Director, 2023-2024
Jonathan P. O’Conner
Associate Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
Peninsular early modern/golden age literature and cultures; cultural and intellectual histories; humanism; colonial Latin America
Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol
Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
Peninsular literature and culture; contemporary Spain; orality and literacy; second language acquisition
Seth I. Binder
Associate Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies
environmental and natural resource economics and policy; development economics; applied microeconomics; environmental economics
Maggie A. Broner
Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
Hispanic linguistics; culture; second language acquisition
Christopher L. Chiappari
Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology
Guatemala; religion; immigration
Kris A. Cropsey
Instructor in Romance Languages – Spanish
Hispanic linguistics; sociolinguistics; second language acquisition; teacher education
Kristina Medina-Vilariño
Associate Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
Caribbean Studies; 20th- and 21st-century Latin American studies; contemporary Latino studies; race and ethnic studies
León Narváez
Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
Hispanic culture, language, and literature; migration and other interdisciplinary studies
Kathleen L. Shea
Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
plant ecology and evolution; restoration ecology; agroecology
Ariel T. Strichartz
Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
contemporary Latin American theater and narrative; Argentine theater; literary food studies; memory studies
Kristina E. Thalhammer
Professor of Political Science
comparative politics; Latin American politics; political tolerance; human rights