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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Department of American Studies
Department of Anthropology
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Elliot Blair
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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Katherine L. Chiou
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Archaeologist and paleoethnobotanist/archaeobotanist, studies ancient foodways in the Andean region of South America
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Lisa Pawloski
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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Flavio Silva
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.
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Alexandre Tokovinine
Ph.D. Harvard University
Maya archaeology and epigraphy (Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras), ancient political history and indigenous concepts of place, memory, and identity
Department of Biological Sciences
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Juan Lopez-Bautista
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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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Kevin Shaughnessy
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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Department of English
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Nikhil Bilwakesh
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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Fred Whiting
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Twentieth century American literature and culture and critical theory
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Cassander Smith
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
Department of Gender and Race Studies
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Briana Royster
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.
Department of Geography
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Fred Andrus
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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Kevin Curtain
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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Matthew C. LaFevor
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Geographer who studies agriculture and conservation, water resources, mountains, Mexico, and the Caribbean
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Michael Steinberg
Ph.D. Louisiana State University
The ecology and geography of endangered species in Central America and the U.S. SoutheastView faculty profile
Department of Geological Sciences
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Marcello Minzoni
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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Department of History
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Steven Bunker
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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Heather Kopelson
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Gender and race in the Atlantic World
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Juan Ponce-Vázquez
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Latin American History, Spanish Caribbean History, Race and Slavery in Spanish American, and Atlantic History
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Jenny Shaw
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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Department of Modern Languages and Classics
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Isabelle Drewelow
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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Micah McKay
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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Sarah Moody
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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Erin O’Rourke
Ph.D. University of Illinois
Intonation, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, and languages in contact
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Ignacio Rodeño
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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David Tézil
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.
Department of Political Science
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Richard Fording
Ph.D. Florida State University
Public policy; state politics; race, ethnicity, and politics
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Christopher Hale
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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School of Education
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John Petrovic
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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School of Music
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Andrew Raffo Dewar
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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Mary Lindsey Bailey
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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Osiris J. Molina
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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Susan E. Williams
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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School of Social Work
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Ellen Csikai
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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Luciana Giorgio
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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University Museums and Museum Studies
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John C. Abbott
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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William F. Bomar
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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