Bolivia

Daniel Brinks

Government, Law

Daniel Brinks' research is on the role of the law and courts in supporting democratic rights. Over the years, he has addressed the use of courts and law to enforce social and economic rights in the developing world, the development of the rule of law and new constitutional orders in Latin America, the judicial response to police violence in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, judicial independence, and the role of informal norms in the legal order.

Paola Canova

Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Paola Canova conducts research among indigenous peoples of Paraguay, mainly in the Gran Chaco region. She also conducts research among among rural mestizo communities, and Mennonite migrants to the region. Her research interests include gender and sexuality, indigeneity, political ecology and the state.

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante

Spanish & Portuguese

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante specializes in indigenous media and cultures in the Americas, with a focus on indigeneity, sound poetics and land politics; contemporary Mapuche culture and politics; and revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures; indigenous social movements; and environmental studies. He is also interested in the intersections between economics, literature, and cultural imagination in modern and contemporary Latin America.

Elizabeth Catlos

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Elizabeth Catlos focuses on developing and applying petrochemical and geochemical techniques to the study of lithosphere dynamics and models for heat, mass, and fluid flow along major fault systems. She is interested in applying new approaches in mineral equilibria to estimate environmental conditions during dynamic recrystallization. She specializes in accessory mineral geochronology and developing techniques for isotopic microanalysis.

Alan Covey

Anthropology

Alan Covey's research addresses the development and organization of ancient empires, with particular focus on the Incas of Andean South America. He conducts archaeological surveys and excavations to collect data on the rise and fall of the Incas, and works extensively in archives in Peru and Europe to construct a richer understanding of the impact of early modern European expansion in the Andean world.

Megan Crowhurst

Linguistics, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Megan Crowhurst's research interests include psycholinguistics (speech perception) and linguistic rhythm.

Ariel Dulitzky

Law, Human Rights and Justice, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Jewish Studies

Ariel Dulitzky is a leading expert in human rights, particularly in Latin America and the United Nations and regional (particularly the inter-American) human rights system and enforced disappearances. Dulitzky has published extensively on human rights, the inter-American human rights system, racial discrimination, indigenous rights, the rule of law in Latin America, enforced disappearances, and sports and human rights.

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.

Brian Horton

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Brian Horton's research focuses on sedimentary basin development and mountain building processes. He utilizes sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology, structural geology, and geochemistry to understand modern and ancient sedimentation, river drainage patterns, sediment provenance, and orogenesis.

Raul Madrid

Government, Latin American Studies

Raul Madrid specializes in Latin American politics, democracy studies, comparative ethnic politics, and comparative social policy.

Desiree Pallais-Downing

Curriculum and Instruction

Desiree Pallais-Downing's research addresses the linguistic and pedagogical contributions of bilingual teacher candidates as part of creating and teaching with informational texts that incorporate the background knowledge and experiences of Latinos in the US. Pallais-Downing is also involved in research and publication initiatives with international scholars from a variety of backgrounds who are associated with the Literacy Research Association.

Sergio Romero

Spanish & Portuguese, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Sergio Romero specializes in linguistic anthropology, variationist sociolinguistics, language contact, Mesoamerican philology, and Mayan languages Nahuatl and Aymara. His primary research project examines Christian translation in the Mayan highlands and Mayan migration to the U.S.

Sandro Sessarego

Spanish & Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Sandro Sessarego works in contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax. He studies Afro-Latino Vernaculars of the Americas (ALVA), languages in Latin America developed from contact of African languages, Spanish and Portuguese in colonial times. His research aims at examining the status of unofficial languages to understand how language policy impact minority groups, with a focus on speakers of ALVA, creoles, indigenous languages, etc.

Timothy Shanahan

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Timothy Shanahan’s research group uses a combination of geochemical and stable isotopic proxy reconstructions of past climate along with climate model simulations to understand past and future climate change. The focus is the use of organic geochemical and stable isotopic techniques applied to marine, lacustrine and terrestrial sediment records to understand changes on time scales ranging from interannual to millennial, and orbital to tectonic.

Keith Simon

Architecture

Keith Simon is an expert in building enclosure technology. His work addresses the critical and often unmet need for ensuring and improving building performance, resilience, and durability by guiding design teams, educating future architects, and facilitating interdisciplinary exchange.

Enzo Vasquez Toral

Theatre and Dance, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Native American and Indigenous Studies, LGBTQ Studies

Enzo Vasquez Toral is a Peruvian performer, scholar and educator whose expertise lies in the intersection of theatre and performance studies, queer and trans* studies and Indigenous studies in Latin/x America. As a theorist, practitioner and ethnographer, he engages with a transdisciplinary and decolonizing approach to research that centers performance as a site of alternative worldmaking.

Kurt Weyland

Government

Kurt Weyland's research focuses on the democratization and waves of regime change in Latin America and Europe, along with market reform, social policy, policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America. Weyland draws on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela.

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