Faculty:

• Mario Aldana, Associate Professor of French and Spanish, Ph.D., University of Florida. Specialty area: Latin American literature, art, and culture. Research: Latin American modernists, interactions between "high" and popular culture in Latin America.
• Tony Abbott, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Specialty area: Environmental Field Methods and Political Ecology. Research: Latin American Agrodiversity and Alternative Energy Development in the US.
• Anne Hallum, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Specialty area: religion and politics. Research: the political impact of missionaries in Central America.
• Cyriaco Lopes, Assistant Professor of Art, Digital Art and Art History. M.F.A.s from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Specialty area: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art (particularly Brazil). Research: Politics of cultural exchange.
• Iliana Mankin, Associate Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, native of Cuba. Specialty area: Cuban, Puerto Rican, and contemporary Latin American literature. Research: Hispanic literature in the United States.
• Ken McCoy, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University. Specialty area: Latin American theater. Research: Latin American popular theater, Hispanic Theatre in Miami and Puerto Rico, and the plays of Mario Vargas Llosa.
• William Nylen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Columbia University. Specialty area: comparative politics, Latin American political economy, Brazil. Research: Post-Cold War Left in Latin America, and economics and politics of Neoliberalism (the New Right) in Latin America.
• John Schorr, Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., Brown University. Specialty area: Latin American population and development. Research: Communities and disasters in Colombia (Kellogg Fellow in Latin American development, 1988-92).
• Robert Sitler, Associate Professor of Spanish, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Specialty areas: Latin American civilization and culture, Middle American indigenous peoples, and foreign language teaching methodologies. Research: Mayan culture & Mayan-related literatures.
• Richard Wood, Professor of Economics, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Specialty area: Peru, Mexico. Research: economic development in Latin America, and meeting basic human needs in Latin America.
• Robert Smith, Professor Emeritus of Spanish, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles. Specialty area: Latin American civilization, Latin American literature, and Argentine literature.

Current Activities:

Bill Nylen

• Book author (with Lawrence Dodd): Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy Lessons from Brazil. Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2003.