Teaching
Overview
My modules introduce students to a variety of themes in Latin American politics, development and international relations as well as offering more specialised, research-led study of democratisation processes in the region. My particular interests lie in the interaction between international and national dimensions of political change in Latin America, using case studies on human rights, environmental change, democratisation and development.
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and I was awarded the 2021 Learning, Teaching and Student Experience prize.
PhD Supervision
I welcome applications for PhD research related to memory politics, exile, and transnational solidarity in Latin America. I have supervised PhD projects on topics across Latin America but particularly welcome proposals focusing on Brazil and the Southern Cone.
We offer postgraduate funding for social-science projects in Latin America: for more information on applying for postgraduate funding (1+3), please check the ESRC NWDTP website.
Modules for 2024-25
CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS
Module code: LATI307
Role: Module Co-ordinator
DISSERTATION
Module code: MODL307
Role: Teaching
GLOBALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA
Module code: LATI209
Role: Module Co-ordinator
INTRODUCTION TO IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES I
Module code: HISP120
Role: Teaching
INTRODUCTION TO IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES II
Module code: HISP121
Role: Module Co-ordinator
Supervised Theses
- 'Security to study, freedom to live!': School and University Student Resistance to Military Dictatorship in Chile, 1973-1990
- A social constructivist analysis of civil-military relations: US-Mexican bilateral military relations, 2000-2008
- Britain's Secret Wars in Colombia, 1948-2009
- Doing Unsettling Work: An Autoethnographic Study of Decolonising the University Rooted in the Thought of Sylvia Wynter
- Gender, inequality and relations of coloniality: narratives of obstetric violence in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- Indigenous movements and building the Plurinational State in the Bolivian Highlands : organisation and identity in the Trajectory of the CSUTCB and CONAMAQ
- Local content and embeddedness on the internet : following the texts and practices of bloggers from a Brazilian favela
- Moments of Light in Dark Spaces: The Flickering Resistance of a Problematized Salvadoran Youth
- Neoliberal extractivism and rural resistance: the anti-mining movement in the Peruvian Northern Highlands, Cajamarca (2011-2013)
- Seeing through the fight for visIbility : sexual politics and social movements in Brazil
- State-managed participatory democracy in Venezuela : the case of the Communal Councils
- The granddaughters of Sandino : examining gender, sport and development, in Leon, Nicaragua
- Truthtelling and Seeking Justice from Below: Mayan Women’s Voices on Transitional Justice in Guatemala