Faculty & Staff
- Ernesto Capello
- Director of Latin American Studies & Professor of History
- Andes, cultural history, art and architecture, transnationalism, cartography, transhemispheric imaginaries, urban history, colonial narratives and nostalgia, and Amazonia
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- 651-696-6772
- Fernanda H. Bartolomei-Merlin
- Instructor NTT of Spanish and Portuguese.
- Afro-Brazilian literature, Brazilian Literature and culture. Race and gender issues
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- 651-696-6581
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- Erika Busse-Cárdenas
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- Her research examines how immigration influences family, gender, identity, work, and culture.
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- 651-696-6518
- Eric D. Carter
- Edens Professor of Geography and Global Health
- He is a medical geographer, with connected interests in people-environment geography and historical geography, and a regional focus on Latin America.
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- 651-696-6704
- Amy Damon
- Associate Professor of Economics
- Rural and agricultural development, economic development, education in developing countries, and Central America-U.S. migration
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- 651-696-6862
- Paul Dosh
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics, Latin American politics, urban social movements
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- 651-696-6776
- Olga González
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Cultural anthropology, memory and secrecy, truth and reconciliation, violence and subjectivity, Latin America
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- 651-696-6589
- Gonzalo Guzmán
- Assistant Professor of Educational Studies
- Educational Philosophy, Policy, and Advocacy
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- 651-696-6221
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- Xavier Haro-Carrión
- Assistant Professor of Geography
- Land and vegetation change across spatial and/or temporal scales, forest and biodiversity conservation specially in human-impacted landscapes, Tropical Andes, Ecuador.
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- 651-696-6327
- Claire Lozano
- Visiting Assistant Professor
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- Alicia Muñoz
- Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
- Contemporary Latin American narrative, popular culture, gender studies, border studies, and U.S. Latino/a literature
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- 651-696-6509
- Margaret (Molly) Olsen
- Professor of Spanish & Portuguese (MSFEO)
- Trans-Atlantic literatures of the 16th and 17th centuries, and colonial and contemporary Afro-Caribbean texts
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- 651-696-6885
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- Ernesto Ortiz Díaz
- Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
- He teaches Portuguese classes and classes on Latin America, focusing on Brazil.
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- 651-696-6766
- Mario Solis-Garcia
- Associate Professor of Economics
- Macroeconomics, Quantitative Analysis, Economic Policy
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- 651-696-6134
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- Michael Zis
- Department Coordinator
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- 651-696-6395
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Not Currently Teaching
Jim Stewart
Emeriti Faculty
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651-696-6496