LAII Affiliated Faculty
LAII supports the work of any faculty member with teaching, research, or service commitments related to Latin American or Iberian topics, broadly defined. Most LAII Affiliated Faculty are also members of the Faculty Concilium on Latin America and Iberia, which elects the LAII Executive Committee and meets at least once per year to review the activities of the Institute. To learn more about how faculty interact and inform the LAII's activities, please see our faculty governance information.
The LAII holds affiliation with over 120 faculty members at UNM work in Latin America and Iberia. These faculty members serve on LAII governance committees, teach and research these areas, advise students, present their research and support the overall mission and vision of the Institute.
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Jesse Alemán
Professor, English Language and Literature
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Cuba
- Mexico
- US-Mexico Border
- US Southwest
Research Areas
- 19th Century American Literature
- US Latino/a Literary Histories
- Literary Production and National Identity
- US-Mexico War (1846-1848)
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Ana Alonso-Minutti
Associate Professor, Music
Latin American Studies Courses
- MUS 447/547 Mexican Music Beyond Borders
- MUS 442/542 Experimental Music Across the Americas
- MUS 438/538 Music of Mexico
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Avant-garde Expressions
- Contemporary Music
- Cosmopolitanism
- Interdisciplinary Artistic Intersections
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Country Specialization(s)
- Guatemala
- US Southwest
Research Areas
- Ixil Mayan Linguistics
- Language Documentation and Revitalization
- Morphosyntax and Semantics
- Polysynthetic Languages
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Stephanie Beene
Assistant Professor and Fine Arts Librarian, University Libraries & Learning Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Architecture
- Art Education
- Arts Management
- Art and Art History
- Community and Regional Planning
- Landscape Architecture
- Music
- Theatre and Dance
- Urban and Regional Design
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Country Specialization(s)
- United States
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Borderlands cultural exchange
- Chicana feminist literature and expression
- Spiritual hybridities in the Chicana/o experience
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Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
Research Areas
- 19th Century Brazil
- Comparative Slavery and Race Relations
- Race and Ethnicity
- State Formation and Economic Development
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Melissa Binder
Associate Professor, Economics
Director, Master of Public Policy Program
Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Education
- Child Welfare
- Health
- Income Security And Poverty
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Joshua Birchall
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Amazonia area
Research Areas
- Indigenous Languages
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Rebecca Blum-Martinez
Professor Emerita, Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
College of Education & Human Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Bilingualism
- Second Language Acquisition
- Language Maintenance
- Immigrant and Indigenous Communities
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Allison Borden
Professor Emerita, Department of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Policy
College of Education & Human Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Guatemala
- Paraguay
Research Areas
- Bilingual Education
- School Leadership
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Ronda Brulotte
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Commodities and Materialism
- Critical Heritage Studies
- Food Systems
- Tourism Geography
- Transnational Indigeneity
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Health Care Access
- Social Determinants of Health
- Evidence-based interventions
- Multidisciplinary approaches
- Mexico-New Mexico border and medically underserved hispanic and immigrant communities
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Research Areas
- Psychiatry
- Community Based Participatory Research
Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
- Spain
Research Areas
- Iberian Theology
- Latin American Theology
- Latino Representations of Christ
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Doris Careaga-Coleman
Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Afro-Mexican History, Literature, and Culture
- African Diaspora
- Son Jarocho
- Afromexican foodways as cultural retentions
- Caribbean dance in Mexican culture
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Jessica Carey-Webb
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
Research Areas
- Amazonia
- 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and cultural studies
- Ecocritical and environmental studies
- Brazilian Culture studies
- Environmental justice
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Tim Castillo
Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning
Associate Dean for Research and Special Advisor to the Provost, School of Architecture and Planning
Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
- Chile
- Mexico
- Spain
Research Areas
- Emergent technology
- Virtual reality
- Digital fabrication
- Design thinking
- Rural communities
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Country Specialization(s)
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Guatemala
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Biotic Conservation
- Historical Biogeography
- Structure and Conservation of Boreal Diversity
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Country Specialization(s)
- Central America
Research Areas
- Femicide
- Immigration
- Indigenous Rights and Epistemologies
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Prisons
- Race, Gender, (De)coloniality
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Communication Theory
- Cultural and Intercultural Communication
- Ethnography of Communication
- Global Metaphors
- Language, Thought, Behavior
- Qualitative Research Methods
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Research Areas
- Intercultural communication (esp. visual) and ritual behavior
- Justice (esp. media justice), border, and anticolonial studies
- Xican@ studies
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Matthew David Goodman
Assistant Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- USA
Research Areas
- Chicanx/Latinx Identities
- Science Fiction to Explore Migration
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Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Latin American, Latino, and Third World Filmmaking
- Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Cinema
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Claudia Díaz Fuentes
Assistant Professor, Director Evaluation Lab at The University of New Mexico, Economics
Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Anti-Poverty Programs
- Healthcare Access and Utilization
- Health Outcomes
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Paulo Dutra
Assistant Professor and Portuguese Language Coordinator, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Areas
- 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture
- Afro-Latin American literature and culture
- Machado de Assis
- Rap music and race
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Country Specialization(s)
- Africa
- Brazil
Research Areas
- African Diaspora
- Biogeography
- Cultural and Historical Ecology
- Food Geography
- Science Studies
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Heather Edgar
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Curator of Human Osteology, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Spain
Research Areas
- Bioarchaeology
- Biocultural ASpects of Human Variation
- Dental Anthropology
- Forensic Anthropology
- Osteology and Paleopathology
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Marisol Encinias
Senior Lecturer of Flamenco Dance, Theatre and Dance
Assistant Director, Festival Flamenco Internacional
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Country Specialization(s)
- Caribbean
Research Areas
- Contributions of Black diasporic and artists of color to American arts, history and social politics
- Pearl Primus
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Country Specialization(s)
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Indigenous California
- Nicaragua
- Palestine
Research Areas
- Collaborative Research Methods
- Culture Change and Sovereignty
- Nation States and Indigenous Peoples
- Political Economy and Critical Theory
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Country Specialization(s)
- Guatemala
Research Areas
- General Counsel, USAID Mission to Guatemala
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Country Specialization(s)
- Colombia
Research Areas
- Colombian Varieties of Spanish
- Language Change
- Lexical Frequency
- Sound Patterns
- Spanish Phonology
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Tobias Fischer
Director, Volatiles Laboratory PI, CONVERSE Center, Earth and Planetary Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences
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Country Specialization(s)
- Ecuador
- Honduras
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Acequia Systems
- Climate Change Impacts
- Living Roofs
- Natural Resource Planning
- Urban Hydrology
- Watershed Management
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
Research Areas
- Development Economics
- Economic Growth and Development
- Financial Intermediation
- Latin American Economics
- Macroeconomics
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Francisco Galarte
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Country Specialization(s)
- US-Mexico Border
Research Areas
- Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Transgender Studies
- Chicanx Studies
- Latinx Studies
- Queer Studies
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Manuel García y Griego
Associate Professor, History
Director, UNM Land Grant Studies Program
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Border and Migration Policies
- Land Grants
- Mexican Foreign Policy
- Mexico-US Relations
- Political History
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Armando Garza Ayala
Assistant Professor, Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
Research Areas
- Minoritized students in STEM
- Biculturalism and illiteracy skills
- Multilingual/multicultural teacher preparation programs
- Identity and educational experiences of Latina/o/x teachers
- Social justice education
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Country Specialization(s)
- Andean Region
- Central America
- Ecuador
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Early and Modern Latin America
- Ethnohistory
- Gender Norms and Sexuality
- Human Rights
- Immigration and Asylum
- Indigenous Peoples
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- Feminist Geography
- Political Ecology
- Human Environment Geography
- Science and Technology Studies
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Alyosha Goldstein
Professor, American Studies
Director of American Studies Graduate Program
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Puerto Rico
Research Areas
- Comparative Histories
- Critical Race and Indigenous Studies
- Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Social Movements
- History and Politics of Public Health
- Imperialism, Colonialism, and Nationalism
- Modern Liberalism and 20th Century Political Culture
- Social and Political Theory
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Country Specialization(s)
- US Southwest
Research Areas
- Southwest Urbanism
- Informal Settlements
- Indigenous Design and Planning
- Urban Design
- Chicanx Urbanism
- Historic Preservation
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Spain
Research Areas
- Collective Behavior and Social Movements
- Latino/a Studies
- History of Nuevomexicanos
- Political Sociology
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
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Robert Alexander González
Professor, Architecture
Dean, School of Architecture and Planning
Country Specialization(s)
- US-Mexico Border
- Latin America
Research Areas
- U.S.-Latin American relations and representations of Pan-Americanism in the built environment
- U.S.-Mexico border issues as built form, ephemeral installations, and public rituals
Research Areas
- Social Movements
- Gender & Sexuality
- Political Sociology
- Sociology of Sport
- Sociology of Popular Culture
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Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Economics and Business of Latin America
- Indigenous Entrepreneurship
- International Trade
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Frances Hayashida
Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology
Director, Latin American & Iberian Institute
Country Specialization(s)
- Chile
- Peru
Research Areas
- Ancient Agriculture and Water Management in Arid Environments
- Beer Brewing
- Craft Production
- Ethnohistory, Ethnoarchaeology, Archaeometry
- Human Impacts on the Environment
- Political Ecology
- Political Economy
- States and Empires
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Andreas Hernandez
Lecturer III of Sustainable Studies, Geography and Environmental Studies
Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
Research Areas
- Sustainability
- Social movements in Brazil
- Agroecological systems
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Bernadine Hernández
Assistant Professor, American Literary Studies, English Language and Literature
Country Specialization(s)
- United States
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Late 19th-20th Century American literature
- Chicana/Latina Literature and Sexualities
- Borderlands theory
- Transnational feminism and sexual economies of the US borderlands
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- New Spain
- Peru
Research Areas
- African Diaspora
- Baroque Art and Architecture
- Colonial Studies
- Historiography and Methods
- History, Visual, and Material Cultures
- Indo-Hispanic Americas
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Country Specialization(s)
- Argentina
- Colombia
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Anti-communism
- Cold War
- Modern History
- Political and Intellectual History
- Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Violence
- Right Wing Movements
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Country Specialization(s)
- US Southwest
- US-Mexico Borderlands
Research Areas
- Sculpture, Performance, Installation, Sound
- Immigration
- Art and Activism
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Carmen Julia Holguín-Chaparro
Senior Lecturer III and Undergraduate Program Director, Spanish and Portuguese
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Uruguay
Research Areas
- Latin American Literature and Poetry
- Literature of Dictatorships
- Literature of Mario Benedetti
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Natasha Howard
Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
Country Specialization(s)
- Dominican Republic
- Cuba
Research Areas
- Latin America and race
- Black geographies
- Black feminist and women of color geographies
- Critical Race Studies
- Geographies of the Southwest
- Urban geographies
- Discourses on race, nature and the environment
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Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Comparative Politics
- Latin American Politics
- Politics of Race and Ethnicity
- Women's Rights
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Music Theory and Composition
- Piano Composition and Performance
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Elizabeth Hutchison
Professor, History
Associate Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, University of New Mexico
Country Specialization(s)
- Chile
- Southern Cone
Research Areas
- Cold War
- Gender and Sexuality
- Human Rights
- Latin American Labor History
- Religion
- Twentieth-Century Chile
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Affordable Housing
- Community Economic Development
- Community-Engaged Scholarship and Practice
- Gender and Economic Development
- Neighborhood Planning and Land Use
- Latin American Development Planning
- Participatory Research
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mesoamerica
Research Areas
- Art and Visual Communication in the Ancient Americas
- Moche Imagery and Iconography
- Notation and Visual Literacy
- Visual Cultures of Ancient Mesoamerica
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Research Areas
- Applied Linguistics
- Health Outcomes
- Second Language Acquisition
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Theodore (Ted) Jojola
Distinguished Professor, Community and Regional Planning
Director, Indigenous Design + Planning Institute
Country Specialization(s)
- Ecuador
Research Areas
- Community Development
- Indigenous Architecture
- Indigenous Human Rights
- Indigenous Planning and Design
- Tribal Economic Development
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Country Specialization(s)
- Iberian Peninsula
- US Southwest
Research Areas
- Zooarchaeology of Iberia, Upper Paleothic
- Colonial Southwest
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Ramiro Jordan
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean of Engineering for International Programs, College of Engineering
Country Specialization(s)
- Bolivia
- Caribbean
- Iberian Peninsula
Research Areas
- Engineering Education
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Michelle Kells
Country Specialization(s)
- U.S. Southwest and Greater Mexico
Research Areas
- Sociolinguistics, environmental racism, civil rights rhetoric
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Country Specialization(s)
- Argentina
- New Mexico
Research Areas
- Interdisciplinary science connecting physics to biology, chemistry, and engineering.
- Mathematical modeling of epidemics and related ecosystems
- Quantum transport in organic materials and decoherence in nanostructures
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Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
- Peru
Research Areas
- Sociophonetics
- Language and dialect contact
- Spanish-influenced varieties of English and Spanish in the Americas
- Quantitative corpus linguistic approaches to grammaticalization and discourse analysis
- Language Revitalization
- Western Cherokee
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Country Specialization(s)
- Spanish and British Caribbean
Research Areas
- Colonialism
- Environmental Knowledge
- Historical Geography
- Political-Ecological Geographies
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Dominika Laster
Associate Professor of Theatre and Associate Chair, Theatre and Dance
Executive Co-Director, Performance in the Peripheries
Research Areas
- 20th Century and Contemporary Theatre
- Immigration
- Performance Studies
- Activism and the Politics of Performance
- Memory and Trauma Studies
- Performance Research and Theory
- Performance in the Americas
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Research Areas
- Latina/o/x Futurism, Surveillance Studies, and Film Studies
- Communication Studies
- Migration and Settler Colonialism Studies
- Rhetoric and Affect Studies
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Agustín León-Moreta
Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Ecuador
Research Areas
- Empirical Research Methodologies
- Federalism
- Institutions
- Policy Analysis
- Public Budgeting and Financial Management
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Cesar Lopez
Assistant Professor, Architecture Department
School of Architecture and Planning
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico-US Border
Research Areas
- Typologies shaped by the U.S.- Mexican Border
- Politics of Representation
- Territory and Infrastructure
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Albert José-Antonio López
Assistant Professor of Architectural History
School of Architecture and Planning
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- US-Mexico Border
- US Southwest
- US Urban Areas w/ high Latinx/Hispanic Populations
Research Areas
- Modern Architecture
- Regional Planning and Urbanism
- Infrastructural Landscapes
- Mid-20th Century Mexican Political Society
- Latino Urbanism and Inner-City Barrios
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Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
- Mexico
Research Areas
- 19th and 20th Century Latin American Narrative
- Literature of Conquest and Colonization in the Americas
- Euro-American Contact in Literature
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- US-Mexico Border
Research Areas
- 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature
- Border Studies
- Globalization
- Mexican and Chicano Literature
- Violence and Historical Trauma
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Nancy López
Professor, Sociology
Director, Institute for the Study of "Race" and Social Justice
Country Specialization(s)
- Dominican Republic
Research Areas
- Education
- Engaged Scholarship
- Gender
- Health
- Inequality
- Intersectionality
- Latina/o/x Studies
- Public Sociology
- "Race," Racialization, and Ethnicity
- Qualitative Methods
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Carlos López Leiva
Associate Professor, Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
Research Areas
- Critical Pedagogy
- Dis/ability Construction and Positioning
- Identity Development of Latinas/os and Hispanics
- Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
- Participatory Action Research
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Country Specialization(s)
- Honduras
Research Areas
- Sustainable Infrastructure of Water Supply
- Removal of Heavy Metals
- Modeling of Contaminant Distribution
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Country Specialization(s)
- Iberian Peninsula
Research Areas
- Critical Discourse Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Interpretive and Critical Approaches to Intercultural Communications
- Rhetorics of Immigration, Race, and Racism
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Women’s and Gender History
- Frontiers and Borderlands History
- Southwest History
- American West History
- U.S. History
- 19th century History
- Mexican History
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Country Specialization(s)
- Colombia
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Afro-Hispanic Narratives and Testimonies
- Colonial Literature
- Early Modern Hispanic Nun Writers
- Latin American Realities and Texts
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Lois Meyer
Professor Emerita, Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
College of Education & Human Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Second Language Acquisition
- Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
- Teacher Preparation and Curriculum Development for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
- Language Policy
- Ethnography of Indigenous Bilingual Education
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Adriana Molina Garzón
Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
- Honduras
Research Areas
- Sustainable Development
- Natural Resources Governance
- Forest Management
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Margie Montañez
Assistant Professor, University Libraries and Learning Sciences
Latin American Collections Curator, Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR)
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Cultural Production
- Digital Initiatives
- Ethnographic Aesthetic
- Archival Research
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Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Emerging Economies
- Expeditionary and Conflict Economics
- Global Culture and Relations
- Global Economic Sustainability
- Global Export Analysis
- International Trade
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Country Specialization(s)
- Paraguay
Research Areas
- Taphonomy
- Palaeoecology
- Quantitative Methods
- Pedagogy of Research
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Country Specialization(s)
- Honduras
- El Salvador
Research Areas
- Comparative International Law
- Human Rights
- Justice, Gender, and Civil Society
- Refugee and Immigrant Rights
- Transitional Justice
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Country Specialization(s)
- US Southwest
Research Areas
- Landscape Architecture
- Cultural Landscape Preservation
- History of South American Exploration
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Country Specialization(s)
- Peru
Research Areas
- Comparative Politics
- Local Governance
- Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Policy
- Research Methodology
- Water, Sanitation and Health Issues
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Country Specialization(s)
- Chile
- Panama
Research Areas
- Non-Violent Political Action
- Peace Studies
- Political Sociology
- Sociology of Religion
- Social Movements
- War Resistance
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Laura Nervi
Assistant Professor, College of Population Health, Health Sciences Center
Country Specialization(s)
- Ecuador
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Global Health initiatives in Latin America
- Health systems reform
- Health workforce trends
- Community engagement in health reform processes
Seth Newsome
Associate Professor, Biology
Associate Director, Center for Stable Isotopes
Research Areas
- Causes and consequences of diet variation
- Animal acquisition of amino acids
- Isotopic methods for the study of animal resource and habitat use
- Anthropogenically produced shifts in ecology and life history of animals
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Country Specialization(s)
- Venezuela
Research Areas
- Contemporary solo music
- Venezuelan Music
- Chamber ensemble music
- Maraca Technique
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Peru
Research Areas
- Colonial Mexican Literature and Cultural Studies
- Cultures of Reading and Exchange
- Mexican American Literature and Culture
- New Mexican Literature
- Transpacific and Transatlantic Colonial Literary Exchanges
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Country Specialization(s)
- Amazonia
- Brazil
Research Areas
- Autobiographical Narrative
- Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon
- Personhood and Agency
- Ritual and Religion
- Sociocultural Anthropology
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Nahir Otaño Gracia
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
College of Arts and Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Iberia
Research Areas
- Medieval Studies
- Translation Theory
- Critical Identity Studies
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Country Specialization(s)
- Colombia
Research Areas
- American Foreign Policy and Inter-American Relations
- Democracy and Dictatorships
- "Liberal Peace" and US Military Interventions
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Verónica Plaza
Lecturer III, Spanish and Portuguese, Family and Community Medicine
Senior Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy
Country Specialization(s)
- Argentina
- New Mexico
Research Areas
- Health Policy
- Medical Education
- Medical Spanish
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Country Specialization(s)
- United States
Research Areas
- Public Interest Design
- Community-Driven Design
- Messy Urbanism
- Affordable Housing
- Race & Gender in Architecture and Urban Design
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Country Specialization(s)
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Mesoamerica
Research Areas
- Cave Studies
- Complex Society
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Landscape Transformation
- Maya Archaeology
- Mesoamerican Prehistory
- Political Economy
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- US-Mexico Border
Research Areas
- Hispanic Frontier History
- History of Baja California
- Immigration History
- Mexican Revolution
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Semiotics
- Language Diversity and Cognition
- Modernity
- Indigeneity
- Cultural Practices and Cognitive Development
- Latino Diaspora in the US
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Alejandro Tomás Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance
College of Fine Arts
Country Specialization(s)
- Argentina
Research Areas
- Devised theatre
- Community engagement
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Research Areas
- Bilingualism
- Foreign Language Pedagogy
- Psycholinguistics
- Second Language Acquisition
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Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Post-Colonial Inter-Ethnic Relations
- News Media
- Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class
- Multiculturalism
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Levi Romero
Associate Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Southwest, US/Mexico
Research Areas
- Querencia, community, writing
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Latin American
Research Areas
- 20th Century Women Authors
- Cinema
- Gender Studies
- Luzo-Brazilian Literature
- Spanish American Literature
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Country Specialization(s)
- Spain
Research Areas
- Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean History, Gender and Sexuality
- Medieval and Early Modern Apocalypticism and the Occult
- Medieval and Early Modern Gender and Sexuality
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Mariana Sabino Salazar
Lecturer III, Latin American Studies
College of Arts & Sciences
Latin American Studies Courses
- 61473 LTAM 1996.002 Latin America Today: Challenges and Achievements
- 61472 LTAM 1996.001 Latin American Film: New Millennium Identities
Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Portugal
Research Areas
- Romani people in Latin America
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Rebecca Sanchez
Professor, Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy
Interim Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion and Faculty Affairs
College of Education & Human Sciences
Country Specialization(s)
- Southwest, US/Mexico
Research Areas
- Arts Integrated Literacy
- New Mexico History
- Historic and Contemporary Bilingual Policies
- Social Studies Education
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
Research Areas
- Community Mental Health
- International Collaboration
- Pediatrics
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Country Specialization(s)
- Caribbean
- Puerto Rico
Research Areas
- Critical Theories of Race, Writing, and Modernity
- Hispanic Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture
- Latin American Poetry
- US Latino Caribbean Literature
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Central America
Research Areas
- Cultural Theory/Studies
- Transnational Migration in the Americas
- Visual Culture Studies
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Angelica Serna Jerí
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies
Research Areas
- Indigenous languages in Latin American literature and culture in the Andean region
- Quechua language family
- Archives & ethnography
- Material culture
- Indigenous cartography in the Americas
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- United States
Research Areas
- Social Movement Practices and Ideologies
- Chicana/o Indigeneity
- Chicana/o and Latina/o Civil Rights Movements
- U.S. Social Movements
- Twentieth-Century Transnational Human and Civil Rights Activism
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Country Specialization(s)
- Peru
Research Areas
- Relationship between human culture and natural environment
- Ethnographic, linguistic, and experimental fieldwork with Ancash Quechua speakers
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Naomi Shin
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Spanish Linguistics
- Bilingualism
- Sociolinguistics
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Mia Sosa Provencio
Associate Professor, Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Policy
Research Areas
- Critical Feminist Ethics of Care
- Critical Multicultural Curriculum/Pedagogy
- Mexicana/o Youth
- Engaged Literacy
- Social Justice/Social Action
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Francisco Soto Mas
Associate Professor, College of Population Health, Health Sciences Center
Research Areas
- Health behavior theory
- Latino health/education issues, health disparities, health communication and literacy
- Occupation health
- Sustainable food systems
- Intervention and Observational Studies
- Program planning and evaluation
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William Stanley
Professor, Political Science
Associate Provost for Faculty Success, University of New Mexico
Country Specialization(s)
- Guatemala
- El Salvador
Research Areas
- Political Violence
- Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
- Military Policies, Police and Justice System Reform
- International Peacemaking
- International Intervention
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Lawrence Straus
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Editor, Journal of Anthropological Research
Country Specialization(s)
- Iberian Peninsula
Research Areas
- Archaeology of Caves
- Lithic Analysis
- Paleolithic Prehistory
- Paleoanthropology
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- International Competitiveness of Firms
- International Franchising in Emerging Markets
- Corporate Social Responsibility
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Country Specialization(s)
- Honduras
- Mesoamerica
Research Areas
- Cultural Heritage and Public Museums
- Architecture and the Built Environment
- Cultural Heritage and Public Museums
- Maya Civilization
- Mesoamerica
- Museum Studies
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Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- US-Mexico Border
- US Southwest
Research Areas
- Comparative (Global) Borderlands Histories
- Environmental History
- Indigenous Histories of the US Southwest and Mexico
- North American Expansion and Borderlands
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Michael Trujillo
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, American Studies
Country Specialization(s)
- New Mexico
- US-Mexico Border
Research Areas
- Chicana/o Studies
- Critical Regionalism/Globalization
- Ethnography
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Country Specialization(s)
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Paraguay
Research Areas
- Collective Action
- Environmental, Labor, and Racial Justice
- Feminist Ethnography
- Latin American Development Planning
- Politics of Development
- Urban Work
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Francisco Uviña-Contreras
Research Lecturer III, Community and Regional Planning
Director, Historic Preservation and Regionalism Certificate Program
Research Areas
- Architecture
- Community and Planning
- Landscape Architecture
- Historic Preservation and Regionalism
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Country Specialization(s)
- Amazonia
Research Areas
- Documentary Fieldwork
- Documentary and Comparative Linguistics
- Functional Syntax
- Indigenous Amazonian Languages (Kokama, Secoya)
- Language Contact
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Country Specialization(s)
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Spain
- US-Mexico Border
Research Areas
- 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies
- Border Studies
- Creative Writing
- Mexican American Cultural Studies and Literature
- US Latino Literature and Culture
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Irene Vásquez
Professor and Chair, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Professor, American Studies
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
Research Areas
- Afro-Mexican/Latino Relations
- Immigrant and Human Rights
- Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
- Intercultural Collaboration and Peace Building
- US Transnational Social and Political Movements
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Damián Vergara Wilson
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Coordinator, Sabine Ulibarri Spanish as a Heritage Language Program
Country Specialization(s)
- US Southwest
Research Areas
- Historical Linguistics
- Language Change
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociology of Language
- Spanish as a Heritage Language
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Country Specialization(s)
- Brazil
Research Areas
- Business and Society
- Business Sustainability
- Corporate Responsibility
- Forestry Sector
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Research Areas
- Development Economics (Primary)
- Health Economics
- Nutrition
- Economics of the Family
- Child Development
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Belinda Wallace
Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
Country Specialization(s)
- Caribbean
Research Areas
- Black Transatlantic Studies
- Caribbean Literature and Culture
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- National Identities and Notions of Citizenry
- Postcolonial Studies
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Nina Wallerstein
Professor, Population Health
Director, Center for Participatory Research
Country Specialization(s)
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Community Based Participatory Research (CPBR)
- Empowerment/Freirian Interventions
- Health Inequities and Outcomes
- Health Promotion
- Participatory Evaluation Strategies
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Country Specialization(s)
- Bolivia
- Latin America
Research Areas
- Food and Agricultural Systems
- Global and Transnational Sociology/Geography
- Globalization and Global Development
- Indigenous Politics
- Postcolonial, Feminist, and Critical Theory
- Qualitative Methods
- Resilience
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Country Specialization(s)
- Costa Rica
- Central America
Research Areas
- Development Studies
- Latin American Development
- Mixed Methods
- Political Economy
- Vulnerability, Risk, and Adaptation to Environmental Change
- Water Governance
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Research Areas
- Race and Ethnicity, Inequality, Culture
- Work and Occupations , Immigration, Ethnography
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Christopher Witt
Professor, Biology
Curator of Birds and Director, Museum of Southwestern Biology
Country Specialization(s)
- Andes
Research Areas
- Avian Systematics
- Biogeography of the Neotropics
- Comparative Physiology
- High-Altitude Adaptation
- Hummingbird Evolution
- Integrative Ornithology
- Molecular Evolution
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Richard Wood
Professor, Sociology
Director, Southwest Institute on Religion, Culture, and Society
Country Specialization(s)
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
Research Areas
- Comparative Sociology
- Community Organizing
- Comparative Civil Societies
- Culture in Social Movements
- Democratic Theory
- Global/Transnational Sociology
- Religion
