Interim Co-Directors, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center: Paul Gootenberg, Brooke Larson and Kathleen Vernon

Jennifer Anderson
Assistant Professor, History Department. Ph.D. NYU, 2007
Areas of interest are Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in the early modern period, exploring the history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, issues of labor, race, and gender, and the rise of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/Anderson.htm
Email:jlaanderson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Jorge L. Benach
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,
Director, Center for Infectious Diseases, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1972
CV: attached
Send email: jbenach@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Pamela Block
Clinical Associate Professor, Program in Occupational Therapy
Post Doctoral Fellowship, Brown University, Ph.D., Duke University
Assistant Professor (adjunct) at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University.
She is the PI of a 3-year study entitled “Shake It Up for Alcohol and Substance Use Reduction! Health Promotion and Capacity Building for Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.” Her dissertation "Biology, Culture and Cognitive Disability: Twentieth Century Professional Discourse in Brazil and the United States" addressed the influence of cultural beliefs and professional theories on disability policy and treatment. Dr. Block is interested in issues of disability, health promotion and empowerment in Brazil and the United States. She studies multiple marginalization and the intersections of gender, race, poverty, and disability.
CV: http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/lacc.nsf/pages/block
Send mail to: Pamela.Block@stonybrook.edu

Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies. Ph.D., Temple University (2003)
Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America; Gender and Development; Intersectionality; Women and Informal Economies; Race and Race Relations in the United States; Sociology of the Body; Black Feminism; Social Research; Feminist Research Method.
CV: http://www.stonybrook.edu/afs/?facultystaff/cv/brown
Email: Winnifred.Brown@stonybrook.edu

Ritchie Calvin
Associate Professor, Women's Studies Department, Ph.D., Stony Brook University
My research and teaching interests are primarily Latinas and Latina literature in the U.S., and Mexican women writers, including Rosario Castellanos and Brianda Domecq, and their representations of women and articulations of feminism. I am particularly interested in the appropriation and transformation of narrative forms, and the development of autochthonous models of analysis.
CV: attached
Send mail to: Ritchie.Calvin@stonybrook.edu

Angel Campos
Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare,
M.S., Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Associate Dean, Former Director of the Graduate Program and Current Director of the Student-Community Development Specialization.
CV: attached
Send mail to: angel.campos@sunysb.edu

Jonathan Cohen
Writer-in-residence, Dept. of Surgery, Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook
American Literature (Early/Modern); Creative Writing (Poetry/Translation); Latin American Poetry in Translation (Modern); Literary Translation (History/Theory).
CV: http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/jc.html
Send mail to: cohen@surg.som.sunysb.edu

Helen Cooper
Associate Professor /Graduate Director, Dept. of English, Ph.D., Rutgers University
19thC British and Colonial Studies; Caribbean Literature; Feminist and Post-Colonial Theory; Cultural Studies.
CV: attached
Send mail to: hcooper@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Themis Chronopoulos
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ph.D., Brown University
U.S. Urban History, Race and Ethnicity, Popular Culture, Public Policy, World Cities.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/Chronopouloscv.htm
Send mail to: Themis.Chronopoulos@stonybrook.edu

Joanne Davila
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research interests are not specific to Latin American or Caribbean issues, but very interested in the recruitment, support, advancement, and retention of Latino students, scholars, and faculty.
CV: attached
Send mail to: joanne.davila@stonybrook.edu

Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Lou Charnon-Deutsch's earliest training was in the School of Chicago Criticism that strongly influenced her first book, a structuralist study of the artistic short story of 19th century Spain. By the mid-eighties, however, she broadened her interests to include applied feminist theory and psychoanalytic theory. Her following two books examined issues of gender and representation both in well-known 19th century male authored texts, and in the fiction of both canonical and non-canonical women writers. More recently, she has been working on systems of representation in popular Spanish culture, especially the illustrated Spanish periodicals that are the subject of her most recent book. At present, using an approach that combines cultural anthropology, materialist feminism, and psychoanalytic theory, she is examining the construction of the imaginary European Gypsy. She has served as President of Feministas Unidas (1992-1994) and is on the MLA Executive Committee of the Division on Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature (1997-2001). At Stony Brook, she is an affiliate of Women's Studies and of Comparative Literature.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/lou.htm
Send mail to: ldeutsch@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Margarita Espada-Santos
Theater Department, M.F.A., Stony Brook University
CV: attached
Send mail to: teatroyerbabruja@yahoo.com

Paul Firbas
Associate Professor in Hispanic Languages and Literature. Ph. D. Princeton University, 2001
My reseach field is the colonial period in South America, particularly epic poetry, historiography and geography. I am particularly interested in the complex processes of text production and circulation within the Andean colonial Societies; and in 20th century Peruvian discurses on the colonial past.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/PFirbasCV.pdf
Email: paul.firbas@stonybrook.edu

Daniela Flesler
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, Ph.D., Tulane University
20^th Century Peninsular Studies; Spanish Cultural Studies, Spain and its Arab past, Immigration in Spain and Post-colonial theory.
Daniela Flesler is Assistant Professor of Spanish at SUNY Stony Brook with a
specialization in Contemporary Peninsular Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Tulane University in 2001. Her work focuses on issues of trans-nationalism and migration, national and regional identities, the rewriting of Spanish history, and Spanish Orientalism. She is especially interested in Spain's transnational relationships with North Africa and Latin America. Her book in progress, The Return of the Moor: Moroccan Immigration in Contemporary Spain, analyzes Spanish responses to Moroccan immigration through close readings of film, literature, the media, and social performances such as popular festivals. It argues that current Spanish social reactions and cultural productions about Moroccans reveal the acute tensions inherent to Spain's liminal position between Europe and Africa. She has published essays in Revista de
Estudios Hispánicos, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Dieciocho and Crítica Hispánica.
C.V. http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/daniela.htm
Send mail to: dflesler@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Georges Fouron
Associate Professor, Social Sciences, Ed.D., Columbia University
Joint appointment with Africana Studies; Social studies education; bilingual education; identity; Haiti; immigrants’ experience in America; transnationalism.
Send mail to: gefouron@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Barbara Frank
Associate Professor, Art History, Ph.D., Indiana University
Joint appointment with Africana Studies and Anthropology; African Art History, African Diaspora, Ancient Mesoamerica.
CV: attached
Send mail to: bfrank@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Karen Goldsteen
Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management and
Graduate Program in Public Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Ph.D., Columbia University School of Public Health - M.P.H.
CV: attached
Send mail to: karen.goldsteen@stonybrook.edu

Raymond L. Goldsteen
Director, Graduate Program in Public Health
Director, Center for Health Policy and Management
Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Dr.P.H., Columbia University
CV: attached
Send e-mail to: Raymond.Goldsteen@stonybrook.edu

Paul Gootenberg
Professor, History; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Modern Latin America, economic and political economy, the Andes and Mexico, new social science, history of drugs.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/gootenbergbiocv.htm
Send mail to: pgootenberg@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Catherine H. Graham
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution,
Ph.D., University of Missouri - St. Louis
My research is in two main areas: empirical work focused on landscape and behavioral ecology, with an emphasis on human-altered landscapes and bioinformatics/geographic information systems (GIS) modeling to examine how current and historical environmental factors affect patterns of species distribution. At a landscape scale I study how factors at different spatial scales, landscape- and local-level, influence patterns of habitat use by animals. Particularly, I am interested in bridging the gap between landscape and behavioral ecologists, who generally work at completely different scales. This disparity has resulted in a lack of empirical landscape-oriented behavioral information with which to develop a broad perspective on fragmentation effects. At a regional scale I am integrating museum data, environmental GIS layers, distributional niche modeling (methods to predict how species are distributed) and phylogenetic information (information on relatedness among species) to better understand processes that may have led to current species distribution patterns. My focus is on tropical systems and I am currently collaborating with researchers from Ecuador and Colombia. In the past I have also collaborated with researchers from Mexico.
CV: attached
Send mail to: cgraham@life.bio.sunysb.edu

E. Anthony Hurley
Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Joint appointment with European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Francophone literature of the Caribbean and Africa; Caribbean poetics; Afro-Caribbean culture; Caribbean American literature.
CV: attached
Send mail to: ahurley@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Thomas Klubock
Associate Professor, History, Ph.D., Yale University
Twentieth-century Latin American history with a focus on labor, women and gender, and environment. Currently working on a social and environmental history of Chile’s southern frontier. This project examines class and ethnic relations and ecological change in Chile’s southern forests. My first book was a history of labor and gender in Chile’s copper mines. I teach classes on the history of modern South America and on labor, social movements, and women and gender in Latin America.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/Klubock.htm
Send mail to: tklubock@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Brooke Larson
Professor, History, Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor Larson’s current research examines Colonial, Ethnicity, Peasantry, Andes ideals, and practices of popular (particularly "Indian") education in Bolivia during the first decades of the twentieth century. It highlights the rise of a radical popular pedagogy among rural Aymara communities, which eventually forced their claims for land, schools, and citizenship rights into the center of Bolivian nationalist politics.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/larson.htm
Send mail to: blarson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Manuel Lerdau
Professor, Ecology and Evolution Department, Ph. D., Stanford University
Manuel Lerdau is an organismal ecologist with interests in both the ecosystem implications of physiological processes and the evolutionary underpinnings of these processes. His research centers around fundamental questions of resource acquisition and allocation in plants and touches upon such topics as herbivory and tri-trophic interactions, atmospheric chemistry and air pollution, community and ecosystem impacts of biological invasions, and organismal controls over nutrient cycling. He is also very interested in the development and application of analytical technologies in addressing ecological questions. He and his Lab Group conduct research in both Mid-Atlantic and Western United States as well as in Costa Rica. He combines experimental and observational research and collaborates with modelers in the development of process-based ecosystem models. His research currently centers around questions regarding ecological and phylogenetic regulation of nutrient cycling, trace gas exchange between plants and the atmosphere, and biological invasions. His newest project involves using Positron Emission Tomography to study carbon and water movement in plants.
Send mail to: mailto:manuel.lerdau@sunysb.edu
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/mlerdau

Marci Lobel
Associate Professor, Psychology, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Stress, coping, and social comparison processes; Hispanic women.
CV: attached
Send mail to: mlobel@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu

Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Main interest is in the cross-cultural relationship among US and Latin America; especially on the role narrative fictions (films and novels) play in the workings of hemispheric hegemony. Worked extensively in Argentinean film and novels, always from the point of view of their significance as aesthetic products that both represent and promote particular forms of community relations. This work has expanded into a comparative study of the way film and its industrial process has evolved in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina and their dialogical relationship with Hollywood. My background is in comparative literature of North and Latin America, and my approach is grounded in Cultural Studies theory. My work on fictions of the Americas is based on close textual analysis in search of the mechanisms that give human content to abstract discourses of class, race, gender and nationality.
C.V. http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/adrian.htm
Send mail to: aperezmelgosa@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Eduardo Mendieta
Associate Professor, Philosophy, Ph.D., New School for Social Research
20th-century Latin American philosophy, liberation philosophy, post-colonial theory, critical theory, globalization and global ethics. He is currently editing a book, with Enrique Dussel, on contemporary Latin American philosophical thought.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/emendieta/
Send mail to: emendieta@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Frederick J. Moehn
Assistant Professor of Music, Ph.D. New York University
Brazilian music and Brazilian cultural history; the inter-relations between race, class, gender and nation in Brazilian music-making. Latin American music and popular culture; Latin American cultural studies; cultural policy issues; music technologies and music production aesthetics.
CV: http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/music.nsf/pages/moehn
Send mail to: fmoehn@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Timothy Moran
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Professor Moran researches and writes on historical global inequalities, including the distribution of income between and within countries, gender inequality, and socio-economic development. Current projects include: a quantitative analysis of the wealth and poverty of nations since 1820; a comparative review (and new synthesis of) the trends and explanations of income inequality within nations since the 1950s; an investigation into the effects of women’s labor force participation on the distribution of income between households; a methodological exploration into “modeling” the world-economy using polynomial regression techniques.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/sociology/
Send mail to: tpmoran@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Francisco Ordóñez
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature. Ph.D. Graduate Center of the City of New York, 1997
My research as you can see from my CV centers on linguistics. I am enrolled in a project that involves varieties of Spanish spoken in the Caribbean and Latin America.
CV: http://ws.cc.stonybrook.edu/hispanic/facultycv/paco.htm
Email: fordonez@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Assistant Professor, English Department, Ph.D. Brown University
African-American and Caribbean literature; Poetry; Poetics.
CV: attached
Send mail to: Rowan.Phillips@stonybrook.edu

Joaquín Martínez Pizarro
Professor, English Department, Ph.D. Harvard University
Old English and Old Norse; Medieval Latin; early medieval narrative; historiography as literature.
CV: attached
Send mail to: jmpizarro@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Rachel Price
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hispanic Languages & Literature. Ph.D. Duke University, 2007
Rachel Price works on 19th and 20th century circum-Atlantic and particularly Cuban literature, as well as comparative imperial histories, poetics, and critical theory. She is currently working on a study of Atlantic literatures, aesthetic and philosophical responses to the shift from European empire to emergent US hegemony and globalization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She has also written on the relations between visual poetry (emblems; concrete poetry) and empire, and on animals and genre, and is beginning work on a genealogy of Cuban nostalgia.
CV: http://www.stonybrook.edu/hispanic/facultycv/RPriceCV.pdf
Email: rlprice@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Malcolm Read
Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, Ph.D., University of Wales
Spanish Golden-Age Literature and Linguistics; Marxist and psychoanalytic literary criticism.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/malcolm.htm
Send mail to: mread@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Silvio Rendon
Assistant Professor, Economics Department. Ph.D. NYU, 1997
Areas of interest are Labor Markets, International Migration and Remittances Mexico-US, Economic Growth.
CV: http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~srendon/CVrendon.htm
Email:srendon@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

Victoriano Roncero-López
Professor, Hispanic Languages & Literature
Ph.D. 1987, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ph.D. 1988, University of Illinois
Spanish Golden Age Literature, his research and published papers focus on humanist issues, historiography, the Picaresque novel, Petrarchist poetry, Bufoonesque literature, and Autos Sacramentales. He has edited works from medieval Cancionero poetry, Fernando de Herrera, Quevedo, Carlos García, and Calderón. His recent study on humanism examines humanist trends in 16th- and 17th-century Europe through the eyes of Quevedo with a philological approach.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/victor.htm
Send mail to: roncero@optonline.net

Ian Roxborough
Professor, Sociology, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Joint appointment with History Department. His interests are in processes of large-scale social and political change. His Ph.D. dissertation examined peasant political mobilization during the Allende government in Chile (1970-73.) He then worked on urban labor movements, particularly in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, and on revolutions and political stability, and in international political economy. He is the author of Labor and Politics in Mexico, and of the chapter on the labor movement in the Cambridge History of Latin America. His current research examines U.S. military policy with regard to Latin America, part of a larger project on American military strategy since the end of the Cold War.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/sociology/faculty/Roxborough/cv7.pdf
Send mail to: iroxborough@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Lilia Delfina Ruiz-Debbe
Coordinator of the Language Program, Hispanic Languages and Literature, Ph.D., University of Geneva
Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. With a strong foundation in the cognitive epistemology of Piaget at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Lilia Ruiz-Debbe did her first research on the processes of language structures. At present, her research involves Interlanguage Studies and Second Language Acquisition and its implications for methodology in classroom situations. The theoretical framework of this research is based on generative approaches to language acquisition thought to be constrained by principles of universal grammar. Topics include questions of learnability, markedness, parameterization, and the role of negative evidence.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/lilia.htm
Send mail to: lruizdebbe@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy
Associate Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
The general focus of my research group is on environmental geoscience. We explore the interactions among the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere and anthroposphere. The primary research effort of my group involves environmental aspects of geochemistry, but we also carry out inter and trans-disciplinary research to solve complex environmental problems.
CV: attached
Send mail to: ssanudo@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Madeline del Toro Cherney
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
Spring 2007 – Present ~ Courses taught: ANT 401: Problems in Social Cultural Anthropology, ANT 310: Ethnography of Mesoamerica, ANT 367: Male and Female
My anthropological focus is based on Latin American social concerns and how the anthropological figures into Latin American identity and cultural dynamics. The courses I teach at Stony Brook are of a broad range but all ultimately focus on Latin American society within the current global condition.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/anthro/staff/mcherney.shtml
E-mail: mcherney@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

José Elías-Ulloa
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Languages & Literature, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Jose Elias-Ulloa is a formal linguist, whose specialization is phonology. His main interest is the study of indigenous languages of the Americas. His specialization is on the study Amazonian languages spoken in Peru (in particular, languages that belong to the Pano linguistic family). He’s interested in their grammatical (phonological) characteristics and how they are affected by the contact with Spanish as well what types of Spanish emerge from that contact.
CV: attached
Send mail to: joselias@rci.rutgers.edu

Antonio Vera-León
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages & Literature, Ph.D., Princeton University
Antonio Vera-León's research is concerned with the 19th-century Caribbean, especially Cuba, and the interrelation between visual culture and literature in 20th-century Latin America. Much of Vera-León's research on the 19th century is mainly concerned with the formation of a "national" narrative tradition within a colonial situation. On the 20th century, his work focuses on the narrative resources of painting and their connection to literary narrative.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/antonio.htm
Send mail to: averaleon@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Kathleen Vernon
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Since receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago,
Kathleen Vernon has worked in both her teaching and research to develop an interdisciplinary and broadly contextual approach to the study of modern Hispanic literature and culture. In her published work, as well as in her undergraduate and graduate courses, she has analyzed the role of different forms of cultural expression in the context of various periods of Spanish history (the Republic, the Spanish Civil War, Francoism, and the Post-Franco era), especially as related to questions of gender, ethnicity, and national identity. Over the last ten years, she has published widely on various aspects of Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present. Her current research projects involve the study of cross-national relations among the cinemas of Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. during the "Golden Age" of the 1930s and 1940s. Vernon is also an affiliated faculty member of Women's Studies and is currently Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/hispanic/facultycv/katie.htm
Send mail to: kvernon@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Carlos M. Vidal
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare, M.S.W., SUNY-Stony Brook,
D.S.W., Fordham University
Associate Dean for Development; Joint appointment with Africana Studies; interests are Hispanic families, culture diversity, social movements and social policy.
CV: attached
Send mail to: carlos.vidal@sunysb.edu

Tracey Walters
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, Ph.D., Howard University
African American Literature, Caribbean Literature, African Literature, Pan-African Literature, Black British Literature and Culture, 20th century American and British Literature, journalism.
CV: attached
Send mail to: twalters@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Kathleen Wilson
Associate Professor, History, Ph.D., Yale University
My Latin American and Caribbean interests are in Caribbean history, and especially gender, post-colonial theory, race and the history of performance in the British West Indies. My current book (in press: The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the 18^th Century (London, Routledge, 2002) includes a study of the fate of an English courtesan who emigrates to Jamaica and becomes Mistress of the Revels there; my next book, on colonial theatre, will examine local and transatlantic contexts of Jamaican social and theatrical performance and compare it to theatre and society in other British colonial sites.
CV: http://www.sunysb.edu/history/faculty/facultybio/Wilsoncv.htm
Send mail to: kawilson@notes.cc.sunysb.edu