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
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Elisabeth Acha
Zitzmann Visiting Scholar Fellow
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