Faculty Research Interests

Hemispheric Migrations, Diasporas, and U.S. Latina/os

Health, Ecology and the Environment

Human Rights

Political Economy, Development, and Society

Culture, Power, and Race/Ethnicity

Gender, Reproduction and Sexuality

Hemispheric Migrations, Diasporas, and U.S. Latina/os

Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Latino and Latina Studies.
Jon Bauer, J.D., Yale University.
Civil Rights Clinic, Employment Discrimination, Evidence, Asylum Clinic.
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.
Antonia Cordero, D.S.W., Graduate Center, CUNY
Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Individual, group and family therapy, Mental health and community services.
Diane Drachman, Ph.D., University of California School of Social Welfare
Social work with immigrant and refugee populations.
Mary Fischer, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Stratification, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Education.
Bruce Gould, M.D., Syracuse University.
Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center; Coordinator, UConn Farmworker Health Clinic.
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.
Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
19th and 20th century Spanish American Literature; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature; Cuba.
Samuel Martínez, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
Latin American 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.
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.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.
Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
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.
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., University of California-Davis.
Domestic and International Community Nutrition; Infant Feeding; Mexico, Caribbean, Guatemala.
Mayté Perez-Franco, Ph.D., University of Arizona
Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, Higher Education and Latinas/os.
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.
Blanca Silvestrini , Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany.
Latin American History and U.S. Social History of the 20th Century.
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.
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.

Health, Ecology and the Environment

Gregory Anderson, Ph.D., Indiana University.
Plant Systematics; Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru.
Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Latino and Latina Studies.
James Shilts Boster, Ph.D., University of California, 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.
Robin Chazdon, Ph.D., Cornell University.
Biology; Ecology of Tropical Rain Forest.
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.
Diane Drachman, Ph.D., University of California School of Social Welfare
Social work with immigrant and refugee populations.
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.
María-Luz Fernández, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Nutrition and Coronary Heart Disease; Mexico and U.S. Latinos.
Bruce Gould, M.D., Syracuse University.
Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center; Coordinator, UConn Farmworker Health Clinic.
Rigoberto López, Ph.D., University of Florida.
Food Marketing; World Sugar Market.
Alan Lurie, Ph.D., University of Rochester; D.D.S, UCLA
Universidad del Desarrollo (Concepcion, Chile) dentistry faculty and student exchange program.
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.
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.
Isaac M. Ortega, Ph.D., Texas Tech University.
Wildlife; Foraging Ecology; Vegetation Communities; Chile, Patagonia.
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., University of California-Davis.
Domestic and International Community Nutrition; Infant Feeding; Mexico, Caribbean, Guatemala.
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.
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.
Anji Seth, Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Regional Processes in Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Society and Climate.
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.

Human Rights

Jon Bauer, J.D., Yale University.
Civil Rights Clinic, Employment Discrimination, Evidence, Asylum Clinic.
Margaret Bruchac, Ph.D., University Massachusetts, Amherst.
Algonkian Indian oral traditions, material culture, cultural recovery, and performance. She also focuses on 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.
Jean C. Cowan, Ph D., SUNY Albany.
Internal displacement, refugees, violence and the war on drugs; Colombia
Bruce Gould, M.D., Syracuse University.
Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center; Coordinator, UConn Farmworker Health Clinic.
Shareen Hertel, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Labor and Economic Rights, Social Mobilization and Public Opinion on Human Rights.
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.
Samuel Martínez, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
Latin America and the Caribbean; African Diaspora; Agrarian Societies.
Angel Oquendo, Ph.D., Harvard University.
International and Comparative Law, Economics and Philosophy.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.
Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
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.
Blanca Silvestrini, Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany.
Latin American History and U.S. Social History of the 20th Century.
Karen Spalding, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley.
Colonial Latin American History, Ethnohistory; Peru.
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.
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.

Political Economy, Development, and Society

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.
Shareen Hertel, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Labor and Economic Rights, Social Mobilization and Public Opinion on Human Rights.
Peter Kingstone, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley.
Comparative Politics; Latin America; Comparative Political Economy; Theories of International Relations; Brazil.
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.
Angel Oquendo, Ph.D., Harvard University.
International and Comparative Law, Economics and Philosophy.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.
Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
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.
Susan Randolph, Ph.D., Cornell University.
Development Economics, Mexico.
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.
Alexander Vías, Ph.D., University of Arizona.
Economic Geography, Population Geography, Quantitative Methods, Rural America.
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.

Culture, Power, and Race/Ethnicity

Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Latino and Latina Studies.
John Bell, Ph.D., Columbia Universtiy of California
Puppetry performance, history, and scholarship.
Claudio Benzecry, Ph.D., New York University
Rosa Helena Chinchilla, Ph.D., State University of Nuew York, Stony Brook.
Golden Age Spanish Poetry and Prose, Spanish Humanism, Women's Studies.
Robin Greeley , Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art; Nationalism studies; Mexico and Nicaragua.
Miguel Gomes, Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Latin American Essay and Poetry; Brazil and Venezuela.
Paul B. Goodwin Jr.., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.
Latin America in the National Period; British-Latin American Relations; Argentina.
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.
Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
19th and 20th century Spanish American Literature; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature; Cuba.
Elizabeth Mahan, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.
Media-State Relations in Latin America; Latin American Popular Culture; Mexico.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.
Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
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.
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.
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.
Blanca Silvestrini, Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany.
Latin American History and U.S. Social History of the 20th Century.
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.
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago; and University of Glasgow.
Pragmatics, Metaphor, Discourse Analysis, Politeness Theory and Applied Linguistics.
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.

Gender, Reproduction and Sexuality

Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.
Gender; sexuality; migration; race/ethnicity; urban and community health; and social inequities/human rights.
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.
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.
Nancy Naples, Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY.
Gender, Inequality, Public Policy, Immigration, Globalization, Community Activism, and Disability Rights Movement.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.
Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
Blanca Silvestrini, Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany.
Latin American History and U.S. Social History of the 20th Century.
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.