Michael Innis-Jiménez
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Latinos/Latinas in the U.S.; U.S. social, cultural, and labor history, the American West; race and ethnicity in the Americas
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Ph.D. University of Iowa
Latinos/Latinas in the U.S.; U.S. social, cultural, and labor history, the American West; race and ethnicity in the Americas
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Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Population aggregation and identity in the 16th– and 17th -century Spanish missions of the American Southeast
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Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Archaeologist and paleoethnobotanist/archaeobotanist, studies ancient foodways in the Andean region of South America
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Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
The biocultural factors influencing nutritional status, particularly obesity and the nutrition transition. Research includes work in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, Chile, and Cuba, and on Latina immigrants in the US
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Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Anthropological Archaeologist specializing in American Prehistory, communities of practice, indigenous technologies, and knowledge. Research includes Mesoamerica (Maya region), Southwest US (California), and applied archaeology. Registered Practicing Archaeologist.
Ph.D. Harvard University
Maya archaeology and epigraphy (Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras), ancient political history and indigenous concepts of place, memory, and identity
Ph.D. Louisiana State University
Biodiversity, molecular systematics, and the evolution of marine benthic algae and the subaerial microchlorophytes from tropical rainforests
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Ph.D. Stanford University
Application of transition metal catalysts in organic synthesis and development of methods for water remediation applicable in developing countries
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Ph.D. The City University New York
Cuban translations of Walt Whitman; South Asian diasporic literature in the West Indies; nutmeg (cultivation, mythology, intoxication, etc.); early Spanish depictions of the Americas as “Moorish”
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Ph.D. University of Chicago
Twentieth century American literature and culture and critical theory
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Ph.D. Purdue University
Literary scholar focused on representations of people of color in the Atlantic world; 16th-18th century; emphasis on modes of representation of people of color in early Caribbean and Americas
Ph.D. New York University
Historian researching gender, empire, identity formation, Black internationalism, and religion in the U.S. and the Caribbean, late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Climate/environmental change related to human prehistory, using the geochemistry of the shells of organisms excavated from archaeological sites or fossil deposits, with projects in Peru, Panama, Belize, and Cuba
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Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
The intersection of violence, economics, and political movements (Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia), and the spatial influence of interdiction on drug trafficking networks (funded by NSF)
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Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Geographer who studies agriculture and conservation, water resources, mountains, Mexico, and the Caribbean
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Ph.D. Louisiana State University
The ecology and geography of endangered species in Central America and the U.S. SoutheastView faculty profile
Ph.D. University of Kansas
Geologic and oceanographic factors that control Pleistocene and Holocene coral reef development and carbonate sediment accumulation in Cuba. An expert in the carbonate reservoir system of offshore Brazil, one of the largest oil and gas accumulations in the world
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Ph.D. Texas Christian University
Mexican History, especially in the areas of modernity, material culture, consumption, as well as cultural economic and business history
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Ph.D. University of Iowa
Gender and race in the Atlantic World
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Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Latin American History, Spanish Caribbean History, Race and Slavery in Spanish American, and Atlantic History
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Ph.D. New York University
The Atlantic World, the early modern English Caribbean, race and slavery in the Americas, and approaches to the archive
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Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Second language acquisition, foreign language learners’ stereotypes and beliefs, foreign language teachers’ attitudes and beliefs, the teaching of culture in the foreign language classroom, and the integration of technology in language learning/teaching
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Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Environmental discourse in contemporary Latin American literature and film, especially themes related to trash, waste, and waste management
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Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Modernismo, women’s writing, and gendered aesthetics in Latin America’s nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Ph.D. University of Illinois
Intonation, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, and languages in contact
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Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Universidad de Deusto
U.S. Latino, Caribbean, and Mexican literature and cultures, Hispanic autobiography and narratives of the self, literary theory, and transatlantic studies.
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Ph.D. Indiana University
Language contact and the influence of superstrate and substrate languages on creole languages of the Caribbean islands of Haiti, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc.
Ph.D. Florida State University
Public policy; state politics; race, ethnicity, and politics
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Ph.D. Arizona State University
Religion and politics, indigenous political movements, and political activism, with a specific regional focus on Mexico
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Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder
Critical pedagogy, decentering whiteness in education, language policy, language policy in education, language diversity promotion, bilingual education for language minority students (focus on US Latinos), comparative citizenship education (focus on Cuba)
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Ph.D. Wesleyan University
Composer, musician, and ethnomusicologist, practice and study of experimental music, jazz, and music technologies in a global context, with a particular focus on these practices in Argentina and the US
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D.M.A. University of Cincinnati College (Conservatory of Music)
Oboe performance, oboe literature, performance practices, and reed-making disciplines in Brazil, Cuba, and the Caribbean
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D.M.A. Michigan State University
Musician who specializes in woodwind chamber music, especially that of the trio d’anches, the chamber sub-genre consisting of works for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
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D.M.A. Cleveland Institute of Music
Classical voice, opera, and voice pedagogy; virtual anatomy and other technology usage in the voice studio; yoga; Cuban art song.
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Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh
Palliative/end-of-life care education, research/scholarship and advocacy; cultural similarities/ differences in health care approaches; communication/treatment decisions among older oncology patients/family members in the U.S. and Cuba; Mexico study abroad course
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Ph.D. Columbia School of Social Work
Social work researcher examining how social and cultural contexts affect cardiovascular health risk factors through psychological, behavioral, and physiologic pathways among US-born and immigrant Latinx families
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Ph.D. University of North Texas
Research throughout Latin America on many different insect groups, but especially on the systematics and biogeography of Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
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Ph.D. The University of Alabama
Museum studies curricula in higher education and the professional personnel needs of the museum, public history, and public archaeology fields
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