Hemispheric Institute on the Americas

HIA is headquartered at UC Davis. Houses the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, which receives has made reports on the Guantanamo detainees.

From HIA:

"HIA is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students at the University of California at Davis that focuses on transnational processes in the American hemisphere. Our project brings together people and promotes research to challenge the boundaries of disciplinary specialization and culture area studies. HIA explores the connections throughout the social, cultural, and economic landscape of the Western Hemisphere from an array of perspectives across multiple academic units, to redirect and redefine the study of Latin America from a broadly hemispheric viewpoint.

HIA Mission

The premise of HIA is to move beyond both the national security and elite culture paradigms that have served as the foundation for area studies in the past. While retaining an interdisciplinary understanding of Latin America as an autonomous region with its own internal diversities, HIA focuses on the growing importance of such transnational themes as hemispheric flows of people, capital, consumer goods, images, and ideas. We bring Latin American studies into dialogue with theoretical and empirical work that 1) emphasizes cultural difference, 2) focuses attention on racial/ethnic and gender issues, and 3) highlights both the cultural face and the new social realities of political and economic disparities. HIA seeks to emphasize the voices of those who question and challenge the nation-state and the dominant cultural order from within, and of transnational forces of change that pose a parallel challenge from without. HIA's faculty affiliates are in the UCD Departments and Programs of Anthropology, History, Sociology, Spanish, Native American Studies, Political Science, Chicana/o Studies, African and African American Studies, Human and Community Development, Economics, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Environmental Science and Policy, Nutrition, and others."

To support these endeavors and to learn more, please visit our home page regularly."'

Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas

"The UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA) is an academic initiative for the comprehensive study of human rights across the American continent. Its mission is to gather information about human rights in our hemisphere, interpret it from interdisciplinary perspectives, develop appropriate legal instruments, create relevant curricula, and enhance human rights in the Americas through enlightened action. CSHRA was founded in the Spring of 2005 through a generous grant from the UCDavis Committee on Research. It was also awarded a three-year grant by the University of California Office of the President in the Fall of 2007. CSHRA is housed within the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California at Davis. Currently, CSHRA is carrying out two research projects:

• The Guantánamo Testimonials Project
• The Neurobiology of Psychological Torture"

External links

• HIA Homepage
• CSHRA Homepage