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Associated Faculty of The Institute of Latin American Studies

Rafael Lantigua
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
M.D. Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, 1972
Minority Aging

Roberto Lenton
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. MIT, 1974
Water resources in Latin America, Argentina

Henry Levin
Professor, Teachers College
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Economics of education, cost-effectiveness analysis, school reform

Natasha Lightfoot
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. New York University, 2007
Emancipation, race, and labor studies within the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History

Elizabeth Lindenmayer
Adjunct Professor, Acting Director of the UN Studies Program, School of International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. New York University
International conflict resolution, peacekeeping

Claudio Lomnitz
William H. Ransford Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1987
Historical sociology of politics and culture in Mexico, Mexico
 
Tamara Lothian
Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
J.D. Harvard Law School, 1984
Financial Systems in Latin America

Yao Lu
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Ph.D. UCLA, 2008
Demography, Social Stratification, Migration and Health

Alfred MacAdam
Professor, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures (Barnard)
Ph.D. Princeton, 1969
Latin American literature, literary translation

Reinhold Martin
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Ph.D. Princeton University
Architecture, corporate space

Nicole P. Marwell
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2000
Latino studies, Caribbean
 
Nara Milanich
Assistant Professor (Barnard)
Ph.D. Yale, 2002
Modern Latin America, History of the Family, Chile

Frederick Moehn
Adjunct Professor, International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. New York University, 2001
Brazilian and Latin American music, cultural history, and cultural policy

Graciela Montaldo
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. University of Buenos Aires, 1990
Contemporary Latin American literature, Argentina
 
Jose Moya
Professor, Department of History (Barnard); Senior Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies
Ph.D. Rutgers, 1988
Migration, Latin America, Argentina
 
Miguel Muñoz-Laboy
Assistant Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001
Sexual health-related risks among ethnic and sexual minority urban populations

M. Victoria Murillo
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D. Harvard, 1997
Latin America in comparative perspective, Argentina
 
Frances Negron-Muntaner
English and Comparative Literature; Director, Center for the Study of Ethicity and Race
Ph.D. Rutgers, 1997
Caribbean cultures and literature

Jose Antonio Ocampo
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. Yale, 1976
Macroeconomic policy in Latin America

Ana María Ochoa
Associate Professor, Department of Music
Ph.D. University of Indiana, 1996
Ethnomusicology, traditional Latin American musics and transculturation, music and literature, cultural policy, construction of the popular

Jorge Otero Pailos
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Ph.D. MIT, 2002
Modern architectural trends in Latin America

Daniel Paravisini
Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
Ph.D. MIT, 2005
Corporate finance, financial institutions

Richard Parker
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociomedical Studies, Mailman School of Public Health. 
Ph.D. Berkeley, 1992
AIDS and HIV policy in Latin America, Brazil

Ester Pasztory
Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1971
Pre-Columbian art history, Andean art and architecture

Richard Peña
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, School of the Arts
M.S. MIT, 1978
Latin American film

Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1979
Spanish-American and Latino literature

Pablo Piccato
Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. University of Texas, 1997
Modern Latin American history, Mexico
 
Miguel Angel Pinedo-Vasquez
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Ecology, Environment, and Evolutionary Biology 
Ph.D. Yale, 1995
People in the landscape, Peru and Brazil

Pablo Pinto
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D. University of California San Diego, 2004
Political economy of trade and investment, Argentina

Rogério M. Pinto
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. Columbia University, 2003
Clinical practice with immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities, HIV prevention, health-related social interventions, Brazil, Latinos in the U.S.

Katherina Pistor
Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
Dr. jur University of Munich, 1998
Financial systems in Latin America
 
Caterina Pizzigoni
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. King’s College, London, 2002
Colonial history of Latin America, Mexico

Arturo Porzecanski
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. University of Pittsburg
Macroeconomic policy in Latin America, Argentina

Jenik Radon
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
M.C.P. University of California, Berkeley; J.D. Stanford Law School
Human rights, privitization, international investment, peace processes, refugees, Mexico

Veronica Rappaport
Assistant Professor, School of Business
Ph.D. MIT, 2005
Macroeconmics, International Economics, Argentina

Carlos Riobo
Professor, Spanish and Latin American Culture, Barnard College
Ph.D. Yale University, 1998
Latin American culture and literature

Francisco Rivera Batiz
Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
International, development, labor and comparative economics

Diana Romero
Assistant Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
Ph.D. Columbia University
domestic reproductive-health and poverty policy; factors influencing contraceptive decision-making; and, Latino health issues.

Perla Rozencvaig
Lecturer in Discipline, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1994
Latin American cultures, Caribbean literature, Cuba

Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo
Director of Language Programs, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. University of Granada, 1992
Mass media in language pedagogy, Spanish as a second language for immigrant communities

Alessandra Russo
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. (History) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 2006
Art, Historical Anthropology, Nahuatl, Iberian Worlds

Karl Sauvant
Director, Columbia Program on International Investment, Adjunct Professor, Columbia Law School
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
International investment policies, Brazil

Flora Schiminovich
Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard College
Ph.D. New York University, 1978
Latin American literature, politics, cinema, theatre

Lisa Schineller
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. Yale University, 1992
International economics, the Brazilian economy, Brazil

Galia Solomonoff
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
M.A. Columbia University, 1994
Architecture, urban planning

Fernando Sotelino
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
M.Sc. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; M.B.A.-M.A. Stanford University
International banking and finance, banking and capital markets in Brazil

Alfred Stepan
Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1969
Religion and democracy, Brazil


Nancy Stepan
Professor, Department of History
Ph.D. University of California, 1971
History of science and medicine, Brazil

Nicolas Stier
Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
Quantitative models of decision-making, Argentina

Michael T. Taussig
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ph.D. University of London, 1974
Indigenous peoples of the Andean region, Colombia and Peru

Barbara Taylor
Faculty, Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center
M.D. Harvard Medical School, 2001
HIV in the Dominican Republic, HIV care among communities of dual-nationality

Thomas J. Trebat
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 1978
International economics, the Brazilian economy, Brazil

Debra Tupe
Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy
M.P.H. New York Medical College; Ph.D. candidate Temple University
Sociology, public health, community based rehabilitation, Cuba, Nicaragua, the Caribbean
 
Maria Uriarte
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2002
Ecology in Latin America, Brazil and Puerto Rico
 
Miguel Urquiola
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, 2000
Economic development, Chile, Bolivia

Eric Verhoogen
Assistant Professor, Department of International and Public Affairs
Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, 2004
Industrial development, Mexico

Milton Wainberg
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
M.D. Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1987
HIV and AIDS in Latin America, Brazil

Christopher Washburne
Department of Musicology
Ph.D. Columbia, 1999
Latin American jazz trends, Caribbean music

Gabriel Y. Weintraub
Assistant Professor, Columbia School of Business
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2006
Operations and management science, applied economics, Chile

Hillary Miller Wise
Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
M.A. Johns Hopkins University
Microfinance and development, Mexico