Paola Cortes-Rocca is a cultural critic specializing in the intersections of writing and visuality in Latin America. She is Professor at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a Researcher at Argentina’s National...
Emilia Simison is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Latin American Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the comparative political economy of policymaking and policy change. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to...
Mirzam Pérez (she/ella) is an artist-scholar who explores questions of place and belonging through fabric and paint. As Professor of Spanish at Grinnell College, her research bridges seventeenth-century theater, visual culture, and digital humanities with...
Américo Mendoza-Mori (Ica, Perú) is an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at St. Olaf College. His work bridges literary, sociolinguistic, and cultural studies, with a focus on Latin America, U.S. Latinidad, and Indigeneity. His recent book Cusco...
Lauro Miranda Demenech is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil, where he serves as Head of the Graduate Program in Psychology. His research focuses on the social determinants of mental health, with particular...
Forrest Hylton’s research focuses on the Wayúu in the Colombian-Venezuelan Caribbean in the 18th century and the Aymara in the Bolivian Andes in the 19th century.
At DRCLAS, he will be completing a manuscript on state formation, property rights and law...
Ignacio Chuecas Saldías is a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Communications and a member of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Humanities at Universidad Finis Terrae in Santiago, Chile. He earned a PhD in Old Testament Studies from the...
Gabriela Buccini, PhD, M.Sc., IBCLC, is an Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Dr. Buccini’s research focuses on maternal and child health and nutrition, with an emphasis on breastfeeding...
Alejandra Laera is Full Professor of Argentine Literature at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she also serves as the appointed Director of the Instituto de Literatura Argentina “Ricardo Rojas”. She is a Principal...
Susan Helen Ellison (Ph.D. Brown University) is associate professor of anthropology at Wellesley College. At Wellesley, she is a faculty affiliate of Latin American Studies, Peace and Justice Studies, and Environmental Studies, and she serves on the board...