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Bolles, Lynn
Department: Women's Studies
Office: 2101J Woods Hall
Phone:301-405-6879
e-mail: lbolles@umd.edu |
Professor of Women's Studies and affiliate faculty member in the departments of Anthropology, African American Studies, American Studies and Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on the importance of economic analysis and on the impact of class on women in the English-speaking Caribbean. |
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Cabrera, Alberto
Department: Higher Educ & Intnl Educ
Office: 2202 Benjamin Building
Phone: 301-405-2875
e-mail: cabrera@umd.edu |
Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership, Higher Education and International Education, specializing in minorities in higher education. |
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Cañeque, Alejandro
Department: History
e-mail: acaneque@umd.edu |
Professor of History concentrating on colonial Latin America, early modern Spain, and the Spanish empire. Special interests include the political and religious cultures of the early modern Spanish world, with an emphasis on colonial Spanish America and the Spanish Atlantic world. |
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Chernela, Janet
Department: Anthropology
Office: 1111 Woods Hall
Phone: 301-405-1421
e-mail: chernela@umd.edu |
Professor of Anthropology whose research interests include comparative indigenous rights; discourses of conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon; and gender, identity and speech in native South America. |
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Collins, Merle
Department: English
Office: 4136 Susquehanna Hall
Phone: 301-405-3775
e-mail: collinsm@umd.edu |
Professor of English with an interest in Caribbean studies. |
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Conca, Kenneth
Department: Government & Politics
Office: 3114J Tydings Hall
Phone: 301-405-4125
e-mail: kconca@umd.edu |
Professor of Government and Politics and director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda. His research focuses on global environmental politics, political economy, peace and conflict studies, transnationalism, and social movements. |
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Crocker, David
Department: Government & Politics
Office: 3111G Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-4763
e-mail: dcrocker@umd.edu |
Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and professor at the School of Public Policy, specializing in international development ethics, transitional justice, and democracy and democratization in Latin America. |
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Cypess, Sandra
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: 2215 Jimenez Hall
Phone: 301-405-6449
e-mail: smcypess@umd.edu |
Professor of Latin American literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with an interest in feminist theory and Latin American women writers. |
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Daly, Herman
Department: Public Policy
Office: 3135 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-6360
e-mail: hdaly@umd.edu |
Professor of Public Policy specializing in sustainable development. Formerly a Senior Economist at the World Bank, where he was engaged in environmental operations in Latin America. |
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D'Erasmo, Pablo
Department: Economics
Office: 3105 Tydings Hall
Phone: 301-405-3266
e-mail: derasmo@umd.edu |
His research interests include dynamic macroeconomics, international finance and computational methods in economics. |
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Demaría, Laura
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Jiménez Hall 2204
Phone: 301-314-2476
e-mail: ldemaria@umd.edu |
Associate professor of Latin American literature. |
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Díaz, Zaida
Department: Library
Office: 4109 Mckeldin Library
Phone: 301-405-9156
e-mail: zdiaz@umd.edu |
A reference librarian at McKeldin Library. |
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Dietz, James
Department: Library
Office: 4247 Biology-Psychology
Phone: 301-405-6949
e-mail: jmdietz@umd.edu |
Associate Director of the Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology (CONS) Graduate Program and professor of Biology. For the past 20 years, Dr. Dietz has been studying the behavioral ecology of golden and golden-headed lion tamarins in southeastern Brazil. |
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Frederik Meer, Laurie
Department: Theatre & Performance Studies
Office: 2816 Clarice Smith Center
Phone: 301-405-6682
e-mail: fredmeer@umd.edu |
Dr. Frederik Meer has a PhD in Anthropology and is an assistant professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre. She specializes in the role of artists and intellectuals (especially theatre performers) in Cuban and Latin American national politics and is interested in socialism, rural-urban relationships, subversive cultural movements and national identity. |
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Freidenberg, Judith
Department: Anthropology
Office: 0110 Woods Hall
Phone: 301-405-1420
e-mail: jfreiden@umd.edu |
Professor of anthropology, specializing in immigration and Latin American society and culture. She has also conducted research in Langley Park concerning the lack of health care for Latino immigrants. |
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Geores, Martha
Department: Geography
Office: LeFrak 1135
Phone: 301-405-4064
e-mail: mgeores@umd.edu |
Associate Professor of Geography. Research interests include human dimensions of global change, landscape meaning, and natural resource definition. |
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Gonzalez, Nancie
Department: Anthropology
Office: 1111 Woods Hall
Phone: 301-405-1423
e-mail: ngonzalz@umd.edu |
Professor Emerita with a focus on social anthropology, urbanization, agricultural development, complex societies and conflict management in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially Guatemala. |
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Guzman-Gonzalez, Talia
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Phone: 301-405-4926
e-mail: tguzman@umd.edu |
Talia Guzman-Gonzalez joined the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in Spring 2011. She teaches courses in Portuguese language, culture and literature as well as Latin American Studies. She earned her PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a dissertation titled Men at the Edge: Marginal(ized) Masculinities and Male Friendship in Brazilian Literature in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century. Her areas of research are Luso-Brazilian literature and culture, Brazilian theater, masculinity studies, and comparative studies between Brazilian and Puerto Rican literature. |
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Grant-Wisdom, Dorith
Department: Government & Politics
Office: 1153 Tydings Hall
Phone: 301-405-4150
e-mail: ngonzalz@umd.edu |
Professor of Government and Politics with a special interest in the Caribbean. |
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Greenberg , Jim
Department: Education
e-mail: jdgg@umd.edu |
A faculty member and administrator at the University of Maryland for 30 years, he has worked extensively in the area of school-university collaboration in teacher education, and is Director of the University Center for Teaching Excellence. |
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Greene, Julia
Department: History
Office: 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
Phone: 301-405-4265
e-mail: jmg@umd.edu |
Julia Greene specializes in United States labor and working-class history. Her research and teaching interests span across immigration and political history, the history of empire, and transnational approaches to the history of the Americas |
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Hanna, William John
Department: Urban Studies and Planning
Office: 0116 Caroline Hall
Phone: 301-405-4005
e-mail: bhanna@umd.edu |
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning with a research interest in neighborhoods and small communities. He studied a working-class neighborhood in Mexico in 2000 and is currently conducting research in Langley Park, a local suburb with predominately Latino residents. |
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Harrison, Regina
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: 2215A Jimenez Hall
Phone: 301-405-0497
e-mail: reglee@umd.edu |
Professor of Latin American Literature and Comparative Literature, Affiliate Professor of Anthropology. Her research and teaching focus on the oral traditions of the Quechua-speaking indigenous peoples of the Andes. As a documentary filmmaker, she explores the role of tourism in indigenous Andean communities. |
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Herron, Patricia
Department: McKeldin Library
Office: 5101D McKeldin Library
Phone: 301-405-9280
e-mail: pherron@umd.edu |
Librarian for English, Spanish, Latin American & Latina/o Studies at McKeldin Library |
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Igel, Regina
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Jiménez Hall 2215B
Phone: 301-405-6457
e-mail: ri@umd.edu |
Professor of Portuguese and Department Advisor, specializing in Brazilian literature. |
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Inouye, David
Department: Department of Biology
Office: 4206 Biology-Psychology Building
Phone: 301-405-6946
e-mail: inouye@umd.edu |
Professor of Biology who has conducted research in Central America. He specializes in ecology and conservation biology. |
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Jackson, Robert
Department: Nutrition and Food Science
Office: 0112 Skinner Building
Phone: 301-405-4533
e-mail: bojack@umd.edu |
Associate professor focused on nutritional anemia, micronutrient malnutrition and nutritional epidemiology. He has organized a study abroad project to observe communication and interaction between Maryland students and the Mayans of the Yucatan Peninsula. |
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Jain, Vinod
Department: Logistics, Business & Public Policy
Office: 2417 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-3256
e-mail: vjain@umd.edu |
The founding director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and an affiliate professor in the department of Logistics, Business & Public Policy. |
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Klees, Steven
Department: Education
Office: 3112E Benjamin Building
Phone: 301- 405-2212
e-mail: sklees@umd.edu |
A professor of international education policy at the University of Maryland, Prof. Klees has worked extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean, including three years of teaching in Brazil, teaching courses in Argentina and Mexico, and working on education projects throughout Central America and parts of South America and the Caribbean for agencies like USAID, the IDB, and the World Bank. Prof. Klees’ work examines the political economy of education and development with specific research interests in globalization, neoliberalism, and education; the role of aid agencies; education, human rights, and social justice; the education of disadvantaged populations; the role of class, gender, and race in reproducing and challenging educational and social inequality; and alternative approaches to education and development. |
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Kaufman, Edy
Department: Center for International Development and Conflict Management
Office: 0137B Tydings Hall
Phone: 301-314-5907
e-mail: ekaufman@cidcm.umd.edu |
Co-Director of Partners in Conflict/Partners in Peace and a senior research associate for his department. Research interests include human rights in Latin America. |
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Korzeniewicz, Roberto
Department: Sociology
Office: 3103 Art-Sociology Building
Phone: 301-405-6398
e-mail: korzen@umd.edu |
Associate professor of Sociology and Assistant Director of Latin American Studies. |
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Kunen, Julie
Department: Anthropology
e-mail: j.kunen@verizon.net |
Professor of Anthropology with a focus on ecological anthropology, development, and archaeology. She is currently a Forestry Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at USAID. |
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Lavine, Roberta
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Jiménez Hall 3106B
Phone: 301-405-6443
e-mail: rlavine@umd.edu |
Professor of Spanish. |
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Limao, Nuno
Department: BSOS-Economics
Office: 4118F Tydings Hall
Phone: 301-405-4872
e-mail: limao@umd.edu |
Professor of Economics with research interests in international trade, trade policy and political economy. His research integrates theoretical and empirical work to examine a variety of issues, such as how governments choose among redistribution policies, the determinants of trade policy and trade agreements, the interaction between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization and the effects of trade costs and geographic location. |
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Lips, Karen
Department: Biology
Office: 1210 Biology-Psychology
Phone: 301-405-1000
e-mail: klips@umd.edu |
Dr. Karen Lips is a recent hire in the Department of Biology, where she is an Associate Professor, and Director of the CONS Program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology. Karen studies the ecology and evolution of tropical amphibians throughout Latin America, focusing especially on the disease ecology and conservation. |
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Lopez, Ramon
Department: Agricultural & Resource Economics
Office: 2210 Symons Hall
Phone: 301-405-1281
e-mail: rlopez@umd.edu |
Professor at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and former professor at the Univeristy of Chile. Interests include international trade and environmental and agricultural development in less developed countries. |
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Luckert, Yelena
Department: Library
Office: Mckeldin Library
Phone: 301-405-9365
e-mail: yluckert@umd.edu |
Librarian at Mckeldin focusing on Latin American topics. |
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Macdonald, Victoria
Departmen: Curriculum & Instruction
Office: 2034N Benjamin Building
Phone: 301-405-7109
e-mail: vmacdona@umd.edu |
Professor of Education who does work for the Center for Latino Research and has a special interest in Latinos in the public school system. |
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Maffie, James
Department: Latin American Studies Center
Office: 0128B Holzapfel Hall
Phone: 301-405-8961
e-mail: maffiej@umd.edu |
James Maffie specializes in contact-era Nahua (Aztec) philosophy. His other areas of interest include comparative world philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of the sciences. He studied Nahuatl in Zacatecas and in the Huasteca region of Mexico. |
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Manduley, Carlos
Department: BSOS-Economics
Office: 0108E Cole Student Activities
Phone: 301-405-6245
e-mail: cmandule@umd.edu |
Visiting Professor and Special Assistant to the Dean, College of Ed., on a two-year Federal government interchange leadership assignment. Work interests include: Latin American and Latino/a and international education, diversity/multicultural education and organizational leadership. |
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Mendoza, Enrique
Department: BSOS-Economics
Office: 4118D Tydings Hall
Phone: 301-405-3548
e-mail: mendozae@umd.edu |
Professor of macroeconomics and international macroeconomics. Research focuses include economic fluctuations, stabilization policies, and structural reforms in open economies. |
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Merediz, Eyda
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Jiménez Hall 2215H
Phone: 301-405-6451
e-mail: emerediz@umd.edu |
Associate Professor of Latin American literature and culture, specializing in Cuban literature and cinema.” |
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Mieri, Magdalena
Department: BSOS-Anthropology
e-mail: mierima@si.edu |
Lecturer and Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute with an interest in the interpretation and presentation of Latino cultures and immigrant communities. |
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Morici, Peter
Department: Business
Office: 3413 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-2136
e-mail: pmorici@rhsmith.umd.edu |
Professor of International Business with an interest in trade policy and trade agreements. He is an expert on trade issues related to Mexico and is often invited to speak on CNN, BBC, Fox, and NPR. |
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Odell-Butler, Mary
Department: Anthropology
e-mail:mbutler1@umd.edu |
Professor of anthropology whose interests include cultural ecology, reproductive health, and anthropological demography in Latin America. |
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Ontiveros, Randy
Department: ARHU-English
Office: 3101 Susquehanna Hall
Phone: 301-405-3833
e-mail: randyo@umd.edu |
Assistant Professor in the English Department whose interests include the Chicano movement and language and ethnicity in the United States. |
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Orlando, Valerie
Department: School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Office: 3215 Jimenez Hall
Phone: 301-405-4027
e-mail: vorlando@umd.edu |
Associate Professor of French & Francophone Literature. |
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Pacheco, Jose Emilio
Department:ARHU-School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Office: 2215H Jimenez Hall
Phone: 301-405-6448
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Emeritus Professor of Spanish, Mexican poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the twentieth century. He has taught literature at UNAM, as well as the University of Maryland, the University of Essex, and many other institutions in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. |
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Palau de Nemes, Graciela
Department: Spanish and Portuguese Professor Emerita
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Professor Emerita of Spanish and recipient of the Great Cross of Alfonso X. |
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Paolisso, Michael
Department: Anthropology
Office: 0131 Woods Hall
Phone: 301-405-1433
e-mail: mpaolisso@anth.umd.edu |
Professor of Anthropology whose interests include environmental anthropology, cultural models, gender and development, and economic anthropology in Latin Amerca. He is currently doing fieldwork in Honduras. |
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Pedersoli, Heleni
Department: Art & Humanities (Library)
Office: 5101D Mckeldin Library
Phone: 301-405-9116
e-mail: pedersol@umd.edu |
Librarian for Western European and Latin American studies and specializes in Brazil. |
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Puentes-Markides, Cristina
Department: Anthropology
e-mail: puentesc@paho.org |
Professor of Anthropology with an interest in sociocultural anthropology, community health and development, health care, and women in developing nations, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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Quintero Herencia, Juan Carlos
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: 2215A Jimenez Hall
Phone: 301-314-9752
e-mail: jcquinte@umd.edu |
Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature. His interests are: modern and contemporary Latin American literature, contemporary Caribbean culture and literature, cultural analysis, poetics and literary politics. |
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Ray, Sangeeta
Department: English
Office: 4141 Susquehanna Hall
Phone: 301-405-3837
e-mail: rays@umd.edu |
Associate professor for the Department of English. Her interests include Caribbean literature, feminist theory, US ethnic literatures, and cultural studies. |
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Reinhart, Carmen
Department:School of Public Policy
Office: Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-7006
e-mail: creinhar@umd.edu |
Professor of Economics at the School of Public Policy, specializing in currency and banking crises, financial liberalization and capital flows. She was formerly Deputy Director at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. |
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Rivera, William
Department: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Office: 3119 Jull Hall
Phone: 301-405-1253
e-mail: wr@umd.edu |
Professor in the Institute of Applied Agriculture and an expert in agricultural knowledge and information systems with field and consulting experience in Bolivia, El Salvador, Paraguay, Guatemala, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. |
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Rodríguez, Ana Patricia
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Jiménez Hall 2215E
Phone: 301-405-2020
e-mail: aprodrig@umd.edu |
Associate professor with the Spanish and Portuguese Department specializing in Central and Latin American literatures and U.S. Latina/o Studies. Her interests include transnational and diasporic cultural production, popular culture, and community based research. |
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Rodríguez-Santana, Ivette
Department: School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Office: 4203 Jimenez Hall
Phone: 301-405-9626
e-mail: rivette@umd.edu |
Professor of Latino/Latin American Studies whose interests include US colonialism, Puerto Rico/Puerto Ricans and American photography in Puerto Rico. |
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Rosemblatt, Karin
Department: Department of History
Office: 2127 Talliaferro
Phone: 301-405-4286
e-mail: karosemb@umd.edu |
Director of LASC and associate professor of History whoses interests include gender, racial/ethnic, and class identities and governance and social policy in Latin America. |
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Rowley, Michelle
Department: ARHU-Women's Studies
Office: 2101 Woods Hall
Phone: 301-405-0981
e-mail: mrowley1@umd.edu |
Assistant Professor in the Women’s Studies Department. Her research interests address issues of gender and development, representations of black maternal identities, the politics of welfare, as well as state responses to questions of Caribbean women’s reproductive health and well-being. |
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Sartorius, David
Department: History
Office: 2101E Francis Scott Key Hall
Phone: 301-405-4287
e-mail: das@umd.edu |
Assistant Professor at the Department of History with a special interest in racial ideologies in 19th century Cuba. |
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Soares, Rodrigo
Department: BSOS-Economics
Office: 3147B Tydings Hall
Phone: 301-405-3501
e-mail: soares@umd.edu |
Professor of economics specializing in development economics, health and population economics, corruption, institutions, and crime. |
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Sosnowski, Saúl
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Office: Holzapel Hall 1122
Phone: 301-405-4772
e-mail: sosnowsk@umd.edu |
Director of the Office of International Programs and professor of Latin American fiction and essay, literary criticism, and Latin American-Jewish literature and culture. |
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Stromquist, Nelly
Department: College of Education
Office: 2211 Benjamin
Phone: 301-405-7925
e-mail: stromqui@umd.edu |
Professor of international development education specializing in social change and gender. Her research interests focus on the dynamics of educational policies and practices, gender relations and equity, particularly in Latin America. |
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Vaughan, Mary Kay
Department: History
Office: 2131A Francis Scott Key Hall
Phone: 301-405-4313
e-mail: mkv@umd.edu |
Professor of History specializing in Mexico and its cultural, gender, and educational history. She is currently writing a biography of Jose Zuniga. |
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Warren, Benedict
Department: History
Office: 2121 Francis Scott Key Hall
Phone: 301-405-4283
e-mail: jwarren@umd.edu |
Emeritus History Professor specializing in colonial Mexico. |
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Watts, Karen
Department: Business
Office: 2416C Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-9477
e-mail: kwatts1@umd.edu |
Assistant director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. |
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Williams, Daryle
Department: History
Office: 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
Phone: 301-405-4267
e-mail: daryle@umd.edu |
Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department and Associate Director of the Hispanic American Historical Review. His primary fields of study are Brazil and Modern Latin America. |
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Wright, Winthrop
Department: ARHU-History
Office: 2129 Francis Scott Key Hall
Phone: 301-405-4291
e-mail: win@umd.edu |
Emeritus History Professor focused on modern Latin America and the Caribbean. He has held three Fulbright Lectureships at universities in Venezuela. |
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Zambrana, Ruth
Department: Women's Studies
Office: 2101 Woods Hall
Phone: 301-405-0451
e-mail: rzambran@umd.edu |
Professor at the Women's Studies and expert on Latino studies, with an emphasis on women's and children's concerns including women and health; racial and ethnic disparities in family, child, and women's health; maternal and adolescent health and organizational barriers to health care services. Dr. Zambrana is a founding member of Maryland's Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity. |
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