Colombia has long been a research focus at Vanderbilt. Faculty and student research projects are varied, ranging from colonial history and historical archaeology to literature, current politics and anthropology. The library is known internationally for its unique and rare special collections of Colombiana and its related digital initiatives and databases.<\/p>\n
One of Vanderbilt\u2019s most important resources, the J. Le\u00f3n Helguera Collection of Colombiana, spans a wide array of documents, broadsides, pamphlets, and programas<\/em>, on topics ranging from politics to religion, offering a unique window into 19th-\u00a0<\/span>and early 20th-century\u00a0Colombia. Selections of these rare materials (e.g., pamphlets and broadsides) have been digitized to form a database<\/a> accessible to scholars everywhere.\u00a0 To see published materials in the collection search the library\u2019s catalog ACORN<\/a> under Helguera AND keyword of interest.<\/p>\n Also housed at Vanderbilt\u2019s Jean and Alexander Heard Library is the extensive collection of personal papers and manuscripts of noted Colombian author and scholar Manuel Zapata Olivella. Physician, award-winning novelist, anthropologist and diplomat, Olivella\u2019s writings focused on people of African descent in Latin America. Today, he is widely considered one of the 20th century’s\u00a0most influential Afro-Hispanic authors. Selections of the collection and corresponding essays have been digitized here.<\/a><\/p>\n These materials form part of the collections of Nicholas Hobbs and J. Le\u00f3n Helguera. Hobbs was the first director of selection and research for the Peace Corps and this collection includes documents from the early years of the PC, such as correspondence, psychological tests and analyses that were used to develop suitable criteria for success, with a focus on the experiences of volunteers in Colombia. Helguera was one of the first to train and teach volunteers destined for Colombia in the early sixties and this collection consists of correspondence, publicity, teaching materials and related ephemera.<\/p>\n Directed by Jane Landers,<\/a> SSDA<\/a> is a project that digitally preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and Afro-descended peoples in the Americas. With funding from the British Library\u2019s Endangered Archives Programme, teams of Vanderbilt faculty and students have conducted five preservation projects in Colombia. The teams captured at-risk documents in Cartagena, the Choc\u00f3, C\u00f3rdoba, and Riohacha. The SSDA digital database of nearly 400,000 documents also holds records from Cuba, Brazil, and Spanish Florida.<\/p>\n Hosted by Vanderbilt University, LAPOP conducts surveys on public political opinion throughout Latin America. Surveys taken in Colombia, dating back to 2001, have played a central role in this project producing a multitude of studies and publications on various aspects of democratic values and behaviors in the Americas.<\/p>\n Emma Banks<\/a> (Anthropology) Colombia has long been a research focus at Vanderbilt. Faculty and student research projects are varied, ranging from colonial history and historical archaeology to literature, current politics and anthropology. The library is known internationally for its unique and rare special collections of Colombiana and its related digital initiatives and databases. J. Le\u00f3n Helguera Collection of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":599,"parent":110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-headline-img.php","meta":{"spay_email":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection<\/a><\/h3>\n
Peace Corps Collections<\/h3>\n
Slave Societies Digital Archives (SSDA)<\/a><\/h3>\n
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)<\/a><\/h3>\n
Current Faculty and Students working on Colombia:<\/u><\/h3>\n
\nChelsey Dyer <\/a>(Anthropology)
\nFernanda Bretones Lane <\/a>(History)
\nDaniel Genkins <\/a>(History)
\nLesley Gill <\/a>(Anthropology)
\nJane Landers<\/a> (History)
\nMichael LaRosa <\/a>(History, Rhodes)
\nWilliam Luis <\/a>(Spanish)
\nCharles Orser Jr. <\/a>(Anthropology)
\nGloria P\u00e9rez<\/a> (Anthropology)
\nGretchen Selcke<\/a> (Latin American and Latinx Studies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"