Luso-Sphere Studies
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the European Studies Center (ESC) at the University of Pittsburgh are jointly working on developing a Program in Luso-Sphere Studies. For students who wish to pursue a career or research with an international dimension, or in the Luso-Sphere specifically, studying this history and the cross regional relationships that now exist in the Portuguese speaking world would provide multiple opportunities. Such a program would be among the first of its kind in the US and could become a central location for the study of Portuguese language and the Luso-Sphere cultures.
Amazonian Studies
CLAS will develop a related certificate program for Undergraduate and Graduate students, bolster class offerings and library and document collections, as well as promoting recruitment of faculty connected to relevant work in the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Engineering, Health Sciences, Business and Law.
China-Latin America Research Initiative (CLARI)
The Latin American Archaeology Program
Latin America is the principal geographical focus of archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh. Administered by the Department of Anthropology, with the cooperation and support of CLAS, the Latin American Archaeology Program involves research, training, and publication. Its objective is to maintain an international community of graduate students studying archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh. This objective is promoted in part through fellowships that enable outstanding graduate students to study any area of Latin American prehistory. Many of these fellowships are awarded to students from Latin America, who constitute nearly half of the students in the program. The commitment to Latin American archaeology is also illustrated by collaborative ties to numerous Latin American institutions and by the bilingual publication series, which makes the results of primary field research available to a worldwide audience. The Latin American Archaeology Publications Program publishes the bilingual Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology and Latin American Archaeology Reports, co-publishes the collaborative series Arqueología de México, and distributes volumes on Latin American archaeology and related subjects from more than nine publishers in Latin America.