Faculty

University Libraries Liaison

  • Ibacache, Kathia
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Romance Languages Librarian
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Teaching and learning technologies, collection developmentand the representation of Latin American indigenous languages materials
    • Website:

Faculty Affiliates in the College of Arts & Sciences

  • Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto
    • Title/Department: Professor, Film Studies, Comparative Literature
    • Geographic Research Area: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American cinemas & literatures, Spanish film and history
    • Website:
  • Aldama, Arturo
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Latino/a immigrants to the U.S., Chicano/a politics in the U.S.
    • Research/Teaching Focus: The politics of subaltern representation for Latino immigrants and criminalized youth, cultural survival, Mexican-Chicano/a struggles in the United States
    • Website:/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/arturo-aldama
  • Andrews, Thomas
    • Title/Department: Professor, History
    • Geographic Research Area: The United States West
    • Research/Teaching Focus: The social and environmental history of the American West
    • Website: /history/thomas-andrews
  • Bayard de Volo, Lorraine
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico (Chiapas)
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Gender and war in Latin America; gender and revolution; gender and social movements; women and politics in Latin America
    • Website: /wgst/lorraine-bayard-de-volo
  • Boulding, Carew
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Political Science
    • Geographic Research Area: South America; Bolivia
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Democracy in Developing Countries; NGOs and Civil Society; Political Participation; Protest; Voting: Inequality; Latin American Politics, especially Bolivia.
    • Website:
  • Brown, Esther
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Usage-based accounts of phonological variation
    • Website:/spanish/esther-brown
  • Bryan, Joe
    • Title/Department: Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies Center; Assistant Professor, Geography
    • Geographic Research Area:Honduras, Nicaragua
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Indigenous politics in the Americas; Environment and Development; Critical Cartography
    • Website:/geography/joe-bryan-0
  • Conzelman, Carol
    • Title/Department: Teaching Professor, Arts & Sciences Residential Academic Programs, Environmental Studies Department; Program Director, Environment & Natural Sciences Residential Academic Program; Director, Bali Sustainability Global Seminar; former Director, Bolivia Global Seminar Study Abroad Program
    • Geographic Research Area:Bolivia
    • Research/Teaching Focus:Latin America, The Andes, Democracy, Drug Policy, Sustainability, Social Entrepreneurship, International Development, Globalization, Applied Anthropology, Service Learning
    • Website:
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  • Cordova, James
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
    • Geographic Research Area: Colonial Latin America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American art, specifically, the roles and representation of gender, ethnicity, and sanctity in colonial Latin American cultures, as well as relations between text and image in colonial visual culture.
    • Website:/artandarthistory/james-cordova
  • Dabove, Juan Pablo
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Geographic Research Area: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela
    • Research/Teaching Focus: The depiction of the diverse forms of rural insurgency labeled “banditry” in postcolonial Latin American culture, and the relationship between banditry and the imagination of the nation-state.
    • Website:
  • Edwards, Becca
    • Title/Department: Director of Access and Cultural Innovation, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Inclusive pedagogy, metacognitive strategies in large and small STEM classrooms.
    • Website: /education/andrea-dyrness
  • Elmore, Peter
    • Title/Department: Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Latin American Urban Fiction. Teaching: Latin American Non-Fiction, Prison Narratives, Media and Literature in Latin America, Authorship and Cultural Agency in Latin America.
    • Website: /spanish/peter-elmore
  • Fischer, Kate
    • Title/Department: Lecturer, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Central America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: My research examines ideas about what makes good coffee, and what makes coffee good, across the commodity chain, from producers to consumers. In so doing I bring together the wide lens economic and historical anthropology and the intimate focus of belonging, identity, and distinction.
    • Website:/honors/kate-fischer
  • Goldstein, Donna
    • Title/Department: Director, Latin American Studies Center; Associate Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil, Argentina
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Pharmaceutical Politics, Science Studies, Cold War, Nuclear Energy, Health, Environment, and Toxicity, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Crime and Violence in Latin America. Teaching: Political Economy and Power, Critical Medical Anthropology, The Anthropology of Latin America, Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, Southern Cone Dictatorships, Latin American Films
    • Website: /anthropology/donna-m-goldstein
  • Gomez, Leila
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Geographic Research Area: Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Central America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American Literature and Culture in XIX and XX century, Travel Writing.
    • Website: /wgst/gomez
  • Gutiérrez, Ambrocio
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Linguistics
    • Geographic Research Area: Southern Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Documentary and descriptive linguistics, focusing on the syntax and semantics of the Zapotec (Otomanguean) languages of southern Mexico.
    • Website: /linguistics/ambrocio-gutierrez-lorenzo
  • Gutierrez, Gerardo
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Anthropology
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research focus: Political competition and territorial expansion in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica; Geographic Information Systems for social sciences; Archaeology and the history of ancient disasters. Teaching focus: Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory
    • Website: /anthropology/gerardo-gutierrez
  • Harrison, Jill
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Sociology
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research/teaching focus: Immigration policing and its impacts on Latino migrant communities in the United States
    • Website:/envs/jill-harrison
  • Joyce, Arthur
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Anthropology
      Geographic Research Area: Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica particularly surrounding issues of power, political dynamics, and landscape
    • Website: /anthropology/arthur-joyce
  • Kennedy Godoy, John
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
      Geographic Research Area: U.S., Central America, Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Unaccompanied childhood narratives, particularly in U.S. Central American and Mexican American literature; transborder poetics from Indigenous Maya, Garifuna, Zoque, and Binnizá writers, addressing histories of displacement, extractivism, knowledge, and ethics in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala, and Honduras.
    • Website: /spanishportuguese/john-kennedy
  • Kurnick, Sarah
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area:Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
    • Website: /anthropology/sarah-kurnick
  • Landgrave, Michelangelo
  • Loayza, Doris
    • Title/Department: Teaching Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies Center
    • Geographic Research Area:The Andes
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Quechua, Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Geography of the Andes
    • Website: /lalsc/lalsc-team/wilma-doris-loayza
  • Long, Mary K.
    • Title/Department: Senior Instructor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico, United States
    • Research/Teaching Focus: My research can be divided into several interrelated areas: 20-21st Century Mexican Literature and Culture; Cross-cultural Communication and Exchange between Latin America and the United States; Globalization and Cultural Identity; Ethics in Relation to International Business, and Spanish for professional uses. These areas reflect my intellectual commitment to contributing quality work to the fields of literature and cultural studies while also seeking meaningful connections between academic theories about identity and concrete experience. In addition, my research compliments my teaching areas since language and culture are integral element in the Spanish for business course and because I also teach literature and Latin American culture classes in the department.
    • Website:
  • Martuscelli, Tania
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Portuguese vanguards, Brazilian Modernism and transatlantic connections/disconnections
    • Website:
  • Mendoza, Natalie
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, History
    • Geographic Research Area: U.S.
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Mexican American and Chicanx history, U.S. Latinx history, U.S. civil rights history, and the history of race and racism in the United States.
    • Website: /history/natalie-mendoza
  • Neely, Brooke
    • Title/Department: Research Fellow, Center of the American West
    • Geographic Research Area: Western U.S.
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Public history, community engagement, and belonging in the western United States.
    • Website: /center/west/brooke-neely
  • Newton, Peter
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Environmental Science
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil
    • Research/Teaching Focus: The potential and actual impact of policies and programs that aim to conserve forests and improve rural livelihoods.
    • Website: /envs/peter-newton
  • Ordaz, Jessica
  • Ortega Guzmán, Élika
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Digital literature, book studies and reading practices, post-humanism and cultural hybridity.
    • Website: /spanishportuguese/elika-ortega-guzman
  • Prieto, Andres Ignacio
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Colonial Spanish American literature
    • Website:
  • Quan, Tracy
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Second and heritage language development and education, study abroad, identity, and critical pedagogies.
    • Website: /spanishportuguese/tracy-quan
  • Reina, Junior
    • Title/Department: Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Language, Power and Identity; Foundations of Language, Literacy and Culture; American Indian Cultural Images; Indigenous Studies; Chicano/Latino History; Global Media.
    • Website:
  • Rivas, Javier
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Spanish language variation and change, Spanish phonetics, phonology and morphosyntax.
    • Website: /spanish/javier-rivas
  • Rivera, Isaac
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Geography
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Human geography, including digital geographies, Latinx & Indigenous geographies, the geo-humanities, urban settler colonialism, and environmental justice.
    • Website: /geography/isaac-rivera
  • Rivera, John-Michael
    • Title/Department: Transitional Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latinx Literature and Culture, Creative Nonfiction, Ethnic American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature
    • Website: /english/john-michael-rivera
  • Schincariol, Marcelo
    • Title/Department: Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil
    • Research/Teaching Focus: 20th Century Brazilian novel, contemporary Brazilian literature, Portuguese as a Foreign Language
    • Website: /spanish/marcelo-schincariol
  • Sepulveda, Enrique
  • Soares, Kristie
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Caribbean/U.S.
    • Research/Teaching Focus: 19th-21st century Latinx literature and media, queer Caribbean cultural production, queer and performance methodologies
    • Website: /wgst/soares
  • Todd, Molly
    • Title/Department: Assistant Teaching Professor,Sociology
    • Geographic Research Area:Brazil, Mexico, U.S.
    • Research/Teaching Focus:Community-engaged art and borders in the Americas.
    • Website: /sociology/molly-todd
  • Triplett, Jennifer
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor,Sociology
    • Geographic Research Area:Cuba
    • Research/Teaching Focus:Qualitative comparative-historical sociology, in the subfields of political sociology, sociology of culture, and gender.
    • Website: /sociology/jen-triplett
    • Title/Department: Director of Critical Sports Studies and Instructor, Ethnic Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico/U.S. borderlands
    • Research/Teaching Focus: critical sports studies, history, ethnic studies, U.S./Mexico borderlands
    • Website:/ٳԾٳܻ徱/DZ/ǰ-ڲܱٲ/ԾDZ-Գܱ𱹲​
  • Windell, Maria A.
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, English
    • Geographic Research Area: Middle East, Pacific, Caribbean, and U.S.-Mexico borderlands
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Intersections between genre, nation, history, and Transamerica studies
    • Website: /english/maria-windell
  • Wood, Tony
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, History
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico, Cuba, and the Soviet Union
    • Research/Teaching Focus: How the Latin American radical left thought about race, class, nation, and empire in the interwar period.
    • Website: /history/tony-wood
  • Zeiler, Tom
    • Title/Department: Professor, History
    • Research/Teaching Focus: US diplomacy and economic diplomacy; globalization
    • Website: /iafs/thomas-zeiler

Faculty Affiliates in Other Colleges

  • Dyrness, Andrea
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Education
    • Geographic Research Area: U.S., Spain
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Education and citizenship in Latin America and transnational Latinx migrant communities in the U.S. and Spain.
    • Website: /education/andrea-dyrness
  • Izaguirre, José
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Communication
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Public rhetoric(s), rhetorical histories, and the aesthetics of politics, exploring how de/coloniality, race, and political power influence formulations of Latinx political identities in vernacular spaces and in institutional settings.
    • Website:/cmci/people/communication/jose-joe-izaguirre
  • Palmer, Deborah
    • Title/Department: Professor, Education
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Qualitative research using ethnographic and discourse analytic methods in culturally and linguistically diverse schools and classrooms.
    • Website: /education/deborah-palmer
  • Perold, Colette
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Media Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: U.S., Brazil
    • Research/Teaching Focus: The relationship between media technologies, labor and U.S. foreign policy, specifically the ways in which multinational IT companies shape U.S. foreign policy priorities in Latin America.
    • Website: /cmci/people/media-studies/colette-perold
  • Thomas, Susan
    • Title/Department: Professor,Director American Music Research Center
    • Geographic Research Area:Cuba
    • Research/Teaching Focus:Her own research focuses on Cuban and Latin American music, with particular attention to musical manifestations of and reactions to transnationalism, migration, and diaspora as well as the musical intersections of gender, race, embodiment, and performativity.
    • Website: /amrc/susan-thomas

Staff

  • Garcia-Aniles, Adilene
    • Title/Department: Education Abroad Program Manager
    • Geographic Research Area: Spain and Latin America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Manages the Global Opportunity (GO) Scholar Program, Gilman Scholarship Advisor and Liaison, Global Intensive and Global Seminars, CIEE Spain Programs, and other study abroad programs in Latin America.
    • Website:
  • Markusen, Shannon
    • Title/Department: Graduate & Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Spanish and Portuguese
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Undergraduate and graduate curricula and enrollment, office inquiries
    • Website: /spanishportuguese/shannon-markusen

Retired Faculty Affiliates

  • Buffington, Robert
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico, Latin America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Mexican Masculinities; Gender, Sexuality, and Migration; Global History of Sexuality; Crime and Criminality in Mexico and Latin America. Teaching: Global Gender Studies, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking, Mexican History (Modern Period), Latin American History (Modern Period)
    • Website: /wgst/robert-buffington
  • Dufour, Darna
    • Title/Department: Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Colombia
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Biological and behavioral responses of human populations to nutritional problems with special emphasis on responses to food shortages and the presence of toxins in foods.
    • Website: /anthropology/darna-dufour
  • Ferry, Robert
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, History
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico; Venezuela; Spanish Caribbean; Spain
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Colonial Latin America, Colonial Mexico, Spanish Inquisition. Teaching: Mexican History (Colonial Period), Latin American History (Colonial Period)
    • Website:/history/bob-ferry
  • Gill, Sam
    • Title/Department: Professor, Religious Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American music and dancing
    • Website:
  • McGoodwin, James
    • Title/Department: Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Maritime and coastal people worldwide
    • Website: /anthropology/russ-mcgoodwin
  • Rivera, George
    • Title/Department: Professor, Art and Art History
    • Geographic Research Area: Colombia, Mexico
    • Research/Teaching Focus: International Art, Digital Art, Sound Art
    • Website:
  • Romero, Brenda
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, College of Music
    • Geographic Research Area: SW United States, Mexico, Colombia
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American and American Indian musics, with focus on New Mexico, Mexico, and Colombia
    • Website: /cas/brenda-m-romero
  • Sheets, Payson
    • Title/Department: Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Central America
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Effects of sudden stresses on egalitarian to state-level societies, Mexico to Panama.
    • Website: /anthropology/payson-sheets
  • Veblen, Tom
    • Title/Department:Distinguished Professor of Geography
    • Geographic Research Area:Chile, Argentina
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Forest ecology and vegetation dynamics in relation to natural and anthropogenic disturbances
    • Website: /geography/tom-veblen-0

Faculty with Secondary Research Interests in Latin America

  • Barham, Tania Assistant Professor, Economics
  • Brunet, Alexia Associate Professor, School of Law
  • Chapin, Violeta Associate Professor, School of Law
  • Clark, Tom Chair, Department of Planning and Design Director, Center for Sustainable Urbanism College of Architecture and Planning – CUDenver
  • Farago, Claire Professor, Art and Art History
  • Jacobs, Janet Professor, Sociology
  • Linden, KarlProfessor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
  • Lester, Anne Assistant Professor, History
  • Matusik, Sharon Associate Professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Mccain, Christy Assistant Professor, Museum-Administration, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Meneghini, Tamara Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
  • Montealegre, Ramiro Associate Professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Randall, Erika Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
  • Schmidt, Steven Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology