CLAIR Director Juan Cobo Betancourt receives NEH Digital Humanities Grant
This project, led by Juan Cobo Betancourt (UCSB, History) and Santiago Munoz-Arbelaez (U-Texas, Austin) aims to develop an integrated digitization toolkit to allow under-resourced institutions, collectives, and communities to digitize their archival collections at low cost.
Juan Cobo Betancourt (History) publishes new book, The Coming of the Kingdom.
The Coming of the Kingdom (Cambridge University Press, 2024) explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada (Colombia) during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Focusing on colonialism, religious reform, law, language, and historical writing, Juan F. Cobo Betancourt examines the introduction and development of Christianity among the Muisca.
Gio Batz (Chicana/o Studies) publishes new book, The Fourth Invasion.
Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Fourth Invasion (UC Press, 2024) by Giovanni Batz examines an Ixil Maya community’s movement against the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in Guatemala. Through a historical account of cyclical waves of invasions and resistance in Cotzal during the four invasions, Giovanni Batz argues that extractivist industries are a continuation of a colonial logic of extraction based on the displacement and destruction of Indigenous Peoples' territories and values.