The Institute of Latin American Studies has been delighted to welcome Dr Ainhoa Montoya as Early Career Academic in Latin American Studies. Dr Montoya has worked with the Institute before, having been one of the Institute's inaugural Stipendiary Fellows in 2012-13. Before joining the Institute as Early Career Lecturer, Dr Montoya was previously an Alliance 4 Universities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

The Institute of Latin American Studies is delighted to welcome Dr Sophie Brockmann as its new Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies. Dr Brockmann was previously based at the University of Pennsylvania as a Visiting Scholar in the History Department and Lecturer on the Integrated Studies Programme. Her research relates to the role of scientific enquiry in the history of colonial and independent Central America, and the creation of scientific knowledge, including the gathering of knowledge about the natural world and the communication networks underpinning knowledge-creation.

ILAS is delighted to announce that the recipients of the Visiting Stipendiary Fellowships are Dr Asa Cusack (University of Sheffield), who will be working on the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America from the 1st of October, and Dr Hilary Francis (University of Aberdeen), who will be researching Cuban teachers in revolutionary Nicaragua, from December 2014. In addition, several applicants have been offered a Visiting Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year. These individuals are the following ones:

CFP deadline: May 31st, 2014 ' Spaces of Possibility and Ambiguity: Democracy, Decentralisation and The State in Contemporary Latin America ' on Wednesday, 25th June, 2014 Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Penny Harvey (CRESC, University of Manchester) and Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University)