University of Wisconsin-Madison
Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program

Faculty Members

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Below is a list of faculty regularly teaching Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies courses. Additional affiliated faculty not listed here are active both in research and in advising graduate students:

Tinker Visiting Professors for 2006-2007

• Fall Visiting Professor of Law: Javier Couso, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
• Spring Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies: Mary Allegretti, Cubrita, Brazil

African Language and Literature

• Tejumola Olaniyan: African & Caribbean Drama
• Aliko Songolo: Caribbean, Francophone Cultures

Afro-American Studies

• Henry Drewal: Art of the African Diaspora
• Brenda Plummer: History of U.S. Foreign Relations

Agricultural Economics

• Brad Barham: Economic development of Latin America, industrial organization in Latin America
• Michael Carter: Development and labor economics, economics, land reform and credit policies.
• Laura Schechter: Latin American economic development

Agronomy

• Joshua Posner: International Agriculture and cropping systems of the tropics.

Anthropology

• Isabelle Druc: Pre-Columbian Cultures
• Armando Muyolema: Quichua language, Andean culture
• Frank Salomon: Quichua language, Andean ethnohistory and ethnology.
• Karen Strier: Primate ecology of Brazil.
• Neil Whitehead: Historical anthropology, ethnology, Caribbean and Northern Amazonia.
• Jason Yaeger: Mesoamerica and the Andean region.

Art History

• Henry Drewal: Art of the African Diaspora.
• Narciso Menocal: Cuban Art & Architecture.

Atmospheric Science

• Jonathan Foley: Effects of land use on ecosystems and freshwater systems

Botany

• Ken Sytsma: Plant Geography
• Donald Waller: Conservation genetics and ecology
• Joy Zedler: Wetland Ecology

Chicano Studies

• Benjamin Marques, Contemporary issues of Chicanos.

Curriculum and Instruction

• Thomas Popkewitz:
• Francois Tochon: Foreign Language Teaching
• Paul Toth: Spanish Pedagogy, Applied Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition
• Kenneth Zeichner: Teacher education, teacher professional development, and practitioner research

Consumer Science

• Lydia Zepeda: Farm decision making

Dance

• Claudia Melrose: West Afro-American and Cuban Dance

Economics

• Maria Muniagurria: Economics.

Educational Policy Studies

• Michael Apple: Politics of formal educational policy, Brazil.

English

• Roberta Hill: Caribbean Literature

Environmental Studies

• Jonathan Patz: Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences focusing on Global Environmental Health
• Stanley Temple: Natural Resources/Wildlife
• Jess Reed: Animal Science

Forest Ecology and Management

• Raymond Guries: Conservation and Management of Forest Ecosystems

French and Italian

• Deborah Jenson: 19th century French literature and culture; poetry; French women's writing; 19th century Caribbean, Francophone and Creolophone studies

Geography

• Lisa Naughton: Tropical Agriculture, wildlife ecology, tropical forest resource conflicts.

History

• Florencia Mallon: Modern Spanish America, agrarian history, women's history.
• Brenda Plummer: History of Afro-America
• Francisco Scarano: History of the Caribbean, multiracial societies.
• Steve Stern: Social history of Latin America, colonial Latin America, the Andes, Mexico.
• James Sweet: The African Diaspora & Pre-Colonial Africa

International Business

• Roderick Matthews: International Real Estate.
• Antonio Mello: Financial Management, economic policy

Lafollette School of Public Policy

• Carolyn Heinrich: Social Welfare policy, public management, and econometric methods to evaluate social

Law

• Joe Thome
• Bernard Trujillo: Bankruptcy, corporate finance, applications of chaos and complexity science to legal systems, immigration, and Mexican migration to the United States
• Gregory Shaffer: International Law

Life Science Communication

• Hernando Rojas: Communication theory and research, with particular emphasis in political communication and new media in the United States and Latin America

Music

• Javier Calderón: Classical guitar, music of Latin America and Spain.

Nursing

• Linda Bauman: International Healthcare Education with a focus on Spanish speaking countries

Political Science

• Benjamin Marquez, Politics in multi-cultural societies.
• Leigh Payne: Latin American politics, Brazil, women, democratic consolidation.
• Helen Kinsella: Laws of war, international security, international human rights
• Christina Ewig: Gender and politics in Latin America

Rural Sociology

• Jack Kloppenburg: Social impacts of biotechnology in the Third World and the United States

Soil Science

• Kevin McSweeney: Sustainable land management
• Cynthia Stiles: Soil genesis and processes as models for environmental impacts and change, soil quality issues in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica

Sociology

• Jane Collins: Economic and ecological anthropology, development studies, agrarian societies, gender.
• Mara Loveman: Race and Ethnic Studies
• Alberto Palloni: Demographic techniques, statistics, fertility and mortality in Latin America.
• Gay Seidman: Comparative social movements and labor unions, Brazil, South Africa.
• Erik Wright: Class Analysis of Poverty

Spanish and Portuguese

• Severino Albuquerque: Portuguese language, Luso-Brazilian literature and culture.
• Pablo Ancos-Garcia: Medieval Spanish Literature with emphasis on 13th-century cuaderna via poetry
• Katarzyna Beilin: 20th Century Peninsular Literature
• Ksenija Bilbija: Spanish-American literature, women's literature.
• Alda Blanco: Modern Peninsular literature, women's literature.
• Glen Close: Transatlantic approaches to study of Hispanic literature
• Ivy Corfis: Medieval Spanish literature and language.
• William Cudlipp: Spanish language and literature.
• Guillermina De Ferrari: 20th Century Latin America.
• Veronica Egon: Spanish language
• Juan Egea: Contemporary Spanish Poetry.
• Diana Frantzen, Second language acquisition, pedagogy, applied linguistics.
• Ray Harris: Historical linguistics.
• Paola Hernandez: Twentieth-century Latin American literature with a concentration in Latin American
• David Hildner: Spanish Renaissance and Portuguese literature.
• Steven Hutchinson: Comparative literature, 16th century Spanish literature.
• Courtney Johnson: Literature of the Turn of the Century, Modernismo, Hispanic Literature of the Philippines, Literature and Imperialism
• Deborra Kaaikiola: Spanish language and literature
• Luís Madureira: Third-World literature, including Latin American; post-colonial theory
• Ruben Medina: Hispanic literature, Chicano Studies.
• Marcelo Pellegrini: 19th and 20th century Latin American Poetry
• Guido Podest: Modern Latin American literature, film, culture and civilization
• Jorge Porcel: Spanish linguistics
• William Risley: Modern Spanish literature, 19th century realist novel, Galdos. Katheryn Sanchez, Portuguese
• Kathryn Sanchez: 19th century Portuguese literature
• Ellen Sapega: Modernist Portuguese fiction, Portuguese language.
• Catherine Stafford: Second language acquisition
• Paul Toth
• Margarita Zamora: Colonial Spanish-American literature and civilization.

Urban and Regional Planning

• Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel: Land reform, land markets, land privatization, and the role of gender in land tenure systems

Women's Studies

• Jane Collins: Economic and ecological anthropology, agrarian societies, gender
• Consuelo Springfield: Caribbean, U.S. Latina, gender
• Aili Tripp: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Christina Ewig: Gender and politics in Latin America

Zoology

• Charles Snowdon: Animal behavior.
• Warren Porter: Climate and disease/low level toxicants in reptiles and mammals.

For more information about faculty affiliated with the program, please contact the LACIS office at (608) 262-2811, or via email at lacis@intl-institute.wisc.edu