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  • Program Director

  • Angelina Cotler

    Program Director and Senior Lecturer

  • Chairs

  • Casey Lurtz

    Co-Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of History

    • clurtz1@jhu.edu
    • 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

    • christy.thornton@jhu.edu
    • 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

    • mbedran@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 422
    • Research Interests: Brazil; literature and visual culture; environmental humanities; Indigeneity
  • Sebastian Mazzuca

    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

    • smazzuca@jhu.edu
    • 332 Mergenthaler
    • Research Interests: Latin American state formation; regime change; economic development
  • Elizabeth O’Brien

    Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Medicine

    • eobrie19@jhmi.edu
    • Welch 324
    • Research Interests: Mexico; history of surgery and obstetrics; fertility control and sterilization; race and Indigeneity in medicine
  • Affiliated Faculty

  • Consuelo Amat

    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and SNF Agora Institute

    • amat@jhu.edu
    • Wyman 325 N
    • Research Interests: Chile; state repression, armed and unarmed resistance, political violence
  • Alessandro Angelini

    Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

    • angelini@jhu.edu
    • Research Interests: Brazil; urban ethnography; social ordering of creativity and imagination
  • Juan R. Carhuapoma

    Associate Professor, Neurology, School of Medicine

  • Johaina Katinka Crisostomo

    Assistant Professor, Department of English

    • johainakc@jhu.edu
    • Greenhouse 117
    • Research Interests: Philippines; Asian-American literature; Latinx-American literature; Spanish empire
  • Flavia De Azeredo-Cerqueira

    Portuguese Language Program Director and Lecturer in Portuguese

  • Lisa DeLeonardis

    Professor, Department of History of Art

  • Daniel Desormeaux

    William D. and Robin Mayer Professor of French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

    • ddd@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 482
    • Research Interests: Haiti and the French Caribbean; Francophone literature; the transatlantic history of ideas
  • Zophia Edwards

    Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

    • zedward2@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 560
    • Research Interests: Trinidad; colonialism; multiracial labor movements; the Black radical tradition
  • William Egginton

    Decker Professor in the Humanities, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

    • egginton@jhu.edu
    • 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

    • fgonzalez@jhu.edu
    • SAIS BOB 610
    • Research Interests: Argentina, Chile, Mexico; political economy; energy; Sino–Latin American relations
  • Eduardo González

    Professor of Spanish, Head of the Spanish Subdivision, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

    • cocuyo@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 480
    • Research Interests: literature, cinema, history of Hispanic America, Spain, and the US
  • Clara Han

    Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

    • clarahan@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 463
    • Research Interests: Chile; ethnography; kinship; poverty; disease and illness; care and violence
  • Jean Hébrard

    Visiting Professor, Department of History

  • Aaron M. Hyman

    Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art

  • Jessica Marie Johnson

    Associate Professor, Department of History

    • jmj@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 372
    • Research Interests: French and Spanish Caribbean; histories of Atlantic slavery; Atlantic African diaspora
  • Kathleen R. Page

    Associate Professor, Medicine and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine

    • kpage2@jhmi.edu
    • Research Interests: Latinx health; HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, tuberculosis
  • Valeria Procupez

    Lecturer, Department of Anthropology

    • valeria@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 456
    • Research Interests: Argentina; social movements; housing; urban politics
  • Daniela C. Rodriguez

    Associate Scientist, International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health

    • drodri17@jhu.edu
    • E8612
    • Research Interests: Dominican Republic, Mexico; politics and public health; evidence-informed decision making
  • Bécquer Seguín

    Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

    • becquer@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 490
    • Research Interests: Spain, Argentina, Mexico; Spanish literature; political theory; intellectual history
  • Joshua Simon

    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

    • jsimon38@jhu.edu
    • Mergenthaler 338
    • Research Interests: Latin American political thought; constitutionalism; anti-imperialism
  • Pamela J. Surkan

    Professor, International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health

    • pamela.surkan@jhu.edu
    • E5523
    • Research Interests: Brazil, Haiti; social epidemiology; maternal health; reproductive health
  • Sasha Turner

    Associate Professor, Department of History

    • sturner@jhu.edu
    • Gilman 338B
    • Research Interests: Jamaica and the English Caribbean; history of enslavement; women and children; history of emotions
  • Emeritus Professors

  • Sara Castro-Klaren

    Sara Castro-Klaren

    Academy Professor

  • Margaret E. Keck

    Margaret E. Keck

    Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science

  • Franklin W. Knight

    Franklin W. Knight

    Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History

  • Deborah Poole

    Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology

  • Maria Portuondo

    Associate Professor, Department of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

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