Faculty Committee

Cristiane Soares has a B.A in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature, a M.A in Applied Linguistics, and a Ph.D in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory. Cristiane has fifteen year of experience teaching Portuguese as a foreign and heritage language in the...

Research Interests: 20th-21st Century Mexican Cultural Studies, with broad interests in transnational mass culture, archives, feminine periodicals and literature, diasporic and border feminine literature, their reception and preservation throughout Latin...

Alejandro L. Madrid is a cultural theorist of sound and music working in Latin American and Latinx studies. His recent scholarship, at the intersection of musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, focuses on sound archives; race and...

Mayra Rivera is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies at Harvard University. 

Rivera works at the intersections between philosophy of religion, literature, and theories of coloniality, race and gender—with particular attention to...

Alicia Ely Yamin JD MPH PhD is known globally for her trans-disciplinary work in relation to economic and social rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, the right to health, and the intersections between development paradigms and human rights...

Alisha C. Holland studies the comparative political economy of development with a focus on Latin America. Her first book, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2017), examines the...

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is Professor of History at Harvard University.  His research and teaching focus on the history of Latinx people in the United States, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, immigration and asylum law, publicly engaged...

Tania Bruguera is a Cuban artist and activist whose performances and installations examine political power structures and their effect on society's most vulnerable people. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional...

Donald Pfister’s research interest center on the classification and relationships among several groups the fungi. A particular focus is on the fungi found in the Nothofagaceae forests of temperate South America. Our group studies taxonomy, biogeography...