All Faculty

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  • Jennifer Ashley

    Jennifer Ashley

    Acting Director

    Associate Professor

    Digital media, television, news media, melodrama, parody, political campaigns, Political subjectivity, politics of affect, democratization, social movements, human rights, memory, urban studies, Latin America

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  • Rei Berroa

    Rei Berroa

    Emeritus Faculty

    Poetry through the Ages, Spanish and Latin American Literary and Cultural Criticism, Relationship among the Arts, The Creative Process.

  • Lisa C Breglia

    Lisa C Breglia

    Associate Professor

    Globalization; Mexico, Latin America; Ethnography; Immigration in Washington, DC; Political economy of resources; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Museums, Heritage, Cultural Policy

  • Joan C. Bristol

    Joan C. Bristol

    Associate Professor

    Latin America, African Diaspora, history of commodities

  • Jo-Marie Burt

    Jo-Marie Burt

    Associate Professor

    Comparative politics, Latin America, political violence, human rights, transitional justice

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  • Claudia Cabello Hutt

    Claudia Cabello Hutt

    Associate Professor

    Latin American and Latine feminist and queer thought and history, decolonial theory.

  • Antonio Carreño-Rodríguez

    Antonio Carreño-Rodríguez

    Associate Professor

    Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Colonial Spanish-American literature and historiography, Modern Spanish Peninsular literature and culture, cultural studies, comparative literature, literary theory, performance studies, and popular culture.

  • Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

    Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

    Professor

    Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, social movements, and human trafficking

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  • Michael Gilmore

    Michael Gilmore

    Associate Professor

    Ethnobiology, community-based conservation, biocultural diversity, sustainable development

  • Michele Greet

    Michele Greet

    Professor

    Twentieth-century Andean art, Latin American artists in Europe

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  • Matthew B. Karush

    Matthew B. Karush

    Professor

    Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history

  • Haagen Klaus

    Haagen Klaus

    Professor

    --Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, dental anthropology, mortuary analysis -- Forensic anthropology and forensic taphonomy -- Prehistoric and Historic Andean South America; organization of complex societies -- Health, violence, identity, and ethnogenesis -- Theory and methods in bioarchaeology

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  • Roger N Lancaster

    Roger N Lancaster

    Professor

    Gender/Sexuality, Culture and Political Economy, Crime and Punishment, American Studies, Latin America

  • Jennifer Leeman

    Jennifer Leeman

    Professor

    Spanish in the US; heritage language education; critical, antiracist language teaching; ethnicity, race, and language in censuses; language and social justice

  • Jim Lepore

    Jim Lepore

    Professor

    Afro-Cuban dance

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  • Lisa M. Rabin

    Lisa M. Rabin

    Associate Professor

    Film history, "useful" and instructional film, mass media, political economy of culture.

  • Gregory Robinson

    Gregory Robinson

    Associate Professor

    Music in Latin America, accordion and guitar music from Aisén in southern Chile

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  • Laura Aileen Sauls

    Laura Aileen Sauls

    Assistant Professor

    land rights, forests, biodiversity conservation, climate change, extractive industries, migration, earth observation, political ecology, Central America

  • Linda J Seligmann

    Linda J Seligmann

    Emeritus Faculty

    informal economies and markets, agrarian issues, gender relations, quinoa, culture and food, Latin America, Andean region, Peru; transnational and transracial adoption, U.S., anthropological theory and methods

  • Ellen Johnson Serafini

    Ellen Johnson Serafini

    Associate Professor

    Task-based Language Teaching; Critical Language Pedagogy; Community-Based Learning; Learner Individual Differences; Critical Language Awareness; Heritage Language Education.

  • Colleen A Sweet

    Colleen A Sweet

    Associate Professor

    Language teaching and methodology, Latin American Colonial Literature, Critical approaches to literary analysis.

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  • Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez

    Ricardo F Vivancos-Pérez

    Associate Professor

    Latina/o/x Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latin American Studies, Iberian Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Migration Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, LGTBQIA+ Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, Panhispanic Cultural Studies, Translation Studies, Editing & Publishing

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  • Margaret Yocom

    Margaret Yocom

    Emeritus Faculty

    traditional narrative; material culture; family folklore; gender studies