Guatemala

Timothy Beach

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

Tim Beach's research interests include geoarchaeology, soils, climate change, wetlands, climate history, geomorphology, and paleoenvironments of the Maya world and Mediterranean. He has conducted field research in the Corn Belt of the U.S., Belize, Colombia, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Syria, and Turkey.

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.

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.

Keffrelyn Brown

Curriculum and Instruction, African and African Diaspora Studies, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Keffrelyn Brown's research focuses on the sociocultural knowledge of race in teaching and curriculum, critical multicultural teacher education, and the educational discourses and intellectual thought related to African Americans and their educational experiences in the U.S.

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.

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.

Noah De Lissovoy

Curriculum and Instruction

Noah De Lissovoy's research focuses on critical and emancipatory approaches to pedagogy, curriculum, and cultural studies. He is particularly interested in problems posed for educators by globalization, the intersecting effects of race, class and capital in schools and society, developing the theoretical resources for social movements, and extending and rethinking the traditions of critical pedagogy and philosophy.

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.

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.

Toni Falbo

Educational Psychology, Sociology

Toni Falbo uses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address problems in education and health. She is an internationally recognized expert on only children, including their academic, social, emotional, and health outcomes. Falbo is also an expert on conducting cross-cultural research and research aimed at improving the education of ethnic minorities in the U.S.

Marilyn Felkner

Public Health

Marilyn Felkner is a clinical assistant professor within the public health program.

Michael Findley

Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Michael Findley's research addresses civil wars, terrorism, and development. Findley uses field experiments, statistical and computational models, and interviews.

John Fremgen

Jazz Studies, Music Performance

John Fremgen's is a trained bassist in both classical and jazz styles. He has performed, taught, and conducted around the world.

Thomas Garrison

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

Thomas Garrison’s research interests include remote sensing, Maya civilization, landscape archaeology, Mesoamerican archaeology, and geographic information systems.

Thomas Garza

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Thomas Garza's research interests include a longitudinal study of Russian youth culture, comparative work on masculinity in contemporary Russia and Mexico, the vampire myth in Slavic cultures, Russian language teaching methodology, and applied linguistics.

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.

Julia Guernsey

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

Julia Guernsey's research and publications focus on the Middle and Late Pre-classic periods in ancient Mesoamerica, in particular on the dynamics of urbanism and social and political identity. Guernsey also continues to participate on the La Blanca Archaeological Project, which is exploring this large site that dominated the Pacific coastal and piedmont region of Guatemala during the Middle Pre-classic period.

Daniel Law

Linguistics, Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Daniel Law is interested in historical linguistics, language contact, and Mayan languages and writing systems.

Fernando Llanos

Linguistics

Fernando Llanos is interested in the neural processing of speech categories by monolinguals, bilinguals, and second-language learners. He investigates these topics using behavioral methods, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and machine learning. He aims to develop computational and neurobiologically-informed models to test theoretical predictions on speech processing, improve the acquisition of new languages, and inform clinical treatments.

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.

Mallory Matsumoto

Religious Studies, Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Mallory Matsumoto studies Mesoamerican religions with a focus on Maya archaeology, writing, and language.

Robyn Metcalfe

Human Ecology, Nutritional Sciences

Robyn Metcalfe studies about the global food system, food systems design, and the built-environment.

Juan Miró

Architecture, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Juan Miró's research explores the connections between architectural design, place-making, nature, and the relevance of history.

Daniel Nielson

Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Daniel Nielson's research focuses on international development, foreign aid, the control of corruption, and international organization. He specializes in the use of transnational field experiments to learn about causal effects in political economy.

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.

Heath Prince

Public Affairs

Heath Prince is a research scientist and has written, published, and presented extensively on domestic and international employment, training programs and policies, post-secondary education, and poverty reduction.

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.

Carlos Ramos

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

Carlos Ramos' major interests are in the field of hydro-geomorphology, or the study of the interactions among humans, land forms, land-shaping processes, and both surface and near-surface hydrologic processes from the perspective of natural hazards, soil/water/coral reef conservation, and watershed management.

Iyaxel Ren

Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Iyaxel Ren's research interests include postclassic Mayan archaeology, postclassic Mesoamerica, Mayan epigraphy, Mayan iconography, Mesoamerica oral and historical tradition, and historical memory in Guatemala.

Néstor Rodríguez

Sociology

Nestor Rodriguez’s research focuses on Guatemalan migration, U.S. deportations to Mexico and Central America, the unauthorized migration of unaccompanied minors, evolving relations between Latinos and African Americans/Asian Americans, and ethical and human rights issues of border enforcement.

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.

Astrid Runggaldier

Art and Art History

Astrid Runggaldier is a Mesoamericanist interested in Maya culture and in anthropological approaches to architecture, households, and built environments in the context of the ancient civilizations of the Americas.

David Stuart

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

David Stuart's research includes the traditional cultures of Mesoamerica with a focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of ancient Maya civilization, decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing, and the art and epigraphy at Copan (Honduras), Palenque (Mexico), Piedras Negras, La Corona, and San Bartolo (Guatemala).

Circe Sturm

Anthropology, Native American and Indigenous Studies, French and Italian

Circe Sturm's research interests include anthropological studies of race, sovereignty, and citizenship; comparative and settler colonialisms; race, nationalism, and culture; race and indigeneity; identity politics; dominance, resistance and subjectivity; race, class and gender systems; environmental movements and gender within the U.S., Guatemala, and Italy.

Richard Taylor

Public Health, Human Ecology

Richard Taylor is a clinical assistant professor who focuses his teaching and research on public health, global health, and epidemiology.

Luis Urrieta

Curriculum and Instruction, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies

Luis Urrieta's research focuses on cultural and racial identities, agency as social and cultural practices, social movements and collective action related to education, and learning in family and community contexts. He is interested in Chicanx, Latinx, and indigenous cultures and identities, activism as a social practice in education, oral and narrative traditions in research, and indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies.

Fred Valdez

Anthropology

Fred Valdez's research focuses on the history of archaeological investigations in Central America, cultural continuity and transition in Latin America and the American Southwest, and Mesoamerican prehistory. His interests include material culture such as ceramic and lithic technologies, settlement patterns and small site studies, and the early emergence of social and political complexity.

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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