Handbook of Latin American Studies

The Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS), a multidisciplinary bibliographic project, grew out of a 1935 meeting held at the Social Science Research Council offices in New York City.

[3] Funding for the project initially was provided by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

[7] Under the tenure of Hispanic Foundation Director Howard F. Cline (1952–71), HLAS expanded the number of topics, with volumes alternating by year between humanities and social sciences.

Hispanic Division Director Dr. Georgette Dorn began the project of digitizing earlier print volumes of HLAS.

Publications considered for inclusion are monographs, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, websites, and maps written in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, or Russian.