Hemispheric Migrations, Diasporas, and U.S. Latina/o
Emma Amador, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American history; women, gender, and sexuality; Puerto Rico.
Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.Latino and Latina Studies.
Michele Back, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Additional language learning and use; Translingual/transcultural identities; Study Abroad; Peer tutoring; Spanish, Portuguese, and Quechua varieties.
Jon Bauer, J.D., Yale University. Civil Rights Clinic, Employment Discrimination, Evidence, Asylum Clinic.
Rebecca A. Campbell, Ph.D., University of South Florida. Inequality and Health in Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Minority Groups K-12; Mexican American Indians and Schooling; Migration and Education.
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.Twentieth-century and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literatures, cultures and societies, Latin American and Spanish cinema, African Diaspora, Transatlantic Studies, Cultural Studies in Post-cold war era societies.
Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Ed. D., Columbia University Teaching and learning in urban colleges and universities.
Jason Chang, Ph.D., Berkeley.Modern Mexico; US Empire; Race; Migration; Transnationalism; Borderlands; Comparative Racial Formations.
Antonia Cordero, D.S.W., Graduate Center, CUNY Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Individual, group and family therapy, Mental health and community services.
Diane Drachman, Ph.D., University of California School of Social Welfare. Social work with immigrant and refugee populations.
Mary Fischer, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Stratification, Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, Education.
Bruce Gould, M.D., Syracuse University. Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center; Coordinator, UConn Farmworker Health Clinic.
Linda Halgunseth, Ph.D., University of Missouri.
Latino and African American Parenting; Cultural Influences on Parent-Child Relations and Parenting; Children of Immigrants; Culturally-Appropriate Measurement Development
Guillermo Irizarry, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Literature and Culture. Ethnic studies in an American (hemispheric), context, and diaspora studies.
Jason Irizarry, Ed.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Urban teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention with an emphasis on increasing the number of teachers of color, culturally responsive pedagogy, youth participatory action research, and Latino/a students in U.S. schools.
Mark Kohan, Ph.D. in Educational Studies, University of Cincinnati. Inquiry based and culturally responsive educational partnerships that support community development.
Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. 19th and 20th century Spanish American Literature; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature; Cuba.
Samuel Martínez, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Latin American and the Caribbean; African Diaspora; Agrarian Societies.
Catherine Medina, Ph.D., Columbia University. Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Mental health services to Latino/a children and adolescents; Recruitment and retention of Latino/as in social work programs.
Nancy Naples, Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY Gender, Inequality, Public Policy, Immigration, Globalization, Community Activism, and Disability Rights Movement.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University. Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
Melina Pappademos, Ph.D., New York University. Social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, nationalisms, and the experiences of African-descended people in the Americas, particularly for the Caribbean and Latin America.
Diana Ríos, Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin. Communication, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Ethnicity/Race, Gender/Women Studies.
Charles Robert Venator Santiago, Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. U.S. territorial law and policy, immigration and criminal deportations, and nation-state building in the Caribbean.
Lisa Werkmeister-Rozas, Ph.D., Smith College. Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Racial/ethnic identity development, intergroup dialogue, bilingual/bicultural clinical issues, cultural competence/relevance, and health disparities.
Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University. Latino and Latina Studies.
Rebecca A. Campbell, Ph.D., University of South Florida. Inequality and Health in Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Minority Groups K-12.
Felix Coe, Ph.D., University of Connecticut. Ethnobotany, systematics and floristics of New World Piperaceae; Floristics of Mesoamerica and Southeastern United States; Tropical Forest Ecology.
Antonia Cordero, D.S.W., Graduate Center, CUNY. Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Individual, group and family therapy, Mental health and community services.
Diane Drachman, Ph.D., University of California School of Social Welfare. Social work with immigrant and refugee populations.
Pamela Erickson, Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, New York. Human Reproduction, Ecology, and Ethnomedicine; East Los Angeles, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Panama, The Philippines, and Nepal.
María-Luz Fernández, Ph.D., University of Arizona. Nutrition and Coronary Heart Disease; Mexico and U.S. Latinos.
Carlos Garcia-Robledo, B.Sc. in Biology, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Ph.D. in Biology, University of Miami. Understanding the process of colonization and adaptation of organisms to novel environments.
Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Speech perception, bilingualism, language development, event related potentials
Bruce Gould, M.D., Syracuse University. Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center; Coordinator, UConn Farmworker Health Clinic.
Linda Halgunseth, Ph.D., University of Missouri.
Latino and African American Parenting; Cultural Influences on Parent-Child Relations and Parenting; Children of Immigrants; Culturally-Appropriate Measurement Development
Veronica Herrera, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Comparative Politics, Latin America, Environmental Policy
Erin Kuprewicz, Ph.D. in Biology, University of Miami
Plant-animal interactions, ecology and conservation biology, seed dispersal and predation, forest community dynamics, anthropocene, technology-enabled science education. Field sites in Sierra Los Tuxtlas region of the state of Veracruz, Mexico; and La Selva and Las Cruces, Costa Rica.
Alan Lurie, Ph.D., University of Rochester; D.D.S, UCLA Universidad del Desarrollo (Concepcion, Chile) dentistry faculty and student exchange program.
Catherine Medina, Ph.D., Columbia University. Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Mental health services to Latino/a children and adolescents; Recruitment and retention of Latino/as in social work programs.
Isaac M. Ortega, Ph.D., Texas Tech University. Wildlife; Foraging Ecology; Vegetation Communities; Chile, Patagonia.
Graciela Quiñones-Rodríguez, LCSW. Graduate School of Social Work, UConn. Clinician at UConn, Storrs in Counseling & Mental Health Services. Adjunct Faculty at UConn School of Social Work & Hartford’s Capital Community College.
Anji Seth, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Regional Processes in Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Society and Climate.
Chrystal Smith, Ph.D., South Florida.
Cultural anthropologist with expertise in (1) education anthropology with a specialization in STEM higher education research, and (2) medical anthropology with a focus on the chronic disease health disparities.
Miriam Valdovinos, Ph.D., Social Welfare, University of Washington. Health and mental health effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) on Latina/o families; Culturally-responsive prevention and intervention efforts to address IPV health inequities; Social belonging and social exclusion of undocumented immigrant families; interdisciplinary community based research practices; qualitative methodologies.
Charles Robert Venator Santiago, Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. U.S. territorial law and policy, immigration and criminal deportations, and nation-state building in the Caribbean.
Lisa Werkmeister-Rozas, Ph.D., Smith College. Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Racial/ethnic identity development, intergroup dialogue, bilingual/bicultural clinical issues, cultural competence/relevance, and health disparities.
Michael R. Willig, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Tropical Ecology of Animal Populations and Communities; Sustainability of Ecosystem Services; Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean.
Human Rights
Jon Bauer, J.D., Yale University. Civil Rights Clinic, Employment Discrimination, Evidence, Asylum Clinic.
Rebecca A. Campbell, Ph.D., University of South Florida. Inequality and Health in Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Minority Groups K-12; Mexican American Indians and Schooling; Migration and Education; School Ethnography; University Climate, Cultural Models, and Network Analysis and Underrepresented Women and Racial/Ethnic Minority Engineering Undergraduates.
Jean C. Cowan, Ph D., SUNY Albany. Internal displacement, refugees, violence and the war on drugs; Colombia
Manisha Desai, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Gender and Globalization; Transnational Feminism; Human Rights ; Contemporary Indian Society; Social Movements; Gender and Development; South Asian American Issues
Bruce Gould, M.D., Syracuse University. Associate Dean for Primary Care, Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center; Coordinator, UConn Farmworker Health Clinic.
Shareen Hertel, Ph.D., Columbia University. Labor and Economic Rights, Social Mobilization and Public Opinion on Human Rights.
Guillermo Irizarry, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Literature and Culture. Ethnic studies in an American (hemispheric), context, and diaspora studies.
Samuel Martínez, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Latin America and the Caribbean; African Diaspora; Agrarian Societies.
Angel Oquendo, Ph.D., Harvard University. International and Comparative Law, Economics and Philosophy.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University. Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
Melina Pappademos, Ph.D., New York University. Social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, nationalisms, and the experiences of African-descended people in the Americas, particularly for the Caribbean and Latin America.
Karen Spalding, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. Colonial Latin American History, Ethnohistory; Peru.
Charles Robert Venator Santiago, Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. U.S. territorial law and policy, immigration and criminal deportations, and nation-state building in the Caribbean.
Scott Wallace, B.A., Yale University; M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia. Journalism-former Central America correspondent; Human Rights, Environment; Vanishing Cultures; Conflict over Land and Resources.
Richard A. Wilson, Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science.Political and Legal Anthropology, Human Rights, Political Violence, History and Memory, Anthropological and Social Theory; South Africa and Central America.
Political Economy, Development, and Society
Emma Amador, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American history; women, gender, and sexuality; Puerto Rico.
Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Ph.D., Arizona State University. Urban Economic Development, Urban Transportation and Amenities, Land Use Change, Growth Management & Sustainable Cities, GIS-based modeling, Spatial Statistics, Mixed Methods.
Rebecca A. Campbell, Ph.D., University of South Florida. Inequality and Health in Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Minority Groups K-12; Mexican American Indians and Schooling; Migration and Education; School Ethnography; University Climate, Cultural Models, and Network Analysis and Underrepresented Women and Racial/Ethnic Minority Engineering Undergraduates.
Dexter Gabriel, Ph.D. in History, Stony Brook University, New York. Black Atlantic, Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, and Slavery in Popular Culture
Mark Healey, Ph.D., Duke University. Urban Cultures; Populist Politics; State Power; Modern Citizenship.
Veronica Herrera, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Comparative Politics, Latin America, Environmental Policy
Shareen Hertel, Ph.D., Columbia University. Labor and Economic Rights, Social Mobilization and Public Opinion on Human Rights.
Jocelyn Linnekin, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Ethnological Theory, Gender, Cultural Identity and Nationalism, Historical Anthropology, Comparative Politics; Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Angel Oquendo, Ph.D., Harvard University. International and Comparative Law, Economics and Philosophy.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
Melina Pappademos, Ph.D., New York University. Social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, nationalisms, and the experiences of African-descended people in the Americas, particularly for the Caribbean and Latin America.
Matthew Singer, Ph.D., Duke University.Comparative Politics and Latin American Politics.
Scott Wallace, B.A., Yale University; M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia. Journalism-former Central America correspondent; Human Rights, Environment; Vanishing Cultures; Conflict over Land and Resources.
Richard A. Wilson, Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science.Political and Legal Anthropology, Human Rights, Political Violence, History and Memory, Anthropological and Social Theory; South Africa and Central America.
Culture, Power, and Race/Ethnicity
Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.Latino and Latina Studies.
John Bell, Ph.D., Columbia University of California Puppetry performance, history, and scholarship.
Rebecca A. Campbell, Ph.D., University of South Florida. Inequality and Health in Racial, Ethnic, and Linguistic Minority Groups K-12; Mexican American Indians and Schooling; Migration and Education; School Ethnography; University Climate, Cultural Models, and Network Analysis and Underrepresented Women and Racial/Ethnic Minority Engineering Undergraduates.
Rosa Helena Chinchilla, Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook.Golden Age Spanish Poetry and Prose, Spanish Humanism, Women’s Studies.
Manisha Desai, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Gender and Globalization; Transnational Feminism; Human Rights ; Contemporary Indian Society; Social Movements; Gender and Development; South Asian American Issues
David Embrick, Ph.D., Texas A&M University. Impact of contemporary forms of racism on people of color; Inequalities in the business world; Race and education; Impact of schools-welfare-prisons on people of color; sex discrimination.
Dexter Gabriel, Ph.D. in History, Stony Brook University, New York. Black Atlantic, Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, and Slavery in Popular Culture
Jane Gordon, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Black political, social, and educational thought and contemporary slavery.
Lewis Gordon, Ph.D., Yale University Africana philosophy, politics, and religion; Black existentialism, Black intellectual history; critical race theory
Robin Greeley , Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art; Nationalism studies; Mexico and Nicaragua.
Miguel Gomes, Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook.Latin American Essay and Poetry; Brazil and Venezuela.
Paul B. Goodwin Jr.., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.Latin America in the National Period; British-Latin American Relations; Argentina.
Linda Halgunseth, Ph.D., University of Missouri
Latino and African American Parenting; Cultural Influences on Parent-Child Relations and Parenting; Children of Immigrants; Culturally-Appropriate Measurement Development
Guillermo Irizarry, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Literature and Culture. Ethnic studies in an American (hemispheric), context, and diaspora studies.
Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.19th and 20th century Spanish American Literature; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature; Cuba.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
Melina Pappademos, Ph.D., New York University.Social and cultural history of race, social and political mobilizations, nationalisms, and the experiences of African-descended people in the Americas, particularly for the Caribbean and Latin America.
Diana Ríos, Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin.Communication, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Ethnicity/Race, Gender/Women Studies.
Laurietz Seda, Ph.D., University of Kansas.Twentieth Century Latin American and Caribbean Cultures and Literatures, cultural studies, globalization, identities, transnationalism, film, theatre and performance.
Noga Shemer, Ph.D., University of California-San Diego. Psychological Anthropology, Caribbean.
Karen Spalding, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley.Colonial Latin American History, Ethnohistory; Peru.
Robert Stephens, Ph.D., Indiana University.Ethnomosicology, languages of music, Yoruba Culture, Cuba.
Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago; and University of Glasgow.Pragmatics, Metaphor, Discourse Analysis, Politeness Theory and Applied Linguistics.
Charles Robert Venator Santiago, Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.U.S. territorial law and policy, immigration and criminal deportations, and nation-state building in the Caribbean.
Scott Wallace, B.A., Yale University; M.A., University of Missouri-Columbia. Journalism-former Central America correspondent; Human Rights, Environment; Vanishing Cultures; Conflict over Land and Resources.
Gender, Reproduction and Sexuality
Emma Amador, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Latino/a, Caribbean, and Latin American history; women, gender, and sexuality; Puerto Rico.
Marysol Asencio, Ph.D., Columbia University.Gender; sexuality; migration; race/ethnicity; urban and community health; and social inequities/human rights.
Debanuj Dasgupta, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Feminist Geography, Geographies of Sexuality, Migration Studies, Critical Development Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Transgender Studies, Transnational Feminism and Sexuality Studies, South Asia & Caribbean Studies, Critical Trauma Studies.
Manisha Desai, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Gender and Globalization; Transnational Feminism; Human Rights ; Contemporary Indian Society; Social Movements; Gender and Development; South Asian American Issues
Pamela Erickson, Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo, New York.Human Reproduction, Ecology, and Ethnomedicine; East Los Angeles, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Panama, The Philippines, and Nepal.
Jocelyn Linnekin, Ph.D., University of Michigan.Ethnological Theory, Gender, Cultural Identity and Nationalism, Historical Anthropology, Comparative Politics; Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Nancy Naples, Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY.Gender, Inequality, Public Policy, Immigration, Globalization, Community Activism, and Disability Rights Movement.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Ph.D., Yale University.Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Las Américas, Transnational Migration and Empire.
Lisa Werkmeister-Rozas, Ph.D., Smith College.Puerto Rican/Latino/a Studies Project; Racial/ethnic identity development, intergroup dialogue, bilingual/bicultural clinical issues, cultural competence/relevance, and health disparities.