\n<\/strong>Elsa S\u00e1nchez Mercado (Ph.D. Spanish, Graduate Certificate in Latino and Latina Studies)
\nLydia Abraham (M.Ed. Community Development and Action, Graduate Certificate in Latino and Latina Studies)
\nAlex Allison (M.A. Latin American Studies)<\/p>\n
2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Megan\u00a0Jeanette Myers is Associate Professor of Spanish at Iowa State University. In 2019, Myers published\u00a0Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature\u00a0<\/em>and in 2021 Myers published a co-edited anthology titled\u00a0The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic. <\/em>She has also recently published articles in\u00a0Confluencia, Chiric\u00fa, Chasqui, Children’s Literature,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Latino Studies.\u00a0<\/em>Myers is a Fulbright Scholar to the Dominican Republic for the 2021-2022 academic year and serves various editorial capacities on several academic journals including\u00a0Hispania, The International Journal on Research of Service-Learning and Community Engagement,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Afro-Hispanic Review.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n John T.\u00a0Maddox, IV is Associate Professor of Spanish and African American Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Through the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, he won national Teacher of the Year (2021) and the Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award (2015). He is author of\u00a0Challenging the Black Atlantic: The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gon\u00e7alves<\/em>\u00a0(2021) and co-author of the\u00a0Dictionary of Latin American Identities\u00a0<\/em>with Thomas Stephens (2021). He has published widely on the African diaspora in Brazil and the Hispanic Caribbean.<\/p>\n Caleb Hayes graduated with an M.A. in Latin American Studies in 2017, after obtaining his MPH with a Global Health concentration from Vanderbilt in 2015. Throughout his graduate studies at Vanderbilt, Caleb visited Guatemala multiple times to work on several curricular and extra-curricular projects. During the M.A. program, he studied K\u2019iche\u2019 Mayan and applied his interests in public health research to his course assignments and projects. Caleb was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to support his graduate studies; he also received summer FLAS fellowship to study K\u2019iche\u2019 Mayan in Nahual\u00e1, Guatemala through the Mayan Language Institute. Caleb values his education, the relationships, and experiences from the program greatly. As a Clinical Research Associate in the Pathology Department at St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital, he works daily on pathology research projects that take place in the Central American and Mexican (and Southeast Asian) regions, which require many of the skills he learned in both his MPH and M.A. programs.<\/p>\n Demetrius Murphy is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. He earned his B.A. in Management Consulting and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. in Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. His research interests lie in the areas of race and ethnicity, economic sociology, and urban sociology, focusing mainly on Blackness in Brazil and the United States. He has two ongoing projects. One project investigates how the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter works in Brazil. His dissertation examines how perceptions of the good life are \u201cmade\u201d and the social struggles in which particular visions become dominant in Black communities in Los Angeles. While a student at Vanderbilt, Demetrius received two academic year FLAS awards and one summer FLAS award. He studied both Spanish and Portuguese. While his primary work focused on Brazil, he also conducted research in Puerto Rico. And although his current work focuses on Los Angeles, Demetrius is in the process of publishing two papers from his M.A. thesis. Examining racism and anti-Blackness in Latin American has prepared Demetrius to complete his Ph.D., but more importantly, it prepared him for a future career as a tenured professor.<\/p>\n Sagen Eatwell graduated in May, 2020 with an M.A. in Latin American Studies and an M.Ed. in International Education Policy and Management from Peabody College at Vanderbilt.\u00a0 As part of his dual degree, he studied the K’iche\u2019 Mayan language with the support of Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) academic year and summer fellowships. \u00a0During his graduate studies, Sagen used his language skills and knowledge to support the center\u2019s outreach programs with Metro Nashville Public Schools Office of English Learners. His thesis examined prejudice and intergroup relations among students of Guatemala’s Bilingual Education program. Since graduation he has worked as a research assistant at the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Sagen uses both Spanish and English to conduct surveys and qualitative interviews of new parents at hospitals around the country. Additionally, he draws on training in language, cultural and historical context, and educational theory to develop curriculum for health interventions of Spanish-speaking families in the Nashville area.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Sagen Eatwell (M.Ed.\/M.A. Latin American Studies)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Alejandro Botia (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nDemetrius Murphy (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nMelissa Cornejo (M.A. Education in Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies, Graduate Certificate in Latino and Latina Studies)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Miguel Cuj (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nAndrea Delgado (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nHeather Ewing (MPH\/M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nJessica Fletcher (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nPaige Southworth (4 + 1 M.A. Latin American Studies)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Grace Fletcher (MPH\/M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nCaleb Hayes (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nLynsey Sharp (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nCory Weaver (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nTheodora Saclarides (4 + 1 M.A. Latin American Studies)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Megan Myers (Ph.D. Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate Certificate in Latino and Latina Studies)
\nElizabeth Lopez (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nTara Kingsley (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nKyle Harper (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nHaleema Cheek (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nStephanie Brandao Carvalho (M.A. Latin American Studies)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Rebecca West (M.A. Latin American Studies)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Angelika Albaldejo (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nAshley Larson (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nJonathon Moody (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nMegan Oleson (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nCaitlin Patton (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nDaniel Rojas (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nRebecca West (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nChelsea Williams (M.A. Latin American Studies)
\nYvonne White (M.A. Latin American Studies)<\/p>\nAlumni Spotlights<\/h2>\n
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Megan Myers
\n<\/strong>Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate Certificate in Latino and Latina Studies, 2016<\/p>\n![\"John](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2021\/08\/22135318\/John-Maddox-Portrait-241x300.jpg\")
John T. Maddox, IV
\n<\/strong>Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese, 2014<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2021\/08\/22135333\/Caleb-New-Headshot-e1628779019267.jpg\")
Caleb Hayes
\n<\/strong>M.A. in Latin American Studies, 2017<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2021\/08\/22135330\/DMurph-68-copy-e1628790649235-1024x898.jpg\")
Demetrius Murphy<\/strong>
\nMA in Latin American Studies, 2019<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2021\/08\/22135332\/s.eatwell_headshot.jpg\")
Sagen Eatwell
\n<\/strong>M.A. in Latin American Studies, 2020<\/p>\nJoin Vanderbilt\u2019s Association of Latinx and Hispanic Alumni (VAHLA<\/a>):<\/h2>\n