About
Affiliated Faculty
Africana Studies
David Ponton III., Ph.D. His work utilizes traditional historical methodologies as well as geographic information systems (GIS). Both in teaching and research, his interests include African American history, gender and society, and the sociology of race.
Rodriguez, Cheryl, Ph.D.
Urban Anthropology âCommunity Research; Gender, Race, Class and Policy; Black Women,
Activism and Politics; Youth and Community.
Simeon-Jones, Kersuze., Ph.D.
Francophone Studies: Africa and the Caribbean, Comparative Literature of the Black
Diaspora, Black Internationalism: Literary and Socio-Political Movements, Women History
within the Diaspora.
Anthropology
Baer, Roberta D., Ph.D.
Nutritional and medical anthropology, ethno-pharmacology, international development
(Latin America, contemporary U.S.)
Castañeda, Heide, Ph.D.
Social inequality and medicine, transnational labor migration, immigrant and refugee
health, health policy, citizenship, border politics (Mexico & U.S.)
Davis-Salazar, Karla L., Ph.D.
Anthropological archaeology, complex societies, human-environment interaction, water
management, gender, mortuary ritual, ceramics, the Maya (Mesoamerica, and Central
America).
Himmelgreen, David, Ph.D.
Nutritional anthropology, dietary acculturation and obesity among women and children
in Hartford, Connecticut and in Tampa and on the impact that ecotourism is having
on food choices and nutritional status of households in Costa Rica. Madrigal, Lorena
Genetics, Sickle-Cell Anemia, Human Fertility, Natural Selection, and Living Populations
(Costa Rica)
Jayaram, Kiran, PhD.
Anthropology of political economy,mobility, and education, and the Dominican Republic,
Haiti, Cuba.
Romero-Daza, Nancy, Ph.D.
HIV/AIDS, women's health, health problems in the inner city, infant mortality, drug
abuse, commercial sex. Focus on Hispanic community.
Wienker, Curtis.
Forensic and biomedical anthropology, cultural influences on human population biology,
biology of Cubans and African Americans.
Tykot, Robert H., Ph.D.
Archaeological science, ancient diets and spread of maize in Latin America, and marble
in Mesoamerica.
Wallman, Diane Ph.D.
Caribbean History and Prehistory; Atlantic Slave Trade; Historical Archaeology; Colonial
Subsistence; Human-environment dynamics.
Wells, Christian E., Ph.D.
Archaeology of Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, complex societies, political
and ritual economy, ceramic and soil analysis, quantitative methods.
White, Nancy,Ph.D.
Prehistory of the Americas, American archaeology, origins of complex societies, cultural
and human ecology, archaeological theory, cultural contact and interaction, gender
in anthropological perspective, cultural resource management, public archaeology,
and sea level rise along the Gulf Coast from Florida through Mexico.
Yelvington, Kevin A., Ph.D.
Social anthropology, ethnicity, class and gender, work and class, development studies,
historical approaches (Latin America, Caribbean, U.S.)
Zarger, Rebecca K., Ph.D.
Sociocultural anthropology, environmental anthropology, ethnoecology, ethnographies
of childhood, public engagement in environmental policy, conservation, migration and
environmental change, environmental education (Central America and the Caribbean).
Child and Family Studies
Callejas, Linda, Ph.D.
Conducts research and evaluation in the areas of collaborative community development
initiatives, behavioral health disparities among minority populations, and racial
and ethnic identity formation, especially among U.S. Latino populations.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Trotz, Maya, Ph.D.
Sustainability, water quality, ecotourism and small scale mining impacts on sustainable
livelihoods, climate change, environmental/environmental engineering education in
formal and informal settings in the US and in developing countries.
College of Education
Braunstein, Lauren, Ph.D Dr. Braunstein's research interests include investigating the role of language ideologies within multilingual educational settings, specifically within Dual Language (Two-Way Immersion) bilingual schools. She also researches the recruitment, preparation, and retainment of pre-service teachers of color.
Cruz, BĂĄrbara C., Ph.D.
Global and multi -cultural perspectives in education, with an emphasis on ethnic minority
students.
Hamm-RodrĂguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education. Her work focuses on the global
study of educational inequality for Afro-Latinx and Caribbean youth (primarily Dominican
and Haitian) through a transnational lens. Her research explores the relationships
between language, race, labor, and schooling in global school-to-work and college
and career readiness programs as well as multilingual language and literacy development
in school and community contexts. She recently received a fellowship from the CUNY
Dominican Studies Institute to do research with the Dominican communities in Central
Florida.
HernĂĄndez, Victor, Ph.D
The interface that integrates the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational
strategies designed to connect curriculum, teaching and learning in work contexts
as a means to maximize career-oriented learning for all students (Mexico).
Smith, Phil, Ph.D.
English Language Teaching Management, Second Language Acquisition and Instructional
Technology. ( Brazil).
Zalaquett, Carlos., Ph.D.
Psycho-therapy and counseling techniques, multi-cultural counseling, characteristic
of successful Latina/o students, mental health and education in the Americas (North,
Central, South, and the Caribbean).
College of Marine Science
Muller-Karger, Frank, Ph.D.
Marine primary production, monitoring of large-scale phenomena, understanding climate
control and climate change, interpretation of numerical models of the ocean, and assessing
the importance of continental margins(Venezuela).
College of Public Health
Callegari, Carlos, Ph.D.
Pediatric Endocrinology, Health Education Administration and Leadership
Calvo, Arlene, Ph.D.
Specializes on Health Education
Hoare, Ismael, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Specializes on Injury Prevention, Caribbean and Central American Health Systems amd
Community Health Assessment
Martinez Tyson, Dinorah "Dina" , PhD, MPH, MA
Applied Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology. Specialization in Community engaged
research, Latino and immigrant health, Cancer survivorship and chronic disease management,
Cross-cultural concepts of disease and illness, Qualitative methods and ethnography.
Mason, Thomas, Ph.D.
Specializes on Assessment of Environmental and Occupational and Exposure-Related Health
Effects.
Salinas-Miranda, Abraham, MD, MPH, PhD
Family Violence, Maternal and Child Health. Specialization: Family Violence, Adverse
Childhood Experiences, Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology, Structural Equation
Modeling, Mixed-Methods Research Designs, Community-Based Participatory Research,
Child Health & Development.
Electrical Engineering
Moreno, Wilfrido, Ph.D.
System integration for industrial applications in the areas of Industrial Controls
& Instrumentation, Robotics, Digital Signal Processing, Reconfigurable Architectures,
Analog-Digital Mixed Signal Design & Synthesis, Communications and Biomedical Engineering.
English
Mooney, Susan, Ph.D.
Comparative literature; nineteenth and twentieth-century Hispanic and American literatures;
theory.
Maldonado, JosĂ© Ăngel
Assistant Professor of English, specializing in Rhetorical Theory, Critical and Cultural
Studies, Film and Television Criticism, Contemporary Mexican Culture, Gender Studies,
Border Studies, Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Indigeneity.
Scenters-Zapico, Natalie
Author of Lima :: LimĂłn (Copper Canyon Press 2019) and The Verging Cities (Colorado
State University 2015). She won Yale Universityâs Windham Campbell Prize (2021), a
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation (2018),
a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2017), and a CantoMundo Fellowship (2015).
Graphic Studio
Smith, Noel, M.A.
Institute for Research in Art, Visual and Performing Arts
Political Science
Augsburger, Aaron, Ph.D.
Latin America; social change and state transformation; globalization and development;
cultural studies; political ethnography
Mantilla, Luis Felipe, Ph.D.
Religious Parties and Secular Politics in Mexico and Turkey
Mendez Carvajal, Laura
Scholar of the political economy of development with a focus on Latin America. She
investigates how the rhetoric of development (such as self-help) shapes systems of
beliefs and behavior in recipient communities.
Perez, Vanessa
Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies (SIGS) specializing
in American politics. She holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A., in Political Science from
Columbia University. She also previously worked in electoral politics in the Washington,
D.C. nonprofit sector. Before coming to ±«Óătv, she was Assistant Professor of Political
Science in the City University of New York. Dr. Perez teaches graduate and undergraduate
courses in American and Latino politics.
History
Novoa, Adriana, Ph.D.
Cultural conflict and identity formation in post-independence Latin America.
Ramos, Frances
Colonial Latin America, especially Mexico
Humanities and Cultural Studies
Belgrad, Daniel, Ph.D.
19th and 20th century cultural and intellectual history, environmental history, regional
cultures, Mexican culture, and cultural and literary theory (Mexico).
Rachel May
Human Rights, Revolutionary Movements/Ideology, Popular Social Movements, Leftist
Politics.
Consentino, Olivia
Specialist in 20th- and 21st-century Mexican cinema and culture. She is also the recipient
of the 2024 Early Career Award from the Latin American Studies Association
Library and Information Science
McCook, Kathleen de la Peña,Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor, Latino Librarian of 2002
School of Social Work
Rahill, Guitele, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Social Work in the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences
at ±«Óătv
Carrion, Iraida Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Sociology
Aranda, Elizabeth, Ph.D.
Latino and Latina Studies; Migration.
MĂĄrquez, Alejandro
His research focuses on the intersection of social movements, care, and emotions,
particularly as it relates to the Immigrant Rights Movement and its efforts to help
(im)migrants and asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Padilla, Beatriz, Ph.D. As a migration scholar from the Global South, her interests involve the Transatlantic region that includes Latin America, Europe (Iberoamerica) and the US. Her research focuses on different aspects of migration processes, public policies, health and diversity, gender, race, ethnicity and discrimination. She has published in international journals in different languages: International Migrations, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Policy & Politics.
Theatre & Dance
Arreola, Dora
Associate Professor of Theatre
Acting and Movement
Finelli, Patrick M., Ph.D.
Theatre History, Contemporary Performance Theory, Caribbean Theatre and Sound for
the Stage.
Valbuena, Elsa
Choreography
World Languages
Arbesu, David, Ph.D.
David ArbesĂș is Assistant Professor of Spanish at ±«Óătv, where he teaches courses on
Medieval and Golden Age Spain, and Transatlantic Florida Studies.
Altuna, Margarita, Ph.D. Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish American Literature, Ecuadorian Literature, Afro-Ecuadorian Literature, Latin American Civilization, Literature and Cinema, and Literature and Journalism.
Brescia, Pablo, Ph.D.
Theory and history of Latin American short fiction; 20th Century Mexican and Southern
Cone Narrative and Colonial Mexico ( Mexico and Southern Cone).
CĂĄmara, Madeline, Ph.D.
Hispanic Languages and Literature, Women Studies.
Cano, Carlos, Ph.D.
Language Education
Davies, Celia
Portuguese Instruction, she is a native Brazilian with an MA in Applied Linguistics
who has a thirty year career of teaching languages (Portuguese, English, and Spanish).
Ms. Paula-Davies has contributed to ±«Óătvâs Study Abroad programs by leading student
trips to Brazil and Costa Rica, and is currently teaching Portuguese I and II fully
online
De la Pava, Alejandro
Spanish Language Instruction
Jiménez, Roberto His research interests include exploring the ethics of solidarity, interdependence, and nonviolence in global citizenship education. Prof. Jiménez teaches Spanish language courses, as well as courses of Latin American culture and film. He also serves as the advisor for the Latin American Student Association on his campus.
Lugaro-Izuibejeres, MarĂa Natalia
She is originally from Uruguay but lived in Brazil for about 20 years before coming
to Tampa. She taught Spanish and English as a second language for Brazilian students
of all ages. She graduated from a Masterâs degree in Spanish Literature from the University
of South Florida.
RamĂrez-Wohlmuth, Sonia, Ph.D.
Proffessor RamĂrez-Wohlmuth teaches undergraduate courses in Spanish at all levels
including expository writing, introduction to Spanish linguistics, and introduction
to Spanish translation.
Scharm, Heike, Ph.D.
Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches on modernity in contemporary Hispanic
fiction (philosophy, literature, film, art in Spain, Latin America, and Europe).
Wagner, Martinez, Ph.D. Her research interests include Francophone women writers, foreign Resistors during World War II in France and French immigrant literature and film. In her book Les écrivaines francophones en liberté (2007),