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Joyce N. Bennett

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Central America, Ethnicity and identity performance, gender and sexuality, language revitalization, migration, social movements

Raluca Cernahoschi

Associate Professor of German

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Katalin Vecsey

Senior Lecturer in Theater

contemporary theater and productions in Hungary; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia, post-1989 central European drama and productions, vocal health and pedagogy, voice abuse prevention, voice and speech training for actors, voice and speech training for professional voice users

Karen Melvin

Thomas Hedley Reynolds Professor of History

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz

Associate Professor of Politics

comparative politics, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, Latin American Politics, Mexico, Political violence

Cristina Morales Segura

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

America-Spain relationships, cultural studies, film studies, intersections of law and literature and media culture, literary analysis

Nick Balascio

Associate Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences

global climate change, paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, sedimentology

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Rafael Alexandre Mello

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics

international development, international political economy, international relations, international theory, Latin American Politics, Latin American social theory, politics of the Global South