Faculty & Staff
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Marjorie Agosin
Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies; Professor of Spanish
B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Poet, human rights activist, literary critic. Interested in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; migration, identity, and ethnicity.
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Sharon K. Elkins
Professor of Religion
B.A., Stetson University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholar of the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism with special attention to the Virgin Mary and to women’s spiritual writings.
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Elizabeth Falconi
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology
B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Linguistic anthropologist focusing on Mexico & the U.S., migration & transborder communities, citizenship, indigeneity, language & social inequality, narrative, and language ideologies, planning, and shift & revitalization.
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Evelina Gužauskytė
Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Interested in questions of language and representation in the colonial, trans-Atlantic, and trans-Pacific realms.
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Koichi Hagimoto
Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A., Soka University of America; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Specialized in nineteenth-century Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture; also interested in trans-pacific studies.
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Nancy Abraham Hall
Senior Lecturer in Spanish
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialized in 19th- through 21st-century literature with a focus on Hispanic American narrative and the literary and cultural history of modern Mexico, I am a bilingual scholar, book editor, translator and teacher.
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Peggy Levitt
Professor of Sociology
B.A., Brandeis University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Studies international migration, transnational studies, development, religion, globalization, global arts and culture.
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Patrick J. McEwan
Associate Professor of Economics
B.A., University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign); M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
The economics of education, applied econometrics, impact evaluation of education programs, and education policy in Latin America and Africa.
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James Oles
Senior Lecturer in Art
B.A., Yale University; J.D., University of Virginia; M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Specialist in Latin American art, focusing on modern Mexican art and architecture, through museum as well as academic projects.
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Alejandra Osorio
Associate Professor of History
B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Associate Professor of History with a focus on the intersection of politics and urban culture in colonial Latin America.
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Joy Renjilian-Burgy
Associate Professor of Spanish
B.A., Mount Holyoke College; A.M., Harvard University
Language & Literature Pedagogy; social justice- race and class; Print & Audiovisual Interactive Resources; immersion; study abroad; I am a teacher, author, editor and teacher-trainer
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Carlos Alberto Vega
Professor of Spanish
A.B., Columbia University; A.M., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Harvard University
Spanish literature, hagiography, gender issues, study-abroad theory and practice.
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Lois Wasserspring
Senior Lecturer in Political Science
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Princeton University
Fascinated by the richness and complexity of Latin American culture and politics.
