Directory of Latin Americanists in NC
Directory of Latin Americanists in North Carolina
Below is a directory of academics in North Carolina furthering the study of Latin America. UNC Chapel Hill faculty are listed on our Faculty Listing page.
First Name | Last Name | Title | Discipline | Research Interests | Institution |
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Lisandra | Estevez | Associate Professor of Art History + Department Chairperson | Art + Visual Studies | Latin American and Iberian art (1500-2000) | Winston-Salem State University |
Jurgen | Buchenau | Professor | History | Mexico; revolutions and social movements; political economy; immigration; U.S.-Latin American relations. (See more ) | UNC-Charlotte |
Steven | Hyland Jr. | Associate Professor | History | Argentina, Twentieth Century Latin America, international migration, sustainability | Wingate University |
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 |
Tina | Shull | Director of Public History | History | Race, empire, borders and immigration enforcement, carceral studies, climate migration | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
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 |
Hayden | Carron | Associate Professor of Spanish | Caribbean Culture and Literature | Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Puerto Rico. Race relations and Identity | High Point University |
Colleen | Hammelman | Associate Professor | Geography | Urban food systems, food sovereignty, Argentina, Colombia, Latin Americans in the US | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
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 |
Matt | Samson | Professor of Anthropology | Anthropology and Latin American Studies | Religion, Mesoamerica, Cultural and Human Rights, Maya Studies, Environment | Davidson College |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Mir | Yarfitz | Associate Professor | History | Gender and sexuality, trans studies, sex work, modern Argentina, Jewish immigration | Wake Forest University |
Mary Lusky | Friedman | Professor Emerita | Spanish and Latin American Studies | Contemporary Chilean fiction | Wake Forest University |
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 |
Melissa | Buice | Assistant Professor | Political Science | indigenous and women's social movements in Latin America | University of North Carolina at Pembroke |
Chelsey | Dyer | Teaching Professor | Anthropology | Solidarity, political consciousness, Colombia, Bolivia, US empire, resistance | North Carolina State University |
Jeanine Lino | Couto | Professor | Portuguese | Languages, Cultures, Literature, Film | Winston-Salem State University |
Paul | Fallon | Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies | Hispanic Studies/Spanish | Mexico-US Border region, Greater Mexico, Latin American expression | East Carolina University |
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 |
Sara | Juengst | Associate Professor of Anthropology | Anthropology/Archeology | Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, power, archaeology, burials, social organization, ritual | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
Eric Hoenes del | Pinal | Associate Professor | Religious Studies, Anthropology | Religion, language, embodiment, indigenous people, Maya culture, Guatemala | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
Juan | Bobadilla | Faculty/Lecturer | Spanish | Latin American History | University of North Carolina at Pembroke |
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 |
Javier | Alvarez-Jaimes | Associate Professor | Literature | Popular culture, marginal discourses, social movements, street art | North Carolina Central University |
Amanda | Boomershine | Professor of Spanish | Hispanic Studies | Sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, dialectal variation in Latin American Spanish | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
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 |
Frederico | Freitas | Associate Professor | History | 20th-Century Brazil and Argentina, Environmental History, Digital Humanities | North Carolina State University |
Greg | Weeks | Associate Dean for Academic Affairs | Political Science | U.S.-Latin American relations, comparative politics, immigration | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
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 |
Cameron | Lippard | Professor | Sociology | Latino/a Migration to the American South | Appalachian State University |
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 |
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 |
Lucia | Galleno | Professor | Spanish | Italian Opera in Latin America | Queens University of Charlotte |
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 |
Britta | Crandall | Visiting Assistant Professor | Latin American Studies - Political Economy | Economic development; international political economy. | Davidson College |
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 |
Jane | Mangan | Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor | History | Andes; Colonial Urban Centers, Race, Gender and Material Culture; Modern Peru - Arequipa Boyden Observatory | Davidson College |