BLOG: The Latin American Comics Archive Digital Collection by Felipe Gómez

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After a brief hiatus, I am happy to return to publishing Research Corner. If you would like to continue having this resource, I need your help! I am in need of new drafts. If you have recently used an archive, library, or digital repository, or work at one, I would love to hear about it! Do you have advice about the research process in general? Ideas include how to do transnational research, how to get publication permissions for images, or how to balance an active research agenda with other professional and personal obligations. Send your ideas to this Google Form and queries

I am pleased to continue the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series featuring graduate students from Rutgers University. Whether you are a graduate student or a scholar at any other level of your career, I want to know about your research this summer. I'm also looking for selections from archivists or librarians who would like to inform our readers about your resources. I'll edit your posts this summer or in early fall, and publish them not long after. Please email me at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form to express your interest in blogging.

Josh

El día de hoy terminamos una serie sobre recursos artísticos en México. El primer post está aquí. Si le gustaría contribuir a este blog también, favor de llenar este Google Form. Posts pueden estar en español, portugués o inglés.

Marco Polo Juárez Cruz estudia un doctorado en Historia del Arte en la Universidad de Maryland. Su investigación se centra en el arte moderno en Latinoamérica, especializándose en la emergencia del arte abstracto en la región y su relación con identidades locales, grupos artísticos y museos, políticas culturales y la Guerra Fría. Marco Polo ha colaborado

 

Today we conclude William Cohoon's helpful series on digitial archives covering colonial Peru. Plese check out the first or second posts if you missed them. Summer is winding down: do you have time to write any posts of your own before life speeds up in the fall? If so, please email me (Gretchen Pierce) at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form.

William Cohoon earned his Ph.D. in colonial Latin American history at Texas Christian University and teaches AP Geography at Uplift North Hills Preparatory School in Irving, Texas. His research focuses on the emergence of the

BLOG: Navigating the Portal de Archivos Españoles by William Cohoon

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I am pleased to present the second in a three-part series on digitial archives useful to scholars of colonial Peru. If you missed the first post on the Archivo General de la Nación del Perú, please click here. If you're interested in contributing any posts of your own, please email me (Gretchen Pierce) at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form.

William Cohoon earned his Ph.D. in colonial Latin American history at Texas Christian University and teaches History of the Americas at Uplift Williams Preparatory School in Dallas, Texas. His research focuses on the emergence of

 

I am pleased today to begin the first of a multi-part series on archives that contain information useful to scholars of colonial Latin America, with a special emphasis on Peru. Would you like to contribute your knowledge, whether as a patron or as an employee, on archives, libraries, databases, etc, for the good of the community? Would you like to provide advice on how to manage a transnational project, how to further your research agenda during the middle of a pandemic, or contemplate balancing the needs of family in one country and doing research in another? As long as your

 

Today we conclude our three-part series on the challenges of beginning a second book project, transnational research, and maintaining a research agenda during a pandemic. If you missed either of the first two posts, please click here or here. I am currently solicitng posts that would be publsihed beginning in late May (although I would also happily accept others to run throughout the summer or into the fall as well). Topics could include: a description of resources and policies at in-person archives, libraries, or museums; a description of resources and research advice for any

 

To Blog or Not to Blog? There Should be no Question!: Call for Guest Bloggers

H-LatAmist@s: for many of us, it’s been a busier fall than usual. The mental and physical strains of living through a pandemic have perhaps been compounded by an increased workload or financial constraints. It is therefore with some trepidation that I kindly request more of you to consider writing a blog post or two for Research Corner. I have received positive feedback from readers—this blog has helped them to conceive of new ways of doing their research in a time when that may feel challenging; and

Digital Archiving on Chilean Music and Musicians, Part 2 by Eileen Karmy

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We continue our digital mini-series with the second of two posts about online resources for Chilean music. If you missed the first one, click here. Eileen Karmy is a music scholar interested in music politics, labor history, and archival research. She completed her PhD in Music at the University of Glasgow in 2019 with a thesis on the development of musicians’ unions in Chile. She has researched on popular music in Chile, especially cumbia, tango, and Nueva Canción. She regularly disseminates her research through articles, blog posts, films, and digital repositories. She created

Digital Archiving on Chilean Music and Musicians, Part 1 by Eileen Karmy

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I am pleased to begin our digital mini-series with the first of two posts about online resources for Chilean music. Eileen Karmy is a music scholar interested in music politics, labor history, and archival research. She completed her PhD in Music at the University of Glasgow in 2019 with a thesis on the development of musicians’ unions in Chile. She has researched on popular music in Chile, especially cumbia, tango, and Nueva Canción. She regularly disseminates her research through articles, blog posts, films, and digital repositories. She created the digital archive of