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Casey Lurtz

Co-Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of History

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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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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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Research Interests: Brazil; literature and visual culture; environmental humanities; Indigeneity

Sebastian Mazzuca

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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Research Interests: Latin American state formation; regime change; economic development

Inés Valdez

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

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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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Research Interests: Chile; state repression, armed and unarmed resistance, political violence

Alessandro Angelini

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Research Interests: Brazil; urban ethnography; social ordering of creativity and imagination

Flavia De Azeredo-Cerqueira

Portuguese Language Program Director and Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

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Research Interests: Brazil; applied linguistics; second language acquisition

Lisa DeLeonardis

Austen-Stokes Associate Professor, Department of History of Art

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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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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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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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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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Research Interests: Argentina, Chile, Mexico; political economy; energy; Sino–Latin American relations

Clara Han

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

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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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Research Interests: Latin American literature and media; ecocriticism; environmental humanities

Aaron M. Hyman

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art

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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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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

Daniela C. Rodriguez

Associate Scientist, International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Research Interests: Dominican Republic, Mexico; politics and public health; evidence-informed decision making

Erin Rowe

Professor, Department of History

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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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Research Interests: Spain, Argentina, Mexico; Spanish literature; political theory; intellectual history

Joshua Simon

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

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Research Interests: Latin American political thought; constitutionalism; anti-imperialism

Pamela J. Surkan

Professor, International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Research Interests: Brazil, Haiti; social epidemiology; maternal health; reproductive health

Sasha Turner

Associate Professor, Department of History

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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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