Title/Department: Interim Lead, Researcher Engagement Section, University Libraries
Research/Teaching Focus: Teaching and learning technologies, collection developmentand the representation of Latin American indigenous languages materials
Title/Department: Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
Geographic Research Area: Latino/a immigrants to the U.S., Chicano/a politics in the U.S.
Research/Teaching Focus: The politics of subaltern representation for Latino immigrants and criminalized youth, cultural survival, Mexican-Chicano/a struggles in the United States
Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Political Science
Geographic Research Area: South America; Bolivia
Research/Teaching Focus: Democracy in Developing Countries; NGOs and Civil Society; Political Participation; Protest; Voting: Inequality; Latin American Politics, especially Bolivia.
Title/Department: Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Geographic Research Area: Mexico, Latin America
Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Mexican Masculinities; Gender, Sexuality, and Migration; Global History of Sexuality; Crime and Criminality in Mexico and Latin America. Teaching: Global Gender Studies, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking, Mexican History (Modern Period), Latin American History (Modern Period)
Title/Department: Associate Director and Anthropology Instructor, Global Studies RAP; Faculty-in-Residence Aan Instructo, Sustainability And Social Innovation RAP; Program Director, Bolivia Global Seminar
Geographic Research Area: Bolivia
Research/Teaching Focus: Latin America, Bolivia, democracy, drug policy, Social Movements, International Development, U.S. Foreign Policy, Globalization, Public Anthropology, Service Learning
Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
Geographic Research Area: Colonial Latin America
Research/Teaching Focus: Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American art, specifically, the roles and representation of gender, ethnicity, and sanctity in colonial Latin American cultures, as well as relations between text and image in colonial visual culture.
Title/Department: Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Geographic Research Area: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela
Research/Teaching Focus: The depiction of the diverse forms of rural insurgency labeled “banditry” in postcolonial Latin American culture, and the relationship between banditry and the imagination of the nation-state.
Research/Teaching Focus: Biological and behavioral responses of human populations to nutritional problems with special emphasis on responses to food shortages and the presence of toxins in foods.
Title/Department: Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Latin American Urban Fiction. Teaching: Latin American Non-Fiction, Prison Narratives, Media and Literature in Latin America, Authorship and Cultural Agency in Latin America.
Geographic Research Area: Mexico; Venezuela; Spanish Caribbean; Spain
Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Colonial Latin America, Colonial Mexico, Spanish Inquisition. Teaching: Mexican History (Colonial Period), Latin American History (Colonial Period)
Research/Teaching Focus: My research examines ideas about what makes good coffee, and what makes coffee good, across the commodity chain, from producers to consumers. In so doing I bring together the wide lens economic and historical anthropology and the intimate focus of belonging, identity, and distinction.
Title/Department: Director, Latin American Studies Center; Associate Professor, Anthropology
Geographic Research Area: Brazil, Argentina
Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Pharmaceutical Politics, Science Studies, Cold War, Nuclear Energy, Health, Environment, and Toxicity, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Crime and Violence in Latin America. Teaching: Political Economy and Power, Critical Medical Anthropology, The Anthropology of Latin America, Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, Southern Cone Dictatorships, Latin American Films
Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Research/Teaching Focus: Research focus: Political competition and territorial expansion in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica; Geographic Information Systems for social sciences; Archaeology and the history of ancient disasters. Teaching focus: Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory
Research/Teaching Focus: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Afro-descendants; Indigeneity and Identity Politics; Mestizaje; Ethnohistory; Agrarian Reform; Kinship, Sex and Gender; Religion
Title/Department: Senior Instructor, Spanish and Portuguese
Geographic Research Area: Mexico, United States
Research/Teaching Focus: My research can be divided into several interrelated areas: 20-21st Century Mexican Literature and Culture; Cross-cultural Communication and Exchange between Latin America and the United States; Globalization and Cultural Identity; Ethics in Relation to International Business, and Spanish for professional uses. These areas reflect my intellectual commitment to contributing quality work to the fields of literature and cultural studies while also seeking meaningful connections between academic theories about identity and concrete experience. In addition, my research compliments my teaching areas since language and culture are integral element in the Spanish for business course and because I also teach literature and Latin American culture classes in the department.
Title/Department: Associate Professor, Geography Department and Population Program
Geographic Research Area: Mexico
Research/Teaching Focus: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; Population Geography; Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development; Geographies of Gloal Change
Title/Department: Transitional Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities
Research/Teaching Focus: Latinx Literature and Culture, Creative Nonfiction, Ethnic American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature
Title/Department: Professor,Director American Music Research Center
Geographic Research Area:Cuba
Research/Teaching Focus:Her own research focuses on Cuban and Latin American music, with particular attention to musical manifestations of and reactions to transnationalism, migration, and diaspora as well as the musical intersections of gender, race, embodiment, and performativity.
