Graduate Students by Department

Department	Name	Advisor	Research
Anthropology	Dayuma Alban	Florence Babb	Amazon region, Ecuador, oil extraction, indigenity
	Ariana Avila	Angela Stuesse and Amanda Thompson	U.S. immigration policies, health, race, ethnicity, rural Flordia, stress and epigentics
	Isaura Cruz	Amanda Thompson	Migration, health, environment, genetics, epigentics
	Rosemary Gay	Caela O'Connell	Agricultural development, science studies, environment, Colombia
	Molly Green	Florence Babb	Climate change and climate-adaptive technologies, gender and social inequalities, food sovereignty, and futurity
	Jacob Griffin	Mark Sorensen	Inflammation, Biological Aging, Ecuadorian Amazon
	Julio Gutierrez	Don Nonini	The political ecologies of real estate speculation in Cordillera del Bálsamo, El Salvador
	Maja Jeranko	Florence Babb	Post-earthquake context and feminist political ecology in Musine, Ecuador
	Samantha King	Colin West	Sustainability, Agriculture, Political Ecology, Gender, Caribbean Societies
	Ana Ramirez	Angela Stuesse	Maya cultural and linguistical revitalization, community-based research, transnationalism, youth migration, youth identity, and intergenerational leadership
	Diane Slocum	Patricia McAnany	Community-engaged archaeology, heritage, oral histories, Yucatán
	Julio Villa Palomino	Jocelyn Chua	Mental health and illness, psychiatry, care, gender, Peru
Biology	Laura Mudge	John Bruno	Ecology, coral reef conservation
City and Regional Planning	Allison Forbes	Nichola Lowe	Work-based learning in North America
Ecology	Catie Alves	John Bruno	Evaluating Belize's rights-based fishery from socio-economic and ecological perspectives
Geography	Francisco Laso	Steve Walsh	Tropical enivironments, agroecology, island ecosystems, conservation
	Lara Lookabaugh	Gabriela Valdivia	Managing Life and Environment in Post-conflict Guatemala
Global Public Health	Dirk Davis	Clare Barrington	LGBTQ health disparities in Latin America
	Alyssa Grube	Jill Stewart	Water quality in the Galapagos
	Hanaleah Hoberman	Suzanne Maman	Violence prevention, women's rights, community mobilization
	Seyi Isijola	Jeffrey Simms	Cardiovascular Health, Latino Health, Health Promotion, Health disparities, Job Insecurity
	Julie Kafka	Beth Moracco	Gender-based violence, mental health
	Kelly Knudtson	Carol Golin	HIV, GIS, Public Health, Latin America, Sexual Health, Substance use, Health geography
	Amelia Rock	Clare Barrington	Structured and social determinants of sexual and reproductive health, especially gender and econonmic opportunity; sex work; intimate partner violence; structural barriers to treatment and care for HIV among key populations in Guatemala; resiliency among female sex workers living with HIV in Guatemala City; Dominican Republic; Brazil
	Melissa Speener	Marcy Boyntan	Women's health; health disparities; evaluation of programs/health interventions; Brazil
History	Javier Etchegaray	Cynthia Radding	Colonial Latin America, Southern Chile, Environmental History, Ethnohistory, Spanish Borderlands, Livestock, Historical GIS
	Nathan Gill	Miguel La Serna and Louis A. Pérez	Modern Latin American political history, 20th century Andean South America
	Francesca Langer	Molly Worthen	Political cultures of early Anglo and Latin America with a focus on classical republicanism, creole nationalism, mass media, citizenship, and the public sphere. My primary interest is in early American political aesthetics, including neoclassicism, indigenismo, technological futurism, science fiction, and utopian/dystopian literatures.
	Marlon Londoño	Miguel La Serna and Joseph T. Glatthaar	Thousand Days' War in Colombia; 20th century military history
	Daniella McIvor	Louis A. Pérez	The role of clandestine urban resistance during the Cuban revolution, 1952-1959
	José Moreno	Cynthia Radding	Colonial Latin American History, the Spanish borderlands, Peace treaties and peace encampments
	Anthony Rossodivito	Louis A. Pérez	The Cuban Revolution, Modern Latin America/Caribbean, Guerrillas and Insurgenices and the International Cold War
	Alyssa Skarbek	Miguel La Serna	EZLN; zapatistas; Latin America social movements
	Emily Taylor	Miguel La Serna	Gender, indigenity and social change in Guatemala, focusing on social movements between 1976 and 1996.
	Daniel Velasquez	Cynthia Radding	Colonial Latin America, Atlantic World, Spanish Borderlands
	Mishio Yamanaka	Fitz Brundage	Gulf South, Atlantic History, Creoles
Music	Amanda Black	David F. Garcia	Sound studies, Mexico, decolonial studies, and urban studies
	Mike Levine	David F. Garcia	Cuban music, reggaetón, internet studies, listening practices, critical race and Afro-diasporic studies, Latin American/Caribbean studies
	Eduardo Tadafumi Sato	Michael Figueroa	20th century Brazilian music, transnationalism, critical race theory, field recordings, archives
	Sierriana Terry	David F. Garcia	Anime/cartoon music, ethnomusicology (music festivals, theater, populat music), African American studies, Strauss opreas and art songs, late 19th and 20th century American music.
Political Science	Claire Dunn	Evelyne Huber	Social Policy and Inequality, Brazilian Politics
	Nicolás De La Cerda	Jonathan Hartlyn	Latin America, Public opinion, Party Politics
	Isaac Mehlhaff	Marc Hetherington	Comparative pulblic opinion, comparative political behavior, political polarization, democratic attitudes
	Isabel Laterzo	Jonathan Hartlyn and Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo	Political Participation/ Engagement of Crime Victims, Crime reporting, trust in instiutions
Religious Studies	Alejandro Escalante	Todd Ramón Ochoa	Puerto Rico, Black Atlantic religions, gender and sexuality, ethnography
	Barbara Sostaita	Todd Ramón Ochoa	US-Mexico borderlands, material religion, performance, women and gender studies
Romance Studies	Sarah Booker	Oswaldo Estrada	Contemporary Latin American Narrative and Translation Studies
	Francisco (Paco) Chen López	Oswaldo Estrada	Transpacific Studies, 20th and 21st Centuries Latin American literature, Chiense Diasporas in Latin America, Otherness, literary representations of the Far East, and Cultural Geography
	Meaghan Coogan	TBD	Contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, & Latinx Literature, Afro-diaspora studies, decolonial theory, migration studies, feminisms
	Mireya Jamal	TBD	20th and 21st century Latin American literature including gender and sexuality studies
	Sam Krieg	Rosa Perelmuter	Seventeenth and eighteenth century Peruvian literature, colonial Latin American literature with a focus on baroque poetry, contemporary Latin American short story and novel, Latinx poetry
	Ana María Pozo	Juan Carlos González Espitia	19th century literature, 20th century literature, simulation, modernity
	Brenda Quiñones Ayala	Oswaldo Estrada	19th Century Spanish Caribbean Literature - Racial Discourse
	Manuel Sánchez Cabrera	Lawrence Grossberg	Memory and agency in the 21st documentary film in and about Central America
	Katelyn Smith	TBD	Contemporary Yucatec Mayan Narratives, Indigenous literature, Ecofeminism
	Diana Torres	Oswaldo Estrada	Representations of State violence
Sociology	Tania Cabello-Hunt	Ted Mouw and Katherine Weisshaar	Gender inequality in the labor market, the transition to parenthood, discrimination in hiring processes.
	Janelle Viera	Jacqueline Hagan	race/ethnicity, migration, social mobility, Puerto Ricans, and Latinxs in the United States