Aborampah, Osei-Mensah (Emeritus)
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Afro-Caribbean families; women and development in black societies of the Americas and Africa
Country Interests: Caribbean
mensah@uwm.edu

Antunes, Susana
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: Modern and Contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian Literature; Travel Literature/Poetry; Macaronesia Island Literature; Women short story from the Lusophone world
Country Interests: Brazil, Portugal
antunes@uwm.edu

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick (Emeritus)
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: religion, gender and class issues in the African Diaspora; intellectual paradigms; comparative culture
Country Interests: Haiti, Brazil, African Diaspora
pbs@uwm.edu

Bird-Soto, Nancy
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: women writers, gender studies, US Hispanic literatures and cultures, creative writing
Country Interests: Puerto Rico, US, Nicaragua, Mexico, Spain
birdsoto@uwm.edu

Blasini, Gilberto
Department of English
Research/Teaching Interests: Latin American film and issues of identity
Country Interests: Caribbean
gblasini@uwm.edu

Bloom-Pojar, Rachel
Department of English
Research/Teaching Interests: Translingual Literacies; Cross-cultural Medical Rhetoric; Public Writing and Community Engagement; Global Health and Latin America/El Caribe; Latinx Rhetorics; Rhetorical Practices for Interpretation and Translation
Country Interests: Dominican Republic, Latinx U.S., Caribbean
bloompoj@uwm.edu

Cameron, Barry
Department of Geosciences
Research/Teaching Interests: igneous petrology, volcanology
Country Interests: Guatemala
bcameron@uwm.edu

Cárdenas, Brenda
Department of English
Research/Teaching Interests: Poetry writing; performance art; interdisciplinary arts; U.S. Latina/o literature, especially contemporary poetry
Country Interests: The Latina/o United States, Mexico
cardenab@uwm.edu

Conceição, Simone (Emerita)
Department of Administrative Leadership
Research/Teaching Interests: distance education; online strategies for teaching and learning
Country Interests: Brazil
simonec@uwm.edu

Davies Cordova, Sarah
Department of Global Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: 19th to 21st century literatures in French; colonial and post-colonial literatures and cultures
Country Interests: Francophone Caribbean: especially Guadeloupe, Haiti and Martinique
cordovas@uwm.edu

Davis-Benavides, Christopher (Emeritus)
Department of Visual Art
Research/Teaching Interests: ceramic sculpture; cross cultural experience; aesthetic
interposition of cultures
Country Interests: Peru
cdavisb@uwm.edu

Deal, Raoul (Emeritus)
Department of Visual Art
Research/Teaching Interests: sculpture, installation art, cross-cultural activities and the creation of art in community settings
Country Interests: Mexico
rgdeal@uwm.edu

Dressel, Anne
College of Nursing
Research/Teaching Interests: Global health; food security
Country Interests: Ecuador, U.S.
banda@uwm.edu

Ehlinger, Timothy
College of Nursing
Research/Teaching Interests: Sustainable development; restoration ecology and community-based watershed planning
Country Interests: Costa Rica
ehlinger@uwm.edu

Ferreira, César
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: contemporary Latin American novel; Latin American popular culture; Peruvian literature
Country Interests: Mexico, Peru, Southern Cone
cferr@uwm.edu

Ferro, Simone (Emerita)
Department of Dance
Research/Teaching Interests: movement; African diasporic dance
Country Interests: Brazil
sferro@uwm.edu

Filippello, Marcus
Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: Global, African, and African diaspora histories; global processes of colonization and decolonization
Country Interests: Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, Benin, Nigeria, Togo
filippem@uwm.edu

Forbes, Jack
Department of Music
Research/Teaching Interests: Music of the Americas; Popular Music; Performance Studies; Music and Identity; Music and Politics
Country Interests: Guatemala
forbesjw@uwm.edu

Fraiser, Margaret
Department of Geosciences
Research/Teaching Interests: Paleoecology
Country Interests: Argentina
mfraiser@uwm.edu

Galvao, Loren
College of Nursing
Research/Teaching Interests: International/global health; Reproductive health; HIV/AIDS
Country Interests: Brazil, Latin America
lgalvao@uwm.edu

Gillespie, Maria
Department of Dance
Research/Teaching Interests: Contemporary Performance and Choreography
Country Interests: Mexico
gillespi@uwm.edu

Hanlon, Donald (Emeritus)
Department of Architecture
Research/Teaching Interests: formal structure of architecture
Country Interests: Mexico, Costa Rica
dhanlon@uwm.edu

Höbel, Gerlinde
Department of Biological Sciences
Research/Teaching Interests: behavior ecology; animal communication; evolutionary biology; amphibians and reptiles
Country Interests: Costa Rica, Panama
hoebel@uwm.edu

Hudson, Jean
Department of Anthropology
Research/Teaching Interests: forager adaptations; ecological and evolutionary models; zooarchaeology; ethnoarchaeology
Country Interests: Peru
jhudson@uwm.edu

Isbell, John L.
Department of Geosciences
Research/Teaching Interests: Clastic sedimentology; stratigraphy
Country Interests: Argentina
jisbell@uwm.edu

Izquierdo, René
Department of Music
Research/Teaching Interests: classical guitar; Afro-Caribbean and Latin American guitar styles
Country Interests: Cuba
Rene_izquierdo@yahoo.com

Kahl, Jonathan
Department of Freshwater Sciences
Research/Teaching Interests: Atmospheric sciences; Air pollution
Country Interests: Mexico
kahl@uwm.edu

Kaster, Jerry (Emeritus)
School of Freshwater Sciences
Research/Teaching Interests: Aquatic Ecology
Country Interests: Mexico
jlk@uwm.edu

Kilwein Guevara, Mauricio (Emeritus)
Department of English
Research/Teaching Interests: U.S. Latina/o Literature, Andean literatures and cultures
Country Interests: Colombia, Ecuador
maurice@uwm.edu

Kitchen, Diane (Emerita)
Department of Film
Research/Teaching Interests: 16 mm filmmaking
Country Interests: Peru
dkitchen@uwm.edu

Libbey, Allison
Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: Narrative Theory; Gender Studies; Trauma Studies; Representations of Politics; Representations of Violence
Country Interests: Argentina, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain, U.S. Latinx communities
libbey@uwm.edu

Mamalakis, Markos (Emeritus)
Department of Economics
Research/Teaching Interests: poverty, mobility, inequality and social and economic justice
Country Interests: Chile
mamalaki@uwm.edu

McCaw, R. John
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: ritual and religion in Spanish and Latin American literature
Country Interests: Latin America
rjmccaw@uwm.edu

Miller, Andy
Department of Dance
Research/Teaching Interests: Music and Dance Relationships; Pedagogy and Practice in Participatory Music Traditions (Colombian Folkloric Music, Brazilian Candomblé)
Country Interests: Brazil; Colombia
mill2359@uwm.edu

Munson, Ethan
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research/Teaching Interests: multimedia documents; human-computer interaction; object-oriented programming; digital documents
Country Interests: Brazil
munson@uwm.edu

Nelson, Jessica
Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: Colonialism, Gender, Indigeneity, Religion
Country Interests: Mexico
nelso878@uwm.edu

Olen, Amy
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Latin American literature; Literary translation; Medical interpreting
Country Interests: Guatemala, Peru, United States
amytolen@uwm.edu

Pacifico, David
Department of Art History
Research/Teaching Interests: Archaeology and material culture in pre-Columbian Andes; Heritage values in archaeologically rich regions; Casma Valley
Country Interests: Peru
pacifico@uwm.edu

Pitt, Kristin E.
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: gender, race, sexuality and nationalism in 19th and 20th Century literature
Country Interests: Latin America, Caribbean and North America
kepitt@uwm.edu

Pucci, Sandra Liliana (Emerita)
Department of Linguistics
Research/Teaching Interests: Bilingualism, second language acquisition, heritage language development
Country Interests: Central America, Argentina, US
pucci@uwm.edu

Rapoport, Amos (Distinguished Emeritus)
Department of Architecture
Research/Teaching Interests: culture and environment
Country Interests: Latin America
rapoport@uwm.edu

Rei-Doval, Gabriel
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: sociolinguistics; Galician Studies; historiography of linguistics; applied linguistics
Country Interests: Galician diaspora, Latin America, US
reidoval@uwm.edu

Reuter, Ora John
Department of Political Science
Research/Teaching Interests: Authoritarianism; comparative politics; political parties; comparative political economy
Country Interests: Eastern Europe, Mexico, Russia, Venezuela
reutero@uwm.edu

Rios, Alvaro Saar
Department of Theatre
Research/Teaching Interests: Playwriting; Ethno-drama; U.S. Latino Theatre; Texas/Mexican folklore
Country Interests: Mexico (before the Mexican Revolution)
riosa@uwm.edu

Rodríguez, Joseph
Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: Latino/a social movements
Country Interests: Mexico, US
joerod@uwm.edu

Rodríguez, Rafael
Department of Biological Sciences
Research/Teaching Interests: Behavioral ecology of insects and spiders, sexual selection
Country Interests: Costa Rica
rafa@uwm.edu

Rodríguez-Luis, Julio (Emeritus)
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: Spanish-American modern narrative
Country Interests: Spanish-America
jrluis@uwm.edu

Ruggiero, Kristin (Emerita)
Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: medicine and law in 19th century
Country Interests: Argentina
ruggiero@uwm.edu

Saint Jacques, Ermitte
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Transnational migration and globalization; race and ethnicity; gender and migration
Country Interests: Haitian Diaspora in the Caribbean and US
saintjac@uwm.edu

Salto, Dante J.
Department of Administrative Leadership
Research/Teaching Interests: Comparative and international higher education policy; privatization; regulation; quality assurance, organizational behavior
Country Interests: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru
salto@uwm.edu

Sherman, R. Jason
Department of Anthropology
Research/Teaching Interests: Archaic states; political and economic organization; archaeological method and theory; landscape archaeology; GIS; ceramic analysis; Mesoamerica
Country Interests: Mexico
shermanr@uwm.edu

Shumway, Rebecca
Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: History of West Africa and the African Diaspora
Country Interests: African Diaspora
shumwayr@uwm.edu

Snyder, Gil (Emeritus)
Department of Architecture
Research/Teaching Interests: Women’s and Girl’s Shelter for victims of domestic abuse; indigenous knowledge in architecture; architectural detailing; environmental sustainability; the post-industrial city
Country Interests: Malawi, Peru, France
gsnyder@uwm.edu

Sommers, Jeffrey
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Africology, political economy, and public policy
Country Interests: Haiti, Caribbean
sommerjw@uwm.edu

Song, Sooho
Department of Ancient & Modern Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Research/Teaching Interests: The effects of cultural differences on politeness behavior in Korea (Asia), Latin America, and the US
Country Interests: Latin America
sooho@uwm.edu

Sotomayor, M. Estrella
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: language teaching strategies; Spanish for the professions
Country Interests: Latin America
mes4@uwm.edu

Suárez-Felipe, Ester
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: language teaching strategies; Spanish American culture
Country Interests: Latin America
ester@uwm.edu

Sugiyama, Natasha Borges
Department of Political Science
Research/Teaching Interests: comparative politics, social policy, and gender politics
Country Interests: Brazil
sugiyamn@uwm.edu

Sziarto, Kristin
Department of Geography
Research/Teaching Interests: Geographies of social movements, immigrant activism, political theory, cities and citizenship, urban public health, gender, sexuality, and urban space
Country Interests: México, Colombia and U.S. Latina/o
sziarto@uwm.edu

Tapia, Javier
Department of Educational Policy & Community Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: cultural anthropology; bilingual/bicultural education; Latino studies
Country Interests: Mexico, US
jtapia@uwm.edu

Terando, Lorena A.
Translation and Interpreting Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: 19th century Latin American literature; contemporary Latin American and US Latina women writers; translation theory and practice
Country Interests: Mexico
terando@uwm.edu

Tiffany, Tanya J.
Department of Art History
Research/Teaching Interests: Early modern feminine spirituality; gender and race in the Spanish empire; visual culture and popular devotion; artistic theory; cultural exchange in the early modern world
Country Interests: Spain, Peru, and the Spanish Empire more broadly
tanyatif@uwm.edu

Tyvela, Kirk
College of General Studies UWM-Washington County
Research/Teaching Interests: U.S.-Latin American relations; Cold War
Country Interests: Paraguay
kirk.tyvela@uwc.edu

Umali, Renato
Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres
Research/Teaching Interests: History; Immigration
Country Interests: El Salvador; Guatemala; Mexico
rumali@uwm.edu

Vang, Chia Youyee
Department of History
Reasearch/Teaching Interests: 20th century US-Asia Relations, Cold War politics, Asian American history, refugee migration, transnational and diaspora communities
Country Interests: French Guiana and Argentina
vangcy@uwm.edu

Vélez, William (Emeritus)
Department of Sociology
Research/Teaching Interests: Persistence and success in higher education; high school attrition; Latinos in the U. S.; race and ethnic relations
Country Interests: Puerto Rico
velez@uwm.edu

Walter, Gilbert (Emeritus)
Department of Mathematics
Research/Teaching Interests: statistics
Country Interests: Latin America
ggw@uwm.edu

Washabaugh, William (Emeritus)
Department of Anthropology
Research/Teaching Interests: linguistic anthropology; Creole studies; sign language studies; music; nationalism
Country Interests: Caribbean
wash@uwm.edu

Wellin, Edward (Emeritus)
Department of Anthropology
Country Interests: Latin America

Wheatley, Kathleen
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Research/Teaching Interests: structure of Spanish-diachronic evolution and synchronic (dialect) variation
Country Interests: Latin America
wheatley@uwm.edu

Wier, Alex
Department of Music
Research/Teaching Interests: Percussion Performance; West African and Afro-Caribbean Music
Country Interests: Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba
wier@uwm.edu

Winkler, Erin
Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: African American families and communities; race and place (nationally and internationally); childhood and adolescence
Country Interests: U.S. and Brazil
winklere@uwm.edu

Wood, W. Warner
Department of Anthropology
Research/Teaching Interests: Museum studies and Public Anthropology; Expressive and Material Culture; Globalization and Transnational Processes; Environmental Cultures and Histories; Tourism; Ethnicity and Identity; Practice Theories; Qualitative Methodologies
Country Interests: Mexico, United States
woodw@uwm.edu

World, Krislyn
Department of Dance
Research/Teaching Interests: Afro Latin Music and Dance; Cuban Salsa Rueda; African Diaspora; Classical Music and Dance
Country Interests: West and South Africa, Brazil, Cuba, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States
kworld@uwm.edu