About HIA
HIA is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students at
the University of California at Davis that focuses on transnational
processes in the American hemisphere. Our project brings together
people and promotes research to challenge the boundaries of
disciplinary specialization and culture area studies. HIA explores the
connections throughout the social, cultural, and economic landscape of
the Western Hemisphere from an array of perspectives across multiple
academic units, to redirect and redefine the study of Latin America
from a broadly hemispheric viewpoint.
HIA Mission
The premise of HIA is to move beyond both the national security and
elite culture paradigms that have served as the foundation for area
studies in the past. While retaining an interdisciplinary understanding
of Latin America as an autonomous region with its own internal
diversities, HIA focuses on the growing importance of such
transnational themes as hemispheric flows of people, capital, consumer
goods, images, and ideas. We bring Latin American studies into dialogue
with theoretical and empirical work that 1) emphasizes cultural
difference, 2) focuses attention on racial/ethnic and gender issues,
and 3) highlights both the cultural face and the new social realities
of political and economic disparities. HIA seeks to emphasize the
voices of those who question and challenge the nation-state and the
dominant cultural order from within, and of transnational forces of
change that pose a parallel challenge from without.
HIA's
faculty affiliates are in the UCD Departments and Programs of
Anthropology, History, Sociology, Spanish, Native American Studies,
Political Science, Chicana/o Studies, African and African American
Studies, Human and Community Development, Economics, Agricultural and
Resource Economics, Environmental Science and Policy, Nutrition, and
others."
To support these endeavors and to learn more, please visit our home page regularly.
Our Office Hours are
Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm
Office phone number: (530)752-3046
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HIA Staff
Charles Walker, Director
Christina Siracusa, Program Coordinator
Moises Park, Graduate Student Researcher, Webmaster
Ava Churchill, Undergrad Assistant Program Coordinator
For our steering committee and our associated faculty members please see our HIA people page.
The office of The Hemispheric Institue on the Americas is on the fifth floor of the
Social Sciences building at the University of California, Davis.
