Month: August 2026

New Publication: The Visual in Latin American History

New Publication: The Visual in Latin American History

Prof. Salas Landa has contributed a chapter to The Visual in Latin American History, edited by Ernesto Capello and Jessica Stites Mor and published by the University of Texas Press. Her chapter, “The Tajín Totonac in and outside the Frame: Violence and Alterity in the 

Book Award for Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution

Book Award for Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution

Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution, received an honorable mention for the LASA Historia Reciente y Memoria 2026 Book Award

Transmuted Grounds: ‘Rough Topographies’ and the Afterlives of Oil Extraction on Mexico’s Gulf Coast

Transmuted Grounds: ‘Rough Topographies’ and the Afterlives of Oil Extraction on Mexico’s Gulf Coast

Prof. Salas Landa presented a lecture titled “Transmuted Grounds: ‘Rough Topographies’ and the Afterlives of Oil Extraction on Mexico’s Gulf Coast” as part of the Anthropology Colloquium at The New School for Social Research.