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Program Director

Angelina Cotler
Program Director and Senior Lecturer
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- Mergenthaler 224
Chairs

Casey Lurtz
Co-Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of History
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- Gilman 330G
Research Interests: Mexico; history of rural development, world markets, the environment, and economic ideas

Christy Thornton
Co-Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 521
Research Interests: Mexico; economic development; state formation; social movements
Faculty Advisory Board

Marina Bedran
Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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- Gilman 422
Research Interests: Brazil; literature and visual culture; environmental humanities; Indigeneity

Sebastian Mazzuca
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
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- Mergenthaler 332
Research Interests: Latin American state formation; regime change; economic development

Inés Valdez
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
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- Macaulay 307
Research Interests: Latinx studies; critical race and feminist theory; migration; transnationalism; empire; racial capitalism
Affiliated Faculty

Consuelo Amat
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and SNF Agora Institute
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- Wyman 325 N
Research Interests: Chile; state repression, armed and unarmed resistance, political violence

Alessandro Angelini
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
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- Mergenthaler 457
Research Interests: Brazil; urban ethnography; social ordering of creativity and imagination

Juan R. Carhuapoma
Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine
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Research Interests: Brain injury; stroke; minimally invasive surgery

Johaina Katinka Crisostomo
Assistant Professor, Department of English
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- Greenhouse 117
Research Interests: Philippines; Asian-American literature; Latinx-American literature; Spanish empire

Flavia De Azeredo-Cerqueira
Portuguese Language Program Director and Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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- Gilman 469A
Research Interests: Brazil; applied linguistics; second language acquisition

Lisa DeLeonardis
Austen-Stokes Associate Professor, Department of History of Art
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- Gilman 165
Research Interests: Peru; Andean art and archaeology; Ancient and Viceregal art of the Americas

Daniel Desormeaux
William D. and Robin Mayer Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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- Gilman 482
Research Interests: Haiti and the French Caribbean; Francophone literature; the transatlantic history of ideas

Zophia Edwards
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 560
Research Interests: Trinidad and Tobago; colonialism; multiracial labor movements; the Black radical tradition

William Egginton
Decker Professor in the Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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- Gilman 470
Research Interests: Spain and Latin America; literature; literary theory; literature and philosophy

Francisco E. González
Associate Professor of International Political Economy, School of Advanced International Studies
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- SAIS BOB 610
Research Interests: Argentina, Chile, Mexico; political economy; energy; Sino–Latin American relations

Clara Han
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
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- Mergenthaler 463
Research Interests: Chile; ethnography; kinship; poverty; disease and illness; care and violence

Jean Hébrard
Research Professor, Department of History
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Research Interests: Brazil; cultural history; slavery and freedom; Atlantic history

Gisela Heffes
Research Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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- Gilman 414
Research Interests: Latin American literature and media; ecocriticism; environmental humanities

Aaron M. Hyman
Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art
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- Gilman 178
Research Interests: Spanish empire; Colonial Latin American art; Early modern art and material culture

Jessica Marie Johnson
Associate Professor, Department of History
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- Gilman 372
Research Interests: French and Spanish Caribbean; histories of Atlantic slavery; Atlantic African diaspora

Marcelo Nogueira
Lecturer, LACLxS and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Research Interests: Brazil; poetry, music, and art; sound and political activism

Kathleen R. Page
Associate Professor, Medicine and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
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Research Interests: Latinx health; HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, tuberculosis

Valeria Procupez
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
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- Mergenthaler 456
Research Interests: Argentina; social movements; housing; urban politics

Daniela C. Rodriguez
Associate Scientist, International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- E8612
Research Interests: Dominican Republic, Mexico; politics and public health; evidence-informed decision making

Erin Rowe
Professor, Department of History
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- Gilman 338G
Research Interests: Early modern Spain; the Mediterranean; saints and sanctity; women and gender

Bécquer Seguín
Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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- Gilman 490
Research Interests: Spain, Argentina, Mexico; Spanish literature; political theory; intellectual history

Joshua Simon
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
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- Mergenthaler 338
Research Interests: Latin American political thought; constitutionalism; anti-imperialism

Pamela J. Surkan
Professor, International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- E5523
Research Interests: Brazil, Haiti; social epidemiology; maternal health; reproductive health

Sasha Turner
Associate Professor, Department of History
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- Gilman 338B
Research Interests: Jamaica and the English Caribbean; history of enslavement; women and children; history of emotions
Emeritus Professors

Sara Castro-Klaren
Professor Emeritus, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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Margaret E. Keck
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
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Franklin W. Knight
Stulman Professor Emeritus, Department of History
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Maria Portuondo
Professor Emeritus, Department of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology