Latin American and Caribbean Studies Faculty

Below is a list of faculty associated with Latin American and Caribbean Studies.  For more information about the individual, click on the his or her name.

Kimberly Barrett,  EdD, University of San Francisco (1989), Psychology   Senior Lecturer.  Racism, identity, immigration, law

Matt Baretto, PhD, University of California, Irvine (2005) Associate Professor, Political Science; Director, Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity & Race; Director, The Washington Poll.    Latino and immigrant voting behavior, and teaches courses on Racial and Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, Voting and Elections, and American Politics

Charles Bergquist, PhD Stanford (1973) Professor Emeritus, History.    Modern Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, Latin American film, labor and popular movements

Philip Brock, PhD Stanford (1982) Associate Professor, Economics.    Latin America (Chile) of the 19th century and 1973-present.  Recent publications: "Securitizacion de Hipotecas y Desarrollo Economico: Un Ensayo sobre la Caja Hipotecaria de Chile" (2009).  "Sobre Los Determinantes de los Spreads Marginal y Promedio de las Tasas de Interes Bancarias: Chile 1994-2001" (2003).  "Understanding   the behavior of bank spreads in Latin America" (2000)

Stephanie Camp, PhD Pennsylvania (1998) Associate Professor, History   United States slavery, African-American human agency, Black American domination and resistance

Deborah Caplow, PhD Washington (1999) Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell   19th and 20th century art history, Mexican art, American art, women artists

Megan Carney, PhD University of California, Santa Barbara (2012) Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology, Affiliate Faculty of LACS Medical anthropology; transborder and diaspora studies; political economy/ecology of food and health; critical race, class, and gender theory; citizenship; globalization; the body; violence; borderlands; food sovereignty; food security; visual anthropology; North America; Europe; Latin America; Japan.

Ana Mari Cauce, PhD Yale (1984) Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Washington; Earl R. Carlson Professor of Psychology; Professor of American Ethnic Studies; Adjunct Professor, Womens Studies and College of Education   at-risk children, adolescents, families, ethnic minority youth, homeless youth

Patrick Christie,  PhD Michigan (1999) Associate Professor, School of Marine Affairs and JSIS   Nicaragua, Caribbean, Philippines, coastal management, marine protected areas, participatory research, qualitative research methods, sustainability

Shannon Dudley, PhD California-Berkeley (1997) Associate Professor, School of Music   Ethnomusicology, Caribbean music, popular music, national identity

Cynthia Duncan, PhD Illinois Champaign-Urbana (1983) Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW-Tacoma Hispanic Studies, 20th century Latin American literature, film and television studies, with an emphasis on women’s issues

Lauro Flores, PhD California-San Diego (1980) Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies   Chicano and Latin American literature, especially literature of Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela

Luis R. Fraga, PhD Rice University (1984) Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement; Director of the Diversity Research Institute; Professor of Political Science Latino politics, the politics of race and ethnicity, immigration politics, education politics, and voting rights policy.

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

Robert Gara, PhD Oregon State (1964) Professor Emeritus, Forest Resources General forestry, international forestry, forest entomology, forest chemicals, individual courses in Latin American forestry

Maria Elena Garcia, PhD Brown University (2001) Associate Professor, Comparative History of Ideas Program Indigeneity, Multicultural Politics, and Development in the Andes; Indigenous intellectual production of human-animal articulations Recent publications: "Super Guinea Pigs?" (Anthropology Now, Sept 2010).  "Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru" (Stanford University Press, 2005); Desafios de la Interculturalidad (Inst. de Estudios Peruanos Lima, 2008

Anthony Geist, PhD California-Berkeley (1978) Professor/Chair, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature Spain

Carlos Gil, PhD California-Los Angeles (1975) Professor Emeritus, History Modern Latin American history, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Hispanics of the U.S.

Anthony Gill, PhD California-Los Angeles (1994) Associate Professor, Political Science Latin America, religion and politics of the Southern Cone

Maria Gillman, MA Oregon State (1985) Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese Studies Literature of Mexico and Central America

Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, PhD California-Berkeley (2001) Associate Professor, JSIS and Law, Society and Justice   Sociology of law, sociology of development, human rights and democracy in Latin America, particularly Guatemala

Ricardo Gomez, PhD Cornell University (1997) Communications, MA Universite du Quebec a Montreal (1992) Communications; Assistant Professor, Information School   Social impact of communication technologies in community development settings

Margaret Griesse, PhD University of Frankfurt (2001) Lecturer on Latin American Studies UW Tacoma International education, social movements, human rights and violence against women in Latin American (especially Brazil)

Michelle Habell-Pallan, PhD California-Santa Cruz (1997) Associate Professor, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Chicana and Chicano literature, performance culture, popular culture, women of color feminist theories and writing

Susan Harewood, PhD Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2006) Assistant Professor Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences - UW Bothell Communication, popular music, performance, race and gender in the English speaking Caribbean

Eugene Hunn, PhD California-Berkeley (1973) Professor Emeritus, Anthropology American Indian Studies, including the Indian heritage of Mexico and Central America

Lucy Jarosz, PhD California-Berkeley (1990) Associate Professor, Geography   Africa, United States, geography, food, agriculture, rural poverty, development theory

Monica Kaup, PhD Ruhr University, Germany (1991) Assistant Professor, English Borderlands, women writers, modernism, cultural studies, U.S., Mexican, Canadian literature

G.J. (Jim)  Kenagy, PhD California-Los Angeles (1972) Professor Emeritus, Biology   Zoology, mammals

Victoria Lawson, PhD Ohio State (1986) Professor, Geography Urbanization in developing nations, development theory in social science with particular attention to Latin American thought

Jose Antonio Lucero, PhD Princeton (2002), Associate Professor, JSIS; Director and Chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Indigenous politics, social movements, and representation in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru.  Recent publications: Struggles of Voice: The Politics of Indigenous Representation in the Andes ( 2008)

Victor Menaldo, PhD Stanford University (2009), Assistant Professor, Political Science Comparative politics, political economy of development

Amos Nascimento, PhD University of Frankfurt (2002) Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS) program, UW Tacoma, Affiliated with IAS, JSIS, and Germanics Philosophy and culture in Latin America, MERCOSUR (especially Argentina and Brazil), race, and human rights

Edgar O'Hara, PhD Texas (1989) Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Studies Latin American poetry

Devon G. Peña, PhD Texas-Austin (1983) Professor, Anthropology; Adjunct, Chicano Studies Agro-ecology, bioregionalism, ethno-ecology, social movements, labor process theory, workplace politics

Ileana Rodriguez Silva, PhD University of Wisconsin (2004) Assistant Professor, History   Blackness, class, material identity, post emancipation Puerto Rico, race, nationalism, gender, labor migration

Elizabeth Salas, PhD California-Los Angeles (1987) Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies Chicanas, Mexicanas, Chicanos, and minorities in the military

Julie Shayne, PhD, UC Santa Barbara (2000) Sociology , Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW-B; Affiliate Associate Professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW-S Women, resistance, and feminism in Latin America and the diaspora.  Recent publications: "They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism" (2009), "The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba" ( 2004)

Cynthia Steele, PhD California-San Diego (1980) Professor, Comparative Literature Latin American literature and cultural studies

Molly Todd, PhD University of Wisconsin (2007) Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Jackson School of International Studies Forced displacement in Latin America

Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, PhD CUNY Graduate Center (2006) Sociology, Assistant Professor, LSJ/American Ethnic Studies Race, immigration, and gender in the Americas

Pierre Van den Berghe, PhD Harvard (1960) Professor Emeritus, Sociology Anthropology, family, social change, society, race ethnicity

Julie S. Villegas, PhD Washington (1997) Associate Director, Honors Program, Affiliate Assistant Professor with the English Dept. Mexico, US/Mexico Border, borderlands, American Ethnic studies, identity politics, culture

Adam Warren, PhD UC-San Diego (2004) Associate Professor, History Medical reform in Peru, Latin American colonial period medicine.  Recent publications: "Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms" ( 2010)

Jonathan Warren, PhD California-Berkeley (1997) Associate Professor, JSIS race, ethnicity and nationalism in the Americas, visual sociology.  Recent publications: "Comparative racisms: What anti-racists can learn from Latin America" (2011), Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil ( 2001), Racing Research, Researching Race: Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Racial Studies (2000)

Richard Watts, PhD Yale (1998), Associate Professor, French and Italian Studies Post/colonial francophone world.  Recent publications: Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World (2005)

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