Latin American and Latino Studies Faculty

Advisory Board

Jorge Antonio Alves
Political Science
Jorge.Alves@qc.cuny.edu

Zadia Feliciano
Economics
Zadia.Feliciano@qc.cuny.edu

Sara Hinojos
Media Studies
Sara.Hinojos@qc.cuny.edu

Mark Hoff
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Mark.Hoff@qc.cuny.edu

Brais Outes-León
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Brais.OutesLeon@qc.cuny.edu

Juan Luis Rodriguez
Anthropology
JRodriguezAponte@qc.cuny.edu

Fidel J. Tavárez Simó
History
Fidel.Tavarez@qc.cuny.edu

Corinne Muñoz
LALS Program Assistant
Corinne.Munoz@qc.cuny.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Name/Department	Title	Research
Jorge A. Alves Political Science & LALS	LALS Director & Associate Professor	Comparative politics, specifically on issues of federalism, intergovernmental relations, state capacity construction, social policy, public health and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Latin American and Brazil.
Natanya Duncan Africana Studies & History	Professor & Director of Africana Studies	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	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 & Former Director, LALS	Semiotics, cultural heritage and development, historical anthropology, nationalism and the state, Brazil, the Andes, race in Latin America.
Felicia Madimenos Anthropology	Associate 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	Professor	Comparative modernisms with particular emphasis or Caribbean and Latin America literature and African-American studies.
Zadia M. Feliciano Economics	Professor & Former Director, LALS	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.
Leticia Abad Arroyo Economics	Associate Professor	Economic History, Political Economy, Development Economics, and Economic Growth
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.
Mark Hoff Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Assistant Professor	Spanish and Portuguese linguistics, emphasis on morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation.
José Miguel Martínez-Torrejón Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Distinguished Professor & Former Director, LALS	Iberian Culture and Literature, Peninsular and Colonial, political dimension of literary texts.
Brais Outes-León Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Associate Professor	Literary critic and academic specialized in the field of Latin American literature and Cultural History.
Mariana Zinni Hispanic Languages and Literatures	Associate Professor	Spanish with a specialization in Colonial Latin America.
Fidel T. Tavarez History	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	Associate Professor	Communication disorders. Impact or bilingualism on disorders of communication and literacy.
Sara Hinojos Media Studies	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.
Daniel Gaztambide Psychology	Assistant Professor	Clinical and critical psychology, social, political and economic determinants of psychology, decolonial psychology.
Anahí Viladrich Sociology	Professor	Gender and reproductive health in Latin America, immigration, culture and health in the U.S and abroad.
Natalie Bump Vena Urban Studies	Assistant Professor	Environmental law and policy; volunteerism; urban protected lands.