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University of California San Diego
School of Social Science
Latin American Studies

10/15/2026

✨Get to know your TA✨ Get to know Iliana! This Fall Quarter, she is serving as a TA for LATI 10: Reading North by South: Latin American Studies & US Liberation Movements.

10/13/2026

✨Get to know your TA✨ Get to know Julian! This Fall Quarter, he is serving as a TA for LATI 50: Introduction to Latin American Studies.

10/08/2026

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10/06/2026

✨Get to know your professor✨ Get to know Troy! This Fall, he is instructing LATI 50: Introduction to Latin American Studies, and LATI 166: Latin Food Culture, Culinary Ethnography of the Americas.

“Troy Andreas Araiza Kokkinis received his PhD in Latin American History in 2019; and an MA from UCSD Latin American Studies Program in 2013. He investigates Uruguay’s Cold War-era labor movement in the constitutional dictatorship era, especially situating anarchism within a regional New Left milieu. His book Anarchist Popular Power began circulating in June 2023 via AK Press. It has recently been published in Argentina-Uruguay and Indonesia. He also co-produced a documentary on Latin America’s Feminist Green Wave, titled En la selva no todo se podia ver (2021),

He teaches LATI50: Introduction to Latin American Studies each quarter. He also teaches upper division LAS courses on decolonial theory, Third Cinema, and borderlands cuisine. He has taught in UCSD’s Global South Studies Program and Sociology Department; and UCSB’s History Department.
 He is interested in Anarchism, autonomous Marxism, Third World feminism, culinary arts, and Third Cinema.

He has worked in the food-service and bar industry since age 16 and has continued to do so since beginning to teach at UCSD in 2019. He is currently producing a Persian cocktail recipe book alongside Iranian artist Yalda Sepahpour. He paints signs in the Argentine fileteado porteño style and runs a seasonal pop-up restaurant out of a junkyard, called La Bancarrota.”

09/24/2026

Congrats to recent alumni Michael Aldas! The newest Spanish instructor at West Point. Michael is pictured here grilling with the Spanish club and continuing to mentor students as he did in his time at UCSD. We are very proud of all of our students and alumni! 👏🏽

09/17/2026

✨ ✨ Meet Cindy Jimenez, a 4th-year undergraduate student in the LAS B.A Program!

09/15/2026

✨ ✨ Meet Emma Starkey, a 1st-year graduate student in the LAS M.A Program!

09/10/2026

✨ ✨ Meet Jennifer Torres Leon, a 1st-year graduate student in the LAS M.A Program!

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La Jolla, CA
92093

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