Latin American and Latino Studies Faculty
Name/Department | Title | Research |
Zadia M. Feliciano Latin American and Latino Studies |
Director LALS |
Free Trade Agreements in Latin America, Corporate taxation in Puerto Rico, Impact of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Minimum Wages in Mexico, Mexican Migration. |
Natanya Duncan Africana Studies |
Director Africana Studies |
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. |
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 Aponte Anthropology |
Associate Professor | Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Amazonian Ethnography, politics, Gift Giving, Language and Materiality, Discourse Analysis. |
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. |
Zadia M. Feliciano Economics |
Professor | International trade and foreign direct investment in the U.S., Latin America & Asia, economic history of Mexican Immigrants. |
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. |
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 | 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. |
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. |
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. |