April 7, 2026
The Fall 2026 course Central Americans in the United States, offered through Yale’s Ethnicity, Race, & Migration program, was taught by Leigh-Anna Hidalgo and Katy Maldonado Dominguez in collaboration with the Teach Central America project at Teaching for Change, which supports K–12 educators in integrating Central American history, literature, and culture into their classrooms. The course addressed these gaps through students’ capstone projects, which used digital humanities methods to produce accessible, public-facing research on contemporary issues affecting Central American communities. The projects are available here.
Featured projects include:
- Barriers to Healthcare as a Result of Historical, Social, and Legal Violence — Giselle Cucufate and Adriana Purcell
- How Performance Fosters Belonging and Honors Black and Indigenous Histories — Yair Guijosa-Torres, Lesli Muñoz Perez, Nahomy Reyes Mejia, and Jocelyn Perez
- How Disability Shapes Decisions to Migrate and the Journey While Migrating — Casey Lewis and Ariel Ramirez
- Responding to Historic and Contemporary Xenophobia with Practical Tools — Juan Araujo, Julia Lin, Kelly Tran, and Giselle Verdugo Acosta
- The Harmful and Inaccurate Myths Perpetuated by the Bukele Regime — Yocilin Solis and Nicole Velez