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CLAIS
Calhoun Hall 006
Station B 351806
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN  37235
615-322-2527
norma.g.antillon@vanderbilt.edu

 

EVENTS, Spring 2002

General Information

Established in 1947, Vanderbilt's Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies is the oldest and strongest interdisciplinary program on campus. It is dedicated to advancing scholarly and applied knowledge about Latin America and Iberia through teaching, research, publication, scholarly exchange, and community outreach. The Center draws upon renowned Vanderbilt faculty from the Department of Anthropology, Economics, Fine Arts, History, Political Science, Sociology, and Spanish and Portuguese and offers a broad-based, interdisciplinary education, promoting study abroad in Latin America and Spain. It maintains an interactive research community by sponsoring faculty colloquia, receptions and conferences, and a speakers series which brings distinguished scholars, government and business leaders, and social activists to campus. CLAIS also publishes a bi-annual newsletter.

Our undergraduate program is ranked eighth in the nation by the Gourman Report and students may participate in an honors program and study abroad programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, or Spain.

The Center offers a Masters degree in Latin American Studies and, in conjunction with the Owen Graduate School of Management, a joint Master of Arts and Master of Business. The Department of Education designated CLAIS as one of its Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs and funds three graduate fellowships annually, as well summer travel to Brazil for intensive language training. Vanderbilt CLAIS is also one of the select graduate programs approved by the U.S. Army for its Foreign Area Officer training.

Our special strengths lie in Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology, the history, politics, language and literature of Brazil, Iberian and Spanish-American literature and languages, the Southern Cone and Caribbean Studies. At the same time, our Center has breadth as members of the faculty have conducted primarily field research in and published about most major countries in Latin America.

Requests for graduate application forms may be sent to the Graduate School, 411 Kirkland Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235 (USA). These may also be downloaded or completed online.