Alejandro Cañeque (Associate Professor; PhD, New York University) Colonial Latin America, Ibero-Atlantic empire; On leave 2007-2008
Karin Rosemblatt (Associate Professor, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Mexico, gender, race and ethnicity Email
David Sartorius (Assistant Professor; PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2003) Colonial Latin America, slavery and emancipation Email
Daryle Williams (Associate Professor; PhD, Stanford University, 1995) Brazil, Latin America, cultural history, history and memory Email
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).
Last updated: October 6, 2007