Interests:Advertising, TV Commercials, Communication Theory, Persuasive Communication, Cultural Studies, Gender and Race In Media, Media and Diversity, Popular Culture, Media Studies and Globalization
Interests:Culture and Development, Culturally Sustainable Development, Identity and Community, Political Legitimation, Multiple Forms of Modernity, Primary Field Work: West Africa, Secondary Field Work: Indonesia
Affiliated Departments:Clark Honors College, Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Teaching Level:Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
Interests:Neoliberal and "post-neoliberal" models of economic "development" on communities and environment in Latin America and the U.S. Sustainable community projects in Indigenous territories in Bolivia (e.g. collectives producing medicinal oils and handicrafts)
Office Hours:Fall 2022 – by appointment; Winter & Spring 2023 – 10am -12pm
Affiliated Departments:Anthropology, Black Studies, Latinx
Interests:Afro Latino/a Identities, Black Queer Aesthetics, Vudú in the Dominican Republic, and Afro-Dominicanidad and the Struggle Against Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic
Office Hours:Winter, 2024: Wednesdays, 2-4, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only.
Affiliated Departments:African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Spanish
Teaching Level:Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
Interests:20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory
Interests:Culture and Social Movements in Latinx USA and Latin America; Mesoamerican Foodways, Migrations, and Human Rights; Ecology, Culture, Capital, and the State in the Americas
Affiliated Departments:Comparative Literature, German & Scandinavian, Latin American Studies, Romance Languages
Teaching Level:Doctoral
Interests:Decolonial epistemology. Continental Philosophy (Deconstruction, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics); Latin American Thought; Ancient Greek Philosophy. Aesthetic Philosophy. World philosophies.