Jorge Cuéllar
Associate Professor at Dartmouth University Jorge E. Cuéllar is a scholar of politics, culture, and daily life in modern Central America. His research and teaching focus on Central American Studies, Cultural Studies, Race, Migration, and Critical Social Theory. His research has appeared in numerous journals and his public essays and columns can be found in El Faro, NACLA, Social Text’s Periscope, Los Angeles Review of Books, among many others.
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Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference
By: By Edward Wong Reporting from Washington
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers. …
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On Isthmian Knowing: Bodies, Archives, Futures
Central America’s story is much more complex than meets the eye. The region’s cultures are not mere analytical shorthand—peoples fissured by colonialism, imperialism, and …
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Kim, Geidel, Voekel: Support the Union, Support Democracy
By Molly Geidel , Jodi Kim and Pamela Voekel
Dartmouth is best served when all of us, but especially the upper administration, remain steadfast in our defense of workers’ prerogatives and democratic governance. …
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Verbum Ultimum: You’re Embarrassing Us
Abstention is a political decision, College President Sian Leah Beilock. “We urge everyone to speak out and actively participate in our democracy. As Coretta …
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From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
An interview with Hilary Goodfriend Jorge Cuéllar
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century …
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SC woman was aiding children of 85,000 jailed Salvadorans. Then US support vanished.
By Mitchell Black mblack@postandcourier.com
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. SAN SALVADOR — Julie Grier-Villatte wants to help the children of people jailed by El Salvador’s …
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