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Anthropology

Guillermo Algaze, Ph.D.
Algaze is an expert on Near Eastern, Anatolian, and Mesopotamian archaeology, early civilizations, and complex societies...View Expert Sheet

Geoffrey Braswell, Ph.D.
Braswell is an expert on the archaeology of Mexico and Central America, particularly the ancient Maya civilization... View Expert Sheet

Thomas Csordas, Ph.D.
Tom Csordas is an expert on psychological and medical anthropology, anthropological theory, comparative religion... View Expert Sheet

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...View Expert Sheet

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... View Expert Sheet

Keith McNeal, Ph.D.
McNeal's research interests include cultural and psychological anthropology, comparative religion... View Expert Sheet

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... View Expert Sheet

Nancy Grey Postero, Ph.D.
Postero is an expert on political economy, multiculturalism, citizenship, identity, indigenous politics, development, and non-governmental organizations ...View Expert Sheet

Kathryn Woolard, Ph.D.

Woolard is an expert on linguistic anthropology, language and ethnicity, bilingual communities, language ideology, and political discourse... View Expert Sheet

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.
Molina is a 1995 Novel Prize winner in Chemistry for his research on the threat to the ozone layer... View Expert Sheet

CILAS

Felipe Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate
Felipe Lopez teaches Zapotec, an indigenous language spoken in Southern Mexico. He is working on his Ph.D. at UCLA in Urban Planning... View Expert Sheet

Cognitive Science

Rafael Núñez, Ph.D.
Rafael Núñez is an expert in how the human mind creates abstraction... View Expert Sheet

Communication


Brian Goldfarb, Ph.D.

Goldfarb's research interest include media studies and contemporary visual and digital culture... View Expert Sheet

Daniel C. Hallin, Ph.D.
Hallin is an expert on US media coverage of Latin America and comparative analyisis of media and politics...View Expert Sheet

Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Ph.D.
Hernandez-Reguant specializes in cultural industries and globalization with an emphasis on Latin America and "post-socialist"... View Expert Sheet

Olga A. Vásquez, Ph.D.
Vásquez is an expert on bilingualism and biculturalism, education, literacy, after-school learning and education for the global context... View Expert Sheet

Elana Zilberg, Ph.D.
Zilberg's research interests include global flows of people, money, commodities, ...View Expert Sheet

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...View Expert Sheet

James Rauch, Ph.D.
Rauch is an expert on International Trade, Economic Growth and Development... View Expert Sheet

Ethnic Studies

Robert R. Alvarez, Ph.D.
Alvarez is an expert on national and regional identity in the US-Mexico Borderland...View Expert Sheet

Ross Frank, Ph.D.
Frank is an expert on northern Mexico during the colonial and early national period and Native American history and culture...View Expert Sheet

Natalia M. Molina, Ph.D.
Molina is an expert on comparative ethnicities, Latina/o history, and public health attitudes toward immigrants...View Expert Sheet

Lisa Sanchez, Ph.D.
Sanchez's research interests include transnational and global studies; gender, race, and ethnicity, and the law.....View Expert Sheet

Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ph.D.
Silva is an expert on social theory, critical race theory, race politics, cultural studies, global studies... View Expert Sheet

Ana Celia Zentella, Ph.D.
Zentella is an expert on anthro-political linguistics, bilingualism, varieties of Spanish in the U.S...View Expert Sheet

Family Medicine

Richard S. Garfein
Garfein is an expert on behavioral transmission of bloodborne viral infections, including HIV, HBV...View Expert Sheet

Harold J. Simon, M.D.
Simon is an expert on multilingual and cross- cultural medicine... View Expert Sheet

Steffanie A. Strathdee, Ph.D.
Strathdee is an expert in epidemiology, infectious diseases and border health...View Expert Sheet

History

David G. Gutiérrez, Ph.D.
Gutiérrez is an expert on Chicano history, the history of the American Southwest, comparative ethnic studies, and immigration... View Expert Sheet

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... View Expert Sheet

Everard Meade Ph.D.
Meade has done extensive research on capital punishment in 20th Century Mexico... View Expert Sheet

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... View Expert Sheet

Pamela Radcliff, Ph.D.
Radcliff's research interest include Spanish politics, culture, and Labor Reform in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries... View Expert Sheet

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... View Expert Sheet

Eric Van Young, Ph.D.
Van Young's current research is on a biography of the Mexican statesman and historian Lucas Alaman... View Expert Sheet

David Widener, Ph.D.
Widener is an expert on African-American and California history... View Expert Sheet

IR/PS

Peter Cowhey, Ph.D.
Peter Cowhey is an internationally recognized expert in telecommunications and information policy and markets... View Expert Sheet

Richard Feinberg, Ph.D.
Professor Feinberg is an authority on U.S. foreign policy, multilateral institutions, and summitry... View Expert Sheet

Stephan Haggard, Ph.D.
Professor Haggard's research interests center on the international relations and comparative political economy of East Asia and Latin America... View Expert Sheet

Gordon Hanson, Ph.D.
Professor Hanson is an authority on foreign investment, immigration, and international trade... View Expert Sheet

Sandra L. Pedregal, M.A.
Pedregal is a Spanish Lecturer in the IR/PS Department... View Expert Sheet

Matthew Soberg Shugart, Ph.D.
Professor Shugart is an authority on issues of constitutional design and electoral rules around the world... View Expert Sheet

Christopher Woodruff, Ph.D.
Professor Woodruff's research focuses on the challenges faced by small and medium sized firms in developing and transition economies... View Expert Sheet

IR/PS Library

Harold G. Colson, M.L.S.
Colson's research interest include online databases for the study of Latin America... View Expert Sheet

Linguistics

Eric Bakovic, Ph.D.
Bakovic is an expert on the sound patterns of the Spanish spoken in Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula... View Expert Sheet

Grant Goodall, Ph.D.
Goodall is an expert on syntactic theory, structure of Spanish, second language acquisition and methodology of language teaching... View Expert Sheet

John C. Moore, Ph.D.
Moore's research interests include Spanish syntax, causative and restructuring constructions, and lexical semantics... View Expert Sheet

Literature

John Blanco, Ph.D.
Blanco is an expert on Filipino Literature, 19th century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, and Anti-Colonial Thought... View Expert Sheet

Robert Cancel, Ph.D.
Cancel is an expert on Caribbean and Arican literature and Third World Studies... View Expert Sheet

Jaime Concha, Ph.D.
Concha is a specialist in 19th Century Latin American intellectual history and Latin American Poetry... View Expert Sheet

Stephanie Jed, Ph.D.

Jed is a professor of Italian and Comparative literature: The Renaissance, History of Writing, Women's Studies... View Expert Sheet

Sara Johnson, Ph.D.

Johnson research includes 19th and 20th century literature of the Spanish Caribbean literature, popular culture in the Caribbean... View Expert Sheet

Milos Kokotovic, Ph.D.
Kokotovic is a specialist in Central American and Andean Literatures as well as Latin American(ist) cultural theory and political economy... View Expert Sheet

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... View Expert Sheet

Luis Martín-Cabrera, Ph.D.
Luis Martín-Cabrera is an expert on Peninsular and Latin American Literature and Culture (Transatlantic Studies).... View Expert Sheet

Max Parra, Ph.D.
Parra's research interests include Latin American Literature, Mexican literature, Carribean literature, and Indigenismo Narrative... View Expert Sheet

Beatrice M. Pita, Ph.D.
Pita's research interests include women's fiction; California narratives, and Latin American short stories... View Expert Sheet

Rosaura Sánchez, Ph.D.
Sánchez research interests include Chicana literature, gender studies, and Marxist theory... View Expert Sheet

Winifred Woodhull, Ph.D.
Woodhull is an expert on literatures of France, Africa, and the Caribbean, critical gender studies and postcolonial studies...View Expert Sheet

Mandeville Special Collections Library

Daniel Slive,nMSL
Slive's expertise are European books about the Americas in the Colonial Period and history of the book in Latin America in the Colonial Period...View Expert Sheet

Pediatrics

Vivian Reznik, M.P.H., M.D.

Reznik's research interests include youth violence prevention, cultural competency.... View Expert Sheet

Dean Sidelinger, M.D.
Sidelinger's research interests include evaluation of curriculum to teach improved delivery of.... View Expert Sheet

Maria Luisa Zuñiga, Ph.D.
Zuñiga is an expert on behavioral, epidemiology, community based research and HIV/AIDS health care service.... View Expert Sheet

Political Science

Wayne A. Cornelius, Ph.D.
Cornelius is an expert on the political economy of immigration, immigration policy in advanced industrial nations, U.S.-Mexican relations, and Mexican politics... View Expert Sheet

Ann L. Craig, Ph.D.
Craig is an expert on social movements, public policy in Mexico, and gender and politics in Latin America... View Expert Sheet

Scott Desposato, Ph.D.
Scott Deposato is an expert on area comparative politics, especially political parties, legislatures, and elections... View Expert Sheet

Paul W. Drake, Ph.D.
Drake is an expert on Chilean politics, the Andes, democratization, Latin American political economy, labor history, and US-Latin America relations... View Expert Sheet

David R. Mares, Ph.D.
Mares' research interests include international security, international political economy and latin American civil-military relations... View Expert Sheet

Sebastian M. Saiegh, Ph.D.
Saiegh's research focuses on comparitive politics, political economy and institutions... View Expert Sheet

Peter H. Smith, Ph.D.
Smith is an expert on NAFTA and negotiations for Free Trade Area of the Americas; drug trafficking and drug policy... View Expert Sheet

Psychiatry

Nolan E. Penn, Ph.D.
Penn is an expert on multicultural psychology...View Expert Sheet

Social Sciences and Humanities Library

Karen Lindvall-Larson, M.L.S.
Lindvall-Larson's research interests include research-resources-database... View Expert Sheet

Sociology

David Fitzgerald, Ph.D.
Fitzgerald is an expert on international migration, race, ethnicity, and nationalism...View Expert Sheet

Tomás Jiménez, Ph.D.
Tomás Jiménez is an expert on race and ethnicity, immigration, assimilation, inequality, and the Mexican-origin population in the United States... View Expert Sheet

Andrew Lakoff, Ph.D.
Lakoff's research interests include social studies of science and medicine, globalization processes, and history of the human science... View Expert Sheet

April Linton Ph.D.
Linton is an expert on bilingualism and immigration... View Expert Sheet

Hugh Mehan, Ph.D
Mehan's research interests include classroom organization, educational testing, tracking and untracking, computer use in schools and the construction of identities such as the "competent student"...View Expert Sheet

Carlos Waisman, Ph.D.
Waisman is an expert on democratization and the economic and political institutions... View Expert Sheet

León Zamosc, Ph.D.
Zamosc is an expert on social movements, ethnicity and indigenous peoples, and rural sociology... View Expert Sheet

Theatre and Dance

Jorge Huerta, Ph.D.
Huerta is an expert on Chicano theatre and Latinos in the US... View Expert Sheet

Urban Studies and Planning

Mirle Bussell, Ph.D.
Bussell is an expert on community development and affordable housing...View Expert Sheet

Keith Pezzoli, Ph.D.
Pezzoli does research and writing on environmental management systems, information technology and knowledge networking...View Expert Sheet

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...View Expert Sheet

Ricardo Dominguez, M.F.A.
Dominguez is an expert on electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism, digital activism, information warfare... View Expert Sheet

Louis J. Hock, Ph.D.
Hock's research interests include film and video making and public art... View Expert Sheet

Sandra Kogut
Kogut is an expert on film, video and media arts...View Expert Sheet

Elizabeth A. Newsome, Ph.D.
Newsome is an expert on the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, including the Aztec, Olmec and Izapan cultures... View Expert Sheet

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... View Expert Sheet

Roberto Tejada, Ph.D.
Roberto Tejada is a visual arts critic, photography historian, and curator. His research interrogates twentieth-century image... View Expert Sheet