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It is with great pleasure that we announce Professor Héctor Hoyos as the new director of the Stanford University Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). Director Héctor Hoyos's appointment will begin in Winter 2024.

Director Héctor Hoyos…

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Please join is in congratulating former CLAS Director Professor Terry L. Karl for being awarded the 2023 Guillermo O’Donnell Democracy Award and Lectureship by the Latin American Studies Association. 

The Guillermo O’Donnell Democracy…

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The Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University congratulates Beatriz Magaloni, recipient of the 2023 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the most important international prize awarded for…

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Did you know that the Stanford Language Center is offering Nahuatl, Quechua, and Haitian Creole courses for credit this academic year 2022-23? These language courses are offered in 3-quarter sequences starting in autumn quarter, and completion of…

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The Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University is excited to announce our Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies graduate and undergraduate student fellows. The Summer FLAS Fellowship…