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UP Contriuting Writer Gabriela Quintero asked a range of questions on Prof. Vado's background, her education and scholarship, and why she's glad to live and work in South Florida.

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Quintero: To you, what makes ¼ø»Æʦapp an attractive place to practice and teach your studies?

Vado: Well, I have only been at ¼ø»Æʦapp for a whole year, but perhaps what is most attractive is the location; we are in South Florida, which is a gateway, an area that has a really rich and long history with Latin America and the Caribbean. For me, thinking about this migration of bodies of ideas and ideologies is really innate to my work, especially about Latinx and Latin American exchanges, throughout time, literature and culture. It makes the location of ¼ø»Æʦapp perfect through its hemispherical focus on Latin American/Caribbean studies in terms of what I focus my scholarship on. But then in terms of the kind of institution that it is, ¼ø»Æʦapp professors tend to be very student-centric, which allows ¼ø»Æʦapp to value teaching as much as it does its ¼ø»Æʦapp, which is something that I wanted: to be able to work closely with ¼ø»Æʦapp and have smaller classes, which give me the opportunity to develop those relationships with ¼ø»Æʦapp.

I was also really drawn to the fact that ¼ø»Æʦapp is one of the most diverse public universities in the state of Florida, which was really important to me because I wanted to practice my studies at a minority-serving institution, which are the kinds of ¼ø»Æʦapp and communities that I am the most drawn to due to my own background. Ìý

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