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Full Time Faculty----Affiliated Faculty----Part Time Lecturers----Staff

Full Time Faculty

Aldo Lauria Santiago, Ph.D., Chairperson and Associate Professor, Joint appontment with the History Department (ON LEAVE 2009-2010)

BA, Princeton University; MA, New York University; Ph.D. The University of Chicago

Workers and peasants, Central American and Caribbean history, Mexico, Revolt and revolution, Chicano and Puerto Rican working class history; Latino History; Research methods

Books: (with Jeffrey Gould) To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920-1932 (Duke); An Agrarian Republic Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 (Pittsburgh); Co-editor with Leigh Binford Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (Duke); Co-editor with Aviva Chomsky Landscapes of Struggle:Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador (Pittsburgh).

Room 235; alauria@rci.rutgers.edu

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Ph.D., Professor I, Core Faculty--Comparative Literature Program (ON LEAVE 2009-2010)

BA, University of Puerto Rico; MA, University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley.

Hispanic Caribbean, and Latino Literature; Literary Theory, Colonial and Postcolonial Theory, Migration Studies; Latin American Literature

Books: From Lack to Excess: ‘Minor’ Readings of Latin American Colonial Discourse (Bucknell); Caribe Two Ways: cultura de la migración en el Caribe insular hispánico (Ediciones Callejón); Saberes americanos: subalternidad y epistemología en los escritos de Sor Juana (nstituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana)

yolamsm@rci.rutgers.edu

Ana Y. Ramos Zayas, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Joint appointment with the Anthropology Department, ACTING CHAIR 2009-2010

BA, Yale Univeristy; Ph.D., Columbia University.

Citizenship, migration, critical race theory, youth cultures, urban ethnography,  U.S. Latino communities, Brazil and Puerto Rico

Books: National Performances: Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago (Chicago); with Nicholas de Genova, Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (Routledge)

Room 229; anaramos@rci.rutgers.edu

Carlos U. Decena, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Joint appointment with the Women's and Gender Studies Department

BA, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. New York University

Sexuality and Queer studies, migrant communities, cultural studies, Dominican Studies

Room 237; cudecena@rci.rutgers.edu

Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Joint appointment with the Sociology Department

BA, Harvard University, Ph.D. Michigan University.

Caribbean urbanism, Criminology, Race and ethnic relations, Urban policy

Room 239; zdinzey@rci.rutgers.edu

Tatiana Flores, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Joint appointment with the Art History Department

BA, Columbia University; MA, Columbia University; Ph.D. Columbia University

Art and Politics in Venezuela and Mexico; Modernism; Latino art

Room 0207; Voorhees Hall Zimmerli Art Museum; tatifany@yahoo.com

Jorge Reina Schement, Ph.D., Dean of SCILS (School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies), Courtesy Appointment

BA Southern Methodist University; MA University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D. Stanford University

Global telecommunications, social aspects of the information age, Spanish-language media

scils.dean@rutgers.edu

Ulla Berg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Joint appointment with the Anthropology Department (ON LEAVE 2009-2010)

BA University of Copenhagen; MA NYU; MPhil University of Copenhagen; Ph.D. NYU

Migration, community formation, Peruvian migration, ethnographic filmmaking.

Co-editor with Paerregaard. El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y Formaciones Diasporicas en la Migración Peruana

Room 227; uberg@rci.rutgers.edu

Kathleen López, Assistant Professor, Joint appointment with the History Department

BA University of Virginia, MA Cornell University; Ph.D. University of Michigan

Postemancipation Caribbean societies, race and ethnicity in the Americas, international migration, history of the Chinese diaspora

Room 243; kmlopez@rci.rutgers.edu

Carolina Gonzalez, ABD, Instructor

ABD, Berkeley;

Caribbean, Latin American and U.S. minority literatures, cultural studies.

Room 223; cgonza@rci.rutgers.edu

Amanda Warnock, ABD, Instructor

ABD University of Texas; MA Salem State College; BA Salem State College

History of Cuba, Colonial Caribbean, Atlantic History

Room 225; awarnock@mail.utexas.edu

Affiliated Faculty

Regina Marchi, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication, Information, Library Studies.

Ph. D, University of California, San Diego; M.A. San Francisco State University

Culture, Politics, Media, Journalism; Social movements and the news; Community-based media; Political economic forces and cultural identities.

CIL-104, 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, 732-932-7500 ext. 8160 rmarchi@rutgers.edu

Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, Professor, Department of Urban Studies at Rutgers Camden and Community Planning and Director of the Center for Strategic Urban Community Leadership at Rutgers, Camden

B.A., Glassboro State College; MSW Rutgers University; M.A. Ph.D. City University of New York (CUNY).

Center for Strategic Urban Community Leadership, 321 Cooper Street Camden, NJ 08102 856-225-6348; gloriabs@camden.rutgers.edu

Renée Larrier, Ph.D., Associate Professor, French Department

BA Hofstra University, MA Atlanta University, PhD. Columbia University

African and Caribbean Literatures, Literature by Women

103G RAB, University 131 George St.; 732-932-3724; rlarrier@rci.rutgers.edu

Raymond Sanchez Mayers, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Social Work

Ph.D., Heller School for Management and Social Policy, Brandeis U., M.S.W., Barry University, B.A., Baruch College, CUNY

Latino policy issues, Latino immigration, Latino faculty. Latino immigrant health issues and human service agency response to Latino immigration to New Jersey

(ed.) Hispanic Substance Abuse; Dilemmas in Human Services Management: Illustrative Case Studies; Financial Management for Nonprofit Human Service Organizations.

536 George Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 732.932.7520, ext. 11; mayers@rci.rutgers.edu

Julio Nazario, Assistant Dean Honors Program, School of Arts and Sciences

BA Queens College, CUNY; MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts

Latino Arts, Caribbean Cinema

Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus, jnazario@rci.rutgers.edu

Janice Fine, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations

B.A. University of Massachusetts, Boston; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

50 Labor Way, Douglass Campus, (732) 932-1746, jrfine@smlr.rutgers.edu

Nydia Flores, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, GSE Departments of Learning & Teaching and Department of Spanish & Portuguese

B.A. Universidad de Puerto Rico; M.Ed. Temple University; Ph.D. City University Graduate Center

Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, Bicultural Education, Second Language Research Methods

GSE, Rm. 219, 10 Seminary Place, College Ave. Campus; (732) 932-7496 ext. 8244; nflores@rci.rutgers.edu

Peter Guarnaccia, Ph.D. , Professor and Chair Department of Human Ecology & The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research

B.A. Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D. The University of Connecticut

Latinos and mental health, human ecology, medical anthropology, cross-cultural patterns of psychiatric disorders, family strategies for coping with mental illness, cultural competence in mental health organizations

55 Dudley Road, College Ave Campus, 732-932-9153, ext 312; 732-932-6589; guarnaccia@aesop.rutgers.edu

Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Departments of American Studies and Comparative Literature

B.A. Yale College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Yale University

Spanish American literature and cultural studies; Latina/o writing; gender and queer theories

Ruth Adams Bldg., Rm. 108-C, 131 George St; 732-932-5776; bjauregui@amst.rutgers.edu

Camilla Stevens, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

M.A. University of New Mexico; Ph.D. University of Kansas

Caribbean and Latin American Theater

Carpenter House, Rm. 205, 105 George St; 732-932-9412; cstevens@spanport.rutgers.edu;

Lorrin Reed Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History Department, Rutgers Camden

B.A. Columbia College; Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania.

Puerto Ricans in the US; Latin American History, U.S. Immigration and Urban History, World History

856.225.2656; lthomas2@camden.rutgers.edu

Carlos Fernandez, Ph.D., Director, Center for Latino Arts and Culture; Director, Rutgers Study Abroad Summer program in Costa Rica

Ph.D. Indiana University

Folklore and ethnomusicologyvocal and guitar music from Latin America; popular religious practice and traditional music of Costa Rica, Central America and the Caribbean. Books: Romancero General de Costa Rica.  

122 College Avenue, College Ave.Campus; 732-932-1263;cafernan@rci.rutgers.edu

Leonardo Vázquez, Instructor & Director, Professional Development Institute, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

B.S.J., Northwestern University; M.P.L., University of Southern California; M.P.A., University of Southern California

Community development, economic development, management and alliance buidlding

Civic Square Building, room 245; 732-932-3822, x711; vazquezl@rci.rutgers.edu

Ethel Brooks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies

Central American political economy and labor, Gender and transnational protest.Books: Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work.

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 2nd Floor; 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus; ebrooks@rci.rutgers.edu; 732-932-1151 x639

Laura C. Schneider, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Caribbean Basin Geography; Human-environment relations of land-use in rural areas of Latin America; monitoring and modeling land transformation, biophysical remote sensing

B Wing, Lucy Stone Hall, 54 Joyce Kilmer Blvd, Livingston Campus, laschnei@rci.rutgers.edu; (732) 445-0071

James DeFilippis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

BA University of Vermont; MA, Ph.D. Rutgers University

Urban political economy; political philosophy; housing, neighborhoods and states; community development theory and practice.

Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the face of Global Capital (Routledge); co-ed. The Community Development Reader (Routledge)

Civic Square Building, room 365; jdefilip@rci.rutgers.edu (732) 932-3822, x734

Kathe Newman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

B.A., Manhattan College; Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center, City University

Interests include how cities change, what produces the changes and how the changes affect people of color, women, and the poor using methods from political science, geography and planning.

knewman@rci.rutgers.edu; (732) 932-3822, x556

Sherri Ann P. Butterfield, Associate Professor, Acting Director of Women's Studies Program, Rutgers Newark

B.A. Yale University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Michigan

Race and ethnicity, Caribbean immigration, urban sociology, identity and culture, sociology of education, and multiple methods. Faculty member of the Graduate School-Newark faculty in the Global Affairs Program.

sbutter@andromeda.rutgers.edu, (973) 353-5107/1027

Belinda Edmondson, Associate Professor, Department of English and African-American & African Studies, Rutgers Newark

Caribbean, African and other postcolonial literatures. A

Author of Making Men and the editor of Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation. Her current project is Caribbean Middlebrow: Popular Culture and the Caribbean Middle Class.

edmondsn@andromeda.rutgers.edu ;  (973) 353-1586

Sasha Turner, Post Doctoral Fellow, Women and Gender Studies & History Department

Ph.D Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Gender and Race in the Caribbean, Jamaica's sugar industry history

sashturn@rci.rutgers.edu

Laura Lomas, Assistant Professor, English Department, Rutgers-Newark

Ph.D Columbia University

Ethnic and immigrant writing of the United States, Latino(a) Literature and Culture, and Perspectives on American Modernity. She is a founding member of the Rutgers Immigrant Rights Collective.

Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities  (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).

llomas@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Asela Rodriguez de Laguna, Chair, Department of Classical & Modern Languages, Rutgers-Newark

BA University of Puerto Rico; MA, Ph.D University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign

Puerto Rican Literature, Comparative Anglo-Hispanic Relations, Contemporary Hispanic Literature, Theme of Christopher Columbus in Literature

Editor of The Global Impact of the Portuguese Language, Transaction Press, 2001

arlaguna@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Carlos Seiglie, Professor, Department of Economics & Division of Global Affairs,Rutgers-Newark

BA, Rutgers University; Ph.D. The University of Chicago

Applied Microeconomics, including research in defence economics, public choice (political economy), economics of the family, as well as the economic development of Latin America, and in particular, Cuba.

seiglie@andromeda.rutgers.edu; (973) 353-5914

Ebelia Hernandez, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education

BA, California State University, Chico; MS, California State University, Northridge; Ph.D., Indiana University.

Dr. Hernandez's research centers on the Latino college student experience utilizing historical research, critical race theory, and student development theory.

ebelia.hernandez@gse.rutgers.edu ; (732) 932-7496 ext. 8139

Lecturers

Anne Eller, ABD (NYU)

History of the Dominican Republic, Caribbean History, Haitian History

aee218@nyu.edu

Juan Cartagena, J.D.

Latinos and the Law, Drug Policy

jcartagena@CSSNY.ORG

Charles Swift, ABD, Milano School, New School University

West Indians in the US, Public Health Policy

cswift@rci.rutgers.edu

Staff

Sarah O'Meara Gonzalez, Department Administrative Assistant Extraordinaire

Room 231; 732-445-3820; omeara@rci.rutgers.edu

Mekala Audain, Graduate Program Assistant

Room 231; 732-445-3820; maudain@eden.rutgers.edu

Samantha & Maricarmen --Work Study Assistants