Deborah Poole, Director Professor, Department of Anthropology Professor Poole concentrates on issues of visuality and representation in Latin America, with particular interest in Peru and Mexico. She also studies in race and ethnicity, violence liberlism and the state, and the law and judicial reform. | email | profile | Emma Cervone, Associate Director Professor, Andean Studies St. Andrews University, Scotland Professor Cervone concentrates on complexities of contemporary postcolonial societies as well as of their implications and impacts on anthropological practice. | email | profile | 410-516-5488 Mary M. Bensabott-Ott Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages Protuguese language, Brazilian literature and culture | email | profile | 410-516-4444 Lisa Deleonardis Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art Arqueology of Ancient Americas; Pre-Columbian to Borogue Latin American Art | email | 410-516-5528 William Egginton Professor, Department of Romance Languages Spanish and Latin American literatures, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy. | email | profile | 410-516-7510 Eduardo Gonzalez Professor, Department of Romance Languges Latin American Literature, American Studies, Film and Media Studies, Psychoanalysis and Literature | email | profile | 410-516-4615 Michael Hanchard Professor, Political Science Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, and Comparative Racial Politics | email | 410-516-7540 Margaret E. Keck Professor, Department of Political Science Comparative Politics, Latin American politics and the environment | email | profile | 410-516-7536 Sara Castro-Klaren Professor, Department of Romance Languages Latin American Literature, colonial studies, discourse analysis, contemporary novel | email |profile | 410-516- 8790 Franklin Knight Professor, Department of History Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history, comparative history, comparative slave systems. | email | profile | 410-516-7591 Beverly J. Silver Professor, Department of Sociology Historical sociology, labor and social movements, political sociology, international development | email | profile | 410-516-7635 Ben Vinson III Professor, Department of History Directory, Center for Africana Studies Latin American History with a particular interest in race relations especially the experience of African Diaspora. | email | profile | 410-516-0736 A.J. Russell-Wood Professor, Department of History Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American with an emphasis on Brazil and an interst in the Portuguese seaborn empire; and comparative colonialism. | email | profile | 410-516-7584
(Please contact the PLAS office for specific details about campus office hours for each visiting Professor.) James D. Goodyear Associate Director of Public Health Studies Program Professor, History of Science, Medicine, & Technology history of medicine, Latin American history, Brazil. | email | 410-516-7812
Lea Ybarra Interdepartmental, crosslisted with: Romance Languages and Literatures, Political Science, History, Sociology, and Chicano Studies. | email | 410-735-4100 Magda von der Heydt-Coca Department of Sociology Contemporary Sociology, Andean Region. | email | 410-516-5488 Wayne B. Smith Department of Political Science U.S Latin American relations. | email | 410-516-7540 Blenda B. Femenias Assistant Professorial Lecturer, Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program George Washington University | profile |
Elisabeth Acha Zitzmann Visiting Scholar Fellow | profile | |