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Latin America & the Caribbean
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Afanador Pujol, Angelica Assistant Professor, Art History (CLA)	Email \| Website
Pre-Columbian and early colonial art of the Americas Currently researching "The Politics of Ethnicity: Re-imagining Indigenous Identities in The Sixteenth-Century “Relación de Michoacán (1538-1541)"
Andow, David Professor, Entomology (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Insect resistance management, gene flow and its consequences, and non-target species effects and ecological risk assessment of biological stressors Coordinator of the International Project on GMO Environmental Risk Assessment Methodologies (GMO ERA Project). International Delegate, Brazilian Entomological Society FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
Arenas, Fernando Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
Portuguese and Brazilian studies Comparative interdisciplinary studies in the Portuguese-speaking world, popular music, film, literature, nationhood, post colonialism, globalization, sexuality and gender
Bender, Jeff Associate Professor, Veterinary Public Health (AHC)	Email \| Website
Expert areas: Veterinary medicine, animal health, foodborne illness, emerging diseases, food safety, and where animal health intersects with human health One Health Proposal with CDC, Smithsonian, and Gorkas Institute, Panama (April 2009) USDA-funded teaching on disease surveillance, Chile (March 2009) Cooperative research project on Johne’s and Crohns disease, Bolivia and Uruguay (April, 2006) Coordinate a Department of Education Grant (Student exchanges in veterinary medicine and public health) Brazil (June, 2004) Training and education of veterinary students and assessment of public health strategies Bolivia (April, 2004)
Bolstad, Paul Professor, Forest Resources (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Forests and forest conservation, Colombia Tropical forest biology and conservation, Costa Rica Fluent in Spanish
Brady, Linda Professor, Food, Science and Nutrition (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Latino nutrition, , global issues, and immigrant populations
Cáceres, Juli "Jake" Assistant Professor, Foreign Language and Literature (Duluth)	Email \| Website
Spanish cultural studies, gender studies, Spanish film and literature
Cabrera, Vicente Professor, Humanities, Spanish (Morris)	Email \| Website
Contemporary novels from Spain and Latin America, contemporary Hispanic cinema
Castellanos, Bianet Assistant Professor, American Studies (CLA)	Email \| Website
Spanish cultural studies, gender studies, Spanish film and literature
Chambers, Sarah Associate Professor, History (CLA)	Email \| Website
Andean region, Colonial Latin American history Concepts of citizenship, cultural and legal history, political transition in the city of Arequipa, Peru Transition between the end of the colonial period and the formation of republican nations, women's history, Chile Letters authored by women in 19th-century Latin America
Chollet, Donna Associate Professor, Anthropology Discipline (Morris)	Email \| Website
Sugarcane production, relations between mill owners and cane growers in/and Latin America.
Christian, Cindy Assistant Professor, Educational Policy and Admin. (Duluth)	Email \| Website
Latin American politics, women and politics International relations, international political economy
Dejaeghere, Joan Assistant Professor, Educational Policy and Admin. (CEHD)	Email \| Website
International development policy and practice Inequality, gender and education, intercultural and ethnic relations and education, civic identity and engagement and education. Mexican immigrant youth experiences of citizenship in local and transnational contexts.
DiConstanzo, Alberto Professor, Animal Science (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Nutrition and management factors affecting the biologic and economic efficiency of cow-calf and feedlot operations. Evaluation of alternative feeds and feeding and management strategies to improve economic efficiency. Determination of nutrient requirements to enhance economic and environmentally sustainable beef production.
Escure, Genevieve Professor, English (CLA)	Email \| Website
Belizean creole, endangered languages of Belize and Honduras Sociolinguistics, pidgins, creoles and other contact languages
Face, Tim Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
Spanish phonetics and phonology
Farrell, Pat Associate Professor, Geography (Duluth)	Email \| Website
Soil and sediment analysis and its connection to people in both past and contemporary contexts with primary focus in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ferran, Ofelia Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
Contemporary Spanish peninsular literature and Spanish women writers Exile literature, feminist theory, literary theory and criticism
Ferreira, Ana Paula Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
Portuguese and Brazilian literatures Race, racisms and Portuguese colonialism Women writers, feminisms, and nationalisms
Foley, Jon Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior & IonE (CBS)	Email \| Website
The environment, Brazil
Forcinito, Ana Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
19th and 20th century Latin American literature testimonial writing, Latin American film studies, with primary focus in Southern Cone studies Women's writing and feminist theory.
Frey, Barbara Assistant Professor, Law School/Human Rights Program	Email \| Website
Mexico Human rights
Friedman-Sanchez, Greta Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
International development; household economics and family health Domestic violence, war, gender, and Latin America
Garcia, Cindy Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts & Dance (CLA)	Email \| Website
Chicana/o and Latin/o American Performance Studies, and the gendered performances of latinidad in urban libidinal economies Cultural politics of migration, race, and feminist ethnography
Gonzalez, Ramon Professor, English (CLA)	Email \| Website
Creative writing, U.S. Latino literature, poetry writing, creative nonfiction, contemporary American poetry, editing and publishing journals and anthologies, Latin American studies.
Gudeman, Stephen Professor, Anthropology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Culture and the economy, Latin America, and social theory
Hanneken, Jaime Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
19th-20th century Latin American literature, postcolonial approaches to literature and culture
Hilbink, Lisa Assistant Professor, Political Science (CLA)	Email \| Website
Latin American and Iberian politics, and democratization Comparative judicial politics, comparative constitutionalism
Hinds, Harold Professor, History (Morris)	Email \| Website
Latin American history- Pre-Columbian to the present
Ibarra-Sevilla, Bengamin Assistant Professor, Architecture (College of Design)	Email \| Website
16th and 17th century colonial indigenous buildings in Oaxaca, Mexico Ancient masonry building techniques
Kaminsky, Amy Professor, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (CLA)	Email \| Website
Latin American literature, Spanish women writers Gender and race in Latin American films Nation and culture, primarily in the context of Latin America
Kehoe, Timothy Professor, Economics (CLA)	Email \| Website
International trade and public finance Advised the Mexican government on the impact of joining NAFTA (1994), and the Panamanian government on the impact of unilateral foreign trade and investment reforms (1998)
Kildegaard, Arne Associate Professor, Economics and Management (Morris)	Email \| Website
Contemporary Latin America economy and trade
King, Kendall Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction (CEHD)	Email \| Website
Ideological, interactional and policy perspectives on second language learning and bilingualism, with particular attention to educational practices impacting language use among Indigenous populations in Latin America and Spanish speakers in the U.S.
Klee, Carol Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
Spanish language contact, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition
Logan, Enid Lynette Assistant Professor, Sociology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Sociology of Afro-Latin Populations Family, Marriage and Gender Race and media, race and law
Manson, Steven Associate Professor , Geography (CLA)	Email \| Website
North and Latin America, socioeconomic vulnerability. Geographic information science, spatial analysis, and biocomplexity Global change, land use/cover change
Marrero-Fente, Raul Associate Professor, Sociology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Colonial Latin America literature and culture, Gender studies, human rights, law and literature Caribbean literature and culture
McCaa, Robert Professor, History/ MN population center (CLA)	Email \| Website
History of Latin America Latin American demographic catastrophe in the age of the conquests, on family structure in Mexico, and on the introduction of smallpox vaccinations in the seventeenth century. Current research on creating a database of historical census microdata from Columbia and other countries with the Historical Census Project in the Department and Minnesota Population Center
McNamara, Patrick Associate Professor, History (CLA)	Email \| Website
History and memory in Mexico, comparative revolutions, Latin America and peasantries.
Menanteau, Dario Professor, School of Social Work (CEHD)	Email \| Website
Latin America and sustainable development. Sociology of Development, rural sociology, and social organization
Meza, Fernando Associate Professor, Music (CLA)	Email \| Website
Orchestral music, contemporary solo and chamber music for marimba and percussion, Folkloric marimba traditions of Costa Rica, Latin American contemporary and traditional music from Latin America and the Caribbean
Nelson, Kristen Associate Professor, Forest Resources (CFANS)	Email \| Website
A focus on the growing interdisciplinary understanding of environmental change and its dynamic with human systems. International fieldwork in Latin America, specifically Chiapas, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Ecuador
O'Connell, Joanna Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
Latin-American literature and culture, Issues of colonialism, race and nationalism, feminism and feminist theory, Mexico, indigenous revitalization movements and writing, Caribbean, African and Caribbean writing in French and Englis
Ocampo, Francisco Associate Professor, Forest Resources (CLA)	Email \| Website
Language and ideology, language variation, relationship between syntax, cognition and discourse, and word order in spoken Spanish
Okediji, Tade Associate Professor, Applied Economics (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Comparative institutional economic development with specific emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America Economic development theory, political economy of ethnicity, and economics of governance
Parker Aronson, Stacey Professor, Humanities, Spanish (Morris)	Email \| Website
Spanish Peninsular literature and 17th century Spanish literature, particularly women authors
Pedelty, Mark Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications (CLA)	Email \| Website
Popular music, Environmental media and performance, Ethnographic research in the USA, El Salvador, and Mexico
Perrault, Rudy Adjunct Assistant Professor, Music (Duluth)	Email \| Website
Haitian classical composers
Pilcher, Jeffrey Professor, History, Spanish (CLA)	Email \| Website
History and culture of Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean History and culture of food
Ramos-Garcia, Luis Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish (CLA)	Email \| Website
18th-20th century peninsular literature, 20th century Latin American literature Hispanic cultural studies, shantytown cultural manifestation, US Latino theatre, contemporary Latin American theater, Latin American popular music, Human rights and women’s studies
Samuels, David Professor, Political Science (CLA)	Email \| Website
Brazilian politics, Latin American politics, political parties and elections US-Latin American relations
Schumacher, Julie Professor, English (CLA)	Email \| Website
Latin American literature Creative writing, contemporary fiction, and children's literature
Schurman, Rachel Associate Professor, Sociology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Social Movements; Political Sociology; International Political Economy Environmental Sociology Latin America
Staats, Joseph L. Assistant Professor, Political Science (Duluth)	Email \| Website
American and comparative constitutional law and judicial politics with special interest in research relating to judicial systems in developing democracies. Consulted to the United Nations Development Program and the Supreme Judicial Courts in Ecuador and Uruguay.
Sikkink, Kathryn Professor, Political Science (CLA)	Email \| Website
International human rights norms and law, transnational advocacy networks, social justice, political activism Latin America politics, grassroots protests, war crimes tribunal, human rights trials, women's rights, U.S. human rights policy
Singer, Randy Associate Professor, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences (Veterinary Medicine)	Email \| Website
Infectious disease epidemiology Founder and director of an international summer school on public health and food safety in Valdivia, Chile
Spadaccini, Nicholas Professor, Spanish & Portuguese (CLA)	Email \| Website
Comparative literature and colonial Spanish-American literature Early modern Spanish literature and culture Postcolonial theory Sociohistorical approaches
Stuecher, Uwe Professor, Educational psychology (Duluth)	Email \| Website
Clinical child psychology, cross-cultural psychology, children with disabilities
Tedick,Diane Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction (CEHD)	Email \| Website
Pedagogy required for the successful integration of language and content instruction Spanish immersion programs.
Tinsley, Omise'eke Associate Professor, English (CLA)	Email \| Website
African Diaspora, Caribbean, and transnational literature and theory, Postcolonial literature and culture, and poetry
Torres, Edén Associate Professor, Women's Studies (CLA)	Email \| Website
Race, class, and gender Chicana/o cultural studies, and Chicana/o feminist theory, Chicana/o literature
Turner, Thomas C. Professor, Humanities, Spanish (Morris)	Email \| Website
Spanish language
Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Assistant Professor, Political Science (CLA)	Email \| Website
Contemporary currents of critical postcolonial theory in the non-Western world, especially traditions stemming from Latin America and the Caribbean. Affiliated with the interdisciplinary research network Antropolítica, which is based at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Weil, Connie Associate Professor, Geography (CLA)	Email \| Website
Latin America, medical geography, migration, tourism, impact of socioeconomic and environmental change on human health Agricultural colonization, Amazonia development, coca farming, human ecology, international cocaine trad
Wells, Scott Professor, Veterinary Public Health (Veterinary Medicine)	Email \| Website
Farm to table study program in Uruguay
Zeitz, Elieen Professor Emerita, Humanities, Foreign Language and Literature (Duluth)	Email \| Website
Spanish-American Literature and Culture

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Allen, Ryan Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
Immigrant and refugee policy Urban planning in diverse communities
Archer, John W. Professor, Art History (CLA)	Email \| Website
Urban planning and architectural history 19th-20th century American architecture, landscape, and urbanism
Assad, Ragui Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
Politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa Urban planning; poverty in developing countries Women's work in developing countries
Baker, Lawrence Research Professor, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Urban ecosystems Urban water management Urban pollution
Blair, Robert Associate Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Urban sprawl affects on native bird and butterflies How urbanization is leading to the homogenization of the world's fauna
Braun, Bruce Associate Professor, Geography, American Studies (CLA)	Email \| Website
Urban geography Colonial and postcolonial geographies
Cao, Jason Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
Land use and transportation interactions Telecommunication and travel Neighborhood design
Castle, Eric Assistant Professor, Natural Resource Dept, Horticulture (Crookston)	Email \| Website
Ecological restoration Urban storm water mitigation Sustainable landscapes and land use planning
Chen, Arthur Associate Professor, Architecture (College of Design)	Email \| Website
Architectural thinking, making, and drawing Urbanism, urban landscape and investigating building typology and urban morphology of port cities
Comazzi, John Assistant Professor, Architecture (College of Design)	Email \| Website
Contested urbanism
Cooper, Terry Professor, Soil, Water, and Climate (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Urban soil problems Environmental science
Crump, Jeff Associate Professor, Housing, Design, & Apparel (College of Design)	Email \| Website
Housing policy and affordable housing Urban politics
Demerath, Peter Associate Professor, Organization Leadership, Policy, and Development (CEHD)	Email \| Website
Urban education Comparative study of class culture and education
Dubrow, Gail Professor, History (CLA)	Email \| Website
U.S. urban history Public history and historic preservation
Easter, K. William Professor, Applied Economics (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Water markets and the transaction costs of sectoral and intersectoral water exchanges Transaction costs of alternative methods for providing urban water supplies in developing countries
Fan, Yingling Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
Land use/growth management Transportation planning and policy Urbanization in China
Goetz, Edward G. Professor, CURA/Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
Housing policy and markets Politics of urban and regional planning, growth management strategies
Goldman, Michael Associate Professor, Sociology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Transnational, political, environmental, and developmental sociology Global cities, particularly global cities of the South The making of Bangalore into a world city
Gowan, Teresa Assistant Professor, Sociology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Urban Sociology, ethnography, poverty and inequality
Johnson, Gary Extension Professor, Forest Resources (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Urban Forest Health: Stress Disorders, Deicing Salt Damage, urbanized soils, diseases of trees and shrubs
Kayzar, Brenda Assistant Professor, Geography (CLA)	Email \| Website
Urban and Cultural Geography North American cities, downtown revitalization, arts and culture Urban/environment relations, landscape and lifestyle commodification
Kells, Stephen Assistant Professor, Entomology (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Urban and industrial entomology Bedbugs
Kuhlke, Olaf Associate Professor, Geography (CLA, Duluth)	Email \| Website
Urban ecology, particularly habitat mapping and urban water issues
Leitner, Helga Professor, Sociology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Urban, political, and international migrations
Manson, Steven Associate Professor , Geography (CLA)	Email \| Website
Geographic information science, spatial analysis, biocomplexity, environmental science Global change, land use/cover change, North and Latin America Socioeconomic vulnerability
Martin, Judith Professor, Urban Studies Program (CLA)	Email \| Website
Urban studies, Metropolitan planning and governance Urban Design
Montgomery, Rebecca Assistant Professor, Forest Resources (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Effects of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems Mechanisms associated with the ability of exotic species that invade new habitats The ecology managed forest ecosystems
Murphy, Kevin Associate Professor, History (CLA)	Email \| Website
US history, urban history, and public history Comparative history of women and gender
Myers, Samuel Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
Microeconomic policy analysis; racial inequality and public policy Credit and housing markets; engineering workforce, and academic labor markets
Mykerezi, Elton Assistant Professor, Applied Economics (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Regional/urban economics and rural development
Nelson, Kristen Associate Professor, Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Urban ecosystems Conflict management in environmental planning and management Natural resource governance, and conservation strategies in human dominated landscapes
Nieber, John L. Professor, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Assessing the impact of land use activities on the hydrology and water quality of ground water, streams, lakes, and wetlands Water quality impacts of urban development
Orfield, Myron Associate Professor, Law School	Email \| Website
Land use, regional governance, urban development and planning
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee Associate Professor, Sociology (CLA)	Email \| Website
Immigration and welfare policy, immigrant health care Urban theory and methods
Pine, Adam Assistant Professor, Geography (Duluth)	Email \| Website
Urban geography with particular interest in the relationship between population change and urban development
Reich, Peter B. Professor, Forest Resources (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Effects and impact of climate change, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, other air pollutants, and land use/management Biodiversity and sustainability of forest and grassland ecosystems both in Minnesota and globally
Samatar, Abdi Professor, Geography (CLA)	Email \| Website
Development theory and the state Environment and development, political economy, and agrarian change Ethnic politics, East and Southern Africa
San Martin, Ignacio Professor, Architecture (College of Design)	Email \| Website
Landscape architecture and urban design
Sands, Gary R. Associate Professor, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Water quality impacts of urban development Land and water resources including environmental impacts and sustainability of agricultural systems
Satkowski, Leon Professor, Architecture (College of Design)	Email \| Website
Architectural history and urbanism
Schively Slotterbback, Carissa Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs	Email \| Website
Environmental and land use planning Sustainable development
Sheppard, Eric Regents Professor, Geography (CLA)	Email \| Website
Urban systems change and the geography of development Economic geography
Smith, Pamela Associate Professor, Applied Economics (CFANS)	Email \| Website
International economics with an emphasis on trade and multinationals Intellectual property rights.
Solomonson, Katherine Associate Professor, Architecture (College of Design)	Email \| Website
Architectural and urban history addressing in the production of values, identities, and social relations
Wilson, Bruce N. Professor, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (CFANS)	Email \| Website
Quantity and quality of surface waters, especially as influenced by agricultural practices Water quality impacts of urban development

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