The Latin American Institute provides an institutional base of support for UCLA's community of faculty Latin Americanists in more than thirty disciplines and professional fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, and professions who conduct research and teach on Latin America and its role in the world.
These scholars have an international reputation for the excellence of their research, teaching, publications and service. A group of approximately 70 faculty members devote the major part of their research and teaching activity to Latin America, advise Latin American Studies students, and server on Interdepartmental Degree committees. Their contributions to the Latin American Institute include committee service, fundraising, hosting guests, and moderating public programs.
African American Studies
Ugo EduKeywords:Gender, Public Health, Brazil, Science, Medicine, Racism
Anthropology
H. Clark BarrettKeywords:Latin America, Ecuador, Amazonia, Venezuela
Carole BrownerKeywords:Latin America, Comparative Latin America
Jason De LeónKeywords:Mexico
Christopher DonnanKeywords:Peru, Andean Region
Justin DunnavantKeywords:Archaeology, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Caribbean
Molly FoxKeywords:Latin America, Women's Studies, Mexico
Linda GarroKeywords:Mexico
Allen JohnsonKeywords:Latin America, Labor, Cultural anthropology, Social anthropology
Richard LesureKeywords:Mexico, Central America, Ecuador
Jessica LynchKeywords:Biological anthropology, Environment, Amazonia
Jemima PierreKeywords:Haiti
Dwight ReadKeywords:Mexico
Shannon SpeedKeywords:Africa, Latin America, Politics, Development, Brazil, Social anthropology , Biological anthropology, African Diaspora, Mexico, Comparative Latin America
Charles StanishKeywords:Archaeology, Peru, Bolivia, Andean Region
Thomas WakeKeywords:Archaeology, Caribbean
Art
Rodrigo ValenzuelaKeywords:Art, Chile
Art History
Cecelia KleinKeywords:Mexico
David KunzleKeywords:Latin America, Art, Art History, Cuba
Stella NairKeywords:Andean Region
Thiago Sevilhano PuglieriKeywords:Brazil, Art History, Archaeology
Charlene Villaseñor BlackKeywords:Latin America, Mexico
César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Leisy AbregoKeywords:Central America, Immigration
Karina AlmaKeywords:Latin America, Central America
Eric AvilaKeywords:Latin America, Mexico
Judith F. BacaKeywords:Mexico
Maylei BlackwellKeywords:Latin America, Mexico
Helen Burgos-EllisKeywords:Latin America, Mexico
Alicia Gaspar De AlbaKeywords:Mexico
Audrey HarrisKeywords:Gender, Film, Literature, Mexico
Raúl Hinojosa-OjedaKeywords:Mexico
Reynaldo MaciasKeywords:Education, Language
María Cristina PonsKeywords:Mexico, Argentina
Martha Ramirez-OropezaKeywords:Mexico
Robert Chao RomeroKeywords:Mexico
Otto Santa AnaKeywords:Mexico
Abel ValenzuelaKeywords:Mexico
Chris Zepeda-MillánKeywords:Latin America, Immigration
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Miguel Garcia GaribayKeywords:Mexico
Comparative Literature
Efraín KristalKeywords:Peru
David Geffen School of Medicine
Elizabeth BarnertKeywords:Human Rights, El Salvador, Immigration
Ines BoechatKeywords:Brazil, Medicine, Women's Studies, AIDS
Edwin L. Cooper, PhD, ScDKeywords:Mexico
Judith CurrierKeywords:Brazil
Jaime G. DevilleKeywords:Health, Medicine, Peru
Patrick DowlingKeywords:Mexico
David Hayes-BautistaKeywords:Mexico
Reza JarrahyKeywords:Latin America, Guatemala
Jorge Lazareff, M.D.Keywords:Latin America
Karin NielsenKeywords:Brazil
Michael A. RodríguezKeywords:Health, Medicine, Comparative Latin America, Immigration
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Donald ButhKeywords:Mexico
Malcolm GordonKeywords:Ecuador
Henry HespenheideKeywords:Costa Rica
Nathan KraftKeywords:Brazil, Environment, Ecuador, Costa Rica
Park NobelKeywords:Latin America, Mexico
Thomas SmithKeywords:Africa, Latin America, UCLA, Environment, Ecuador
Arthur WinerKeywords:Latin America, Public Health
Felipe ZapataKeywords:Latin America, Environment
Economics
Ariel BursteinKeywords:Latin America
Arnold C. HarbergerKeywords:Latin America, Mexico, Chile
Hugo HopenhaynKeywords:Economics, Latin America, Comparative Latin America
Juliana Londoño-VélezKeywords:Economics, Latin America, Argentina, Colombia
Rosa MatzkinKeywords:Latin America, Comparative Latin America
Rodrigo PintoKeywords:Economics, Brazil, Poverty Reduction, Mexico
Aaron TornellKeywords:Economics, Latin America, Economic Theory, Mexico
English
Elizabeth DeLoughreyKeywords:Environment, Caribbean
Marissa K. LópezKeywords:Latin America, Literature
Ethnomusicology
Justo AlmarioKeywords:Latin America, Colombia, Cuba
Kenny BurrellKeywords:Latin America, Comparative Latin America
Paul De CastroKeywords:Latin America, Cuba
Jesús GuzmánKeywords:Mexico
Steven LozaKeywords:Latin America, Brazil, Music, Mexico, Cuba
Anthony SeegerKeywords:Brazil
Gender Studies
Joshua Javier GuzmánKeywords:Los Angeles, Gender
Elizabeth MarchantKeywords:Comparative Latin America
Geography
Stephen BellKeywords:Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay
Judith CarneyKeywords:Geography, Africa, Gender, UCLA, Globalization, African Diaspora, Women's Studies, Environment, Black Atlantic, Agricultural Development, Mexico
Thomas GillespieKeywords:Mexico, Central America
Hartmut WalterKeywords:Brazil, Mexico, Central America
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Patricia GándaraKeywords:Mexico
David G. GarcíaKeywords:History, Immigration, Theatre
Sylvia HurtadoKeywords:Latin America, Education, Mexico
José Felipe MartínezKeywords:Latin America, Education
John RichardsonKeywords:Central America
Lucrecia SantibañezKeywords:Education, Language Proficiency, Immigration
Daniel SolorzanoKeywords:Mexico
Carlos Alberto TorresKeywords:Latin America, Politics, Education, Brazil, Sociology, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba
Concepcion ValadezKeywords:Brazil, Mexico, Paraguay
History
Andrew ApterKeywords:Africa, History, Cultural anthropology, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic
Robin DerbyKeywords:Latin America, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic
Robert A. HillKeywords:Africa, Latin America, Religion, History, African Diaspora, Cuba, Caribbean
Peter James HudsonKeywords:Latin America, History, African Diaspora, Caribbean, Racism
Kelly Lytle HernandezKeywords:Mexico
Katherine MarinoKeywords:Latin America, Gender
Glenn PennyKeywords:Latin America, History, Comparative Latin America, Immigration
Fernando Pérez MontesinosKeywords:Environment, Mexico
Carla PestanaKeywords:History, Caribbean
William SummerhillKeywords:Brazil
Kevin TerracianoKeywords:Latin America, History, Mexico
James W. WilkieKeywords:Globalization, History, Mexico, Bolivia
Linguistics
Pamela MunroKeywords:Mexico, Paraguay
Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
Larry SimpsonKeywords:Brazil
Music
Arturo O'FarrillKeywords:Latin America, Music, Mexico, Cuba
Walter PonceKeywords:Latin America, Mexico, Comparative Latin America
Musicology
Cesar FavilaKeywords:Music, Mexico
Elisabeth Le GuinKeywords:Music, Mexico
Tamara LevitzKeywords:Cuba
Political Science
Matt BarretoKeywords:Politics, Latinos in the US
Barbara GeddesKeywords:Southern Cone
Anthony PagdenKeywords:Latin America, Comparative Latin America
Margaret PetersKeywords:Politics, Globalization, Immigration
Raymond RoccoKeywords:Mexico, Central America, Costa Rica
Psychology
Tiffany BrannonKeywords:Latin America, Racism
Patricia GreenfieldKeywords:Mexico
School of Nursing
Maria Elena RuizKeywords:Mexico
Social Welfare
Rosina BecerraKeywords:Mexico
Amy RitterbuschKeywords:Outreach, Human Rights
Carlos SantosKeywords:Education, Children and the Family, Racism
Fernando Torres-GilKeywords:Mexico
Sociology
Cesar AyalaKeywords:Caribbean
Rubén Hernández-LeónKeywords:Latin America, Mexico, Immigration, Migrations
Cecilia MenjívarKeywords:Gender, Law, Children and the Family, Central America, Immigration, Migrations, immigration laws and enforcement, Immigrant “il/legality,”
Vilma OrtizKeywords:Mexico, Latinos in the US
Andrés VillarrealKeywords:Public Health, Immigration, Racism, Emigration
Roger WaldingerKeywords:Immigration, Migrations, Emigration, Assimilation, Integration, Citizenship, National identity
Spanish and Portuguese
Patricia Arroyo CalderónKeywords:Central America
Adriana BergeroKeywords:Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay
Hector CalderonKeywords:Mexico
Greg CohenKeywords:Film, Brazil, Argentina
Verónica CortinezKeywords:Mexico, Chile
Jose Cruz-SalvadoresKeywords:Comparative Latin America
John DagenaisKeywords:Latin America, Comparative Latin America
Luz María De La TorreKeywords:Ecuador
Juliet Falce-RobinsonKeywords:Mexico
Randal JohnsonKeywords:Latin America, Film, Brazil
Ji Young KimKeywords:Language, Language Proficiency, Linguistics
Patrícia LinoKeywords:Brazil
Victoria MateuKeywords:Latin America, Language Proficiency, Linguistics
Jorge MarturanoKeywords:Cuba
José Luiz Passos Keywords:Brazil
Susan PlannKeywords:Immigration
A. Carlos QuícoliKeywords:Brazil
Stephen "Kip" TobinKeywords:Latin America, Literature, Mexico
Jesus TorrecillaKeywords:Mexico
Maarten Van DeldenKeywords:Latin America, Mexico
Maite Zubiaurre
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Felipe CaroKeywords:Latin America, Chile
Christian DippelKeywords:Economics, Economic History, Caribbean
Sebastian EdwardsKeywords:Latin America, Mexico, Chile
Edward LeamerKeywords:Economics, China, Economic Theory, Econometrics, Mexico, Argentina
Eduardo SchwartzKeywords:Latin America, Comparative Latin America
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Julia BaileyKeywords:Public Health, Health, Medicine
Hiram Beltrán-SánchezKeywords:Brazil, Mexico
James MacinkoKeywords:Public Health, Brazil
Anne PebleyKeywords:India, Tibet, Guatemala
Samuel StrattonKeywords:Public Health, Health, Immigration
Bonnie TaubKeywords:Mexico, Guatemala, Uruguay
Jane ValentineKeywords:Public Health, Health, Environment, Mexico
Arturo BustamanteKeywords:Mexico
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Victor H. NarroKeywords:Los Angeles, Labor, Immigration
Gaspar Rivera SalgadoKeywords:Labor, Mexico, Immigration
Janna Shadduck-HernándezKeywords:Mexico
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Amada ArmentaKeywords:Mexico, Immigration, Racism
Stephen ComminsKeywords:Africa, Gender, Development, India, Globalization, Human Capital Development, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), Poverty Reduction, Governance, Mexico
Susanna HechtKeywords:Geography, Latin America, Development, Brazil, Mexico, Central America, Bolivia
Veronica HerreraKeywords:Latin America, Comparative Latin America
Paavo MonkkonenKeywords:China, Japan, Mexico
Manisha ShahKeywords:Indonesia, India, Mexico, Ecuador
Michael StorperKeywords:Brazil
Chris TillyKeywords:Latin America, Mexico, Comparative Latin America
UCLA School of Law
Joseph BerraKeywords:Human Rights, Central America, El Salvador, Immigration
Laura E. GómezKeywords:Latin America, Law, Mexico, Central America, Immigration
Maximo LangerKeywords:Latin America, Argentina
Peter L. ReichKeywords:Religion, Law, Mexico
Richard SteinbergKeywords:Latin America, Law
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Maria Elena De Las CarrerasKeywords:Argentina
Kristy Guevara-FlanaganKeywords:Gender, Film, Latinos in the US
Chon NoriegaKeywords:Mexico
Jose Luis ValenzuelaKeywords:Mexico
Edit VillarrealKeywords:Mexico
Fabián WagmisterKeywords:Latin America
World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Donald J. CosentinoKeywords:Africa, Dance, Art, Religion, Humanities, Language, Literature, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Cuba
David Delgado ShorterKeywords:Latin America, Cultural anthropology, Cultural Studies, Mexico
Alex Ungprateeb FlynnKeywords:Latin America, Art, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina
Patrick PolkKeywords:Haiti