Cuba

Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez

Spanish & Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies

Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez's research interests center on Latin American and Caribbean literature and cultures, Luso-Brazilian literature and cultures (1800s to present), the relationships between literature, ethnographic and sociological discourses in Latin America, Afro-Diasporic literature and cultures, and critical discourses of race, gender and sexuality in colonial and postcolonial societies.

Mary Beltrán

Radio-Television-Film, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Mexican American & Latina/o Studies

Mary Beltrán specializes in ethnic diversity and the U.S. media industries, U.S. television and film history, mixed race and media culture, and feminist media studies, with emphasis on U.S. Latina and Latino representation and media authorship.

Paul Bonin Rodriguez

Theatre and Dance, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Paul Bonin Rodriguez studies contemporary arts policies and infrastructure, entrepreneurship, network-based organizing and institutional support, as well as theatre and performance. His research and teaching focus on the systems of support and training for arts professionals and follows from his extensive career as a producing artist and non-profit administrator.

Danielle Clealand

Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies

Danielle Clealand’s research examines comparative racial politics, group consciousness, black public opinion, and racial inequality, with a focus on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and the U.S. using an interdisciplinary approach with mixed methods.

Janet Davis

American Studies, History

Janet Davis specializes in U.S. cultural and social history, popular culture, and social thought, with an extended interest in animal studies, women's and gender history, U.S. social movements, and modern South Asia.

Zachary Elkins

Government

Zachary Elkins’ research focuses on issues of democracy, institutional reform, research methods, and national identity, with an emphasis on cases in Latin America. Much of his research is on the origins and consequences of national constitutions.

Deana Erdner

Marine Science

Deana Erdner's lab focuses on the genetics of bloom-forming algae, particularly toxic dinoflagellates.

George Flaherty

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

George Flaherty’s research and teaching focuses primarily on modern and contemporary art, architecture, and film, focusing on Mexico, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and their diasporas in the United States. He is also interested in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx studies, postcolonial and subaltern studies, and the urban humanities.

Kenneth Flamm

Public Affairs, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Kenneth Flamm is an applied microeconomist and expert on the economics of the semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries.

Lyndon Gill

African and African Diaspora Studies

Lyndon Gill's research interests focus on queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity, and community building.

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.

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.

Sean Gulick

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics

Sean Gulick focuses on geophysical imaging at nested resolutions and scientific drilling to examine impact cratering, tectonic processes, climate interactions, catastrophism in the geologic record, and planetary habitability. Current foci are the Chicxulub K-Pg impact and terrestrial craters, impact hydrothermal systems and planetary habitability, Lunar/Martian geophysics, tectonic hazards, and hi-res imaging for sedimentary climate records.

Richard Huntley

Music Performance

Richard Huntley is a professor of percussion whose research includes Afro-Cuban folkloric and Lucumi music and batá drumming.

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.

Robin Moore

Musicology & Ethnomusicology, African and African Diaspora Studies

Robin Moore's primary research interests include music and nationalism, music curriculum reform, music and race relations, popular music study, socialist art aesthetics, the music of Cuba and Latin America, and university music curricula.

Raj Patel

Public Affairs, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Raj Patel is a research professor who studies the world food system and alternatives to it. He has testified about hunger and food sovereignty, and has written about food systems, economics, philosophy, politics, international development, and public health.

Lauren Pena

Spanish & Portuguese

Lauren Pena's research focuses on the social spaces of exclusion in Revolutionary Cuba and their depiction in contemporary film productions.

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.

César Salgado

Spanish & Portuguese

César Salgado researches and teaches on colonial and postcolonial New World baroque literature, including Cuban literary history, James Joyce, and Luso-Hispanic modernism. He also examines the politics of archival fashioning in Caribbean studies and contemporary literary theory on Cuba, Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries.

Cristina Soriano

History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Cristina Soriano’s research focuses on the analysis of dynamics of circulation of information, social networks, political mobilization, and public sphere in the Spanish Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions.

Susan Thomas

Music

Susan Thomas is a researcher of Cuban and Latin American music as well as popular music and media. She analyzes performative and mediatized manifestations of and reactions to transnationalism, migration and diaspora, as well as the musical intersections of gender, race, embodiment and performativity.

Julie Zuniga

Nursing

Julie Zuniga's area of research is self-management of chronic illnesses for underserved populations, with a focus on the impact of the social determinants of health.

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