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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Diego Armus

Professor

Coordinator of Latin American and Latino Studies

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8094
  2. Trotter 220
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4-5pm,
    & by appointment

  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

Cheryl Sharp

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  2. Trotter Hall 107
Photo of Cheryl Sharp

Debbie Sloman

Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110 Classics
  3. Trotter Hall 107 Interdisciplinary Programs
Debbie Sloman

Program Committee

Elaine Allard

Associate Professor (on sabbatical 2021-22)

Educational Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8635
  2. Pearson Hall 203
  1. Profile
elaine allard

Diego Armus

Professor

Coordinator of Latin American and Latino Studies

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8094
  2. Trotter 220
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4-5pm,
    & by appointment

Links

  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 of Spanish and Department Chair

Peace & Conflict Studies

Latin American & Latino Studies

Department of Spanish

Contact

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

    Wed: 1:30-3:30 pm and by appointment

    Please make an appointment for office hours to avoid waiting a long time:  www.swarthmore.edu/officehours

  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

Associate Professor

Department of Spanish

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7682
  2. Kohlberg 338
  3. Office Hours:

    Tues/Thurs: 11:00 am-12:00 pm (or by appointment)

  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

Associate Professor of Political Science

On Leave Fall 2021-Spring 2022

Latin American & Latino Studies

Contact

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

Luciano Martínez

Associate Professor

On leave 2021-22

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, Co-Chair

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

Roberto Vargas

Interim Head of Research & Instruction

Research Librarian for Humanities + Interdisciplinary Studies

Contact

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

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

Schedule an appointment

Roberto Vargas

Affiliated Faculty

Paloma Checa-Gismero

Assistant Professor of Art History

On leave Fall 2022-Spring 2023

Contact

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

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

James Padilioni

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6268
  2. Parrish 227W
  1. Profile
James Padilioni

Salvador Rangel

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Sociology and Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-4823
  2. Kohlberg 245
  3. Office Hours:

    Tuesdays, 3:00- 5:00pm. By appointment. 

  1. Profile
Salvador Rangel