Latin American and Latino Studies Faculty

Latin American and Latino Studies Faculty

 

Name/Department Title Research

Jorge A. Aviles

Political Science & LALS

LALS Co-director &

Associate 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.

Zadia M. Feliciano

Economics and LALS

LALS Co-director &

Professor 

Her research focuses on free trade agreements in Latin America and their economic impact, corporate taxation in Puerto Rico and the effects of Hurricane Maria, and Mexican migration to the US. 

Natanya Duncan

Africana Studies

 

Africana Studies

Director & Professor

 

Global freedom movements, constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in diasporic communities; intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora.

Juan Luis Rodriguez Aponte

Anthropology & LALS

Associate Professor

Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Amazonian Ethnography, politics, Gift Giving, Language and Materiality, Discourse Analysis.

Kevin K. Birth

Anthropology

Professor Peoples of the Caribbean and cultural writing.

John Collins

Anthropology

Professor Semiotics, cultural heritage and development, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state, Brazil, the Andes, race in Latin America.

Felicia Madimenos

Anthropology

Professor

Market integration and health in South American indigenous peoples, human biology, female reproductive ecology, energetics.

Timothy Pugh

Anthropology

Associate Professor Maya architecture, spatial analysis, ritual, social memory, cultural contact.

Lawrence Waldron

Art History

Assistant Professor The art and architecture of the pre-Columbian Americas, the Caribbean, Hindu and Buddhist Asia, and Islamic Africa.

Christopher Winks

Comparative Literature

Associate Professor Comparative modernisms with particular emphasis or Caribbean and Latin America literature and African-American studies.

Lillian Moncada-Davidson

Education

Associate Professor Sociology and Foundations of Educations.

William Orchard

English

Associate Professor Latina and Latino literature and culture, contemporary American literature, theories of gender and sexuality, visual culture, the graphic novel, queer studies, critical race and ethnic studies, theories of narrative and the novel.

Vanessa Perez-Rosario

English

 

Professor U.S. Latinx and Caribbean literatures and cultures; American studies; U.S. bilingualism; multilingual American literature; poetics; gender and sexuality; transnational feminisms; translation

Álvaro Fernández

Hispanic Languages and Literatures

 

Professor

 

Specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and cinema, focused on narratives of an uncomfortable historical past.

 

Nora Glickman

Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Professor Emeritus Latin American literature. 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.

Mark Hoff

Hispanic Languages and Literatures & LALS

Assistant Professor 

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 Colonial Latin American literature, iconography, and history, Spanish Golden Age, and nineteenth and twentieth centuries Spanish American literature.

José Miguel Martínez-Torrejón

Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Professor Iberian Culture and Literature, Peninsular and Colonial, political dimension of literary texts.

Brais Outes-León

Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Associate Professor & LALS Literary critic and academic specialized in the field of Latin American literature and Cultural History.

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.

Mariana Zinni

Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Associate Professor Spanish with a specialization in Colonial Latin America.

Fidel T. Tavarez

History & LALS

Assistant Professor How the Hispanic world—including Spain and Latin America—governed, harnessed, and adapted to the effects of early modern globalization and capitalism

Elizabeth Ijalba

Linguistics and Communication Disorders

Assistant Professor Communication disorders. Impact or bilingualism on disorders of communication and literacy

Sara Hinojos

Media Studies & LALS

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.

Mauricio A. Font

Sociology

 

Professor Sociology of Latin American countries.

Anahi Viladrich

Sociology

 

Associate Professor Gender and reproductive health in Latin America, immigration, culture and health in the U.S and abroad.