Faculty Associates
The Elliott School boasts a diverse faculty representing seven Latin American countries, alongside a substantial presence of Latinx faculty and students. Their varied perspectives and experiences enrich our academic community profoundly.
Our faculty associates form a distinguished community dedicated to exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the region through their teaching and research.
Director
Diego Abente-Brun (Ph.D., The University of New Mexico)
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Initiative
Concentrations: International relations of Latin America, governance, comparative democratization.
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Affiliated Faculty
Herman Aguinis (Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York)
Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar & Professor of Management
Concentrations: Diverse workforce, Sustainable and responsible organizations, Human capital development
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Paula Alonso (Ph.D., Oxford University)
Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
Concentrations: Latin America, Argentina, Political History, Cultural History
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Kelly Bauer (Ph.D., George Washington University)
Associate Professor of Political Science
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Christopher Britt (Ph.D., Princeton University)
Professor of Spanish, Director of Spanish Literature
Concentrations: Post-imperial Spain, Post-colonial Latin America
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Otaviano Canuto (Ph.D., University of Campinas)
Professorial Lecturer
Concentrations: International Economics, Development Economics
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Yvonne Captain (Ph.D., Stanford University)
Associate Professor of Latin American Film and Literature and International Affairs
Concentrations: Africa and Diaspora, Film Industries in Latin American and Africa, South-south Relations
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Alicia Cooperman (Ph.D., Columbia University)
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Concentrations: Local Politics, Environmental Politics, Social Movements, Quantitative Methods, Brazil
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Robert Cottrol (Ph.D., Yale University; J.D. Georgetown University)
Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, Professor of History and Sociology
Concentrations: Legal Institutions, Race Relations in the U.S. and Latin America
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Manuel Cuellar (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies; Director of the Micro-Minor in Immigration and Migration Studies
Concentrations: Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies; Performance, Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Américas
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Alex Dent (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
Concentrations: Brazil, Latin America and North America; Public Culture, Language and the Media; Ethnography of performance
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Rodimiro Rodrigo Flores
Assistant Professor of International Business
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Omar Garcia-Ponce (Ph.D., New York University)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Concentrations: Political Economy of Development, Political Violence; Organized Crime, Latin American Politics
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Amb. Lino Gutierrez (M.A., University of Alabama)
Professorial Lecturer
Concentrations: Cuba, Central America, Diplomacy
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Graciela Kaminsky (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Concentrations: Macroeconomics, International Finance, and Monetary Policy
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Stephen B. Kaplan (Ph.D., Yale University)
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Concentrations: International and Comparative Political Economy, Chinese Foreign Investment and Development Finance; and Latin American Political Economics
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Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (Ph.D., New School for Social Research)
Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs
Concentrations: Mexico and Central America; Violence, Crime, and (In)security; Religion, Gender, and Culture
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Antonio Lopez (Ph.D., Rutgers University)
Department Chair; Associate Professor of English
Concentrations: U.S. Latinx, African Diaspora, Hemispheric American, Literary and Cultural Theory
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Rafael Lopez-Monti (Ph.D., George Washington University)
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Director, M.A. International Economic Policy (MIEP)
Concentrations: Microfinance, Macroeconomics
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Ronald Luna (Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park)
Lecturer
Concentrations: Migration, transnationalism, culture space.
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Carla Maenza (Ph.D., Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Professorial Lecturer
Concentrations: Gender Theory, Feminism, Latin American Feminism, Equality Policies
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Jason Marczak (M.A., Johns Hopkins University)
Professorial Lecturer, Director, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council
Concentrations: Central America, Immigration Policy
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Elvira-Maria Restrepo (Ph.D., Oxford University)
Interim Director (2019), Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program
Associate Professor of International Studies University Honors Program & Elliott School of International Affairs
Concentrations: Peacebuilding, Cybercrime and online behavior and deliberation, Colombia
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Noel Maurer (Ph.D., Stanford University)
Associate Professor of International Affairs and International Business
Concentrations: Private property rights, Mexico.
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Michael McCarthy (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
Professorial Lecturer
Concentrations: U.S. Foreign Policy, Latin America, Democratization, Populism, Illiberalism
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Cynthia McClintock (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Concentration: Latin American politics, Electoral Processes, Peru
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Hilen Meirovich (Ph.D., Georgetown University)
Professorial Lecturer
Concentrations: Climate Change, Climate Policy, Latin America
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Diana Pardo Pedraza (Ph.D., University of California, Davis)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
Concentrations: Anthropology of Violence & Peace, Feminist theory, Colombia and Latin American Studies
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Marie Price (Ph.D., Syracuse University)
Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Concentrations: Political and Cultural Geography, Latin America, Immigration
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Logan Puck (Ph.D., University of California)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
Concentrations: Mexico; Policing, Politics and Society
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Jorge Rivera (Ph.D. Duke University)
Professor of Strategic Management, Public Policy, and International Affairs
Concentrations: Environmental Policy, Environmental Management, Business and Public Policy
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Michael Shifter (MA, Harvard University)
Professorial Lecturer
Concentrations: U.S.-Latin America Relations, Governance and Democracy
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Elizabeth Vaquera (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Executive Director of Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy & Public Administration
Concentrations: Immigration, Latino/a Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Children and Youth
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Leniqueca Welcome (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs
Concentration: Postcolonial Statecraft, Racialization, Gender, Caribbean Studies
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