Faculty Alphabetical
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Gregory Anderson, Ph.D., Indiana University.
Plant Systematics; Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru.
Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Gender; sexuality; migration; race/ethnicity; urban and community health; and social inequities/human rights.
Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Ph.D., Arizona State University.
Urban Economic Development, Urban Transportation and Amenities, Land Use Change, Growth Management & Sustainable Cities, GIS-based modeling, Spatial Statistics, Mixed Methods.
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Jon Bauer, J.D. – Yale University.
Asylum and refugee law, employment discrimination.
John Bell, Ph.D., Columbia Universtiy of California
Puppetry performance, history, and scholarship.
Claudio Benzecry, Ph.D., New York University.
Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Ethnography, Latin America and Sociology of Music and the Arts.
James Boster, Ph.D., University of Californa, Berkeley.
Cognitive anthropology, Intracultural variation, Quantitative methods, Ethnopsychology, Ethnobiology, Social Networks, Human ecology, Ethnology of South America.
Boris Bravo-Ureta, Ph.D., University of Nebraska.
Agricultural Production Economics; Agricultural Development and Agrarian Reform in Latin America.
Margaret Bruchac Ph.D., University Massachusetts-Amherst.
Algonkian Indian oral traditions, material culture, cultural recovery, and performance. Colonial encounters, ethnobotany, historical landscapes, indigenous archaeology, museum representations and repatriation, transnationalism, and decolonizing methodologies.
Kerry Bystrom, Ph.D., Princeton University.
South Africa and Southern Cone (Argentina) literature and visual culture; memory studies; democratic transitions; culture, human rights, and humanitarianism; postcolonial studies.
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Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
Twentieth-century and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literatures, cultures and societies, Latin American and Spanish cinema, African Diaspora, Transatlantic Studies, Cultural Studies in Post-cold war era societies.
Robin Chazdon, Ph.D., Cornell University.
Biology; Ecology of Tropical Rain Forest
Rosa Helena Chinchilla, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century Guatemalan Literature; Member of the Academia de Geografía e Historia; Golden Age Spanish Poetry and Prose; Spanish Humanism; Women's Studies.
Felix Coe, Ph.D., University of Connecticut.
Ethnobotany, systematics and floristics of New World Piperaceae; Floristics of Mesoamerica and Southeastern United States; Tropical Forest Ecology.
Antonia Cordero, D.S.W., Graduate Center, CUNY.
Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Individual, group and family therapy, Mental health and community services.
Jean C. Cowan, Ph D., SUNY Albany.
Internal displacement, refugees, violence and the war on drugs; Colombia
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Diane Drachman, Ph.D., University of California School of Social Welfare.
Social work with immigrant and refugee populations.
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Pamela Erickson, Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, New York.
Human Reproduction, Ecology, and Ethnomedicine; East Los Angeles, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Panama, The Philippines, and Nepal.
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María-Luz Fernández, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Nutrition and Coronary Heart Disease; Mexico and U.S. Latinos.
Mary Fischer, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Stratification, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Education.
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Miguel Gomes, Ph.D.. State University of New York -Stony Brook.
Latin American Essay and Poetry; Brazil and Venezuela.
Paul B. Goodwin, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.
Latin America in the National Period; British-Latin American Relations; Argentina.
Bruce Gould, M.D., State University of New York Upstate Medical University at Syracuse.
Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center; Coordinator, UConn Farmworker Health Clinic.
Robin Greeley, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art; Nationalism studies; Mexico and Nicaragua.
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Shareen Hertel, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Labor and Economic Rights, Social Mobilization and Public Opinion on Human Rights.
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Guillermo Irizarry, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Literature and Culture. Ethnic studies in an American (hemispheric), context, and diaspora studies.
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Peter Kingstone, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Comparative Politics; Latin America; Comparative Political Economy; Theories of International Relations; Brazil.
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Jocelyn Linnekin, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Ethnological Theory, Gender, Cultural Identity and Nationalism, Historical Anthropology, Comparative Politics; Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rigoberto López, Ph.D., University of Florida.
Food Marketing; World Sugar Market.
Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
19th and 20th century Spanish American Literature; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature; Cuba.
Alan Lurie, Ph.D, University of Rochester; D.D.S, University of California, Los Angeles.
Universidad del Desarrollo (Concepcion, Chile) dentistry faculty and student exchange program.
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Elizabeth Mahan, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
Media-State Relations in Latin America; Latin American Popular Culture; Mexico.
Samuel Martínez, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
Latin America and the Caribbean; African Diaspora; Agrarian Societies.
Catherine Medina, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Mental health services to Latino/a children and adolescents; Recruitment and retention of Latino/as in social work programs.
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Nancy Naples, Ph.D., Graduate Center , CUNY.
Gender, Inequality, Public Policy, Immigration, Globalization, Community Activism, and Disability Rights Movement
Lirio Negroni, Ph.D. - Boston College School of Social Work.
Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Mental health services to Latino/a children and adolescents.
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Angel Oquendo, Ph.D., Harvard University.
International and Comparative Law, Economics and Philosophy.
Isaac M. Ortega, Ph.D., Texas Tech University.
Wildlife; Foraging Ecology; Vegetation Communities; Chile, Patagonia.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D. Yale University.
Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
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Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Ph.D., Arizona State University.
Urban Economic Development, Urban Transportation and Amenities, Land Use Change, Growth Management & Sustainable Cities, GIS-based modeling, Spatial Statistics, Mixed Methods.
Melina Pappademos, Ph.D., New York University.
Social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, nationalisms, and the experiences of African-descended people in the Americas, particularly for the Caribbean and Latin America.
Osvaldo Pardo, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Theology and Latin American Literature; Mexico.
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
Domestic and International Community Nutrition; Infant Feeding; Mexico, Caribbean, Guatemala.
Mayte Perez-Franco, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, Higher Education and Latinos/as.
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Graciela Quiñones-Rodríguez, LCSW. Graduate School of Social Work, UConn.
Clinician at UConn, Storrs in Counseling & Mental Health Services. Adjunct Faculty at UConn School of Social Work & Hartford's Capital Community College.
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Marisol Ramos, M.A. State University of New York, Albany; MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles.
Latin American, Caribbean & Spanish Specialist and Curator for Hispanic History & Culture Collections.
Susan Randolph, Ph.D., Cornell University.
Development Economics, Mexico.
Xae Alicia Reyes, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder.
Education & Puerto Rican and Latino Studies.
Diana Ríos, Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin.
Communication, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Ethnicity/Race, Gender/Women Studies.
Eliana Rojas, Ph.D., University of Connecticut.
Bilingual / Multicultural Education, TESOL, Mathematics, Curriculum and Instruction.
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Laurietz Seda, Ph.D., University of Kansas.
Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Cultures and Literatures, cultural studies, globalization, identities, transnationalism, film, theatre and performance.
Anji Seth, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Regional Processes in Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Society and Climate.
Blanca Silvestrini, Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany.
Latin American History and U.S. Social History of the 20th Century.
Matthew Singer, Ph.D., Duke University.
Comparative Politics and Latin American Politics.
Karen Spalding, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Colonial Latin American History, Ethnohistory; Peru.
Robert Stephens, Ph.D., Indiana University.
Ethnomosicology, languages of music, Yoruba Culture, Cuba.
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Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago; and University of Glasgow.
Pragmatics, Metaphor, Discourse Analysis, Politeness Theory and Applied Linguistics.
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Theodore Van Alst, Ph.D., University of Connecticut.
Native American studies, film studies, colonialism
Charles Robert Venator Santiago, Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
U.S. territorial law and policy, immigration and criminal deportations, and nation-state building in the Caribbean.
Alexander Vías, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Economic Geography, Population Geography, Quantitative Methods, Rural America.
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Lisa Werkmeister-Rozas, Ph.D., Smith College.
Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Racial/ethnic identity development, intergroup dialogue, bilingual/bicultural clinical issues, cultural competence/relevance, and health disparities.
Michael R. Wilig, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.
Tropical Ecology of Animal Populations and Communities; Sustainability of Ecosystem Services; Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean.
Richard A. Wilson, Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science.
Political and Legal Anthropology, Human Rights, Political Violence, History and Memory, Anthropological and Social Theory; South Africa and Central America.
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