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Over 115 core, affiliate, and research faculty are associated with the Center of Latin American Studies. They are listed below alphabetically and in three groups, faculty A-F, faculty G-N, and faculty O-Z, along with their department and areas of specialization. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to contact faculty members whose research and teaching interests intersect with their own. Additional information is available on the departmental websites, which can be accessed through the University of Kansas homepage.

Name	Department	Specialization

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Samuel Adams Affiliate	Journalism Professor Emeritus
Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka Affiliate	American Studies/ Women's Studies Associate Professor	Feminist criticism, post-modern theory and criticism
Giselle Anatol Affiliate	English Assistant Professor	Caribbean literature, literature of the African Americas
Chris Anderson Core	Business Associate Professor	International finance, Brazil and Ecuador
Danny Anderson Core	Spanish and Portuguese Associate Pofessor	Spanish American and Mexican novel, Mexican literature
Elizabeth Asiedu Affiliate	Economics Assistant Professor	International development in economics
John Augelli Core	Geography Professor Emeritus	Central America
Phillipe Barriere Affiliate	Architecture and Urban Design Associate Professor	Architecture
Melissa Birch Core	Business Associate Professor	International trade, privatization in Latin America, Paraguay
Stephen Bozarth Affiliate	Geography Assistant Professor
John Brushwood Core	Spanish and Portuguese Professor Emeritus	Spanish-American novels, Mexico
Christopher Brown Core	Geography Associate Professor	Culture, kinship, gender in the Amazon Basin, medical anthropology
Marta Caminero-Santangelo Affiliate	English Associate Professor	U.S. Latino literature
Diana Carlin Affiliate	Communications/International Programs Professor	Gendered communication and political debates, speech writing, women in politics
Robert Casad Affiliate	School of Law Professor	Civil procedure, conflicts, federal jurisdiction, remedies
Donald Chambers Affiliate	Social Welfare Professor Emeritus
Luis Corteguera Affiliate	History Associate Professor	Spanish and Catalan history, early modern history, Atlantic World history
Muriel Cohen Affiliate	Music and Dance Associate Professor	Modern dance technique, composition, repertory, dance for children, and approaches to world dance
Michael Crawford Affiliate	Anthropology Professor	Biological anthropology, anthropolical genetics, biological bases of human behavior
Gregory Cushman Affiliate	History Assistant Professor	Global environmental history, Latin America since 1750, history of science and technology
Paul D'Anieri Affiliate	Government Associate Professor	International relations, comparative politics
Larry Day Affiliate	Journalism Professor Emeritus
Bart Dean Core	Anthropology Associate Professor	Culture, kinship, gender in the Amazon basin, medical anthropology
Dimitrios Dendrinos Affiliate	Architecture and Urban Design Assistant Professor
Rene Diaz Affiliate	Architecture Professor	pre-Columbian and colonial architecture of Mexico and South America
Michael Doudoroff Core	Spanish and Portuguese Professor	Spanish American modernism and literature
William Duellman Affiliate	Museum of Natural History Professor Emeritus
Lindy Eakin Affiliate	History Lecturer/Associate Provost	Borderlands of Mexico and US
Dietrich Earnhart Affiliate	Economics Assistant Professor	Environment and economic development in Costa Rica
Charles Eldridge Affiliate	Art History Professor
Tamara Falicov Core	Theatre and Film Associate Professor	Nationalism in Argentine film, Latin American film
Bryan Foster Affiliate	Biology Assistant Professor	Biodiversity and conservation of plants
Ronald Francisco Affiliate	Government Professor	Democratic processes, revolution in Latin America
Bryant Freeman Core	African and African American Studies Professor	Haitian Creole, voodoo, Haitain culture and politics
Peter Frevert Affiliate	Economics Associate Professor

G-N		top
Name	Department	Specialization
John Garland Affiliate	School of Business Professor Emeritus	NAFTA, US-Canada-Mexico trade
Deborah Gerner Affiliate	Government Associate Professor	International relations, US Foreign policy
Jane Gibson Core	Anthropology Associate Professor	Development studies and women, Nicaragua
Tanya Golash-Boza Affiliate	Sociology/American Studies Assistant Professor
Manuela Gonzalez Bueno Affiliate	Education Assistant Professor	Foreign Language, ESL
David Graham Affiliate	Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Associate Professor	Water quality and soil conservation in Latin America
Michael Greenfield Affiliate	Biology Professor	Entomology of Central America
Shirley Harkess Core	Sociology Associate Professor	Women and Colombian party politics, migration, social class, gender
Tanya Hartman Affiliate	Art Associate Professor	Painting, themes in art and literature, materials and techniques for painters
John Head Affiliate	School of Law Professor	Comparative law, international commerce and investment, and public international law
Clarence Henry Core	Music and Dance Assistant Professor	Music of the African diaspora, musicology and music theory
George Heller Affiliate	Music and Dance Professor Emeritus
Peter Herlihy Core	Geography Associate Professor	Geography, conservation in Central America, and indigenous peoples
Laura Herlihy Core	Latin American Studies Instructor	Central America, gender, ethnicity, women's history
Anita Herzfeld Core	Latin American Studies Associate Professor	Socio-linguistic inequality, multiculturalism, multilingualism
John Hoopes Core	Anthropology Associate Professor	Costa Rican archeology, ceramics, prehistoric trade, Mesoamerica
Phillip Humphrey Affiliate	Museum of Natural History Professor Emeritus
Shigeru Iwata Affiliate	Economics Professor	Econometrics, macro-finance, international finance, economic growth
William Johnson Affiliate	Geography Professor	Maya habitat in Honduras and Belize, geoarcheology and geomorphology
Nina Kinti-Moss Core	Latin American Studies Instructor	Ecuadorian culture and Quichua language
Jill Kleinberg Core	Business Associate Professor	Cultural aspects of business in Mexico
Jana Krentz Core	Spain, Portugal, and Latin America Bibliographer	Gendered space in novels of Emilio Pardo Bazan and Eça de Queiroz
Jill Kuhnheim Core	Spanish and Portuguese Associate Professor	Contemporary poetry, cultural studies, and gender studies in Spanish America
Elizabeth Kuznesof Core	History/Latin American Studies Professor/Director, Latin Am. St.	Colonial Latin American social and family history, colonial Brazil, slavery
Paul Laird Affiliate	Music and Dance Professor	Renaissance and baroque Spanish music, Latin American music
Carl Lande Affiliate	Government Professor Emeritus
Judith Leblanc Affiliate	Life Span Institute Professor Emeritus
Linda Lee Core	School of Journalism Associate Professor/Assoc. Dean	Television and global imperialism in Peru and Ecuador
Thomas Lewin Affiliate	History Associate Professor	Business history, US multinational corporations, cultural change
Robert Lichtwardt Affiliate	Biology Professor Emeritus
Thomas Longoria Core	Government Associate Professor
Donna Luckey Core	Architecture and Urban Design Associate Professor	Housing and settlement patterns in Costa Rica, environmental planning
John Mayhew Affiliate	Spanish and Portuguese Associate Professor	Spanish poetry and literary theory
Patricia Manning Affiliate	Spanish and Portuguese Assistant Professor	Spanish Golden Age, Baroque poetry and prose, emblem literature, and inquisition
Judith McCrea Affiliate	Art Professor	Latin American art, Venezuela
Elizabeth MacGonagle Affiliate	History Assistant Professor	African history and comparative Black history, in social and cultural history and gender history
Michelle McKinley Affiliate	School of Law Lecturer
Lewis Mennerick Affiliate	Sociology Associate Professor
Brent Metz Core	Anthropology Assistant Professor	Cho'rti' Maya indigeneity, ethnicity and identity, Central America
Charles Michener Affiliate	Museum of Entomology Professor Emeritus
Felix Moos Affiliate	Anthropology Professor	Cultural change and development, ethnic conflict
Joane Nagel Affiliate	Sociology Professor	Race, gender and ethnicity theory
Mehrangiz Najafizadeh Core	Sociology Associate Professor	Development sociology, socio-political movements and third world change
Robert Nunley Core	Geography Professor	Central American geography, geography of population

O-Z		top
Name	Department	Specialization
Yajaira Padilla Affiliate	Spanish Assistant Professor
Town Peterson Core	Biology Associate Professor	Biological diversity and conservation, avian systematic, specialization
Cornel Pewewardy Affiliate	Teaching and Leadership Associate Professor	Multicultural education and ethnology
Ray Pierotti Affiliate	Biology Associate Professor	Evolutionary ecology
Rosalea Postma-Carttar Core	Spanish and Portuguese Associate Specialist	Modern Spanish novel and language pedagogy
Catherine Preston Affiliate	Theater and Film Assistant Professor	Latin American film, Latin American women in film
Clifton Pye Affiliate	Linguistics Associate Professor	Mayan languages
Gary Reich Core	Government Associate Professor	Contemporary Latin American politics, political economy and developing nations
Robert Ridgeway Affiliate	Curriculum and Instruction Professor Emeritus
Isidro Rivera Affiliate	Spanish and Portuguese Associate Professor	Medieval narrative, literature of fifteenth-century Spain
Fred Rodriguez Affiliate	Ctr. for Teaching Excellence Associate Professor /Director	Multicultural education
Carol Rose Affiliate	School of Business Assistant Professor
Anton Rosenthal Core	History Associate Professor	Southern cone labor and liberation movements, Latin American economic history
Amy Rossomondo Affiliate	Spanish and Portuguese Assistant Professor	Second language acquisition and pedagogy, sociolinguistics
Paola Sanguinetti Affiliate	Architecture and Urban Design Assistant Professor	Latin American architecture
Antonio Simoes Core	Spanish and Portuguese Associate Professor	Linguistics, experimental phonetics, literacy problems in Brazil
Lee Skinner Core	Spanish and Portuguese Associate Professor	Nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin America
Robert Smith Affiliate	Museum of Anthropology Professor Emeritus
Geraldo Sousa Affiliate	English Associate Professor	Resnaissance theatre and literature, Latin American theatre and literature
Raymond Souza Core	Spanish and Portuguese Professor Emeritus	Twentieth-century Spanish American literature, Caribbean literature, Cuban fiction
Robert Spires Affiliate	Spanish and Portuguese Professor Emeritus	Modern Spanish novel and literary theory
Charles Stansifer Core	History Professor Emeritus	Central American history and politics, Caribbean history, revolutions of Latin America
Marilyn Stokstad Core	Art History Professor Emeritus
Michael Swann Affiliate	Architecture Assoc. Professor/Assoc. Dean	Migration in Colonial America, historical geography
Valery Terwilliger Affiliate	Geography Associate Professor	Geography of plants, effects of soil slips on vegetation distribution
Barbara Thompson Affiliate	Special Education Associate Professor	Children with disabilities in Peru and Mexico
Robert Timm Affiliate	Museum of Natural History Assoc. Professor/Assoc. Curator	Neotropical mammalogy, Amazonian manatee, Ecuadorian Amazon
Robert Tomasek Affiliate	Government Professor Emeritus
Susan Twombly Affiliate	Teaching and Leadership Professor	Education reform in Costa Rica
Peter Ukpokodu Affiliate	African and African American Studies Professor	African-American theatre, African film and culture
Vickey Unruh Core	Spanish and Portuguese Professor	Latin American theatre, vanguard novel in Latin America
Maria Velasco Affiliate	Art Assistant Professor	Identity issues, border populations and Paraguay
Marta Vicente Affiliate	History/Women's Studies Assistant Professor	Spain, gender and sexuality, industrialization
Phillip Wells Affiliate	Botany Professor Emeritus
Arnold Weiss Affiliate	Spanish and Portuguese Professor Emeritus
Ted Wilson Affiliate	History Professor	Twentieth and twentieth century US diplomatic theory
George Woodyard Core	Spanish and Portuguese Professor	Latin American theatre, literature and Portuguese poetry
Don Worster Affiliate	History Professor	Agricultural and rural history of North America
Akira Yamamoto Affiliate	Linguistics Professor	Native American languages and language maintenance among Native American groups

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