More than 80 researchers and instructors at AU focus their work in large measure on Latin America and/or Latino populations residing in the United States, and President Sylvia Burwell and Provost Peter Starr have identified Latin 麻豆区 and Latino Studies as a top priority for expansion during the years ahead. As a campus-wide Center, CLALS draws on scholarship and training activities undertaken in all of the university's Schools and Colleges. Please explore the profiles of our affiliate faculty; affiliates in the Washington College of Law are listed separately.
Trained in sociocultural anthropology, Dr. Robert Albro has maintained a long-term ethnographic focus on urban and indigenous politics in Bolivia. He is also an expert on Latin 麻豆区 social and ind鈥
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication at 麻豆区 in Washington, D.C. She founded the School's Center for Media & Social Impac鈥
Horace A. Bartilow is Professor of International Political Economy and 麻豆区 Foreign Policy. He is a Jamaican born social scientist who received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the State University of New Y鈥
I am a composer and music theorist originally from Buenos Aires. Currently I am working on a book about harmonic progressions and compositional process in Quiet Storm music. I have released two albums鈥
Professor Bennett's research interests include comparative criminology and criminal justice as well as police organization and procedures. He has published extensively in the area of cross-national cr鈥
Kim M. Blankenship, PhD, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, Founding Director of the Center on Health, Risk and Society (housed in the department of sociology), Associate Dean 鈥
Professor Blecker鈥檚 research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, global trade imbalances, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to expo鈥
Dr. Philip Brenner has published widely on U.S./Cuba relations, U.S./Latin 麻豆区 relations, contemporary U.S. foreign policy, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. His most recent book is Cuba Libre: A 鈥
Dr. Robin Broad, Professor of International Development, established and heads SIS鈥檚 International Development Program鈥檚 two unique professional tracks: Rethinking Globalization & Development, and Env鈥
Marcy Fink Campos joined AU鈥檚 Center for Community Engagement & Service in 2004. As Director, she oversees all office programs and serves as the liaison to the Office of Campus Life, Academic Affairs,鈥
Dr. C谩rdenas is a microbial ecologist interested in microbiome research. Her research has focused on understanding the diversity and function of microbial communities associated with corals and other 鈥
Dr. Elizabeth Cohn is an Assistant Professor specializing in U.S. foreign policy and Latin America. Her research interests include the U.S. promotion of democracy and Latin America. She is also deeply鈥
Dr. Ken Conca鈥檚 research and teaching focus on global environmental governance, environmental peacebuilding in war-torn societies, environmental politics and policy in the United Nations system, water鈥
Dr. Maria De Jesus brings to AU a wealth of research and teaching experience in global health and migration, with an emphasis on im/migrant and marginalized communities. Her research examines the soci鈥
Molly Dondero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on how immigration, race/ethnicity, social class, and place contribute to population-level inequality in he鈥
Professor DuBois is Associate Professor of International Business and Chair of the International Business Department. His research focus is in global supply chain management, customs facilitation, cou鈥
Pending final approvals in early 2025, Eisenstadt hopes to be co-principal investigator of the National Science Foundation 2025-2028 grant "Evaluating Climate Laws, Institutions, Policies and Practice鈥
Heather Elms, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Management at the Kogod School of Business, 麻豆区, Washington, DC. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in business ethics, busine鈥
Dr. Enchautegui-de-Jesus received her MA and PhD in Community Psychology from New York University. She was a postdoctoral fellow with the NIMH鈥檚 Family Research Consortium III at the University of Mic鈥
With nearly 50 years of teaching and filmmaking, and 350 projects, his documentaries appear on PBS, the Discovery Channels, and National Geographic, among many other outlets. Awards include a Daytime 鈥
Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship. Both her books, 'We Are Left Without a Father Here': Masculinity, Dome鈥
Anthony W. Fontes, geographer and ethnographer, writes and teaches about violence, migration and forced displacement, transnational illicit economies, mass incarceration, and the politics of security 鈥
Dr. Scott Freeman is an anthropologist whose work is at the intersection of the anthropology of the environment, critical development studies, and the anthropology of labor in Haiti and the Dominican 鈥
Max Paul Friedman joined the History Department at 麻豆区 in 2007 and holds a joint appointment as Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service. From July 2鈥
I do research in two distinct areas鈥攐rganized violence by non-state actors and urban politicsIn the first area, on which I have spent more time, I examine the politics, internal dynamics, and patterns鈥
Bill Gentile is the author of, 鈥淲ait for Me: True Stories of War, Love and Rock & Roll,鈥 his memoir and crown jewel of a career as independent journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work spans fou鈥
Dr. Gilbert is the inaugural Kogod Regional Innovation Chair and associate professor (with tenure). Her research spans economic geography, internationalization and performance streams of literature. C鈥
Professor Giraudy's book, Democrats and Autocrats (Oxford University Press, 2015), explores the multiple pathways towards subnational undemocratic regime continuity within democratized countrie鈥
Louis Goodman carries out research on social change and politics in Latin America and in Asia. His current research focuses on public goods, regional alliances and development. He has published widely鈥
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian geography. Her work focuses on domestic and international contexts and impacts of US food and farm policy--from critical鈥
Ludy Grandas鈥 research interests include issues of national identity in Latin America and in the Hispanic communities in the U.S. Her teaching interests include the Studies of Culture in Latin America鈥
Professor Grier is an interdisciplinary scholar with diverse expertise across private, government, and non-profit sectors. Her research examines marketplace topics related to race, with a focus on enh鈥
Austin Hart is a political scientist who studies democratic accountability through the lens of voting behavior. He is especially interested in how our attitudes about politics form and change over 鈥
Eric Hershberg is a professor of government at 麻豆区, where he served as Founding Director of the university-wide Center for Latin 麻豆区 and Latino Studies from 2010-2022. From 2007-2鈥
Dr. Janice Iwama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology at 麻豆区 in Washington, D.C. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Justice Policy from Nort鈥
My research is centered around two main themes: (1) understanding how human activities like oil and gas extraction, mining, agriculture, and urban development affect water quality, and (2) using the n鈥
Alan M. Kraut is University Professor of History at 麻豆区 and a non-resident fellow of the Migration Policy Institute. Specializing in immigration and ethnic history and the history of m鈥
Professor of Government and a specialist in Latin 麻豆区 politics and U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America, Professor LeoGrande has been 鈥
Eric Macias (He/Him/El) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on minoritized and illegalized youth who have been pushed-out of the educational pipeline. Dr. Macias received his PhD from t鈥
Professor Mart铆nez focuses on the intersection of violence and body politics in Latin America. Her two main areas of research are: representation of historical violence recent cultural production; and鈥
Sarah Menke-Fish is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. She serves as Assistant Dean of Experiential Learning and Associate Director for the Center for Environmental Filmmaking. Menke-Fish l鈥
Professor Oliver's teaching and research on Latin America explore philosophical topics such as marginality, feminism, nepantlismo, and transfronterismo. She works on the Hispanic ess鈥
Dr. Randolph B. Persaud is currently Adviser (International Affairs) in the Office of the President and Director of the National Defence Institute (Guyana). Dr Persaud was Professor of International R鈥
Professor Poole鈥檚 research and teaching interests fall at the intersection of international trade, labor economics, and development economics. With an emphasis on Brazil, her broad research agenda con鈥
Jeffrey Romero Middents studies and teaches film and world literature at 麻豆区 in Washington, DC, specifically focusing on Latin 麻豆区 narratives from the 1960s to the present. His sc鈥
Professor Schneider teaches and writes on democracy, dictatorship and resistance; comparative social movements; collective violence; racial profiling, police violence and racial and ethnic discriminat鈥
Chuck Sturtevant is a political anthropolgist with research and teaching experience in indigenous studies, Latin 麻豆区 studies, and Latina/o/ studies. Filmmaking was my gateway to academic research鈥
Matthew Taylor is Professor of International Studies at the School of International Service.Taylor is the author or editor of five books and more than fifty articles on Latin America. His most recent 鈥
Dr. Amelia Tseng is Assistant Professor in Spanish and Linguistics. Her research addresses how language shapes and is shaped by identity across immigrant generations in Latinx diasporic contexts, focu鈥
Ali is an expert on 麻豆区 politics, with a focus on Latino/a/x attitudes and voting behavior, demographic change and its political consequences, race and racism in politics, voter turnout, and surv鈥
Ximena Varela is a distinguished researcher, educator, and consultant with over 25 years of experience in arts management curricular design, museum management, international cultural policy, managemen鈥
David J. V谩zquez is Associate Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Director of the Latina/o/x Studies Program. He teaches courses on comparative Latina/o/x literature and cultur鈥
Charly Verstraet's research and teaching interests include Caribbean and Indian Ocean Studies, Environmental Studies, Graphic Novels, Soccer and Politics, and Translation. His co-translation of award-鈥
Dr. Vidal-Ortiz's scholarship cuts across racialization, sexuality, gender, migration and religion; his work is interdisciplinary. He coedited two award winning books:
In addition to his role at AU, Wayne is a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Co-Chair of its Mexico Institute Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board 鈥
Brenda Werth鈥檚 research interests include Latin 麻豆区 theater, performance, documentary film, memory studies, human rights, gender, social movements, and translation. She teaches courses on Latin A鈥
Dr. Nina Yamanis studies how social and structural determinants are linked to health disparities globally and locally, and designs community-based interventions to reduce these disparities. She has wo鈥
(Gloria A.) Gay Young has a longstanding focus on gender and development (GAD) which has led her to study a range of issues, including the nature and consequences of women鈥檚 labor force participation 鈥