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Faculty with Primary Research Interests in Latin America

  • Baker, Andy
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Political Science
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil, Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Voting behavior and public opinion; political economy.
    • Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/~bakerab
       
  • Bayard de Volo, Lorraine
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico (Chiapas)
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Gender and war in Latin America; gender and revolution; gender and social movements; women and politics in Latin America
    • Website: http://wgst.colorado.edu/faculty/bayard-de-volo
       
  • Boulding, Carew
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Political Science
    • Geographic Research Area: South America; Bolivia
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Democracy in Developing Countries; NGOs and Civil Society; Political Participation; Protest; Voting: Inequality; Latin American Politics, especially Bolivia.
    • Website: https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/carew-boulding/
       
  • Brown, David
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Political Science
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Democracy and its impact on economic development; politics and NGOS in the Brazilian Amazon
    • Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/~dsbrown/ 
       
  • Brown, Esther
  • Bryan, Joe
    • Title/Department: Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies Center; Assistant Professor, Geography
    • Geographic Research Area: Honduras, Nicaragua
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Indigenous politics in the Americas; Environment and Development; Critical Cartography
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/geography/joe-bryan-0  
       
  • Buffington, Robert
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico, Latin America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Mexican Masculinities; Gender, Sexuality, and Migration; Global History of Sexuality; Crime and Criminality in Mexico and Latin America. Teaching: Global Gender Studies, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking, Mexican History (Modern Period), Latin American History (Modern Period)
    • Website:https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/robert-buffington
  • Conzelman, Carol
    • Title/Department: Associate Director and Anthropology Instructor, Global Studies RAP; Faculty-in-Residence Aan Instructo, Sustainability And Social Innovation RAP; Program Director, Bolivia Global Seminar
    • Geographic Research Area: Bolivia
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin America, Bolivia, democracy, drug policy, Social Movements, International Development, U.S. Foreign Policy, Globalization, Public Anthropology, Service Learning
    • Website: Global Seminar to Bolivia
    • Video: http://youtu.be/JjqCCFJGGVs 
       
  • Cordova, James
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
    • Geographic Research Area: Colonial Latin America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American art, specifically, the roles and representation of gender, ethnicity, and sanctity in colonial Latin American cultures, as well as relations between text and image in colonial visual culture.
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/artandarthistory/james-cordova  
       
  • Dabove, Juan Pablo
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Geographic Research Area: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela
    • Research/Teaching Focus: The depiction of the diverse forms of rural insurgency labeled “banditry” in postcolonial Latin American culture, and the relationship between banditry and the imagination of the nation-state.
    • Website: http://www.colorado.edu/spanish/juan-pablo-dabove
       
  • Dufour, Darna
    • Title/Department: Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Colombia
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Biological and behavioral responses of human populations to nutritional problems with special emphasis on responses to food shortages and the presence of toxins in foods.
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/darna-dufour
       
  • Elmore, Peter
    • Title/Department: Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Latin American Urban Fiction. Teaching: Latin American Non-Fiction, Prison Narratives, Media and Literature in Latin America, Authorship and Cultural Agency in Latin America.
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/spanish/peter-elmore
       
  • Ferry, Robert
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, History
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico; Venezuela; Spanish Caribbean; Spain
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Colonial Latin America, Colonial Mexico, Spanish Inquisition. Teaching: Mexican History (Colonial Period), Latin American History (Colonial Period)
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/history/bob-ferry
  • Fischer, Kate
    • Title/Department: Lecturer, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Central America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: My research examines ideas about what makes good coffee, and what makes coffee good, across the commodity chain, from producers to consumers. In so doing I bring together the wide lens economic and historical anthropology and the intimate focus of belonging, identity, and distinction.
       
  • Gill, Sam
    • Title/Department: Professor, Religious Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American music and dancing
    • Website: http://sam-gill.com/
       
  • Goldstein, Donna
    • Title/Department: Director, Latin American Studies Center; Associate Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil, Argentina
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Pharmaceutical Politics, Science Studies, Cold War, Nuclear Energy, Health, Environment, and Toxicity, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Crime and Violence in Latin America. Teaching: Political Economy and Power, Critical Medical Anthropology, The Anthropology of Latin America, Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, Southern Cone Dictatorships, Latin American Films
    • Website:https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/donna-m-goldstein
  • Gomez, Leila
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Geographic Research Area: Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Central America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American Literature and Culture in XIX and XX century, Travel Writing.
    • Website:https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/gomez
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  • González, Fredy
    • Title/Department: Assitant Professor, History
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Modern Mexico, Modern Brazil, the Cold War in Latin America, Asian Migration to Latin America
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/cas/fredy-gonzalez
  • Gutierrez, Gerardo
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Anthropology
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research focus: Political competition and territorial expansion in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica; Geographic Information Systems for social sciences; Archaeology and the history of ancient disasters. Teaching focus: Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/gerardo-gutierrez
  • Hale, Tamara
    • Title/Department: Adjunct Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic research area: Peru, Andes
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Afro-descendants; Indigeneity and Identity Politics; Mestizaje; Ethnohistory; Agrarian Reform; Kinship, Sex and Gender; Religion
    • Website: https://colorado.academia.edu/TamaraHale
       
  • Harrison, Jill
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Sociology
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research/teaching focus: Immigration policing and its impacts on Latino migrant communities in the United States
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/envs/jill-harrison  
       
  • Joyce, Arthur
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Anthropology
      Geographic Research Area: Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica particularly surrounding issues of power, political dynamics, and landscape
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/arthur-joyce
  • Long, Mary K.
    • Title/Department: Senior Instructor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico, United States
    • Research/Teaching Focus: My research can be divided into several interrelated areas: 20-21st Century Mexican Literature and Culture; Cross-cultural Communication and Exchange between Latin America and the United States; Globalization and Cultural Identity; Ethics in Relation to International Business, and Spanish for professional uses. These areas reflect my intellectual commitment to contributing quality work to the fields of literature and cultural studies while also seeking meaningful connections between academic theories about identity and concrete experience. In addition, my research compliments my teaching areas since language and culture are integral element in the Spanish for business course and because I also teach literature and Latin American culture classes in the department.
    • Website: http://www.colorado.edu/spanish/mary-long
       
  • Martuscelli, Tania
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Portuguese vanguards, Brazilian Modernism and transatlantic connections/disconnections
    • Website: http://www.colorado.edu/spanish/tania-martuscelli
       
  • McGoodwin, James 
  • Newton, Peter  
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Environmental Science
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil
    • Research/Teaching Focus: The potential and actual impact of policies and programs that aim to conserve forests and improve rural livelihoods.
    • Website: https://petenewton.squarespace.com
       
  • Prieto, Andres Ignacio
  • Riosmena, Fernando
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Geography Department and Population Program
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; Population Geography; Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development; Geographies of Gloal Change
    • Website:https://ibs.colorado.edu/riosmena/
  • Rivas, Javier
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Spanish language variation and change, Spanish phonetics, phonology and morphosyntax.
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/spanish/javier-rivas
       
  • Rivera, George
    • Title/Department: Professor, Art and Art History
    • Geographic Research Area: Colombia, Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: International Art, Digital Art, Sound Art
    • Website: http://www.artnauts.org/about-1/
  • Soares, Kristie
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Caribbean/U.S.
    • Research/Teaching Focus: 19th-21st century Latinx literature and media, queer Caribbean cultural production, queer and performance methodologies
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/soares

 

Faculty with Secondary Research Interests in Latin America

  • Barham, Tania Assistant Professor, Economics
  • Brunet, Alexia Associate Professor, School of Law
  • Chapin, Violeta Associate Professor, School of Law
  • Clark, Tom Chair, Department of Planning and Design Director, Center for Sustainable Urbanism College of Architecture and Planning – CUDenver
  • Farago, Claire Professor, Art and Art History
  • Jacobs, Janet Professor, Sociology
  • Linden, Karl Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
  • Lester, Anne Assistant Professor, History
  • Matusik, Sharon Associate Professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Mccain, Christy Assistant Professor, Museum-Administration, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Meneghini, Tamara Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
  • Montealegre, Ramiro Associate Professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Randall, Erika Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
  • Schmidt, Steven Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology