Directory of Latin Americanists in North Carolina

First Name	Last Name	Title	Discipline	Research Interests	Institution
Rafael	Acosta	Associate Professor	Mexican and American film and literature	Social banditry, masculinities, music, popular culture, theory, literature, Greater Mexico, American West. See their bio here.	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juan M.	Álamo Santos	Associate Professor	Music (Percussion)	Latin American Music: Afro-Caribbean music, Latin Jazz	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Omar H.	Ali	Professor	History and African American & African Diaspora Studies	Afro-Latin America; resistance to slavery; abolitionism; maroonage, Islam	University of North Carolina Greensboro
Javier	Alvarez-Jaimes	Associate Professor	Literature	Popular culture, marginal discourses, social movements, street art	North Carolina Central University
Florence	Babb	Anthony Harrington Professor in Anthropology	Anthropology	Gender, race, and difference in Latin America; Peru, Nicaragua, Southern Mexico, Cuba. (See More.)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jose Adrian	Badillo Carlos	Assistant Professor	Spanish Languages, Literatures and Cultures	Twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American studies: Music, Film, Literature, Theater, Violence, Corruption, Drug Trafficking, Immigration, Politics, Social Movements, Digital Humanities	Queens University of Charlotte
José-Manuel	Batista	Associate Professor	Literature	Hispanic Poetry, Afro-Hispanic Literature, Spanish American Literature and Culture, Latin American Thought	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Brandon	Bayne	Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies	Religious Studies	New Spain, Catholicism, Indigenous Religions, Violence, and Memorialization	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maya J.	Berry	Assistant Professor	Anthropology, Black Studies	African diaspora studies, Performance studies, Black feminisms, Dance, Critical ethnographic methods, Latin America & Spanish-speaking Caribbean (Cuba)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard	Bilsborrrow	Research Professor	Economics, Demography	Economic development; population and environment; deforestation in Amazon; agriculture and population; household survey data collection; Ecuador, Guatemala, LA; international migration (See More)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Juan	Bobadilla	Faculty/Lecturer	Spanish	Latin American History	University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Amanda	Boomershine	Professor of Spanish	Hispanic Studies	Sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, dialectal variation in Latin American Spanish	University of North Carolina Wilmington
Jurgen	Buchenau	Professor	History	Mexico; revolutions and social movements; political economy; immigration; U.S.-Latin American relations. (See more )	UNC-Charlotte
Melissa	Buice	Assistant Professor	Political Science	indigenous and women's social movements in Latin America	University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Hayden	Carron	Associate Professor of Spanish	Caribbean Culture and Literature	Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico. Race relations and Identity	High Point University
Vanessa	Castaneda	Assistant Professor	Africana Studies and Latin American Studies	Afro-Bahian culture, identity & politics,; Brazilian racial formations,; cultural heritage; Black feminisms; Afro-Latin America; community-based ethnography	Davidson College
Brian	Chandler	Associate Professor	Spanish and Latin American Literature	Contemporary Latin American Literature, Mexican Literature, Mexican Cultural Studies, Science and Literature	University of North Carolina Wilmington
Dennis	Clements	Emeritus Professor	Global Health	Health Equity research	Duke University
Joan	Clifford	Associate Professor of the Practice	Romance Studies	Service-learning, transformative learning, global health and US Latine communities	Duke University
Maggie	Commins	Shelton Professor of Political Science	Political Science	Immigration policy, immigrant integration, North-South trade	Queens University of Charlotte
Carlos	Coria-Sánchez	Professor	Languages and Culture Studies/Latin American Studies	Latian American and Mexican Women Writers and Feminismo	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jeanine Lino	Couto	Professor	Portuguese	Languages, Cultures, Literature, Film	Winston-Salem State University
Britta	Crandall	Visiting Assistant Professor	Latin American Studies - Political Economy	Economic development; international political economy.	Davidson College
Paul	Cuadros	Associate Professor	Journalism	Latinx migration and poultry processing	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amrita	Das	Associate Professor	Spanish & Latinx Literature	Latinx Literature, Hispanic Literature of the US, Digital Humanities	University of North Carolina Wilmington
Oscar	de la Torre	Associate Professor	Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, History	Slavery, Black Social Movements, Racial Dynamics	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Benito	del Pilego	Professor	Literatura Contemporánea en Español	Poesía contemporánea en español. Poesía y desplazamiento en el ámbito hispano. Literatura Latina en los Estados Unidos	Appalachian State University
Eric Hoenes	del Pinal	Associate Professor	Religious Studies, Anthropology	Religion, language, embodiment, indigenous people, Maya culture, Guatemala	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Chelsey	Dyer	Teaching Professor	Anthropology	Solidarity, political consciousness, Colombia, Bolivia, US empire, resistance	North Carolina State University
Lisandra	Estevez	Associate Professor of Art History + Department Chairperson	Art + Visual Studies	Latin American and Iberian art (1500-2000)	Winston-Salem State University
Bruno	Estigarribia	Professor	Hispanic and Romance Linguistics	Language description, indigenous languages, Italo-Romance languages, syntax, semantics	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul	Fallon	Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies	Hispanic Studies/Spanish	Mexico-US Border region, Greater Mexico, Latin American expression	East Carolina University
Regina R.	Felix	Professor	Portuguese and Brazilian Studies	Brazilian Intellectual History; Literary and Cinema Studies; Marxist, Feminist, Postcolonial, and Critical Theory concepts in Brazilian criticism	University of North Carolina Wilmington
Peter J.	Ferdinandoi	Assistant Teaching Professor	History	Spanish Florida, Colonial Caribbean, Native Americans, Atlantic World, Maritime History	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Christine	Folch	Becca Foundation Associate Professor	Cultural Anthropology	Hydroelectricity, Renewable Energy Policy, Cuisine, Yerba Mate, Paraguay, Southern Cone, Plants, Political Economy	Duke University
Catherine	Fountain	Professor	Spanish, Linguistics	Language policy & politics of language, linguistic historiography, indigenous languages, Spanish in the US	Appalachian State University
Frederico	Freitas	Associate Professor	History	20th-Century Brazil and Argentina, Environmental History, Digital Humanities	North Carolina State University
Mary Lusky	Friedman	Professor Emerita	Spanish and Latin American Studies	Contemporary Chilean fiction	Wake Forest University
Esther	Gabara	Professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies	Literary & Cultural Studies; Art History	Modern and contemporary Latin American art, visual cultural, and critical theory	Duke University
Lucia	Galleno	Professor	Spanish	Italian Opera in Latin America	Queens University of Charlotte
David	Garcia	Professor	Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Music History	Music of the Americas; Black music and Latin Music of the United States; Race; Historiography	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Javier	Garcia Leon	Assistant Professor	Linguistics and Cultural Studies	Language policies and media representation in Colombia with a focus on LGBTQI+ issues	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Irene	Gómez-Castellano	Associate Professor	Spanish Literature, Transatlantic Studies	19th century Cuban Literature, Pablo Neruda (See More)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joseph	González	Associate Professor	History	Cuba and the United States	Appalachian State University
Nora	Haenn	Professor	Anthropology & International Studies	International migration, rain forest conservation, and economic policies that affect rural people in southern Mexico	North Carolina State University
Colleen	Hammelman	Associate Professor	Geography	Urban food systems, food sovereignty, Argentina, Colombia, Latin Americans in the US	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jonathan	Hartlyn	K. J. Reckford Professor	Political Science	Comparative politics of Latin America, especially with relation to democratization, political institutions, and state-society relations.	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Victor	Hernández-Huerta	Assistant Professor	Political Science	Political institutions and elections (See More)	Wake Forest University
Evelyne	Huber	Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor	Political Science	Social policy, poverty, inequality; democracy; transformations of the state	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven	Hyland Jr.	Associate Professor	History	Argentina, Twentieth Century Latin America, international migration, sustainability	Wingate University
Sara	Juengst	Associate Professor of Anthropology	Anthropology/Archeology	Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, power, archaeology, burials, social organization, ritual	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Sharrah	Lane	Assistant Teaching Professor	Hispanic Studies	20th and 21st Century Latin American literature, film, and culture. Childhood studies; Indigenous studies; Gender, women and sexuality studies; Eco-criticism	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cameron	Lippard	Professor	Sociology	Latino/a Migration to the American South	Appalachian State University
Debora	Maldonado-DeOliveira	Associate Professor of Spanish	Spanish	20th-21st century Caribbean and Latin American novel, short story, US Latino/a literature and culture (particularly Puerto Rican), translation methods and practice, Latin American and Caribbean women writers, visual narrative, visual arts, graphic novels	Meredith College
Jane	Mangan	Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor	History	Andes; Colonial Urban Centers, Race, Gender and Material Culture; Modern Peru - Arequipa Boyden Observatory	Davidson College
Ruth	Matamoros Mercado	Assistant Professor	Geography	Indigenous Geography, la indigenous land relations and sovereignty, Central America	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patricia A.	McAnany	Kenan Eminent Professor	Anthropology, Archeology	Maya Archaeology, Indigenous perspectives on the past, critical cultural heritage, afterlife of European colonialism, ancestor veneration & ritual practice	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Raúl	Necochea López	Associate Professor	Social Medicine	History of science and medicine, sexual and reproductive health, cancer care	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scotti M.	Norman	Assistant Professor	Anthropology/Archaeology	Andes, Inca, Spanish Colonialism, Religion, Conversion, Spatial Analysis	Warren Wilson College
Caela	O'Connell	Assistant Professor	Anthropology	I am an environmental anthropologist whose research and teaching consider the intersections of agricultural communities, environmental health, and climate change with a focus on water, agricultural disease, economics, decision-making, and policy. (See More</a)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Luis F.	Olivieri-Robert	Adjunct Faculty	History and Spanish	Puerto Rican presence in North Carolina 1970 to present; Mature Adults Experiences oral-visual history documentation (See More)	Durham Technical Community College
Javier E.	Pabón	Division Head of the Humanities; Associate Professor of Spanish	Cultural Studies	Latin American Cultural Studies; Afro-Andean Thought; Oral Tradition; Decolonial theory; Decolonial aesthetics; Contemporary narratives and sensibilities; Latin American and Spanish Film and Literature	Methodist University
Dalia	Patino-Echeverri	Associate Professor	Engineering (Energy Science, Technology, and Public Policy)	Energy policy in latinamerica: Electricity market design, energy poverty, clean energy transition.	Duke University
Louis A.	Pérez	Professor	History	Cuba/Spanish Caribbean	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frederico	Pous	Associate Professor	Latin American Cultural Studies	Hispanic and Latín American Literature, film, and political theory. Peace and Conflict Studies, Transatlantic and Latinx culture	Elon University
Angela	Rajagopalan	Associate Professor	Art History	Mesoamerican Manuscripts; 16th century Art of Mexico	UNC Charlotte
Barry	Robinson	Robert Haywood Morrison Professor of History	History	Colonialism, nationalism, ethnohistory, historical geography, digital humanities, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Atlantic World	Queens University of Charlotte
Miguel	Rojas-Sotelo	Adjunct Professor; Special Academic Events Coordinator; Director of NC Latin American Film Festival	Visual and Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Films Studies, Latin American Studies	Latin American and indigenous contemporary cultural production, cultural theory, migration, diasporas.	Duke University
Matt	Samson	Professor of Anthropology	Anthropology and Latin American Studies	Religion, Mesoamerica, Cultural and Human Rights, Maya Studies, Environment	Davidson College
Michelle	Shaul	Professor	Latin American and Latino/a/x Literature	The use of myth and folklore in Latin American literature, Latin American detective fiction, the expression of exile in literature as well as Latino/a/x writers in the United States	Queens University of Charlotte
Tina	Shull	Director of Public History	History	Race, empire, borders and immigration enforcement, carceral studies, climate migration	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Peter	Siavelis	Professor	Political Science	Latin American Political Institutions	Wake Forest University
Erin	Siegal McIntyre	Assistant Professor	Journalism	U.S.-Mexico border, migration, human rights, CBP/Border Patrol, rule of law. (See More.)	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scott	Simmons	Professor	Anthropology	Archaeology; Ancient Maya; Belize; Postclassic-Spanish Colonial Periods; Maritime Trade; Coastal archaeology; Archaeometallurgy	University of North Carolina Wilmington
Karen	Spira	Associate Professor	Spanish	Twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American novel; representation of race and ethnicity; Indigenous Studies; Andean Region; Mexico	Guilford College
Angela	Stuesse	Associate Professor	Anthropology	Migration, labor, race, food systems, capitalism, citizenship, immigration policy, methodologies of activist research	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brendan Jamal	Thornton	Associate Professor	Anthropology and Religious Studies	Trinidad and Tobago; Dominican Republic; Religions of the African Diaspora/Black Atlantic; Gender and Masculinity; Anthropology of Religion; Comparative Caribbean Ethnology	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gabriela	Valdivia	Professor	Geography	Política ecology, natural resources, environmental Justice, Amazon, Ecuador (See More)	UNC Chapel Hill
Uchenna	Vasser	Professor	Spanish Languages and Literatures	Twentieth and twenty-first century Afro-Hispanic literature; Afro-Hispanic literature through an ecofeminist lens; a comparative look at contemporary African and Afro-Latin literatures and attendant historical, socio-political, and cultural binds	Winston-Salem State University
Adam	Versenyi	Professor/Dramaturg	Theatre	Latin American and U.S. Latine Theatre and Performance, Dramaturgy, Theatrical Translation	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Greg	Weeks	Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs	Political Science	U.S.-Latin American relations; Latin American Politics	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Deborah M.	Weissman	Reef C. Ivey Distinguished Professor	Law	Migration, human rights and rule of law transplantation, gender, Mexico, Cuba	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Katya	Wesolowski	Lecturing Fellow	Cultural Anthropology and Dance	Brazil; expressive culture	Duke University
Julie K.	Wesp	Assistant Professor	Anthropology	Bioarchaeology, Historical Archaeology, Ancient DNA, African diaspora in Latin America, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Colombia, Spanish Colonial life, Labor and biomechanics, Gender and Sexuality	North Carolina State University
James	Wood	Professor of History	Latin American History	Nineteenth-Century Chile, Politics and Social Movements, Republicanism, Political Ideas	North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Mir	Yarfitz	Associate Professor	History	Gender and sexuality, trans studies, sex work, modern Argentina, Jewish immigration	Wake Forest University

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