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Latin American and Latino Studies Faculty<\/h6>\n

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Jorge Antonio Alves<\/strong>
Political Science
Jorge.Alves@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Zadia Feliciano<\/strong>
Economics
Zadia.Feliciano@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sara Hinojos<\/strong>
Media Studies
Sara.Hinojos@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mark Hoff<\/strong>
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Mark.Hoff@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brais Outes-Le\u00f3n<\/strong>
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Brais.OutesLeon@qc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Juan Luis Rodriguez<\/strong>
Anthropology
JRodriguezAponte@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fidel J. Tav\u00e1rez Sim\u00f3<\/strong>
History
Fidel.Tavarez@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n

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Corinne Mu\u00f1oz<\/strong>
LALS Program Assistant
Corinne.Munoz@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n

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Name\/Department<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle<\/strong><\/td>\nResearch<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jorge A. Alves
<\/strong>Political Science & LALS<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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LALS Director & <\/span>Associate Professor<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Comparative politics, specifically on issues of federalism, intergovernmental relations, state capacity construction, social policy, public health and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Latin American and Brazil.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Natanya Duncan
<\/strong>Africana Studies & History<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Professor &\u00a0Director of Africana Studies<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Juan Luis Rodriguez Aponte
<\/strong>Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Associate Professor<\/td>\nLinguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Amazonian Ethnography, politics, Gift Giving, Language and Materiality, Discourse Analysis.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Kevin K. Birth
<\/strong>Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Professor<\/td>\nPeoples of the Caribbean and cultural writing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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John Collins
<\/strong>Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Professor &
Former Director, LALS<\/td>\n		Semiotics, cultural heritage and development, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state, Brazil, the Andes, race in Latin America.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Felicia Madimenos
<\/strong>Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Professor<\/td>\nMarket integration and health in South American indigenous peoples, human biology, female reproductive ecology, energetics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Timothy Pugh
<\/strong>Anthropology<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Associate Professor<\/td>\nMaya architecture, spatial analysis, ritual, social memory, cultural contact.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Lawrence Waldron
<\/strong>Art History<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Assistant Professor<\/td>\nThe art and architecture of the pre-Columbian Americas, the Caribbean, Hindu and Buddhist Asia, and Islamic Africa.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Christopher Winks
<\/strong>Comparative Literature<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Associate Professor<\/td>\nComparative modernisms with particular emphasis or Caribbean and Latin America literature and African-American studies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Zadia M. Feliciano
<\/strong>Economics<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Professor &
Former Director, LALS<\/td>\n		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.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Lillian Moncada-Davidson
<\/strong>Education<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Associate Professor<\/td>\nSociology and Foundations of Educations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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William Orchard
<\/strong>English<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Associate Professor<\/td>\nLatina 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Vanessa Perez-Rosario
<\/strong>English<\/p>\n

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Professor<\/td>\nU.S. Latinx and Caribbean literatures and cultures; American studies; U.S. bilingualism; multilingual American literature; poetics; gender and sexuality; transnational feminisms; translation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00c1lvaro Fern\u00e1ndez
<\/strong>Hispanic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n

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Professor<\/td>\n\n

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Specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and cinema, focused on narratives of an uncomfortable historical past.<\/p>\n

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Mark Hoff
<\/strong>Hispanic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Assistant Professor<\/td>\nSpanish and Portuguese linguistics, emphasis on morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jos\u00e9 Miguel Mart\u00ednez-Torrej\u00f3n
<\/strong>Hispanic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Distinguished Professor & Former Director, LALS<\/td>\nIberian Culture and Literature, Peninsular and Colonial, political dimension of literary texts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Brais Outes-Le\u00f3n
<\/strong>Hispanic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Associate Professor<\/td>\nLiterary critic and academic specialized in the field of Latin American literature and Cultural History.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Mariana Zinni
<\/strong>Hispanic Languages and Literatures<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Associate Professor<\/td>\nSpanish with a specialization in Colonial Latin America.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Fidel T. Tavarez
<\/strong>History<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Assistant Professor<\/td>\nHow the Hispanic world\u2014including Spain and Latin America\u2014governed, harnessed, and adapted to the effects of early modern globalization and capitalism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Elizabeth Ijalba
<\/strong>Linguistics and Communication Disorders<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Assistant Professor<\/td>\nCommunication disorders. Impact or bilingualism on disorders of communication and literacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Sara Hinojos
<\/strong>Media Studies<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Assistant Professor<\/td>\nFilm 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Anah\u00ed Viladrich
<\/strong>Sociology<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Professor<\/td>\nGender and reproductive health in Latin America, immigration, culture and health in the U.S and abroad.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Natalie Bump Vena
<\/strong>Urban Studies<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Assistant Professor<\/td>\nEnvironmental law and policy; volunteerism; urban protected lands.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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