CLACS supports international as well as domestic guest faculty and researchers affiliated with the university or invited to UWM by CLACS faculty from across Schools and Colleges.
Visiting Faculty and Research Scholars
Current
Leah Leone Anderson
Translator and Translation Scholar
Affiliation: CLACS/Translation and Interpreting Studies (ongoing)
Country of Research: Argentina
Research Interests: 20th Century Inter-American Cultural Diplomacy; Translation, Gender, Sexuality and Embodiment
Ned Littlefield
PhD in Political Science
Country of Research: Brazil
Research Interests: Civil-military & civil-police relations, crime & violence, democracy & human rights, ethnicity & race, foreign & security policy, and national identity & nationalism
Christiane Taubira
Former French Justice Minister, 2012-2016
Affiliation: CLACS/French, Italian and Comparative Literature (ongoing)
Country of Residence: French Guiana
Research Interests: women’s rights, discrimination, civil rights, racism, criminal justice.
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Vicky Unruh
University of Kansas (Emerita)
Affiliation: CLACS/Spanish & Portuguese (ongoing)
Country of Research: Cuba
Research Interests: Literary and intellectual culture of Spanish America
Former
Fernanda Barros dos Santos
Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Center for Studies on Public Policies in Human Rights (NEPP-DH) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Professor at the Postgraduate Course in Public Policies on Human Rights (PPDH/UFRJ)
Country of Research: Brazil
Research Interests: race, class, gender, public policies and comparative studies
Elena Mihas
James Cook University, Australia
Affiliation: CLACS/Linguistics
Country of Research: Peru
Research Interests: Linguistics, language preservation
Rafael Ruiz Ortega
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. (CIDE)
Affiliation: CLACS/School of Freshwater Science (Fall 2016)
Country of Research: Mexico
Research Interests: Water conflicts and policy