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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Melissa Axelrod

Professor Emerita, Linguistics

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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Laura Belmonte

Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies

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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Judy Bieber

Professor and Chair, History

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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Lisa Cacari Stone

Associate Professor, College of Population Health

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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José Canaca

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UNM School of Medicine

Research Areas

  • Psychiatry
  • Community Based Participatory Research

Michael Candelaria

Principal Lecturer, Religious Studies and Philosophy

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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Joseph Cook

Professor, Biology

Curator of Mammals, Museum of Southwest Biology

Country Specialization(s)

  • Bolivia
  • Chile
  • Guatemala
  • Mexico

Research Areas

  • Biotic Conservation
  • Historical Biogeography
  • Structure and Conservation of Boreal Diversity

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Kency Cornejo

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

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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Patricia Covarrubias

Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies

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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Cármelo de los Santos

Associate Professor, Music

Country Specialization(s)

  • Brazil
  • Portugal

Research Areas

  • Violin

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Jaelyn deMaría

Assistant Professor, Communication and Journalism

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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Susan Dever

Associate Professor, Cinematic Arts

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

Senior Lecturer III, 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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Chris Duvall

Professor and Chair, Geography and Environmental Studies

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


M'bewe Escobar

Assistant Professor , Department of Dance

College of Fine Arts

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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Les Field

Professor, Anthropology

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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Paul Figueroa

Assistant Professor, School of Law

Country Specialization(s)

  • Guatemala

Research Areas

  • General Counsel, USAID Mission to Guatemala

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Richard File-Muriel

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

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


Bill Fleming

Professor Emeritus, Community and Regional Planning

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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Matías Fontenla

Professor, Economics

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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Kimberly Gauderman

Associate Professor, History

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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Miriam Gay-Antaki

Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies

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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Moises Gonzales

Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning

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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Phillip (Felipe) Gonzáles

Professor, Sociology

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

Ryan Goodman

Senior Lecturer, Sociology

Research Areas

  • Social Movements
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Political Sociology
  • Sociology of Sport
  • Sociology of Popular Culture

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Raul Gouvea

Professor Emeritus, International Management

Anderson School of Management

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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Ray Hernández-Durán

Professor, Art and Art History

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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Luis Herrán Ávila

Assistant Professor, History

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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Szu-Han Ho

Associate Professor of Art and Ecology, Art and Art History

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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Mala Htun

Professor, Political Science

Deputy Director, ADVANCE at UNM

Country Specialization(s)

  • Latin America

Research Areas

  • Comparative Politics
  • Latin American Politics
  • Politics of Race and Ethnicity
  • Women's Rights

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José-Luis Hurtado Ruelas

Associate Professor, Music

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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Claudia Isaac

Distinguished Professor, Community and Regional Planning

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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Margaret Jackson

Associate Professor, Art History

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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Holly Jacobson

Associate Professor, Linguistics

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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Emily Jones

Associate Professor, Anthropology

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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V.M. Kenkre

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics & Astronomy

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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Christian Koops

Associate Professor, Linguistics

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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Maria Lane

Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies

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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Michael Lechuga

Assistant Professor, Communication and Journalism

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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Kimberle López

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

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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Miguel López

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

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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José Manuel Cerrato

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering

Country Specialization(s)

  • Honduras

Research Areas

  • Sustainable Infrastructure of Water Supply
  • Removal of Heavy Metals
  • Modeling of Contaminant Distribution

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Susana Martínez Guillem

Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism

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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Katherine Massoth

Assistant Professor, History

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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Kathryn McKnight

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

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

More Info


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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Manuel Montoya

Associate Professor, Department of Economics

College of Arts & Sciences

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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Jason Moore

Associate Professor

Honors College

Country Specialization(s)

  • Paraguay

Research Areas

  • Taphonomy
  • Palaeoecology
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Pedagogy of Research

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Jennifer Moore

Professor, Law

Country Specialization(s)

  • Honduras
  • El Salvador

Research Areas

  • Comparative International Law
  • Human Rights
  • Justice, Gender, and Civil Society
  • Refugee and Immigrant Rights
  • Transitional Justice

More Info


Baker Morrow

Professor of Practice, Landscape Architecture

Country Specialization(s)

  • US Southwest

Research Areas

  • Landscape Architecture
  • Cultural Landscape Preservation
  • History of South American Exploration

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Jami Nelson-Nuñez

Assistant Professor, Political Science

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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Sharon Nepstad

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Sociology

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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Scott Ney

Associate Professor of Percussion and Undergraduate Coordinator, Music

Country Specialization(s)

  • Venezuela

Research Areas

  • Contemporary solo music
  • Venezuelan Music
  • Chamber ensemble music
  • Maraca Technique

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Anna Nogar

Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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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Suzanne Oakdale

Associate Professor, Anthropology

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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Mark Peceny

Professor, Political Science

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

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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Michaele Pride

Professor, School of Architecture and Planning

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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Keith Prufer

Professor, Anthropology

Director, Environmental Archaeology Lab

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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Barbara Reyes

Associate Professor Emerita, History

Country Specialization(s)

  • Mexico
  • US-Mexico Border

Research Areas

  • Hispanic Frontier History
  • History of Baja California
  • Immigration History
  • Mexican Revolution

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Catherine Rhodes

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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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Eva Rodríguez González

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research Areas

  • Bilingualism
  • Foreign Language Pedagogy
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition

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Ilia Rodríguez Nazario

Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism

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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Patricia Rosas Lopátegui

Associate Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies

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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Michael Ryan

Associate Professor, History

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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Heidi Sanders

Senior Lecturer II, Occupational Therapy

Country Specialization(s)

  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua

Research Areas

  • Community Mental Health
  • International Collaboration
  • Pediatrics

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Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

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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Rebecca Schreiber

Professor, American Studies

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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José Luis Serrano-Nájera

Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies

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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Joshua Shapero

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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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Douglas Thomas

Professor, International Management

Country Specialization(s)

  • Mexico

Research Areas

  • International Competitiveness of Firms
  • International Franchising in Emerging Markets
  • Corporate Social Responsibility

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Loa Traxler

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Director, Museum Studies Program

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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Samuel Truett

Associate Professor, History

Director, Center for the Southwest

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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Jennifer Tucker

Assistant Professor, Community and Regional Planning

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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Rosa Vallejos Yopán

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor, Linguistics

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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Santiago Vaquera Vásquez

Associate Professor and Chair, Spanish and Portuguese

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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Natalia Vidal

Associate Professor, Organizational Studies

Country Specialization(s)

  • Brazil

Research Areas

  • Business and Society
  • Business Sustainability
  • Corporate Responsibility
  • Forestry Sector

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Kira Villa

Associate Professor, Economics

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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Marygold Walsh-Dilley

Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies

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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Benjamin Warner

Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies

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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Eli Wilson

Assistant Professor, Sociology

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

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