Faculty working on Latin America
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala
Biostatistics
Full Professor of Research in the Department of Biostatistics. At UNC, he is a co-investigator of several multicenter studies at the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center of the Department of Biostatistics, but also serves as director of various biostatistical core support units - at the Injury Prevention Research Center, the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Sheps Center for Health Services Research and the Center for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders. Dr. Bangdiwala's role there includes helping with research design, developing statistical analytical strategies, overseeing data management and statistical analyses, and paper preparation. He has extensive experience in the design, conduct and analysis of multi-center studies, having worked on clinical trials in congestive heart failure, cardiovascular risk factors, functional bowel disease, and cancer prevention. He has experience as statistical advisor to numerous international organizations, including the Pan American Health Organization, the US National Institutes of Health, the Clinical Research Collaboration Network (Thailand) and the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN). Dr. Bangdiwala also has extensive experience as reviewer on numerous National Institutes of Health review committees and member of nine Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for studies in ophthalmology, HIV/AIDS, and cardiology.
He currently is designated as a ‘Fulbright Senior Specialist’ in Global Public Health and a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. He holds visiting faculty appointments at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, at the University of Valparaiso (Chile), and at the University of Chile in Santiago. He served as Statistical Editor of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is currently co-Editor of the International Journal of Injury Control & Safety Promotion, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
kbangdiw@bios.unc.edu
Clare L Barrington
Health Behavior and Health EducationAssistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Barrington completed her MPH and PhD in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA at Brown University. Barrington has been working on community-based research in the Dominican Republic (DR) since the mid 1990s. Her most recent project in the DR is a study of the social networks of male clients of female sex workers and how these networks influence sexual risk behaviors and HIV vulnerability. She is also working on a qualitative study of the sexual health care needs of men who have sex with men in Guatemala. Barrington recently received funding from the UNC Center for AIDS Research to conduct life histories with Mexican men living with HIV/AIDS in North Carolina to improve understanding of HIV vulnerability in the context of migration. Her research is published in journals including Social Science and Medicine, Culture, Health, and Sexuality, and the American Journal of Public Health. She teaches courses on qualitative research and global health. cbarring@email.unc.edu
Deborah E. Bender
Public HealthClinical Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles published in Health Services Research, Journal of Biosocial Science, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Immigrant Health, Journal of Health Administration Education, Qualitative Health Research, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Journal of Biosocial Science, The Journal of Health and Population in Developing Countries, International Journal of Health Sciences, International Journal of Epidemiology, Social Science and Medicine, PAHO Bulletin, Boletín de la Oficina de Sanitaria Panamericana, and International Quarterly of Community Health Education, among others. Her principal teaching interests include courses on global health and local solutions; strategic human resources management; organizational theory, structure and behavior; health policy and practice in Latino populations; international and comparative health; women, health, and development policy; and evaluation and planning of primary care interventions in developing countries. Bender has been recipient of a Fulbright Research Award, Fulbright Senior Scholar Lecturer Award, and an International Fellowship in Technical Assistance (Center for Women in Development). deborah_bender@unc.edu
Brian Billman
AnthropologyAssociate Professor of Anthropology, Billman received his Ph.D. at the University of California Santa Barbara in 1996. Research interest include the prehistory of Andean South America, evolution of complex political organizations (chiefdoms, states, and empires), causes and consequences of warfare, origins of social stratification, cultural ecology, settlement pattern analysis, and the prehistory of southwestern North America. From 1993 to 1998, he directed several large archaeological projects in the southwestern United States for the Zuni Archaeology Program (ZAP) and Soil Systems, Inc (SSI). For SSI, he led the investigation of over 60 archaeological sites ranging in date from the Middle Archaic Period (4800 3000 B.C.) to the Historic Era. Present research involves a multi year interdisciplinary project in the Moche Valley in the organization and development of the Moche State. The goal of the Moche Origins Project (MOP) is to obtain more detailed data on social stratification, violence, highland coastal interaction, and environmental perturbations in the Moche Valley prior to and during the formation of the Moche State. Courses taught include the origins of civilization and the state, world prehistory, archaeology of South America, field school in South American archaeology, and prehistoric New World states. Publications include articles and chapters published in American Antiquity, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, and Integrating Archaeological Demography: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Population, edited by R. R. Paine (Carbondale, IL: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Papers 24, 1997). He co-edited Settlement Pattern Studies in the Americas: Fifty Years Since Virú (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999). bbillman@email.unc.edu
Kathryn Burns
HistoryAssociate Professor of History, Burns has taught Latin American History at Carolina since 2000, specializing on the history of Spanish America under colonial rule. In her first book, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), she traced the history of some of Latin America’s oldest convents and the ways nuns participated in colonialism: by raising children, lending resources to propertied cuzqueños, and otherwise deeply involving themselves in the social reproduction of the city around them. Colonial Habits won three book prizes, and has recently been published in a Spanish co edition (Quellca and the Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos) in Lima, Peru. Burns’s current book project focuses on Andean colonial archives and the kinds of history they make possible. Power in the Archives traces the lives and interests of Cuzco’s notaries, the ways official record making was supposed to work, and the practices by which notaries, their assistants, and their clients actually produced the written record. Burns’s related articles include “Notaries, Truth, and Consequences,” American Historical Review 110 (April 2005), 350 79; and “Dentro de la ciudad letrada: La producción de la escritura pública en el Perú colonial,” Histórica 29 (July 2005), 43 68. In her teaching Burns examines issues of gender, power, and the construction of difference and hierarchy in Latin America. Courses she has recently taught include women and gender in Latin America and the Incas and after–both focused mainly on the colonial period. In 2006 she won a James M. Johnston Teaching Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching. Her work has also been supported by fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Her most recent publication, “Unfixing Race,” appears in Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires, eds. Margaret R. Greer, Walter D. Mignolo, and Maureen Quilligan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 188 202. kjburns@email.unc.edu
Kia Lilly Caldwell
African and Afro-American StudiesAssistant Professor in African and Afro-American Studies, Caldwell received an A.B. in Romance Languages from Princeton University. She completed an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in social anthropology, with a specialization in African Diaspora Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity was published by Rutgers University Press in 2007. She has published journal articles in Frontiers, Transforming Anthropology, The Journal of Negro Education, Gênero (Brazil) and Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil). Her research interests include critical race theory, black feminism(s), African Diaspora studies, citizenship, and human rights. She is currently developing a comparative research project on black women and HIV/AIDS in Brazil and the United States. Caldwell has served as a faculty facilitator for the Carolina/Duke Working Group on Afro-Latin Perspectives and Issues. She teaches courses on Afro-Latin American populations, including blacks in Latin America and race, culture, and politics in Brazil. Caldwell will be in residence as a Faculty Scholar at the Carolina Women’s Center during the Fall 2008. She has received grants and fellowships from the University of North Carolina Office of the Provost, the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Library of Congress. klcaldwe@email.unc.edu
John Charles Chasteen
HistoryThe Daniel W. Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History, Chasteen has taught Latin American history at UNC since 1990. He has done field research in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, and Cuba. His undergraduate survey course is taken annually by over 100 students, and he participates frequently in outreach training for North Carolina school teachers. His general history of the region, Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (W.W. Norton, 2006) has been assigned at 450 colleges and universities. Chasteen’s monographs, Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos (University of New Mexico Press, 1995) and National Rhythms, African Roots: A Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance (University of New Mexico Press, 2004), are representative of his chief scholarly concerns: political and popular culture, nationalism, and identity formation in the nineteenth century. His books have been translated variously into Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, and Polish. His most recent book, Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence (Oxford University Press, 2008) provides an engaging introduction to this complex subject for a general reader. Chasteen is also a general editor of the Pitt Latin American Series. Chasteen has translated many books from Spanish and Portuguese, including works by some of Latin America’s most influential intellectuals and fiction writers. His forthcoming work includes a collection of newly translated primary sources on the wars of independence and an edited translation of the canonical Mexican novel, Santa (1903) by Federico Gamboa, for the UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies’ publication series “Latin America in Translation.” His translation of Angel Rama’s Lettered City (Duke University Press, 1996) received a prize from the Modern Language Association. chasteen@email.unc.edu
Richard Cole
JournalismThe John Thomas Kerr, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is Dean Emeritus, having served as dean for 26 years (1979-2005), during which time he led the school to increased international prestige through programs in East Europe, Russia, Mexico, Chile, Cuba, and Africa. In 2005, Cole was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame. Also that year, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the General Alumni Association of the University and was inducted into the University’s Order of the Golden Fleece. In 2004, he received the Earl Gluck Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters. Cole was national president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (1982-1983) and national president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (1986-1987). For 10 years, he was book-review editor (or co-editor) of Journalism Quarterly. He has been a consultant to state governments and more than 30 universities in the United States, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Cuba. For eight years, he was a vice-president of the worldwide International Association for Mass Communication Research. He is the co-author of one book and the editor of another. He is the author of articles in Journalism Quarterly, Gazette: The International Journal for Mass Communication Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Journalism Educator and other scholarly publications. His research has concentrated on three areas: international communication, concerns of professional journalists, and education for journalism-mass communication. richard_cole@unc.edu
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
AnthropologyAssociate Professor of Anthropology and a Visiting Professor at FLACSO-Ecuador. Since 1991, Colloredo-Mansfeld has worked in the Ecuadorian Andes on artisan economies, competition, commodities, consumer cultures, producer associations and development programs. In his first book, The Native Leisure Class (1999, Chicago) he documents the transnational economy of indigenous artisans. In Fighting Like a Community (2009, Chicago) he examines the ways that rural councils and urban trade associations mobilize to protect marketplaces, to develop local infrastructure, and to fight free trade policies. His current research compares two provincial Andean apparel economies; one focused on indigenous artisan goods and the other anchored in an old factory town and dedicated national markets in fashionable casual wear. Working with an artisan union and the chamber of commerce, the project examines local cooperation, product innovation, and public cultural investments. collored@email.unc.edu
Altha J. Cravey
GeographyFeminist geographer who earned her Ph.D. in 1993 at the University of Iowa with the generous support of an Iowa Fellowship. She is concerned with the potential of ordinary people to effect social change in contemporary times. The author of Women and Work in Mexico’s Maquiladoras (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), she is completing a book on Mexican Transnational Lives in the U.S. South that draws upon six years of ethnographic immersion. Her research interests include the political economy of labor, globalization, and migration while her expertise centers on Mexico, Mexican development, and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Cravey has published widely in journals such as Economic Geography, Ethnography, Social Science and Medicine, Belgeo, Social and Cultural Geography, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, ACME, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Antipode. She teaches courses on globalization; migration, trans-nationality, and Diaspora; feminist geography; Latina/o Studies; and Latin American geography. She is developing a Study Abroad course on Comparative Globalization with Professor Eunice Sahle that will compare African experiences with Latin American ones, and will be offered in fall 2009. Cravey collaborates with community groups and academics in other fields and has garnered outside support from National Institute of Health, National Institute of Health Sciences, and North Carolina Arts Council to support several research projects on health and the production of documentary films. Her first film (co-produced with Elva E. Bishop), “People’s Guelaguetza: Oaxacans Take it to the Streets,” aired at the 20th annual Latin American Film Festival of the Carolina-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The second film, “The Virgin Comes to ‘La Maldita Vecindad,’” explores various celebrations of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Durham, North Carolina. cravey@unc.edu
Eduardo de Jesús Douglas
ArtAssistant Professor of Art, Eduardo de Jesús Douglas received his Ph.D. (2000) in the History of Art from the University of Texas, Austin, and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taught at the University of California at Riverside and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. His research interests and teaching range across the fields of colonial, modern, and contemporary Latin American art, with an emphasis on the arts of Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico. Professor Douglas is currently at work on a study of mid-sixteenth-century indigenous pictorial history manuscripts from Tetzcoco, Mexico. eduardod@email.unc.edu
Emilio del Valle Escalante
Romance LanguagesAssistant Professor of Spanish, del Valle received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. He is originally from Guatemala. His teaching and research interest focus on contemporary Latin American literatures and cultural studies with particular emphasis on indigenous literatures and social movements, Central American literatures and cultures, and post-colonial and subaltern studies theory in the Latin American context. He has been concerned with contemporary indigenous textual production and how indigenous intellectuals challenge hegemonic traditional constructions of the indigenous world, history, the nation, and modernity in order to not only redefine the discursive and political nature of these hegemonic narratives, but also interethnic or intercultural relations. His broader cultural and theoretical interests cluster around areas involving themes of colonialism as related to issues of nationhood, national identity, race/ethnicity and gender. He is the author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity and Identity Politics (SAR Press, 2009; Spanish version by FLACSO, 2008), and the editor of “Indigenous Literatures and Social Movements in Latin America” a special issue of Latin American Indian Literatures Journal (Spring 2008). edelvall@email.unc.edu
Arturo Escobar
AnthropologyThe Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Escobar, was born and grew up in Colombia. Trained initially in sciences and engineering, his interest in questions of hunger and development took him into the social sciences and, eventually, anthropology. After completing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Development Philosophy, Policy and Planning (University of California Berkeley, 1987), Escobar taught at various places in permanent positions in the United States. He has also taught for short periods in Colombia, Spain, England, The Netherlands, and Argentina, and lectured in many places and conducted or participated in workshops on development and ecology in Colombia, Ecuador, Mali, Brazil, Finland, Denmark, England, and Mexico. His main works are: Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), and the collections of essays, El final del salvaje. Naturaleza, cultura y política en la antropología contemporánea (Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología, 1999) and Más allá del Tercer Mundo. Globalización y diferencia (2005). Escobar has also been part of a research group on Latin American social movements and co-edited two anthologies on the subject. Over the past ten years, he has worked with several social movements and NGOs in Colombia and with the Rome-based Society for International Development (SID) on projects on globalization, women, environment, and place. He is most proud of his work with a group of black movement activists from the Colombian Pacific, and just completed a book on the subject, based on this collaboration. The book–Territories of Difference: Place. Movements. Life. Redes (Durham: Duke University Press, Forthcoming 2008, and Siglo XXI, Mexico)–brings together his main scholarly interests, namely, political ecology, the anthropology of development, social movements, globalization/place, and techno-science. With a handful of friends, he initiated the “WAN (World Anthropologies Network) Project,” which hopefully will contribute to making visible a plurality of “other anthropologies and anthropology otherwise,” in part as a corrective to a single anthropology arising from metropolitan centers. aescobar@email.unc.edu
Oswaldo Estrada
Romance LanguagesAssistant Professor of Spanish, Estrada received his Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine in 1994. He specializes in contemporary Latin American literature. His research focuses on the development of the twentieth-century novel, the aesthetic effect of rewriting history, the cultural implications of amalgamating the present with its colonial past, and the hegemonic forces that impact the colonization of language. His book manuscript, La imaginación novelesca. Bernal Díaz entre géneros y épocas, examines this renowned sixteenth century chronicler’s voice for its novelistic undertones, in order to delineate the construction of a nonconformist and nonetheless literary discourse. Taking into account historiographical treatises that set forth the theoretical parameters for writing history during the sixteenth century, he draws explicit connections between the Historia verdadera and the twentieth century novel. He has considered postmodern theories that focus, among other topics, on the development of the novel, its dialogic qualities, its treatment of time and space, and its structure. Accordingly, a substantial part of his book deals with the rewritings of Bernal Díaz’s Historia verdadera in contemporary Mexican fiction. oestrada@email.unc.edu
David F. García
MusicHolds degrees in music from the California State University Long Beach (B.M., composition, 1995), University of California Santa Barbara (M.A., ethnomusicology, 1997), and the City University of New York, the Graduate Center (Ph.D., ethnomusicology, 2003). His research focuses on the music of Latin America and the United States with an emphasis on black music of the Americas. He teaches undergraduate courses in music of Latin America, world music, and jazz, and graduate seminars in ethnomusicology, music of the African Diaspora, and popular music. He also teaches a service-learning course Music in the Community where students create and foster music programs for the community. In addition he directs and arranges for UNC’s Charanga Carolina, a Cuban and Latin music ensemble which actively performs on and off campus at other area universities, high schools, and elementary schools. His book, Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music (Temple University Press, 2006), was awarded a Certificate of Merit for Best Research in Folk, Ethnic or World Music by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (2007). He was also given a Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Award (2009) and was named Most Outstanding Faculty Member of 2007 by the Carolina Hispanic Student Association. He is currently conducting research on the intersection of African American and Afro-Latino music in the mid-twentieth century. He was named Visiting Scholar at the Cristobal Díaz Ayala Collection of Cuban and Latin American Popular Music by the Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University in 2006. García plays tres and arranges Cuban and salsa music. daga@email.unc.edu
Juan Carlos González Espitia
Romance LanguagesAssistant Professor of Spanish, received his Ph.D. in 2002 from Cornell University and B.A.in 1995 from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His book, On the Dark Side of the Archive: Nation and Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America, to be published by Bucknell University Press, examines nineteenth-century nation building through narratives that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, especially those associated with the critique of traditional ideals often portrayed in decadentism and modernismo. The study focuses on the “non-canonical” works of turn-of-the-century authors like José María Vargas Vila, Horacio Quiroga, Clemente Palma, and José Martí, and concludes with a study that compares the literary portrayal of doomed societies in the nineteenth-century with the work of contemporary authors like Fernando Vallejo. His principal areas of research include nineteenth-century Spanish-American literature, contemporary Spanish-American literature, and discourses of crime and sickness in the nineteenth century literary theory. jcge@email.unc.edu
Jacqueline Maria Hagan
SociologyProfessor of Sociology, Hagan joined the Department of Sociology in 2005 after 15 years on the faculty in Sociology and co-directing the Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, she moved to Houston and focused her research on the implications of international migration from Latin America. She has done fieldwork in migrant receiving communities in the United States and their sending counterparts in Mexico and Central America. She is author of Deciding to be Legal (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994) and Migration Miracle (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008). She has been an on-going collaborator in a study of deaths of undocumented migrants during their journey to the United States. She has written extensively on the effects of recent U.S. immigration reform initiatives on the rights and opportunities of immigrants and their families in the United States. Hagan regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international migration with a focus on the implications of Latin American migration to the United States. She is currently launching a bi-national study on migration between Mexico and North Carolina. Hagan has edited several volumes on migration and immigrant incorporation in the United States and Europe. Some of her most recent publications include “Border Blunders: The Unanticipated Human and Economic Costs of the U.S. Approach to Immigration Control, 1986-2007,” Criminology and Public Policy (2008); “U. S. Deportation Policy, Family Separation, and Circular Migration,” International Migration Review (2008); “Negotiating Social Membership in the Contemporary World,” Social Forces (2006); and “Making Theological Sense of the Migration Journey from Latin America: Catholic, Protestant and Interfaith Perspectives,” American Behavioral Scientist (2006). jhagan@unc.edu
Jonathan Hartlyn
Political ScienceThe Kenneth J. Reckford Professor of Political Science, Hartlyn received his B.A. (1974) from Clark University and both an M.Phil. (1976) and Ph.D. (1981) from Yale University. Before coming to Carolina in 1988, he taught for seven years at Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching interests are in the comparative politics of Latin America, especially with relation to questions of democratization, political institutions, and state-society relations. Hartlyn is the co-author of Latin America in the Twenty First Century: Toward a New Socio-Political Matrix, with Manuel Antonio Garretón, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter Cleaves, and Gary Gereffi (Miami: North-South Center Press and Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003; published in Spanish in 2004 and in Portuguese in 2007), and author of The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998; published in Spanish in 2008) and The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia (New York: Cambridge University Press,1988; published in Spanish in 1993). He is also the co-author of “Democracy in Latin America Since 1930'" in Cambridge History of Latin America, Vol. VI, Part II, ed. Leslie Bethell (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994; published in Spanish in 1997), and the co-editor of Latin American Political Economy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986); The United States and Latin American in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992); and Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America (2nd ed., Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999). His articles have appeared in numerous journals and edited books, including Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Gender, Latin American Research Review and Studies in Comparative International Development. In 2000, he received the Johnston Award for Teaching Excellence. Hartlyn has served as Director of Carolina’s Institute of Latin American Studies (predecessor to today’s ISA) and as Chair of the Department of Political Science. During 2005-2007, he served as the Chair of the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association, and he is a member of the Executive Council of the Latin American Studies Association (2007-2010). hartlyn@unc.edu
Joanne Hershfield
Women’s StudiesProfessor and Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies, Hershfield received her Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Radio-Television-Film. Her primary research interests are Mexican cinema and visual culture and feminist visual culture. Publications include The Invention of Dolores del Río (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000); Mexico’s Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers, co-edited with David R. Maciel (Wilmington: SR Books, 1999); Mexican Cinema/Mexican Woman, 1940-50 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996). Her most recent book, Imagining la chica moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in post-revolutionary Mexico, 1917 to 1936 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), considers the appearance of modern femininity in the everyday life of post-revolutionary culture. The book’s focus on popular images of embodied gender is intended to emphasize the place and importance of the visual in the project of modernization in Mexico during the first three decades of the 20th century. Other publications include “Women’s Cinema and Contemporary Allegories of Violence in Mexico,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, (2009); “Screening the Nation, 1920-1940" in The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940, (2006); and “The Hollywood Movie Star and the Mexican chica moderna” in Fashioning Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity, (2005). Currently, Hershfield is interested in issues of transnationalism and global cinema in contemporary Mexican film. hershfld@email.unc.edu
Evelyne Huber
Political ScienceThe Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science. Huber studied at the University of Zurich and received both her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University. Her interests are in comparative politics and political economy, with an area focus mainly on Latin America and the Caribbean, but also on broader comparisons between Latin America and Europe. She teaches Latin American/Caribbean politics and comparative politics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is the author of The Politics of Workers' Participation: The Peruvian Approach in Comparative Perspective (New York: Academic Press, 1980); co-author of Democratic Socialism in Jamaica (with John D. Stephens) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); co-author of Capitalist Development and Democracy (with Dietrich Rueschemeyer and John D. Stephens) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1992); co-winner of the Outstanding Book Award 1991-92 from the American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section; co-author of Development and Crisis of the Welfare State (with John D. Stephens) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001); winner of the Best Book Award 2001 from the American Political Science Association, Political Economy Section); and editor of Models of Capitalism: Lessons for Latin America (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002). She has also contributed articles to, among others, World Politics, Latin American Research Review, Comparative Politics, Journal of Politics, Politics and Society, Comparative Political Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, Comparative Social Research, Political Power and Social Theory, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Economic Perspectives. She is currently doing research on comparative social policy. ehuber@email.unc.edu
Pia D. M. MacDonald
Global Public HealthDr. Pia D. M. MacDonald is the Latin America Program Coordinator for the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and is a research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (UNC SPH). In addition, she directs the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness and the Certificate in Field Epidemiology Program in the North Carolina Institute for Public Health at the UNC SPH. Her research is focused on infectious disease surveillance, foodborne disease epidemiology and outbreak investigation, the epidemiology of HIV and other STIs in North Carolina, and public health practice systems research. Her practice work is primarily on training the public health workforce in applied epidemiology. The NC Center for Public Health Preparedness provides training and education to improve the capacity of the public health workforce to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies. Moreover, the Center provides technical assistance with infectious disease epidemiology and surveillance. Work in Latin America is focused on training the public health workforce around applied epidemiology with specific partners in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Funding partners include the NC Division of Public Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), WHO, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and National Association of City and Country Health Officials. Dr. MacDonald received a PhD in epidemiological sciences from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an MPH in infectious disease epidemiology from Yale University. Before joining UNC she was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the CDC. pia@email.unc.edu
Patricia A. McAnany
AnthropologyKenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology. McAnany has conducted archaeological research and cultural heritage programs in the Maya region for 15 years. Her current project, the Maya Area Cultural Heritage Initiative, focuses on educational programs with descendant Maya communities. Within Belize, McAnany is the principal investigator of the Xibun Archaeological Research Project, which is focused on understanding the political economy of cacao (chocolate) production in Classic Maya society. Towards this end, she has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. This project and earlier K'axob Archaeology Project were conducted as joint research and teaching seasons providing field practicum for over a hundred undergraduate students as well as advanced training for over a dozen graduate students. Through the 1990s, her field research focused on the site of K'axob where she directed an investigation into the agricultural uses of wetlands and earlier into the significance of ancestor veneration within domestic contexts. Recently she edited with Norman Yoffee, Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2009). In 2010, she will publish Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective (Cambridge University Press). McAnany is past President of the Society for Economic Anthropology (2007 2009), served on the Board of Directors of the Society for American Archaeology (2000 2003), as Secretary of the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association (AD AAA 1994 1996), and on the Executive Committee of the AD AAA (2004 2006). She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology and has been the recipient of several fellowships, including National Endowment for the Humanities, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. mcanany@email.unc.edu
Nina Martin
GeographyAssistant Professor of Geography and Assistant Adjunct in International and Area Studies, Martin is the Jordan Family Fellow in International Studies. She received her PhD in 2008 from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Urban Planning and Policy. Martin holds a Master of Science in Regional and Urban Planning Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Having grown up in an economically depressed region of Canada, Dr. Martin has long been concerned with local economic development and patterns of migration. She studies the impact of immigration on labor markets, community and civil society responses to conflicts in the low-wage labor market, the informal economy in U.S. cities, and the transnational lives of migrants. Martin has conducted survey research and ethnographies of immigrant-serving nonprofit organizations, workers in the informal economy, and street vendors. She teaches classes in urban geography and global urban development, and aims to instill in her students an appreciation of the diversity and complexity that characterizes cities around the world. Her work has been published in several academic journals, including Journal of Urban Affairs, GeoJournal, Social Justice, Urban Geography, and American Behavioral Scientist. ninam@email.unc.edu
Cecilia Martínez Gallardo
Political ScienceAssistant Professor of Political Science, Martínez-Gallardo received her B.A. from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City (1995), and both an MA and a Ph.D. from Columbia University (2005). Before arriving to Carolina, she taught Political Science at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico. Her teaching and research interests are in Latin American political institutions, especially government formation and change. Her research focuses on the political and institutional factors that affect coalition politics in these countries and the ways they determine the diverse patterns of cabinet stability that observed across different political regimes. Martínez-Gallardo has also worked on the politics of policy reform in Latin America, specifically on the effect of political competition on the reform of the electricity and telecommunications sector. She has recently contributed articles on these topics to the American Journal of Political Science and the American Political Science Review. At Carolina, Martínez-Gallardo has taught courses on the politics of Mexico and Central America, the politics of Latin America, and comparative political institutions designed to compare the institutional configuration of different political regimes. cmg@email.unc.edu
Margarita Mooney
SociologyAssistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow of the Carolina Population Center, Mooney received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2005 and 2000, respectively, and her B.A. in Psychology from Yale in 1995. Her book, Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora, was published in 2009 by the University of California Press. Drawing on extensive interviews and including rich details of everyday life, she demonstrates how religious narratives--especially those about transformation and redemption--provide real meaning and hope in what are often difficult conditions. However, Mooney also finds that successful assimilation into the larger society varies from country to country, having less to do with these private religious beliefs than on cooperation between religious and government leaders. She is also the co author of Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities (Princeton University Press 2009). This book, along with more several articles, examines the social and academic trajectories of minority students at elite institutions of higher education. A summary of her findings how Latino students' perceptions of their minority status influence their college achievement and social engagement appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on March 28, 2008. Her most recent research explores international migration, religion and aging. More information on her research and links to her published work can be found on her website: www.margaritamooney.com margarita7@unc.edu
David F. Mora Marín
LinguisticsAssistant Professor in the Linguistics Department, Mora Marín obtained his B.A. in Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany in 2001. He has been at Carolina since the fall of 2004. Mora Marín is a linguistic anthropologist specializing in Mayan linguistics, with an emphasis on historical linguistics, and the ancient scripts of Mexico and Central America, especially the Mayan hieroglyphic script. He also serves as co instructor of the Yucatec Maya Summer Program, sponsored by the Carolina-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Mora Marín co founded and serves as General Editor of the Journal of Mesoamerican Languages and Linguistics, a co journal of the eLanguage Project, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America. He also conducts research on the history of the jade exchange network of Pre Columbian Middle America, with a focus on the interactions between the Maya region and Costa Rica. davidmm@email.unc.edu
Todd Ramón Ochoa
Religious StudiesAssistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Ochoa completed a B.A. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Columbia University in New York. His manuscript, Society of the Dead: Nkita Mana Nkita and Palo Praise in Cuba was completed while a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC, Berkeley and is under contract at the University of California Press. He is presently at work on a new manuscript about African-inspired Bembé praise forms in the Central Cuban province of Villa Clara. Ochoa’s first article on Cuban-Kongo religion appeared in the journal Cultural Anthropology (Fall 2007). His other interests in Cuba include prohibition and the informal circulation of commodities, emergent literature, and contemporary art. His translations of Cuban poetry have appeared in the literary journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, and in the anthology The Island of My Hunger (City Lights Books, 2008). Ochoa’s research interests include Black Atlantic criticism and theory, Creolization and racialization, materiality and material culture, and critical ethnographic practice. ochoa@unc.edu
Rosa Perelmuter
Romance LanguagesBorn in Cuba but raised in the United States, Perelmuter received her doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and is Professor of Spanish at Carolina. She is the author of two books on the renowned seventeenth century Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Noche intelectual: La oscuridad idiomática en el Primero sueño (México, D.F.: UNAM, 1982) and Los límites de la femineidad en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Estrategias retóricas y recepción literaria (Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2004). Her research interests include Spanish American colonial literature, especially poetry; contemporary Spanish American narrative; Latino literature and culture, and the literary and cultural production of Latin American Jewry. Currently she is at work on a book-length study of the descriptions of nature in a sixteenth-century epic poem written in Spanish America, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga’s La Araucana. As time allows, she is also writing a memoir of her life in Cuba, tentatively entitled “Growing Up Jewish in Havana: Culture, Identity and Community.” rpperelm@email.unc.edu
Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
HistoryThe J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History. His principal teaching fields include twentieth-century Latin America, the Caribbean, and Cuba. Recent publications include Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (3rd ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality and Culture (2nd ed., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007); To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society (2005); and Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Pérez has served on a number of journal editorial boards, including Inter-American Economic Affairs, Latin American Research Review, The Americas, and the American Historical Review. He is presently the series editor of “Envisioning Cuba" at the University of North Carolina Press. perez@email.unc.edu
Krista M. Perreira
Public PolicyAssistant Professor of Public Policy, Perreira received her Ph.D. in health economics at the University of California Berkeley in 1999. She received a national award, Young Scholar of 2003, from the Foundation for Child Development and has been selected as a visiting fellow to the Russell Sage Foundation for academic year 2008 2009. She serves as an advisory committee member or on the board of directors for several task forces, non profit organizations, and state agencies seeking to improve the provision of services to new immigrant Latinos in North Carolina. Perreira's research focuses on the relationships among family, health, and social policy, with an emphasis on racial disparities in health status and economic opportunity. Her most recent work combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies to study the health consequences of migration and acculturation experiences. Through Russell Sage and William T. Grant funded studies, Perreira has investigated how acculturation and migration processes influence the mental health and academic achievement of Latino youth in North Carolina. Perreira integrates economics and sociological models to understand how individual health behaviors and health outcomes are affected by family and neighborhood context. She works with several colleagues nationwide to evaluate programs and policies aimed at improving the health and well being of pregnant women, young children, and adolescents in immigrant families. This includes psychometric analysis to design and evaluate culturally appropriate measures of mental health and acculturation. Most recently, she has begun work designing the National Hispanic Community Health Study as part of a nationwide interdisciplinary team. She currently has papers published in leading journals in demography (e.g., Demography), public health (e.g., American Journal of Public Health), and sociology (e.g., Social Forces). perreira@email.unc.edu
Cynthia Radding
HistoryThe Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies and History, Radding’s research and teaching focus on Iberoamerican frontiers during the colonial and early national periods, with special emphasis on northern Mexico and the lowland frontiers of Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Her work seeks to contribute to the intersection of environmental, social, and cultural history and to the practice of interdisciplinary methodologies. Radding’s current research project, entitled “Bountiful Deserts and Imperial Shadows: Seeds of Knowledge and Corridors of Migration in Northern New Spain,” brings together themes concerning ethnic identity, cultivated landscapes, and migratory pathways in the northern New Spain. Radding’s books include: Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers. Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850 (Duke University Press, 1997); Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic (Duke University Press, 2005) and Entre el desierto y la sierra. Las naciones o'odham y tegüima de Sonora, 1530-1840 (CIESAS, INI, 1995). Wandering Peoples was awarded the American Society for Ethnohistory Erminie Wheeler-Vogel Prize in 1998. She has published articles in Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, and Latin American Research Review as well as numerous collective-authored publications in Mexico, Bolivia, and Europe. Radding has served on the editorial boards of The Americas and Hispanic American Historical Review, and currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Inter-American Foundation. She works collaboratively with the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Atzcapotzalco, and El Colegio de Sonora in Mexico as well as with the Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales and several nongovernmental organizations in Bolivia, whose work is dedicated to art, culture, and the defense of indigenous rights. radding@email.unc.edu
Monica Rector
Romances LanguagesBorn in São Paulo, Brazil, Rector did her doctorate studies in Madrid, Spain and received her Ph.D. degree at the University of São Paulo. She taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, until arriving to Carolina in 1990. In Brazil, Rector worked mainly with Semiotics and Linguistics, becoming a specialist in non-verbal communication. At Carolina, she teaches Portuguese language and culture, and Portuguese and Brazilian contemporary literature. One of her main fields of interest is women’s writing. Rector has published in national and international journals. She is also the editor of Romance Notes. Her most recent book publications as author and editor include: O fraco da baronesa by Guiomar Torresão. Introduction, analysis and critical edition (co-author Luciana Namorato) (Oporto: Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 2005); Dictionary of Literary Biography Brazilian Writers (co-editor with Fred Clark) (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2005); Dictionary of Literary Biography. Portuguese Writers (co-editor with Fred Clark). (Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004); Gestures: Meaning and Use (co-editor) (Oporto: Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 2003); Gestos: uso e significado (co-editor Isabella Poggi) (Oporto: Ed. Fernando Pessoa, 2003); Comunicação do corpo (With Aluízio R. Trinta). (4th ed., São Paulo: Ática, 1990); “Los gestos: sentidos y prácticas,” DeSignis 3 (Barcelona: Gedisa, 2002 Editor, presentation and bibliography); Comunicação e modernidade: um estudo discursivo (with Joaquim Nepomuceno, Eduardo Neiva, editors) (Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará/ CLA/ ML, 2000); Mulher, sujeito e objeto da literatura portuguesa (OPorto: Fernando Pessoa U P, 1999). rector@email.unc.edu
Alicia Rivero
Romance LanguagesAssociate Professor of Spanish and Adjunct in Comparative Literature, Rivero’s Autor/lector: Huidobro, Borges, Fuentes y Sarduy (Wayne State University Press, 1991), combines reader response with authorship theory and criticism. It analyzes the roles that readers and writers play in the writing and decoding of texts from classical antiquity to the twentieth century, using examples taken primarily (but not exclusively) from the works of Huidobro, Borges, Fuentes and Sarduy. She edited Between the Self and the Void: Essays in Honor of Severo Sarduy (Cuban Literary Studies Series, Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, University of Colorado, 1998), which offers theoretical and critical analyses of Sarduy’s texts. It deals with such topics as identity, self portraiture, gender, queer theory, AIDS, psychoanalytic aspects of eroticism, canonical subversion, postmodernity, the neobaroque, culture, religion, myth, reality, pictorial representation, and cosmology. She also edited an invited, special issue on “Literatura y Ciencia” of La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (1998), which is devoted to the interrelations of literature and science in 19th 20th century Spanish-American and Spanish texts. Her other publications include articles on the works of Borges, Sarduy, Fuentes, Huidobro, Arreola, Castellanos, Campos, Elizondo, Futoransky, Mallarme, and Gomez de la Serna from the perspective of comparative literature, mythography, science and other cultural studies, literary theory, history of ideas, gender issues, and new historicism. She has two books in progress and will complete Nature in Modern Latin(a) American Literature: Ecology, Gender, Race and Development first. She teaches a variety of courses, including Spanish- American literature, Spanish-American civilization, the novel in Spanish America, the Vanguard in modern Spanish-American literature, and the Spanish-American short story and essay. arivero@unc.edu
Daniel A. Rodriguez
City & Regional PlanningAssociate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Rodríguez received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2000. He also directs the Carolina Transportation Program (ctp.unc.edu) at UNC. His research focuses on the connection between transportation systems and land development and on understanding the relationship between the urban environment and behavior. His work has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health, and the NC Department of Transportation among others. He is the author of more than 40-peer reviewed publications in the transportation area and co-author of Urban Land Use Planning (University of Illinois Press). Dr. Rodríguez is currently appointed to two standing committees of the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board. He has worked internationally for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. In his capacity as an expert in transportation systems and their interaction with elements of the urban environment, Dr. Rodriguez serves in the editorial board of prestigious journals like the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Sustainable Mobility, Journal of Transport and Land Use, Journal of Architectural Planning and Research and Landscape & Urban Planning. danrod@email.unc.edu
Lars Schoultz
Political ScienceThe William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Schoultz holds an undergraduate degree in English literature and a master's degree in Hispanic American studies from Stanford University, and a doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina. A student of inter-American relations, Schoultz is the author of: Human Rights and United States Policy toward Latin America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981); The Populist Challenge: Argentine Electoral Behavior in the Postwar Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983); National Security and United States Policy Toward Latin America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987); Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998); That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2009). He has also co-edited four additional volumes on inter-American relations. His single-authored articles on Argentine politics, on the political implications of urbanization, and on the international protection of human rights have appeared in most of the principal journals of the discipline, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, the Journal of Politics, and the Political Science Quarterly. Schoultz has been the recipient of the Tanner Award (1982), the Class of 1994 Award, and the William C. Friday Award (2005), all for teaching excellence. He is a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of the Grail-Valkyries, both student honoraries. He has held research fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the National Humanities Center. He is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association. schoultz@unc.edu
Karla Slocum
AnthropologyAssociate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and African and Afro-American Studies, Slocum obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida. Her areas of research interest primarily concern globalization processes in the Caribbean and the United States, and the ways that such processes shape and are shaped by configurations of place (especially in rural contexts), constructions and meanings of race, and social movements. Slocum is also pursuing a collaborative project exploring the trends, trajectories and politics of Caribbean studies within the field of anthropology. Her publications include: Free Trade and Freedom: Neoliberalism, Place, and Nation in the Caribbean (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006); “Situating Sugar Strikes: Contestations of Race and Politics in Decolonizing St. Lucia” (Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, 2007); and “Rethinking Global and Area Studies: Insights from the Caribbean” (American Anthropologist, 2003; co-authored with Deborah Thomas). Courses taught include: Anthropology of the Caribbean and Afro-Caribbeans and the United States. kslocum@unc.edu
Lucila Vargas
JournalismAssociate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Vargas received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main academic interest is communication and social change. Her first book, Social Uses and Radio Practices: The Use of Participatory Radio by Ethnic Minorities in Mexico (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), pays special attention to the role of media and communication in the reproduction of class, gender, race, and ethnicity. The same interest in difference led her to edit Women Faculty of Color in the White Classroom: Narratives on the Pedagogical Implications of Teacher Diversity (New York: P. Lang, 2002). It compiles narratives written by 16 women professors on the classroom challenges and opportunities of "Other” teachers. In the past 10 years, Vargas has been working on issues related to Latinos/Hispanics and the media, such as the representation of Latinos in the mainstream media and on the coverage of health in Latino oriented newspapers. She is writing a book (Peter Lang, forthcoming) that explores the relationship between identity and media and popular culture among a small group of working class, transnational young Latinas. Her work has been published in several anthologies and in a number of scholarly journals, including Fem, The Howard Journal of Communication, The Urban Review, Social Education, The Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, and Critical Studies in Media Communication. lcvargas@email.unc.edu
Zaragosa Vargas
HistoryWilliam R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Latino Studies, Vargas was educated at the University of Michigan, his teaching and research focus on American and Latino labor history. Vargas’s first book Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexicans in Industrial Detroit and the Midwest (University of California Press, 1998) traces the history of how early twentieth century Mexican workers became part of the modern American working class. His second book Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2005) documents the important role of Mexican Americans in the labor struggles and political controversies of the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. Vargas’s third book Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican America from Colonial Times to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010) outlines and explores the 500-year Mexican American experience from the founding of New Mexico in 1598 to the Obama presidential campaign. His current book project focuses on the civil rights struggles by Mexican Americans in the early postwar years. His articles and essays have appeared in Labor History, American Quarterly, Science & Society, among other academic journals. He has received funding for his work from the National Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other fellowships. Vargas is a contributing editor to Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas. A member of the Labor and Working Class History Association, Vargas co-chaired the committee to make the Ludlow massacre site a national historic landmark by the U.S. National Park Service. zvargas@email.unc.edu
Adam Versényi
Dramatic ArtThe Milly S. Barranger Distinguished Term Professor of Dramatic Art and Dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company, Versényi received his B.A. degree in the combined major in Literature in English and Spanish from Yale College, and both his M.F.A. and D.F.A. degrees from the Yale School of Drama in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. He has written extensively on Latin American theatre, U.S. Latino/a theatre, dramaturgy, and theatrical translation as a scholar, theatre practitioner, and translator. Publications include Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics, and Theatre From Cortes to the 1980s (Cambridge University Press, 1993); El teatro en América Latina (Cambridge University Press, 1996); and Theater of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002). Editing projects include Dictionary of Literary Biography: Latin American Dramatists (Thomson/Gale, 2005); Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (Oxford University Press, 2003), and Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures (Routledge, 2000). In 2007 he founded and currently edits The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, an online journal. He has held two Fulbrights to Colombia, and done research and theatre work in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Cuba, and Peru. Teaching fields include Latin American theatre, U.S. Latino/a theatre and performance, dramatic literature, theatre history, play analysis, and arts criticism. Versényi is past Chair of the Curriculum in International and Area Studies at UNC and serves on the Executive Committee of the Carolina-Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and on the Advisory Board for the minor in Latina/o Studies. anversen@email.unc.edu
Stephen J. Walsh
GeographyStephen J. Walsh is a Professor of Geography, Research Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, and Director of the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), Former Amos H. Hawley Professor of Geography (1993-96), and faculty advisor to the Spatial Analysis Unit at the Carolina Population Center. Professor Walsh is the Recipient of the Outstanding Contributions Award and Medal from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) (1997), Research Honors from the Southeastern Division of the AAG (1999), and National Research Honors for Distinguished Scholarship from the Association of American Geographers (2001). He is on the editorial boards of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Plant Ecology, and Geocarto International, and formerly on the editorial boards of the Journal of Geography, The Professional Geographer, and the Southeastern Geographer. He has co-edited Special Issues in the Journal of Vegetation Science, Geomorphology, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, and GeoForum. Since 2001, he has co-edited a series of books for Kluwer Academic Publishers -- GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology (2001); Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach (2002); and People and the Environment: Approaches for Linking Household and Community Surveys to Remote Sensing and GIS (2003). Current research in Latin America is conducted in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Interdisciplinary studies have mapped and modeled land use change in the rainforests of the Ecuadorian Amazon, linked people and environment in frontier settings, and examined the complex interplay of coupled human-natural systems in the Galapagos Islands, approached within the context of resource conservation and economic development in a World Heritage Site. Through a collaborative partnership with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, integrative studies have been launched through the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies in research, education, and outreach that involves UNC faculty from across the social, natural, and spatial sciences. swalsh@email.unc.edu
Deborah Weissman
LawThe Reef Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs. Weissman graduated from Syracuse University. Prior to teaching law, she had extensive experience in all phases of legal advocacy (labor law, family, education related civil rights law, and immigration). From 1994 to 1998, she served first as deputy director and then as executive director of Legal Services of North Carolina. Weissman joined the Carolina School of Law faculty in 1998 and became the director of clinical and externship programs in 2001. She has authored and co authored articles published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, the N.C. Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation, Revista Temas, Anuario del Centro de Investigaciones Jurídicas, among others. She co-authored and advised the publication of a report on local immigration enforcement in North Carolina, The Policies and Politics of Local Immigration Enforcement Law. Her article, The Moral Politics of Social Control: Political Culture and Ordinary Crime in Cuba, is forthcoming in the Brooklyn Journal of International Law. Her current project focuses on the Merida Initiative and its impact on human rights and the rule of law in Mexico. Her principal teaching interests include immigration and human rights policy, domestic violence law, and civil lawyering process. She currently teaches the Immigration Human Rights Policy Clinic which addresses civil and human rights concerns in the local and international realm. Weissman serves on the Executive Committee for the UNC Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. She is the faculty advisor for the Immigration Law Students’ Association and serves on the 287(g) Working Group. weissman@email.unc.edu
Lyneise Williams
ArtAssistant Professor in the Department of Art, Williams received her Ph.D. at Yale University. Her scholarly interests include race and representation, post colonial theory, identity formation, and visual culture of the African Diaspora, particularly the cultural production of Afro Latinos. Within the Diaspora, she is particularly interested in the circuits of cultural, intellectual, and political exchange between the various black Latino, Anglophone, and francophone groups. Her current research examines the intersection between Latin American artists like Uruguayan painter, Pedro Figari (1861 1938) and American artists in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Since 1900, a relatively large population of Latin Americans from countries such as Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil lived and worked in Paris. They intermingled with other international and national artists in the process of creating a space for their cultural products. Adapting and rejecting perceived notions of Otherness, they created provocative representations of identities that often blurred the boundaries between cultures and nations. Williams has conducted research in Uruguay and Argentina, in addition to Paris, London, and Brussels. Beyond the African Diaspora, she has taught courses in museology and worked extensively in museums and galleries as a curator, preparator, and educator. Several exhibitions she curated dealt with both sides of the Black Atlantic, exploring ideas such as appropriation, “authenticity,” commodification, and redefinition. williale@email.unc.edu
Wendy Wolford
GeographyAssociate Professor in the Department of Geography, Wolford’s research interests include the political economy of development, environmental politics, social mobilization, land distribution and agrarian societies. Her dissertation, completed in 2001 at the University of California Berkeley, was awarded the J. Warren Nystrom Award for Best Dissertation in Geography. She has written two books: To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (Food First Books, 2003) and co-authored with Angus Wright, This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meaning(s) of Land in Brazil (Duke Press, forthcoming). Both books examine the Rural Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil. Wolford has published articles in journals such as Antipode, Mobilization, Qualitative Sociology and the Journal of Agrarian Change. Recent fellowships include a one-year fellowship at the Yale Program in Agrarian Studies (2004-2005) led by James C. Scott and a semester fellowship at Carolina’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities (2008). Recent grants include a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation (2005-2009) to conduct an institutional ethnography of the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA), one of the most important government agencies involved in agrarian reform in Brazil, as well as a grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (with Meenu Tewari, Department of City and Regional Planning) to run a Sawyer Seminar (2007-2008) on the topic of “The Changing Nature(s) of Land: Property, Peasants and Production in a Global World.” Wolford has served as Associate and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Geography. wwolford@email.unc.edu
