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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Nanci Buiza

Associate Professor

Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Peace & Conflict Studies

Department of Spanish

(Professor Buiza is on leave from the Department of Spanish, 2020-2021.)

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8163
  2. Kohlberg 339
  1. Profile

Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.

Nanci Buiza

Molly Lawrence

Administrative Assistant

Interdisciplinary Programs Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  2. Trotter Hall 107
  1. Profile
Molly Lawrence

Bertha Saldierna

Administrative Assistant

Interdisciplinary Programs Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7674
  2. Trotter Hall 107
  1. Profile

Program Committee

Elaine Allard

Associate Professor

Educational Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8635
  2. Pearson Hall 203
  1. Profile
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Diego Armus

Professor

On leave 2019-2020

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8094
  2. Trotter 220
  1. Profile
  2. Armus CV [pdf]
  3. Armus Academia page
  4. History Department publications page

Interests: Latin America, urban, diseases, migrations, social and cultural history

Diego Armus

Nanci Buiza

Associate Professor

Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Peace & Conflict Studies

Department of Spanish

(Professor Buiza is on leave from the Department of Spanish, 2020-2021.)

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8163
  2. Kohlberg 339

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.

Nanci Buiza

Désirée Díaz

Assistant Professor

Department of Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7682
  2. Kohlberg 338
  1. Profile

Interests: Latin American literature and cultural studies, Caribbean literature and visual culture, US Latino/a studies, film studies, performance studies, popular and material culture, urban studies. 

Désirée Díaz

Sam Handlin

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Latin American & Latino Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3411
  2. Trotter 313
  1. Profile
  2. CV
  3. Personal website
  4. Office Hour Sign Up

José-Luis Machado

Associate Professor

Ecology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8562
  2. Singer 401
  1. Profile

Research: Invasive species and plant physiological ecology of temperate and tropical ecosystems

Luciano Martínez

Associate Professor and Department Chair

Department of Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8016
  2. Kohlberg 343
  1. Profile

Interests: Latin American Cultural Studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures, Latin American cinema.

Photo of Luciano Martinez

Edwin Mayorga

Associate Professor

Educational Studies

Latin American and Latino Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6154
  2. Pearson Hall 204
  1. Profile
  2. Personal Website
  3. BarrioEdPHL
  4. Critical Education Policy Studies

Braulio Muñoz

Centennial Professor of Sociology

On leave Spring 2020

Sociology & Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8110
  2. Kohlberg 242
  1. Profile
Braulio Muñoz

Roberto Vargas

Research Librarian for Humanities + Interdisciplinary Studies

McCabe Library

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6107
  2. McCabe Library 120

Subject specialist for Art & Art History, Classics, Latin American & Latino Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion, and Spanish.

Schedule an appointment

Affiliated Faculty

Paloma Checa-Gismero

Assistant Professor of Art History

Art & Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5671
  2. Beardsley 203
  1. Profile
  2. Website

James Padilioni

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6268
  2. Parrish 253
  1. Profile