Affiliated Faculty

 

 

AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS

  • Boris Bravo-Ureta , Ph.D., University of Nebraska.
    Agricultural Production Economics; Agricultural Development and Agrarian Reform in Latin America.

  • Rigoberto López , Ph.D., University of Florida.
    Food Marketing; World Sugar Market.

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • James Shilts Booster, Ph.D., University of Californa, Berkeley.
    Cognitive anthropology, Intracultural variation, Quantitative methods, Ethnopsychology, Ethnobiology, Social Networks, Human ecology, Ethnology of South America.

  • Pamela Erickson, Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, New York.
    Human Reproduction, Ecology, and Ethnomedicine; East Los Angeles, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Panama, The Philippines, and Nepal.

  • Jocelyn Linnekin, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
    Ethnological Theory, Gender, Cultural Identity and Nationalism, Historical Anthropology, Comparative Politics; Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Samuel Martínez , Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
    Latin American and the Caribbean; African Diaspora; Agrarian Societies.

  • Richard A. Wilson, Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science.
    Political and Legal Anthropology, Human Rights, Political Violence, History and Memory, Anthropological and Social Theory; South Africa and Central America.


ART AND ART HISTORY

  • Robin Greeley , Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
    Latin American Art in the 20th Century; Mexico and Nicaragua.


COMMUNICATION SCIENCES

  • Diana Ríos, Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin.
    Communication, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Ethnicity/Race, Gender/Women Studies.

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

  • Gregory Anderson, Ph.D., Indiana University.
    Plant Systematics; Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru.

  • Robin Chazdon, Ph.D., Cornell University.
    Biology; Ecology of Tropical Rain Forest

  • Felix Coe, Ph.D., Tennessee Technological University.
    Ethnobotany, systematics and floristics of New World Piperaceae; Floristics of Mesoamerica and Southeastern United States; Tropical Forest Ecology.

ECONOMICS

  • Susan Randolph , Ph.D., Cornell University.
    Development Economics, Mexico.

EDUCATION: CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

  • Eliana Rojas, Ph.D., University of Connecticut.
    Bilingual / Multicultural Education, TESOL, Mathematics, Curriculum and Instruction.

  • Xae Alicia Reyes, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder.
    Education & Puerto Rican and Latino Studies.

GEOGRAPHY

  • Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Ph.D., Arizona State University.
    Urban Economic Development, Urban Transportation and Amenities, Land Use Change, Growth Management & Sustainable Cities, GIS-based modeling, Spatial Statistics, Mixed Methods.

  • Alexander Vías, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
    Economic Geography, Population Geography, Quantitative Methods, Rural America.

HISTORY

  • Paul B. Goodwin , Jr., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.
    Latin America in the National Period; British-Latin American Relations; Argentina.

  • Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D. Yale University.
    Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.

  • Melina Pappademos, Ph.D. New York University.
    Social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, nationalisms, and the experiences of African-descended people in the Americas, particularly for the Caribbean and Latin America.

  • Blanca Silvestrini , Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany.
    Latin American History and U.S. Social History of the 20th Century.

  • Karen Spalding , Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley.
    Colonial Latin American History, Ethnohistory; Peru.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY STUDIES

  • Tricia Gabany-Guerrero, Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY.
    Mesoamerica; Indigenous Peoples; Ethnohistory; Archaeology of Michoacán, México; U.S.-Mexico border; Mexican migration.

  • Elizabeth Mahan , Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
    Media-State Relations in Latin America; Latin American Popular Culture; Mexico.

 

LAW SCHOOL

  • Angel Oquendo, Ph.D., Harvard University.
    International and Comparative Law, Economics and Philosophy.

LIBRARY LIAISON

  • Marisol Ramos, M.A. State University of New York, Albany; MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles
    Latin American, Caribbean & Spanish Specialist and Curator for Hispanic History & Culture Collections.

MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES - SPANISH

  • Rosa Helena Chinchilla, Ph.D., State University of Nuew York at Stony Brook
    Golden Age Spanish Poetry and Prose, Spanish Humanism, Women's Studies.

  • Miguel Gomes, Ph.D. State University of New York -Stony Brook
    Latin American Essay and Poetry; Brazil and Venezuela.

  • Guillermo Irizarry, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
    Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Literature and Culture. Ethnic studies in an American (hemispheric), context, and diaspora studies.

  • Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
    19th and 20th century Spanish American Literature; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature; Cuba.

  • Osvaldo Pardo, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
    Theology and Latin American Literature; Mexico.

  • Laurietz Seda, Ph.D., University of Kansas.
    Latin American Theater.

  • Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago; and University of Glasgow.
    Pragmatics, Metaphor, Discourse Analysis, Politeness Theory and Applied Linguistics.


MUSIC / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • Robert Stephen , Ph.D.,  Indiana University
    Ethnomosicology, languages of music, Yoruba Culture, Cuba.

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING

  • Isaac M. Ortega , Ph.D., Texas Tech University.
    Wildlife; Foraging Ecology; Vegetation Communities; Chile, Patagonia.

NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES

  • María-Luz Fernández , Ph.D., University of Arizona.
    Nutrition and Coronary Heart Disease; Mexico and U.S. Latinos.

  • Rafael Pérez-Escamilla , Ph.D., University of California-Davis.
    Domestic and International Community Nutrition; Infant Feeding; Mexico, Caribbean, Guatemala.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • Shareen Hertel, Ph.D. Columbia University.
    Social and Economic Rights, Changes in Transnational Human Rights Advocacy.

  • Peter Kingstone , Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley.
    Comparative Politics; Latin America; Comparative Political Economy; Theories of International Relations; Brazil.

  • Matthew Singer, Ph.D., Duke University.
    Comparative Politics and Latin American Politics.

  • Donna Lee Van Cott, Ph.D, Georgetown University.
    Ethnic politics, social movements, political parties, and institutional reform in Latin America.

  • Charles Robert Venator Santiago, Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
    U.S. territorial law and policy, immigration and criminal deportations, and nation-state building in the Caribbean.


SOCIOLOGY

  • Guillermo Gil-Rebollo, Ph.D., University of Florida.
    Race and Racism, Latino and Latina Studies, Whiteness, Popular Culture.

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