Use the filters and search box to explore our people directory.
Program Director
Angelina Cotler
Program Director and Senior Lecturer
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 224
Chairs
Casey Lurtz
Co-Chair and Associate Professor, Department of History
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 330G
Research Interests: Mexico; history of rural development, world markets, the environment, and economic ideas
Inés Valdez
Co-Chair and Full Professor, Department of Political Science
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Macaulay 307
Research Interests: Latinx studies; critical race and feminist theory; migration; transnationalism; empire; racial capitalism
Faculty Advisory Board
Marina Bedran
Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 422
Research Interests: Brazil; literature and visual culture; environmental humanities; Indigeneity
Zophia Edwards
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 560
Research Interests: Trinidad and Tobago; colonialism; multiracial labor movements; the Black radical tradition
Nicole Labruto
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Director, Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Major
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 461
Research Interests: Agriculture, energy, plant-human relations, science and technology studies, anthropology of sustainability, environmental anthropology, Brazil, Mozambique, Latin America, Africa, Lusophone studies
Affiliated Faculty
Consuelo Amat
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and SNF Agora Institute
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Wyman 325 N
Research Interests: Chile; state repression, armed and unarmed resistance, political violence
Alessandro Angelini
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 457
Research Interests: Brazil; urban ethnography; social ordering of creativity and imagination
Angie Bautista-Chavez
Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor, The Department of Political Science
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 354
Research Interests: The politics of migration, borders, bureaucracy, race, and citizenship.
Ryan M. Calder
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 435
Research Interests: markets and their moral logics, globalization and global capitalism, consumption, finance and financialization, religion (especially Islam) and religious law, loyalty rewards programs (such as airline mileage programs)
Carolina Cardona Cabrera
Assistant Scientist, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Contact Information
Research Interests: health economics; economic demography; population dynamics; population and health; women’s empowerment; women’s health; sexual and reproductive health; family planning
Juan R. Carhuapoma
Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine
Contact Information
Research Interests: Brain injury; stroke; minimally invasive surgery
Johaina Katinka Crisostomo
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- 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
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 469A
Research Interests: Brazil; applied linguistics; second language acquisition
Daniel Desormeaux
William D. and Robin Mayer Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 482
Research Interests: Haiti and the French Caribbean; Francophone literature; the transatlantic history of ideas
William Egginton
Decker Professor in the Humanities, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 470
Research Interests: Spain and Latin America; literature; literary theory; literature and philosophy
Harris Feinsod
Research Professor, Department of English
Contact Information
Research Interests: Literatures of the United States, Latin America, and the Atlantic world; poetry and poetics; oceanic studies and environmental humanities; theories of history; transnational, global, and hemispheric approaches to literature and culture.
Julián A. Fernández-Niño
Associate, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact Information
Research Interests: Colombia, Mexico; social epidemiology; health information systems; health surveys; migration
Maia Gil’Adí
Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- San Martin Center Room 263
Research Interests: Latinx and Multiethic Literature
Francisco E. González
Associate Professor of International Political Economy, School of Advanced International Studies
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- SAIS BOB 610
Research Interests: Argentina, Chile, Mexico; political economy; energy; Sino–Latin American relations
Clara Han
Full Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 463
Research Interests: Chile; ethnography; kinship; poverty; disease and illness; care and violence
Laura Hartmann-Villalta
Lecturer, University Writing Program
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Greenhouse Annex
Research Interests: the intersection of women’s and gender studies, human rights studies, medical humanities, and literature, especially life writing. Contemplative and feminist pedagogy in the writing classroom, caregiving and precarity, modernism and the Spanish Civil War, and visual culture, particularly photography.
Jean Hébrard
Research Professor, Department of History
Contact Information
Research Interests: Brazil; cultural history; slavery and freedom; Atlantic history
Gisela Heffes
Full Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 414
Research Interests: Latin American literature and media; ecocriticism; environmental humanities
Jessica Marie Johnson
Associate Professor, Department of History
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 372
Research Interests: French and Spanish Caribbean; histories of Atlantic slavery; Atlantic African diaspora
Paul Michael Johnson
Associate Research Professor, Spanish
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- San Martin Center 237
Research Interests: Early modern Spanish literature, Mediterranean studies, Translation studies, World literature, Critical Theory, Affect Theory and the History of Emotion, Performance Studies, The Inquisition, Visual and Sound Studies, Experiential and community-based learning and pedagogy
Julian Lim
Arthur Eisenberg and Susan Engel Associate Professor, Department of History
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 330B
Research Interests: Immigration, North American Borders and Borderlands, Race; Law, U.S. West, Pacific World, 19th-20th century U.S. History, and U.S. Expansion and Empire
Diego Javier Luis
Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor, Department of History
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 330F
Research Interests: Colonial Latin America, Spanish Pacific, Early Philippines, Global Diasporas, Race-Making, History of Slavery
Sebastian Mazzuca
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 332
Research Interests: Latin American state formation; regime change; economic development
Marcelo Nogueira
Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
Research Interests: Brazil; poetry, music, and art; sound and political activism
Kathleen R. Page
Associate Professor, Medicine and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
Contact Information
Research Interests: Latinx health; HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, tuberculosis
Valeria Procupez
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 456
Research Interests: Argentina; social movements; housing; urban politics
Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact Information
Research Interests: Latinx health; children's environmental health; environmental epidemiology; environmental exposures; occupational health
Erin Rowe
Professor, Department of History
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- 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
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 490
Research Interests: Spain, Argentina, Mexico; Spanish literature; political theory; intellectual history
Joshua Simon
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Mergenthaler 338
Research Interests: Latin American political thought; constitutionalism; anti-imperialism
Pamela J. Surkan
Professor, International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- E5523
Research Interests: Brazil, Haiti; social epidemiology; maternal health; reproductive health
Sasha Turner
Associate Professor, Department of History
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 338B
Research Interests: Jamaica and the English Caribbean; history of enslavement; women and children; history of emotions
Karina A. Vado
Senior Lecturer, Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities
Contact Information
Research Interests: Hemispheric American Studies; Chicanx, Afro-Latinx, and Latin/x American Literary and Cultural Studies; Science and Technology Studies (esp. Feminist, Queer, and Critical Race approaches); Science Fiction Studies; Afrofuturism, Latinxfuturism, and Caribbean futurisms; Literature and Science; Histories of Race in Science; Comparative and Critical (Mixed) Race and Ethnic Studies; Chicanx, Latinx, and Latin American Feminist Intellectual Thought
Bernadette Wegenstein
Professor of Media Studies, Director, Center for Advanced Media Studies
Contact Information
- [email protected]
- Gilman 461
Research Interests: Film and media studies, documentary film practice, body and media theory, gender studies
Staff
Alicia Piñar Díaz
Graduate Assistant, LACLxS; Phd Candidate, Spanish & Portuguese Program, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
Research Interests: Contemporary Spain, Caribbean; race & ethnicity; migration studies, visual and cultural studies; Spanish and Latin American art and literature
Emeritus Professors
Sara Castro-Klaren
Professor Emeritus, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Contact Information
Margaret E. Keck
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
Contact Information
Franklin W. Knight
Stulman Professor Emeritus, Department of History
Contact Information
Maria Portuondo
Professor Emeritus, Department of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology