Peru

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.

Owen Anderson

Law

Owen Anderson is a scholar whose expertise is in oil and gas, particularly with regards to international petroleum law, transactions, and taxation. He has written extensively on water law and domestic and global petroleum law.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel Breecker

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Daniel Breecker is interested in pursuing a process-based understanding of the critical zone with a focus on the formation of calcium carbonates in soils and caves and the stabilization of organic carbon in soils. His research goals include improving and developing paleoclimate proxies and better understanding changes in climate and the carbon cycle across a range of timescales.

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.

Elena Cáceres

Physics

Elena Cáceres is a theoretical physicist working in string theory and gravity. She has worked in different aspects of gauge/gravity duality, supergravity solutions and holography. Her work is focused on the relationship between quantum information theory, gravity, and spacetime.

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.

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante

Spanish & Portuguese

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante specializes in indigenous media and cultures in the Americas, with a focus on indigeneity, sound poetics and land politics; contemporary Mapuche culture and politics; and revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures; indigenous social movements; and environmental studies. He is also interested in the intersections between economics, literature, and cultural imagination in modern and contemporary Latin America.

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.

Julia Clarke

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Julia Clarke's research focuses on using phylogenetic methods and diverse data types to gain insight into the evolution of birds, avian flight and the co-option of the flight stroke for underwater diving. She is particularly interested in understanding shared patterns and potential causal factors in the evolution of living bird lineages.

Alan Covey

Anthropology

Alan Covey's research addresses the development and organization of ancient empires, with particular focus on the Incas of Andean South America. He conducts archaeological surveys and excavations to collect data on the rise and fall of the Incas, and works extensively in archives in Peru and Europe to construct a richer understanding of the impact of early modern European expansion in the Andean world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

John Hartigan

Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

John Hartigan is an anthropologist seeking to theorize sociality across species lines by contemplating multispecies perspectives in the field. He has investigated multispecies ethnography with wild horses, looked at the anthropology of science via botany and plant genomics, considered bullfighting in, and examined ethnography of race (theories, methods, and practice, with an attention to cultural articulations of whiteness).

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.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez

History

Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez's research and teaching focus on the interactions between Indigenous peoples and European empires in the early modern Atlantic world, combining material culture, agrarian history, and the history of books and maps. He also has a keen interest in visual and public history and digital humanities, having published on the history of Colombia's map.

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.

Raj Patel

Public Affairs, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Raj Patel is a research professor who studies the world food system and alternatives to it. He has testified about hunger and food sovereignty, and has written about food systems, economics, philosophy, politics, international development, and public health.

James Patton

Special Education

James Patton's areas of activity include transition assessment and planning, differentiating instruction for students with special needs, study skills instruction, needs of college students with learning-related challenges, and issues associated with individual with disabilities who encounter the criminal justice system.

Molly Polk

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

Molly Polk specializes in land change science in the tropical mountains of Latin America. In Peru, her works uses the Andean wetlands to investigate the relationships between glacial recession, landscape change, and human activity. In Chile, she is looking at the connections among the expansion of non-native forest plantations, internal migration, and the transformation of rural space.

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.

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.

Enzo Vasquez Toral

Theatre and Dance, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Native American and Indigenous Studies, LGBTQ Studies

Enzo Vasquez Toral is a Peruvian performer, scholar and educator whose expertise lies in the intersection of theatre and performance studies, queer and trans* studies and Indigenous studies in Latin/x America. As a theorist, practitioner and ethnographer, he engages with a transdisciplinary and decolonizing approach to research that centers performance as a site of alternative worldmaking.

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.

Kurt Weyland

Government

Kurt Weyland's research focuses on the democratization and waves of regime change in Latin America and Europe, along with market reform, social policy, policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America. Weyland draws on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela.

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