Research Degree, 2014-2018
Since leaving UCL, I have published several articles and book reviews in high quality journals, whilst also writing regularly on Latin American history and politics for websites such as . Although I am not currently employed in academia, I make use of the research and engagement skills that I developed at the Institute in my role as an policy and campaign manager on economic justice issues at . In this role I鈥檓 able to combine some of my knowledge of Latin American policy issues (e.g. debt, mining) with existing campaigns by civil society and grassroots organisations. Because of this, I believe that studying at the Institute gave me important skills and perspectives on issues that I already cared about and have helped me to develop these into a career. My recent publications:
- 鈥楢 politics of placelessness? The limits of democratising memory in the Centro de Documentaci贸n e Investigaci贸n of Lima鈥檚 Lugar de la Memoria鈥�, Memory Studies, June 2021.
- 鈥楽cratched From Memory: The 1986 Prison Massacres and the Limits of Acceptable Memory Discourse in Post-conflict Peru鈥�, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, October 2020.
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Dr Willis completed his LAHP-AHRC funded PhD, titled听, at the UCL Institute of the Americas in 2018, under the supervision of听Professor Paulo Drinot.
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