PhD in Latin American Studies
Students completing a PhD in Latin American Studies have the opportunity to be co-supervised by specialists from two different disciplinary units and across faculties. The following research clusters provide guidance about the multiple disciplinary options available to them.
Comparative studies
In Politics and International Relations:
- Comparative political institutions and public policy (Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin, Politics and International Relations)
- International relations (Associate Professor Anita Lacey, Politics and International Relations)
In Education:
- Education and International Development (Dr Ritesh Shah, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Community-based governance of schools (Dr Ritesh Shah, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Education and Democracy (Professor Saville Kushner, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Evaluation strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean region (Professor Saville Kushner, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Learning and teaching of foreign languages (Dr Constanza Tolosa, Education and Social Work)
- Teachers’ beliefs and practices (Dr Constanza Tolosa, Education and Social Work)
- Bilingual education (Dr Constanza Tolosa, Education and Social Work)
In Law:
- The Kyoto environmental Protocol and the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol (Associate Professor Caroline Foster, Faculty of Law)
- International Law Commissions (Associate Professor Caroline Foster, Faculty of Law)
- Public International Law (Associate Professor Caroline Foster, Faculty of Law)
- International Economic Law, International Environmental Law and Human Rights (Associate Professor Caroline Foster, Faculty of Law)
- Dispute Settlement in International Law (Associate Professor Caroline Foster, Faculty of Law)
- Law of the Sea and Antarctica (Associate Professor Caroline Foster, Faculty of Law)
In Business:
- National policy and internationalization in the Pacific Rim (Professor Nigel Haworth, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- WTO and the development of the ASEAN economies (Professor Nigel Haworth, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- APEC networks (Professor Nigel Haworth, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- International economic integration (Professor Nigel Haworth, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- Latin American business (Dr Christina Stringer, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- Chinese foreign direct investment in Latin America (Dr Christina Stringer, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- Strategies in emerging markets (Dr Christina Stringer, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- Economic integration between Latin America and New Zealand (Dr Christina Stringer, Faculty of Business and Economics)
Development, Education, Labour and Security
- Trade unions (Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin, Politics and International Relations)
- Intersections of security and development (Dr Anita Lacey, Politics and International Relations)
- Governmentality and biopolitics (Dr Anita Lacey, Politics and International Relations)
- Public Evaluation (Professor Saville Kushner, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Democratic approaches to educational enquiry (Professor Saville Kushner, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- International labour market (Professor Nigel Haworth, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- International labour movements (Professor Nigel Haworth, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- International human resource development (Professor Nigel Haworth, Faculty of Business and Economics)
- Fair Trade (Dr Christina Stringer, Faculty of Business and Economics)
Gender and Power in Latin America
- Women, politics and leadership (Associate Professor Jennifer Curtin, Politics and International Relations)
- Gendered ideas, practices of resistance and activism (Dr Anita Lacey, Politics and International Relations)
- Gender and the nation-state, Women´s political leadership in twentieth-century Latin America (Dr Kathryn Lehman, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Women, Human Rights and Cultural resistance (Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
Indigenous Studies
- Indigenous peoples and participatory media (Dr Kathryn Lehman, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Indigenous peoples and participatory media (Dr Sue Abel, Maori Studies, and Media, Film and Television)
- Sovereignty and epistemology (Dr Kathryn Lehman, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Natural resources and privatisation (Dr Marama Leigh Muru-Lanning, Anthropology, James Henare Māori Research Centre)
- Documentary film and representation of Indigenous Peoples (Dr Kathryn Lehman, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Indigenous Peoples, colonisation and the nation-state (Dr Kathryn Lehman, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
Neoliberalism in Latin America
- Privatization of education in Latin America (Dr Ritesh Shah, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Private-public partnerships in education in Latin America (Dr Ritesh Shah, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Neoliberalism, memory and trauma in post-authoritarian Latin America (Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
Popular Culture
- Transatlantic and Latin American film studies (Professor José Colmeiro, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Latin American Cinema, Third Cinema, Transnational Cinema (Dr Kathryn Lehman, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Post-authoritarian Latin American film, Political documentary in Latin America (Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Tango and social change (Dr Kathryn Lehman, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Popular music and social movements in Latin America (Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
Social Trauma and Politics
- Trauma and processes of re-democratization in post-authoritarian South America (Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Refugees and resettlement (Dr Jay Marlowe, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Art and trauma (Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Spanish and Latin American Studies)
- Trauma, identity and acculturation (Dr Jay Marlowe, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Social work education (Dr Jay Marlowe, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
- Education and development in conflict-affected regions (Dr Ritesh Shah, Faculty of Education and Social Work)
Partner universities
Students completing a PhD in Latin America Studies are eligible to conduct one semester of research at any partner university that offers such a degree, without paying additional fees. At these institutions students will be supervised by specialists for the duration of their stay. To cover airfare and accommodation costs, students completing this PhD may use their allocated research budget, which can be supplemented through other scholarships, such as the 360 Abroad Scholarship
Our main partner universities in the area of Latin American Studies are:
- Australian National University, Australia
- University of Sydney, Australia
- University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- University of Chile, Chile
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
- Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
- Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
- Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- University of Salamanca, Spain
- University of Nottingham, UK
- University College London, UK
- University of California, Davis, USA
- University of Oregon, USA
- University of Washington, USA
Find out more through Exchange Partner or inter-semester courses abroad.
