Ariana Quezada received a B.A. in International and Area Studies (with a focus in Latin America) and Spanish in 2006 and an M.A. in History in 2009 from the University of Oklahoma.  Her thesis, “El Pueblo Refugiado: Guatemalan Refugees and the Emergence of Human Rights Discourse in Mexico,” explores the development of human rights institutions in Mexico in the 1980s and early 1990s.  She hopes to build on this project as she pursues her Ph.D. in Latin American history.