Ctr. of Latin American Studies
1440 Jayhawk Blvd. Suite 320
Lawrence, KS 66045-7574
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Phone: (785) 864-4213


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KU

Santa Arias
Associate Professor
2618 Wescoe
sarias@ku.edu
 
 
   
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Current Projects
Spaces of Conversion in Colonial Latin America
Claiming the Land: The Culture of Labor in PR
 
Research Interests
Colonial and Caribbean literature and culture (Mesoamerica and Puerto Rica particularly), religion, human rights, Bartolomé de las Casas, space and spatiality in the material and discursive understanding of colonial Latin American societies, interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and culture
 
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Courses Taught
Discourses of the Conquest
National Traditions:Puerto Rico
Spanish Culture and Business in Spanish
Textual Analysis and Critical Reading
Colonial Poetry
Human Rights and Cultural Production in Latin America
 
Education
BA SUNY College at New Paltz
MA and PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison