Affiliated Faculty
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| Ulla Berg PhD New York University Department of Anthropology Department of Latino, Hispanic and Caribbean Studies Research Interests: Migration, community formation, Peruvian migration, ethnographic filmmaking. |
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Gloria Bonilla-Santiago |
| Ethel Brooks PhD New York University Women's and Gender Studies, and Sociology; Research Interests: Gender, race, class, labor practices, citizenship and nationstate formations in Central America, South Asia, and the United States; Critical Political Economy; Muslim Feminism and Diasporic Formations; Romani Studies. |
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Kim Butler |
| Jose Camacho Spanish and Portuguese, and Linguistics; PhD of Southern California General lingustics, syntax of Spanish, Amazonian Languages, Second Language Acquisition |
| Gabriella Carolini Bloustein School of Planning and Publicy, Rutgers University PhD Columbia International Development and urban planning; Urban substandard settlements; Fiscal policy and public sector accounting; Community organizations and participatory development. |
| Roberto Chang PhD University of Pennsylvania International Macroeconomics, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy, Financial Crises |
| Jason Cortes Spanish and US Latino Studies Rutgers-Newark University PhD The Pennsylvania State University Contemporary Spanish American literature, Caribbean literature, US Latino literature, Comparative literature, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory in Hispanic Caribbean; Puerto Rico, Dominican Reoublic, and Cuba. Also Argentina |
| Sheila Cosminsky PhD Brandeis Anthropology |
| Carlos Decena PhD New York University Department of Women & Gender Studies Department of Latino, Hispanic and Caribbean Studies Department of Latino Cultural studies of the Americas, migration and immigration, gender and sexuality, and interdisciplinary approaches to the social sciences. |
| Nancy Gray Diaz PhD Rutgers University Spanish in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages at Rutgers University-Newark 20th century Latin American narrative (including Spanish American, Brazilian, and occasionally, French Caribbean). Representations of the subject in Latin American narratives. |
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Zaire Dinzey-Flores |
| Jennifer Duprey-Colon PhD Cornell University 19th-21st century Spanish and Catalan Literatures, with a strong interest in Theater, from interdisciplinary perspectives. Visual culture and critical theory, as well as comparative and philosophical approaches to Theater. |
| Pedro Erber PhD Cornell University Art and politics; Brazilian and Japanese literatures; contemporary philosophy. |
| Carlos Fernandez PhD Indiana University Center of Latino Arts and Culture Popular religious practice and traditional music of Central America |
| Janice Fine PhD MIT School of Management of Labor Relations Low wage immigrant labor in the U.S., historical and contemporary debates regarding federal immigration policy, dilemmas of labor standards enforcement and innovative union and community organizing strategies. |
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Nurgul Fitzgerald |
| Nydia Flores PhD City University Graduate Center Bilingualism Sociolinguistics, US Spanish, Second Language Acquisition |
| Tatiana Flores PhD Columbia Department of Art History Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Twentieth century Latin American art and contemporary art |
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Melissa Gasparotto |
| Carla Giaudrone PhD New York University Post-colonial theory, Latin American Modernismo, feminist theory, and gender studies |
| Daniel M. Goldstein PhD U Arizona Department of Anthropology, School of Arts and Sciences Bolivia; Urban anthropology, political and legal anthropology, democracy, violence and crime, human rights, globalization, cultural performance, indigenous peoples and the state; Latin America, the Andes |
| Peter Guarnaccia PhD University of Connecticut Department of Human Ecology, SEBS Cross-cultural patterns of psychiatric disorders, vultural competence in mental health organizations, and processes of cultural and health change among Latino immigrants. |
| Ebelia Hernandez PhD Indiana University Graduate School of Education Latinos in college, Student activism, College development |
| Daniel Hoffman PhD Tufts University Department of Nutritional Studies Understanding of biological and environmental factors that promote obesity and chronic diseases specifically in Brazil |
| Ariel Igal PhD Univ of LaPlata Department of Nutritional Studies, SEBS The non-energetic functions of triacylglycerol (triglycerides) in human cells: role in cell membrane synthesis and cell signaling |
| Temma Kaplan PhD Harvard University History How people mobilize for social change and what happens to them in the process. How gender affects people's capacities to envision alternative situations and in the creative means they use to achieve their goals. |
| Vikki Katz PhD University of Southern California Department of Comminication Family and interpersonal communication, health communication and health disparities, media consumptions and production, community based interventions, race and ethnicity, and mixed method research. Immigrant children's roles in facilitating their families social networks into community connections. |
| Robert Kaufman PhD Harvard University Department of Political Science Authoritarianism and democratic transitions in Latin America and the political economy of economic reform. |
| Carl Kirschner PhD Massachusetts Rutgers College Spanish syntax and semantics; bilingualism; and UG theory applied to data from Spanish English bilinguals, a sociolinguistic study of syntactic change in the Spanish spoken by second generation Spanish English bilinguals |
| Asela Laguna PhD University of Illinois Hispanic Civilization Program Puerto Rican/Hispanic US literature, Latin American thearet and comparative literature |
| Elpedio Laguna-Diaz PhD City of New York University Department of Classical and Modern Language and Literatures Rutgers University, Newark Spanish Medieval, Golden Age, and 19th snd 20th centuries Spanish literature |
| Renee Larrier PhD Columbia University French African and Caribbean Literatures, Literature by Women |
| Aldo Lauria Santiago PhD University of Chicago Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department of History History of El Salvador, History of Guatemala, History of Mexico, History of US Latinos |
| Laura Lomas PhD Columbia University English Department, Rutgers Newark U.S., Latina/o and Latin American Literature and culture, narratives of migration from Latin America to the United States, theories of modernity, translation, nationality and empire, and feminist cultural studies |
| Rocio Magana PhD University of Chicago Department of Anthropology Contemporary struggles over border control, humanitarian intervention, and unauthroized migration in the desert regions of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary |
| Regina Marchi PhD UC SanDiego School of Communication and Information, Journalism and Media Studies Race, class, gender & media; social movements & media; community-based media; Latino media and popular culture |
| Jorge Marcone PhD University of Texas at Austin Spanish and Portuguese Discourses of morality and literacy in theories of Latin American literature and culture; environmentalism, culture and literature in Latin America. |
| Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel PhD Berkeley College Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Comparative Literature Latin American Literature; Colonial, Hispanic Caribbean, and Latino Literature; Literary Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Migration Studies. |
| Raymond Sanchez Mayers PhD Brandeis School of Social Work Finiancial management in nonprofits administrative issues, Hispanic issues, geographic information systems and geospatial statistics. |
| Bonnie McCay PhD Columbia University Human Ecology Ecological and economic anthropology, fisheries and wildlife, common property; North America, Caribbean Africa. |
| Ann Mische PhD New School of Social Research Sociology Department Brazil, social movements, political culture, social networks, citizenship, political parties, civil society, publics, youth activism, communication styles, political leadership. |
| Robert Montemayor Journalism and Media Studies Latino Information Network at Rutgers School of Communication and Information / SAS Latinos in Southern California |
| Carlos Raul Navarez PhD Columbia University Spanish and Portuguese Caribbean literature and culture, contemporary Spanish American literature. |
| Isabel Nazario PhD CUNY Academic and Public Partnership for Arts and Humanities |
| Julio Nazario Ph.D. CUNY Coordinates Honors Colloquia, outreach, co-curricular programs and assessment for the SAS Honors Program. He also has a strong interest in philosophy. He is a practicing artist and exhibit prints and photography all over the country. |
