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<\/a><\/div>- Assistant Director<\/strong>, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- aorndorf@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a><\/div>Sugiyama, Natasha <\/a><\/strong><\/div>- Professor<\/strong>, Political Science<\/em><\/li>
- Director<\/strong>, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- sugiyamn@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a><\/div>VanBladel, Monica <\/a><\/strong><\/div>- Associate Director<\/strong>, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- vanblade@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/div>Garcia, Julio <\/a><\/strong><\/div>- Latin American Film Series programmer<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
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- Antunes, Susana<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research\/Teaching Interests: Modern and Contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian Literature; Travel Literature\/Poetry; Macaronesia Island Literature; Women short story from the Lusophone world
Country Interests: Brazil, Portugal
antunes@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Bird-Soto, Nancy<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research\/Teaching Interests: women writers, gender studies, US Hispanic literatures and cultures, creative writing
Country Interests: Puerto Rico, US, Nicaragua, Mexico, Spain
birdsoto@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Blasini, Gilberto<\/a><\/strong>
Department of English
Research\/Teaching Interests: Latin American film and issues of identity
Country Interests: Caribbean
gblasini@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Cameron, Barry<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Geosciences
Research\/Teaching Interests: igneous petrology, volcanology
Country Interests: Guatemala
bcameron@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Davies Cordova, Sarah<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Global Studies
Research\/Teaching Interests: 19th to 21st century literatures in French; colonial and post-colonial literatures and cultures
Country Interests: Francophone Caribbean: especially Guadeloupe, Haiti and Martinique
cordovas@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Ehlinger, Timothy<\/a><\/strong>
College of Nursing
Research\/Teaching Interests: Sustainable development; restoration ecology and community-based watershed planning
Country Interests: Costa Rica
ehlinger@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Ferreira, C\u00e9sar<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research\/Teaching Interests: contemporary Latin American novel; Latin American popular culture; Peruvian literature
Country Interests: Mexico, Peru, Southern Cone
cferr@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Filippello, Marcus<\/a><\/strong>
Department of History
Research\/Teaching Interests: Global, African, and African diaspora histories; global processes of colonization and decolonization
Country Interests: Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, Benin, Nigeria, Togo
filippem@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Forbes, Jack<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Music
Research\/Teaching Interests: Music of the Americas; Popular Music; Performance Studies; Music and Identity; Music and Politics
Country Interests: Guatemala
forbesjw@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Fraiser, Margaret<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Geosciences
Research\/Teaching Interests: Paleoecology
Country Interests: Argentina
mfraiser@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Galvao, Loren<\/a><\/strong>
College of Nursing
Research\/Teaching Interests: International\/global health; Reproductive health; HIV\/AIDS
Country Interests: Brazil, Latin America
lgalvao@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Gillespie, Maria<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Dance
Research\/Teaching Interests: Contemporary Performance and Choreography
Country Interests: Mexico
gillespi@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Harris, Pamela E.<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Research\/Teaching Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics and Mathematics Education and Equity
Country Interests: Central America, Mexico
peharris@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- H\u00f6ebel, Gerlinde<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Biological Sciences
Research\/Teaching Interests: behavior ecology; animal communication; evolutionary biology; amphibians and reptiles
Country Interests: Costa Rica, Panama
hoebel@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Hudson, Jean<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Anthropology
Research\/Teaching Interests: forager adaptations; ecological and evolutionary models; zooarchaeology; ethnoarchaeology
Country Interests: Peru
jhudson@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Isbell, John L.<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Geosciences
Research\/Teaching Interests: Clastic sedimentology; stratigraphy
Country Interests: Argentina
jisbell@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Izquierdo, Ren\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Music
Research\/Teaching Interests: classical guitar; Afro-Caribbean and Latin American guitar styles
Country Interests: Cuba
Rene_izquierdo@yahoo.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Latch, Emily<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Biological Sciences
Research\/Teaching Interests: Evolutionary biology; Conservation genetics; Wildlife; Endangered species conservation
Country Interests: Grenada and Caribbean
latch@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Libbey, Allison<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research\/Teaching Interests: Narrative Theory; Gender Studies; Trauma Studies; Representations of Politics; Representations of Violence
Country Interests: Argentina, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain, U.S. Latinx communities
libbey@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- McCaw, R. John<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Research\/Teaching Interests: ritual and religion in Spanish and Latin American literature
Country Interests: Latin America
rjmccaw@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Munson, Ethan<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research\/Teaching Interests: multimedia documents; human-computer interaction; object-oriented programming; digital documents
Country Interests: Brazil
munson@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Nagy, Gabriela<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Psychology
Research\/Teaching Interests: Health equity; Psychology of immigration; Mental health
Country Interests: Immigrants and refugees from Latin America residing in the U.S.
ganagy@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Nelson, Jessica<\/a><\/strong>
Department of History
Research\/Teaching Interests: Colonialism, Gender, Indigeneity, Religion
Country Interests: Mexico
nelso878@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Olen, Amy<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies
Research\/Teaching Interests: Latin American literature; Literary translation; Medical interpreting
Country Interests: Guatemala, Peru, United States
amytolen@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Pacifico, David<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Art History
Research\/Teaching Interests: Archaeology and material culture in pre-Columbian Andes; Heritage values in archaeologically rich regions; Casma Valley
Country Interests: Peru
pacifico@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Pitt, Kristin E<\/a>.<\/strong>
Department of Global Studies
Research\/Teaching Interests: gender, race, sexuality and nationalism in 19th and 20th Century literature
Country Interests: Latin America, Caribbean and North America
kepitt@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Rei-Doval, Gabriel<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Linguistics
Research\/Teaching Interests: sociolinguistics; Galician Studies; historiography of linguistics; applied linguistics
Country Interests: Galician diaspora, Latin America, US
reidoval@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Reuter, Ora John<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Political Science
Research\/Teaching Interests: Authoritarianism; comparative politics; political parties; comparative political economy
Country Interests: Eastern Europe, Mexico, Russia, Venezuela
reutero@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Rios, Alvaro Saar<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Theatre
Research\/Teaching Interests: Playwriting; Ethno-drama; U.S. Latino Theatre; Texas\/Mexican folklore
Country Interests: Mexico (before the Mexican Revolution)
riosa@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Rodr\u00edguez, Rafael<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Biological Sciences
Research\/Teaching Interests: Behavioral ecology of insects and spiders, sexual selection
Country Interests: Costa Rica
rafa@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Saint Jacques, Ermitte<\/a><\/strong>
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Research\/Teaching Interests: Transnational migration and globalization; race and ethnicity; gender and migration
Country Interests: Haitian Diaspora in the Caribbean and US
saintjac@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Salto, Dante J.<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Administrative Leadership
Research\/Teaching Interests: Comparative and international higher education policy; privatization; regulation; quality assurance, organizational behavior
Country Interests: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru
salto@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Sherman, R. Jason<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Anthropology
Research\/Teaching Interests: Archaic states; political and economic organization; archaeological method and theory; landscape archaeology; GIS; ceramic analysis; Mesoamerica
Country Interests: Mexico
shermanr@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Shumway, Rebecca<\/a><\/strong>
Department of History
Research\/Teaching Interests: History of West Africa and the African Diaspora
Country Interests: African Diaspora
shumwayr@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Sommers, Jeffrey<\/a><\/strong>
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Research\/Teaching Interests: Africology, political economy, and public policy
Country Interests: Haiti, Caribbean
sommerjw@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Song, Sooho<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Ancient & Modern Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research\/Teaching Interests: The effects of cultural differences on politeness behavior in Korea (Asia), Latin America, and the US
Country Interests: Latin America
sooho@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Sotomayor, M. Estrella<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research\/Teaching Interests: language teaching strategies; Spanish for the professions
Country Interests: Latin America
mes4@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Sugiyama, Natasha Borges<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Political Science
Research\/Teaching Interests: comparative politics, social policy, and gender politics
Country Interests: Brazil
sugiyamn@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Sziarto, Kristin<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Geography
Research\/Teaching Interests: Geographies of social movements, immigrant activism, political theory, cities and citizenship, urban public health, gender, sexuality, and urban space
Country Interests: M\u00e9xico, Colombia and U.S. Latina\/o
sziarto@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Tapia, Javier<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Educational Policy & Community Studies
Research\/Teaching Interests: cultural anthropology; bilingual\/bicultural education; Latino studies
Country Interests: Mexico, US
jtapia@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Terando, Lorena A.<\/a><\/strong>
Translation and Interpreting Studies
Research\/Teaching Interests: 19th century Latin American literature; contemporary Latin American and US Latina women writers; translation theory and practice
Country Interests: Mexico
terando@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Tiffany, Tanya J.<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Art History
Research\/Teaching Interests: Early modern feminine spirituality; gender and race in the Spanish empire; visual culture and popular devotion; artistic theory; cultural exchange in the early modern world
Country Interests: Spain, Peru, and the Spanish Empire more broadly
tanyatif@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Umali, Renato<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres
Research\/Teaching Interests: History; Immigration
Country Interests: El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico
rumali@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Vang, Chia Youyee<\/a><\/strong>
Department of History
Reasearch\/Teaching Interests: 20th century US-Asia Relations, Cold War politics, Asian American history, refugee migration, transnational and diaspora communities
Country Interests: French Guiana and Argentina
vangcy@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Wheatley, Kathleen<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Research\/Teaching Interests: structure of Spanish-diachronic evolution and synchronic (dialect) variation
Country Interests: Latin America
wheatley@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Wier, Alex<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Music
Research\/Teaching Interests: Percussion Performance; West African and Afro-Caribbean Music
Country Interests: Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba
wier@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- Wood, W. Warner<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Anthropology
Research\/Teaching Interests: Museum studies and Public Anthropology; Expressive and Material Culture; Globalization and Transnational Processes; Environmental Cultures and Histories; Tourism; Ethnicity and Identity; Practice Theories; Qualitative Methodologies
Country Interests: Mexico, United States
woodw@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n- World, Krislyn<\/a><\/strong>
Department of Dance
Research\/Teaching Interests: Afro Latin Music and Dance; Cuban Salsa Rueda; African Diaspora; Classical Music and Dance
Country Interests: West and South Africa, Brazil, Cuba, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States
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\n\n\n\nLACUSL Program Administration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
- Bird-Soto, Nancy<\/a><\/strong>
- Antunes, Susana<\/a><\/strong>
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- Latin American Film Series programmer<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
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- Latin American Film Series graphic designer<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- vanblade@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
- Associate Director<\/strong>, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- Director<\/strong>, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
- Professor<\/strong>, Political Science<\/em><\/li>
- aorndorf@uwm.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>