Gallatin Scholars Explore Politics and Education in Venezuela

      NYU’s Albert Gallatin Scholars traveled to Venezuela in January for their annual research trip. Students tackled questions of community organizing, university education, political affiliation, land rights and the oil industry, and media and pop culture through a series of meetings and tours. Assistant Professor Alejandro Velasco, a historian whose research and teaching interests are in the areas of social movements, urban culture, and democratization in Latin America, led the group along with Danielle Insalaco-Egan, Gallatin’s director of student affairs. In the central plaza of Caracas’ Universidad Central de Venezuela, historian Margarita Lopez Maya, center, described the history of student protests that occurred on the site.