Faculty list

Fall 2006 Office Hours

Arturo Valenzuela, Ph.D., Columbia University. Director, Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Government. Research interests include authoritarianism, democracy, political parties, and theories of development.

Paul Almeida, Ph.D., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Assistant Professor of International Strategy at McDonough School of Business. Specializes in the relationship between knowledge development and the competitiveness of firms, high technology regions and countries.

John Bailey, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Professor of Government.Specializes in Latin American comparative government. Research focus includes the Mexican political system, the effects of organized crime on domestic governability in Mexico and the U.S., and the effects of trade and economic integration on the dynamics of sub-regions in North America.

Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano,Ph.D., Cornell University. Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies. Has conducted extensive research on social and political trends that affect sustainable development and environmental issues in Latin America. Specializes in how ethnicity, race and gender determine ways in which traditional societies and Indigenous Peoples conserve biodiversity and natural resources. Other areas of research include work in Bolivia and the Andes region, evaluating education approaches directed at indigenous and rural women.

Karen Breiner-Sanders, Ph.D., The George Washington University. Associate Professor of Spanish. Teaches Hispanic film, high-level language courses, and seminars on violence and human rights in Latin America.

Denise Brennan, Ph. D., Yale University.  Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. Interests include globalization, transnationalism, migration, gender, and community-based research.

Hector Campos , Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Associate Professor of Spanish linguistics. Director of Georgetown Summer Program in Quito, Ecuador. 

Adhip Chaudhuri, Ph.D., Columbia University. Assistant Professor of Economics. Teaches international trade, multinational corporations, and macroeconomic principles and theory.

Marc Chernick, Ph.D., Columbia University. Visiting Associate Professor of Government and Latin American Studies. Research interests include drug-trafficking, political violence, ethnic and ecological conflict and comparative peace processes, with a primary regional focus on Colombia and the other Andean nations.

Shelton Davis, Ph.D., Harvard University.  Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies and Senior Fellow, CLAS.  Former Sector Manager in the Social Development Unit, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, Latin America and Caribbean Region (LCSES) at the World Bank. Has written extensively on indigenous peoples, environment, and development issues in Latin America.

Georgette Dorn (gdor@loc.gov), Ph.D., Georgetown University. Professorial Lecturer of History. Chief of the Hispanic Division at Library of Congress. Research interests include ethnicity and culture in the Southern Cone and the history of gender in Latin America.

Luis Jácome, Ph.D., Boston University. Adjunct Associate Professor. Former Governor of the Central Bank of Ecuador. Academic interests include monetary and exchange rate policy and financial crises, with a primary focus in Latin America.

Robin Ann King, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Adjunct Professor, Latin American Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor, Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy. Specializes in international trade and finance. Research includes Mexican foreign debt policy and a study of the development and evolution of music markets in Latin America and of Latin American music worldwide.

Gwen Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Princeton University. Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Specializes in modern Latin American literature, with a focus on poetry.

John Kline, Ph.D., The George Washington University. Director, Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service. Teaches courses in international business diplomacy, business-government relations, and international business ethics.

Barbara Kotschwar Ph.D., School of Advanced International Studies. Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies and Economics. Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. Research interests include the political economy of Latin America; trade and economic integration in the Americas; political economy of regional trading arrangements; Latin American economic development; smaller economies and trade liberalization; and standards and technical barriers to trade.

Erick Langer, Ph.D., Stanford University. Professor, Department of History. Specializes in Andean history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular that of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and northern Chile. Work has included a focus on commerce, labor systems, peasants and land tenure. Is also interested in the Latin American frontiers, Catholic missions in the Gran Chaco and comparative perspectives.

Adam Lifshey, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Specializes in Latin American literature, with a sub-speciality in African literature in Spanish. Work is mostly comparative in nature, within hemispheric, transatlantic and transpacific contexts.

Susan F. Martin, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, and Certificate Program in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies. Specializes in immigration and refugee policy, and has conducted field-based research on refugee issues in Africa, Southeast Asia and Central America, as well as U.S. and European immigration and refugee policy.

Bryan McCann Ph.D., Yale University. Assistant Professor, Department of History. Research has focused on popular music, radio, and the emergence of a national popular culture in Brazil. Research interests also include the crisis of urbanization in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and the cultural history of 18th century Minas Gerais.

Dennis McNamara, S.J., Ph.D., Harvard University. Park Professor of Sociology and Korean Studies. Specializes in capitalism in Korea and Japan from the late nineteenth century through the present. Is also interested in Japan's network of investment in Asia, including the role of trust and social capital to the study of industrial adjustment, particularly in the new international division of labor and production in textiles and autos.

Naomi H. Moniz, Ph.D., Harvard University. Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Research interests include contemporary Brazilian literature, modernism and postmodernism, and gender and cultural studies.

Theodore H. Moran, Ph.D., Harvard University. Director of the Landegger Program and Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business and Finance. Research interests include international corporate strategy, host government policies to enhance development, political risk analysis, nuclear strategy and politics and economy of Latin America.

Eusebio Mujal-Leon, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Associate Professor, Department of Government. Specializes in European and Latin American politics, with a special emphasis on political parties, transitions to democracy, transnational movements, and comparative foreign policy.

Barbara L. Mujica, Ph.D., New York University. Professor of Spanish. Specializes in Early Modern Spanish literature. Has written extensively on mysticism, the pastoral novel, and seventeenth-century theater.

Nader Nazmi, Ph.D., University of Illinois. Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies and CLAS Senior Fellow. Former Hollander professor at Lake Forest and former Director of Latin America and Emerging Markets analysis at Banc One Capital Markets. Academic interests include applied econometrics, macroeconomic policy and international finance, with a primary focus in Latin America.

Ricardo Ortiz, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Assistant Professor, Department of English. Specializes in U.S.-Latino literature and culture, "Américas" Studies, critical and cultural theory, cultural studies, intellectual history, gender and queer theory, and popular culture.

Joseph A. Page, LL.B., Harvard University. Professor of Law. Specializes in Argentina and Brazil. Specific projects have focused on Eva Perón and topics of Brazilian nationality.

Joseph Palacios, S.J., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. Specializes in social theory, political culture, sociology of religion and Latin American and Latino sociology. Research also includes the problems of values-formation in public life due to the strict separation of religion and public life in modern Mexico.

Joanne Rappaport, Ph.D., University of Illinois. Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and School of Foreign Service. Interests include ethnicity, historical anthropology, literacy, new social movements, and Andean ethnography and ethnohistory.

Veronica Salles-Reese, PhD., Johns Hopkins University. Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Director of Latin American Studies Undergraduate Certificate Program. Specializes in all aspects of Colonial Latin America. Her work strives to unite the anthropology, history and aesthetics of that time and place with the tenets of modern cultural theory. Specific research has included work on the semeiotics of Indian testaments in the central Andes during the seventeenth century

Vivaldo A. Santos, Ph.D., University of California, Berkley. Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Interests include Brazilian literature and culture, Brazilian cinema and Brazilian popular music.

Andrew I. Schoenholtz, J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D., Brown University. Director of Law and Policy Studies at Institute for the Study of International Migration. Studies a range of international migration issues, including causes of population movements, immigration and refugee law and policy, integration of immigrants into host societies, and the effects of international migration on social relations, economics, demographics, foreign policy and national security.

Sally Shelton-Colby, M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies. Former Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Michael Shifter, M.A., Harvard University. Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies. Vice-President for Policy, Inter-American Dialogue. Writes and talks widely on US-Latin American relations and hemispheric affairs. Focus includes democracy and human rights, multilateralism, drug policy, security issues, press freedom and Colombian and Peruvian politics.

Elizabeth Stephen, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Associate Professor of Demography, School of Foreign Service. Specializes in the demography of infertility. Has also focused on the infertility industry and infertility in Western and Eastern Europe.

John Tutino , Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Associate Professor, Department of History and School of Foreign Service.Specializes in Mexico. Specific research has included integration of gender and culture in studies of Mexican communities and their participation in the larger process of national history.

Thomas J. Walsh, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Interests include Spanish and Portuguese etymology, linguistic geography, formation of the Romance imperfect, future, and conditional tenses, evolution of Spanish abstract nouns and romance verbs derived from an unrecorded Latin suffix.

Timothy Wickham-Crowley, Ph.D., Cornell University. Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. MA Program Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. Research has focused on Latin American guerrilla movements and revolution and a comparative study of economic development patterns in the Americas since 1500, as well as work on comparative types of sociological theory.