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.

Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
Anthropology; PhD CUNY
Research Interests: Community development, policy analysis, migration of women, diversity management, organizational leadership, and public policy

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.

Kim Butler
History and Chair of Africana Studies; PhD Johns Hopkins University
Africana diaspora history; Brazil; race and politics of identity

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.

Zaire Dinzey-Flores
Department of Sociology
Understanding how urban space mediates community life and social inequality. Housing and urban residential (housing and neighborhood) design: the underlying logics and policies that drive design, how design is interpreted, used, and experienced, and the consequences for communities and residents of cities.

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.

Nurgul Fitzgerald
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Health Promotion and Behavior, Type 2 diabetes among Hispanics and other populations, health disparities, nutrition, obesity, physical activity, acculturation, food insecurity and other socioeconomic factors in relationship to diabetes prevention and control

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

Melissa Gasparotto
African & Latin American Studies, Spanish & Portuguese at Rutgers University

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.

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