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Jennifer Anderson Ph.D. New York University 

Associate Professor, History Department

Areas of interest: Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in the early modern period, exploring the history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, issues of labor, race, and gender, and the rise of nationalism and revolutionary movements.  

Email: jennifer.l.anderson@stonybrook.edu


Jorge M. Balaguer M.D., University of Buenos Aires Medical School

Associate Professor of Surgery

Email: jorge.balaguer@stonybrookmedicine.edu


Jorge L. Benach Ph.D., Rutgers University

Distinguished Toll Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and Pathology

Email: jorge.benach@stonybrook.edu


Hugo Benítez-SilvaPh.D., Yale University

Associate Professor, Economics

Areas of interest: Labor and Computational Economics; Public Economics; Social Insurance; Health Economics

Email: hugo.benitez-silva@stonybrook.edu


Nerissa Balce Ph.D,  University of California-Berkeley

Associate Professor, Asian & Asian American Studies

Areas of interest:  Postcolonial theory and the cultures of 1898; race, American visual culture and feminist epistemologies; state violence and Filipino culture; and Asian American literature and culture.  

Email: marianerissa.balce-cortes@stonybrook.edu


Lena Burgos-Lafuente Ph.D., New York University

Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics

Email: lena.burgos-lafuente@stonybrook.edu


Pablo Calvi Ph.D., Columbia University 

Associate Professor, School of Journalism

Areas of interest: Latin American narrative journalism; crónica, multimedia journalism; correlation between democratic societies and the free press. 

Email: Pablo.calvi@stonybrook.edu


Ritch Calvin Ph.D., Stony Brook University

Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Areas of interest: Latinas and Latina literature in the U.S., and Mexican women writers, including Rosario Castellanos and Brianda Domecq, and their representations of women and articulations of feminism.

Email: Ritchie.Calvin@stonybrook.edu 


Zaida Corniel  Ph.D., Stony Brook University

Lecturer, Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interests: Caribbean Literature and tourism narratives; Latino studies, Dominican diaspora; Theater.

Email: zaida.corniel@stonybrook.edu


Liliana Dávalos  Ph.D., Columbia University

Associate Professor of Conservation Biology/Ecology and Evolution

Areas of interest:  Evolutionary biology; the forces that shape biodiversity in time and space. Her lab focuses on how diversity in species and traits arises, and on helping shape policy to conserve ecosystems today and into the future.

Email: liliana.davalos-alvarez@stonybrook.edu


Elena Davidiak Ph. D., University of Iowa

Lecturer, Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: bilingualism and multilingualism, sociolinguistics, code switching, language for special purposes, translation and interpretation techniques.

Email: elena.davidiak@stonybrook.edu


Joanne Davila Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training

Areas of interest: Adolescent and adult psychopathology and interpersonal functioning; interpersonal causes and consequences of depression and anxiety disorders; risk factors for the early development of romantic relationship dysfunction in adolescents and young adults; the role of attachment representations in interpersonal functioning; well being among LGBT individuals.

Email: joanne.davila@stonybrook.edu 


Paul Firbas Ph.D., Princeton University

Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: Textual culture in early colonial South America, particularly epic poetry, historiography and geography; production and circulation of printed news in transatlantic Lima and colonial Andes; 20th century Peruvian discourses on memory and modernity. Textual scholarship.

Email: paul.firbas@stonybrook.edu


Daniela Flesler Ph.D., Tulane University

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Areas of interest: 20th Century Peninsular Studies; Spanish Cultural Studies, Spain and its Arab past, Immigration in Spain and Post-colonial theory.

Email: daniela.flesler@stonybrook.edu


Lori Flores Ph.D., Stanford University

Associate Professor, History Department

Areas of interest: Latino/a, labor, immigration, and U.S.-Mexico borderlands history.

Email: lori.flores@stonybrook.edu


Georges Fouron Ed.D., Columbia University

Professor, Africana Studies 

Areas of interest: Transnationalism and its effects as experienced by Haitians in Haiti and those of the Haitian Diaspora; social studies education; bilingual education; immigrants’ experience in America.

Email: georges.fouron@stonybrook.edu


Barbara Frank  Ph.D., Indiana University

Associate Professor, Art History

Areas of interest: Global, colonial and diasporic art; ancient Mesoamerica; West Africa; intersection of technology and social identity in ceramic, textile, leatherwork, blacksmith artistry. 

Email: barbara.frank@stonybrook.edu


Nancy Hiemstra Ph.D., Syracuse University

Assistant Professor of Migration Studies, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Areas of interest: Global migration and migration policy-making, immigration deportation and detention, Latin American migration to the U.S., consequences of immigration enforcement policy in migrant origin countries; Ecuador

Email: nancy.hiemstra@stonybrook.edu


Cristina Khan  Ph.D., University of Connecticut 

Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Areas of interest: Women of Color Feminism, Race/Ethnic Studies, Latinx Studies, Racialized Sexualities, Sexualities, Queer Theory, Sex Work

Email: cristina.khan@stonybrook.edu


Marci Lobel  Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Professor, Psychology

Areas of interest: Stress, discrimination, and their impact on health, particularly women’s reproductive health; racial and ethnic health disparities

Email: marci.lobel@stonybrook.edu


Sebastian Lopez Vergara Ph.D.,  University of Washington

Lecturer, Hispanic Languages & Literature

Areas of interest: Latinx and indigenous diaspora, Media studies, Chile, Cultural studies, Critical ethnic studies

Email: sebastian.lopezvergara@stonybrook.edu


Heather Lynch Ph.D., Harvard University

Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolution

Areas of interest:  Population dynamics and biogeographic distribution of penguins breeding on the Antarctic Peninsula region, with a particular focus on untangling the effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance. 

Email: heather.lynch@stonybrook.edu


Valeria Mantilla MoralesPh.D., University of Toronto

Assistant Professor, History

Areas of Interests: Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia, Cultural history, Colonialism, Race, Food, Environment, Cartography

Email: valeria.mantilla@stonybrook.edu


Gabriel Mihalache Ph.D., University of Rochester

Assistant Professor, Economics

Areas of Interest: International Economics, Debt crises and external public debt, Fiscal-Monetary interactions in emerging markets, Inflation Targeting

Email: gabriel.mihalache@stonybrook.edu


Zebulon Vance Miletsky Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Assistant Professor, Africana Studies

Areas of interest: African-Americans in Boston; Northern freedom movements outside of the South; mixed race history in the U.S. and passing; Afro-Latin diaspora; Hip-Hop Studies. 

Email: zebulon.miletsky@stonybrook.edu 


Vivian Miranda Ph.D., University of Chicago

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Areas of interest:  Astrophysics, theoretical cosmology, dark energy

Email: vivan.miranda@stonybrook.edu


Timothy Moran  Ph.D., University of Maryland

Associate Professor, Sociology

Areas of interest: Historical global inequalities, including the distribution of income between and within countries, gender inequality, and socio-economic development.

Email: timothy.p.moran@stonybrook.edu


Francisco Ordóñez  Ph.D. Graduate Center of the City of New York

Associate Professor, Linguistics

Areas of interest: Syntax, Dialectology of Spanish, Comparative Linguistics

Email: francisco.ordonez@stonybrook.edu


Oyeronke Oyewumi  Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley

Professor of Sociology, Africana & Gender Studies

Areas of interest: Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Culture, Comparative Historical-Sociology, Feminist Theory, Transnational Feminisms, Social Theory, Social Inequalities in Local, Regional, and Global systems, African Studies, (Post) Colonial Studies and Modernities

Email: Oyeronke.Oyewumi@stonybrook.edu


Rowan Ricardo Phillips Ph.D. Brown University

Professor, English Department

Areas of interest: African-American and Caribbean literature; Poetry; Poetics

Email: Rowan.Phillips@stonybrook.edu


Joseph Pierce PH.D., University of Texas at Austin

Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Areas of interest: Contemporary Southern Cone and Latin American Literatures, Narrative, Autobiographical Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Kinship Studies

Email: joseph.pierce@stonybrook.edu


Richard Ricioppo

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism

Areas of interest: News and sports shooting and editing; studio and control room production; Cuba. 

Email: richard.ricioppo@stonybrook.edu


Victoriano Roncero-López Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ph.D., University of Illinois

Professor, Hispanic Languages & Literature

Areas of interest: Picaresque Literature, Quevedian Studies, Humanism

Email: victoriano.roncero-lopez@stonybrook.edu


Lilia Delfina Ruiz-Debbe Ph.D., University of Geneva

Coordinator of the Language Program, Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: Applied linguistics; second language acquisition; cognitive epistemology of Piaget

Email: lilia.ruiz-debbe@stonybrook.edu


Jeffrey Santa Ana  Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Associate Professor, English

Areas of interest: Critical race studies, postcolonial studies and critical perspectives on empire, transnational American studies, Pacific Islander and Asian North American studies, environmentalism and ecocriticism, migration and diaspora, gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, and memory studies.

Email: jeffrey.santa.ana@stonybrook.edu 


David Taylor Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Assistant Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Areas of interest: Sustainability in Cuba; arts and performance

Email: David.j.taylor@stonybrook.edu


Javier Uriarte Ph.D., New York University

Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Areas of interest: 19th and 20th century Latin American literature (including Brazil), travel writing, war and State-sponsored violence, theory and politics of time and space, Nation and State making in Latin America.

Email: Javier.Uriarte@stonybrook.edu


Kathleen Vernon Ph.D., University of Chicago

Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature

Areas of interest: Spanish cinema, Latin America, and the U.S. during the "Golden Age" of the 1930s and 1940s. 

Email: kathleen.vernon@stonybrook.edu 


Tracey Walters Ph.D., Howard University

Associate Professor, Africana Studies

Areas of interest: African American Literature, Caribbean Literature, African Literature, Pan-African Literature, Black British Literature and Culture, 20th century American and British Literature, journalism.

Email: tracey.walters@stonybrook.edu


Kathleen Wilson Ph.D., Yale University

Distinguished Professor, History

Areas of interest: Caribbean history, and especially gender, post-colonial theory, race and the history of performance in the British West Indies. 

Email: kathleen.wilson@stonybrook.edu


Karina Yager  Ph.D., Yale University

Assistant Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences/Sustainability Studies Program

Areas of interest: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, LCLUC (Land-   cover and land-use change), Alpine Ecosystems, Peatlands, Pastoralism, Andes

Email: karina.yager@stonybrook.edu


Eric Zolov Ph.D, University of Chicago

Associate Professor, History

Areas of interest: Modern Latin America; Mexico; US-Latin American relations; popular culture; Global Sixties

Email: eric.zolov@stonybrook.edu