Faculty

Many of the nation's leading experts on Latin America teach at GW. The full-time Latin American Studies faculty is complemented by part-time faculty who work in the Washington policy community. A partial list of faculty at GW who teach courses related to Latin America follows.

Full time Faculty

Cynthia McClintock (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Latin American politics and Director of the Latin American Studies Program.

Catherine J. Allen (Ph.D., University of Illinois). Chair of Anthropology Department and Professor of Anthropology. Concentration: cultural anthropology.

Paula Alonso-Gortari (Ph.D., Oxford University). Visiting Associate Professor of History and International Affairs. Concentrations: Latin American history; Argentine political and intellectual history.

Christopher Arterton (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Professor of Political Management of the Media, Advanced Strategy and Dean of the Graduate School of Political Management.

Jeffrey P. Blomster (M.Phil. and Ph.D., Yale University). Professor of Anthropology. Concentrations: rise of complex society, ritual and religion, socio-political organization, ancient Mexico/Mesoamerica.

Christopher Britt (Ph.D., Princeton University). Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature.

Yvonne Captain (Ph.D., Stanford University). Associate Professor of Spanish. Concentration: Latin American and Caribbean literature.

Robert Cottrol (Ph.D., Yale University; J.D. Georgetown University). Professor of Law, History, and Sociology; Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law. Concentrations: law of race and slavery; criminal law; history; sociology.

Alexander Dent (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Concentrations: public and popular culture, language, media, rural-urban relations, ethnography, ethnomusicology; Brazil, Latin America, North America.

James Ferrer, Jr. (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley). Associate Research Professor and Director of the Center for Latin American Issues. Concentrations: business management issues in Brazil.

David Gow (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Baker Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Director of the International Development Studies Program. Concentration: international development.

Roberto Izurieta (M.A. The George Washington University). Associate Clinical Professor of Political Management. Concentration: communication for government and political campaigns in Latin America.

Graciela Kaminsky (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Professor of Economics. Concentrations: international finance, open-economy macroeconomics.

Patty Kelly (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center). Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Concentrations: Mexico; Central America; migration; border politics.

Peter Klaren (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles). Professor of History and International Affairs. Concentration: Latin American history.

Nora Lustig (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Shapiro Visiting Professor of International Affairs. Concentrations: development economics; poverty and income distribution; social policies; Latin America/M��xico.

Luis Raul Matos (M.A. Universidad Simon Bolivar). Associate Clinical Professor of Political Management and Director of the Governance Program for Latin America at the Graduate School of Political Management. Concentrations: governance and public affairs; methodology for political management; Venezuela.

Marie D. Price (Ph.D., Syracuse University). Chair of Geography Department and Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs. Concentrations: political and cultural geography of Latin America; immigration; global cities.

Joanna Spear (Ph.D., University of Southampton). Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Security Policy Studies Program. Concentrations: security and development; U.S. arms sales policies; U.S. counter-proliferation policies; transatlantic relations.

Isabel Vergara (Ph.D., Cornell University). Associate Professor of Spanish. Concentrations: Spanish and Latin American literature.

Silvio Waisbord (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs. Concentrations: international journalism; communication and international development; media and health; Argentina..

Sergio Waisman (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley). Associate Professor of Spanish. Concentrations: nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature; literary theory; translation; Jorge Luis Borges.

Adjunct And Part-Time Faculty

Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University). Inter-American Development Bank.

Camille Gaskin-Reyes (Ph.D., University of Bonn; M.A., Cologne Polytechnic). Concentrations: Latin American and Caribbean development; Latin American geography; policy development and country programming; Inter-American Development Bank.

Kevin Healy (Ph.D., Cornell University) Program Director, Inter-American Foundation. Concentrations: development sociology; drug trafficking in the Americas, indigenous social movements in the Americas.

Jorge Hernandez-Fujigaki (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Concentrations: Mexican History ; Mexican American History.

Bjorn-Sören Gigler (Ph.D., London School of Economics). Concentrations: political economy of Latin America; economic development and indigenous peoples��� development; Andean culture and politics; poverty and social exclusion.

Carlos Indacochea (Ph.D., Cornell University). Assistant Professorial Lecturer. Concentrations: development sociology, demography, theory of development.

Claudio Loser (Ph.D., University of Chicago). Senior Fellow, the Inter-American Dialogue. Concentration: economic development of Latin America; the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; international trade and financial markets.

Ronald Luna (Ph.D., University of Maryland). Concentrations: Latino migration; migration to the United States.

Paulo Macedo (Ph.D., New York University). Center for Development and regional Planning, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Concentration: economic integration of Latin America

Nadia Martinez (M.A., American University). Member Services Coordinator, International Programs Department, Council on Foundations. Concentrations: political economy of energy; environment and human rights; Venezuela.

Manuel Orozco (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin). Executive Director, Remittances and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue. Concentrations: Latinos and minority issues; democratization, civil war, and negotiation; development assistance; international labor migration and migrant worker remittances.

Jose Raul Perales (Ph.D., University of Michigan). Senior Fellow, Latin America Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Concentrations: Latin America, with particular emphasis on trade policy; domestic and international economic institutions; Brazil, Caribbean, and Central American political economy.

Ruben Perina (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) Director, Program of Support for Legislative Institutions of the Organization of American States. Concentrations: the inter-American system; the Organization of American States; electoral systems; political culture and consolidation of democracy.

Paulo Sotero (M.A., American University). Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Concentrations: Brazil in the global arena; Brazilian culture and history; U.S.-Brazil relations