FACULTY

History students at the University of Connecticut also have an opportunity to work with leading Latin American, Caribbeanist, and Latino Studies scholars in Anthropology, Art History, Economics, Geography, Law, Music, Political Science, Spanish American Literature, and other related fields. As a group, Latin American, Caribbean, Diaspora and U.S. Latino specialists on campus are affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, the Institute for African American Studies, and the Human Rights Institute, interdisciplinary programs for teaching and research.

FACULTY

History

Karen Spalding - Andean History; Social and Ethnohistory; Transformation of European Culture in Colonial America; Social Movements

Andean Studies Graduate Program, Universidad Catolica, Peru

Blanca G. Silvestrini – Puerto Rico, Colonial Medicine, Law and Society; Conceptions of Citizenship

Melina Pappademos - 20th Century African Diaspora; Cuba; Racial Consciousness, Political Cultures

Mark Overmyer-Velázquez - Modern Mexico; U.S. Latino/as; Migration; Empire

Paul B. Goodwin (Emeritus) - Argentina, Latin America and the World

Frank Costigliola - U.S. Foreign Relations, Twentieth-century U.S.

Roger N. Buckley - Caribbean and British Imperial History

RELATED FACULTY

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Boris Bravo-Ureta -Agricultural Production Economics; Agricultural Development and Agrarian Reform in Latin America

Rigoberto López - Food Marketing; World Sugar Market

Emilio Pagoulatos - International Agricultural Trade & Finance, Macroeconomics of Agriculture

Anthropology

Pamela Erickson - Medical Anthropology; Women, Health and Development; International Health

Jocelyn Linnekin - Ethnological Theory, Gender, Cultural Identity and Nationalism, Historical Anthropology, Comp. Politics, Pacific Islands

Samuel Martínez - Migration, African Diaspora, Agrarian Societies, Human Rights

Richard Wilson (Human Rights Institute) - Human Rights, Guatemala and the Maya Region, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Art History

Robin Greeley - Latin American Art in the 20th Century; Mexico and Nicaragua

 

Economics

Susan Randolph - Development Economics, Mexico

 

English

Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez - Ethnic American; Boricua Literature     

Geography

Alexander Vias - Economic Geography and Migration

 

Latin American Studies

Tricia Gabany-Guerrero (Assoc. Director) - Mexico, Mesoamerica, Ethnohistory, Archaeology, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and Migration

Elizabeth Mahan - Media-State Relations in Latin America; Latin American Popular Culture; Mexico

Law School

Angel R. Oquendo - Latin American Law

Music

Robert Stephens - World Music; Afro-Cuban Religious Music

Natural Resources Management and Engineering

Isaac M. Ortega - Wildlife; Foraging Ecology; Vegetation Communities; Chile, Patagonia

Political Science

Peter Kingstone - Comparative Politics; Political Economy; Brazil

Donna Lee Van Cott - Ethnic Politics, Social Movements, Political Parties, Institutional Reform

Shareen Hertel (Human Rights Institute) - Comparative Politics, Human Rights, Economic Development, Mexico

Matthew Singer - Electoral Behavior, Public Opinion in New Democracies

Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh - Political Theory and Comparative Politics

Puerto Rican and Latino Studies

Guillermo Irizarry (Director; Spanish) - Latina/o cultural production; Spanish Caribbean Literature and Culture; Latin American Theatre; Post-Colonial and Cultural Studies in Transnational Contexts

Marysol Asencio (Family Studies) - Gender; Sexuality; Migration; Urban and Community Health; Social Inequities/Human Rights

Xae Alicia Reyes (Education) - Educational Ethnography, Teacher Education, School Reform; Migration and Schooling

Diana Rios (Communication Sciences) - Mass Communication; Ethnic Minority/Gender Studies; Blacks and Latinos

Guillermo Rebollo Gil (Sociology)

Charles Venator Santiago (Political Science)

 

School of Social Work

Antonia Cordero   - Latino/a Population; Child Welfare; Mental Health; Domestic/Family Violence

Lirio Negroni-Rodriguez - Chair of the Puerto Rican/Latino Studies Project in Social Work; Latinas in Mental Health and Health Care Services

Lisa Werkmeister Rozas - Racism; Mental Health/Health Care for Latinos/as; Cultural Competence within Systems of Service Delivery, and Cross-Racial Dialogue

 

Spanish (Spanish American Literature)

Miguel Gomes - Latin American Essay and Poetry; Brazil and Venezuela

Jacqueline Loss - Contemporary Spanish Literatures; Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literature; Cuba

Osvaldo Pardo - Latin American Intellectual and Legal History; Latin American Literature; Mexico

Laurietz Seda Ramirez - Latin American Theater, Spanish Caribbean Literatures, Latin American Cinema, Cultural Studies

Urban and Community Studies

Ruth Glasser (Waterbury Campus) - Ethnic and Community Studies, Immigration, U.S. Latino/as