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Associated Faculty of The Institute of Latin American Studies

Ana F. Abraído-Lanza
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Ph.D. Graduate Center of the City University of New York
The health of Latino populations in the United States; socioeconomic status and health; health disparities.

Marilyn Aguirre-Molina
Professor, School of Public Health
Ed.D. Columbia University, 1993
Population, Health of Latino Children and Families

Carlos J. Alonso
Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Yale University, 1983
Modern Latin American Literature and Culture
 
Elizabeth Amann
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2000
Comparative literature, Latin American literature, history of Hispanism in the U.S.

Enrique Arzac
Professor, School of Business
Ph.D. Columbia University
Corporate finance

Walter Baethgen
Director, Latin American Program
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Earth Institute
Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987
Climate risk assessment and management in agricultural, health, water resources and disasters sectors

Monisha Bajaj
Assistant Professor of Education, International & Transcultural Studies, Teachers College
Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia University
Comparative and international education, peace and human rights education, the politics of education, social inequalities, critical pedagogy, curriculum development

Rosemary Barber
Madden, Professor Emeritus, Mailman School of Public Health
Ed.D. 1980 Temple University
Social Development, Latin America, Brazil

Mark Barenberg
Professor of Law
J.D. Harvard, 1982
International labor rights, constitutional law, global economic institutions, democracy and law

Lesley Bartlett
Assistant Professor of Education, Teachers College
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
Comparative education, migration, Brazil and the Caribbean
 
Anke Birkenmaier
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Yale, 2004
Latin American humanities, cultural and literary links Spain and Latin America

Alan Berkman
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
M.D. Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1971
Dominican Republic, AIDS

Ruth Borgman
Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Universidad Autónoma de México, 1982
Spanish Immersion, contemporary Mexican Spanish

Allan R. Brewer-Carias
Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
Ph.D. Central University of Venezuela, 1964
Constitutional and administrative law, Venezuela

Charles Calomiris
Professor, Columbia Business School
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1985
Emerging market financial markets, Latin American capital markets

Guillermo Calvo
Professor, Department of Economics
Ph.D. Yale University, 1974
Macroeconomic policy in Latin America, capital flows
 
Sara Calvo
Lecturer, School of International And Public Affairs
Ph.D. Columbia University,
Macroeconomic policy in Latin America, Argentina and Bolivia

Alex Carballo-Diéguez
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Ph.D. New School for Social Research, 1986
HIV, Latin America

Jose Antonio Castellanos Pazos
Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. New York University, 2002
Portuguese Immersion: Contemporary Brazilian Portuguese

Douglas Chalmers
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
Ph.D. Yale, 1962
Democratic institutions in Latin America

John Coatsworth
Professor, Department of History 
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1967
Latin America, Economic History
 
Mariana Colacelli
Assistant Professor, Barnard College Department of Econoics
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2005
Macroecomics, International Economics, Argentina

Lambros Comitas
Professor Emeritus, Teachers College
Ph.D. Columbia University,1962
Culture and Society in the Caribbean

Maria Teresa Conde
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, 2004
Contemporary Brazilian literature and film studies, Brazil
 
Regina Cortina
Professor, Teachers College
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1985
Comparative education, Mexico

Angelina Craig-Florez
Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1991
Literary and cultural studies, language acquisition

James Crapotta
Language Coordinator, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979
Hispanic literatures and cultures, language acquisition

Terrence D’Altroy
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D. University of California
Ancient empires of the Andes, Peru

Nicolas De Genova
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Latino Studies

Rodolfo de la Garza
Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1972
Latino political experiences, democratic institutions in Mexico, Mexico

John Dinges
Associate Professor, School of Journalism
M.A. Stanford University
Contemporary media issues in Latin America, Chile
 
Cristiane Duarte
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
M.P.H. Columbia University, 2005; Ph.D. Federal University of São Paolo, 2000
Mental health issues of children, Brazil

Alan Dye
Associate Professor of Economics, Barnard College
Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1991
Latin American economic history, Cuba, Spain and Latin America

Isabel Estrada
Assistant Professor, Language Program Director, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1999
Impact of war and dictatorship on cultural production: literature, film, and documentary

Paul Firbas
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Princeton University, 2001
Culture of Colonial Peru, Peru

Albert Fishlow
Professor Emeritus, Department of International Affairs
Ph.D. Harvard University
History of the Brazilian Economy, contemporary economic issues, Brazil

Aaron Fox
Professor, Department of Musicology
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1995
Caribbean

Nelson Fraiman
Professor, Columbia Business School
M.B.A. Columbia University, 1971; Ph.D. Columbia University, 1977
Operations management, Argentina and Uruguay

Guillermo Gallego
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research 
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1988
Engineering and Applied Sciences, Mexico

Ofelia Garcia
Professor of Bilingual Education, Teachers College
Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1981
Bilingual education of Latinos, Mexico

Alejandro Garro
Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
J.S.D. Columbia University, 1990
Latin American Law, Argentina

Vladimir Gil
Associate Research Scientist, The Earth Institute- CIESIN
Ph.D. Yale University, 2005
Local conflicts with a transnational corporations in Latin America

Paul Glasserman
Senior Vice Dean, Columbia Business School
Ph.D. Harvard, 1988
Business and the economy in Latin America, Argentina

Luis Gonçalves
Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007
Afro-Brazilian social practices, border literature, diaspora, migration

Stephany Griffith-Jones
Executive Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, ISERP
Ph.D Cambridge University, 1981
International finance and economic development, Chile, Latin America

Maria Guadalupe
Columbia Business School
Ph.D London School of Economics, 2003
Labor Economics, Economics of Personnel and Organizations, The consequences of Product market competition and Globalization on Organizations, Corporate Governance.

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Ph.D. State University of New York at Albany
Population and maternal health issues of Latino communities, Puerto Rico

Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart
Associate Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. Smith College, 1995
Group trauma among Native Peoples of the Americas, historical trauma theory and interventions for American Indians, Latin American Indians, and Latinos

Helios Herrera
Lecturer in Discipline, International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. (Economics) New York University, 2002
Political Economy, Financial Economics, Information Economics, Industrial Organization

Jennifer Hirsch
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1998
Health, gender and sexuality, Mexico

Clara Irazábal
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Ph.D. University of California at Berkley, 2002
Intersections of urban planning, culture and politics in Latin America and Latino U.S., Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico

Raul Katz
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Columbia School of Business
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985 
Telecommunications in Latin America, finance, economics

Robert Kaufman
Adjunct Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1967
Latin American Politics in Comparative Perspective, Brazil

Rebecca Kobrin
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Jewish History and Migration