Meet the LAHSP Faculty

Diego Abente-Brun (Ph.D., The University of New Mexico)
Director, Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program

Concentrations: International relations of Latin America, governance, comparative democratization.

Paula Alonso (Ph.D., Oxford University)

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Concentrations: Modern Latin American history and politics, Argentina.

 

Jenna Ben-Yehuda (M.A., National Intelligence University, National Defense University)

Professorial Lecturer, Vice President, Wittenberg Weiner Consulting, LLC

Concentrations: Security, gender.

 

Christopher Britt (Ph.D., Princeton University)

Associate Professor of Spanish

Concentrations: Latin American nationalisms, post-coloniality.

 

Yvonne Captain (Ph.D., Stanford University)

Associate Professor of Latin American Film and Literature and International Affairs

Concentrations: Latin American film and media, Afro-Latino cultures, south-south relations.

 

Robert Cottrol (Ph.D., Yale University; J.D. Georgetown University)

Professor of Law, History and Sociology

Concentrations: Law of race and slavery, criminal law, history, sociology.

 

Manuel Cuellar (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)

Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature

Concentrations: Mexican literary and cultural studies, race, gender, sexuality.

 

Alex Dent (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs

Concentrations: Language, media, rural-urban relations, ethnography, Brazil.

 

Lino Gutierrez (M.A., University of Alabama)

Professorial Lecturer, President of Gutierrez Global, LLC

Concentrations: LAHSP Capstone, Cuba, Central America, diplomacy.

 

Jorge Hernandez-Fujigaki (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

Professorial Lecturer

Concentrations: Mexican history, Mexican-American history.

 

Graciela Kaminsky (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Concentrations: International finance, open-economy macroeconomics.

 

Stephen B. Kaplan (Ph.D., Yale University)

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Concentrations: Political economy, development, Latin American politics.

 

Antonio Lopez (Ph.D., Rutgers University)

Associate Professor of English

Concentrations: Latina/o, African diaspora, literary and cultural theory.

 

Ronald Luna (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park)

Professorial Lecturer

Concentrations: Migration, transnationalism, culture space.

 

Jason Marczak (M.A., Johns Hopkins University)

Professorial Lecturer, Director, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council

Concentrations: Democracy, energy, innovation, trade, urbanization, migration.

 

Daniel Martinez (Ph.D., University of Arizona)

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership

Institute

Concentrations: Unauthorized migration, criminalization and criminology.

 

Noel Maurer (Ph.D., Stanford University)

Associate Professor of International Business

Concentrations: Private property rights, Mexico.

 

Michael McCarthy (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)

Professorial Lecturer, Research Fellow, Center for Latin American Studies at AU

Concentrations: Populism in Latin America, Venezuela.

 

Cynthia McClintock (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Concentration: Latin American politics, electoral processes, Peru.

 

Elaine Peña (Ph.D., Northwestern University)

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Concentrations: Performance theory and pedagogy, religious studies, transnational studies.

 

José Raúl Perales (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

Professorial Lecturer, Deputy Director of Trade at Center for International Private Enterprise

(CIPE)

Concentrations: Human rights, international law in the Americas.

 

Marie Price (Ph.D., Syracuse University)

Professor of Geography and International Affairs

Concentrations: Political and cultural geography of Latin America, immigration, global cities.

 

Elvira-Maria Restrepo (Ph.D., Oxford University)
Interim Director (2019), Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program
Professorial Lecturer, Honors Program
Concentrations: Human rights, Colombia
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Jorge Rivera (Ph.D. Duke University)

Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy

Concentrations: Corporate environmental strategies.

 

Arturo Sarukhan (M.A., Johns Hopkins University)

Professorial Lecturer, Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States

Concentration: US-Mexico Relations.

 

Arturo C. Sotomayor (Ph.D. Colombia University)

Associate Professor of International Affairs, Director of the Security Policy Studies Program

Concentrations: transnational and border security, nuclear non-proliferation and civil-military relations.

 

Elizabeth Vaquera (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Director of Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, Professorial Lecturer of Sociology

Concentrations: Immigration, Latino/a sociology, children and youth, quantitative methods.

 

Diana Villiers Negroponte (Ph.D., Georgetown University, J.D., American University)

Professorial Lecturer, Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center

Concentrations: Cold War, globalization, trade and development, Central America, Mexico.

 

Silvio R. Waisbord (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego)

Professor of Media and Public Affairs

Concentrations: Global media, press and politics, development, and social change.

 

Erica Wortham (Ph.D., New York University)

Professorial Lecturer of Anthropology

Concentrations: Indigenous media, visual heritage, nationalism/ethnicity, Mexico.