John Russell-Wood, Director
Herbert Baxter Adams 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 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 Sara Castro-Klaren
Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Latin American Literature, colonial studies, discourse analysis, contemporary novel
| email |profile | 410-516- 8790 Lisa DeLeonardis
Austen-Stokes Professor, Department of the History of Art
Art history and archaeology of the ancient Americas, colonial Peru.
| 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
| email | profile | 410-516-4615 Clara Han
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
Medical Anthropology, Health and the Economy, Pubic Health, Social Studies of Medicine and Technology, Inequality, Latin America, Chile
| email | profile | 410-516-2864 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 Franklin Knight
Professor, Department of History
Latin American and Caribbean social and economic history, comparative history, comparative slave systems.
| email | profile | 410-516-7591
Juan Obarrio
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Law, temporality and the political; state and economy; memory and subjectivity; magic, value and violence; Southern Africa; Latin America.
| email | profile | 410-516-4668 Deborah Poole
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.
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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
(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
Magda von der Heydt-Coca
Department of Sociology
Contemporary Sociology, Andean Region.
| email | 410-516-5488 Melanie Shell-Weiss
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History
Migration, Labor and Working Class History, Women and Gender in the U.S., Latin America and Africa
| email | profile | 410-516-7663 Wayne B. Smith
Department of Political Science
U.S Latin American relations.
| email | 410-516-7540
Lea Ybarra
Interdepartmental, crosslisted with: Romance Languages and Literatures, Political Science, History, Sociology, and Chicano Studies.
| email | 410-735-4100 | 
