Costa Rica

Zoltan Barany

Government

Zoltan Barany is chiefly interested in military politics and democratization worldwide. Barany's recent field research has focused on demilitarized countries (and, for comparative purposes, states nearby that maintain armed forces).

Aileen Bumphus

Educational Leadership and Policy

Aileen Bumphus is an educational professional with a research focus on servant leadership, emotionally intelligent and resilient leadership.

Ruth Buskirk

Molecular Biosciences

Ruth Buskirk's research on behavior and physiology includes work of orb-weaving spiders, dragonflies, baboons, and unusual animal behavior before earthquakes.

Jane Champion

Nursing

Jane Champion is a researcher in the area of health promotion and risk reduction of urban and rural ethnic minority women and adolescents. Her clinical research focuses on STI/HIV, substance use, adolescent and women’s health, pregnancy and interpersonal violence. She conducts multilevel, multi-component primary care-based interventions with rural and urban low-income ethnic minority populations to improve their sexual and general health.

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.

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.

Peter Flemings

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Peter Flemings studies fluid pressure and leads an industry-supported research consortium that combines geomechanical modeling, experimental analysis, and field study to study pore pressure and fluid flow in basins. In addition, his research group studies methanes hydrates by simulating them in the lab and modeling their formation, and also studies the permeability and deformation of mudstones.

Alexandra Garcia

Nursing

Alexandra Garcia's research focuses on the social, cultural, and economic influences on health and equity, diabetes self-management and symptom experience of Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes.

Lawrence Gilbert

Integrative Biology

Lawrence Gilbert's research ranges from the analysis of coevolved traits of insects and plants to experimental population dynamics and developmental genetics of mimetic color patterns in Heliconius butterflies. Gilbert is also interested in applying findings of basic evolutionary ecology to conservation of diversity and better management to agroecosystems.

Edgar Gómez-Cruz

Information, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Edgar Gómez-Cruz has published widely on several topics relating to digital and algorithmic culture in top journals, particularly in the areas of material visual practices, digital ethnography, and critical approaches to digital technologies. His research focuses on the datafication and automation of everyday life in the Latin America, using a decolonizing approach.

Celeste González de Bustamante

Journalism and Media

Celeste González de Bustamante's research focuses on historical and contemporary issues related to media in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America. She also is advancing research about Filipina/o/x American communities and media in the 20th-century.

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.

Nancy Guillet

Nursing

Nancy Guillet's professional interest is focused in community health programs, and works closely with underserved Latino populations to promote health, disease prevention and health education.

Debra Hansen

Integrative Biology, Biology Instructional Office

Debra Hansen is an evolutionary botanist who studies how plants are related to one another, and how various traits have evolved in certain lineages.

Sharon Herzka

Marine Science

Sharon Herzka conducts research on physical and biogeochemical process that produce primary and secondary production Loop Current mesoscale eddies in the Gulf of Mexico, distribution of yellowfin tuna, artisanal fishing gleet targeting yellowtail in Los Angeles Bay and in the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.

Mónica Jiménez

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

Mónica Jiménez's teaching and research explores the intersections of law, race and nationalism in U.S. empire building in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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.

Olivia Mena

Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Olivia Mena's research interests include U.S.-Mexico borderlands, sociology, race and ethnicity, post-colonial studies, border theory, border walls, neoliberalism, nationalism, citizenship, and sovereignty.

Pablo Montero-Zamora

Kinesiology and Health Education

Pablo Montero-Zamora's research focuses on the influence of context, parents, and peers on Latino youth substance use and mental health. He studies how factors such as cultural stressors, migration, and social norms shape family dynamics, resulting in youth behaviors. His work aims to improve the development, implementation, and evaluation of culturally adapted interventions tailored to serve Latino families in the U.S. and Latin America.

Ulrich Mueller

Integrative Biology

Ulrich Mueller studies molecular ecology of organismal interactions. His research focuses currently on two projects: (a) population biology of fungus-growing ants, their cultivated fungi, and associated microbial mutualists; (b) microbiome breeding (artificial selection on microbiomes) to improve health of crop plants and bees.

Megan Raby

History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Megan Raby's work focuses on the transnational connections of ecology and environmental science in the U.S. and Latin America in the 20th-century.

Alfonso Rojas-Alvarez

Public Affairs

Alfonso Rojas-Alvarez is a senior data scientist and researcher on the intersection between environmental economics and public health outcomes.

Ana Todd

Nursing

Ana Todd's research focuses on health promotion and disability, including mammography screening and women with chronic disabling conditions.

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.

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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