atin American and Iberian Studies Master of Arts Theses

• Michael Efren Peyron. “Devotion or Dissatisfaction?: Lucas Alamán and the Catholic Church.” Supervisor: Sarah Cline
• Mary Aileen Seliger. “El Exilio y sus Angeles Enigmáticos en la Narrativa de Cristina Peri Rossi y de Juan Goytisolo.”
• Kevin Paul Smith. “Here I Stand: Don Carlos of Texcoco, the Inquisition, and the End of Indian Resistance, 1539.” Supervisor: Sarah Cline
• Matthew A. Tompkins. “Evangelical Protestantism in a Highland Maya Community: Reshaping the Religious, Social, and Economic Landscape of Santa Clara La Laguna, Solola, Guatemala .” Supervisor: Sarah Cline

• Amelia Maureen Layne. “ Communicative Competence in the University Language Classroom.” Supervisor: Timothy McGovern
• María Carmen Lozano Ibañez. “The Sounds of Immigration: Cultural and Legal Discourse in Spanish Pop Music and Las Leyes de Extranjería (Spanish Immigration Laws). Supervisor: Silvia Bermúdez
• Anil Kumar Mukerjee. “The Provedor-Mor da Fazenda in Colonial Brazil: Lourenço de Brito Correia (1659-1662). Supervisor: Franci s A. Dutra
• Graciela Reynoso. “The Corrido as a (Re)Interpretation of Mexican Society: Los Tigres del Norte as Socio-political Discourse.” Supervisor: Silvia Bermúdez

• Elena Olivera. “We Belong to the Land: Access and Ownership in Southern Colorado .” Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra
• Yolanda Swoopes-Jiménez. “The Brazilian Popular Church and its Role in the Formation of Black Consciousness in Brazil .” Supervisor: Reginald Daniel

• Rafaela Acevedo-Field. “Let the Dead Rest”: The Inquisition Case of Gaspar Méndez de Pineiro, deceased Crypto-Jew in New Spain , 1642-1649.” Supervisor: Sarah Cline
• Edwin López. “Race and Revolution: Indigenous Peasants and Reform in Guatemala , 1944-1954.” Supervisor: John Foran
• Amy Vogel. “Blaming Burnham for Guyana 's Decline.” Supervisor: John Foran.
• Marcelo Warkentin. “The Nationalization of the German-Russian Mennonite Schools in Brazil , 1930-1945.” Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra
• Vanessa M. Ziegler. “The Rise and Fall of Fulgencio Batista in Cuban Politics.” Supervisor: John Foran

• Mónica Figueroa Landeros. “Las Cristeras: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Women in the Cristero Rebellion, México, 1926-29.” Supervisor: John Foran
• Michele L. Lipka. “Filmmaking and the Making of Revolution: Jorge Sanjines, the Ukamau Group, and the New Latin American Cinema.” Supervisor: Victor Fuentes
• John Patrick Lyons. Amaro Velho Cerqueira, A Life in Service of the Portuguese Crown in the South Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century.” Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra
• Tina Pérez. “The Life and Times of Constantino Barradas, Fourth Bishop of Brazil (1603-1618). Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra
• Ana Rivadeneyra. “Poor Women's Struggles Against Gender Inequality: A Case Study From Urban Venezuela.” Supervisor: John Foran
• Maribel Roxana Roldán Pérez. “Narratives of Five Guatemalans Residing in Washington , D.C. : Uncovering Through Life Histories the Importance of Cultural and Religious Traditions of Immigrants in the United States .”
• Anna Belinda Sandoval Girón. “Anguish, Fear, and Motherhood: Madres Angusitiadas in the Guatemalan Post-Civil War.” Supervisor: John Foran

• Laura Suzanne Weingarten. “Writing for Self-Discovery: Two Mexican-Jewish Women Explore Their Complex Identities.” Supervisor: Ellen McCracken

• Lillian Flores. “The Paradox of Elite Coalition and Party Formation: A Comparative Study of the Argentine and Uruguayan Political Systems.” Supervisor: John Foran
• Paul William Moncrief. “The Rise and Decline of the PRI: The Emergence of the PAN and its Impact on Democracy in Mexico ”
• Adriene Pilon. “ Chile : The Art of Mourning.” Supervisor: Ellen McCracken

• Mark Hjerpe. “The Evolution of the Land Reform Movement in Twentieth-Century Mexico .” Supervisor: Kathleen Bruhn

• Douglas M. Goodner. “Of Women Seen But Not Heard”: The Spanish Women in Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Chronicle of the Conquest of New Spain.” Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra

• Dong-yang Julio Hsieh. “Land Reform in Chile , 1965-1989.” Supervisor: John Foran.
• Michael Perri. “The Commerce of Early Colonial Venezuela .”

• Teresa Berenhauser Fernandes. “Literary Tradition and Translation: E.E. Cummings in Brazil .” Supervisor: Suzanne Jill Levine
• Sean S. Fromson. “The Andean Cocaine Trade: the Destabilizing Effects of a Criminal Industry in Colombia , Peru , and Bolivia ” Supervisor: John Foran

• Timothy Karsten Braatz. “Challenging the Myths: the Revisionist Movement in Mexican-American Historiography”

• Jeanine Anne Mendoza. “Membership in the Portuguese Military Order of Santiago , 1668-1706.” Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra

Master of Arts Theses in Hispanic Civilization
[Program name changed in 1987]

• Daniel Anthony Smith. “Siku Ensemble Music in the Urban Environment: Tradition and Change in the ‘Turgurios” of Lima , Peru .”

• Suzanne Avellano. “Social Conditions and Political Aspirations of the Black Community in Cuba 's Early Republican Period.”
• Julianna Cecelia Krolak. “The Influence of American Oil Companies on the Mexican Revolution of 1910.”

• Helena C. Barreto. “The Life and Times of Fernão Carrilho: A Seventeenth-Century ‘Bandeirante' of Northeastern Brazil .” Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra
• Elizabeth Sheldon Greider. “A Case Study of Two Urban Middle-Class Families of Oaxaca , Mexico .” Supervisor: Francis A. Dutra

[Theses are part of the collections of the Davidson Library at University of California , Santa Barbara . Call number: F1409.95.U6S25]