People

CLACS Faculty
Ada Ferrer
Email: ada.ferrer@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latin America and Caribbean; Cuba; comparative slavery, nationalism, revolution
Ada Ferrer, History

                        
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Jorge Castañeda
Email: jorge.castaneda@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latin American politics; comparative politics; U.S.-Latin American relations

                        
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Odi Gonzales
Email: og10@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Quechua Oral Tradition XVI-XXI Centuries; Latin American Literature

                        
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Carmen Medeiros
Research/Interest: Andean Studies, critical development theory, indigenous movements, multicultural citizenship, neo-liberal project, post-colonial theory

                        
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Rafael Sanchez
Email: rs193@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Religion and state, colonial/post-colonial theory, nationalism, media, modernity and Latin American history.

CLACS Adjunct Faculty

Peter Lucas
Email: peterlucas@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: International human rights, peace education, global security.

                        
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Patricio  Navia
Email: pdn200@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Electoral systems, democratization and democratic institutions.
Affiliated Faculty
Graduate School of Arts and Science
Anthropology

                        
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Thomas A Abercrombie
Email: thomas.abercrombie@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Cultural history/historical anthropology; colonized societies; postcolonial situations; nationalism; ethnohistory of social movements, gender and sexuality in the Hispanic world; Andes, Spain.

                        
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Arlene Davila
Email: arlene.davila@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: race and ethnicity; nationalism; media studies; political economy, globalization; the politics of museum and visual representation; urban studies; consumption; Latinos in the U.S.

                        
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Anthony F. Di Fiore
Email: anthony.difiore@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Research interests include biological anthropology; primate behavior and ecology; population genetics; South America. Dr. Di Fiore specializes in the comparative behavior, ecology, and population genetics of neotropical primates. His current research projects include a field study of social relationships in woolly and spider monkeys at his field site (Proyecto Primates) in Amazonian Ecuador, collaborative field research on the socioecology of pair-living neotropical primates (including titi monkeys, sakis, and owl monkeys) in Ecuador and Argentina, and molecular studies of population structure and mating systems in many of these primates as well as in red howler monkeys in Venezuela and golden lion tamarins in Brazil.

                        
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Aisha Khan
Email: ak105@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Race and ethnicity; social stratification; theory and method in diaspora studies; religion; the Caribbean and Latin America.

                        
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Renato I. Rosaldo
Email: renato.rosaldo@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Sociocultural anthropology history, society; island Southeast Asia, US Latinos and Latin America.

                        
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Bambi B. Schieffelin
Email: bs4@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Linguistic anthropology, language ideology, literacy, language socialization, childhood, missionization, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean.

                        
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Noelle M.  Stout
Email: noellestout@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Ethnographic film and visual studies; gender and sexuality; feminist anthropology; nationalism; late-socialist Cuba; Cherokee cultural politics
Art History

                        
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Miriam Basilio
Email: miriam.basilio@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain, modern Spanish and Latin American art, and the reception of Latin American art in the United States.
Comparative Literature

                        
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Kamau Brathwaite
Email: kb5@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Caribbean literature, culture, and society
Draper Program
Robin Nagle
Email: robin.nagle@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Consumption, especially garbage; the anthropology of Latin America; religion; narrative ethnohistory.
Economics

                        
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Raquel Fernandez
Email: raquel.fernandez@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: International economics, education and income distribution, political economy.

                        
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Kevin Thom
Email: kevin.thom@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Labor Economics, Development Economics and Applied Microeconometrics
French

                        
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J. Michael Dash
Email: michael.dash@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Francophone/Caribbean Literature; literary theory; translation French to English
History
Lauren Benton
Email: lauren.benton@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Atlantic world, legal history, comparative imperial history.
Lauren Benton, History, Atlantic World
Ada Ferrer
Email: ada.ferrer@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latin America and Caribbean; Cuba; comparative slavery, nationalism, revolution
Ada Ferrer, History
Greg Grandin
Email: grandin@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Central America and Latin America; the cold war; nationalism.
Greg Grandin, History
Sinclair Thomson
Email: st19@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Colonial Latin America; Andean region; peasant and Indian politics; Andean religion; race/ethnicity; historical imagination and political memory; Bolivian history and politics.
Sinclair Thomson, History

                        
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Barbara  Weinstein
Email: bw52@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Modern Latin America, Brazil, labor history, slavery and emancipation, race and gender, regionalism and nationalism.
Barbara Weinstein, History
Jonathan Zimmerman
Email: jlzimm@aol.com
Jonathan Zimmerman, History
Linguistics
Gregory Guy
Email: gregory.guy@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Phonology; historical linguistics; Romance linguistics; pidgin and creole studies; phonetics; sociolinguistics and sociolinguistic universals.

                        
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John Victor Singler
Email: john.singler@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: sociolinguistics; pidgins and creoles; African American English; phonology.

                        
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Renée Blake
Email: rab7@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Urban sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; languages and cultures of the Caribbean.
Museum Studies
Bruce J. Altshuler
Email: bruce.altshuler@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: history of exhibitions, museum studies, modern and contemporary art.
Music

                        
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Jairo Moreno
Email: jm199@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: History of tonal theory and analysis, identity formation and political representation in Latin-America and Latin music in the U.S., and jazz performance practice.

                        
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Ana María Ochoa-Gautier
Email: ana.ochoa@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latin America, particularly Colombia, Mexico and Brazil.
Politics

                        
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Youssef Cohen
Email: youssef.cohen@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Political Methodology, Comparative Politics

                        
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Shepard Forman
Email: shepard.forman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: International Relations

                        
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Christopher Mitchell (Professor Emeritus)
Email: chris.mitchell@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latin American politics, United States foreign policy, political aspects of international migration.

                        
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Adam Przeworski
Email: adam.przeworski@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: political economy, methods of cross-national research, democratic theory.
Social and Cultural Analysis

                        
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Juan Flores
Email: jflores@igc.org
Research/Interest: Social and cultural theory, Latino and Puerto Rican studies, popular music, theory of diaspora and transnational communities, Afro-Latino culture.
Mary Louise Pratt
Email: mlp7@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latin American literature since 1800; contemporary Latin American narratives and the neo-liberal crisis; postcolonial criticism and theory; cultural studies; women and print culture in Latin America; travel literature; literature and colonialism; cultural theory.

                        
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María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Email: msp6@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latina/o cultural studies; development and globalization studies; comparative race in the Americas; 20th century revolutionary thought and literature of the Americas.
Sociology

                        
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Juan E Corradi
Email: juan@corradi.us
Research/Interest: Fear and violence; urban cultures; corporate social responsibility programs in developing countries; sociological theory; sociology of culture.
Florencia Torche
Email: florencia.torche@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Comparative sociology, stratification, education, wealth inequality, intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.

                        
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Jeff Goodwin
Email: jeff.goodwin@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Social movements, revolutions, and terrorism; comparative and historical sociology; social theory; public sociology.

                        
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Guillermina Jasso
Email: guillermina.jasso@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Sociobehavioral theory; distributive justice; status; international migration; inequality; probability distributions; mathematical methods for theory building; factorial survey methods for empirical analysis.
Spanish and Portuguese
Gerard Aching
Email: ga12@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th and 20th-century Caribbean literatures and intellectual history; theories of modernism and modernity in Latin America; slavery and philosophy; visual regimes and politics in Caribbean popular cultures.
Rodolfo Aiello
Email: rodolfo.aiello@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Foreign language teaching methodology, Second Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics
Alexandra Falek
Email: aff209@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latin American literature and culture; film; performing and visual arts; memory studies, border-crossings and migration; translation
Anabel Lopez-Garcia
Email: anabel.lopez@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Manuscript Culture, Translation.
Helene M. Anderson
Email: hma1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Romanticism and the formation of the national canon in Mexico, contemporary women writers of Mexico, politics and literature in Latin America.
Miriam Ayres
Email: mma1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: second language acquisition, methodologies foreign language instruction, comparative literary and critical studies: Brazil, Spain, Spanish America.

                        
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Gabriela Basterra
Email: gabriela.basterra@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Literature and philosophy; modern and contemporary literature in Spanish; tragedy; poetry; ethical philosophy; psychoanalysis; ethics and politics.
Carlos Veloso
Research/Interest: Luso Brazilian Culture; Contemporary Literature; Art and Culture in Latin America; Aesthetics (second half of the 20th century; philosophy of art); Individualism, self knowledge, skepticism, theories of solipsism, phenomenology

                        
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Ana María Dopico
Email: ana.dopico@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Comparative studies of the Americas, theory and history of the novel, Cuban and Caribbean Culture, nationhood and imperialism, syncretism and visual culture, memory and popular culture, national poets, public intellectuals and cultural genealogies, U.S. Latino cultures, North-South studies/cultural politics of the global South, gender and narrative, psychoanalysis and social mythologies.
Georgina Dopico-Black
Email: gdb3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early-modern Spanish literature
Eduardo Segura
Email: es140@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Foreign language methodology, second language acquisition.
Elizabeth A.  Augspach
Email: ea38@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Medieval Studies, Second Language Acquisition.
Enrique  Del Risco
Email: ed286@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Contemporary Latin American Literature; Contemporary Cultural Studies; Cuban Culture and Literature; Nation and National Mythologies; Cultural Exiles.
Esther  A. Truzman
Email: et41@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th Century Peninsular and Latin American texts, Transatlantic Studies, Identity Politics.
James D. Fernández
Email: jf2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: literature, history, and culture of modern Spain; autobiography; cultural relations between Spain and Latin America; visions of Spain in the United States.
Sibylle Fischer
Email: sibylle.fischer@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Caribbean and Latin American literatures (Spanish, Portuguese, French); culture and politics in the nineteenth century; literature and dictatorship; literature and philosophy; cultural, aesthetic, and political theory; the Black Atlantic; the Haitian Revolution.
Gabriel  Giorgi
Email: gag206@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Literature from the Southern Cone; biopolitics; queer theory and gender studies; literature and philosophy; critical theory.
Heriberto J Hernández
Email: hh46@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Foreign language methodology, second language acquisition.

                        
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Jacques Lezra
Research/Interest: Comparative literature and literary theory; Shakespeare; the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Europe.
Jill Lane
Research/Interest: Latin American Theater And Performance
Assistant Professor. Deputy Director and Associate Director at Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York City. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Adjunct Instructor. Affiliated Faculty: Visual Cultures; Performance Studies.
Jordana Mendelson
Research/Interest: Early twentieth-century visual culture in Spain
Dr. Mendelson's research focuses on early twentieth-century visual culture in Spain. Her articles have appeared in The Art Journal, Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza, Catalan Review, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and Modernism/Modernity. She is the author of Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation 1929-1939 (Penn State University Press, 2005) and Revistas y Guerra 1936-1939/Magazines and War 1936-1939 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2007), and the co-author of Margaret Michaelis: Fotografía, Vanguardia y Política en la Barcelona de la República (Institut Valencià d'Art Moderno, 1999). She has curated numerous exhibitions, including “Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War” (International Center of Photography, 2007).
Kenneth Krabbenhoft
Email: kk1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Early-modern Spanish rhetoric and poetics (Góngora, Quevedo, Gracián); the Western mystical tradition, especially the Spanish 16th century and the kabbalah of the Spanish diaspora; Portuguese and Brazilian literature (Clarice Lispector, Sofia de Melo, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago); science-fiction; and translation.
Jo Labanyi
Email: jl1220@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; film, especially that of the early Franco period; gender studies; popular culture; memory, especially in relation to the Spanish Civil War.
Laura Amelio
Email: lca220@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: 19th and 20th Century Spanish literature, rhetoric, romanticism, literary theory, translation.
Carlos F. Martinez
Email: cfm7204@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Foreign language methodology, second language acquisition.
Sylvia Molloy
Email: sm3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: comparative American literature, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, autobiography, fin-de-siècle literatures.
Judith K. Némethy
Email: jn2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: foreign language methodology, second-language acquisition, curricular planning, teacher training, ethnic and minority studies, émigré literature.
Nuria Burrel-Diez
Email: nuria.burrel@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Idealism, Aesthetics, Foreign Language Acquisition.
Marta C. Peixoto
Email: marta.peixoto@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Brazilian literature, literary theory, gender theory, modern poetry.
Eduardo Subirats
Email: ers4@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Spanish intellectual history; the Counter Reformation and the colonisation of Spanish America; the Enlightenment; avant-garde theory; artistic movements in Spain and Latin America; modern Latin American and Spanish essay.
Tirso Cleves
Email: tc54@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: The short story, Spanish and ESL Education
Hanya Wozniak Brayman
Email: hwb1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Foreign language methodology, second language acquisition
Lila Zemborain
Email: lz2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Twentieth-century Spanish-American Poetry; relationships between visual arts and contemporary Spanish-American poetry.
María José Zubieta
Email: mjz1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Foreign Language methodology, second language acquisition
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Edward J Sullivan
Email: edward.sullivan@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Art of Latin America, 19th, 20th century art of the Iberian Peninsula, 17th/20th century, Caribbean art.
College of Arts and Science
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Marie Cruz Soto
Email: m.cruz@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Identity negotiations, (post)memory and other historical narrations, nationalism, community formations, transnational networks, gender, race and imperialism.
Stacy Pies
Email: sep1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Stacy Pies teaches courses that explore the role of narrative and culture in texts and human relationships, as well as courses exploring poetry and poetics. Her teaching and research interests include poetry, world literature, narrative across the disciplines and narrative theory, literary criticism, literature and philosophy, and writing on cities and urbanism. Her courses include the writing seminars Life, Stories, Culture and Imagining Cities and the interdisciplinary seminars Narrative Investigations, Metaphor and Meaning, Caliban, and The Philosophic Dialogue. She has helped develop and teach Gallatin travel courses in France and Cuba
Millery Polyné
Email: millery.polyne@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Post-occupation Haiti, transnational socio-political movements (Pan-Americanism and Pan-Africanism); US foreign policy in the Caribbean; intellectual and cultural history.
Alejandro  Velasco
Email: av48@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Social movements, urban culture and democratization.
Institute of Fine Arts
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
René A. Caldentey
Email: rcaldent@stern.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Customer Service, Optimization, Probability Statistics, Retail Management, Stochastic Modeling.
Ignacio Esponda
Email: iesponda@stern.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization.
Juan Pedro Gómez
Email: jgomez@stern.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Asset Pricing, Management Compensation.
Gabriel Natividad
Email: gnativid@stern.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Research focuses primarily on how the strategic and financial decisions of the firm are intertwined, especially in companies with a multidivisional form; empirical industrial organization and financial economics; real consequences of information and financing, focusing on specific industries such as the motion picture industry in the United States and the microfinance sector in emerging countries.
Jeffrey Sharlach
Email: jsharlac@stern.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Public relations and marketing communications services for global companies and brands targeting Latin American and U.S. Hispanic audiences.
Chandrika Tandon
Email: ctandon@stern.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Managing turnarounds and integration of mergers and acquisitions.
Gustavo J. Vulcano
Email: gvulcano@stern.nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Application of auction theory to op mgt, Revenue management, Optimization.
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
John  J. Gershman
Email: john.gershman@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: U.S. foreign policy in East and Southeast Asia, the politics of international financial institutions and multilateralism, the political economy of democracy and development, the strategies and responses of social movements and NGOs to globalization, and terrorism.
Sonia M.  Ospina
Email: sonia.ospina@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Public management reform, governance and collaborative problem-solving in public service, both in the United States and in Latin America.
School of Law
Cristina Rodríguez
Email: cristina.rodriguez@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Language, culture and the law, constitutional law, international law and international human rights.
Bryan Stevensn
Email: bstevenson@eji.org
Research/Interest: Criminal justice reform, punishment, death penalty and prison conditions.
School of Medicine
Silver School of Social Work
Alma J. Carten
Email: alma.carten@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Child welfare, and the delivery of culturally competent services to children and families;Caribbean and African immigrant communities in the New York metropolitan area.
The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
Alisha Ali
Email: alisha.ali@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Poverty, mental health, domestic violence.
Gary  Anderson
Email: ga34@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Critical Theory, Neoliberalism and Educational Policy, Participatory Action Research, Paulo Freire.
Fabienne Doucet
Email: fd30@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Immigrant children’s educational experiences, immigrant adaptation, Haitian immigrants, black children’s educational experiences, immigrant and culturally diverse families, family-school-community partnerships, parenting values and beliefs about education, racial and ethnic identity, racial socialization, gender socialization, social class, qualitative methodology, teaching for social justice / anti-bias education, critical theory, critical discourse analysis.
Miriam Eisenstein  Ebsworth
Email: mee1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Second Language Acquisition (special focus on grammar development) , Intercultural Pragmatics, Second Language Writing, Language Attitudes, Technology and Second Language Learning.
Pamela  Fraser-Abder
Email: pamela.abder@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: The professional development of science and mathematics teachers with special attention to the impact of gender and cultural issues on teaching and learning, the development of research-based strategies for achieving scientific literacy for all.
Lorena Llosa
Email: lorena.llosa@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Dr. Llosa's interests include language assessment, second and foreign language teaching and learning, and program evaluation. Her current research projects address validity issues related to the assessment of English learners’ language proficiency in large urban school districts, the development of a diagnostic assessment of high school students’ academic writing, and the testing and placement of language minority students in California’s community colleges.
James Macinko
Email: james.macinko@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Brazil, evaluation of public policies, child health, health disparities.
Gigliana  Melzi
Email: gigliana.melzi@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Language and literacy development.
Shondel Nero
Email: shondel.nero@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Language, literacy, and education of Caribbean Creole English Speakers; Anglophone Caribbean Language and Culture; Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL); Teaching Standard English as a Second Dialects (SESD); World Englishes and Dialects in Education; Sociolinguistics; Language and Identity; Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, especially with regard to immigrant children from the Anglo and Spanish Caribbean.
Pedro Noguera
Email: pedro.noguera@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Sociology of education, race and ethnic relations, sociology of development, immigration, political change in the Caribbean.
Juan Pinon
Email: jpinon@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Latino/Latin American media, globalization, migration, political economy, television studies and social and cultural practices.
Amy Schwartz
Email: amy.schwartz@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Applied econometrics, focusing on state and local governments and urban policy, particularly education policy and finance.
Carola Suárez-Orozco
Email: cso2@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Immigration; identity; education.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Email: mso3@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with a focus on the study of immigration and globalization; Latino Studies.
Jonathan  Zimmerman
Email: JLZIMM@aol.com
Research/Interest: History of Education; Sex and Sexuality; History and Memory.
Tisch School of the Arts
Gwendolyn  Alker
Email: gwendolyn.alker@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Gender and Performance, Religion and Performance, Latin American and Latino Theatre, Sound Theory and Linguistic Philosophy. 
José Angel Santana
Email: j.a.santana@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Member: Screen Actors Guild, Actor's Equity, American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. He is a lifetime member of New York's Ensemble Studio Theater and his aim is to make a vital contribution to the community in which he lives.
Barbara  Browning
Email: barbara.browning@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Brazil and the African diaspora, dance ethnography; race, gender and postcoloniality, spirit possession and healing.
André Lepecki
Email: andre.lepecki@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Relationships between dance, philosophy and sculpture.
Randy Martin
Email: randy.martin@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Ethnography, Cultural and Political Theory, performing arts, labor, social movements.
José E. Muñoz
Email: jose.munoz@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Queer theory and critical race analysis.
Robert P. Stam
Email: rps1@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Brazilian cinema novo; Third World cinema.
Diana Taylor
Email: diana.taylor@nyu.edu
Research/Interest: Performance and politics, theatre and ritual, gender and performance.
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