2008-2009 LALS Faculty
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Faculty Member
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Departmental Affiliation
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| Silvia Arrom | History |
| Elizabeth Ferry | Anthropology |
| Ricardo Godoy | SID |
| Charles Golden | Anthropology |
| Donald Hindley | Politics |
| James Mandrell | RS |
| Wellington Nyangoni | AAAS |
| Lucia Reyes de Deu | RS |
| Fernando Rosenberg | RS |
| Laurence Simon | SID |
| Faith Smith | English/AAAS |
| Ibrahim Sundiata | History/AAAS |
| Eva Thorne | Politics |
| Patricia Tovar | Economics |
| Javier Urcid | Anthropology |
| Chair: Javier Urcid | Anthropology |
LALS Faculty
Silvia Marina Arrom
Professor of History and Jane's Professor of Latin American Studies. Ph.D., Stanford University. Her research interests are Latin American social history, modern Mexico, women and the family, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Her books include The Women of Mexico City, 1790-1857; Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America (with Servando Ortoll); and Containing the Poor: The Mexico City Poor House, 1774-1871. Her e-mail is Arrom@brandeis.edu.
Bio of Professor Arrom
Elizabeth Ferry
Associate Professor of Anthropology. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Not Ours Alone: Patrimony, Value and Collectivity in Contemporary Mexico (2005). Her research interests focus on political economy in Latin America, the politics of value, and mining and mineral collecting. Her e-mail is Ferry@brandeis.edu.
Ricardo Godoy
Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Ph.D., Columbia University. His research interests include the effects of modernization on the peoples of the rainforests and the quality of life in Puerto Rico compared to the U.S. He is the author of Indians, Markets, and Rainforests: Theoretical, Comparative and Quantitative Explorations in the Neotropics and Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia: Ecology, History, and Commerce Among the Jukumanis. His e-mail is Rgodoy@brandeis.edu.
Bio of Professor Godoy
Charles Golden
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation is titled "Disentangling Culture Change from Chronology: The Early Classic/Later Classic Divide at Piedras Negras, Guatemala." His research interests include Maya archaeology and architecture. He has done field work in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. His e-mail is Cgolden@brandeis.edu.
Donald Hindley
Professor of Politics. Ph.D., Australian National University. His areas of interest are Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. His most recent publication is a translation (with Dian Fox) of The Physician of His Honour/El medico de su honra. His e-mail is Hindley@brandeis.edu.
James Mandrell
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and Film Studies. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University. His special interests are the picaresque, the historical novel, genre and gender, and literary theory. He is the author of Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition. His e-mail is Mandrell@brandeis.edu.
Wellington Nyangoni
Professor of African and Afro-American Studies. Ph.D., Howard University. He specializes in comparative Third World politics. He is the author of Caribbean Economic Integration and the Search for Econonomic Viability and African and Caribbean States and Superpower Diplomacy. His e-mail is Nyangoni@brandeis.edu.
Lucia Reyes de Deu
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies. A native of Argentina, she is the recipient of a Tinker Field Research Grant and an Excellence in Teaching Award from SUNY, Stony Brook. Her research interests are sociological approaches to Latin American culture and literatures, cultural studies, and Andean culture and literatures. Her e-mail is Lreyes@brandeis.edu.
Fernando Rosenberg
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature. Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University. A native of Argentina, he is the author of The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America and is a member of the editorial board of Hispanic Poetry Review. His areas of interest are 19th- and 20th-century poetry, narrative, and critical theory. His e-mail is Ferosen@brandeis.edu.
Laurence Simon
Associate Dean, Academic Planning; Professor and Director, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Ph.D., Clark University. He led Oxfam America's work in Central America and the Caribbean and its policy analysis worldwide. He is the author of El Salvador Land Reform, 1980-1981 (with James Stephens). Professor Simon has done field work in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Cuba, and Jamaica, among other countries. His e-mail is Simon@brandeis.edu.
Bio of Professor Simon
Faith Smith
Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English and American Literature. Ph.D., Duke University. A native of Jamaica, her research interests are gender, nationalism, and culture in the Caribbean. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean. Her current projects are an edited collection of essays on sexuality in the Caribbean and a manuscript on late nineteenth-century modernity in the Caribbean. Her e-mail is fsmith@brandeis.edu.
Ibrahim Sundiata
Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and Samuel and Augusta Spector Professor of History. Ph.D., Northwestern University. His research intests are slavery throughout the world and race relations in the United States and Latin America. He has published on race relations in Brazil, Cuba and Puerto Rico, has conducted fieldwork in Brazil, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Sundiata is the author of four books. His e-mail is Sundiata@brandeis.edu.
Eva Thorne
Meyer and Walter Jaffe Assistant Professor of Politics. Ph.D., M.I.T. Her research interests are race and ethnicity, rural politics, social movements, democratization, and labor politics, with a focus on multilateral development banks, indigenous and Afro-Latin land rights, economic policymaking in developing countries, and democratization and social movements in Latin America. Her dissertation on the "Politics of Policy Compliance: The World Bank and the Social Dimensions of Development" includes a case study of Brazil's Polonoroeste project. Her e-mail is Ethorne@brandeis.edu.
Patricia Tovar
Assistant Professor of Economics and in the International Business School. Ph.D., University of Maryland. A native of Peru, her primary research interest is in international trade, with emphasis on political economy and trade policy. Other interests include behavioral economics, development and microeconomics. Her recent work and current research focus on the effects of loss aversion on trade policy and the choice of inefficient redistribution policies in international trade. Her e-mail is Tovar@brandeis.edu.
Javier Urcid
Associate Professor of Anthropology. Ph.D., Yale University. A native of Mexico, he has done field work throughout Mexico and Belize. He is the author of Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing and articles on the scribal traditions of southwestern Mexico. He is currently conducting an archeological project in the Gulf Lowlands of Southern Veracruz, Mexico on the region's political economy. He is a consultant to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. His e-mail is Urcid@brandeis.edu; his phone number is 781-736-2223.