Article: Brown's Latin American Studies Program Copes With Limited Resources

John Turrettini
University Wire
10-03-1997
(Brown Daily Herald) (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Latin American Studies Program finds itself in the unusual position of
having no exclusive, tenured faculty and of receiving half its funding through
a federal grant shared with three other universities.

Created in 1984, Latin American Studies was the first of Brown's area-studies
concentrations that would later grow to include South Asian and East Asian
studies. These courses of study were a reaction to the traditional domination
of Western European and American subject matter found in virtually all
institutions of higher learning in the United States until the 1970s.

Professor Tom Skidmore, ...

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