Four undergraduate students and one professor from SUNY Fredonia presented papers on March 7 at the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) Annual Conference: Latin America in the 21st Century: Challenges & Opportunities.
Professor Ivani Vassoler, assistant professor of Political Science and coordinator of International Studies, presented her own paper on Brazilian foreign policy.
The students conducted the research and wrote the papers under her supervision. Student researchers who presented papers were:
- Marielle Ali (Intl Studies, Political Science, French): "Caribbean Politics: The Legacy of Dictatorship"
- Paul Beverly (Intl Studies, Political Science, English): "Brazil's Bolsa Familia Program: Poverty Alleviation or Aggravation"
- Axel Martinez (Physics, Intl Studies): "The Ecology and the Economy of the Amazon: The Broad Consequences of Deforestation"
- Sarah Vann (Philosophy, Political Science): "U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights" The case of Colombia"
An academic organization, MACLAS holds a yearly conference where faculty members and students share their research in Latin America through the presentation of papers. Only papers examined and approved by a scholarly committee are presented at these conferences.This year the site of the conference was the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
The MACLAS is a regional organization of scholars who are interested in researching and teaching Latin America and Inter-American relations. Its members consist of faculty and university students interested in Latin American studies from broad perspective: political science, economics, history, language and anthropology. Some members are particularly interested in the political, economic and cultural relations between United States and Latin America.
