| Name |
Department |
Title |
Research |
| Zadia Feliciano |
Latin American and Latino Studies |
Director |
Free Trade Agreements in Latin America, Corporate taxation in Puerto Rico, Impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Minimum Wages in Mexico, Mexican Migration |
| Deidre Flowers |
Africana Studies |
Acting Director |
Africa & African American Caribbean research |
| Kevin K. Birth |
Anthropology |
Professor |
Peoples of the Caribbean and cultural writing |
| Felicia Madimenos |
Anthropology |
Professor |
Market integration and health in South American indigenous peoples, human biology, female reproductive ecology, energetics |
| John Collins |
Anthropology |
Professor |
Semiotics, cultural heritage and development, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state, Brazil, the Andes, race in Latin America |
| Juan Luis Rodriguez |
Anthropology |
Assistant Professor |
Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Amazonian Ethnography, politics, Gift Giving, Language and Materiality, Discourse Analysis |
| Ramona L. Perez |
Anthropology |
Instructor |
Food habits, Kinship and life history in the U.S. Mexico borderlands, urban curanderismo, food justice |
| Timothy Pugh |
Anthropology |
Associate Professor |
Maya architecture, spatial analysis, ritual, social memory, cultural contact. |
| Christopher Winks |
Comparative Literature |
Associate Professor |
Comparative modernisms with particular emphasis or Caribbean and Latin America literature and African-American studies |
| Zadia Feliciano |
Economics |
Professor |
Labor Economics, International Economics, Economic History |
| Lillian Moncada-Davidson |
Education |
Associate Professor |
Sociology and Foundations of Educations |
| Álvaro Fernández |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Professor |
Specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and cinema, focused on narratives of an uncomfortable historical past |
| Beatriz Carolina Peña |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Assistant Professor |
Colonial Latin American literature, iconography, and history, Spanish Golden Age, and nineteenth and twentieth centuries Spanish American literature |
| Brais Outes-Leon |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Assistant Professor |
Literary critic and academic specialized in the field of Latin American literature and Cultural History |
| Irma Llorens |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Associate Professor |
Spanish American literature, contemporary Spanish and Mexican short stories |
| Isabel Maria de Sena |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Adjunct Assistant Professor |
|
| José Miguel Martínez-Torrejón |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Professor |
Iberian Culture and Literature, Peninsular and Colonial, political dimension of literary texts |
| Mariana Zinni |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Associate Professor |
Spanish with a specialization in Colonial Latin America |
| Nora Glickman |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Professor |
She combines teaching with creative writing, criticism and translation. Her critical work (articles, book and film reviews, interviews, encyclopedias and dictionaries) has appeared in national and international journals |
| Rafael Sanchez |
Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
Adjunct Professor |
Puerto Rico Latin American Culture and theater |
| Fidel T. Tavarez |
History |
Assistant Professor |
How the Hispanic world—including Spain and Latin America—governed, harnessed, and adapted to the effects of early modern globalization and capitalism |
| Sandy Placido |
History |
Assistant Professor |
Social movements in the Americas, with a special focus on the contributions of women and people of African and Caribbean descent |
| Eva M. Fernandez |
Linguistics and Communication Disorders |
Associate Professor |
Bilingualism, psycholinguistics and instructional Technology |
| Elizabeth Ijalba |
Linguistics and Communication Disorders |
Assistant Professor |
Communication disorders, Impact or bilingualism on disorders of communication and literacy |
| Sara Hinojos |
Media Studies |
Assistant Professor |
Film and television representation of Chicanxs and Latinxs and cultural studies with an emphasis on gender, race, language politics, digital media, humor studies, and sound studies |
| Jorge A. Aviles |
Political Science |
Assistant Professor |
Comparative politics, specifically on issues of federalism, intergovernmental relations, state capacity construction and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Latin American and Brazil |
| Judith Kimerling |
Political Science |
Professor |
Environmental law and politics, law and implementation, international development and human rights, the politics of Amazon rain forest development, energy law politics |
| Anahi Viladrich |
Sociology |
Associate Professor |
Gender and reproductive health in Latin America, immigration, culture and health in the U.S and abroad |
| Carmenza L. Gallo |
Sociology |
Associate Professor |
Sociology of Developing Countries |
| Mauricio A. Font |
Sociology |
Professor |
Sociology of Developing Countries |
| Sujatha Fernandes |
Sociology |
Associate Professor |
Hip hop culture , neoliberalism, state-society relations; urban public space; and the role of culture in social movements |
