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Claudia Aburto Guzmán

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

Jamie A. Haverkamp

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Chicanx and Latinx studies, climate change studies, environmental anthropology, environmental justice/climate justice, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies

Sylvia A. Federico

Professor of English

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

Joyce N. Bennett

Associate Professor of Anthropology

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

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

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

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa, race and ethnicity

James W. Hughes

Thomas Sowell Professor Emeritus of Economics

applied microeconomics, labor economics, migration and human trafficking, racial and sexual discrimination

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

Benoit Y. Vallee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies

(trans)nationalism, Afro-Latin America, Blackness, Caribbean studies, Deportation, Dominican Republic, Dominicans in Hip-Hop, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, Latin American Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies, New York Afro-Latina/o/x and Latina/o/x, New York Hip-Hop history, Quisqueya-Hispaniola, race and ethnicity, urban anthropology