Careers with LACS
Careers with LACS
LACS was paused from 2023–2026 due to University restructuring.
2022-2023
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Kelency | International (Brazil) | Jordi Diez | The Antidemocratic and Democratic Discourses in Brazil and their Impacts on County's Stability | TBD |
| Nancy Martinez Sanchez | Domestic | G. Yovanovich; Pablo Ramirez | ¿Racismo en México? Representaciones de prietos, negros, indios y la asunción de ser mestizo en México. | TBD |
| Natasha Sarazin | Domestic | Susan Douglas; Pascal Lupien | A Decade of Legalized Street Art in Bogota: Its Political Potential | TBD |
| Maria de Los Sarquis | International (Argentina) | Jordi Diez; Paulina García del Moral | Social Movements in the Context of Irregular Adoption in Argentina and Chile | HS Counselors and IB Coordinator’s secretary, Asociacion Escuelas Lincoln, Argentina. |
2021-2022
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcela Altamira | International (Argentina) | Gordana Yovanovich; Alena Barysevich | Real Academia Española’s Global Spanish: Friend or Foe? Language Attitudes towards Spanish and its Varieties in Argentina and Canada | Immigrant Services, City of Guelph |
| Wenqi Chen | International (China) | Gordana Yovanovich; Itzayana Gutiérrez Arillo | The Gender Role Change in Recent Mexican TV Series or Telenovelas | Applying for Canadian Residency and looking for employment |
| Joseph Rudolph Damas (IDEV) | Domestic | Erin Nelson; Gordana Yovanovich (replacing Joubert Satyre) | Re-Imagining Education in Haiti Through a Lens of De-Coloniality | Government Services in Ottawa (details TBD) |
| Paul Fritz Gamarra Yanez | International (Peru) | Stephen Henighan; Gordana Yovanovich | Recreación de los mitos de Huarochirí y proyecto de diálogo intercultural en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas | PhD McGill University |
| Agnieszka Kwiatkowski | Domestic | Karen Racine; Gordana Yovanovich | The Church and Violence in El Salvador | Research Consultant, Diversity Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Idalia Rodriguez (IDEV) | Domestic | Stephen Henighan; Gordana Yovanovich | La memoria colectiva vinculada a la violencia y el miedo en 3 novelas. | TBD |
| Daniel Ruiz Quintero | International (Colombia) | Stephen Henighan; TBD | TBD | PhD University of Ottawa |
| Mingjun Shao | International (China) | Rosario Gomez; Enrique Pato | Los medios hispanos en Canadá: caracterización y análisis | ESG Research Analyst at RepRisk (Zurich) |
2020-2021
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michalina Szymoniak | Domestic | Roberta Rice; Gordana Yovanovich | Reconstructing Indigenous Voices: From Assimilation to the Mapuche Politics in Chile | TBD |
| Daniela Teran Paz y Mino (IDEV) | International (Ecuador) | Rosario Gomez; Gordana Yovanovich | Ventajas de realizar entrevistas sociolingüísticas en línea para la creación de un Corpus en Quito, Ecuador | MA in European Studies |
| Brandon Cheong (IDEV) | Domestic | Silvia Sarapura (Rural Studies); Stuart McCook | Understanding Guyana’s Coconut Industry in a Global and Comparative Context | Overseeing family business in Guyana |
| Rayon Jackson (IDEV) | Domestic | Joubert Satyre; Dorothy Odartey-Wellington | The Pain in my Voice: The Reformation of Jamaican Creole in the Twenty-First Century | Teacher’s College, University of Toronto |
| Carlos Molina (IDEV) | International (Ecuador) | Rosario Gomez; Pascal Lupien | Análisis del discurso del ex presidente del Ecuador, Rafael Correa | TBD |
| Jim Pickup | Domestic | Gordana Yovanovich; Stephen Henighan | The Tenacious Women of the Mexican Revolution: Their Challenges and Legacies | Retired Teacher |
2019-2020
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Amaya Madrid | International (Mexico) | Gordana Yovanovich; Pablo Ramirez | TBD | PhD University of California, Berkeley |
| Abigail Barrett (IDEV) | International (Jamaica) | Adam Sneyd; Lee L’Clerc | TBD | Inclusion Advisor, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences & College of Arts, University of Guelph |
| Tara Chang-Swanson | Domestic | Carolyn Yule (SOAN) | TBD | Program Manager, Mission Possible (Vancouver, BC) |
| Laila Harris | Domestic | G. Yovanovich; Pablo Ramirez | (Re)membering History: Ancestral Knowledge, Cultural Memory & Identity in Barbados | PhD English, University of Guelph |
| Keisha Morris | International (Jamaica) | Gordana Yovanovich; Rosario Gomez | The Shadow Pandemic of 2020: Virtual Communities’ Response to Domestic Violence Against Women During COVID-19 | TBD |
| Carlos Munoz Chamorro | International (Colombia) | Craig Johnson; Dennis Baker | The right to prior consultation and the incorporation of international treaties: the dynamic analysis of constitutional precedents in Colombia | UN Migration Office in Colombia and Mexico |
| Jocelyn Vargas Pereyra (IDEV) | Domestic | Paulina Garcia del Moral; G. Yovanovich | The Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Program Between Mexico and Canada: A Transnational Process | TBD |
2018-2019
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justina Walker (IDEV) | Domestic | Stuart McCook; Silvia Sarapura | Between Power, Relationships and Landscape in Puerto Rico’s Coffee Sector | PhD in Rural Studies (in progress), University of Guelph |
| Jacqueline Odera | Domestic | Pauline Garcia del Moral; G. Yovanovich | Covert forms of Afro-Mexican Autonomy in Colonial Yucatan | MBA; Manager, Bailey Nelson |
| Diahanna Ramadhar (IDEV) | Domestic | Joubert Satyre (Professor from Trinidad) | TBD | 2021 Fellowship (Transnational Law and Justice Network at Windsor Law); NGO work in Argentina; prior bilingual legal research in Mexico |
2017-2018
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tomomi Ando | Domestic (Vancouver) | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Adam Cowan | Domestic | Stephen Henighan | TBD | Flight Attendant – Air Canada |
| Yessenia Guerrero | Domestic | Joubert Satyre; G. Yovanovich | A study of 2 novels | Administrative Manager (Spanish & Latin American Studies) and Administrative Manager (Germanic & Slavic Studies), University of Waterloo |
| Oscar Lopez Hernandez | International (Mexico) | Lisa Kowalchuk; Pascal Lupien | Framing of Social Protest: A Comparative Study on Mainstream Media Outlets and Online-Native News Sites’ Coverage of the Marcha por la Dignidad Nacional | TBD |
2016-2017
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evans Odai Afotey (IDEV) | International (Ghana) | TBD | TBD | Returned to Ghana; Teaching |
| Diana Contreras (IDEV) | Domestic | G. Yovanovich; Lisa Kowalchuk | Examining Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in El Salvador’s CIUDAD MUJER Initiative | Knowledge Management Specialist, Educate the World (Kitchener/Waterloo) |
| Olivia Cooke | International (UK) | Susan Douglas; G. Yovanovich | Machismo in Cuban Films | PhD at Queen’s University Belfast |
| Juan Da Silva Cabral | Domestic | Jordi Diez | El desarrollo de los movimientos de partidos políticos frente a la censura impuesta por gobiernos que se han de llamar “democráticos” | Council and Committee Coordinator – City of Guelph |
2015-2016
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gabriela Barends-Ramirez | Domestic | Lisa Kowalchuk; Pascal Lupien | Within Four Walls: The Empowerment of Household Workers in Chile | Senior Customer Success Manager, Acuity Insights (Toronto) |
| Xintong Chang | International (China) | Pascal Lupien; G. Yovanovich | La relación económica sino-chilena desde el año 1970 hasta el año 2015. | TBD |
2014-2015
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tania Barra | Domestic | Susan Douglas (LACS/Fine Arts); Gordana Yovanovich | La capoeira: desde emblema de la identidad cultural y nacional brasileña a producto cultural en Norteamérica | Fox Assistant at Ferrero (Acton, ON) |
| Samantha Costas | International (USA) | Gordana Yovanovich; Lisa Kowalchuk | “Haydée and Mariela: Activism Under the Authority of the Cuban State.” | Political Science, Loyola University (Chicago) |
| Daniel Waring | Domestic | Jordi Diez; Candace Johnson | The Question of Priorities: Variance in LGBT Protections in Anti-Discrination Legislation in Argentina and Chile | Associate, Chivers Carpenter (Edmonton, 2022) – labour, employment, and human rights law |
| Patrick Horrigan | Domestic | Kim Francis; TBD | Something on Latin Music | TBD |
| Michael Knip (IDEV) | Domestic | TBD | TBD | TBD |
2013-2014
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Beltramo | Domestic | G. Yovanovich; Stephen Henighan | Magical Realist Historical Fiction by Women Writers: Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits and Gioconda Belli’s The Inhabited Woman | Conestoga College |
| Grace Gomashie | International (Ghana) | Rosario Gomez | Exchange student from Ghana who stayed in Guelph in LACS program the whole year. | Completed PhD at Western University; Project Coordinator, Office of Research, University of Waterloo |
| Osvaldo Gonzalez Valenciano | International (Costa Rica) | G. Yovanovich; Pablo Ramirez | El papel del carnaval en la relocalización de la memoria colectiva en Solibo Magnificent (Patrick Chamoiseau) y Green Grass, Running Water (Thomas King). | PhD University of Ottawa; returned to Costa Rica |
2012-2013
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shenella Charles | International (Guyana) | José Alejos García (University of Mexico); Stuart McCook (LACS/History) | ‘This Land is Our Land’: Changing State-Society Relations and Indigenous Land Rights Claims in Early Post-Independence Guyana | PhD History, University of Toronto |
| Jennifer Garcia | Domestic | Gordana Yovanovich; Hugh Hazelton (Concordia University) | A Step Towards Genuine Multiculturalism: Exploring the Perspectives of Four Hispano-Canadian Writers | TBD |
2011-2012
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa Bellstedt | Domestic | Stephen Henighan; G. Yovanovich | “Comparative Illustrations of the Urban Bohemian Intellectual Group in Julio Cortázar's Rayuela and Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes” | Accepted to PhD program at the University of Toronto |
| Dustin Ferretti | Domestic | G. Yovanovich; Roberta Rice | Political Opportunities and the Anti-Neoliberal Mobilizing Framework / Explaining the (re)Emergence of the Chilean Student Movement in 2011 | Senior Biopharmaceutical Representative, Amgen (Mississauga, ON) |
2010-2011
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| José Abad Puelles | Domestic | Stuart McCook (LACS/History) | ‘Trick or Treat’: Fairtrade Certification and its Implications for Rural Peruvian Coffee Farmers | Head of Ontario’s Trade & Investment Office in Mexico City |
| Manuel Arellano (IDEV) | Domestic | Lisa Kowalchuk (LACS/Sociology); Renee Sylvain (Anthropology) | Strength in Networks: The Impact of Community Structures in Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Mobilizing in Colombia’s Southwest | Senior Management (Change Management), Scotiabank (Toronto) |
2009-2010
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Jaimes Dominguez | Domestic | Stephen Henighan; Pablo Ramirez | Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies & Migration and Ethnic Relations; Latino-Canadian Literatures and Cultures | Teaching Faculty, Wilfrid Laurier University; Western University |
| Ibis Lam | Domestic | Stuart McCook; Stephen Henighan | TBD | Lecturer, University of Waterloo |
| Meredith Richard | Domestic | Joubert Satyre | TBD | PhD McGill |
| Jaime Brenes Reyes | International (Nicaragua) | Gordana Yovanovich; Karen Houle | Ontological and Political Search for “El Hombre Nuevo”: Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela and Libro de Manuel | PhD Comparative Literature, Western University |
2008-2009
| Student | Domestic/International | Advisor(s) | MRP/Thesis topic | Current employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pascal Lupien | Domestic | Jordi Diez (LACS/Political Science); Lisa Kowalchuk (LACS/Sociology) | The Impact of Indigenous Social Movements on Constitutional Reform in Ecuador and Bolivia | PhD Political Science, University of Guelph; Associate Professor, Brock University |
| Jennifer Martino | Domestic | Karen Racine (LACS/History); Jorge Nef (Political Science); Richard Gorrie (History) | One Laptop Per Child Project in Latin America | Executive Director, Crouch Neighbourhood Resource Centre (London, ON) |
| Jessica Kozak | Domestic | TBD | TBD | Legal Counsel, Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench |
| Adina Muskat | Domestic | Susan Douglas; Dom. Marner | TBD | TBD |