Advisory Committee

Tripti Bhattacharya

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2016

Areas of Expertise

Paleoclimatology, paleoecology, tropical climate dynamics, hydroclimate, proxy reconstruction

Gail Bulman

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Senior Research Associate, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute

Professor and Chair, Spanish, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Latin American theater in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Puerto Rico

Myrna García Calderón

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Associate Professor, Latino-Latin American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Matthew R. Cleary

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2004

Areas of Expertise

Latin American politics, political institutions, democratization, ethnic politics

PJ DiPietro

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D., Binghamton University, State University of New York

Mariaelena Huambachano

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Assistant Professor, Religion, College of Arts and Sciences

Denisa Jashari

Assistant Professor, History Department

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2020

Areas of Expertise

Modern Latin America, urban history, social history, Chile, social movements, the Cold War

Milton Rubén Laufer

Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Associate Professor, Setnor School of Music, College of Visual and Performing Arts

Ethan Madarieta

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Assistant Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2021

Areas of Expertise

Medical and environmental anthropology, Caribbean, maritime studies, fishing, multispecies, environmental governance, conservation, risk and injury, the Dominican Republic

Gladys McCormick

Associate Professor, History Department

Associate Dean

Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Latin America and the Caribbean, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico

Karl Offen

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

Senior Research Associate and Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Historical geography, political ecology, Latin America and the Caribbean, Atlantic world, map studies

Cristina E. Pardo Porto

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D., CUNY, 2022

Areas of Expertise

Migration studies, decolonial and affect theory, ecocritical approaches to diasporic visual cultures and photography

Mauricio Paredes

Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Director, Syracuse Santiago Center in Chile, Syracuse Abroad

Arthur Paris

Associate Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Advisory Board Member and Research Affiliate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Areas of Expertise

Urban society and policy, race and ethnic relations, science and technology, non-white popular culture

Tom Perreault

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department

DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Senior Research Associate, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000

Areas of Expertise

Political ecology, environmental justice, water governance, critical resource geography, mining and extractivism, rural livelihoods, agrarian political economy, indigeneity and indigenous politics, Latin America