This multidisciplinary MA provides in-depth coverage of current debates in the field of Latin American studies, developing knowledge of the region's diverse societies and forces that have shaped them.
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In this programme you will develop analytical and critical perspectives on multidisciplinary aspects of Latin American history, politics and international relations, anthropology, geography and environmental issues, and economics, as well as cultural studies. You will receive advanced training in theories of development and a strong introduction to social science methods and the principles of policy analysis.
This is an ideal option for people interested in understanding the economic, political, social, and environmental dimensions of development processes shaping societies in the Latin Americas.
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Professor Paulo Drinot studied economic history at LSE and an MPhil in Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford. I read for a DPhil in Modern History also at Oxford. He is currently working on a biography of José Carlos Mariátegui, a project supported by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.
Prof. Drinot's main research focus is the history of Peru in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His thematic interests include labour history and state formation, racism and exclusion, gender and sexuality, the social history of medicine, and memory and historiography.