If you are attending the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) @LASA_2024 in Bogotá, you can pick up a copy of #VisibleRuins as well as many other great books (with a discount!) University of Texas Press. For those in the US who couldn't attend, use code UTXLASA for 30% off and free shipping! LASA MEXICO LASA VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES

Cool to see Juan Albarracín quoted extensively in this interesting Vox piece on megaprisons in Latin America. vox.com/world-politics…

New titles in my email signature: full professor and editor of American Quarterly. Go me!

Excited to be a TraCe Visiting Fellow at PRIF this summer! I will continue to research on violence against social activists (and co-organize a workshop on the topic later in July). trace-center.de/en/about-us/te…

Two days of thought-provoking and important discussions about a terrible phenomenon. Thanks to all participants for their contributions and #ConTrust, #TraCe, and PRIF for their support!

*Narcomedia* is now an audiobook! Or, it will be, when it's released next week. Also available on Audible, so let's use those credits, people! Really excited for it to be available in a new format and hope that it might reach a wider listening audience. amazon.com/Narcomedia-Lat…

Looking for some reading material this weekend? Check out "Pushing Forward: 25 Years of Black AIDS Awareness," a microsyllabus by Aishah Scott. This piece focuses on how systemic marginalization intensified the AIDS crisis in Black communities. /1

Do I hear a Walz?

So excited to share this microsyllabus from Jecca Namakkal on South Asian America in light of how the 2024 Presidential race has put both Usha Chilukuri Vance and Kamala Harris in the spotlight. The microsyllabus focuses on questions of immigration, race, gender, class, and caste.

Book launch: 4:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 19) at Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore, second floor Reading Room. Prof. Robert Schmuhl’s new book, “Mr. Churchill in the White House.” The author will join Notre Dame Magazine Editor Jason Kelly for a Q&A at 4:45 p.m. Free & open to the public.

Congrats to all involved with the 2024 @AQ_journal special issue. Out now!

Mark your calendars 🗓️ The Borderlands and Latinx Studies Seminar of the Newberry Library will host its first session of the year in exactly one month. Below is a 🧵 of the AY's schedule in its entirety. Maru López-García, PhD, Emiliano Aguilar Jr, and I hope to see you there!

Halloween costume idea: Emily Maitlis’ voice in Very Royal Scandal

American Quarterly is now on Instagram. Please give us a follow over there! (And here on X if you haven’t already.) instagram.com/americanquarte…

If you are in the Chicago area, don’t miss this event with two stellar scholars, Maryhen Jiménez & Verónica Zubillaga, to discuss the situation in Venezuela in the aftermath of the 2024 elections!

It was cool to be on Arizona Public Radio yesterday (and, miraculously, received more fan mail than hate mail) but I am pissed that the rhetoric that we discussed is still so prevalent. It's a quick listen and well produced: kjzz.org/the-show/2024-…

In light of rather pathetic recent attempts at "humor," we've made José I. Fusté's article on anticolonialism in Black Puerto Rican antiracist though open access for the next 30 days (with thanks to our publisher, Hopkins Press). muse.jhu.edu/article/540906

🎥 En el marco del VIII Seminario Internacional de Personas Defensoras de #DerechosHumanos tuvimos el honor de conversar con Juan Albarracín, doctor en Ciencias Políticas, quien compartió un análisis sobre el funcionamiento del crimen organizado y su conexión con el Estado. 🌎

New AQ coming 'atcha. Great stuff inside this one!

Tomorrow!! 📚❄️