Faculty

Erik Bernardino

Assistant Professor of History

Chicana/o History, immigration, Labor History, Latin American, Latinx Studies, US-Mexico Borderlands

Baltasar Fra-Molinero

Professor of Hispanic Studies

Cervantes, Global Hispanophone Studies, literature and culture of Equatorial Guinea, Literatures of the African Diaspora in Spanish, race and religion in early modern Spain and Spanish America, Spanish, Spanish and Spanish American Renaissance and Baroque studies, Spanish baroque theater

Karen Melvin

Thomas Hedley Reynolds Professor of History

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz

Associate Professor of Politics

comparative politics, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, immigrant/diaspora-home country political and economic engagement, immigration and democracy, immigration and economic development, Latin American Politics, Mexico, Political violence

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Benoit Y. Vallee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies

(trans)nationalism, Afro-Latin America, Blackness, Caribbean studies, Deportation, Dominican Republic, Dominicans in Hip-Hop, Immigrant and Diaspora studies, Latin American Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies, New York Afro-Latina/o/x and Latina/o/x, New York Hip-Hop history, Quisqueya-Hispaniola, race and ethnicity, urban anthropology