Dominican Republic

Magdalena Bennett

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Magdalena Bennett's research interests relate to developing and improving statistical methods for causal inference in observational and experimental studies. She also focuses on relevant policy questions in education, such as socioeconomic segregation and school choice.

Esther Calzada

Social Work, Mexican American and Latino/a Studies

Esther Calzada is a psychologist with expertise in parenting and early childhood development among ethnic minority, particularly Latinx, families. Her research aims to elucidate the mechanisms underlying inequalities based on race and ethnicity, recognizing mental health and achievement inequalities reflect complex, multi-factorial and dynamic pathways at all levels of a child’s ecological context.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Raymond Harshbarger

Surgery, Neurosurgery, Pediatrics

Raymond Harshbarger's clinical interests are in treating both adult and pediatric craniomaxillofacial  conditions, with specific interest in ear reconstruction, temporomandibular joint reconstruction, complex facial trauma and cranial reconstruction. He also maintains an interest in clinical and basic science research, conducting grant-funded research in the genetics of craniosynostosis.

Bjorn Sletto

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

Bjorn Sletto's research focuses on indigenous resource management, sustainable development, and environmental planning in Latin America. He is particularly interested in the dichotomies and tensions between local knowledge and traditional environmental management systems, and formal planning and management approaches.

Almeida Toribio

Spanish & Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies

Almeida Toribio is known for research in the area multilingual code-switching, where she has addressed morpho-syntactic, phonetic, and discursive-pragmatic mixing patterns among diverse populations. She also examines the speech of residents of rural areas of the Dominican Republic and their compatriots in established and new receiving communities in U.S. diasporic settings.

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