Affifiliated Faculty


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.

  • Emilio Pagoulatos , Dottore in Economica e Comercio, University of Rome, Ph.D., Iowa State University.
    International Agricultural Trade & Finance, Macroeconomics of Agriculture.

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • Pamela Erickson , Ph.D., State University of New York-Buffalo.
    Medical Anthropology; Women, Health and Development; International Health.

  • 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 Wilson, Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    Human Rights, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Politics of Truth, Memory and Justice.

 

ART HISTORY

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

  • Salvatore Scalora , M.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago.
    Folk Art of Mexico, Nigeria and the Caribbean; Mexico and Haiti.

 

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

  • Robert Colwell , Ph.D., University of Michigan.
    Tropical Biology; Insect-Plant Interactions; Costa Rica, Trinidad.

 

ECONOMICS

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

 

HISTORY

  • Roger N. Buckley , Ph.D., McGill University.
    Caribbean and British Imperial 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.


LATIN AMERICAN 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.


    NATIONAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING

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

 

MARINE SCIENCES

  • Hans G. Dam, Ph.D.,  State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Biological Oceanography; Coastal Management; Chile, Brazil

 

MUSIC

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

 

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

  • Lucy Creevey , Ph.D., Boston University.
    Rural Women in the Politics of Developing Countries; Andean Region.

  • 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.

  • Richard Vengroff, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D., Maxwell School- Syracuse University.
    Comparative Politics, Canada, Africa, International Development Management.

  • Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Ph.D, University of California, Berkeley.
    Political Theory and Comparative Politics.

 

SPANISH (SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE)

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

  • 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.

  • Sandra B. Schreffler , Ph.D., University of Florida-Gainesville.
    Spanish Linguistics; Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador

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

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