Pat Dixon was invited to be the principal adjudicator of the Seventh National Classical Guitar Competition ‘Liliana Perez Gorey’, sponsored by the Professional Institute of the Modern School of Music in Santiago, Chile. She also presented the Chilean premiere of Reflexiones Concertantes: a Concerto for Two Guitars and Chamber Orchestra by Jeffrey Van, with the University Philarmonic Orchestra directed by Celso Torres. Patricia Dixon and duo partner Jeffrey Van, were also featured on Radio Beethoven’s program Artefactos and in ARTV a cable channel serving five regions in Chile. They both offered master classes and lectures at the Modern School of Music to students ages twelve to twenty four.

Margaret R. Ewalt has published “Crossing Over: Nations and Naturalists in El Orinoco ilustrado. Reading and Writing the Book of Orinoco Secrets.” Dieciocho 29.1 (Spring 2006): 1-25; “El culto a la coca: de admiratio a scientia en El Mercurio Peruano”, in Redes y espacios de opinión pública: De la ilustración al Romanticismo. Cádiz, América y Europa ante la Modernidad. Cádiz: University of Cádiz Press, 2006, pp. 105-120; “Frontier Encounters and Pathways to Knowledge in the New Kingdom of Granada.” The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies, 3 (Fall 2005): 41-55; “Father Gumilla: Crocodile Hunter? The Function of Wonder in El Orinoco ilustrado”, in El saber de los jesuitas, historias naturales y el Nuevo Mundo/Jesuit Knowledge, Natural Histories and the New World. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2005: 303-333. “Christianity, Coca, and Commerce in the Peruvian Mercury.” SECC: Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture,  36 (2007): 187-212; the review essay on Bolonia, Florencia, Roma: Cartas familiares I by Juan Andrés Morrell, S.J. (edited by Enrique Giménez López), in  Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, 30.2 (2007):  414-416. She has two reviews forthcoming: of Andrés González de Barcia and the Creation of the Colonial Spanish American Library, by Jonathan Carlyon, in Hofstra; and of Mártires y anticristos:  Análisis bibliográfico sobre la Revolución francesa en España,  by Yvonne Fuentes, in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
Her book Peripheral Wonders: Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Orinoco, is forthcoming with Bucknell University Press.

Mary Friedman has published the book The Self in the Narratives of José Donoso (Chile 1924-1996). Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004; and the article "Isabel Allende´s ´Mi pais inventado´ and Alma Guillermopietro´s ´Dancing with Cuba´. Chasqui. Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, vol. 34 no. 1 (2005): 161-164.

Candice Crew Leonard has published "Sabado corto by Hector Quintero: Laughing in Havana", in Gestos, 39 (2005): 187-190; and "Notes on Recent Cuban Theater (2000-2004)" in the Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 38 no. 1 (2004), 157-164. He published a book review on "Identidad en el teatro español e hispanoamerican contemporáneo" in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies Vol. 83 No. 3 (2006) 451-452.

Kathryn Mayers has published “Autorrepresentación, andinismo, y artificio barroco en el “Apologético” de Juan de Espinosa Medrano.” Memorias de las VII Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2006; “Americanismo y criollismo en la cornucopia de Hernando Domínguez Camargo.” Revista Memoria y Sociedad Vol. 9 No. 19 (2005): 47-53; and “Between allá and acá: The Politics of Subject Positioning in the Ekphrastic Poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” Calíope, Journal of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry. 11.2 (2005): 5-20.

Bill Meyers has published a book and two articles.

Luis Roniger has published “Representative Democracy and Effective Institutions: Democratic Practice in Contemporary Latin America”, in Raanan Rein and Carlos Waisman, eds. Transitions from Authoritarianism to Democracy: The Cases of Spain and Latin America Sussex Academic Press, 2005, pp. 131-155; and in Spanish in Carlos Waisman, Raanan Rein and Ander Gurrutxaga Abad, eds. Transiciones de la dictadura a la democracia Bilbao: Euskal Erriko Unibertsitatea: Universidad del País Vasco, 2005, pp. 203-230; “Democracy in Latin America: The ‘Only Game in Town’?” in Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg, eds. Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogeneity, Brill, 2005, pp. 553-580; “From Argentina to Israel: Escape, Evacuation and Exile”. Journal of Latin American Studies, 37, 2 (2005): 351-377; “Israel and the Escape of the Victims of Military Repression in Argentina (1976-1983)”, co-authored with Mario Sznajder, Soziologia Israelit, 6, 2 (2005): 233-263 (in Hebrew), both with Mario Sznajder; “Global Times Once Again: Representative Democracy and Countervailing Trends in Iberoamerica”. Iberoamericana (Berlin), 17 (2005): 66-85; in Portuguese, "Collective Uncertainties, Personal Identities: A Social Science Perspective" in CLLH-Sao Paulo No. 4 (2005) 9-26. “Los intelectuales y los discursos de derechos humanos: La experiencia del Cono Sur”, with Leandro Kierszenbaum. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 16, 2 (2005): 5-36; “La costruzione della democrazia in Europa”, in Alfredo Alessandri and Carlo Rossetti, Andrea Borri. Una politica nuova. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Universita degli studi di Parma, Italy, 2005, pp. 37-44; “A Discourse on Trial: The Promotion of Human-Rights and the Prosecution of Sa‘ad Eddin Ibrahim in Egypt”, with Bosmat Yefet-Avshalom, in Journal of Human Rights, 5, 2 (2006); “Human Agency and the Patterned Construction of Meaning and Power”, in Erwägen Wissen Ethik/ Deliberation Knowledge Ethics (Stuttgart), 17, 1 (2006): 62-64; and “Citizenship in Latin America: New Works and Debates”. Citizenship Studies, 10, 4 (2006): 489-502. His co-authored book on The Legacy of Human-Rights Violations in the Southern Cone - with Sznajder - has been published in Portuguese (Sao Paulo: Editora Perspectiva) and in Spanish (La Plata: Ediciones al Margen, 2005).

Teresa Sanhueza has published a book called Continuidad, transformacion y cambio: El grotesco criollo de Armando Discepolo (Buenos Aires: Nueva Generacion, 2004) and also "Dos aproximaciones a la marginalidad: Los pescadores en las redes del mar y Chiloe cielos cubiertos", Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 38 no. 1 (2004) 73-91; and the review "Ictus. La palabra compartida. Antologia - dos tomos", in Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 38 (2004): 202-204.

Peter Siavelis has published “Accommodating Informal Institutions and Democracy in Chile,” in Steven Levitsky and Gretchen Helmke (eds.), Informal Institutions and Democracy in the Developing World. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006): 33-55; “Chile: Political Economy,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, 61 (2006): 549-554; Political Recruitment, Candidate Selection, and the Performance of Democratic Regimes,” in Cesar Arias and Beatriz Ramacciotti. (eds.) Presidencialismo y el parlamentarismo en América Latina (Organization of American States, 2005): 117-125; “Party and Social Structure,” in Richard Katz and William Crotty (eds.) Handbook of Political Parties (Sage, 2005): 359-370; “Chile: The Unexpected (and Expected) Consequences of Electoral Engineering,” in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell (eds.) The Politics of Electoral Systems (Oxford University Press, 2005): 433-452; “Chile: A Strong State,” in Peter Burnell and Vicki Randall (eds.) Politics in the Developing World (Oxford University Press, 2005): 297-307; “Electoral Reform Doesn’t Matter—or Does it?: A Moderate PR System for Chile” Revista de Ciencia Política 26:1 (2006): 216-225; “Insurance for Good Losers and the Survival of Chile’s Concertación” Latin American Politics and Society 47:2 (Summer 2005): 1-22, with John Carey; “Los peligros de la ingeniería electoral (y de predecir sus efectos)” Política, 45 (Spring 2005): 9-28; “Electoral System, Coalitional Disintegration and Democracy in Chile,” Latin American Research Review 40:1 (2005):56-82; “La lógica oculta de la selección de candidatos en las elecciones parlamentarias chilenas” Estudios Públicos (Fall 2005): 189-225; and a book review of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights, by Naomi Roht-Arriaza in Review of Politics, 68:2 (Spring 2006): 334-336.

Jeanne Simmonelli has co-authored the book Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development (Alta Mira Press, 2005, with Duncan Earle).

Emily Wakild has authored "Naturalizing Modernity: Urban Parks, Public Gardens, and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City,? Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican
Studies, 23:1 (Winter 2007), and is about to publish “It is to preserve life, to work for the trees: The Steward of Mexican Forests, Miguel Angel de Quevedo, 1862-1948,” in Forest History Today, and “Purchasing Patagonia: The Contradictions of Conservation in Free Market Chile,” in Bill Alexander ed. “Lost in Transition" in Chile: A Critique of Neoliberalism from Pinochet to "The Third Way," (Lexington Books).

Stephen L. Whittington has published “An indexed bibliography of prehistoric and early historic Maya human osteology”. (with M. E. Danforth and K. P. Jacobi, 2006)http://www.famsi.org/research/maya_osteology/index.html> ; Bones of the Maya: studies of ancient skeletons, co-edited with D. M. Reed first paperback edition. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006; and the review “Heritage of power: ancient sculpture from West Mexico.The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection by Kristi Butterwick.” Museum Anthropology, 30.1, 2007:62-64.

Look around for links and sources...

Find more sources and research sites on Latin American History in Dr. William Meyers´ web page (http://www.wfu.edu/~meyers/)

Look at Dr. Peter Siavelis´ Latin American Political Links at: http://www.wfu.edu/~siavelpm/links.html

Check the Spanish Program in Romance Languages: http://www.wfu.edu/academics/romancelanguages/spanish.htm

• Exiles, refugees and diasporas
• Loss and change of identity
• The dynamics of communities of exiles
• Aliens, alienation and adaptation
• Women in exile
• Political activism abroad
• Reception policies and processes of integration
• Support networks and personal motivations
• The second generation; re-democratization and return