NYLARNet Affiliated Researchers

Christine E. Bose

Professor of Sociology, Women's Studies, and LACS.

Areas of specialty: Women's Work; Social Stratification.

Jennifer Burrell

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Areas of specialty: Political economy, structural and political violence, human rights, forensic anthropology, transitional states, migration, development, gender, neoliberalization, anthropology and history.

José E. Cruz

Associate Professor of Political Science and LACS.

Areas of specialty: Latino political participation in the Northeast, focusing on Puerto Ricans in New York and Connecticut. In particular, it explores the role of race and ethnicity in the political process, how minority elites fashion political alliances, and the role of leadership in bridging the gap between political representation and policy responsiveness.

Hernán Díaz Maradei

Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies

Areas of specialty: comparative study of North and South American literature, modern transatlantic literature, aesthetics, the place, role and institutional status of literary criticism, modernism, modernismo, and theories of the avant-garde, theories of space, insularisms, the problem of literary autonomy in the 19th century.

Susan Gauss

Assistant Professor with Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies and History Departments

Areas of specialty: industrialization and development in modern Latin America; political and social origins of Mexico's postrevolutionary transition from reformist agrarianism to state-led, urban-industrialism; labor history; and gender.

Glyne Griffith

Associate Professor English and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Departments

Areas of specialty: The intersection of literature, ideology and culture, and his scholarship and teaching examine the inter-relatedness of imperialist discourse and Caribbean literature and culture.

Alethia Jones

Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Political Science.

Areas of specialty: American Politics, Urban and Ethnic Politics, Politics of the Policymaking Process, American Political Development

Fernando Leiva

Associate Professor Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Department

Areas of specialty: How particular economic ideas and policies transform class and gender relations in economies undergoing sustained processes of internationalization and the relationship between government-sanctioned labor market deregulation, firm-level labor "flexibility" strategies, and the changing nature of poverty and inequality. Latin American neostructuralism, its strengths and weaknesses, the kinds of transformations it enacts, and the power relations that it embeds in local institutions, culture, and populations.

Daniel C. Levy

Distinguished Professor Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies, and Political Science.

Areas of specialty: Private higher education around the world and the history of U.S. assistance to Latin America in the "golden age of development," mainly the postwar period. and efforts and impacts made by foundations, bilateral agencies, and multilateral banks, all working with partners in Latin America, to reform universities.

Walter E. Little

Associate Professor Anthropology Department

Areas of specialty: Cultural and Ethnic Identity, Cultural Performance, Gender Relations, Marketplace and Household Economics, Transcultural Studies - Tourism, Urban Anthropology.

Colbert I. Nepaulsingh

Professor Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Department

Areas of specialty: Medieval Spanish literature and culture; the impact of medieval Spain on the New World; Caribbean literature and culture; Jews in medieval Spain and Jews in the New World.

Tomas Urayoan Noel

Assistant Professor

Areas of specialty: Latino/a Literatures and Cultures, poetics of the Americas, and (U.S.) American poetry since 1950, with an emphasis on questions of performance, translation, circulation, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Blanca Ramos

Assistant Professor School of Social Welfare and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies

Areas of specialty: Mental health, acculturation, gerontology, and domestic violence.

Jesús Alonso Regalado

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Bibliographer.

Patricia de Santana Pinho

Assistant Professor Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies

Areas of specialty: Blackness, whiteness, racism, and forms of resistance to racism. African-American roots tourism to Brazil and how it affects transnational black relations and shapes the position of Brazil in the Black Atlantic world.

Patricia Strach

Assistant Professor Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

Areas of specialty: Public Policy, Citizen Participation, Public Administration.

Barbara Sutton

Assistant Professor Women's Studies

Areas of specialty: Globalization, body politics, human rights, women's and global justice movements, and intersections of inequalities based on gender, class, race-ethnicity, sexuality, and nation, particularly in Latin American contexts.

Gilbert A. Valverde

Associate Professor Educational Administration and Policy Studies, School of Education

Areas of specialty: Curriculum policy, policy analysis, evaluation and indicator systems and development assistance for education.

James W. Wessman

Professor Latin America, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies and Anthropology

Areas of specialty: Economic anthropology, political economy.

Regina Cortina

Assistant Professor of Education

Kevin Dougherty

Associate Professor of Higher Education
Program Coordinator of Higher and Postsecondary Education Director for the Institute of Higher Education

Edmund W. Gordon

John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus- Yale University
Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education, Emeritus- Teachers College, Columbia University
Senior Scholar in Residence- The SUNY Rockland Community College

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Edwin Meléndez

Director of Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro)

Areas of specialty: Hispanics in the labor force, workforce development.

Andrés Torres

Researcher Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York.

Areas of specialty: Puerto Rican diaspora, workforce development, health care and human services, Puerto Ricans in the New York Political Economy.

Carlos Vargas-Ramos

Public Policy Researcher Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York.

Areas of specialty: Settlement patterns and residential segregation of Puerto Ricans in the U.S.; state of housing for Hispanics.

Alberto Hernández

Library and Archives

José A. Camacho

Library and Archives

Pedro Juan Hernández

Library and Archives

Jorge Matos

Library and Archives

Paola Mata-Peñafiel

Library and Archives

Mario Ramírez

Library and Archives

Félix Rivera

Library and Archives

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Sofia Villenas

Director of Latino Studies Program
Associate Professor

Maria Cristina Garcia

Professor Latino Studies and History

Ronald Mize

Assistant Professor Latino Studies and Development Sociology

Arturo-Ignacio Sanchez

Assistant Professor Latino Studies and City & Regional Planning

Pilar Parra

Lecturer Latino Studies Program

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry (on leave 2009-10)

Associate Professor Latino Studies and Anthropology

Mary Pat Brady

Associate Professor Latino Studies Program and Department of English

Debra Castillo

Professor Romance Studies

Ray Craib

Assistant Professor History

David Cruz de Jesus

Maria Fernandez

Assistant Professor History of Art

Angela Gonzales

Assistant Professor Development Sociology

Michael Jones-Correa

Professor Government

Nilsa Maldonado-Mendez

Senior Lecturer Romance Studies

Steven Pond

Assistant Professor Music

Héctor Vélez

Adjunct Professor Latino Studies and Sociology

Héctor D. Abruña

Professor Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lourdes Benería

Professor City and Regional Planning

Carlos Bustamante

Assistant Professor Biological Statistics and Computational Biology

Marianella Casasola

Associate Professor Human Development

Frederic W. Gleach

Senior Lecturer Anthropology

Edmundo Paz-Soldán

Associate Professor Romance Studies

Eduardo M. Peñalver

Associate Professor of Law

Ernesto Quiñonez

Assistant Professor Creative Writing

Eloy Rodriguez

Professor Plant Biology

Roberto Sierra

Professor Music

Amy Villarejo

Associate Professor Theatre Film and Dance

Helena Viramontes

Professor Creative Writing

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Ramona Hernández

Professor of Sociology
Director CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

Anthony Stevens-Acevedo

Assistant Director CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

Sarah Aponte

Head Librarian CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library

Idilio Gracia Peña

Chief Archivist

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