Nicaragua

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.

Laura Bright

Advertising & Public Relations

Laura Bright's research focuses on social media addiction and fatigue, big data and analytics, personalized advertising and digital privacy.

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.

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.

Edmund Gordon

African and African Diaspora Studies

Edmund Gordon's teaching and research interests include culture and power in the African Diaspora, gender studies (particularly Black males), critical race theory, race education, and the racial economy of space and resources.

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.

Nancy Guillet

Nursing

Nancy Guillet's professional interest is focused in community health programs, and works closely with underserved Latino populations to promote health, disease prevention and health education.

Hans Hofmann

Integrative Biology, Pharmacy

Hans Hofmann's research seeks to understand the molecular and hormonal mechanisms that underlie social behavior and its evolution, using African cichlid fishes as the model system to address these questions because of their recent, repeated and rapid radiations that have resulted in hundreds of phenotypically diverse species.

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.

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.

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