Faculty

Core Faculty

Alejandro Cañeque (Associate Professor; PhD, New York University)
Colonial Latin America, Spanish empire, Atlantic History;

Karin Alejandro Rosemblatt (Associate Professor; PhD, U.Wisconsin - Madison, 1996)
Latin America

David Sartorius (Assistant Professor; PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2003)
Colonial Latin America, slavery and emancipation

Daryle Williams (Associate Professor; PhD, Stanford University, 1995)
Brazil, Latin America, cultural history, history and memory

Affiliate Faculty at the University of Maryland

Jorge Aguilar-Mora (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Nineteenth-century Latin American literature, literary theory, contemporary Mexican literature

Ralph Bauer (Associate Professor, English)
Comparative Literature of the Colonial Americas

Ira Berlin (Distinguished University Professor, History)
Comparative slavery and emancipation, Black Atlantic

A. Lynn Bolles (Professor, Women's Studies)
women, work and social change in the Caribbean

Sandra M. Cypess (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Latin American theater and performance studies, Latin American women writers, feminist theory

Judith Freidenberg (Associate Professor, Anthropology)
Latino culture, ethnicity and health care

Saverio Giovacchini (Associate Professor, History)
Transnational film history and media studies

William Hanna (Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning)
social change, urbanization, quality of urban life

Regina Harrison (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature)
Indigenous cultures of Latin America, Quechua language and culture, Andean studies

Regina Igel (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Brazilian literature, Brazilian women writers, Brazilian Jewish and immigrant literature

Hiliary Jones (Assistant Professor, History)
African Diaspora and the slave trade

Roberto P. Korzeniewicz (Associate Professor, Sociology)
Latin America in the world economy, inequality, labor and politics in Argentina

Clare Lyons (Associate Professor, History)
Comparative cultural fronteirs; early Atlantic history

Eyda Merediz (Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Literature of the early Atlantic World, Latin American Studies

Sonya Michel (Professor, History)
Comparative women and gender; comparative history of sexuality

Zita Nunes (Associate Professor, English)
Brazilian modernism, race mixture in the literature of the Americas, colonial discourse/postcolonial theory

Jose Emilio Pacheco (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American poetry, fiction, and essay

Phyllis Peres (Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
African Brazilian literatures and cultures, trans-Atlantic studies, postcolonial theory, Brazilian film, Latin American Studies

Carolina Robertson (Professor, Ethnomusicology)
Indigenous Latin American social rituals

Ana Patricia Rodriguez (Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
U.S. Latina/o literature, Central American literature

Leslie Rowland (Associate Professor, History)
Comparative slavery and emancipation

Saul Sosnowski (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Latin American fiction and essay, literary criticism, Latin American-Jewish literature and cultures.

In addition to our Maryland affiliate faculty, the Latin American program at Maryland has developed special relationships with the curatorial staff at the Oliveira Lima Library, a superb repository of Luso-Brazilian materials housed at the Catholic University of America, as well with the history faculty at a number of Latin American institutions of higher education and research, including the Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem (LABHOI) of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil) and the Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (CEAA) of the Universidade Cândido Mendes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and the Benmerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (Puebla, Mexico). 

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