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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.

Eugenio Arima

Geography and the Environment

Eugenio Arima's research aims to understand the motivations that drive humans to act upon and transform tropical landscapes and the impact of those changes on people and environments. He is studying how the growing demand for avocados in the U.S. has led to significant socio-environmental consequences in Mexico, where most of the supply comes from.

Javier Auyero

Sociology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Javier Auyero's main areas of research, writing, and teaching are urban marginality, political ethnography, and collective violence with a particular focus on Argentina.

Darlene Bhavnani

Medicine

Darlene Bhavnani's research interests include conducting research on infectious disease transmission, strengthening health and surveillance systems and the design and evaluation of public health interventions.

Joshua Busby

Public Affairs

Joshua Busby is the author of numerous studies on climate change, national security, and energy policy that have been published by peer-reviewed academic outlets and various think tanks.

Matthew Butler

History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Matthew Butler researches and writes about the history of modern Mexico, the history of Catholicism in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, the history of indigenous people, and Mexican agrarian history. More specifically, he is interested in the relationship between Catholicism, modernity, and forms of political liberty in Mexico. He is also developing a new project on the history of the Mexican bullfight.

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

History

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra's research demonstrates the deep formative role of "Latin America" to the colonial history of the U.S. and to the history of "Western" modernity as a whole, not just slavery, globalization, and capitalism but also science, abolitionism, and democracy.

David Cannatella

Integrative Biology

David Cannatella's research focuses on the higher-level phylogeny of amphibians, biodiversity of neotropical frogs, signal evolution in frog mating calls, behavioral ecology of poison frogs, and relationship of bioinformatics and systematics. Cannatella also studies the systematics and evolution of salamanders, birds and bird fossils, and in the past, lizards and snakes.

Ondine Chavoya

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

Ondine Chavoya is a specialist in Chicanx and Latinx art. Chavoya's curatorial projects have addressed issues of collaboration, experimentation, social justice, and archival practices in contemporary art.

Kelley Crews

Geography and the Environment

Kelley Crews specializes in geographic information science, remote sensing, land use/land cover change, human-environment interactions, environmental policy, and global tropics especially in Thailand and Andean South America.

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.

John Doggett

Management

John Doggett's work focuses on global competition, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and energy.

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 English

Biology

Peter English specializes in avian ecology and behavior, international conservation, and science education. English's area of research focuses on bird flocks in Amazonia.

Veit Erlmann

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Veit Erlmann is a cultural historian, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. His areas of interest include music and popular culture in South Africa and Indonesia, sound studies, and the anthropology of intellectual property law.

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.

David Heymann

Architecture

David Heymann specializes in the complex relationships of buildings and landscapes, from cultural to environmental; and the relationship of natural landscapes and sustainable construction.

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.

Aleksandra Jaeschke

Architecture

Aleksandra Jaeschke's interests include ecological science and thought; definitions and models for sustainability; environmental, social, and cultural implications of the use of greenhouses in agriculture, horticulture, and conservation; and the use of biogenic materials in architecture.

Timothy Keitt

Integrative Biology

Timothy Keitt's lab focuses on computational and quantitative ecology with an emphasis on ecological self-organization, macroecology/biogeography, and habitat connectivity. His research program uses modeling to scale-up microecological mechanisms related to individual traits and physical processes to predict macroecological outcomes, such as population persistence, community organization, ecosystem function, and climate change impacts.

Kara Kockelman

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Kara Kockelman's technical interests include integrated models of travel demand, vehicle ownership, land use, crash counts and severities, energy use, emissions, and trade. She also focuses on roadway design and pricing, urban systems simulations, urban planning, regional science and spatial econometrics, and connection between urban form and travel behaviors.

Fernanda Leite

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Fernanda Leite is an expert in construction engineering and project management. Her built environment research program sits at the interface of engineering and computing. Most of her work has been in building and infrastructure systems information modeling, collaboration and coordination technologies, sustainable systems, and circular economy in the built environment.

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.

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.

Gabriela Polit

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

Gabriela Polit's research interest is the exploration of fantasy in contemporary women's literary and film production. She analyzes how drive and grief operate in the creation of art.

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.

Scott Tinker

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Bureau of Economic Geology

Scott Tinker’s academic training and professional work experience are in carbonate stratigraphy and reservoir characterization. More recently, his research efforts are centered on the interface between global energy supply and demand, environmental impacts of energy, and economic drivers and scale of energy.

Jayme Walenta

Geography and the Environment

Jayme Walenta studies how economic institutions shape human-environment interactions. Broadly, she is concerned by how economic growth and environmental protection are made mutually compatible. Her research examines this forged compatibility as it relates to the business response to climate change.

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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