Core Faculty

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• Ulla Berg, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director (On Leave Spring 2022)
• LCS
• Anthropology
• Email
• Office: A-262, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: 848-445-4230

Read more: Ulla Berg, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:307 Latino Ethnography | 01:595:402 Documenting Latinx Lives | 01:595:403 Documenting Latinx Lives

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• Carlos U. Decena, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• LCS
• WG&SS
• Email
• Office: B204, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: 848-445-3812

Read more: Carlos U. Decena, Ph.D.

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• Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor, Department Chair
• LCS
• Sociology
• Email
• Office: A-261, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: 848-445-4229

Read more: Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:297 Caribbean Societies | 01:595:394 Barrio/Ghetto Life | 01:595:412 Counting Afro Latina/o/xs: The Census and Race

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• Priscilla Ferreira, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Geography
• LCS
• Email
• Office: Office: Lucy Stone Hall, Room TBD, Livingston Campus
• Phone: (848) 445-4376

Read more: Priscilla Ferreira, Ph.D.

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• Lilia Fernández, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor
• LCS
• History
• Email
• Phone: (848) 445-4344

Read more: Lilia Fernández, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:351 Mexican American History | 01:595:369 Latino History (Fernandez) | 01:595:412 Latinos in New Jersey

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• Tatiana Flores, Ph.D.
• Professor
• LCS
• Art History
• Email
• Office: A254, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: (848)-445-3874

Read more: Tatiana Flores, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:226 Art and Visual Culture of the Caribbean | 01:595:230 Latinx Art | 01:595:316 Mexican Art Across Borders

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• Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, Ph.D.
• Professor, Acting Undergraduate Director (Spring 2022)
• LCS
• History
• Email
• Office: B-200 | Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: 848-445-3824

Read more: Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:204 History of the Caribbean to 1898 | 01:595:205 History of the Caribbean since 1898 | 01:595:312 History of Mexico | 01:595:369 Latino History (Lauria) | 01:595:371 History Puerto Rico | 01:595:391 Central American Revolutions | 01:595:412 Seminar: Urban Latinos

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• Kenneth Sebastian León, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• LCS and Criminal Justice Program
• Email
• Office: Office Room: A-259, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: (848) 445-4242

Read more: Kenneth Sebastian León, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:215 Research Methods in Latino and Caribbean Studies

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• Kathleen López, Ph.D
• Associate Professor
• LCS
• History
• Email
• Office: A-263, Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: 848-445-4207

Read more: Kathleen López, Ph.D.

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• Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Ph.D.
• Professor
• LCS
• Comparative Literature
• Email
• Office: A-260 | Lucy Stone Hall, Livingston Campus
• Phone: 848-445-4228

Read more: Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:202 Color-lines and Borderlands

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• Yalidy Matos, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Political Science and LCS
• Email
• Phone: (848) 932-9327

Read more: Yalidy Matos, Ph.D.

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• Michelle Stephens, Ph.D.
• Executive Director
• Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
• Professor, English and LCS
• Email
• Office: Room 008, Murray Hall, College Avenue Campus
• Phone: (848) 932-7974

Read more: Michelle Stephens, Ph.D.

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• Camilla Stevens, Ph.D.
• Professor
• LCS and Spanish and Portuguese
• Email
• Office: A257, Lucy Stone Hall
• Phone: (848) 445-3873

Read more: Camilla Stevens, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:270 Introduction to Caribbean Literature | 01:595:342 Postcolonial Caribbean Theater and Performance

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• Shantee Rosado, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Africana Studies and LCS
• Email

Read more: Shantee Rosado, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:298 Latinos and Migration

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• Omaris Z. Zamora, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• LCS and Africana Studies
• Email
• Phone: (848) 445-4232

Read more: Omaris Z. Zamora, Ph.D.

• Courses: 01:595:240 Latino Literature and Culture | 01:595:312 Poetics of Black Diasporas: Literature and Performance | 01:595:412 Seminar: Black and Latinx Performance and Digital Cultures