Author: Juan P Acevedo

Juan P Acevedo

  • Research Associate / Postdoctoral Fellow – Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

    The Graduate Center (GC) benefits from highly ambitious and diverse students and alumni—who in turn teach hundreds of thousands of undergraduates every year. Through its public programs, the Graduate Center enhances New York City’s intellectual and cultural life. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Doctoral Degree in a related field and demonstrated research ability. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS A preferred candidate…

  • Documentary Screening: El Doble Secuestro de Sigifredo López

    MAY 7, 2026 6:30 PM | SEGAL THEATRE GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. The documentary “The Double Kidnapping of Sigifredo Lopez” tells the shocking story of the 12 deputies from Valle del Cauca who were kidnapped by the FARC-EP in 2002, and the only person who survived: Sigifredo Lopez. After being…

  • Book Launch: Atusparia

    APRIL 28, 2026 7 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. Gabriela Wiener in conversation with Ángeles Donoso Macaya, and Fátima Vélez Atusparia (2024) tells the story of a leftist militant who ends up imprisoned in a high-security facility in the Amazon after becoming a victim of lawfare.The protagonist…

  • Book Launch: Caught in the Current

    APRIL 27, 2026 6:30 PM | ROOM 9205 GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. The book tells an unfamiliar story: Mexico trying—and spectacularly failing—to control emigration to the United States. Across four decades, Mexican officials imposed moratoriums, launched “stay-at-home” campaigns, clashed violently with their own citizens at the border, and experimented with…

  • Migration as Punishment: Transimperial Grammars of Displacement in the Atlantic World

    APRIL 13, 2026 6:00 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. This presentation examines penal reform and colonial expansion in the nineteenth-century Atlantic through two cases: deportations from prisons in Germany to Brazil and transportation from an English Reformatory to Natal (today’s South Africa). Drawing on archives from three…