Our members
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a focal point for world-class research into countries and cities across the region from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, architecture, cultural studies, development, history, linguistics, and urban studies, among others.
One of the largest such groups of Latin American and Caribbean specialists in Europe, researchers are based in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, the School of Social Sciences, and the School of Environment and Development.
If you would like to get in touch please contact one of the Centre's Co-Directors.
Ignacio Aguiló (Latin American Cultural Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3689
Email: ignacio.aguilo@manchester.ac.uk
Peter Wade (Social Anthropology)
Tel: +44 (0)161-275-3991
Email: peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk
Ignacio Aguiló (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies).
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3689
Email: ignacio.aguilo@manchester.ac.uk
Race and ethnicity in Latin America; whiteness studies; critical race theory; indigeneity; cultural studies; popular and experimental music.
Nicolle Alzamora (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Email: julien.alzamoracandanedo@manchester.ac.uk
Memory and literature; politics of memory in Latin America; memories of dictatorship and conflict in Latin America; literature and identity; Panama.
Carlo Edoardo Altamura (History)
Email: Carlo.Edoardo.Altamura@manchester.ac.uk
Economic & financial history of Latin America in the 20th century; authoritarianism in the Southern Cone; Latin American military dictatorship in the 20th century; debt crisis and lost decade in the 1980s; Neoliberalism
Tanja Bastia (Institute for Development Policy and Management)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 0420
Email: tanja.bastia@manchester.ac.uk
Migration, inequalities, transnationalism, cities, gender, ageing, Bolivia.
Francisco Eissa-Barroso (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 8042
Email: francisco.eissabarroso@manchester.ac.uk
Political, social and military history of the early modern Spanish world; Imperial dynamics and governance; Spanish American political culture; Early nineteenth-century Latin American politics and constitutionalism; Transatlantic migrations and circulation.
Chloe Nahum-Claudel (Social Anthropology)
Email: chloe.nahum-claudel@manchester.ac.uk
Ritualized political innovation in Indigenous communities faced with colonial and postcolonial ruptures; agribusiness and hydropower frontier in Brazil and peri-urban highland Papua New Guinea.
Valentino Gianuzzi (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 7052
Email: josevalentino.gianuzzi@manchester.ac.uk
César Vallejo and Latin American avant-gardes; Latin American poetry; Peruvian literature; Latin American literary magazines and print culture; fin-de-siecle and early 20th century intellectual history; journalism and Transatlantic literary relations, translation and cultural mediation; textual scholarship.
Karen Lucas (Human Geography; International Network for Transport and Accessibility in Low Income Communities; Manchester Urban Institute)
Email: karen.lucas@manchester.ac.uk
Transport and social equity in Latin America: mobility/accessibility inequalities; low income communities; Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador.
Nuno Pinto (Planning, Property and Environmental Management)
Email: nuno.pinto@manchester.ac.uk
Decision support sciences and methods for urban; urban simulation and modelling; quantitative methods applied to urban themes. Research in Latin American and Iberian countries.
Karl Posso (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)161 306 1626
Email: karl.posso@manchester.ac.uk
Twentieth-century art; ethics; twentieth-century and contemporary Spanish American and Brazilian literature; critical theory; gender studies; violence and culture; Latin American urban cultural studies.
Lúcia Sá (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 8666
Email: lucia.sa@manchester.ac.uk
Literature and national identity in Brazil; intertextual relationships between indigenous narratives and 20th-century literature in Brazil and Spanish America; ethnopoetics and native cultures in Brazil and South American lowlands; Brazilian popular culture; the Latin American City and its representations.
James Scorer (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3049
Email: james.scorer@manchester.ac.uk
Latin American urban histories, cultures and imaginaries (especially Buenos Aires); Latin American visual culture (photography, film and comics).
Angela Torresan (Social Anthropology)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 2518
Email: angela.torresan@manchester.ac.uk
Securitisation policies and pacified favelas in Rio de Janeiro; moral economy of housing, mobility, and urban gentrification; perceptions of urban landscapes and identity, migration, cognitive and physical movement.
Peter Wade (Social Anthropology)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3991
Email: peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk
Colombia and other Latin American countries with Black populations; ethnicity, race and racism; race and genetics; black culture and identity, urban anthropology, social geography; popular music and national identity.
Natalie Zacek (American Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 7073
Email: natalie.a.zacek@manchester.ac.uk
Colonial and antebellum America and the Atlantic world, particularly West Indies and the American South in the eighteenth century. Social and cultural history with interests in gender, literature and material culture.
Below is a list of current and recent PhD students currently linked to research being undertaken by members of the Centre:
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
- Carole Myers: The Politics of Female Beauty in Brazil: An Intersectional Study of Rhinoplasty of the Nariz Negroide (graduated 2023)
- Dylan Bradbury: Aural Media as a Tool for the Consolidation of Identity: Mapuche Uses of Sound for Asserting Cultural and Territorial Autonomy in Argentina (started 2021, current)
- Emma Greenaway: Against all Odds: Property Trends of Mestiza Women in the Yucatan and Mexico City, 1700-1770 (started 2024, current)
- Gabriel Neiva: The Fictional Kanaima: Amerindian Social Thought in the Making of the Literary Space of Guianas (graduated 2023)
- Nicolle Alzamora: Panama as a Point of Transit: Identity and Memory Practices (started 2022, current)
- Rodrigo López Martínez: Fictional Avant-gardes in Latin American Literature (1973-2015) (graduated 2023)
School of Social Sciences
- Ana Martinez Fernandez: Backlashes and Resistances to Reproductive Rights in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Argentina and El Salvador (graduated 2024)
- Antonia de Gama: Brick by Brick: An Ethnography of Terror Politics and Media-Oriented Activism in Rio de Janeiro (graduated 2020)
- Edward Ephithite Lindholm: (Re)making Common Futures: An Ethnographic Enquiry into Citizenship Transformation in Chile (started 2023, current)
- Elisa Mendes Vasconcelos: Gender Inequality in the High-Rank Federal Bureaucratic Posts in Brazil (graduated 2024)
- Gabriel Marques Camargo: No Quilombo da Vovó: Racialized Disputes for Public Space in a Post-Fordist Company Town in Brazil (started 2021, current)
- Laura Thurmann: Female Policing: Women's (Informal) Security Practices in Mexico (graduated 2025)
- Luis Vizcaino Guevara: Re-imagining a Post-Liberal Peace Framework from Latin American Experiences. How the Lessons from Latin America Can Enlighten a Post-Liberal Framework and their Expression in the Cases of Mexico and Colombia (started 2023, current)
- Marie Kerguelen: Controlling Fertility in Maternalist Latin America: Exploring Women's Activist Networks Around Abortion in Chile (graduated 2025)
- Mariela Sanchez-Belmont Montiel: (Re)production of Neglect Through Practices of Care: An Ethnographic Approach to Chagas Disease Policies in Mexico (graduated 2025)
- Marisol Verdugo Paiva: The Failed Promise of Neoliberal Education: Social Class and the Making of Youth Futures in Concepcion, Chile (graduated 2020)
- Mauricio Renteria Gonzales: The Colour of Social Mobility: The Cultural and Racial Imprints of Ascending Trajectories Within the Peruvian Upper Class (graduated 2025)
- Natalia Valdivieso Kastner: Between Religion and Extractivism: Missionary Theopolitics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon (graduated 2023)
- Pedro Silva Rocha Lima: Risk Humanitarianism: The International Committee of The Red Cross and the Normality of Armed Violence in Greater Rio de Janeiro (graduated 2022)
- Sam Rumé: The Cosmopolitics of Urban Sustainability. Infrastructures, Mobilities and Modernities in Cuenca, Ecuador (graduated 2023)
- Santiago Irribarra Palet: People Like Us: Mapuchizando Place and Persons in Santiago de Chile (graduated 2025)
- Sebastian Acevedo Valenzuela: Unequal Distribution of Access to Public Safety: The Case of Local Governments in Santiago de Chile (started 2018 (started 2024)
- Vicente Yáñez Garrido: Neighbouring in the "Buildings to invest, not to live" era: Neighbourly practices in Chilean middle-class dense high-rises (graduated 2025)
School of Environment, Education and Development
- Andreina Carrillo Espinoza: In-between nations. The transnational agenda of the Venezuelan diaspora in Spain, and Democratic Legitimacy (started 2019, current)
- Armando Caroca Fernandez: Unfolding the Sacrifice zone: Notions of risk shaping the urban space of Chilean mining extractivism (started 2021, current)
- Chuanze Li: Understanding forest degradation and environmental impacts in Brazilian Savannah using Earth observation and machine learning (started 2021, current)
- Claudio Navarro Gonzalez: The adequacy of the Chilean labour market for postgraduate students (started 2021, current)
- Erika Garcia: Land Readjustment (slum Upgrading, and City Competitiveness: Case studies from Medellin, Colombia and San José, Costa Rica (graduated 2023)
- Gonzalo Sanchez Garcia: Form Based Codes for affordable neighbourhoods: Insights of social-spatial segregation caused by gated communities in Bogota, Colombia (started 2022, current)
- Isaac Lopez Moreno Flores: The relationship between economic development and female labour participation (started 2021, current)
- Kate Booth: Analyzing the expansion of forest loss in indigenous lands in Brazilian Amazon during the COVID-19 19 outbreak (started 2021, current)
- Luis Oyarzun Ibarra: The Impact of Governmental Economic Aid to Co-Operatives as an SDGs Implementation Policy via Private Consulting Firms: A Study of Organisational Change and Development Management in Chile (started 2023, current)
- Maria Jose Ayala Molina: The politics of gender equality in Latin America: The case of care policy adoption in Paraguay (started 2021, current)
- Mariana C. Hernandez-Montilla: Integrating Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Rights in Forest Landscape Restoration (started 2023, current)
- Natalia Galvis Arias: Effects of Cash Transfers on the Adaptive and Reslience Capacity of Households Exposed to Climate Shocks: Evidence from Colombia (started 2023, current)
- Patricio Cleary: A Million Hectares More: Agro-capitalism's solution to climate change in Chile (graduated 2024)
- Shuyu Pan: Non-Contributary Pension Policies, Old-Age Poverty and Old-Age Mortality in Brazil (started 2023, current)
Alliance Manchester Business School
- Jhenelle McIntyre: Key Innovation Frameworks to Foster Caribbean Firms Drive to Economic Growth (started 2021, current)
- Tamara Brezighello Hojaij: The role of emerging markets multinational enterprises in value chains: a critical analysis of business and human rights governance in Brazil (started 2020, current)
