Records of the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1937-1983.

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Records of the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1937-1983.

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Correspondence and other files relating to the administration and programs of the Institute of Latin American Studies. Institute directors who figure significantly in these records include Sturgis E. Leavitt and Federico G. Gil.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Institute of Latin American Studies

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Inter-American Institute.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute of Latin American Studies

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The Institute of Latin American Studies was established in 1940 as the Inter-American Institute; it kept the latter name until 1947. The Institute's initial purpose was to expand the university's research materials on Latin America. Its first major program was the School for Latin Americans, which it ran from 1941 to 1945 and which brought scholars from Latin America to the Chapel Hill campus. From its beginning, the Institute has received significant funding from foundations, allowing it to exp...

Leavitt, Sturgis E. b. 1888.

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Gil, Federico Guillermo

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Federico Guillermo Gil, Kenan Professor Emeritus in the Political Science Department, and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the description of Federico Guillermo Gil papers, 1941-1996. WorldCat record id: 25937253 ...