I am proud to present Research Corners first guest blogger, Vania Markarian. Dr. Markarian received her Ph.D. in Latin American History from Columbia University in 2003. Her most recent books are Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967-1984 (New York: Routledge, 2005), which was also published in Spanish as Idos y recién llegados: La izquierda uruguaya en el exilio y las redes transnacionales de derechos humanos, 1967-1984 (Ediciones La Vasija/Correo del Maestro, 2006), and El 68 uruguayo: El movimiento estudiantil entre