
Dr. Juan Carlos Callirgos
Dr. Juan Carlos Callirgos, associate professor of anthropology and director of the gender studies program at the Universidad Pontificia of Lima in Perú, has joined the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty as a visiting scholar for the 2023-24 academic year.
His stay at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is sponsored by the Fulbright program, the United States’ flagship program for international education and cultural exchange. He will teach “Colonialism, Imperialism, Globalization” this fall as part of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Languages and Indigenous Studies program. The Spanish course covers the history of imperialism in the American continent and the struggles of its groups to emancipate themselves.
Callirgos has a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Florida. With a background in cultural anthropology and gender studies, his courses focus on anthropology, race and ethnicity, colonial and postcolonial history and gender.
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Dr. Juan Carlos Callirgos, adjunct professor