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
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
