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 |
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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 |