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.)
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Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.
Bertha Saldierna
Administrative Assistant II
Interdisciplinary Programs Office
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Debbie Sloman
Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs
Classics
Interdisciplinary Programs
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Program Committee
Diego Armus
Professor
History
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Interests: Latin America, urban, diseases, migrations, social and cultural history
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.)
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Interests: Latin American literature, Central American and Mexican cultural studies, U.S. Latino/a studies, and diasporic and transnational community formations.
Désirée Díaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Spanish
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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.
Sam Handlin
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Latin American & Latino Studies
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José-Luis Machado
Associate Professor
(on leave F'20-S'21)
Ecology
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Research: Invasive species and plant physiological ecology of temperate and tropical ecosystems
Luciano Martínez
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department of Spanish
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Interests: Latin American Cultural Studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, Southern Cone and Brazilian literatures, Latin American cinema.
Edwin Mayorga
Associate Professor
Educational Studies
Latin American and Latino Studies
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Braulio Muñoz
Centennial Professor of Sociology
On leave Spring 2021
Sociology & Anthropology
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Roberto Vargas
Research Librarian for Humanities + Interdisciplinary Studies
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Subject specialist for Art & Art History, Classics, Latin American & Latino Studies, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion, and Spanish.
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