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A. Faculty Biographies Paulina Alberto History, Romance Languages and Literatures; Assistant Professor Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1997 Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2005 Languages: Portuguese (5), Spanish (5), French (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: Modern Latin American history and historiography; Brazil; ideologies of race, nation, and citizenship; intellectual/cultural history; Afro-Latin America diaspora Field Research: Brazil LACS courses offered: Sp 430 (F 05 and F09), Port 473 (F06), Hist 348 (W06,07,09), Hist 691/796 (F09) Publications: “When Rio was Black: Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s

Brazil,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 89:1 (February 2009) “Para Africano Ver: African-Bahian Exchanges in the Reinvention of Brazil’s Racial Democracy, 1961-63,”

Luso-Brazilian Review, 45:1 (June 2008). Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 David Allan School of Natural Resources & Environment; Professor and Associate Dean Education: B.S., University of British Columbia, 1966 M.S., University of Michigan, 1968 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971 Languages: Spanish (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 5 Research/Teaching Specializations: Landscape influences on river ecosystems, including human alteration of land use; stream ecology; conservation biology; tropical river systems Field Research: Central America, Venezuela, Mexico LACS courses offered: SNRE 220 Publications: (with M.M. Castillo) Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters, 2nd edition, Springer,

2007. (with M.A. Palmer and N.L. Poff) “Freshwater Ecology,” in Lovejoy and Hannah, Climate Change and

Biodiversity (2005). (with M.M. Castillo, G.W. Kling, and R.L. Sinsabaugh) “Seasonal and interannual variation of bacterial

productionin lowland rivers of the Orinoco Basin,” Freshwater Biology, 44:1400-1414 (2004). (with M.M. Castillo and G. W. Kling) “Bottom-up controls on bacterial production in tropical lowland rivers,” Limnology & Oceanography 48:1466-1475 (2002). (with C.E. Cushing) Streams: Their Ecology and Life. San Diego: Academic Press (2001). Distinctions: 2003-04, EPA grant to study environmental stressors and stream health Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Alicia Alvarez Law School; Clinical Professor of Law Education: B.A., Loyola University J.D., Boston College Law School Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Community development clinics, poverty law, corporate law, dispute resolution Field Research: El Salvador Distinctions: Fulbright Scholar Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 10 Robin A. Beck, Jr. Anthropology; Assistant Professor of Archaeology Education: B.A., University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, 1991 Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2004 Languages: Spanish (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: Archeology of death and burial, archeology of South America, prehistoric iconography, archeology and ethnohistory of complex societies in Eastern North America and the Andes of Bolivia and Peru, early colonial encounters Field Research: Alto Pukara, Bolivia Publications: “On Delusions,” Native South 2 (2009): 111-120 “Catawba Coalescence and the Shattering of the Carolina Piedmont, 1540-1675,” in Mapping the

Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South, ed. Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

(with Victor Plaza Martinez) “Comunidades y espacio público ritual en el Formativo: Excavaciones en Alto Pukara, 2000-2001,” Textos Antropológos 15 no. 2:23-38, 2005.

Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Ruth Behar Anthropology, Women’s Studies; Professor Education: B.A., Wesleyan University, 1977 M.A., Princeton University, 1980 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1983 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 12 Research/Teaching Specializations: Popular religion, women’s studies, and life histories; contemporary Cuban culture since the Revolution; Jewish immigration to Cuba; cultural anthropology of Spain and Mexico Field Research: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina LACS courses offered: AN 314/AC 313 Publications: Cuéntame algo aunque sea una mentira: Las historias de la comadre Esperanza, Mexico City: Fondo de

Cultura Económica, 2009. The Portable Island: Cubans At Home in the World, edited with Lucía M. Suárez, New York: Palgrave,

2008. An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, Rutgers University Press, 2007. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, Beacon, 1997. (Ed.) Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba, University of Michigan Press, 1995. Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story, Beacon, 1993. Distinctions: 1988, MacArthur Prize Fellow; 1995, John Simon Guggenheim Fellow; 2007 Fulbright Fellow; multiple UM Teaching, Research, and Mentoring Awards Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Claudia Brittenham History of Art, Society of Fellows; Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) Education: B.A., History of Art, Yale University, 1999 M.A., History of Art, Yale University, 2003 Ph.D., History of Art, Yale University, 2008 Languages: Spanish (4), Yucatec Maya (2), French (3), Italian (2), Japanese (2) Research/Teaching Specializations: Art of ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras; art and identity, intercultural interaction, the materiality of art, politics of style; visibility and the status of images in Mesoamerica Field Research: Mexico, Guatemala LACS courses offered: HistArt topics courses (Image and Text in Mesoamerican Art; Maya Art and Architecture) Publications: (with Stephen D. Houston, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Christina Warinner) Veiled

Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009 “Los pintores de Cacaxtla.” In La Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México: Cacaxtla, edited by Mária

Teresa Uriarte. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, forthcoming

(with Mary Miller) “Maya Architecture.” In Mesoamerican Architecture, edited by María Teresa Uriarte. Milan: Jaca Books, forthcoming

“Imágenes en un paisaje sagrado: huacas de piedra de los Incas.” In La imagen sagrada y sacralizada: Memoria del XXVIII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, forthcoming.

Distinctions: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellowship, 2009-2010 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Robyn Burnham Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology; Associate Professor and Associate Curator Education: B.S., University of California-Berkeley, 1980 M.A., University of Washington, 1983 Ph.D., University of Washington, 1987 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese(2), French (1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 4 Research/Teaching Specializations: Miocene plant evolution in northern South America; ecology of neotropical lianas Field Research: Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil LACS courses offered: EEB 463 Neotropical Plants Publications: “An overview of the fossil record of climbers: bejucos, sogas, trepadoras, lianas, cipós, and vines,”

Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(2), 2009: 149-160. (with Fine, P.A.V. and Ree, R.) “The disparity in tree species richness among tropical, temperate and

boreal biomes: The geographic area and age hypothesis,” pp. 31-45 in Tropical Forest Community Ecology, W.P. Carson & S.A. Schnitzer (eds.), Blackwell Scientific, 2008

“Hide and Go Seek: What does presence mean in the fossil record?” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95(1), 2008: 51-71

(with Gerwing, J.J. et al.) “A Standard Protocol for Liana Censuses,” Biotropica 38(2), 2006: 256-261 (with K. R. Johnson and B. Ellis) “Modern tropical forest taphonomy: Does high biodiversity affect

paleoclimatic interpretations?” Palaios 20, 2005: 439-451. Distinctions: 2009, Center for Tropical Forest Science Grant; 2003, NSF ADVANCE Award; 1998-99, Fulbright Commission Senior Scholarship in Ecuador; 1997-99, National Geographic grant; 1995-99, NSF Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 75 Amy Carroll American Culture, English, Latina/o Studies; Assistant Professor Education: MFA, Cornell University, 1995 Ph.D., Duke University, 2004 Languages: Spanish (4) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 11 Research/Teaching Specializations: Contemporary Mexican and U.S. cultural production, including performance, installation, video and net-art from post-NAFTA Mexico City and the U.S.-Mexico border Field Research: Mexico City, Mexico; Tijuana, Mexico LACS courses offered: AC 698 grad seminar - Codeswitch Publications: “ ‘Accidental Allegories’ Meet ‘The Performative Documentary’: Boystown, Señorita Extraviada, and the

Border-Brothel Maquiladora Paradigm,” Signs, 31(2): 357-396, 2006. “A Critical Regionalism: The Allegorical Performative in Madre por un día and the Rodríguez/Felipe

Wedding,” e-misférica 2.2 (special issue on “Sexualities and Politics in the Americas”), November 2005, http://hemi.nyu.edu/journal/2_2/carroll.html

“Interracial,” This Bridge We Call Home, Routledge, 2002. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 80

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Victoria Castillo History, Women’s Studies; Lecturer Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2009 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (3), Quechua (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 0 Research/Teaching Specializations: Indigenous movements in Latin America; art and culture in Latin America Field Research: Peru LACS courses offered: Hist. 230.001: Art and Politics in 20th C. Latin America (Winter 2010); Hist. 358.001/LACS 455: 20th C. Indigenous Movements in Latin America (Win 2010); Hist. 231: Latin America and the U.S. in the Twentieth Century (Summer 2010). Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Sueann Caulfield History, Residential College; Associate Professor Education: B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1985 M.A., New York University, 1988 Ph.D., New York University, 1994 Languages: Portuguese (5), Spanish (5), French (1), Italian(1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 10 Research/Teaching Specializations: Modern Brazilian history; gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity in Latin America Field Research: Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador LACS courses offered: H 348, RC 100, H 691, H 577, RC-Soc Sci 460 Publications: (ed., with L. Putnam) Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin American History, Duke University Press,

2005. “Interracial Courtship in the Rio de Janeiro Courts, 1918-1940,” in Appelbaum, Macpherson, and

Rosemblatt, ed., Race and Nation in Modern Latin America, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

“The History of Gender in Latin American Historiography,” keynote essay, Hispanic American Historical Review, 81:451-492, 2001.

In Defence of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil, Duke University Press, 2000.

“The Birth of Mangue: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Prostitution in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1942,” Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdiscipliary Reader, D. Balder and D. Guy eds., New York University, 1997.

Distinctions: 2007, NEH Research Fellowship; 2000, UM LSA Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award; 1999, Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellowship, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; 1996, Fulbright Scholar Research Fellowship Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Barry Checkoway School of Social Work, College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Professor Education: B.A., WesleyanCollege M.A., Pennsylvania University Ph.D., Pennsylvania University, 1977 Languages: Spanish (4) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 10 Research/Teaching Specializations: Community-based initiatives to promote health in Latin America; community organization Field Research: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru Distinctions: Ford Foundation grant; Kellogg Foundation grant; World Health Organization grant; National Academy of Sciences Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Santiago Colás Comparative Literature and Residential College; Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., Duke University, 1991 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 11 Research/Teaching Specializations: 19th and 20th century literature of Argentina, Central America, Caribbean Field Research: Argentina, Mexico LACS courses offered: CompLit 430, RC HUMS 334 Publications: “The Difference that Time Makes: Hopelessness and Potency in Borges’ ‘El Aleph,’” Thinking with

Borges, ed. William Egginton and David Johnson, Davies Group Publishers, 2009. “Writing Life and Love: Julio Cortázar and Gilles Deleuze,” Angelaki 11.1: 199-207 (2006). “Inventing Autonomies: Meditations on Julio Cortázar and the Politics of Our Time,” New Centennial

Review 5.2: 1-34 (2005). “Living Invention, or, The Way of Julio Cortazar,” Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Winter 2003. Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm, Duke, 1994. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Jorge Delva School of Social Work; Associate Professor Education: BSW, U. of Hawaii, 1989 MSW, U. of Hawaii, 1992 Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1996 Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1997-1998 Languages: Spanish (5) French (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 11 Research/Teaching Specializations: Substance abuse, cross-cultural research, evaluation research, survey research Field Research: Chile LACS courses offered: DOC 848 Psychosocial Factors in Mental Health and Illness: NIMH Pre-and Postdoctoral Training Seminar SSW 615 Drugs, Society & Human Behavior; SSW 643 Drug Policies, Prevention, Treatment, Law, and Social Policy; SSW 683 Evaluation in Social Work Publications: (with A Grogan-Kaylor, F Andrade, M Hynes, N Sanchez, & C Bares) “An Agenda for Longitudinal

Research on Substance Use and Abuse with Hispanics in the U.S. and with Latin American Populations,” Y. F. Thomas, L. N. Price, & A. V. Lybrand (Eds.), Drug Use Trajectories among African American and Hispanic Youth, Springer, 2010.

(with C Broman, H Neighbors, M Torres, & J Jackson) “Prevalence of DSM-IV Substance Use Disorders among African Americans and Caribbean Blacks in the National Survey of American Life (NSAL),” American Journal of Public Health 98:1107-1114, 2008.

(with S Kim, M De La Rosa, CP Rice) “Prevalence of Smoking and Drinking Among Older Adults in Seven Urban Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Substance Use & Misuse 41:1455-1475, 2007.

Distinctions: NIH grants Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 40 Bill DeYoung School of Music, Theatre and Dance; Professor of Dance Education: B.A., San Diego State College B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, 1973 Languages: Spanish (4) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 0 (MFA theses:15) Research/Teaching Specializations: Dance: intercultural/ interdisciplinary/ collaborative; contemporary dance/choreography of Latin America Field Research: Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay Selected Coreography: Many works as Co-director of National Ballet of Costa Rica (1989, 1990) and while in residence with the National Ballet Company of Paraguay (1993-1994) and the Instituto the Bellas Artes in Mexico (1997). Distinctions: Kellogg National Fellowship; 2 National Endowment of the Arts Choreography Fellowships; Jerome Foundation Award; Fulbright Senior Lecture and Research Fellowship (Costa Rica, 1992) Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 10



Ana Diez-Roux School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Epidemiology Education: M.D., University of Buenos Aires, 1985 M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University, 1991 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1995 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 14 Research/Teaching Specializations: Social determinants of health in Latin America; urban health; chronic disease epidemiology; neighborhoods and cardiovascular risk in a multiethnic cohort; multiethnic study of atherosclerosis Field Research: Argentina, Brazil LACS courses offered: Issues in epidemiologic analysis; Multilevel analysis Publications: (with CD Oliveira CD, CC Cesar, & FA Prioetti) “A Case-Control Study of Microenvironmental Risk

Factors for Urban Visceral Leishmaniasis in a Large City in Brazil, 1999-2000,” Revista Panameña de Salud Pública 20(6):369-376, 2006.

(with NL Fleischer NL, M Alazraqui, & H Spinelli) “Social Patterning of Chronic Disease Risk Factors in a Latin American City,” Jounral of Urban Health 85(6):923-37, 2008.

Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 David Doris History of Art, CAAS; Associate Professor Education: M.A. Hunter College, New York (History of Art), 1993 M.A. Yale University, 1996 M.Phil. Yale University, 1998 Ph.D. Yale University (History of Art), 2002 Languages: Yoruba (3), French (3), Spanish (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 2 Research/Teaching Specializations: History of African art and visual culture; Yoruba visual culture; anthropology of aesthetics, cultural spectacles Field Research: Nigeria, Ghana Distinctions: 2006-2007 Getty Residential Fellowship, Getty Research Institute; 2004 Roy Sieber Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the History of African Art, Arts Council of the African Studies Association Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 20



Steven Dworkin Romance Languages and Literatures; Professor of Romance Linguistics Education: B.A., Carleton University, 1968 M.A., University of Illinois, 1969 Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1974 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Spanish linguistics and dialectology Field Research: Spain LACS courses offered: 355 Publications: “Three New Introductions to Romance Linguistics,” Romance Philology 52 (1998-99), 319-331. Distinctions: 2006-2007 Getty Residential Fellowship, Getty Research Institute; 2004 Roy Sieber Memorial Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the History of African Art, Arts Council of the African Studies Association Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Joseph Eisenberg School of Public Health; Assistant Professor Education: B.S., University of California Berkeley, 1982 M.P.H., University of California Berkeley, 1991 Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1992 Languages: Spanish (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 5 Research/Teaching Specializations: Andes, infectious disease epidemiology, water quality Field Research: Ecuador LACS courses offered: EPID 600 (Fall), EPID 602 (Winter) Publications: (with ME Hasing, G Trueba, MI Baquero, K Ponce, W Cevallos, OD Solberg) “Rapid Changes In Rotaviral

Genotypes In Ecuador,” Journal of Medical Virology 81:2109-2113, 2009. (with S Batterman, R Hardin, ME Kruk, ML Carmen, A Michalak, B Mukherjee, E Renne, H Stein, C

Watkins, ML Wilson) “Drivers of water quality variability in northern coastal Ecuador,” Environmental Science and Technology 43(6):1788-97, 2009.

(with OD Solberg, ME Hasing, G Trueba, K Levy, K Nelson, A Hubbard) “Following The Water: A Controlled Study Of Drinking Water Storage In Northern Coastal Ecuador,” Environmental Health Perspectives 116(11):1533-40, 2008.

(with JA Trostle, A Hubbard, J Scott, W Cevallos, SJ Bates) “Raising the Level of Analysis of Food-Borne Outbreaks: Characterizing Food-sharing Networks within and across Rural Villages in Coastal Ecuador,” Epidemiology 19(3): 384-390, 2008.

(with SJ Bates, J Trostle, WT Cevallos, A Hubbard) “Relating diarrheal disease to social networks and the geographic configuration of communities in rural Ecuador,” American Journal of Epidemiology 166(9): 1088-1095, 2007.

(with W Cevallos, K Ponce, K Levy, S Bates, J Scott, A Hubbard, N Viera, R Segovia, M Espinel, G Trueba, L Riley, J Trostle) “Environmental change and infectious disease: How roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(51) 19460-19465, 2006.




Frieda Ekotto Romance Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994 Languages: French (5), Spanish (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 12 Research/Teaching Specializations: French and Francophone literature, including Caribbean; 20th century narratives and theater; Francophone cinema Fieldwork: Francophone Caribbean LACS courses offered: FR 244, Race and Cultural Diversity in the Francophone World; FR 469, African and Caribbean Literature; FR 470, African and Caribbean Literature in French Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Christhian Espinoza-Pino Residential College; Lecturer III (non-tenure track) Education: MS, Economic Geology MA, Applied Economy Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Language acquisition and bilingualism; economic and social issues: globalization, terrorism, migration Field Research: Chile; US Latinos in public schools LACS courses offered: RC Lang 324, “Capitalism and Social Revolutions in Latin America”; RC Lang 334; RC Lang 314 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Niedja Fedrigo Romance Languages and Literatures; Lecturer IV (non-tenure track) Education: M.A., Eastern Michigan University, 1992 Languages: Portuguese (5), Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Brazilian culture, language and literature Field Research: Brazil LACS courses offered: POR 100, 101, 102, 150, 231, 232, 350, 415, 450 Publications: Conexões Luso-Afro-Brasileiras (electronic resource, University of Michigan Library), 1999. Language Pedagogy: ACTFL Portuguese Workshop, 1999; UM workshops on instructional technology, 1993-99; mini-grant for exploring use of videoconferencing for foreign language instruction, 1998 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 William Fink Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Zoology; Professor Education: B.A., University of Miami, 1967 M.S. University of Southern Mississippi, 1969 Ph.D., George Washington University, 1976 Languages: Spanish (2), Portuguese (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 15 Research/Teaching Specializations: South American fish Field Research: Colombia, Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, Bahamas Publications: (with J.S. Albert), “Phylogenetic relationships of fossil Neotropical electric fishes (Osteichthyes:

Gymnotiformes) from the upper Miocene of Bolivia,” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontolo, 27(1): 17-25 (2007)

(with R.E. Reis and M.L. Zelditch), “Ontogenetic allometry of body shape in the Neotropical catfish Callichthys (Teleostei: Siluriformes),” Copeia (1998) 1:177-182

(with M.L. Zelditch) “Shape analysis and taxonomic status of the Pygocentrus piranhas (Ostariophysi, Characiformes) from the Paraguay and Paran river basins of South America,” Copeia 1:179-182 (1997)

(with J.S. Albert) “Sternopygus xingu, a new species of electric fish from Brazil (Teleostei: Gymnotoidei), with comments on the phylogenetic position of Sternopygus,” Copeia 1:85-102 (1996).

Distinctions: 12 NSF grants, 1978-95; 1974-76, Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship; 1975-76, King Fellowship Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Kent Flannery Anthropology; James B. Griffin Professor of Archaeology Education: B.A., University of Chicago, 1954, M.A.: University of Chicago, 1960 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1964 Languages: Spanish (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: Archaeology of Mexico and Peru Field Research: Mexico, Guatemala, Peru LACS courses offered: AN 486, AN 488 Publications: (with J. Marcus) Excavations at San José Mogote 1: Household Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology,

University of Michigan, 2005 (with J. Marcus) The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec, Percheron Press,

2003. (with J. Marcus) La civilización zapoteca, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2001 (with J. Marcus) “Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca: The Origins of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations,”

Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: Mesoamerica, I: 358-406, 2001 (Ed.) Guilá Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico, Academic Press, 1986. Distinctions: 1996, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1992, Alfred V. Kidder Award, American Anthropological Association, for lifetime achievement in Mesoamerican archaeology; 1978, National Academy of Sciences Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Roberto Frisancho Anthropology, Center for Human Growth & Development; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Biological Anthropology Education: B.H., National University of Cuzco, Peru, 1962 M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1966 Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1969 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (5), French (5), Quechua (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 24 Research/Teaching Specializations: Andes Field Research: Bolivia, Peru LACS courses offered: AN 563 Publications: Humankind Evolving: Exploration on the Origins of Human Diversity, Kendall/Hunt, 2006. (with P.C. Juliao, V. Barcelona et al.) “Developmental Components of Resting Ventilation among High

Altitude Andean Natives,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 109 (1999), 281-301 (with S. Farrow et al.) “Role of Genetic and Environmental Factors in the Increased Blood Pressures of

Bolivian Blacks,” American Journal Human Biology, 11 (1999), 15-35 Human Adaptation and Accommodation to Environmental Stress, Michigan, 1993. Distinctions: 1960-64, Fulbright Fellow; 1991-95, National Science Foundation Grant; 2008, Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award (American Human Biology Association). Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50



Cécile Fromont History of Art, Society of Fellows; Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) Education: Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, 2008 Languages: Portuguese (4), Spanish (3), French (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: African and Colonial Latin American art and architecture; artistic form and religious thought; role of art and architecture in Portuguese Angola; Christian art and rituals and enslavement in colonial Brazil; encounters between Europeans and Africans; art and colonialism; contemporary Caribbean art Fieldwork: Brazil, Caribbean LACS courses offered: History of Art topics courses “Envisioning the Colonial Metropolis in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” “Images of the Other in Africa and Europe, from circa 1400 to Now” Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 David Frye Anthropology; Lecturer III (non-tenure track) Education: B.A., Wesleyan University, 1978 M.A., Princeton University, 1982 Ph.D., Princeton Unversity, 1989 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Ethnography and history of Mexico; the colonial construction of Indianness; religious movements in Mexico; translation Field Research: Spain, Mexico, Cuba LACS courses offered: AN 319, AN 320, LACS 399 Publications: (Trans. and ed.) The First Chronicle and Good Government, by Guaman Poma de Ayala, Hackett

Publishing, 2006 (Trans. and ed.) The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento, Written by Himself for His

Children, by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2004 “The Native Peoples of Northeastern Mexico,” Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas:

Mesoamerica, II: 89-135, 2001 Indians into Mexicans: History and Identity in a Mexican Town, Texas, 1996. Distinctions: 2001, NEA Translation Award; 1990, ACLS Award; 1983-84, Fulbright Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Olga Gallego Romance Languages and Literatures; Lecturer IV (non-tenure track) Education: Licenciatura, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1983 M.A., Pennsylvania State University,1988 Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1993 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Advanced Spanish syntax, Spanish phonetics, advanced composition and style, foreign language teaching and learning, second language acquisition, teaching materials development LACS courses offered: Spanish 275, Spanish 310, Spanish 333, Spanish 410, Spanish 411, Spanish 415, RL 528 Publications: (with Smith, Godev, Kelley, Esparragoza) Más allá de las palabras: Intermediate Spanish, Second

Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2009. (with Godev) Más allá de las palabras: Mastering Intermediate Spanish, John Wiley & Sons, 2004. (with Godev) Más allá de las palabras: A Complete Program in Intermediate Spanish, John Wiley & Sons,

2004. (with Godev) Más allá de las palabras: Intermediate Spanish, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. (Godev, Boys) “Changing an Old Concept: Mini-Lectures in a Content-Based Classroom,” NECTFL

Review 50: 36-41, 2002. Distinctions: 1997, LSA Excellence in Teaching Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Lorna Goodison English Language and Literature, CAAS; Professor Education: School of the Art Students’ League, NY, 1969 Research/Teaching Specializations: Caribbean poetry; creative writing Fieldwork: Jamaica LACS courses offered: CAAS 202 Publications: From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island, NY: Amistad, 2008. Controlling the Silver, University of Illinois Press, 2005. Fool-fool Rose is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah, Ian Randle Publishers, 2005. Travelling Mercies, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001. Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000. Turn Thanks: Poems, U. Illinois Press, 1999. Distinctions: Musgrave Gold Medal for contributions to Jamaican literature, 1999; Daily News Prize, 1997; Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1986 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50



Colin Gunckel American Culture, Screen Arts and Cultures, Latina/o Studies; Assistant Professor Education: BA, Spanish, University of Texas at Austin, 1997 BA, Media Arts, University of New Mexico, 2002 MA, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, 2004 Ph.D, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, 2009 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Mexican and Latin American cinema, U.S film history, Latino/a and Chicano/a media, Chicano/a art and culture, cinema exhibition and reception studies Field Research: Mexico Publications: “‘The War of the Accents’: The Reception of Hollywood Spanish Language Films in Los Angeles,” Film

History 20(3):325-343, 2008. “Vex Marks the Spot: The Intersection of Art and Punk in East Los Angeles,” in Vexing: Female Voices

from East L.A. Punk, Claremont Museum of Art, 2008. “The Sign of Death and the Birth of a Genre: Aztec Horror Films in Context,” in Sleaze Artists: Cinema at

the Margins of Taste, Style, and Financing, ed, Jeffery Sconce, Duke University Press, 2007. “‘Gangs Gone Wild’: Low-Budget Gang Documentaries and the Aesthetic of Exploitation,” Velvet Light

Trap 60:37-46, 2007. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 Sandra Gunning English Language and Literature, CAAS; Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 1991 Languages: French (2) Research/Teaching Specializations: 19th and 20th century African American literature, women writers, travel writing. Fieldwork: Anglophone Caribbean LACS courses offered: CAAS 558 Publications: Moving Home: Gender, Writing and Travel in the Nineteenth-Century African Diaspora, Duke University

Press, 2009 (edited, with Tera W. Hunter and Michele Mitchell) Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexaulity and African

Diasporas, Blackwell, 2004 “Kate Chopin’s Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy,” Arizona Quarterly 51, 1995 “Nancy Prince and the Politics of Mobility, Home and Diasporic (Mis)Identification,” American Quarterly 53

n. 1, 2001 “Traveling with Her Mother’s Tastes: The Negotiation of Gender, Race and Location in Wonderful

Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands,” Signs 26 n. 4, 2001 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Lorraine Gutiérrez School of Social Work, Psychology; Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Psychology, Professor of Social Work Education: B.A., Stanford, 1976 M.A., University of Chicago, 1978 M.A., University of Michigan, 1986 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989 Languages: Spanish (1) Research/Teaching Specializations: Empowerment theory and practice, the experiences of women of color, and multicultural organizational and community change strategies Field Research: Latin American immigrants in Canada and US LACS courses offered: Psychology/American Culture 317 – Community Research Publications: (with R. M. Ortega) “Multicultural Social Work Research: Implications for Social Work Education,”

Education for Multicultural Social Work Practice: Implications for Social and Economic Justice (L.M. Gutierrez, M. Zuniga & D. Lum, eds.), Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press, 2002

Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 10 Nesha Haniff CAAS, Women’s Studies; Lecturer IV (non-tenure track) Education: BA, University of Michigan MPH, University of Hawaii Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983 Languages: Jamaican Patois (4), English Pidgin Languages of the Caribbean (4), French (1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 1 Research/Teaching Specializations: HIV/AIDS education; gender and health in the Caribbean, homophobia in Jamaica Field Research: Cuba, Jamaica, Guyana LACS courses offered: Homophobia in the Black world; The Caribbean African American and Africa; Introduction to the Caribbean Publications: The Pedagogical and Ideological Practice of Microbicide Advocacy Work in Jamaica and Belize:

Conscientization and Politicization on Sexism and Homophobia Research on Advocacy in India, Nigeria and Jamaica, ICASO, Toronto, 2007

“HIV Perspectives from Jamaica” in Financing Gender Equality: Commonwealth Perspectives, Commonwealth Perspectives, 8th Ministers of Womens’ Affairs meeting in Kampala, June 2007

Stand Up for her Rights: Empowering Women to Protect Themselves from HIV, a Manual for Community Activists, Inter-American Development Bank Monographs, 2006

Abortion as a Contraceptive Choice in Guyana, New York: Population Council, 1993 Male Attitudes to Family Planning in St. Lucia, New York: IPPF,1990 Blaze a Fire: Significant Contributions of Caribbean Women, Toronto: Sister Vision, 1988. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Sioban Harlow School of Public Health; Professor of Epidemiology Education: B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1980 Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1988 Languages: Spanish (4) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 2 Research/Teaching Specializations: Reproductive and occupational epidemiology, including the health effects of housework and health status of women working in the maquiladora industry in Mexico Field Research: Mexico, Ecuador LACS courses offered: Health, Evidence and Human Rights; Reproductive Epidemiology Recent Publications: (with Lemos MC) “Equity Dimensions of Hazardous WasteGeneration in Rapidly Industrializing Cities

along the United States-Mexico Border,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 52(2):195-216, 2009.

“Quality of cause-of-death statements and its impact on infant mortality statistics in Hermosillo, Mexico,” Pan American Journal Of Public Health 25:120-127, 2009.

“Employment in the Ecuadorian Cut-Flower Industry and the Risk of Spontaneous Abortion,” BMC International Health and Human Rights 9:25, 2009.

(with Lozoff B) “Occupational Exposure to Pesticides during Pregnancy and Neurobehavioral Development of Infants and Toddlers,” Epidemiology 19(6):851-9, 2008.

(with Lozoff B) “Effect of Community of Residence on Neurobehavioral Development in Infants and Young Children in the Cayambe Region of Ecuador,” Environmental Health Perspectives 115:128-133; 2007.

(With Lozoff B) “Socio-demographic and Nutrition Correlates of Neurobehavioral Development: a study of young children in a rural region of Ecuador,” Pan American J Public Health 21(5):292-300, 2007.

Distinctions: 1999, National Institute of Aging grant; 1999, National Institute of Nursing Research grant; 1999, Burroughs Welcome Fund grant; 1992-98, National Institute of Child Health and Development grant Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 Jean-Michel Hebrard Department of History, Institute for the Humanities; Visiting Professor, 2009-2013 (non-tenure track) Education: Philosophy (Diplôme d’études supérieures, University of Montpellier, France) Linguistics (Diplôme d’études approfondies, University Paris III, France) Languages: French (5), English (5), Portuguese (5), Spanish (2), Italian (1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: Brazil (co-direction): 5, US (committee member): 2, France (master director): 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: Colonial history, cultural history; identity and naming in slave societies of the Atlantic world (Brazil, Saint-Domingue, Senegambia), 18th-19th centuries; circulation of African descendants in the Atlantic world, 18th-20th centuries (Senegambia, Saint-Domingue, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, France, Belgian) Field Research: Brazil, Dominican Republic, Senegal, Gambia, Mexico LACS courses offered: Getting the documents to speak; The catholic empires of the Atlantic world Publications: (with Rebecca Scott) “Les papiers de la liberté: Une mère africaine et ses enfants à l’époque de la

révolution haïtienne,” Genèses: Sciences sociales et histoire, n. 66 (March 2007), pp. 4-29. “Esclavage et dénomination: imposition et appropriation d’un nom chez les esclaves de la Bahia au XIXe

siècle,” Cahiers du Brésil contemporain, 53-54, 2003, pp. 31-92. (with Hebe M. Mattos and Rebecca Scott) “Écrire l’esclavage, Écrire la liberté: Pratiques administratives,

notariales et juridiques dans les sociétés esclavagistes et postesclavagistes, approche comparative (Brésil, Antilles, Louisiane) – Introduction,” Cahiers du Brésil contemporain, no. 53-54 (2003), p. 5-11.




Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola Romance Languages and Literatures; Professor Education: B.A., Universidad de Valencia (Spain), 1987 M.A., West Virginia University, 1989 Ph.D., University Southern California, 1994 Languages: Spanish (5) Portuguese (3) French (3) Catalan (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: 20th-century Spanish American literature and culture; contemporary narrative, critical theory; censorship and publishing; literature of the “boom”; postmodernism; popular culture; transatlantic studies; literature of the Americas; testimonial narratives; film and fiction Field Research: Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba LACS courses offered: SP 320, 332, 341, 355, 368, 381, 475, 485 Publications: The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco’ s Spain, SUNY Press, 2007 “Sujetos a la censura: Mario Vargas Llosa y el mercado literario de la España franquista,” Journal of

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 9.1-2: 59-79 (2003) Narrativas híbridas: parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporánea de las Américas. Madrid:

Editorial Verbum, 2000 “Consuming Aesthetics: Seix Barral and José Donoso in the Field of Latin American Literary Production,”

MLN: Modern Languages Notes 115: 323-339 (2000). Distinctions: Fulbright Grant, 2010; UM Michigan Humanities Award, 2009 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof History, American Culture; Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., Princeton, 2002 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 2 Research/Teaching Specializations: Modern Latin American and Caribbean history; international migrations; music and popular culture; community research and oral history Field Research: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba LACS courses offered: The Latin Tinge: Social History of Latin Music; Writing Freedom in the Caribbean; Colonial Latin America; History of Latinos in the U.S.; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latino Studies Publications: A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press,

2008. “The World of Arturo Schomburg” in Afro-Latin@s in the United States: A Reader, ed. Miriam Jiménez

Román and Juan Flores, Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. “Michigan” in Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, ed. Latino America: State by State. Oxford: Greenwood Press.

2008. “Arturo A. Schomburg” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Eds.

Deena J. González, Suzanne Oboler, et. al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. “Yankee Go Home . . . and Take Me with You: Imperialism and Migration in the Dominican Republic,

1961-1966,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 28, nos. 57/58 (July 2004). “The Prehistory of the Cadenú: Dominican identity, social class, and the problem of mobility, 1965-1978,”

in Immigrants in America: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Immigrant Experience in a Global Era. Eds. Donna Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach. (New York: Routledge: 2003).

“The Migrations of Arturo Schomburg: On Being Antillano, Negro, and Puerto Rican in New York, 1891-1917,” Journal of American Ethnic History 21, no. 1 (2001): 3-49.

Distinctions: Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004) Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Robert Jansen Sociology, Society of Fellows; Assistant Professor Education: BA, Linfield College, 1999 MA, UCLA, 2003, PhD UCLA, 2009 Languages: Spanish (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: Sociology of Latin America; Comparative-Historical and Ethnographic Methods; Theory; Political Sociology; Cultural Sociology Field Research: Peru LACS courses offered: Sociology 495.001 (W 10) Publications: Review of Laura Gotkowitz, A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in

Bolivia, 1880-1952. (Durham: Duke University Press. 2007.) Law and History Review 27(3): 721-722. (Fall 2009).

“Jurassic Technology? Sustaining Presumptions of Intersubjectivity in a Disruptive Environment.” Theory and Society 37(2): 127-159. (April 2008). “Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures,” American Journal of Sociology 112(4) (January 2007): 953-1007.

Distinctions: University of Michigan Society of Fellows; Andrew W Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Sociology; Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award; American Sociological Association section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 2004. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 Katherine Jenckes Romance Languages and Literatures; Assistant Professor Education: B.A., Reed College, 1992 Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2001 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Poetic language and testimony in post-dictatorship Chile and Argentina LACS courses offered: Literatura y cultura chilena 1960-presente; Latin American Poetry Publications: Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History, SUNY Press, 2008; “The

‘New Latin Americanism,’ or the End of Regionalist Thinking?,” The New Centennial Review 4.3 (2004)

“Against a Sepulchral Rhetoric of the Past: Poetry and History in the Early Borges,” Latin American Literary Review, 62 (2004)

“Materialidad y hegemonia: Laclau, de Man y los limites del lenguaje,” Mimesis y Politica (2004) “The Work of Literature and the Unworking of Community, or Writing in Lumpirica,” The New Centennial

Review, 3 (2003): 67-80. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Paul Christopher Johnson History, CAAS; Director, Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History; Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1997 Languages: Portuguese (5), Spanish (5), French (3), German (2), Garifuna (1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: African diaspora, religion, “race” and popular culture in Brazil and the Caribbean; modern history of Brazil Field Research: Brazil, Honduras LACS courses offered: Religion in Latin America Publications: Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (The University of California

Press, 2007). Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé, Oxford, 2002 “Migrating Bodies, Circulating Signs: Brazilian Candomblé, the Garifuna of the Caribbean, and the

Category of ‘Indigenous Religions,’” History of Religions 41 (2002): 301-27 “Models of the Body in the Ethnographic Study of Religion: The Cases of Brazilian Candomblé and the

Garífuna of the Caribbean,” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 14:170-95. Distinctions: 2007, Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association; 2003, Best Book Award (analytic-descriptive), American Academy of Religion; 2003-2004, NEH Fellowship Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Sherrie Kossoudji School of Social Work, Economics; Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., Michigan, 1984 Languages: Spanish (3) Research/Teaching Specializations: Unauthorized migration to the United States; transnational populations, immigrant assimilation; female immigrants and work Field Research: Mexico Publications: “IRCA’s Impact on the Occupational Concentration and Mobility of Newly-Legalized Mexican Men,” in

How labor migrants fare, Population Economics series. Heidelberg and New York: Springer, pp. 333-50, 2004.

Review of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an era of Economic Integration by Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone. 2004. Journal of Economic Literature.

“Playing Cat and Mouse at the U.S./Mexico Border,” Demography, 29(2): 159-92 (1992). (With D. Cobb-Clark)

“Finding Good Opportunities within Unauthorized Markets: U.S. Occupational Mobility for Male Latino Workers,” International Migration Review, 30(4) (1996).




Conrad Kottak Anthropology; Professor Education: A.B., Columbia University, 1963 Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966 Languages: Portuguese (4), French (4), Spanish (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 25 Research/Teaching Specializations: Emerging ecological awareness and environmental risk perception in Brazil; mass media, especially the cultural context and impact of television in Brazil; development and social change Field Research: Brazil Publications: Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village, McGraw Hill, 3rd. ed., 1999 Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity, 7th edition, 1997 (with A.C.B. Costa et al.) “Environmental Awareness and Risk Perception in Brazil,” Bulletin of the

National Association of Practicing Anthropologists, (1995), 71-87. Distinctions: 2008, elected to National Academy of Sciences; 2005, elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1999, AAA/Mayfield Award for Excellence in the Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology; 1996, LSA Excellence in Education Award; 1992, LSA Excellence in Research Award; 1991, State of Michigan Teaching Excellence Award; 1991-95, NSF award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 30 Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Romance Languages and Literatures, American Culture; Associate Professor Education: Ph.D., Columbia, 1999 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (5), French (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: Hispanic Caribbean and Brazilian literature; theater, performance, and cultural studies; gender studies LACS courses offered: AC 213, AC 243, AC 327, AC 381, AC 601, AC 699, AC 801, SP 420, SP 428, SP 430, SP 440, SP 448, SP 821 Publications: Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora, University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2009. “Freddie Mercado y el travestismo radical: entre Doña Fela, Myrta Silva, gallo/gallina y muñeca

esperpéntica”, Representación y fronteras: el performance en los límites del género, eds. Slaughter and Moreno, Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, 2009.

“Hacia una historia del cine y video puertorriqueño queer,” Miradas al margen: Reflexiones sobre el cine de América Latina y el Caribe, ed. Luis Duno-Gottberg, Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, 2009.

“Queer Diasporas, Boricua Lives: A Meditation on Sexile” (2008), Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 77 (Special Issue on Immigration and Culture) 41 (2): 294-301.

“Trans/ Bolero/ Drag/ Migration: Music, Cultural Translation, and Diasporic Puerto Rican Theatricalities” (2008), WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 36 (3-4): 190-209.

Distinctions: 2001-2005, Elected Member, Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group on Puerto Rican Literature and Culture; 2003-2004, Elected Chair, Lesbian and Gay Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



David Lam Economics; Professor Education: B.A., Fort Lewis College, 1976 M.A., University of Texas, Austin, 1978 Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1983 Languages: Portuguese (3), Spanish (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 12 Research/Teaching Specializations: Economic demography, economic development, applied microeconomic theory, economics of the family, economics of education, economics of Brazil, economics of South Africa Field Research: Brazil LACS courses offered: EC 466, Economics 667, Economics of Population, Economics 666, Development Economics Publications: (with S Duryea, J Hoek, D Levison) “Dynamics of Child Labor: Labor Force Entry and Exit in Urban

Brazil,” in P Orazem, Z Tzannatos, G Sedlacek, editors, Child Labor and Education in Latin America: An Economic Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 69-86.

(with S Duryea, D Levison) “Effects of Economic Shocks on Children’s Employment and Schooling in Brazil,” Journal of Development Economics, September 2007, 84(1): 188-214.

(with L Marteleto) “A Escolaridade das Crianças Brasileiras durante a Transição Demográfica: Aumento no Tamanho da Coorte versus Diminuição no Tamanho da Família,” Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico (Brazil), August 2006, 36(2): 319-341.

“Small Families and Large Cohorts: The Impact of the Demographic Transition on Schooling in Brazil,” in Cynthia Lloyd et al., eds., The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Selected Studies, National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2006, pp. 56-83.

Distinctions: 1989-1990, Fulbright Research Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 Rebecca Lange Geology; Professor Education: B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1983 Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1989 Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: Mexican Volcanic Arc; magmatism and volcanism Field Research: Mexico Publications: (with SE Ownby and CM Hall) “The eruptive history of the Mascota volcanic field, western Mexico: Age

and volume constraints on the origin of andesite among a diverse suite of lamprophyric and calc-alkaline lavas,” Journal of Volcanological and Geothermal Research, 177:1077-1091, 2008.

(with S Ownby, H Delgado Granados, and CM Hall) “Volcán Tancítaro, Michoacán, Mexico: 40Ar/39Ar constraints on its history of sector collapse,” Journal of Volcanological and Geothermal Research, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2006.10.009, 2007.

(with CB Lewis-Kenedi, CM Hall, and H Delgado Granados) “The eruptive history of the Tequila volcanic field, western Mexico: Ages, volumes and relative proportions of lava types,” Bulletin of Volcanology, 67: 391-414, 2005.

Distinctions: F. W. Clarke Medal (Geochemical Society), 1995; University of Michigan Teaching Award, 1997 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Maria Carmen de Mello Lemos School of Natural Resources & Environment; Associate Professor Education: B.S., Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 1980 M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995 Languages: Portuguese (5), Spanish (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 7 Research/Teaching Specializations: Human dimensions of global climate change in LA countries (water, agriculture and disaster-relief), the role of technocrats and popular social movements in policymaking in Brazil Field Research: Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia LACS courses offered: ENVIRON 313, SNRE 563, SNRE 555 Publications: “What influences innovation adoption by water managers? Climate information use in Brazil and the US,”

Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(6):1388-1396, 2008. (with EL Tompkins and E. Boyd) “A less disastrous disaster: managing response to climate-driven

hazards in the Cayman Islands and NE Brazil,” Global Environmental Change, 18:736–745, 2008. “Whose water is it anyway? Water management, knowledge, and equity in NE Brazil,” Water, Place and

Equity, ed. John Whiteley et al., MIT Press, pp. 249-270, 2008. (with JT Roberts) “Environmental Policymaking Networks and the Future of the Amazon,” Philosophical

Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363 no. 1498 (on-line doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.0038), 2008. (with H Eakin) “Adaptation and the state: Latin America and the challenge of capacity-building under

globalization,” Global Environmental Change, 16 no. 1:7-18, 2006. Distinctions: James Martin 21st Century School Fellow Professor, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, 2006-2007; Kavli Fellow, US National Academy of Sciences, 2007; National Academies of Science, NRC Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, member 2008- ; Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Daniel Levine Political Science; Professor Education: B.A., Dartmouth College, 1964 M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1965 M.Phil, Yale University, 1967 Ph.D., Yale University, 1970 Languages: Spanish (5), French (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 10 Research/Teaching Specializations: Venezuela, Andes, Religion and Politics, Social Movements, Democracy and Democratization Field Research: Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela LACS courses offered: PolSci 346, 649, 654; CICS 401 Publications: Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism (Princeton 1993) Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America (Michigan 1992) “The Future of Christianity in Latin America,” Journal of Latin American Studies, February 2009 “La lógica de la democracia Bolivariana,” in Manuel Hidalgo, ed., La metamorfosis de Venezuela en

tiempos de Chávez (1999-2009), Editorial Universitaria de Salamanca, 2010 “Pluralism as Challenge and Opportunity,” in Hagopian, ed., Contemporary Catholicism, Religious

Pluralism, and Democracy in Latin America, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009, pp. 405-428 “The Future as Seen from Aparecida,” in R. Pelton, ed, Aparecida: Quo Vadis, University of Scranton

Press, 2008, pp. 173-190 Distinctions: 1997, Crayenborg Lecture, University of Leiden, Netherlands; 1990, Fulbright Senior Lecturer/Research Award, Peru; 1978, Fulbright, Guatemala Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 60



Olga Lopez-Cotin Residential College, Senior Lecturer IV (non-tenure track) Education: Lic., Universidad de Sevilla, 1987 M.A., University of Michigan, 1989 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: 20th Century Latin American literature, gender and cultural Field Research: Chile LACS courses offered: RCLang 154, 194; two regular seminars (RCLang 324) on Latin America: Women Writers in Latin America: Home, Nation and Identity in the 20th Century The City Imagined: Visual and Literary Narratives on Latin American Urban Spaces Publications: “Andrea Maturana o la erótica del paisaje urbano.” Anales de la literatura chilena 3 (2002) “La vida íntima de Marie Goetz de Mariana Cox de Stuven: Hacia una construcción del sujeto femenino,”

Anales de la literatura chilena 1: 53-70 (2000) “‘Maldita yo entre las mujeres’ de Mercedes Valdivieso: una arqueología del diabolismo feminino,”

Cincinnati Romance Review, 15, (1996), 206-213. Distinctions: UM Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, 2009 Language Pedagogy: 1995, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Technology Workshop, Middlebury College Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 75 Jody Lori School of Nursing, Clinical Assistant Professor Education: BSN, University of Michigan, 1980 MS, University of Michigan, 1992 Languages: Spanish (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: International health; nurse-midwifery Field Research: Guatemala Publications: Yi, C., Lori, J.R. & Martyn, K. (2008). Development of prenatal event history calendar with African

American women. JOGNN, 37(4) Ford, B, Lantz, P, Lori, J., et al. (2005). Health disparities: poverty, discrimination, and the lifecourse of

African American women, African American Perspectives, Fall Issue Ransom, S, McEntree, J, Siefert, K, Lori, J., et al. (2005). Interdisciplinary solutions for conditions leading

to African American birth outcome disparities, African American Perspectives, Fall Issue. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Betsy Lozoff Medical School, Center for Human Growth and Development, and School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences Education: B.A., Radcliffe College, 1965 M.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1971 M.S., Case Western Reserve University, 1981 Languages: Spanish (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 2 Research/Teaching Specializations: Iron deficiency and infant behavior; cross-cultural issues in Pediatrics Field Research: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Chile LACS Courses offered: Pediatrics 499, Pediatrics 599 Publications: (with Ceballo, R., Ramirez, C., Castillo, M.) Precursors of domestic violence and women’s mental health

in Chile. Psychol. Women Q., 28:298-308, 2004. (with Corapci, F., Smith, J.) The role of verbal competence and multiple risk on the internalizing problems

of Costa Rican youth. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1094:278-281, 2006. (with Angelilli, M., Zatakia, J., Jacobson, S.W., Calatroni, A., Beard, J.) Iron status of inner-city African-

American infants, Am. J. Hematol., 82:112-121, 2007. (with Lugo, E., Harper, G.) Unheard voices: Exploring factors that promote resiliency for Costa Rican

youth at risk for depression. Interam. J. Psychol., in press Distinctions: National Institutes of Health (NICHD) Merit Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 35 Bruce Mannheim Anthropology; Professor Education: B.A., City College-CUNY, 1972, M.A., University of Chicago, 1977 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1983 Languages: Quechua (5), Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 10 Research/Teaching Specializations: Deterritorialized area studies; Colonial Latin American historiography; Quechua linguistics and linguistic anthropology; Andean language, culture, and history Field Research: Peru, Bolivia LACS courses offered: LACS 471-476; AN 676 Publications: “Gramática colonial, contexto religioso,” Cristianismo y poder en el Perú colonial, ed. Jean-Jacques Decoster and Carolyn Dean, 2001 (with K. E. Van Vleet) “The dialogics of Quechua narrative,” American Anthropologist, 100(2), (1998),

326-346 “A Nation Surrounded,” Native Traditions in the Post-Conquest World, Boone E. and T. Cummins eds.

Dumbarton Oaks, 1998 (Ed. with D. Tedlock) The Dialogic Emergence of Culture, Illinois, 1995 The Language of the Inka Since the European Invasion, Texas, 1991 Distinctions: President, Society for Latin American Anthropology; 1999-2000, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow; 1995-1996, John Simon Guggenheim Fellow Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Joyce Marcus Anthropology, Museum of Anthropology (Curator of Latin American Archaeology); Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor of Social Evolution Education: A.B., University of California-Berkeley, 1969 M.A., Harvard University, 1971 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974 Languages: Spanish (4) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 20 Research/Teaching Specializations: Ethnohistory of the Maya; archaeology of Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru; Mesoamerican writing systems Field Research: Guatemala, Mexico, Peru LACS courses offered: AN 284 (co-taught with K Flannery in Winter), AN 394, AN 489, AN 617, AN 689, AN 417, AN 617, AN 683, AN 663-664, AN 683 Publications: Monte Albán. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009 (with P. R. Williams) Andean Civilization. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2009 (with J. A. Sabloff) The Ancient City. SAR Press, 2008 (with K.V. Flannery) Excavations at San José Mogote 1: Household Archaeology. Museum of

Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2005 (with K.V. Flannery), The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec. Percheron Press,

2003 Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations, Princeton,

1992 Distinctions: Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology, Chair of Anthropology, National Academy of Sciences; 1997, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1997, National Academy of Sciences; 1995, LSA Excellence in Research Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Elizabeth Moje School of Education; Professor Education: B.A., Concordia College, 1983 M.A., Eastern Michigan University, 1990 Ph.D., Purdue University, 1994 Languages: French (3), Spanish (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 20 Research/Teaching Specializations: Literacy theory; youth culture and identity; research methods (ethnography and mixed methods, in particular); literacy teaching practices LACS courses offered: ED 118 (winter 2011); ED 402 (winter 2010); ED 706/737 (winter 2012) Publications: (with CJ Lewis and P Enciso) Eds., Reframing sociocultural research on literacy: Identity, Agency, and

Power, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007. (with DG O'Brien) Eds., Constructions of literacy: Studies of Lliteracy Teaching and Learning in and out of

Secondary Schools, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001. "A call for new research on new and multi-literacies.” Research in the Teaching of English 43:4 (2009):

348-362. “Foregrounding the disciplines in secondary literacy teaching and learning: A call for change,” Journal of

Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52:2 (2008): 96-107. Distinctions: Edward B. Fry Book Award, National Reading Conference, 2007; Arthur F. Thurnau University Professorship, University of Michigan, 2004 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Anthony Mora History, American Culture, Latina/o Studies; Assistant Professor Education: PhD, Notre Dame, 2002 Languages: Spanish (3) Research/Teaching Specializations: Historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality; how racial and national ideologies influenced the meaning of Mexican identity along the nineteenth-century U.S./Mexico border LACS courses offered: Introduction to Latino Studies (Fall 2009, 2010) History of Latinos in U.S. (Winter 2008, 2010) Topics in Chicano History (Fall 2007, 2008) Historiography of the U.S. Mexican Border (Winter 2008, 2010) Publications: Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912, Duke University Press,

2010. “Resistance and Accommodation in a Border Parish,” Western Historical Quarterly, Fall 2005, Vol. 36, N.

3, pp. 301-326. “A Fixed Border’s Shifting Meanings: The United States and Mexico, 1821 to 2007,” in Labor Market

Issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. Distinctions: Arrington Prucha Prize in Western American Religious History, 2006; Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 2006-2007. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Philip Myers Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Associate Professor Education: B.A., Swarthmore College, 1969 Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1975 Languages: Spanish (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 20 Research/Teaching Specializations: Natural history, patterns of reproduction, population biology, and systematics of small mammals, New World tropics Field Research: Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Suriname LACS courses offered: Biology of Mammals (alternate winters); Animal Diversity (alternate winters); Field Mammalogy (alternate summers) Publications: (with A. Taber and I. Gamarra de Fox) “La mastozoologia en Paraguay,” in G. Ceballos and J. A.

Simonetti, eds., Diversidad y Conservacion de los Mamiferos Neotropicales, Mexico: UNAM, 2002, pp. 453-502

(with J.L. Patton, and M. F. Smith) “Vicariant versus Gradient Models of Diversification: The Small Mammal Fauna of Eastern Andean Slopes of Peru,” Vertebrates in the Tropics, G. Peters and R. Hutterer, eds., Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, 1990

(with J. L. Patton and M. F. Smith) “Revision of the boliviensis group of Akodon (Muridae: Sigmodontinae), with Emphasis on Peru and Bolivia,” Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan (1990) 177:1-105.

Distinctions: 1999, Joseph Grinnell Award for Excellence in Teaching, American Society of Mammalogists; 1977-99, several NSF Grants Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Daniel Noemí Voionmaa Romance Languages and Literatures; Assistant Professor Education: M.A. Universidad de Chile, 1998 Ph.D., Yale, 2003 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: Contemporary Latin American literature and culture; globalization, realism and avant garde, aesthetics and politics, 21st-century Latin American narratives Field Research: Southern Cone, Ecuador, Colombia LACS courses offered: SP 335, 373, 435, 467, 485, 855 Publications: Leer la pobreza en América Latina: Literatura y velocidad. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2004. “De Puño y letra: Justicia, documento y ética,” Eltit: redes locales/ globales, ed. Rubí Carreño Bolívar,

Madrid/ Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert Verlag, 2008: 201-216. “Y después de lo post, ¿qué? Narrativa latinoamericana hoy,” Entre lo local y lo global: La narrativa

latinoamericana en el cambio de siglo, ed. J. Montoya Juárez, Madrid: Vervuert, 2008: 83-99. “The ‘Uchronic’ City: Writing (after) the Catastrophe,” Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin

America, eds. Lambright and Guerrero, U Minnesota Press, 2007: 180-195. (with Luis Martín-Cabrera) “Class Conflict, State of Exception and Radical Justice in Machuca by Andrés

Wood,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, April 2007: 63-80. “Porque los sueños también se desvanecen en el aire: realismo y muerte en América Latina,” Persona y

Sociedad 20:2 (2006): 145-160. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Robert Ortega School of Social Work; Associate Professor Education: B.A., University of Michigan, 1977 M.S.W., University of Michigan, 1983 M.A., University of Michigan, 1987 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1991 Languages: Spanish (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 11 Research/Teaching Specializations: Impact of NAFTA on US/Mexico/Canada youth, child maltreatment, clinical practice in social work, community-based research LACS courses offered: Introduction to Interpersonal Practice; Interpersonal Practice in Groups Publications: (with Grogan-Kaylor et al.) “Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Initial Child Welfare Experience,” in M.B.

Webb et al., eds. Child Welfare and Child Well-Being: New Perspectives from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

( with C Hutchins and M Quintanilla) Nuestra Familia, Nuestra Cultura: Promoting & Supporting Latino Families in Adoption and Foster Care. AdoptUSKids Program, Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 2008.

(with LM Gutierrez and A Yeakley) Latinos and Social Work Education: A Comprehensive Bibliography with Annotations. Council on Social Work Education’s Education Series, 2006.

“Latinos, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse,” Culture and Interpersonal Violence, eds. R. Fong, R. McRoy and C. Ortiz. Alexandria, Va: CSWE Publications, 2006.

(with LM Gutierrez) “Multicultural Social Work Research: Implications for Social Work Education,” Education for Multicultural Social Work Practice, eds. LM Gutierrez, M. Zuniga and D. Lum, Alexandria: CSWE Publications, 2004.

Distinctions: 2007 University of Michigan Latino Circle Award for Exemplary Service; 2006 University of Michigan Latino/a Task Force, Faculty Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Maxwell Owusu Anthropology, CAAS; Professor Education: B.Sc., London School of Economics, 1963 M.A., University of Chicago, 1966 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1968 Languages: Spanish (3) Research/Teaching Specializations: Anthropology of law; socioeconomic development and underdevelopment; Caribbean society LACS courses offered: AN 414 / CAAS 444, AN 439 Distinctions: 1993, LSA Excellence in Education Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 Mark Padilla School of Public Health; Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education Education: B.A., University of New Mexico, 1994 MPH, Emory 1998 Ph.D., Emory University, 2003 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 5 Research/Teaching Specializations: HIV/AIDS prevention in the Dominican Republic; international health and program evaluation in Latin America Field Research: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, New York LACS courses offered: Gender, Sexuality, Health and Human rights in Latin American and the Caribbean (Fall); Qualitative Methods in Public Health (Winter); Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives (Fall) Publications: (with V Guilamo-Ramos, A Bouris and A Matiz-Reyes) “HIV/AIDS and Tourism in the Caribbean: An

Ecological Systems Perspective,” American Journal of Public Health, 2010. “Regional Masculinities, Tourism Labor, and Sexual Risk: Toward a Structural Framework for

Reproductive Health Research in the Caribbean.” Carolyn Sargent and Carole Browner (eds.), Globalization, Reproduction, and the State. Duke University Press, 2010.

“The Embodiment of Tourism among Bisexually-behaving Dominican Male Sex Workers.” Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37:5 (2008): 783-793.

“The Limits of ‘Heterosexual AIDS’: Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic,” R. Hahn and M. Inhorn (eds.), Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2008.

Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

“‘Western Union Daddies’ and their quest for authenticity: An ethnographic study of the Dominican gay sex tourism industry.” Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 53 (2007): 1/2: 241-275.

Distinctions: John Money Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, for “distinguished work on masculinity and sexuality in the Dominican Republic,” 2009; Ruth Benedict Award for best solo-authored book in the area of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies in anthropology, for Caribbean Pleasure Industry, 2008; Rockefeller Foundation,Bellagio, Italy, 2006 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Jeffery Paige Sociology; Professor Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1968 Languages: Spanish (4) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 8 Research/Teaching Specializations: Social origins of dictatorship; democracy and socialist revolution in Central America; coffee elites of El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua Field Research: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica LACS courses offered: SOC 450 Publications: “‘In a War against the Spanish’: Andean Protection and African Resistance on the Northern Peruvian

Coast,” The Americas, July 2006. “Coffee, Revolution, and Democracy in Central America,” in Nature, Raw Materials and Political Economy

(ed. Paul Ciccantell, Gay Seidman, David Smith), pp. 333-352, Elsevier, 2005. Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America, Harvard University Press,

1998. “Agrarian Policy and the Agrarian Bourgeoisie in Revolutionary Nicaragua,” in Globalization, Urbanization

and the State: Selected Studies on Contemporary Latin America (ed. S.R. Pattnayak), University Press of America, 1996.

“Coffee and Power in El Salvador,” Latin American Research Review, 28(3): 7-40 (1993). Distinctions: 1998 Finalist, Lionel Gelber Award for Best Book in International Relations Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 75 Julia Paley Anthropology; Assistant Professor Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1986 M.A., Harvard, 1992 Ph.D., Harvard, 1994 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Multiple meanings and practices of democracy; participatory democracy, Ecuador’s indigenous movement, and democracy promotion by international financial institutions Field Research: Chile, Ecuador LACS courses offered: Ethnography of Latin America (Fall) Publications: Democracy: Anthropological Approaches, Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008 “Accountable Democracy: Citizens’ Impact on Public Decision Making in Postdictatorship Chile,”

American Ethnologist 31(4): 497-513 (2004) “Toward an Anthropology of Democracy,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 31:469-96 (2002) Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile, Berkeley: University of

California Press (2001) “Making Democracy Count: Opinion Polls & Market Surveys in the Chilean Political Transition,” Cultural

Anthropology 16(2): 135-164 (2001) Distinctions: 2006, National Science Foundation Grant; 2003, Fulbright Scholar; 2001, American Ethnological Society Sharon Stephens Prize for the Best First Book by a Junior Scholar Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Susan Scott Parrish English Language and Literature; Associate Professor Education: B.A., Princeton University, 1986 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1990 Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998 Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 12 Research/Teaching Specializations: British Caribbean, 17th-18th centuries LACS courses offered: Graduate Course: “Hazarding the Atlantic in the Long 17th Century” (Fall, 09) Undergraduate Course: “Travels and Travails in New Worlds, 1600-1860” (Win, 2010) Publications: American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (Omohundro Institute

of Early American History and Culture/UNCP, 2006). “Richard Ligon and the Atlantic Science of Commonwealths,” William and Mary Quarterly (April 2010). Distinctions: Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize for American Curiosity Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Silvia Pedraza Sociology; Professor Education: B.A., University of Michigan, 1967 M.A. Education, University of Michigan, 1971 M.A. Sociology, University of Chicago, 1977 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980 Languages: Spanish (5), French (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: Immigration, race and ethnicity in America; Latin American and Asian immigration to the U.S.; Latin American development Field Research: Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Spain LACS courses offered: SOC 404 / AC 404, SOC 504 / AC 504 Publications: Political Disaffection in Cuba’s Revolution and Exodus, Cambridge University Press (2007) “Cuba’s Catholic Church and the Contemporary Exodus,” Religion, Culture, and Society: The Case of

Cuba, ed. Margaret E. Crahan, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, 2003 “Democratización y emigración: el exodo cubano y el desarrollo de la sociedad civil,” Democracia,

Desarrollo, y Sociedad Civil en Cuba: La Unión Europea Frente al Problema Cubano, ed. Joaquín Roy y Fabio Murrieta, Cádiz: Editorial Aduana Vieja, 2004

“Pope John Paul II’s Visit and the Process of Democratic Transition in Cuba,” The Pope’s Overture and Civic Space in Cuba, ed. A. Stevens-Arroyo, University of Scranton Press, 2002

(with R.G. Rumbaut) Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America, Wadsworth, 1996.

Distinctions: The Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, Latino/a Sociology Section, 2009. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50



Ivette Perfecto School of Natural Resources & Environment; Professor Education: B.S., Universidad Sagrado Corazón, Puerto Rico, 1977 M.S., University of Michigan, 1982 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 11 Research/Teaching Specializations: Agro-ecology, tropical ecology, and biological diversity Field Research: Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Mexico LACS courses offered: SNRE 270 (Fall), SNRE 318 (Winter), SNRE 218 (Fall), SNRE 639.075 Publications: (with Ferguson, Morales, González Rojas, Íñiguez Pérez, Martínez Torres, McAfee, Nigh, Philpott, Soto

Pinto, Vandermeer, Vidal, Ávila Romero, Bernardino, Realpozo Reye) “Bosques, agricultura y sociedad: Cultivando nuevas alianzas,” MA Altieri (ed.), Vertientes del pensamiento agroecológico, Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología, Medellín, Colombia, 2009.

(with Nivia, Ahumada, Luz, Perez, Santamaria et al.) “Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: Context, Evolution and Current Situation,” International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: LAC Report. Washington: Island Press, 2009.

(with Vandermeer and Wright) Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty. Earthscan, London (2009).

(with Lin and Vandermeer) “Synergies between agricultural intensification and climate change could create surprising vulnerabilities for crops,” BioScience 58 (2008): 847-854.

(with J. Vandermeer) “Biodiversity conservation in tropical agroecosystems: A new paradigm,” Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1134 (2008): 173-200.

(with William-Guillen and Vandermeer) “Bats Control Arthropod Populations in a Neotropical Agroforestry System,” Science 320 (2008): 70.

(with J. Vandermeer) “Spatial pattern and ecological process in the coffee agroecosystem,” Ecology 89 (2008): 915-920. (Special Feature).

Distinctions: George Willie Pack Professorship; SNRE Outstanding Faculty Award, 2007-2008; Fulbright Scholar (Brazil, 2004-2005) Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 Acrisio Pires Linguistics, Romance Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor Education: B.A., University of Brasilia M.A. University of Brasilia Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 2001 Languages: Portuguese (5) French (5) Spanish (3) Italian (2) German (1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 5 Research/Teaching Specializations: Comparative linguistics, syntax, language change, Romance linguistics (Portuguese, French and Spanish) and psycholinguistics: first and second language acquisition/learning. Field Research: Brazil, Portugal LACS courses offered: LING 446/LACS 446 – Comparative Linguistics; LING 492/792 – Comparative syntax: Variation and Change in the Romance Languages Publications: The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains: Gerunds and Infinitives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. (edited, with Jason Rothman) Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition: Case

Studies across Portuguese. In Series Studies on Language Acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.




Monica Ponce de Leon Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning; Dean and Professor Education: B.Arch, University of Miami, 1989 M.A.U.D., Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1991 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Latin American architecture; eco-tourism; public infrastructure for the tropics Field Research: Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile Publications: “Villanueva – globalization and culture,” in Latin American Architecture 1929-1960: Contemporary

Reflections, ed. Carlos Brillembourg, Monacelli Press, pp.144-147 (2004) (with Ana Maria Duran) “The Lesser Evil: Eco-Tourism in the Amazon Rain Forest,” GAM Graz

Architecture Magazine, 1: 98-111 (2004) “Obras” and “Ensenanza,” in III Foro Internacional de Arquitectura: Entre la práctica y la enseñanza,

Colegio de Arquitectura de la USFQ, Quito, Ecuador, pp. 72-97 and 98-111 (2003) guest editor, “Import-Export: Latin American Urbanities,” AULA: Architecture and Urbanism in Las

Americas, no. 4 (2003) “Carlos Raul Villanueva -- 1950s Architecture in Venezuela,” AULA: Architecture and Urbanism in Las

Americas, 2: 78-85 (2001) Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Daniel Ramirez History, American Culture; Assistant Professor Education: B.A., Yale, 1995 M.A. Duke University, 2001 PhD, Duke University, 2005 Languages: Spanish (5), French (2), Portuguese (1) Research/Teaching Specializations: Mexico, Religion, Migration, Indigenous Studies Field Research: Mexico LACS courses offered: Latina/o Religions and Cultures, Fall 2009, Winter 2010 Evangelicalisms of the Americas, Fall 2010 (doctoral seminar) Latin American Religious History, Fall 2011 (doctoral seminar) Publications: “‘Call Me Bitter’: Life and Death in the Diasporic Borderlands and the Challenges/Opportunities for

Norteamericano Churches,” Perspectivas, Hispanic Theological Initiative Occasional Papers, Princeton Seminary (Fall 2007): 39-66.

“Mexico,” entry in Hans Hildebrand, ed., Encyclopedia of Protestantism (Routledge, 2004). “Creencias migrantes o peligro transgénico”: Reconsiderando el pluralismo religioso y el flujo cultural en

circuitos de diáspora,” Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos Año 17, No. 52, 2003. Distinctions: Louisville Institute First Book Grant for Minority Scholars, “Migrating Faith: A Social and Cultural History of Pentecostalism in the U.S. and Mexico, 1906-1966,” 2008-09 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Yeidy Rivero Program in American Culture and Department of Screen Arts and Cultures; Associate Professor Education: B.A., University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1991 M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993 Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2000 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations Supervised to Date: 1 Research/Teaching Specializations: Television studies; race and media; global media; Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African Diaspora Studies Publications: Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television. Durham, NC: Duke

University Press, 2005. Distinctions: 2008 Center for Latin American and Spanish Caribbean Studies (CLACS) research grant. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50 Elizabeth Roberts Anthropology, Residential College; Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Reproductive technology and ethics, Andes, medical anthropology, race, religion, bio-technology Field Research: Ecuador LACS courses offered: Critical Theories of Medicine and Healing; Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society; Latin American Ethnography (new course, Fall 2010) Publications: ”The Traffic Between Women: Female Alliance and Familial Egg Donation in Ecuador.” In Assisting

Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies, Marcia Inhorn and Daphna Carmeli eds., Berghahn Books, 2009.

“Biology, Sociality and Reproductive Modernity in Ecuadorian In-Vitro Fertilization,” in Making Biosociality: Biologies and Identities in Formation, Sahra Gibbon, Carlos Novas eds., Routledge, 2008.

“Extra Embryos: Ethics, cryopreservation and IVF in Ecuador and elsewhere,” American Ethnologist 34/1, 188-199 (2007).

“God’s Laboratory: Religious Rationalities and Modernity in Ecuadorian In-Vitro Fertilization,” Culture Medicine and Psychiatry 30/4, 507-536 (2006).

“Imagining Surrogacy Discourses: Between Feminine Power and Exploitation,” in Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent, eds., Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood, U. California Press, 1998, pp. 93-110.




Ian Robinson Residential College, Sociology; Lecturer IV and Research Scientist (non-tenure track) Education: B.A., Hons., Queen’s University, 1980 M.Phil., Oxford, 1982 Ph.D., Yale University, 1990 Languages: Spanish (3), French (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: International and comparative political economy with focus on North America, Mexico Field Research: Mexico LACS courses offered: Political Struggles in Mexico (RC SSci 360.001, RC CORE 409.06); Mexican Labor in North America (RC SSci 463 / Soc 453, RC CORE 409.06) Publications: “Political Economy, Relationship to Area and International Studies,” in International Encyclopedia of the

Social and Behavioral Sciences. New York: Elsevier, pp. 719-23, 2002. “Does Neoliberal Restructuring Promote Social Movement Unionism? U.S. Developments in Comparative

Perspective,” in Bruce Nissen, ed., Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 189-235, 2002.

(With Michael Dreiling.) “El ACLAN y el movimiento sindical canadiense,” in Graciela Bensusán, ed., Estándares laborales después del TLCAN. Mexico City: FLACSO, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and Plaza y Valdes Editores, pp. 127-165, 1999.

“North American Labor Federation Responses to Neoliberal Restructuring, 1978-1998,” in Rodrigue Blouin and Anthony Giles, eds., L’intégration économique en Amérique du Nord et les relations industrielles, Sainte-Foy, Les Presses de l’Université Laval, pp. 119-148, 1998.

“Union Responses to NAFTA in the USA and Canada: Explaining Intra- and International Variation,” 3(2) Mobilization: An International Journal (Fall 1998), pp. 163-84.

“Cómo afectará el Tratado de Libre Comercio los derechos de los trabajeros en América del Norte?” in Graciela Bensusán y Arnulfo Arteaga, coordinadores, Integración Regional y Relaciones Industriales en América del Norte. México: FLACSO, pp. 157-196, 1996.

Distinctions: 2003-2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada, member of the “Rethinking Institutions for Work and Employment in the Global Era” research team; 2007-2009 Office of International Programs, University of Michigan; 2008 Global Intercultural Exchange for Undergraduates (GIEU), University of Michigan Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 María Isabel Rodríguez Residential College; Lecturer IV (non-tenure track) Education: B.A., Universidad de Salamanca, 1988 M.A., University of Rochester, 1992 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (2), French (3) Research/Teaching Specializations: Applied linguistics (Second Language Acquistion/Academic writing), Community Service Learning: Pedagogy LACS courses offered: RC Lang 294 (Fall/Winter), 324 (topic seminars in Spanish: Winter), ELI390/EDU390/LING286/RCSOCSCI390 (Spring/Summer: Migrant outreach) Publications: (with John McLaughlin and Carolyn Madden “University and Community Collaborations in Migrant ESL,”

in J. Richey (ed.), New Directions in Adult and Community Education. No. 117. Spring 2008. pp. 37-46 (with M.C. Colombi and J. Pellettieri) Palabra abierta (textbook for advanced Spanish composition),

Houghton Mifflin, 2001 (second edition, 2006) Distinctions: 2008, LSA Excellence in Education Award; 2007, Michigan Campus Compact Award; 2003, LSA Excellence in Education Award; 2003, The Republic Faculty Excellence Award; 2002, Latino Task Force Faculty Recognition Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Jaime Rodríguez Matos Romance Languages and Literatures; Assistant Professor Education: B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1998 M.A., Columbia, 1999 M. Phil, Columbia, 2002 Ph.D., Columbia, 2005 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Caribbean literature, Latin American poetry, Latino/a culture, political theory and philosophy LACS courses offered: 382: Latin American Literature of the 20th Century; 476: Latin American Poetry of the 20th Century; 485: The Caribbean (20th Century): Literature, Philosophy, Politics; 488: The Baroque in Cuban Literature; 488: Caribbean Rewritings of Greek Tragedies; 855: The Uses of Literature in Contemporary Latin America Publications: “Respuesta a ‘Historia a contrapelo: Estado de Excepción y temporalidad en la Transición española,’ de

Cristina Moreiras Menor,” Tiresias (2008). “Pedro Juan Soto’s Spiks,” in Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. New

York: Facts on File, 2008. “Polyphony in Spanish Sentimental Romance,” Hispanic Review 73.2 (Spring 2005), pp. 231-254. Distinctions: UM Outstanding Teaching Award, 2007-2008; President’s Fellow, Columbia University, 2004-2005 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Javier Sanjinés Romance Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor of Spanish Education: B.A., Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 1971 M.A., Université de Paris, 1974 LLD, Superior District Court of La Paz, 1979 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1988 Languages: Spanish (5), French (4) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: Latin American Subaltern Studies/Postcolonial Studies, Bolivia, Andes Field Research: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile LACS courses offered: SP 485, SP 470, Indigenista Narrative of the Andes, Nineteenth Century Literature, Latin American Literature and State Formation Publications: Rescoldos del pasado: Conflictos culturales en sociedades postcoloniales, La Paz, Bolivia: PIEB, 2009. Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia, Pittsburgh University Press, 2004. El espejismo del mestizaje, La Paz, Bolivia : PIEB, 2005. Cholos viscerales, La Paz, Bolivia: ILDIS-Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 1996. Literatura contemporánea y grotesco social en Bolivia. La Paz, Bolivia: BHN/ILDIS, 1992. Estética y Carnaval. Ensayos de sociología de la cultura, La Paz, Bolivia: Altiplano, 1984. Distinctions: 1995, Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Teresa Satterfield Romance Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor Education: B.A., Iowa State University, 1985 B.S., Iowa State University,1985 M.A., University of Illinois-Chicago, 1990 Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1995 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (3), French (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: Bilingualism, Computational Language Models, Spanish in the U.S. and Caribbean, Afro-Hispanic and Cultures Field Research: Suriname, Colombia, U.S. – Puerto Rico LACS courses offered: Ling 342, Perspectives in Bilingualism; Sp 488, Intro to Hispanic Ling; Sp 410, Spanish Phonology; Sp 487, Language of Reggaeton, Sp 355, Spanish in the US, SP 487, Romance-Based Pidgins and Creole Languages, Sp 487, A History of Afro-Hispanic Lanuage Publications: (September 2009) Review of Cantone 2007: Code-switching in Bilingual Children. Language. (2009)

Mind the Gap: Epistemology and Development of Natural Language. Satterfield, T. 2008. Language acquisition recapitulates language evolution? Peer to Christiansen and

Chater. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31(5):532--533. Back to Nature or Nurture: Using computer models in creole genesis. Variation, Selection Development: Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change.Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 143-178.

“Unique applications of multi-agent models in uncovering language learning processes,” in Y. Shan and A. Yang, eds., Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems. New York: IGI Publishing. pp.142-173 (2008). (with Rusty Barrett) “Generation Gap: Explaining new and emerging word-order phenomena in Mayan-Spanish bilinguals,” Biling LatAm: 285-300 (2004)

“Economy of Interpretation: Patterns of Pronoun Selection in Transitional Bilinguals.” In V.J. Cook, ed., Effects of the Second Language on the First. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 214-233 (2003)

“Toward a Socio-Genetic Solution: Examining Language Formation Processes Through SWARM Modeling.” Social Science Computing Review 19(3): 281-295 (2002)

Bilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge: Extending the Principles and Parameters Approach. Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers (1999).

Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 80 Julius Scott History, CAAS; Lecturer IV (non-tenure track) Education: Ph.D., Duke University, 1986 Languages: Spanish (4), French (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: The Caribbean world in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; slavery and emancipation; the Black Atlantic Field Research: Haiti, Jamaica LACS courses offered: CAAS 558.001; Introduction to the Black Atlantic Publications: The Common Wind: Currents of Afro-American Communication in the Era of the Haitian Revolution.

Oxford (in preparation). (Ed., with Laurent Dubois) Origins of the Black Atlantic. Routledge, 2010. “Crisscrossing Empires: Ships, Sailors, and Resistance in the Lesser Antilles in the Age of Revolution,”

The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion, ed. R.L. Paquette, University of Florida, 1996. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Rebecca Scott History, Law School; Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History, Professor of Law Education: A.B., Harvard, Radcliffe College, 1971 M.Phil., London School of Economics, 1973 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1982 Languages: Spanish (5), French (5), Portuguese (3) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 10 Research/Teaching Specializations: Slavery, emancipation and postemancipation societies; Cuba: race, nationalism, and popular mobilization; Brazil: social relations in plantation society Field Research: Cuba, Senegal, Brazil LACS courses offered: Hist 347, Colonial Latin America [Fall 2009]; Hist 691, Readings in Latin American and Caribbean History [2007]; The Law in Slavery and Freedom [2007]; The Boundaries of Citizenship [2007]; Atlantic Histories: Africa and the Americas [2010] Publications: “Public Rights and Private Commerce: An Atlantic Creole Itinerary,” Current Anthropology, 2007. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery, Harvard U. Press, 2005. (With F. Cooper and T. Holt) Beyond Slavery: Exploration on race, Labor, and Citizenship in Post-

Emancipation Societies, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. “Defining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane: Louisiana, Cuba, and Brazil after

Emancipation,” American Historical Review, 99, (1994), 70-102. Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899, Princeton, 1985. Distinctions: 2006, Guggenheim Fellowship; 2004, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship; 2002, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1996, The Hudson Professorship; 1994-97, Arthur F Thurnau Professorship; 1990, MacArthur Prize Fellowship Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 75 Louise K. Stein School of Music; Professor of Musicology Education: B.M., Oberlin, 1975, M.A., Chicago, 1984 Ph.D., 1987, University of Chicago Languages: Spanish (5), Italian (3), French (3), German (3), Latin (2), Portuguese (2), Dutch (2), Catalan (2) Research/Teaching Specializations: Spanish and colonial Latin American music of the late Renaissance and Baroque, with particular emphasis on theater music and opera Field Research: Spain, Peru Publications: “‘La música de dos orbes’: A Context for the First Opera of the Americas,” Opera Quarterly 22.3-4 (2008):

433-458. “Before the Latin Tinge: Spanish Music and the ‘Spanish Idiom’ in America 1730–1940,” Spain in

America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States, ed. Richard L. Kagan, University of Illinois Press, 2001.

(with H. Mayer Brown) Music in the Renaissance. Second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1999.

Artistic Advisor and Dramaturg for recording, La púrpura de la rosa: The First Opera in the New World, The Harp Consort, dir. A. Lawrence-King. BMG, 2 cd set, 1997.

Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theatre in 17th-Century Spain Oxford University Press, 1993.

Distinctions: 1996, NEH Fellowship for University Teachers; 1996, Noah Greenberg Award, American Musicological Society; 1979-80, Fulbright-Hays Award Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50



Alexandra Minna Stern Medical School, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, History, and American Culture; Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine Education: B.A., San Francisco State University, 1990 M.A., University of California, San Diego, 1993 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (3), French (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: Medical history, border culture, and gender history; Mexico, U.S. – Mexico Border Field Research: Guatemala, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina Publications: "Eugenics and Racial Classification in Mexican America,” in Katzew and Deans-Smith, eds., Race and

Classification: The Case of Mexican-America, Stanford University Press, 2009), 151-173. “What Mexico taught the World about Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Community Mitigation

Strategies,” Journal of the American Medical Association 302:11 (September 16, 2009), 1221-1222. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, University of California

Press, 2005. “From Mestizophilia to Biotypology: Racialization and Science in Mexico, 1920-1960,” Race and Nation in

Modern Latin America, ed. N. Appelbaum, A.S. Applebaum, K.A. Rosemblatt, University of North Carolina, 2003, 187-209.

Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 30 Dorceta Taylor School of Natural Resources and Environment; Associate Professor Education: M.F.S. Social Ecology, 1985, Yale University M.A. and M.Phil. Sociology, 1987, Yale University Ph.D. Environmental Sociology, 1991, Yale University Languages: Spanish (2), French (1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 10 Research/Teaching Specializations: Social movements; environmental justice; leisure and natural resource use; poverty and urban issues; race, gender and ethnic relations; environmental history, environmental policy, tourism, sustainable development Field Research: Jamaica, U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico LACS courses offered: Climate Change, Tourism and Sustainable Development in the Caribbean - Winter; Environment, Poverty and Inequality - Fall; Environmental History - Fall Publications: 2009 The Environment and the People in American Cities: 1600s-1900s. Disorder, Inequality and Social

Change. Durham: Duke University Press. 2008 “Diversity and the Environment: Myth-Making and the Status of Minorities in the Field,” Research in

Social Problems and Public Policy. Vol. 15: 89-148 2007 “Employment Preferences and Salary Expectations of Students in Science and Engineering,”

BioScience. 57, 2(February): 175-185 2007 “Diversity and Equity in Environmental Organizations: The Salience of These Factors to Students.”

Journal of Environmental Education. Vol. 39 (1): 19-43. Distinctions: 2007-2008 Global Intercultural Education for Undergraduates (GIEU) Faculty Fellow. 2005 Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Scholar – Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Frank Thompson Economics, Residential College; Lecturer IV and Research Investigator (non-tenure track) Education: B.A., University of Kansas, 1964 M.A., Harvard University, 1968 M.A., University of Michigan, 1989 Ph.D., Harvard University , 1973 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1998 Languages: Spanish (2), German (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: Cuba, Latin America, development economics, political economy Field Research: Cuba 1990 - Present LACS courses offered: Econ 461 Economics of Development (once each year) Publications: Review of Bert Hoffmann, The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development: Challenges in

Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba, Review of Radical Political Economics, 38:3 (2006), pp. 448-449

Review of Pedro Monreal (ed.), Development Prospects in Cuba: An Agenda in the Making, Review of Radical Political Economics, 36:3 (2004), pp. 420-424. (A somewhat longer version of this review appears in Lateinamerika Analysen, 6 (2003), pp. 160-165

“Cuban Economic Performance in Retrospect,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 37:3 (2005), pp. 311-319.

“Case Study: The Economy of Cuba,” Economic Development (8th Edition), Addison-Wesley, 2002. Review of Roberto Segre, Mario Coyula, and Joseph L. Scarpacci, Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean

Metropolis, Review of Radical Political Economics, 30(4): 182-185 (1998) Distinctions: Member, Editorial Board, Lateinamerika Analysen (2002-2008) Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Rocio Titiunik Political Science; Post-Doctoral Fellow (Winter 2010), Assistant Professor (beginning Fall 2010) Education: Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC-Berkeley, 2009 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Causal inference in the social sciences, political methodology, American politics, Latin American politics Field Research: Field research in Mexico in 2004, while external consultant for Mexico’s Secretary of Social Development (SEDESOL). Task: Evaluation and research design for low income large-scale housing programs. Publications: “Housing, Health and Happiness,” with Matias Cattaneo, Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Sebastian

Martinez. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(1): 75-105, February 2009. Distinctions: Dissertation Research Award, Institute of Business and Economic Research, UC-Berkeley, 2007 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 30



Sandra Torijano DeYoung School of Music; Associate Professor of Dance Education: B.F.A., Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 1987 Languages: Spanish (5) Research/Teaching Specializations: Modern dance of Costa Rica; Latin American dance styles Field Research: Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay Selected Coreography: “The Last Full Moon,” created for Danza Una, National University of Costa Rica, 2008 “Canto America Suite,” Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, 2005 “Cruces De Fuego, Mariposa Morena, Soul Masks,” Michigan, 1999 “Arbol de la Esperanza Mantente Firme (Frida Kahlo),” Michigan, 1997, 1999; Costa Rica, 1998 “Doble Viento,” Michigan, 1997 Distinctions: 1996, Costa Rican National Prize for Performance and Choreography Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Richard Tucker School of Natural Resources & Environment; Adjunct Professor (non-tenure track) Education: B.A., Oberlin College, 1960 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966 Languages: Spanish (2), Portuguese (1), French (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: Environmental history; tropical agro-ecology Fieldwork: Central America, Argentina LACS courses offered: Environ 490 /PoliSci 463 (Winter) Publications: Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World, University of

California Press, 2000 (ed.) Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today’s Challenges in Central and South

America, Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 1992 Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



Richard Turits History, CAAS; Associate Professor Education: B.A., Brown, 1983 M.A., Yale, 1986 Ph.D., Chicago, 1997 Languages: Spanish (5), Haitian Kreol (2), Portuguese (2), French (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 1 directed; participated in many dissertation committees Research/Teaching Specializations: Hispanic Caribbean and Haiti; race, slavery, violence, nondemocratic regimes, peasantries, and U.S. interventions Field Research: Dominican Republic, Haiti LACS courses offered: AAS/History 305 Histories of the Modern Caribbean; AAS 558 History 698/796 Caribbean histories; History 302: US Interventions in Latin America; AC 699, sec. 1; CAAS 558, sec. 2; History 698, sec. 3; WS 698, sec. 2, Histories of Racial Formation in the Americas Publications: “Par-delà les plantations: Question raciale et identités collectives à Santo Domingo,” Genèses (Paris) 66

(March 2007): 51-68. “Temwànyaj Kout Kouto: Testimonies of the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Borderlands.” In

Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength and Imagination in Haiti, ed. Cécile Accilien, Jessica Adams, and Elmide Méléance. Coconut Creek, FL: Caribbean Studies Press, 2006, 137-43.

(with Lauren Derby) “Raza, esclavitud y libertad en Santo Domingo,” Debate y perspectivas (Madrid), 4: 69-88, December 2004.

“Un mundo destruido, una nación impuesta: La masacre haitiana de 1937 en la República Dominicana,” Estudios Sociales 36(133): 77-110, 2003.

Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

“A World Destroyed, a Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic,” Hispanic American Historical Review, August, 2002.

Distinctions: NEH Fellowship (2009-2010); ACLS/SSRC/NEH Fellowship (2004-2005); Bolton-Johnson Prize for best book in English on Latin American History (2004); John Edwin Fagg Prize for best book on the history of Spain, Portugal, or Latin America (2003); James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize of the Conference on Latin American History for the best article in Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100 Michael Twomey Department of Social Sciences (UM-Dearborn); Professor Education: B.S., Notre Dame, 1967 M.A., Cornell, 1970 Ph.D., Cornell University, 1974 Languages: Spanish (4) Research/Teaching Specializations: International trade and finance; economic development, agriculture, macroeconomics Field Research: Peru, Colombia,Mexico LACS courses offered: (at UM-Dearborn) Introduction to International Economics, International Trade Theory, International Finance, International Trade and Development, Multinational Corporations and NAFTA, Central America and the Caribbean, The Third World through the Novel Publications: A Century of Foreign Investment in the Third World, Routledge, 2000 “Patterns of Foreign Investment in Latin America in the Twentieth Century,” Latin America and the World

Economy Since 1800, ed. J. Coatsworth and A. Taylor, Harvard, 1998 Multinational Corporations and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Praeger, 1993; Sp. Trans.,

Las corporaciones multinacionales y el tratado de libre comercio, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1996 Distinctions: 1979, 1983, 1985, 1991-92, Fulbright Lecturer, Mexico Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 50



John Vandermeer Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor Education: B.A., University of Illinois, 1961 M.A., University of Kansas 1966 Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1968 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 28 Research/Teaching Specializations: Biology; dynamics of rain forest succession following catastrophic damage Ecology of multidimensional agroecological systems Field Research: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil Publications: (with I. Granzow de la Cerda et al.) “Hurricane disturbance and tropical tree species diversity,” Science

290: 788-791 (2000) (with van Noordwijk, M., Anderson, J., Ong, C., and I. Perfecto) “Global Change and Multi-species

Agroecosystems: Concepts and Issues,”Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, 67: 1-22 (1998) (with I. Perfecto) A Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Deforestation, Institute

for Food Development Policy, 1996 Distinctions: 1986, 1996, Fulbright Scholar; 1996, Sokal Scholar; 1994-97, Alfred Thurnau Distinguished Professor; 1975-99, 8 NSF awards; Asa Gray University Distinguished University Professor, 2009. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Gustavo Verdesio Romance Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor Education: Licenciado en Letras, Universidad de la República (Uruguay), 1984 M.A., Northwestern, 1988 Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1992 Languages: Spanish (5), Portuguese (2), Italian (3), Latin (2), Greek (2), and French (2) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 2 Research/Teaching Specializations: Colonial discourses; Indigenous cultures from the Americas; Pre-columbian Archaeology; Cultural Studies; Theory; Uruguay Field Research: Uruguay, Peru, Chile LACS courses offered: SP 328, 470, 472, 473, 865, 881 Publications: “From the Erasure to the Rewriting of Indigenous Pasts: The Troubled Life of Archaeology in Uruguay,”

Handbook of South American Archaeology, ed. Silverman and Isbell, Springer, 2008. “Mapping the Geopolitics of Contact: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and Western Knowledge,” A

Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. ed. Sara Castro-Klarén, Blackwell, 2008. “Cultural Modalities And Cross Cultural Connections: Rock Across Class And Ethnic Identities,” A

Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, ed. S Castro-Klarén, Blackwell, 2008. “From Meticulous Oblivion to Unexpected Return: The Variable Fate of Indigenous People in the

Uruguayan Imaginary of the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries,” Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. J Branche, UP of Florida, 2008.

“Images at War: The Representation of Violence in Colonial Times and Today,” Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas, eds. Arias and Merediz, MLA, 2008.

“Latin American Subaltern Studies Revisited: Is There Life after the Demise of the Group?” Dispositio/n 52: 5-42, 2005.

“Invisible at a Glance: Indigenous Cultures of the Past, Ruins, Archaeological Sites, and Our Regimes of Visibility,” Remembering the Past, Retrieving the Future: New Interdisciplinary Contributions to the Study of Colonial Latin America, ed. V Salles-Reese, Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2005.

Forgotten Conquests. Re-reading New World History from the Margins, Temple UP, 2001. Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 100



Antonia Villarruel School of Nursing, School of Public Health; Nola J Pender Collegiate Prof of Nursing, Associate Dean for Research Education: BSN, Nazareth College, 1978 MSN, University of Pennsylvania, 1982 Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1993 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 3 Research/Teaching Specializations: HIV, sexual risk communication, Mexico Field Research: Mexico Publications: Villarruel, A.M., Jemmott, J.B. III, & Jemmott, L.S. (2006). A randomized controlled trial testing an HIV

prevention intervention for Latino youth. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 160, 772-777 Villarruel, A.M., Jemmott, J.B., III, Jemmott, L.S., & Ronis, D.L. (2007). Predicting condom use among

sexually experienced Latino adolescents. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 29(6), 724-738 Gallegos-Cabriales, E., Villarruel, A.M., Gomez, M.V., Onofre, D.J., Zhou, Y. (2007). Sexual

Communication and Knowledge Among Mexican Parents and Their Adolescent Children. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 18(2), 28-34

Villarruel, A.M., Loveland-Cherry, C., Gallegos Cabriales, E.C., Ronis, D., Zhou, Y. (2008) A parent-adolescent intervention to increase sexual risk communication: results of a randomized controlled trial. AIDS Education and Prevention, 20 (5), 371-383

Gallegos, E.C., Villarruel, A.M., Loveland-Cherry, C., Ronis, D.L., and Zhou, Y. (2008). Intervencíon para reducir riesgo en conductas sexuales de adolescentes: Un ensayo aleatorizado y controlado Salud Pública de México, 50, 1-10. 2008

Mueller, T., Castaneda, C.A., Sainer, S., Martinez, D., Herbst, J.H., Wilkes, A.I., & Villarruel, A.M. (2009). The implementation of a culturally-based HIV sexual risk reduction program for Latino youth in a Denver area high school. AIDS Education and Prevention, 164-170

Distinctions: Elected Member to the Institute of Medicine Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 E.J. Westlake School of Music, Theatre, & Dance; Associate Professor Education: BIS, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1985 MA, Theatre Arts, Portland State University, 1990 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997 Languages: Spanish (3), French (1) Research/Teaching Specializations: Central American theater, community-based theater, public art Field Research: Nicaragua, Guatemala Publications: “No Hint as to the Author is Anywhere Found: Problems of Using 19th-century Ethnography in Latin

American Theatre History,” Theatre Historiography: Critical Questions. Bial, Magelsson, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2010.

“The Güegüence Effect: The National Character and the Nicaraguan Political Process.” Political Performances. Haedicke, Heddon, Oz and Westlake, eds. Rodopi Press, 2009.

Our Land Is Made of Courage and Glory: Nationalist Performance of Nicaragua and Guatemala, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

“(Re)writing the Nation from the Margins: The Case of Ocho de Marzo,” in Intercultural Communication and Creative Practice: Women, Performance and Civic Discourse in Global Context, ed. Laura Lengel, Westport: Greenwood, 2005.

“(Re)writing the Nation from the Margins: The Case of Ocho de Marzo.” in Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts. Eds. Laura Lengel. Peter Lang: New York, 2005.




Frederick Wherry Sociology; Assistant Professor Education: B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996 M.P.A., Princeton University, 2000 Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004 Languages: Spanish (3) Research/Teaching Specializations: Culture, consumption, global markets, and local production processes; Costa Rica, Thailand, and US comparative research Field Research: Costa Rica Publications: Global Markets and Local Crafts: Thailand and Costa Rica Compared, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins

University Press, 2008 “Developing Impressions: Evidence from Costa Rica,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and

Social Science 610 (1): 217-31 (2007) “The Nation State, Identity Management, and Indigenous Crafts: Constructing Markets and Opportunities

in Northwest Costa Rica,” Ethnic & Racial Studies 29 (1): 124-52 (2006). Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25 Gareth Williams Romance Languages and Literatures; Associate Professor of Spanish Education: Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1992 Languages: Spanish (5) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 6 Research/Teaching Specializations: Modern and Contemporary Latin American literature and film, articulation of political philosophy to culture. Mexico, Southern Cone LACS courses offered: Latin American Realisms from Independence to the Present; Survey of Spanish Literature II (From the Enlightenment to the Present); Survey of Modern Latin American Literature; Latin American Narratives of the 1990s; The Literature and Culture of the Mexican Revolution; Introduction to Latin American Culture; Latin American Detective Fiction; The Life and Times of José María Arguedas; Culture and State in Contemporary Mexico Publications: “Sovereignty and Melancholic Paralysis in Roberto Bolaño”. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

Vol. 18 (2,25): 2009 “Populismo intelectual y estructura geopolítica del saber”. De/rotar (Santiago de Chile). 1 (1): 2008, 56-77 “La deconstrucción y los estudios subalternos, o, una llave de tuerca en la línea de montaje

latinoamericanista,” Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en Estados Unidos: Memorias, testimonios, reflexiones críticas. Ed. Hernán Vidal. Biblioteca América, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. University of Pittsburgh, 2008: 221-256

“Disciplinary Hybridism and Practice,” Decentering Latin American Studies. Eds. Silvia Alvarez and Arturo Arias. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008

“Chimbote y las orillas del indigenismo: Biopolítica y vida desnuda en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo”. Forthcoming in Crítica de la acumulación: Acontecimiento, Hegemonía, Subalternidad y Multitud (Las encrucijadas teóricas de América Latina). Coord. Oscar Cabezas & Alessandro Fornazzari. LOM Ediciones, Santiago de Chile (2008)

“The Fourth World and the Birth of Sudaca Stigma,” Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America. Eds. Anne Lambright and Elisabeth Guerrero. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2007: 124-44

“Sovereign (In)hospitality: Politics and the Staging of Equality in Revolutionary Mexico”. Discourse 27.2 & 27.3 (Spring and Fall 2005) [2007]: 95-123

“The Mexican Exception and the ‘Other Campaign,’” The South Atlantic Quarterly (106:1) (Spring 2007): 129-51.




Robin Wilson School of Music, Theatre and Dance; Associate Professor of Dance Education: B.A., Washington University M.F.A., Temple University Languages: Spanish (1) Number of Dissertations supervised to date: 2, 4 MFA Thesis committees, 50 MFA theses Research/Teaching Specializations: Choreography and movement, African diasporic dance forms in the Americas, Afro-cuban dance, intersection of African retentions with “western” movement forms; Dance and Culture of the African Diaspora, including the US, Caribbean, especially Cuba and Haiti Field Research: Cuba, Suriname, New Orleans, Haiti LACS courses offered: Dance 358/CAAS 348, African Dance in the Americas, Africanist Dance Traditions: From Minstrelsy to Hip Hop (Winter); Dance 141 Intro to Afro-Caribbean Dance (Spring) Publications: Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History “Africanist Dance” Selected Choreography: “Slips of NIght” 2000, “Ndebele” 2002, “Shattered Globes” 2008, “Hokey Pokey Women and Honky Tonk

Men” 2009, “Slave Moth” 2004 Distinctions: 1990-93, Kentucky Artist in Residence; 1997 Marcus Artist, Washington University; 1999 Maggie Allessee Award for Choreography Percentage of Time Devoted to LACS Teaching, Research or Consulting: 25



B. LACS Staff Biographies

Davis, Stephanie Title: Center Coordinator, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, International Institute, appointed 2008 Contact Information: 734.763 0553, [email protected] Education: B.A. Economics and Management (Albion College 2006) Foreign Language(s) Competence: Spanish (listening comprehension) Desjardins, Stephen L. Title: Evaluation Consultant Professor of Education and Director, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, School of Education Education: B.S., Economics, Northern Michigan University, 1983; M.A., Public Affairs, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1994; Ph.D., Educational Policy and Administration – Higher Education, University of Minnesota, 1996 Academic experience: Lecturer, School of Education; University of Minnesota, 1996-98; Assistant to Associate Professor, School of Education; University of Iowa, 1998-2002; Associate to Full Professor, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, School of Education, UM, 2002-present; Director, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, School of Education, UM, 2009-present Time devoted to LACS: 2% Evaluation courses taught: Program Evaluation; Policy Analysis and Evaluation; Introduction to Planning, Policy Analysis, and Evaluation: Planning, Analysis, and Evaluation Research and teaching specialization: Program evaluation, higher education policy analysis, enrollment management research, economics of education Recent publications and evaluation reports: Investigating the Causal Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on the Correlates of College Completion, Graduation from College, and Future Educational Aspirations of Low-Income Minority Students, w/ B. McCall. A Report to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2008. “Exploring the Effects of Financial Aid on the Gap in Student Dropout Risks by Income Level,” w/ R. Chen, Research in Higher Education 49(1): 1-18, 2008. An Investigation into the Role of Student Concerns About Financial Aid on Student Choices and Educational Outcomes. A Report to the Congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2006. The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program on the College Enrollment, Borrowing and Work Behavior of Low-Income Minority Students, w/ B. McCall. A Report to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2006. “The Effects of Interrupted Enrollment on Graduation from College: Racial, Income, and Ability Differences,” w/ D. Ahlburg and B. McCall, Economics of Education Review, 25(6): 575-90, 2006. “An Integrated Model of Application, Admission, Enrollment, and Financial Aid,” w/ D. Ahlburg and B. McCall, Journal of Higher Education 77(3): 381-429, 2006.



Frye, David Title: LACS Program Associate, Student Advisor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, International Institute Contact Information: 734.647 0844, 734.763 0553, [email protected] Education: B.A. College of Letters and Mathematics (Wesleyan University, 1978); PhD, Anthropology (Princeton University, 1989) Foreign Language(s) Competence: Spanish (fluent), Brazilian Portuguese (reading, good listening comprehension, limited speaking ability); Quechua (elementary reading) World Area(s) of Interest: Latin America generally; fieldwork in Mexico and Cuba Martins, Elizabeth Title: LACS Program Associate, Brazil and Portuguese Language Initiatives and Outreach, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, International Institute Contact Information: 734.764 2211, 734.763 0553, [email protected] Education: B.A. Communication Studies (Universidade da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, 1985); Graduate study, Communications (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil, 1996-1998) Foreign Language(s) Competence: Brazilian Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (conversational, reading) World Area(s) of Interest: Brazil and Latin American Studies

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Mcguinness, Thomas P. Title: Evaluation Consultant Doctoral Student and Graduate Student Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, UM School of Education Education: B.A. Economics (Concentration in Computer Science, Boston College, 2001; M.A., Higher Education Administration, Harvard University, 2005; doctoral studies in Higher Education (Concentration in Research, Evaluation, and Assessment), UM, 2008-present (Ph.D. expected in 2013) Professional experience: Analyst, Management Ventures, Inc., 2001-04; Graduate Assistant, Office of Institutional Research, Boston College, 2004-05; Research Analyst, Office of Institutional Research, Tufts University, 2005-08; Graduate Student Research Assistant, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, 2008-present Time devoted to LACS: 10% Recent presentations: “Improving Access and Academic Success for Underrepresented Students.” Panel presentation at the Association for Institutional Research Annual Forum, Atlanta, 2009. “Enrollment of Students Admitted to the U-M College of Engineering.” Poster presented at Third Annual Research and Scholarship in Engineering Education Poster Session, Ann Arbor, 2008. “A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Data Points. Presented at the North East Association for Institutional Research (NEAIR) Annual Conference,” New Brunswick, 2007. “Dashboards 101: Examples & Advice for Developing an Institutional Dashboard.” Presented at the North East Association for Institutional Research (NEAIR) Annual Conference, Saratoga Springs, 2005. Recent distinctions: Giffuni Prize for Best Senior Honors Thesis in Economics (for Examining the Implications and Feasibility of Reducing the Size of Boston College’s Undergraduate Student Body), Boston College, 2001.

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