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CILAS Affiliated Faculty

Department of Anthropology

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

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

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

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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. 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.

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

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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.

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

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Kathryn Woolard, Ph.D.

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Daniel C. Hallin, Ph.D.
Hallin is an expert on U.S. media coverage of Latin America and comparative analyisis of media and politics.

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

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

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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.
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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.

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

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Department of Ethnic Studies

Robert R. Alvarez, Ph.D.
Alvarez is an expert on national and regional identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

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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.

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

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

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

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Department of Family Medicine

Kimberley C. Brouwer, Ph.D.

Brouwer's research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, geographic information systems, and migrant health.

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Richard S. Garfein, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Garfein is an expert on behavioral transmission of bloodborne viral infections, including HIV, HBV.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Daniel Widener, Ph.D.
Widener is an expert on African-American and California history.

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Department of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS)

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

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Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Ph.D.
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros' research interests include poverty, development, federalism, clientelism and patronage, and Mexico.

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

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

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Gordon Hanson, Ph.D.
Professor Hanson is an authority on foreign investment, the economics of immigration, and international trade.
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Sandra L. Pedregal, M.A.
Pedregal is a Spanish Lecturer in the IR/PS Department.

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

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

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International Relations and Pacific Studies Library

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Robert Cancel, Ph.D.
Cancel is an expert on Caribbean and African literature and Third World Studies.

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

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Stephanie Jed, Ph.D.

Jed is a Professor of Italian and Comparative literature: The Renaissance, History of Writing, Women's Studies.
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Sara Johnson, Ph.D.

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

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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.
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Department of Pediatrics

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

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

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Dean Sidelinger, M.D.
Sidelinger's research interests include evaluation of curriculum to teach improved delivery of culturally effective care to pediatric residents .

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

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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. 

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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.

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

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Paul W. Drake, Ph.D.
Drake is an expert on Chilean politics, the Andes, democratization, Latin American political economy, labor history, and U.S.-Latin American relations.

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

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

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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.

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Department of Psychiatry

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

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Social Sciences and Humanities Library

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

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Department of Sociology

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

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

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April Linton Ph.D.
Linton studies international migration, transnational social movements, globalization, and development.

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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".

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Carlos Waisman, Ph.D.
Waisman is an expert on democratization and the economic and political institutions of the southern cone particularly Argentina.

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

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Department of Theatre and Dance

Jorge Huerta, Ph.D.
Huerta is an expert on Chicano theatre and Latinos in the United States.

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Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Mirle D. Rabinowitz Bussell, Ph.D.
Bussell is an expert on community development and affordable housing.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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