In The Media

Jo-Marie Burt, director of Mason's Latin American studies program, weighed in on the family-related advantages and disadvantages faced by Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori.

In late January, Guatemala inaugurated President Jimmy Morales, who successfully ran as an anti-corruption political outsider. On the TeleSur website, Jo-Marie Burt, director of Mason's Latin American studies program, commented on the import of the election.

In a New York Times article, Jo-Marie Burt, director of Mason's Latin American Studies program, explains the meaning behind this week's arrest of 18 former military officers in Guatemala.

Jo-Marie Burt, senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America and director of Mason's Latin American studies program, describes the formidable procedural maze set before victims of crimes that took place in the course of Guatemala's 36-year civil war.

Al Jazeera published an article authored by Latin American Studies Director Dr. Jo-Marie Burt on human rights and the search for the disappeared in post-conflict Peru.

This May, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences plans to host three convocations - one each for its graduate students, undergraduate humanities and interdisciplinary programs students, and undergraduate social sciences students.

LAS director Dr. Jo-Marie Burt joins international scholars and activists Friday, February 22, at New York University for an Interdisciplinary Symposium on Memory and Political Violence in Peru.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to announce that Deborah Boehm-Davis, University Professor in the Department of Psychology and currently the associate dean, will be the new dean of the college. Her term begins on July 1, 2013.

Professor Shutika was awarded the Chicago Folklore Prize, the highest award for a publication in Folklore, for her book "Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico" (2011).