{"id":514,"date":"2017-09-12T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/latin-american-studies\/?page_id=514"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:22:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:22:37","slug":"faculty-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/latin-american-studies\/faculty-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty & Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Program Co-Directors, 2025-2026
<\/strong>Le\u00f3n Narv\u00e1ez
<\/strong>Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
<\/span>Hispanic culture, language, and literature; Hispanic migration; race\/ethnic studies<\/span><\/p>\n

Kris E. Thalhammer
<\/strong>Professor of Political Science
<\/span>comparative politics; Latin American politics; political tolerance; human rights<\/span><\/p>\n

Catalina Ahumada Escobar
<\/strong>Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
<\/span>colonial Latin America, early Modern Latin America, 19th century Latin America, writing and daily life
practices, visual culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seth I. Binder
<\/strong>Associate Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies
<\/span>environmental and natural resource economics and policy; development economics; sustainable
development<\/span><\/p>\n

Maggie A. Broner
<\/strong>National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Romance Language
<\/span>Hispanic linguistics; culture; second language acquisition<\/span><\/p>\n

Christopher L. Chiappari
<\/strong>Associate Professor of Sociology\/Anthropology
<\/span>Guatemala; religion; immigration<\/span><\/p>\n

Kris A. Cropsey
<\/strong>Instructor of Romance Languages – Spanish
<\/span>Hispanic linguistics; sociolinguistics; second language acquisition; teacher education<\/span><\/p>\n

Jamison Garc\u00eda Ram\u00edrez
<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish<\/span><\/p>\n

Jessica Haugsland
<\/strong>Visiting Instructor of Romance Languages – Spanish<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristina Medina-Vilari\u00f1o
<\/strong>Associate Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish; O.C. and Patricia Boldt Distinguished Teaching
Professor of the Humanities
<\/span>Caribbean Studies; 20th- and 21st-century Latin American studies; contemporary Latino studies; race and
ethnic studies<\/span><\/p>\n

Am\u00e9rico Mendoza-Mori
<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan P. O’Conner
<\/strong>Associate Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
<\/span>Peninsular early modern\/golden age literature and cultures; cultural and intellectual histories; humanism;
colonial Latin America<\/span><\/p>\n

Ariel T. Strichartz
<\/strong>Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish
<\/span>contemporary Latin American theater and narrative; Argentine theater; literary food studies; memory
studies<\/span><\/p>\n

Brendon Westler
<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Philosophy
<\/span>Latin American philosophy<\/span><\/p>\n

Mariana Reyes Pay\u00e1n
<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Romance Languages – Spanish<\/p>\n

Joseph Sepulveda Ortiz
<\/strong>Assistant Professor of English<\/p>\n

Xochizeltzin Casta\u00f1eda-Camacho
<\/strong>Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies<\/p>\n

Nathan Norris
<\/strong>Visiting Assistant Professor of History<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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