Latin American and Latino Studies Faculty

Name/Department	Title	Research
Jorge A. Aviles Political Science & LALS	LALS Co-director & Associate Professor	Comparative politics, specifically on issues of federalism, intergovernmental relations, state capacity construction and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Latin American and Brazil.
Zadia M. Feliciano Economics and LALS	LALS Co-director & Professor	Her research focuses on free trade agreements in Latin America and their economic impact, corporate taxation in Puerto Rico and the effects of Hurricane Maria, and Mexican migration to the US.
Natanya Duncan Africana Studies	Africana Studies Director & Professor	Global freedom movements, constructions of identity and nation building amongst women of color; migrations; color and class in diasporic communities; intellectuals throughout the African Diaspora.
Juan Luis Rodriguez Aponte Anthropology & LALS	Associate Professor	Linguistic Anthropology, Semiotics, Amazonian Ethnography, politics, Gift Giving, Language and Materiality, Discourse Analysis.
Kevin K. Birth Anthropology	Professor	Peoples of the Caribbean and cultural writing.
John Collins Anthropology	Professor	Semiotics, cultural heritage and development, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state, Brazil, the Andes, race in Latin America.
Felicia Madimenos Anthropology	Professor	Market integration and health in South American indigenous peoples, human biology, female reproductive ecology, energetics.
Timothy Pugh Anthropology	Associate Professor	Maya architecture, spatial analysis, ritual, social memory, cultural contact.
Lawrence Waldron Art History	Assistant Professor	The art and architecture of the pre-Columbian Americas, the Caribbean, Hindu and Buddhist Asia, and Islamic Africa.
Christopher Winks Comparative Literature	Associate Professor	Comparative modernisms with particular emphasis or Caribbean and Latin America literature and African-American studies.
Lillian Moncada-Davidson Education	Associate Professor	Sociology and Foundations of Educations.
William Orchard English	Associate Professor	Latina and Latino literature and culture, contemporary American literature, theories of gender and sexuality, visual culture, the graphic novel, queer studies, critical race and ethnic studies, theories of narrative and the novel.
Vanessa Perez-Rosario English	Professor	U.S. Latinx and Caribbean literatures and cultures; American studies; U.S. bilingualism; multilingual American literature; poetics; gender and sexuality; transnational feminisms; translation
Álvaro Fernández Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Professor	Specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and cinema, focused on narratives of an uncomfortable historical past.
Nora Glickman Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Professor Emeritus	Latin American literature. She combines teaching with creative writing, criticism and translation. Her critical work (articles, book and film reviews, interviews, encyclopedias and dictionaries) has appeared in national and international journals.
Mark Hoff Hispanic Languages and Literatures & LALS	Assistant Professor
Irma Llorens Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Associate Professor	Spanish American literature, contemporary Spanish and Mexican short stories.
Isabel Maria de Sena Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Colonial Latin American literature, iconography, and history, Spanish Golden Age, and nineteenth and twentieth centuries Spanish American literature.
José Miguel Martínez-Torrejón Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Professor	Iberian Culture and Literature, Peninsular and Colonial, political dimension of literary texts.
Brais Outes-León Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Associate Professor & LALS	Literary critic and academic specialized in the field of Latin American literature and Cultural History.
Beatriz Carolina Peña Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Assistant Professor	Colonial Latin American literature, iconography, and history, Spanish Golden Age, and nineteenth and twentieth centuries Spanish American literature.
Mariana Zinni Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Associate Professor	Spanish with a specialization in Colonial Latin America.
Fidel T. Tavarez History & LALS	Assistant Professor	How the Hispanic world—including Spain and Latin America—governed, harnessed, and adapted to the effects of early modern globalization and capitalism
Elizabeth Ijalba Linguistics and Communication Disorders	Assistant Professor	Communication disorders. Impact or bilingualism on disorders of communication and literacy
Sara Hinojos Media Studies & LALS	Assistant Professor	Film and television representation of Chicanxs and Latinxs and cultural studies with an emphasis on gender, race, language politics, digital media, humor studies, and sound studies.
Mauricio A. Font Sociology	Professor	Sociology of Latin American countries.
Anahi Viladrich Sociology	Associate Professor	Gender and reproductive health in Latin America, immigration, culture and health in the U.S and abroad.