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Adriana
Zavala
Ph.D. Brown University, 2001. Assistant Professor, Department
of Art and Art History, Tufts University, where she teaches
the history of modern and contemporary Latin American art.
She is currently preparing a book manuscript on gender and
representation in twentieth-century Mexican painting, film
and popular visual culture.
Agustin
Lao-Montes
Instructor in the Department of Sociology at UMass Amherst.
Alberto
Sandoval
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Mount Holyoke
College. He specializes in Spanish theater in the seventeenth
century, Latin American colonial discourse, and U.S. Latino
Theater. His current research involves Puerto Rican cultural
representation of air migration and identity formation, and
AIDS and Latino literature. He has published numerous articles
in scholarly journals in the U.S. and Latin America, as well
as a book of poetry: Nueva York tras bastidores/New York Backstage
(Chile: Cuarto Propio, 1993), and a play: Side Effects.
Aldo Santiago
Lauria
Ph.D,, University of Chicago. Associate Professor, Department
of History and Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies
Program, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. His main
areas of interest include history of Latin America, 18-20th
Centuries, Central American and Caribbean history, as well
as Latinos in the U.S.
Ana M.
Echevarría-Morales
Assistant Professor in the Foreign Languages Department at
Salem State College. She is also the coordinator of the Peace
Institute at SSC. Her teaching and research interests include:
Caribbean and Latin American Literatures in original languages
and in translation, U.S. Latino Literature, and Theater. During
Fall 2002, she had the opportunity to teach two sections of
a "Community Placements" course where students had
the opportunity to practice language and intercultural skills
while serving Salem's Hispanic community through volunteer
work in local community agencies.
Andrés
Torres
Andrés Torres is a labor economist and professor at
the College of Public and Community Service of UMass Boston.
He was appointed director of the Mauricio Gastón Institute
in 1998. Previously he was coordinator of the Latino Studies
Program and the Center for Labor Research at UMass Boston.
Dr. Torres received his doctorate in economics from the New
School for Social Research in New York. Before joining UMass
Boston in 1991, he worked in a number of community-based organizations
and public agencies in New York conducting policy analyses
and program evaluations. He has published studies of labor
market analyses of urban populations, workforce development
policies, and social movements. He is the author of Between
Melting Pot and Mosaic: African Americans and Puerto Ricans
in the New York Political Economy (Temple University Press,
1995) and co-editor of The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from
the Diaspora (Temple University Press, 1998).
Angela
María Pérez Mejia
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook. Associate Professor of Latin American
Literature at the Romance and Comparative Literature department
at Brandeis University. She specializes in colonial Latin
American literature, women's literature, and Latin American
film. Her book A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about
Travel to South America 1780-1849. SUNY: 2004 (and Universidad
de Antioquia, Colombia 2002) deals with scientific travel
writers. Her current research focuses on buccaneers in the
Caribbean during the 17th century and Latin American women
travelers.
Aviva Chomsky
Professor of Latin American History and coordinator of Latin
American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Salem State College.
Her books include West Indian Workers and the United Fruit
Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940 (1996), Identity and Struggle
at the Margins of the Nation-State (co-edited with Aldo Lauria-Santiago),
and The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (co-edited
with Barry Carr and Pamela Smorkaloff).
Blanca
Silvestrini
Ph.D. in Latin American History, SUNY Albany. Professor of
History and Director of the Institute of Puerto Rican and
Latino Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her areas
of interest are the Caribbean and Modern Latin America; conceptions
of citizenship; modernization and health at the turn of the
19th century.
Davíd
Carrasco
PhD, University of Chicago in the History of Religions. He
is Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America
at Harvard University with a Joint Appointment in the Harvard
Divinity School and the Department of Anthropology. He is
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is
a historian of religions specializing in Mesoamerican religions
and the Mexican-American borderlands. He is director of the
Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, which was
founded at the University of Colorado. His work has been focused
on the symbolic nature of cities in comparative perspective
utilizing his 20 years of research in the excavations and
archives associated with the sites of Teotihuacan and Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
His work has included a special emphasis on the religious
dimensions of Latino experience including mestizaje, the myth
of Aztlan, transculturation, and La Virgen de Guadalupe. He
is co-producer of the film Alambrista: The Director's Cut,
which puts a human face on the life and struggles of undocumented
Mexican farm workers in the United States.
Deborah
Pacini Hernández
Ph.D., Cornell University. Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Tufts University, where she teaches Latino studies courses.
Her areas of expertise are comparative Latino studies; racial
& ethnic identity; Latin/o popular music; Latino community
studies. Her most recent book, co-edited with Eric Zolov and
Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, is Rockin' Las Américas:
The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America, University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.
Doris Sommer
Professor at the Romance and Comparative Literature
Department Harvard University. Her interests and publications
range from Latin American Literature and national discourses
to the rhetoric of bilingualism. Her last two books Proceed
with Caution, when engaged by minority writing in the Americas,
Duke 1999, and Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education,
Duke University Press in 2003, attend to code-switching as
a specific kind of rhetorical gate-keeper. Also forthcoming
are two edited collections of essays.
Ester Shapiro
Practicum Coordinator for the clinical psychology PhD program
at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Research
Associate at the Mauricio Gaston Institute where she directs
projects in Gender, Culture and Health. Her writing and teaching
emphasizes clinical and health promotion interventions using
cultural and developmental systems approaches to leverage
positive development in individual, family, and community
contexts.
Esther
Hernández-Medina
Master in Public Policy from Harvard University (2003) currently
pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at Brown University. Last
summer co-taught an organizing course with Lisa Boes based
on the model developed by Harvard professor and long-time
organizer, Marshall Ganz.
Flora Gonzalez
Ph.D. Yale University. Associate Professor of Writing, Literature
and Publishing at Emerson College. She is an authority on
the novelist Jose Donoso and has published a book titled Jose
Donoso's House of Fiction. Professor Gonzalez was recently
a fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University.
Ismael
Ramírez Soto
Senior Lecturer College of Public and Community Service, Umass
Boston.
John Coatsworth
Ph.D. in Economic History, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Professor of History and Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin
American Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of
three books and many scholarly articles on Latin American
economic and international history. At Harvard, he serves
as the first Director of the David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies (founded 1994). His research and publications
have focused primarily on the social and economic history
of Mexico and the international history of Mexico, Central
America, and the Caribbean.
Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
Ph.D, New School for Social Research, Assistant Professor
of Sociology and Research Associate at the Mauricio Gaston
Institute at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His most
recent studies have been on U.S. mainstream media's portrayals
of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans; the vote on bilingual education
in Massachusetts; a critique of Samuel Huntington's essay
"The Hispanic Challenge; and the influence of Georg Simmel
on Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Luis Aponte-Parés
PhD in Urban Planning, Columbia University. Associate Professor
of Community Planning and Director of Latino Studies at the
University of Massachusetts at Boston. His work has focused
on community development, housing, and exploring means of
linking faculties and students with communities. He has also
taught in various Architectural Schools (Pratt Institute,
City College of NY, and Boston Architectural Center).
María
Acosta Cruz
Ph.D., SUNY Binghamton. Associate Professor of Spanish, Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Clark University. She
specializes in contemporary Latin American literature and
culture, particularly Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican
Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her areas of research
and teaching include Caribbean fiction, Latino culture in
the United States and women's writing.
María
Estela Brisk
Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education, Boston
College. She received her Ph. D. in linguistics and bilingual
education at the University of New Mexico in 1972. Her research
and teacher-training interests include bilingual education,
bilingual language and literacy acquisition, methods of teaching
literacy, and preparation of mainstream teachers to work with
bilingual learners. Dr. Brisk has served as a consultant in
legal matters pertaining to bilingual education, and has worked
closely with regional and local groups and school systems
in developing their bilingual programs as well as mainstream
programs that include bilingual learners.
María
Luisa Parra
Ph.D. in Lingusitics at El Colegio de México. She has
been
coordinator of the Home-School Connection Program (Department
of Child
Development at Tufts University) for the last two years. She
has taught a broad
range of Spanish courses at the Department of Romance Language
and Literatures at Harvard University. Her area of expertise
is language development in the elementary school years and
language pedagogy, in particular the ways in which the Spanish
teaching/learning experience can be linked to the Latino community.
Her current area of research is bilingual development in Latino
children.
Mariela
Páez
Ph.D in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University.
She is assistant Professor at Lynch School of Education at
Boston College. Her area of expertise is early childhood education
and English language learners with an emphasis on variations
in language and early-literacy skills related to home environments,
immigration histories, and ethnic background. She is currently
the co-investigator of the Early Childhood Study of Language
and Literacy Development of Spanish-speaking Children. This
five-year study is funded by the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office for Educational
Research and Improvement, Department of Education.
Martha
Julia García-Sellers
Ph.D. in Personality and Developmental Psychology,
Department of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University.
She is currently Assistant Professor and Senior Research Associate
at the Department of Child Development at Tufts University.
She is Founder and Director of the Home-School Connection
Program, and has served as a consultant for the Somerville
Information Center and the Edgerly Educational Center Child
Study Team in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Miren Uriarte
Miren is a sociologist whose teaching and research focuses
on different aspects of the intersection of race / ethnicity
and social policy, the implementation of social programs and
community development. She is a professor in the Social Change
Cluster in the College of Public and Community Service, a
founding core faculty member of the Public Policy PhD Program
at the John W McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
and a senior research associate at the Mauricio Gastón
Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy,
where she served as founding director from 1989 to 1993. Her
research interests include: institutional development and
community building in minority communities; the differential
impact of social policy on minority communities in general
and on Latinos in the U.S. specifically; program development
and evaluation research in education, health care, and human
services in the U.S. and abroad.
Pedro Cabán
Ph. D. in Political Science, Columbia University. Professor
of Communications Research and Director of Latino and Latina
Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He is currently the Senior Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia
of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.
Roxanne
Davila
Ph.D.Yale University. Assistant Professor of Latin American
Literature, Brandeis University. Her teaching interests include
nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American and Chicano
literature and culture. She is currently working on a book
on the invention of the Maya through the texts of travelers,
explorers, and scholars.
Sabrina
Avilés
Director of the Center for Latino Arts/Casa de la Cultura,
has recently joined IBA after working for over 20 years as
an independent film and video producer. Having earned a B.S.
in Communications from Boston University, Ms. Avilés
has worked both here and in Latin America and Spain, bringing
extensive experience in coordinating the administrative, logistical
and creative management of documentaries and dramatic videos.
In addition to her production career, Ms. Avilés has
also danced flamenco professionally for the past 15 years,
dancing and choreographing performances in New England, as
well as the New York metropolitan area. Under the general
direction of the Executive Director of Inquilinos Boricuas
en Acción., Ms Avilés is responsible for the
planning, organizing, and directing of IBA's arts programs
and activities.
William
C. Meinhofer
William has been the Director of the Donelan Office of Community-Based
Learning at College of the Holy Cross since 2001. He has a
Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston College. A former community
organization administrator and director, he has worked with
faculty, students and community and public service organizations
in Worcester, to create and facilitate over sixty-five community-based
learning courses in various academic disciplines at Holy Cross.
He also teaches courses in community organizing and Latinos
in the US.
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