Post Doctoral Fellows working on Latin America
Sergio Chavez
SociologyPostdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology. His research focuses on internal and international migration; sociology of labor markets; race relations; and ethnography. schavez@email.unc.edu
Miguel La Serna
HistoryPostdoctoral fellow in the Department of History. La Serna received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California - San Diego in 2008 for his dissertation, "The Corner of the Living: Local Power Relations and Indigenous Perceptions in Ayacucho, Peru, 1940-1983." La Serna has received research and writing fellowships from the Ford, Fulbright, and Guggenheim foundations and has been affiliated with the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in Lima, Peru. In addition to having published review articles in The Canadian Journal of History and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, La Serna's publications include: "To Cross the River of Blood: How an Inter-Community Conflict in Ayacucho Led to Guerrilla Revolution, 1940-1983," in Power, Culture, and Violence in the Andes, eds. Christine Hunefeldt and Milos Kokotovic (Sussex Academic Press, forthcoming) and “Gritos en el silencio: La campaña electoral en Huaychao,” Quehacer No. 159. March-April 2006 edition, p.p. 42-47. His current research focuses on the ways that historically-and culturally-rooted power relationships and cultural understandings at the local level conditioned Quechua-speaking peasants' divergent responses to the Shining Path guerrilla war in late-twentieth century Ayacucho, Peru. laserna@email.unc.edu
