Latin American Perspectives

Welcome to the LAP Virtual Exhibit

Latin American Perspectives publishes six issues per year featuring critical analysis of Latin American politics, economics, culture, and social movements.

Managing Editor: Ronald H. Chilcote

Recipient of the 2022 LASA Kalman Silvert Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished contribution to the study of Latin America

To watch the Silvert award session and Dr. Chilcote's lecture on YouTube, click here

To read Dr. Chilcote's essay The Challenges of Being a Latin Americanist in the LASA Forum, click here.

LAP celebrates 50 years of

fostering progressive theoretical and political debate
encouraging the work of emerging scholars
making scholarship from Latin America available in English

Rated the #1 journal in Latin American Studies by Google Scholar Metrics

For current calls for manuscripts, click here.

For recent issues, scroll down to pp. 1-2.

For recent books, scroll down to p. 3.

For all issues 1974-present, click here.

LAP Editors and Friends Meeting

June 14, 3:50-5:20 pm Bogota (US Central) time

LAP will participate in the Featured Session:

Getting Your Journal Article Published: Advice from the Editors

June 14, 12:10-1:40 Bogota time

Voltar a Expositores

Solicitar Reunião

E-mail LAP - lap@ucr.edu

Download LAP brochure - Click here

Submit a manuscript - Click here

Propose a thematic issue - Click here

LAP at the University of California, Riverside:

Research Fellowship - Click here
Chilcote Archives - Click here
LAP Archives - Click here

Podcasts with LAP issue editors and authors -Click here

To download this anthology of articles from LAP published in Spanish and Portuguese by CLACSO, click here.

This interactive map provides information about important political and cultural figures in each country's history by clicking on their images. Click here.