Latin American Studies Faculty

The Latin American Studies faculty is composed of individuals with broad and diverse expertise in Latin America. Most also have cross-regional and interdisciplinary interests. Faculty members are distinguished scholars and teachers in their respective area of specialization, and hold appointments in diverse departments including American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Economics, History, Geography, Women Studies, Fisheries, International Studies, Music, Health Sciences, Political Science, Romance Languages, Comparative Literature, Sociology, and in the Schools of Social Work, Business Administration and Forestry.

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Featured Faculty Publications

ERASMO GAMBOA, PhD University of Washington (1984) Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies and adjunct, History; U.S. ethnic and minority history, U.S. labor and immigration history, Mexican American and Latino History of the Pacific Northwest.

ANTHONY GEIST is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, and came to the University of Washington in 1987. His publications center largely on issues of modernism and postmodernism in twentieth-century peninsular poetry.

DEVON PEÑA, PhD Texas-Austin (1983) Professor, Anthropology, adjunct, Chicano Studies; agro- & ethnoecology, bioregionalism, social movements, labor process theory, workplace politics.

Kimberly Barrett - EdD University of San Francisco, CA; Department of Psychology, Senior Lecturer - teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in: Cross Cultural Psychology, Race Relations and Minority Groups, Minority Mental Health, Child Psychotherapy; Developmental Psychopathology, Clinical supervisor; Director – Cross Cultural Psychology Resource Program; Faculty - UW Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) program