Haiti

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Michael Hole

Medicine

Michael Hole is a physician, professor, entrepreneur and military officer. He teaches public policy, community engagement and entrepreneurship at The University of Texas at Austin and is involved with The Impact Factory, a social-entrepreneurship and community-service hub.

Samantha Pinto

English, African and African Diaspora Studies

Samantha Pinto's research explores the discourses of race, gender, and human rights along with science in the African American and African Diaspora culture.

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.

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.

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.

Jennifer Wilks

English, African and African Diaspora Studies

Jennifer Wilks' research focuses on tracing the evolution of the Carmen figure from its original 19th-century incarnations to contemporary adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. Wilks has also written extensively about the role of gender in African American and Francophone Caribbean modernisms.

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