Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Mariah Cardenas is a Master’s student in the Hispanic Literature program. She completed her B.A. in Spanish with highest honors with a minor in German at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the Mexican Revolution, the Sandinista Revolution, the Salvadoran Civil War, and other Marxist insurrections in Central America. She is particularly interested in the role of religion in revolution and how oppressive regimes are later remembered through literature.