CLAS: Center for Latin American Studies


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Mexico
Traci Ardren
archaeology, ancient cultures, Maya, gender, heritage

Bruce Bagley
US-Latin Am relations, Colombia, Andean Republics, Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Democratization

Sallie Hughes
Journalism Studies, Political Communication, Media and Democracy, Transnational Media and Audiences

David Luis-Brown
culture, empire and race in the Americas

Martin Nesvig
Colonial Mexico, Early modern Spain, Religious history; The Inquisition

William Smith
Political Economy of Market Reforms, Contentious Politics and Social Movements, Poverty and Inequality

Guatemala
Traci Ardren
archaeology, ancient cultures, Maya, gender, heritage

Sallie Hughes
Journalism Studies, Political Communication, Media and Democracy, Transnational Media and Audiences

Michelle Maldonado
Afro-Caribbean Stdies, Latino and Latin American Religion; U.S. Minority, Third World, and Feminist Theologies

Belize
Traci Ardren
archaeology, ancient cultures, Maya, gender, heritage

Honduras
Traci Ardren
archaeology, ancient cultures, Maya, gender, heritage

Colombia
Bruce Bagley
US-Latin Am relations, Colombia, Andean Republics, Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, Democratization

Louis Herns Marcelin
medical sociology/anthropology, compartive health care

Joaquin Roy
European-Latin American relations, Spain-Latin American Relations, Regional integration, Latin American Thought and Ideologies, Journalism

Chile
Grace Barnes
documentary of Mexican artist, footage on Santiago - March of 2005

Sallie Hughes
Journalism Studies, Political Communication, Media and Democracy, Transnational Media and Audiences

Ambler Moss
US-Latin American relations, EU-Latin America

William Smith
Political Economy of Market Reforms, Contentious Politics and Social Movements, Poverty and Inequality

Daniel Suman
Environmental Law & Policy, Coastal Management, Marine Protected Areas

Brazil
Rebecca Brienen
images of Indian and black slavery, colonial art

Kenneth Broad
human ecology

Steven Butterman
Brazilian Poetry, Lusophone Film, Gender and Queer Studies, Brazilian women writers, Bralizian Portuguese sociolinguistics, 20th century Brazilian literature and cultural studies

Eduardo Elena
expertise in the field of modern Latin American history with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone. Study of Argentina during the Peronist era

Laura Gomez-Mera
Regional Cooperation, International Organizations, Political Economy of Development, Political Economy of Trade and Monetary Policy Making

Tracy Devine Guzman
History, politics, theory and literature esp., related to race and ethnicity

Louis Herns Marcelin
medical sociology/anthropology, compartive health care

William Smith
Political Economy of Market Reforms, Contentious Politics and Social Movements, Poverty and Inequality

Daniel Suman
Environmental Law & Policy, Coastal Management, Marine Protected Areas

George Yudice
Culturual Industries, Cultural Policy, Cultural Economics, Culture-based urban development, Immigration/Migration

Bolivia
Marten Brienen
Indigenous People, Indigenous Education, National Construction, Ethnic Violence, Cannabalism

Argentina
Kenneth Broad
human ecology

Christina Civantos
migration, nationalism, Arab diaspora, Orientalism, gender & sexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries

Laura Gomez-Mera
Regional Cooperation, International Organizations, Political Economy of Development, Political Economy of Trade and Monetary Policy Making

Sallie Hughes
Journalism Studies, Political Communication, Media and Democracy, Transnational Media and Audiences

Gema Perez-Sanchez
contemporary Spanish narrative, cultural studies, immigration studies and queer theory

Joaquin Roy
European-Latin American relations, Spain-Latin American Relations, Regional integration, Latin American Thought and Ideologies, Journalism

William Smith
Political Economy of Market Reforms, Contentious Politics and Social Movements, Poverty and Inequality

Steve Stein
Wine History and Business History -- Argentina, Social History, Cultural History, Political History, Folk Art, Sports History -- Peru, Film as history -- Latin America

Peru
Kenneth Broad
human ecology

Steve Stein
Wine History and Business History -- Argentina, Social History, Cultural History, Political History, Folk Art, Sports History -- Peru, Film as history -- Latin America

Daniel Suman
Environmental Law & Policy, Coastal Management, Marine Protected Areas

Bahamas
Kenneth Broad
human ecology

Puerto Rico
Marc Brudzinski
20th century Caribbean literature, space and place

Caribbean
Rebecca Brienen
images of Indian and black slavery, colonial art

Marc Brudzinski
20th century Caribbean literature, space and place

Jean-Francois LeJeune
Architecture and urban design

Lillian Manzor
theatre/performance studies, cultural heritage studies, cultural policies, cultural industries, intellectual/artistic production and the state

Louis Herns Marcelin
medical sociology/anthropology, compartive health care

Michelle Maldonado
Afro-Caribbean Stdies, Latino and Latin American Religion; U.S. Minority, Third World, and Feminist Theologies

Kate Ramsey
law, religion, performance

George Yudice
Culturual Industries, Cultural Policy, Cultural Economics, Culture-based urban development, Immigration/Migration

Cuba
Christina Civantos
migration, nationalism, Arab diaspora, Orientalism, gender & sexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries

Andy Gomez
social and political

David Luis-Brown
cultural, empire and race in the Americas

Lillian Manzor
theatre/performance studies, cultural heritage studies, cultural policies, cultural industries, intellectual/artistic production and the state

Joaquin Roy
European-Latin American relations, Spain-Latin American Relations, Regional integration, Latin American Thought and Ideologies, Journalism

Jaime Suchlicki
Contemporary Cuba & US-Cuba relations

Haiti
Sallie Hughes
Journalism Studies, Political Communication, Media and Democracy, Transnational Media and Audiences

Bryan Page
Drug consumption especially in recent immigrants, family intervention of drug abuse in Haitian youth, Haitian gangs, HIV studies, mental health assessments of primarily Hispanic clientele. Spain -- Primary care and mental health

Kate Ramsey
law, religion, performance

Panama
Ambler Moss
US-Latin American relations, EU-Latin America

Daniel Suman
Environmental Law & Policy, Coastal Management, Marine Protected Areas

Uruguay
Gema Perez-Sanchez
contemporary Spanish narrative, cultural studies, immigration studies and queer theory

Ecuador
Daniel Suman
Environmental Law & Policy, Coastal Management, Marine Protected Areas

Dominican Republic
Ashli White
early US history, connection between new nation and Atlantic world, Santo Domingo exiles in the US

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Mexico
Guatemala
Belize Honduras Colombia Chile Brazil Bolivia Argentina Peru Bahamas PuertoRico Caribbean Cuba Haiti Panama Uruguay Ecuador DominicanRepublic