Kathryn McKnight

Associate Director for Academic Programs
mcknight@unm.edu

Dr. McKnight holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Earlham College and an MA and PhD in Spanish from Stanford University. Her research focuses on Cultural and Literary Studies of Early Modern Spanish America, particularly the seventeenth century. She has worked primarily on the writings of religious women and on narratives told by people of African descent during the colonial period, which are accessible in religious and governmental archives. She is currently working to bring the study of Health Humanities into the fields of Latin American and Hispanic Cultural Studies. As Associate Director for Academic Programs at LAII, she oversees the Latin American Studies undergraduate and graduate program, including serving as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies, the faculty governance body for LAS.