The Latin American Research Review (LARR) publishes original research and review essays on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latina/Latino studies. LARR covers the social sciences and the humanities, including the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, history, literature and cultural studies, political science, and sociology.
The journal reviews and publishes papers in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. All papers, except for book and documentary film review essays, are subject to double-blind peer review. More information on book and documentary film review essays is available here. For general submission guidelines, see journal information.
LARR, the academic journal of the Latin American Studies Association, has been in continuous publication since 1965.

The importance of open access publishing for the arts and humanities
20 December 2023, Claire Brock
Between 2012 and 2014, I held a two-year Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (WT096499AIA) for a project on women surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.…

Introducing the New Editors of the Journal of British Studies
04 August 2023, Nadja Durbach and Tammy Proctor
We are thrilled to take over as co-editors of the Journal of British Studies, the official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies.

Cambridge to publish a new flagship journal in the fast-growing field of Pakistan studies
25 July 2022, Marcus Hinds
Critical Pakistan Studies will be the first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its peopleJournal will be interdisciplinary and open Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people.…...

Nationalism from the Outside In
21 January 2025, Lawrence A. Peskin
Most historians of the formative generations of the United States have focused (and still do) on a story of nation building that is centered on the creation The post Nationalism from the Outside In first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American South
20 January 2025, Lacy K. Ford
As the United States recently completed a bitter and divisive national election, Americans find themselves in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first The post Understanding the American South: Slavery, Race, Identity, and the American South first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....

The Mo Clan, Hà Tiên, and Eighteenth-Century Maritime East Asia
16 January 2025, Xing Hang
Hà Tiên, situated in the western Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral not far from Vietnam’s present border with Cambodia, thrived as an entrepôt over The post The Mo Clan, Hà Tiên, and Eighteenth-Century Maritime East Asia first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....