Through its federal funding mission, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS) supports Latin Americanist/Caribbeanist faculty not only from UWM but also from public and private institutions throughout Milwaukee, the state of Wisconsin, and the Upper Midwest. This support extends to the Latin American, Caribbean, & U.S. Latinx Studies (LACUSL) administration and faculty. People affiliated with CLACS and LACUSL possess a rich variety of research interests, and the Center is fortunate to have such a tremendous amount of expertise among its members.
Antunes, Susana Department of World Languages and Cultures 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
Blasini, Gilberto Department of English Research/Teaching Interests: Latin American film and issues of identity Country Interests: Caribbean gblasini@uwm.edu
Cameron, Barry Department of Geosciences Research/Teaching Interests: igneous petrology, volcanology Country Interests: Guatemala bcameron@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 World Languages and Cultures Research/Teaching Interests: contemporary Latin American novel; Latin American popular culture; Peruvian literature Country Interests: Mexico, Peru, Southern Cone cferr@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
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
Harris, Pamela E. Department of Mathematical Sciences Research/Teaching Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics and Mathematics Education and Equity Country Interests: Central America, Mexico peharris@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 ri7@uwm.edu
Latch, Emily Department of Biological Sciences Research/Teaching Interests: Evolutionary biology; Conservation genetics; Wildlife; Endangered species conservation Country Interests: Grenada and Caribbean latch@uwm.edu
Libbey, Allison Department of World Languages and Cultures 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
McCaw, R. John Department of World Languages and Cultures Research/Teaching Interests: ritual and religion in Spanish and Latin American literature Country Interests: Latin America rjmccaw@uwm.edu
Nagy, Gabriela Department of Psychology Research/Teaching Interests: Health equity; Psychology of immigration; Mental health Country Interests: Immigrants and refugees from Latin America residing in the U.S. ganagy@uwm.edu
Nelson, Jessica Department of History Research/Teaching Interests: Colonialism, Gender, Indigeneity, Religion Country Interests: Mexico nelso878@uwm.edu
Olen, Amy Department of World Languages and Cultures 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 World Languages and Cultures 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
Rei-Doval, Gabriel Department of Linguistics 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, Rafael Department of Biological Sciences Research/Teaching Interests: Behavioral ecology of insects and spiders, sexual selection Country Interests: Costa Rica rafa@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
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 World Languages and 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 World Languages and Cultures Research/Teaching Interests: language teaching strategies; Spanish for the professions Country Interests: Latin America mes4@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. Department of World Languages and Cultures 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
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 Research/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
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
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
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.
Name
Status
Affiliation
Country of Research
Research Interests
Leah Leone Anderson
Translator and Translation Scholar
CLACS/Translation and Interpreting Studies (ongoing)
Argentina
20th Century Inter-American Cultural Diplomacy; Translation, Gender, Sexuality and Embodiment
Ned Littlefield
PhD in Political Science
Brazil
Civil-military & civil-police relations, crime & violence, democracy & human rights, ethnicity & race, foreign & security policy, and national identity & nationalism
Vicky Unruh
University of Kansas (Emerita)
CLACS/Spanish & Portuguese (ongoing)
Cuba
Literary and intellectual culture of Spanish America
Recent Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Profiles
CLACS is proud recipient of U.S. Department of Education grant funding to support the advanced study of less-commonly taught languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. This FLAS fellowship (Foreign Language and Area Studies) at UW-Milwaukee is available for both graduate students (summer term) and undergraduates (academic year).
Why did you apply for the FLAS Fellowship? I had been studying Portuguese independently for a few years but had always wished I had studied abroad during my undergraduate degree. So, when I found out that UWM had the FLAS Fellowship, I wasn’t going to miss out on my chance to study abroad again. I …
Michele Haeberlin received the FLAS Fellowship award in the summer of 2023 to study Maya K’iche’ at Tulane University’s Mayan Language Institute. Read about her experience below. Why did you apply for the FLAS Fellowship? I applied for the FLAS Fellowship both because it offered me a wonderful opportunity to study abroad at a time …
Emeriti Faculty
Aborampah, Osei-Mensah 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
Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick 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 World Languages and Cultures 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
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 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 World Languages and Cultures 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 Department of Visual Art Research/Teaching Interests: ceramic sculpture; cross cultural experience; aesthetic interposition of cultures Country Interests: Peru cdavisb@uwm.edu
Deal, Raoul 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
Ferro, Simone Department of Dance Research/Teaching Interests: movement; African diasporic dance Country Interests: Brazil sferro@uwm.edu
Hanlon, Donald Department of Architecture Research/Teaching Interests: formal structure of architecture Country Interests: Mexico, Costa Rica dhanlon@uwm.edu
Kahl, Jonathan School of Freshwater Sciences Research/Teaching Interests: Atmospheric sciences; Air pollution Country Interests: Mexico kahl@uwm.edu
Kaster, Jerry School of Freshwater Sciences Research/Teaching Interests: Aquatic Ecology Country Interests: Mexico jlk@uwm.edu
Kilwein Guevara, Mauricio Department of English Research/Teaching Interests: U.S. Latina/o Literature, Andean literatures and cultures Country Interests: Colombia, Ecuador maurice@uwm.edu
Kitchen, Diane Department of Film Research/Teaching Interests: 16 mm filmmaking Country Interests: Peru dkitchen@uwm.edu
Mamalakis, Markos Department of Economics Research/Teaching Interests: poverty, mobility, inequality and social and economic justice Country Interests: Chile mamalaki@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
Pucci, Sandra Liliana Department of Linguistics Research/Teaching Interests: Bilingualism, second language acquisition, heritage language development Country Interests: Central America, Argentina, US pucci@uwm.edu
Rapoport, Amos Department of Architecture Research/Teaching Interests: culture and environment Country Interests: Latin America rapoport@uwm.edu
Rodríguez, Joseph Department of History Research/Teaching Interests: Latino/a social movements Country Interests: Mexico, US joerod@uwm.edu
Rodríguez-Luis, Julio Department of Spanish & Portuguese Research/Teaching Interests: Spanish-American modern narrative Country Interests: Spanish-America jrluis@uwm.edu
Ruggiero, Kristin Department of History Research/Teaching Interests: medicine and law in 19th century Country Interests: Argentina ruggiero@uwm.edu
Snyder, Gil 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
Suárez-Felipe, Ester Department of World Languages and Cultures Research/Teaching Interests: language teaching strategies; Spanish American culture Country Interests: Latin America ester@uwm.edu
Vélez, William 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 Department of Mathematics Research/Teaching Interests: statistics Country Interests: Latin America ggw@uwm.edu
Washabaugh, William Department of Anthropology Research/Teaching Interests: linguistic anthropology; Creole studies; sign language studies; music; nationalism Country Interests: Caribbean wash@uwm.edu
Wellin, Edward Department of Anthropology Country Interests: Latin America
Wheatley, Kathleen Department of World Languages and Cultures Research/Teaching Interests: structure of Spanish-diachronic evolution and synchronic (dialect) variation Country Interests: Latin America wheatley@uwm.edu
