Latin America: Introduction
The University of Chicago has a long and distinguished tradition as a center of scholarship and teaching on the history of Latin America. Chicago Ph.D.s hold faculty appointments in colleges and universities throughout the United States and Latin America. Our current faculty’s research interests are broad, diverse, and interdisciplinary, thematically (intellectual, cultural, social, legal, political, and economic history) as well as chronologically (from the sixteenth through the twentieth century). Our principal strengths are in Mexican, Brazilian, and Andean history, but our students also work on many other countries, producing innovative scholarship on South American, Central American, and Caribbean history. With excellent library and language training resources and a rich program of seminars, colloquia, lectures, workshops, and conferences, Chicago offers superb opportunities for advanced learning and original research on Latin America’s distant and recent past.