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Affiliate Faculty
Our Center affiliates are faculty whose academic appointments reside entirely in other campus units but who devote at least 25 percent of their research, teaching and/or service to the study of Latin America and the Caribbean and/or Latinxs in the United States. The dynamism of the Center and the quality of our programs are enriched by the participation of our affiliates.
Affiliate Faculty members chair and serve on MALAS thesis committees and on various fellowship and grant competition selection committees. They also initiate many of the Center’s research programs, events, and other activities. The courses taught by Affiliate Faculty (containing 25 percent or more Latin American or Latinx Studies content) are advertised in our Course Guide, and form the basis for the Center’s Minor, Undergraduate and Graduate Certificate, and MALAS programs.
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African Studies
Agricultural Education and Communication
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Agronomy
Anthropology
Architecture
Art and Art History
Biology
Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research
Chemistry
Civil & Coastal Engineering
Counseling & Wellness Center
Economics
Education: Teaching and Learning
Entomology and Nematology
Environmental Engineering Sciences
Environmental & Global Health
Environmental Horticulture
Family Youth and Community Sciences
Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
Florida Museum of Natural History
Food and Resource Economics
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
Geography
Geological Sciences
Health & Human Performance
History
Horticultural Sciences
Jewish Studies
Journalism
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Haitian Creole
Latin American and Caribbean Collection
Law
Linguistics
Medicine: Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine
Music
Natural Resources and Environment
Plant Pathology
Political Science
Psychology
Religion
Sociology
Soil and Water Science
Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Theatre and Dance
Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management
Veterinary Medicine
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
African Studies
Renata Serra
Research Interest:
African development; political economy; economic reforms and aid; gender issues and women’s empowerment; agricultural development and cotton sectors; social capital and collective action; microfinance
Geographic Expertise:
Francophone West Africa, Mali
Agricultural Education and Communication
John M. Diaz
Research Interest:
Behavior change | Cultural competency | Community development
Geographic Expertise:
Central America, South America and Cuba
Pablo Lamiño Jaramillo
Research Interest:
Indigenous groups | Migration intentions | Leadership | Agricultural perception
Geographic Expertise:
Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Paul Monaghan
Research Interest:
Community-based social marketing | Latino studies
Geographic Expertise:
Haiti
Grady Roberts
Research Interest:
Teaching and learning | Experiential learning | Study abroad | Capacity building | Agricultural development
Geographic Expertise:
Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, Ecuador, Belize, Haiti
Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Clyde Fraisse
Research Interest:
Development of decision aid tools, methods and data products for translating climatology and climate forecasts into information required to support agricultural and natural resources management decision making
Geographic Expertise:
Pacific coast of South America
Rafael Muñoz-Carpena
Research Interest:
Hydrology | Water quality
Geographic Expertise:
Central and South America
Agronomy
Lynn Sollenberger
Research Interest:
Forage plants | Grazing livestock
Geographic Expertise:
Jamaica, Mexico
S. Luke Flory
Research Interest:
Invasive plant management
Geographic Expertise:
Cuba, Galapagos
Anthropology
George Aaron Broadwell
Research Interest:
Native American languages
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, Mesoamerica
Daniel Contreras
Research Interest:
Archaeology | Geoarchaeology
Geographic Expertise:
Central Andes
Susan deFrance
Research Interest:
Zooarchaeology
Geographic Expertise:
Peru, Bolivia, Caribbean
Susan Gillespie
Research Interest:
Archaeology | Ethnohistory | Iconography
Geographic Expertise:
Mesoamerica
Michael Heckenberger
Research Interest:
Archeology of non-western cultures of the humid tropics | Historical anthropology
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Richard Kernaghan
Research Interest:
Violence, rights and political community
Geographic Expertise:
Peru
Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo
Research Interest:
Archaeology | Historical ecology
Geographic Expertise:
Andes, Amazonia
Gabriel Prieto
Research Interest:
Maritime adaptations in ancient communities | ritualized human violence in ancient times
Geographic Expertise:
Peru
Whittaker Schroder
Research Interest:
Landscape archaeology, historical and political ecology, sociopolitical organization, resilience and sustainability, household archaeology, remote sensing, cultural heritage, ceramics, Archaeology of the Americas
Geographic Expertise:
Mesoamerica
Architecture
Martha Kohen
Research Interest:
Urban planning
Geographic Expertise:
South America
Alfonso Perez-Mendez
Research Interest:
Design
Geographic Expertise:
Cuba, Caribbean
Luis Alfonso Mejia Puig
Research Interest:
Design process, design education, digital media tools, psychometric and physiological tools
Geographic Expertise:
Colombia
Karla Saldaña Ochoa
Research Interest:
Human-centric AI in architectural practice
Geographic Expertise:
Worldwide
Art and Art History
Derek Burdette
Research Interest:
Pre-Columbian and colonial art | Art and imperialism | Art and visual culture of Mexico
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico (Viceroyalty of New Spain), general
Jesús Fuenmayor
Research Interest:
Modern and conteporary art | Latin American art | American and European art | Collections and curating
Geographic Expertise:
Ecuador, Venezuela
Dori Griffin
Research Interest:
Graphic design | Design history | Visual cultural identity | Visual rhetoric | Global contexts of graphic design
Geographic Expertise:
General
Porchia Moore
Research Interest:
Inclusive Praxis in Cultural Heritage Spaces, Cultural Heritage Informatics, 21st Century praxis in GLAMr (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, repositories), Critical Heritage Studies, Cross-Pollination/Convergence Issues in Libraries, Archives, Museums, Greenspaces, Muse Tech + Muse Social, Liberatory Praxis and Black Radical Traditions in Museums/Cultural Heritage
Heidi C. Powell
Research Interest:
Art and memory | Pedagogy in arts education | Medicine and arts integration | Indigenous identities | Learning environments in the arts | Art cultures | Arts-based research
Geographic Expertise:
Guatemala, General
Maria Rogal
Research Interest:
Design | Design thinking | Participatory design | Development | Intercultural communications
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, General
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
Research Interest:
Pre-Columbian and colonial art | Indigenous arts of the Americas | Global Baroque art
Geographic Expertise:
Andes, Mexico, General
Sergio Vega
Research Interest:
Visual | Historical and cultural studies | Photography
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Biology
Karen Bjorndal
Research Interest:
Biology of sea turtles
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, General
Ana V. Longo
Research Interest:
Amphibian disease ecology and conservation | Microbial ecology
Geographic Expertise:
Latin America, Caribbean, Puerto Rico
José Miguel Ponciano
Research Interest: E
volution of behavior, tropical avian ecology, the application of stochastic processes in Ecology, Population Genetics and Evolution, Wildlife Management, Conservation Biology and Fisheries, Epidemiological modeling, Microbial Community Ecology, Population Genetics and Phylogenetics
Geographic Expertise:
Peruvian Amazon
Francis E. Putz
Research Interest:
Ecology
Geographic Expertise:
South America
Claudia Romero
Research Interest:
Tropical conservation
Geographic Expertise:
South America
Marta L. Wayne
Research Interest:
Maintenance of genetic variation, host-parasite coevolution, the evolution of virulence, virus evolution, sexual conflict, and dosage compensation
Geographic Expertise:
the Americas
Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research
Jillian Hernandez
Research Interest:
Latinx Gender, Sexualities, Embodiment, Visual Art, Performance, Cultural Production, and Critical Girlhood/Youth Studies | Black/Latinx/Afro-Latinx ethno-racial formation and relations in the U.S.
Geographic Expertise:
U.S./Miami, Florida
Chemistry
Valeria Kleiman
Research Interest:
Energy transfer
Geographic Expertise:
Argentina
Civil & Coastal Engineering
David O. Prevatt
Research Interest:
Structural engineering | Wind engineering and structural load paths | Tornado and hurricane damage mitigation | Wind hazard-resilient communities
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, CARICOM, Trinidad and Tobago
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson
Research Interest:
Physical oceanography | Estuary-ocean exchange | Estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, Chile
Counseling & Wellness Center
Zully A. Rivera-Ramos
Research Interest:
Gender diversity | Sexual orientation and/or Latinx identities
Geographic Expertise:
Latinx individuals in the U.S. and Puerto Rico
Economics
Germán Bet
Research Interest:
Industrial organization
Geographic Expertise:
Argentina
Elias Dinopoulos
Research Interest:
International economics | Economic development
Geographic Expertise:
General
Javier D. Donna
Research Interest:
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Antitrust & Competition Policy, Public Economics
Geographic Expertise:
Latin America
Cecilia Peluffo
Research Interest:
Development economics
Geographic Expertise:
South America
Eugenio Rojas
Research Interest:
International macroeconomics | Financial crises | Quantitative macroeconomics
Geographic Expertise:
Latin America
Hector Sandoval
Research Interest:
Social interactions | Education | Development economics | Program evaluation
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico
Education
Frank Fernandez
Research Interest:
Educational equity and policy issues
Geographic Expertise:
United States, Latino Studies
Mark B. Pacheco
Research Interest:
Bilingual education | ESL language and literacy development
Geographic Expertise:
Latino Studies
Engineering Education
Idalis Villanueva Alarcón
Research Interests:
Hidden curriculum in engineering, mentoring students in science and engineering, and the study of motivation and learning pathways in science and engineering education using mixed- and multi-modal tools
Geographic Expertise:
N/A
Thomas Conners
Research Interests:
U.S. Latinx, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures, critical race, queer, and legal studies
Geographic Expertise:
U.S. Latinx, Caribbean, and Latin America
Victor Del Hierro
Research Interests:
Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication | Topics in Hip Hop, Digital Media, Chicanx Studies, Sound Studies, and Cultural Rhetorics
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, Mexico-U.S. border, U.S.-Latinx communities
Laura Gonzales
Research Interests:
Language diversity | Rhetoric | Technical communication | Community engagement
Geographic Expertise:
Land rematriation
Tace Hedrick
Research Interest:
Chicana/o and Latina/o studies | Feminist theory | Feminist art history
Geographic Expertise:
General
Leah Reade Rosenberg
Research Interest:
Anglophone Caribbean studies | Postcolonial studies | Cultural studies
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean
Raúl Sánchez
Research Interest:
Writing/composition studies | Rhetorical theory | Decolonial theory | Cultural studies | Literary theory
Geographic Expertise:
General, U.S.-Latinx Communities
Entomology and Nematology
Marc Branham
Research Interest:
Evolution of sexual communication in fireflies
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, Jamaica
James Cuda
Research Interest:
Biological control of invasive weeds
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment
David Kaplan
Research Interest:
Hydrologic and ecological models | Ecological restoration | Saltwater intrusion
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil, Costa Rica
Environmental & Global Health
José Félix Colón Burgos
Research Interest:
Medical Anthropology | Community Programs | Drug abuse | Drug addiction | Global Health | HIV Prevention | Health disparities and Social determinants of health | Innovative Public Behavioral Health Intervention Models | Program evaluation | Qualitative Research
Geographic Expertise:
Florida, Puerto Rico
Anthony Maurelli
Research Interest:
Bacterial Pathogenesis | Bacterial Genetics | Infectious Disease Surveillance
Geographic Expertise:
Haiti
Environmental Horticulture
Wagner A. Vendrame
Research Interests:
Ornamental Micropropagation and Cryopreservation, Orchids, Microgravity
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil, South and Central America
European Studies
Armin Langer
Research Interest:
Migration, identity politics and populism in Europe and the US
Geographic Expertise:
Europe, Jewish diaspora
Family Youth and Community Sciences
Jennifer A. Jones
Research Interest:
Nonprofit Management | Nonprofit Leadership | Philanthropy | Fundraising | Constructive Developmental Theory | Qualitative Research
Geographic Expertise:
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Jorge H. Ruiz Menjivar
Research Interest:
The study of household financial decision-making and the measurement of financial constructs such as financial risk tolerance, economic well-being, financial socialization and knowledge, using modern psychometric theory | The investigation of topics related to financial and consumer decision-making in Latin America
Geographic Expertise:
El Salvador, Costa Rica, Ecuador
Marilyn Swisher
Research Interest:
Participatory research | Sustainable agriculture
Geographic Expertise:
Central America, Caribbean
Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
Andy Naranjo
Research Interest:
International finance and capital markets | International asset pricing
Geographic Expertise:
General
Brian Gendreau
Research Interest:
Emerging markets finance | International asset pricing
Geographic Expertise:
General
Florida Museum of Natural History
Kitty Emery
Research Interest:
Environmental Archaeology
Geographic Expertise:
Mesoamerica
William F. Keegan
Research Interest:
Archaeology | Economic and ecological anthropology | Horticultural societies
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean
Bruce MacFadden
Research Interest:
Vertebrate paleontology
Geographic Expertise:
Bolivia
Lucas C. Majure
Research Interest:
Plant systematics
Geographic Expertise:
SE & SW US, Caribbean
Jacqueline Miller
Research Interest:
Systemics and taxonomy of Lepidoptera
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, Caribbean
Max Nickerson
Research Interest:
Systematics and ecology of amphibians and reptiles
Geographic Expertise:
General - North, Central and South America
Scott K. Robinson
Research Interest:
Ecology and Conservation of birds
Geographic Expertise:
Amazonia and Andes, especially Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador, but also more generally in Latin America.
Food and Resource Economics
Charles Adams
Research Interest:
Marine economics
Geographic Expertise:
General
Edward Evans
Research Interest:
International trade policy | Agro-economics
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean
William Messina
Research Interest:
International trade
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean
Charles Moss
Research Interest:
Agricultural finance | Agricultural policy | Quantitative methods
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico
Conner Mullally
Research Interest:
Development economics | Impact evaluation
Geographic Expertise:
Peru, Uruguay, Nicaragua
Gülcan Önel
Research Interests:
Agricultural Policy | Farm Labor | Migration
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, Haiti
Food Science and Human Nutrition
JEANETTE ANDRADE
Research Interests:
Nutrition education and the impact food has on adults with chronic renal disease
Geographic Expertise:
Ecuador and Mexico
Juan E. Andrade Laborde
Research Interest:
Food fortification | Micronutrient deficiencies | Low-cost sensors | Bioactives for food aid | Protein quality
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador
Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
Grenville Barnes
Research Interest:
Land tenure | Cadastral and land information systems | GIS
Geographic Expertise:
Central and South America, Caribbean
Donald C. Behringer
Research Interest:
Marine ecology | Disease ecology | Crustacean biology | Fishery ecology | Invasion ecology
Geographic Expertise:
Cuba (
lead study abroad course
), Mexico, and many other countries bordering the Caribbean Sea and South Atlantic
Stephanie Bohlman
Research Interest:
Forest ecology
Geographic Expertise:
Brazilian Amazon, Panama
Eben N. Broadbent
Research Interest:
Tropical forest ecology | Conservation biology | Ecosystem ecology | Geospatial analyses and technology
Geographic Expertise:
Costa Rica, Bolivia, Brazilian Amazon
Mysha Clarke
Research Interest:
Human dimensions of natural resources | Invasive species management | Forest management | Environmental conservation
Geographic Expertise:
General
P.K.R. Nair
Research Interest:
Agroforestry | International forestry
Geographic Expertise:
General
Denis Ribeiro do Valle
Research Interest:
Ecological statistics | Environmental health
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Geography
Michael Binford
Research Interest:
GIS and RS applications in environmental systems | Landscape dynamics
Geographic Expertise:
South America
Sadie Ryan
Research Interest:
Disease ecology | Tropical conservation | Human-wildlife interface
Geographic Expertise:
Ecuador
Cynthia Simmons
Research Interest:
Economic development and environmental policy
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil, Amazonia
Jane Southworth
Research Interest:
Climate change | Remote sensing | Land use | Land cover change
Geographic Expertise:
Honduras, Guatemala
Corene Matyas
Research Interest:
Climatology | Hurricanes | Climate change
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean
Geological Sciences
Mark Brenner
Research Interest:
Limnology | Paleolimnology
Geographic Expertise:
Mesoamerica, Caribbean
Health & Human Performance
Mildred Maldonado-Molina
Research Interest:
Reducing health disparities in alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences | Improving the health of minority children and adolescents | Reducing risk factors associated with drug use and violence | Understanding the role of acculturation among Latinx families | Examining the role of context (e.g. neighborhood, access to alcohol, high poverty) on alcohol-related outcomes among urban youth.
Geographic Expertise:
Puerto Rico
History
Fernanda Bretones Lane
Research Interest:
Slavery | African Diaspora in Latin America | Social and Political history
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, Cuba, Atlantic World
Max Deardorff
Research Interest:
Race | Identity | Ethnohistory | Popular politics | Law
Geographic Expertise:
Northern Andes, Colombia, Spain
Lillian Guerra
Research Interest:
Caribbean diasporas | Caribbean history
Geographic Expertise:
20th Century Cuba, Puerto Rico
Philip Janzen
Research Interest:
African Diaspora | Race | Migration | Intellectual History
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, West and Central Africa
Heather A. Vrana
Research Interest:
Social movements | Student movements | Oral history | Memory | Disability history
Geographic Expertise:
Central America, Mexico
Horticultural Sciences
Jonathan Crane
Research Interest:
Tropical fruits
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica
Steven A. Sargent
Research Interest:
Postharvest physiology and technology of fresh fruits and vegetables
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil, Latin America, East/Southern Africa
Jewish Studies
Raanan Rein
Research Interest:
Modern Latin America, populist movements, Argentine society and politics, Jews in the Spanish speaking world, ethnic minorities in Latin America, immigration and collective identities, 20th century Spain
Geographic Expertise:
Argentina, Spain
Journalism
Dania Alexandrino
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Research Interest:
Haitian Creole instruction and linguistics
Geographic Expertise:
Haiti
Latin American and Caribbean Collection
Melissa Jerome
Research Interest:
Newspapers/newspaper digitization | Preservation and access of digital resources
Geographic Expertise:
Latin America, Caribbean, Latinx diaspora
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
Research Interest:
Colonial Latin American history | Latin American and Caribbean archives | Diversity
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, Mexico
Law
Berta Hernández-Truyol
Research Interest:
International human rights | Issues of gender/race and Latinas/os in the law
Geographic Expertise:
General
Timothy McLendon
Research Interest:
Environmental law
Geographic Expertise:
Haiti, Brazil
Linguistics
James Essegbey
Research Interest:
Descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics | Creole studies
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean
Medicine: Department of Emergency Medicine
Elizabeth L. DeVos
Research Interest:
Emergency medicine in low- and middle-income countries, global health and emergency care, medical education
Geographic Expertise:
Ethiopia, Rwanda
Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine
Norman L. Beatty
Research Interest:
Chagas disease, HIV, Health outcomes research, Kissing bug (triatomine) research, Molecular epidemiology, tropical disease, Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Michael Lauzardo
Research Interest:
Tuberculosis | General pulmonary disease | Mycobacterial infections
Geographic Expertise:
Haiti, Dominican Republic
Amy Y. Vittor
Research Interest:
Field experimental methods for determining enzootic hosts | Human immunological and genetic susceptibility to alphaviruses | Epidemiology of eastern equine encephalitis | Venezuelan equine encephalitis in Panama
Geographic Expertise:
Panama, Peruvian Amazon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Asia
Music
Kenneth Broadway
Research Interest:
Percussion
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean
Silvio Dos Santos
Research Interest:
Music criticism and analysis
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Jose V. Ruiz-Resto
Research Interest:
Music Production and Ethnomusicology concerning Latin Jazz and Popular Music Traditions | Trends of Contemporary Latin & Afro-Latin Music Industry
Geographic Expertise:
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala, Brazil, Spain
Kristen Stoner
Research Interest:
Popular and classical flute of Latin America
Geographic Expertise:
Peru, Brazil, Argentina
Natural Resources and Environment
Ignacio Porzecanski
Research Interest:
Agronomy and Environmental Sciences
Geographic Expertise:
Latin America, Europe
Plant Pathology
Karen Garrett
Research Interest:
Plant disease epidemics and management
Geographic Expertise:
Andes, the Caribbean region
Samuel Martins
Research Interest:
Plant Bacteriology, Biocontrol of Plant Diseases, Microbiome
Geographic Expertise:
Tropical countries
Political Science
Leslie E. Anderson
Research Interest:
Popular politics and citizen empowerment | Development of democracy
Geographic Expertise:
Central America, Argentina
Andrew Janusz
Research Interest:
Racial identity | Voting behavior | Political representation
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Cristian Pérez Muñoz
Research Interest:
Normative political theory and public policy
Geographic Expertise:
South Cone
Juliana Restrepo Sanin
Research Interest:
Gender and politics in Latin America | Violence against women in politics | Access to justice
Geographic Expertise:
Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Chile
Psychology
Roberto L. Abreu
Research Interests:
Latinx cultural values and beliefs and psychological well-being; Sexual and gender diversity; family and community acceptance of Latinx sexual and gender diverse people; impact of sociopolitical climate on Latinx sexual and gender diverse people; Latinx transgender immigrants
Geographic Expertise:
Caribbean, Latinx communities in the United States, General
Corina Jimenez-Gomez
Research Interests:
Culturally responsive behavior analytic practice, expanding behavior analysis to diverse populations, dissemination to Spanish-speaking communities
Geographic Expertise:
Latinx communities in the United States, General
Religion
Anna L. Peterson
Research Interest:
Christianity in Latin America | Social ethics | Environmental ethics
Geographic Expertise:
Central America
Robin Wright
Research Interest:
Indigenous religions | Ethnohistory | Indian policy
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Sociology
Stephen Perz
Research Interest:
Collaborative practice | Environmental conservation | Sustainable development | Complex systems | Resilience | Infrastructure | Population
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia
Barbara A. Zsembik
Research Interest:
Migration and health | Family violence among Dominicans and Haitians
Geographic Expertise:
General
Soil and Water Science
Pedro A. Sanchez
Research
Interest:
Conservation and sustainable development | Tropical soils | Food production and hunger reduction
Geographic Expertise:
Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa
Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Jessi Aaron
Research Interest:
Spanish linguistics
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico
Luis Álvarez-Castro
Research Interest:
Nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture; contemporary representations of that period in literature and film
Geographic Expertise:
Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Philippines
Joanne Britland
Research Interest:
Twentieth and twenty-first century Iberian literature, visual, and cultural studies
Geographic Expertise:
Spain
M. Elizabeth Ginway
Research Interest:
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian narrative
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Quinn McCoy Hansen
Research Interest:
Portuguese linguistics, Luso-Brazilian civilization
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Emily Hind
Research Interest:
Mexican literature | Mexican film | Mexican history and culture | Age studies and children's literature
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico
Victor Jordan
Research Interest:
Spanish language instruction | Latin American culture and civilization
Geographic Expertise:
Colombia
Antonio-Sajid López
Research Interest:
Latin Americanist focusing primarily on 20th and 21st-century Hispanic theater | Particularly interested in plays where the audience becomes an integral part of theatrical fiction
Geographic Expertise:
Latin America - General
Gillian Lord
Research Interest:
Second language acquisition | L2 phonetics and phonology | Technology in language education
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico, Peru
Crystal Marull
Research Interests:
Second language processing | Heritage language acquisition | Cognitive
individual differences | Second language pedagogy | Distance/online learning pedagogy
Geographic Expertise:
Argentina
Greg Moreland
Research Interest:
Languages across the curriculum and for the professions
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico
Mariana Oliveira
Research Interest:
Portuguese language modernist poetry | Tourism and Brazilian culture | Colonial Brazil
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Diego Pascual y Cabo
Research Interest:
Heritage speaker bilingual development | Spanish in the US | Bilingualism
Geographic Expertise:
United States
David Pharies
Research Interest:
Romance historical linguistics
Geographic Expertise:
General
Martín Sorbille
Research Interest:
19th century Spanish-American literature
Geographic Expertise:
General
Paola Uparela
Research Interest:
Colonial Latin American literatures and cultural studies | Gender, sexuality, and queer studies | Visual culture, race and biopolitics
Geographic Expertise:
Colonial Transatlantic Latin America
Jorge Valdés Kroff
Research Interest:
Psycholinguistics | Spanish-English code-switching | Spanish heritage speakers
Geographic Expertise:
General
Jennifer Wooten
Research Interest:
World Language Education | Spanish for Educators | Teacher Training
Geographic Expertise:
General
Spatial Ecology & Conservation (SPEC) Lab
Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano
Research Interest:
Human geography | Ecological anthropology | Human ecology | Political ecology | Tropical conservation and development | Land use and land cover change | Environmental change and water quality | Sustainability science
Geographic Expertise:
Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Amazon
Theatre and Dance
Joan Frosch
Research Interest:
Dance ethnography | Choreography
Geographic Expertise:
General
Tony Mata
Research Interest:
Musical theater
Geographic Expertise:
Latino studies
Colleen Rua
Research Interest:
Latinx theatre|performing arts as sites of healing for displaced Latinx communities|Latinx representation in American Musical Theatre
Geographic Expertise:
General, US-Latinx Communities, Puerto Rico
Augusto Soledade
Research Interest:
African diasporic dance | Afro-Brazilian dance and culture
Geographic Expertise:
Brazil
Veterinary Medicine
Klibs Galvão
Research Interest:
Dairy cows, reproductive physiology & management | Dairy production medicine
Geographic Expertise:
General
Jorge Hernandez
Research Interest:
Epidemiology
Geographic Expertise:
Mexico
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Miguel Acevedo
Research Interest:
Quantitative ecology | Tropical ecology | Tropical diseases | Secondary forests | Conservation | Habitat prioritization
Geographic Expertise:
Puerto Rico, Caribbean
Sergio A. Balaguera-Reina
Research Interest:
Marine biology, crocodiles and alligators as ecological indicators
Geographic Expertise:
South Florida, Caribbean, Latin America
John Blake
Research Interest:
Tropical ecology
Geographic Expertise:
Ecuador, Amazon, Argentina
Lyn C. Branch
Research Interest:
Conservation biology | Behavioral ecology | Landscape ecology
Geographic Expertise:
Southern Cone
Robert Fletcher
Research Interest:
Landscape and spatial ecology
Geographic Expertise:
Ecuador
Susan K. Jacobson
Research Interest:
Human dimensions of natural resource management | Environmental education
Geographic Expertise:
General
Kathryn E. Sieving
Research Interest:
Avian ecology and conservation
Geographic Expertise:
General
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