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Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Poet, human rights activist, literary critic. Interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; migration, identity, and ethnicity.
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Senior Lecturer in Engineering; Director of Engineering Studies
B.S., M.S., Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researches engineering education and the development of consumer-oriented technologies that can benefit under-served populations worldwide.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
Research interests include the group identity, political behavior and transnationalism of Afro-Latin Americans and their descendants.
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Professor Emerita of Religion
B.A., Stetson University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholar of the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism with special attention to the Virgin Mary and to women’s spiritual writings.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology
B.A, Washington University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; A.M., Ph.D., Brown University
Socio-cultural anthropologist whose research centers on the politics of foreign aid, democracy promotion, judicial reform, and conflict in Latin America.
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Diana Chapman Walsh Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
B.A., Binghamton University ; M.S., University of Lyon; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research interests include sociolinguistics, language variation & change, varieties of English, and the language varieties of the African diaspora.
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Associate Professor of Music
B.A., University of California (Los Angeles); M.A., University of California (San Diego); Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Popular music scholar of Brazil and Latin America; Jazz and the African Diaspora; Music in Film and Audiovisual Media; Music Industry; Music and Disability
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Associate Professor of Art
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Delaware
Art historian examining African and African American identities, music, the body, feminism, and performance art from the 19th to the 21st century.
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Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Specializes in gender, race, and philosophy of language in colonial Latin American literature and visual culture; digital humanities and blended learning; history of clothing and of food; cultural exchanges between Eastern Europe and Latin America.
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Professor of Spanish
B.A., Soka University of America; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Specialized in 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture; also interested in trans-pacific studies.
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Senior Lecturer Emerita in Spanish
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialized in 19th- through 21st-century literature with a focus on Hispanic American narrative and the literary and cultural history of modern Mexico, I am a bilingual scholar, book editor, translator and teacher.
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Senior Lecturer in Portuguese
B.A., University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth); M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Research interests include Contemporary Lusophone African, Brazilian and Portuguese Literature and Film in general, and the short story in particular.
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Assistant Professor of Art
B.Arch, University of Houston; M.F.A, New York University
Video and installation artist working at the intersection of landscape, history, and memory.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cultural and intellectual inequality, museums, decentered knowledge production and pedagogy, sociology of art and literature, migration, transnational social protection.
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Associate Professor of American Studies; Co-Director, The Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities
B.A., M.A., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Interests include Chicana/Latino literature and culture; and analysis of gender, labor, immigration, sexuality, and representation in cultural production.
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Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies; Professor of Economics
B.A., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Research in the economics of education, development economics, and Latin American education and social policy.
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Senior Lecturer in Art
B.A., Yale University; J.D., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Yale University
Specialist in Latin American art, focusing on modern Mexican art and architecture, through museum as well as academic projects.
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Associate Professor of History
B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Scholar of urban history and political culture in the Spanish Habsburg world.
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Professor of Psychology
B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research interests include the relationship between language and cognition, bilingualism, the psycholinguistics of sign languages, and the role of iconicity in language.
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Professor of Art
M.F.A., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
Visual artist doing work that attempts to understand the object quality of images.
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Associate Professor of American Studies
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Interdisciplinary scholar studying race and ethnic identities and popular culture in Latin America and U.S. Latina/o communities.
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Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of the South; M.A., Ph.D, University of Kentucky
Research and teaching center on 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and cinema.
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Gordon P. Lang and Althea P. Lang ‘26 Professor of Biological Sciences
M.S., Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Evolutionary biologist with interest in conservation genetics.
