People | Latin American Studies at UBC

Faculty

Gage Averill (Arts). Haiti, Haitian music; sound, music and power, music and politics; Caribbean music, steelband; ethnomusicology, world music.
Jon Beasley-Murray (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies). Latin American cultural, literary, and political history; the Latin American left and social movements; ruins; film; colonial Latin America and its maritime links with Spain; the theory and practice of Latin American cultural studies.
Kim Beauchesne (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies). Colonial Latin American literature and culture; postcolonial theory; notions of hybridity and multiculturalism; Trans-Atlantic/Trans-Pacific Studies; the politics of utopia in Latin America; literature and human rights.
Michael Blake (Anthropology). The archaeology of Chiapas, Mexico; the origins and spread of maize agriculture in the Americas.
Alejandra Bronfman (History). 20th century Caribbean and Latin America; imperial and transnational history; violence and the production of knowledge; histories of race; broadcasting; wireless; sound, listening and politics.
Oscar Cabezas Villalobos (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies). 19th and 20th century Central American literature and culture; subaltern studies, indigenism; revolution and political theory in Central America and the Caribbean; theology and (post)political representation.
Maxwell Cameron (Political Science). Comparative politics (Latin America) and international political economy; democratization in Latin America.
Marvin Cohodas (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory). Ancient American visual representation (i.e. “Pre-Hispanic Art”); contemporary ritual and weaving arts of Maya peoples in Southern Mexico and Guatemala.
Lori Daniels (Geography). Forest plants and trees; environmental protection and natural resource use; Chile, Argentina, Patagonia.
Rita De Grandis (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies). Modern and contemporary Spanish American literature; literary theory; popular and mass cultures; gender representations; Argentina; representations of Peronism; Latin American leftist utopias.
Mauricio Drelichman (Economics). Economic history; early modern Spain and the Spanish empire.
Antonio (Tonel) E. Fernández (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory). Cuba’s visual art and culture during the revolutionary period (1959 to the present); the intersections of art, cinema and literature; the ties and exchanges between Cuban and Soviet culture in the twentieth century.
Bill French (History). Latin American history; Mexican history (19th and 20th century); labour and social history; working class culture; gender.
Tirso Gonzales (Indigenous Studies, UBC Okanagan). Indigenous peoples; participatory research and methodologies; indigeneity, place, reindigenization; ecological justice and resource rights.
Gastón Gordillo (Anthropology). The spatiality of politics; race and ethnicity; Argentina; indigenous groups and criollos of the Gran Chaco; ruins; social memory, place-making, hegemony, borders and transnationality.
Serge Guilbaut (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory)
Joe Henrich (Economics, Psychology). Evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making, and culture; human sociality; economic behavior and the emergence of complex human institutions and societies; cultural and evolutionary origins of faith and religion; Amazonia (Peruvian Amazon and the Machiguenga), Chile (Among the Mapuche around Chol-Chol).
Hiroyuki Kasahara (Economics). Econometrics, International Trade; Chile.
Shaylih Muehlmann (Anthropology). Environmental politics; linguistic anthropology; drug trafficking; indigeneity; water scarcity; the anthropology of the awkward; US-Mexico borderlands; Mexico.
Brianne Orr-Alvarez (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies). Twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture; cultural and political theory; gender and masculinities; revolutionary and post-revolutionary Studies; myth and mythification.
Manuel Piña (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory). Global culture and politics; the ways in which visual culture, particularly photography, has historically advanced political agendas.
Tony Pitcher (Zoology). Fisheries, marine biodiversity, marine protected areas; fisheries in developing countries; Mexico, Chile.
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (School of Social Work and Liu Institute for Global Issues). Colombia; historical memory and the cultural dimensions of violence; forced migration (internal displacement and refuge); communities, social development and public art.
James Rochlin (Political Science, UBC Okanagan). Latin American politics and critical security studies; exploration of new conceptions of security in Latin America, including those related to insurgencies, race and class, as well as production of oil.
Alejandro Rojas (Land and Food Systems). Food security and food systems sustainability; institutional adaptations to climate change; Latin America; Chile, Ecuador; Community-Based Action Research; Intercultural Communications.
Wendy Roth (Sociology). Race and ethnicity, immigration, Latino/a studies; multiracial Identities and populations, racial classification, inequality; social stratification, urban poverty; Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico.
Neil Safier (History). Colonial Latin America; Brazil; Amazonia; Andes; scientific travel, encounters, and exploration.
Alessandra Santos (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies). Modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture; cinema, visual and performing arts; literary criticism and critical theory.
Anthony Shelton (Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology). Critical museology; the incorporation of pre-Columbian ‘art’ into western collections, the non-Western art market, museums and national identity; Mexican and Iberian visual cultures, particularly the relationship between Indo-American and Hispanic-American creative expressions; the influence of evangelisation and politics on the visual cultures of Latin America.
Jerry Spiegel (School of Population and Public Health and Liu Institute for Global Issues). The effects of globalization on health; global health and human security; the economic evaluation of interventions; health and equity in Latin America; Ecuador, Cuba.
Diane Srivastava (Zoology). Community ecology; the ecology of species diversity; biodiversity, conservation, habitat loss; Costa Rica.
Jessica Stites Mor (History, UBC Okanagan). Argentina, Southern Cone; Latin American cinema, cultural studies; human rights, solidarity, transnationalism, citizenship.
Juanita Sundberg (Geography). Central America; the US-Mexico border; feminist theory, critical race theory, post-humanism, and political ecology.
Marcello Veiga (Institute of Mining Engineering). Effects of metals in the environment; pollution caused by mining; social effects of mining on communities; Brazil, Venezuela, Chile and Peru.
Hannah Wittman (Land and Food Systerms). Rural and environmental sociology; agrarian citizenship; rural agricultural policy; community and rural development; agrarian political economy; social movements.
Annalee Yassi (School of Population and Public Health). Infection control in promoting healthy healthcare; HIV, TB and other infectious disease in the healthcare workforce; Ecuador, Cuba.
Hisham Zerriffi (Liu Institute for Global Issues). Environment and techonology; rural development, climate change, renewable resources; regulation, governance, pollution.