Faculty for Latin American Studies

Donald Shaw

Brown-Forman Professor of Latin American Literature, Spanish

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Selected Courses
  • Contemporary Latin American Novel
  • Comparative Literature
  • The Survey of LA Literature
  • Latin American Poetry
  • Latin American Woman Writers
  • Borges

David Haberly

Professor, Spanish & Portuguese

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Selected Courses
  • Survey of Colonial Literature
  • Intensive Portuguese Language
  • Brazilian Civilization

Fernando Operé

Professor, Spanish
Director of the Latin American Studies Program
Director of the Valencia Study Abroad Program
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

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Selected Courses
  • Spanish Culture and Civilization
  • Latin American Culture and Civilization
  • 1492 and the Aftermath
  • Colonial Literature
  • Nineteenth Century Literature
  • Hispanic Poetry

Gustavo Pellón

Associate Professor, Spanish

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Selected Courses
  • Literary Analysis
  • The Novel of the Boom
  • The New Historical Novel
  • The Kitsch in the Latin American Novel

Ruth Hill

Associate Professor, Spanish

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Selected Courses
  • Latin American Theater
  • Survey of Latin American Literature I
  • Colonial Latin American Literature

Ricardo Padrón

Assistant Professor, Spanish

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Selected Courses
  • Mapping New Worlds in Early Modern Spain
  • 1492 and the Aftermath

David Jordan

Professor, Politics

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Selected Courses
  • Latin America in International Affairs
  • The Military in Latin America
  • Government and Politics in Latin America
  • Political Parties and Movements in Latin America
  • Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Latin America


 


Herbert Braun

Associate Professor, History

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Selected Courses
  • Modern Latin American History
  • History of Central America
  • Latin American Historiography
  • Public Life in Latin America
  • Immigration to the Americas
  • Power and Ritual in Latin America
  • Violence in Latin America

Brian Owensby

Assistant Professor, History

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Selected Courses
  • Colonial Latin American History
  • Modern Latin American History
  • Gold, Gods and Utopia: Cultural Transfomation in the Conquest of the New World
  • The Middle Classes of the Americas
  • The History of Brazil
  • Latin American Historiography

George Mentore

Associate Professor, Anthropology

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Selected Courses
  • The Peoples of the Amazon
  • The Peoples of the Caribbean
  • Nationalism
  • Anthropological Theory

Gertrude Fraser

Associate Professor, Anthropology

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Selected Courses
  • The Peoples of the Caribbean





Milton Vickerman

Professor, Sociology

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Selected Courses:
  • Race and Ethnic Relations
  • Immigration







Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

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Selected Courses
  • African Religions In Americas


Robert Fatton

Julia A. Cooper Professor, Politics

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Selected Courses


Man
é Lagos
Professor, Spanish

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Selected Courses
  • US Latinas In Their Literature








Herman M. Schwartz

Professor, Politics

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Selected Courses


Jorge Secada

Associate Professor, Philosophy

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Selected Courses


Patricia A. Wattenmaker

Associate Professor, Anthropology

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Selected Courses