Affiliated Faculty
The Center for Iberian & Latin American Studies at UCSD works closely with university faculty from a wide range of departments and with diverse expertise.
Department of Anthropology
Guillermo Algaze, Ph.D.
Algaze is an expert on Near Eastern, Anatolian, and Mesopotamian archaeology, early civilizations, and complex societies. Email: galgaze@ucsd.edu
Geoffrey Braswell, Ph.D.
Braswell is an expert on the archaeology of Mexico and Central America, particularly the ancient Maya civilization. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: gbraswel@ucsd.edu
Thomas Csordas, Ph.D.
Tom Csordas is an expert on psychological and medical anthropology, anthropological theory, comparative religion. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: tcsordas@ucsd.edu
Paul Goldstein, Ph.D.
Goldstein is an expert on complex societies, anthropological archaeology, Latin America, Peru and Andean South America, El Nino, and ancient climate change. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: psgoldstein@ucsd.edu
John B. Haviland, Ph.D.
Haviland is an anthropological linguist, with interests in the social life of language. His major research has been on Tzotzil (Mayan) in highland Chiapas. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: jhaviland@ucsd.edu
Janis H. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Jenkins an an expert on psychological and medical anthropology, mental health, and Mexican and Central American migrants. Email: jhjenkins@ucsd.edu
Keith McNeal, Ph.D.
McNeal's research interests include cultural and psychological anthropology, comparative religion. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: kmcneal@ucsd.edu
David Pedersen, Ph.D.
David Pedersen is an expert on relations between El Salvador and the United States, particularly the recent decades of Salvadoran migration. Email: dpedersen@ucsd.edu
Nancy Grey Postero, Ph.D.
Postero is an expert on political economy, multiculturalism, citizenship, identity, indigenous politics, development, and non-governmental organizations. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: npostero@ucsd.edu
Kathryn Woolard, Ph.D.
Woolard is an expert on linguistic anthropology, language and ethnicity, bilingual communities, language ideology, and political discourse. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: kwoolard@ucsd.edu
Kristin Elizabeth Yarris, PhD, MPH, MA
Kristin Yarris is a Medical Anthropologist whose research focuses on transnational migration and transnational family life, and the social, cultural, political and economic determinants of health and wellbeing.[Curriculum Vitae] Email:kyarris@ucsd.edu
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.
Molina is the 1995 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for his research on the threat to the ozone layer. His current research involves assessing and mitigating the air pollution problems of rapidly growing cities around the world. Email: mjmolina@ucsd.edu
Department of Cognitive Science
Rafael Núñez, Ph.D.
Rafael Núñez is an expert in how the human mind creates abstraction. His particular interest is in high-level cognitive phenomena. Email: rnunez@ucsd.edu
Department of Communication
Brian Goldfarb, Ph.D.
Goldfarb is a digital media artist, curator, and educator. His research and visual media production focuses on media studies and contemporary visual and digital culture. Email: bgoldfarb@ucsd.edu
Daniel C. Hallin, Ph.D.
Hallin is an expert on U.S. media coverage of Latin America and comparative analyisis of media and politics. Email: dhallin@weber.ucsd.edu
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Ph.D.
Hernandez-Reguant specializes in cultural industries and globalization with an emphasis on Latin America and "post-socialism". [Curriculum Vitae] Email: ariana@ucsd.edu
Olga A. Vásquez, Ph.D.
Vásquez is an expert on bilingualism and biculturalism, education, literacy, after-school learning and education for the global context. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: ovasquez@ucsd.edu
Elana Zilberg, Ph.D.
Zilberg's research interests include global flows of people, money, and commodities. She is currently working on the policing and deportation of Salvadoran immigrant gang youth and their reception in El Salvador. Email: ezilberg@ucsd.edu
Department of Economics
Marc-Andreas Muendler, Ph.D.
Muendler is an expert on international trade and international finance with a focus on trade and investment policies and their effects on domestic industries and labor markets. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: mmuendler@ucsd.edu
James Rauch, Ph.D.
Rauch is an expert on International Trade, Economic Growth and Development. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: jrauch@ucsd.edu
Department of Ethnic Studies
Robert R. Alvarez, Ph.D.
Alvarez is an expert on national and regional identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Email: oloberto@ucsd.edu
Kirstie Dorr, Ph.D
Dorr is an expert on critical race, gender and transnational cultural studies. Email: kdorr@ucsd.edu
Ross Frank, Ph.D.
Frank is an expert on northern Mexico during the colonial and early national period, and on Native American history and culture. Email: rfrank@ucsd.edu
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ph.D.
Silva is an expert on social theory, critical race theory, race politics, cultural studies, global studies. Email: dsilva@ucsd.edu
Department of History
David G. Gutiérrez, Ph.D.
Gutiérrez is an expert on Chicano history, the history of the American Southwest, comparative ethnic studies, and immigration. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: dggutierrez@ucsd.edu
Christine Hunefeldt, Ph.D.
Hunefeldt's research interests include economic and social history of the Andean region, slavery and abolition, and women and family history. Email: chunefeldt@ucsd.edu
Everard Meade Ph.D.
Meade's research focuses on capital punishment in 20th Century Mexico. Email: emeade@ucsd.edu
Natalia M. Molina, Ph.D.
Molina is an expert on comparative ethnicities, Latina/o history, and public health attitudes toward immigrants. Email: nmolina@ucsd.edu
Michael Monteón, Ph.D.
Monteón is an expert on Latin America's political economy, who has written on Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Latin American labor and the region's debt crises. Email: mmonteon@ucsd.edu
Pamela Radcliff, Ph.D.
Radcliff's research interest include Spanish politics, culture, and Labor Reform in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Email: pradcliff@ucsd.edu
David R. Ringrose, Ph.D.
Ringrose is an expert on early modern Europe, with an emphasis on the economic history of Europe and the history of Spain. Email: dringrose@ucsd.edu
Eric Van Young, Ph.D.
Van Young's current research is on a biography of the Mexican statesman and historian Lucas Alaman. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: evanyoung@ucsd.edu
Daniel Widener, Ph.D.
Widener is an expert on African-American and California history. Email: dwidener@ucsd.edu
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS)
Harold G. Colson, M.L.S.
Colson's research interest include online databases for the study of Latin America. Email: hcolson@ucsd.edu
Peter Cowhey, Ph.D.
Peter Cowhey is an internationally recognized expert in telecommunications and information policy and markets.[Curriculum Vitae] Email: pcowhey@ucsd.edu
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Ph.D.
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros' research interests include poverty, development, federalism, clientelism and patronage, and Mexico. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: adiazcayeros@ucsd.edu
Richard Feinberg, Ph.D.
Professor Feinberg is an authority on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and summitry. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: rfeinberg@ucsd.edu
Stephan Haggard, Ph.D.
Professor Haggard's research interests center on the international relations and comparative political economy of East Asia and Latin America. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: shaggard@ucsd.edu
Gordon Hanson, Ph.D.
Professor Hanson is an authority on foreign investment, the economics of immigration, and international trade. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: gohanson@ucsd.edu
Sandra L. Pedregal, M.A.
Pedregal is a Spanish Lecturer in IR/PS. Email: pedregal@ucsd.edu
Matthew Soberg Shugart, Ph.D.
Professor Shugart is an authority on issues of constitutional design and electoral rules around the world. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: mshugart@ucsd.edu
Christopher Woodruff, Ph.D.
Professor Woodruff's research focuses on the challenges faced by small and medium sized firms in developing and transition economies. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: cwoodruff@ucsd.edu
Department of Linguistics
Eric Bakovic, Ph.D.
Bakovic is an expert on the sound patterns of the Spanish spoken in Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: bakovic@ling.ucsd.edu
Grant Goodall, Ph.D.
Goodall is an expert on syntactic theory, structure of Spanish, second language acquisition and methodology of language teaching. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: ggoodall@ucsd.edu
John C. Moore, Ph.D.
Moore's research interests include Spanish syntax, causative and restructuring constructions, and lexical semantics. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: moorej@ucsd.edu
Department of Literature
John Blanco, Ph.D.
Blanco is an expert on Filipino Literature, 19th century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, and Anti-Colonial Thought. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: jdblanco@ucsd.edu
Robert Cancel, Ph.D.
Cancel is an expert on Caribbean and African literature and Third World Studies. Email: rcancel@ucsd.edu
Jaime Concha, Ph.D.
Concha is a specialist in 19th Century Latin American intellectual history and Latin American Poetry. Email: jconcha@ucsd.edu
Stephanie Jed, Ph.D.
Jed is a Professor of Italian and Comparative literature: The Renaissance, History of Writing, Women's Studies. Email: sjed@ucsd.edu
Sara Johnson, Ph.D.
Johnson research includes 19th and 20th century literature of the Spanish Caribbean literature, popular culture in the Caribbean. Email: sejohn@ucsd.edu
Misha Kokotovic, Ph.D.
Kokotovic is a specialist in Central American and Andean Literatures as well as Latin American(ist) cultural theory and political economy. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: mkoko@ucsd.edu
Jorge Mariscal, Ph.D.
Mariscal is an expert on Latinos in the U.S. military (past and present) and Chicano history with a focus on the Chicano Movement of the 1960s. Email: gmariscal@ucsd.edu
Luis Martín-Cabrera, Ph.D.
Luis Martín-Cabrera is an expert on Peninsular and Latin American Literature and Culture (Transatlantic Studies). Email: lmartincabrera@ucsd.edu
Max Parra, Ph.D.
Parra's research interests include Latin American Literature, Mexican literature, Carribean literature, and Indigenismo Narrative. Email: mparra@ucsd.edu
Beatrice M. Pita, Ph.D.
Pita's research interests include women's fiction, California narratives, and Latin American short stories. Email: bpita@ucsd.edu
Rosaura Sánchez, Ph.D.
Sá¡nchez research interests include Chicana literature, gender studies, and Marxist theory. Email: rasanchez@ucsd.edu
Winifred Woodhull, Ph.D.
Woodhull is an expert on literatures of France, Africa, and the Caribbean, critical gender studies and postcolonial studies. Email: wwoodhull@ucsd.edu
School of Medicine
Kimberley C. Brouwer, Ph.D. - Department of Medicine, Division of Global Health
Brouwer's research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, geographic information systems, and migrant health. Email: kbrouwer@ucsd.edu
Richard S. Garfein, PhD, M.P.H. - Department of Family Medicine
Garfein is an expert on behavioral transmission of bloodborne viral infections, including HIV, HBV. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: rgarfein@ucsd.edu
Vivian Reznik, M.P.H., M.D. - Department of Pediatrics
Reznik's research interests include youth violence prevention, cultural competency. Email: vreznik@ucsd.edu
Dean Sidelinger, M.D. - Department of Pediatrics
Sidelinger's research interests include evaluation of curriculum to teach improved delivery of culturally effective care to pediatric residents. Email: dsidelinger@ucsd.edu
Harold J. Simon, M.D. - Global Public Health
Simon is an expert on multilingual and cross-cultural medicine. Email: hsimon@ucsd.edu
Steffanie A. Strathdee, Ph.D. - Global Public Health
Strathdee is an expert in epidemiology, infectious diseases and border health. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: sstrathdee@ucsd.edu
Maria Luisa Zúñiga, Ph.D. - Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
Zúñiga is an expert on behavioral, epidemiology, community based research and HIV/AIDS health care service. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: mzuniga@ucsd.edu
Department of Political Science
Marisa Abrajano, Ph.D.
Abrajano is an expert on campaigns and elections, political behavior, Latino politics, and race and politics in the United States. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: mabrajano@ucsd.edu
Ann L. Craig, Ph.D.
Craig is an expert on social movements, public policy in Mexico, and gender and politics in Latin America. Email: acraig@ucsd.edu
Scott Desposato, Ph.D.
Scott Deposato is an expert on area comparative politics, especially political parties, legislatures, and elections. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: sdesposato@ucsd.edu
David R. Mares, Ph.D.
Mares' research interests include international security, international political economy and latin American civil-military relations. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: dmares@ucsd.edu
Sebastian M. Saiegh, Ph.D.
Saiegh's research focuses on comparitive politics, political economy and institutions. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: ssaiegh@ucsd.edu
Peter H. Smith, Ph.D.
Smith is an expert on NAFTA and negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, drug trafficking and drug policy. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: phsmith@ucsd.edu
Department of Psychiatry
Nolan E. Penn, Ph.D.
Penn is an expert on multicultural psychology. Email: npenn@ucsd.edu
Social Sciences and Humanities Library
Karen Lindvall-Larson, M.L.S.
Lindvall-Larson's research interests include research-resources-database. Email: klindval@ucsd.edu
Department of Sociology
David Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
Fitzgerald is an expert on international migration, race, ethnicity, and nationalism. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: dfitzger@ucsd.edu
April Linton Ph.D.
Linton studies international migration, transnational social movements, globalization, and development. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: aplinton@ucsd.edu
Carlos Waisman, Ph.D.
Waisman is an expert on democratization and the economic and political institutions of the southern cone particularly Argentina. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: cwaisman@ucsd.edu
León Zamosc, Ph.D.
Zamosc is an expert on social movements, ethnicity and indigenous peoples, and rural sociology. Email: lzamosc@ucsd.edu
Department of Theatre and Dance
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Mirle D. Rabinowitz Bussell, Ph.D.
Bussell is an expert on community development and affordable housing. Email: mrabinowitzbussell@ucsd.edu
Keith Pezzoli, Ph.D.
Pezzoli does research and writing on environmental management systems, information technology and knowledge networking. Email: kpezzoli@ucsd.edu
Department of Visual Arts
Teddy Cruz, M.F.A.
Cruz's work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory. Email: tcruz@ucsd.edu
Ricardo Dominguez, M.F.A.
Dominguez is an expert on electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism, digital activism, information warfare. Email: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Louis J. Hock, M.F.A.
Hock's research interests include film and video making and public art. [Curriculum Vitae] Email: lhock@ucsd.edu
Elizabeth A. Newsome, Ph.D.
Newsome is an expert on the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, including the Aztec, Olmec and Izapan cultures. Email: enewsome@ucsd.edu
Rubén Ortiz-Torres M.F.A.
Ortiz-Torres is widely regarded as one of today's leading Meican Artists and as as innovator in the 1980s. Email: ruortiz@ucsd.edu
Wardwell's research interests include art history and the overlap of art, politics and theory. Email: mwardwell@ucsd.edu
