Belize

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Timothy Beach

Geography and the Environment, Environmental Science Institute, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Tim Beach's research interests include geoarchaeology, soils, climate change, wetlands, climate history, geomorphology, and paleoenvironments of the Maya world and Mediterranean. He has conducted field research in the Corn Belt of the U.S., Belize, Colombia, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Syria, and Turkey.

Donna De Cesare

Journalism and Media, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Donna De Cesare is an author, documentary photographer and educator known for covering the spread of U.S. gangs in Central America.

Anthony Di Fiore

Anthropology

Anthony Di Fiore conducts long-term behavioral and ecological field research on several species in the primate community of Amazonian Ecuador. He investigates the ways in which ecological conditions (such as the abundance and distribution of food resources) and the strategies of conspecifics together shape primate behavior and social relationships and ultimately determine the various kinds of primate societies.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.

Edmund Gordon

African and African Diaspora Studies

Edmund Gordon's teaching and research interests include culture and power in the African Diaspora, gender studies (particularly Black males), critical race theory, race education, and the racial economy of space and resources.

Kenneth Greene

Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Kenneth Greene's research focuses on authoritarian regimes and political competition in new democracies, with a particular emphasis on Mexico.

Julia Guernsey

Art and Art History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Julia Guernsey's research and publications focus on the Middle and Late Pre-classic periods in ancient Mesoamerica, in particular on the dynamics of urbanism and social and political identity. Guernsey also continues to participate on the La Blanca Archaeological Project, which is exploring this large site that dominated the Pacific coastal and piedmont region of Guatemala during the Middle Pre-classic period.

Sheryl Luzzader-Beach

Geography and the Environment, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Sheryl Luzzader-Beach specializes in physical geography, hydrology and geomorphology, water chemistry, geoarchaeology, geostatistics, and gender, science and human rights.

Nicole Ramsey

Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Nicole Ramsey's scholarship draws on the nuanced complexities and multiplicities of Blackness in the Americas, with a particular focus on Central America and the Circum-Caribbean as a diasporic site of transmigration. Her research addresses the evolving intersection of Black Studies, Caribbean, and Cultural Studies by exploring Belize as a site of conceiving nation and belonging in Central America and the Central American diaspora.

Astrid Runggaldier

Art and Art History

Astrid Runggaldier is a Mesoamericanist interested in Maya culture and in anthropological approaches to architecture, households, and built environments in the context of the ancient civilizations of the Americas.

Amy Thompson

Geography and the Environment, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Amy Thompson uses transdisciplinary approaches of geospatial methods with traditional archaeological techniques to assess wealth inequality, differential access to resources, and community formation among the ancient and modern Maya communities. With the help of geographic information systems, she models smaller social communities of the past, such as neighborhoods and districts that existed within ancient cities.

Fred Valdez

Anthropology

Fred Valdez's research focuses on the history of archaeological investigations in Central America, cultural continuity and transition in Latin America and the American Southwest, and Mesoamerican prehistory. His interests include material culture such as ceramic and lithic technologies, settlement patterns and small site studies, and the early emergence of social and political complexity.

Abigail Weitzman

Sociology, Latin American Studies

Abigail Weitzman is a sociologist with a particular interest in gendered family dynamics and the social psychology of demographic processes. Weitzman studies diversity in young women's sexual and fertility desires, how and why such desires evolve during the transition to adulthood, and their influence on young women's reproductive behaviors. Her research explores how different types of sexual relationships emerge and progress among young adults.

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