Latin American and Iberian Studies
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Mark Aldenderfer (Ph.D., Anthropology, Pennsylvania State 1977) Archaeological analysis of foraging societies; Archaic/Preceramic Andes; comparative analysis of high altitude and biological adaptations; lithic analysis; quantitative methods; geographical information systems; lowland Maya. Author of Montane Foragers: Asana and the South-Central Andean Archaic (1996); Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems (editor, 1996); Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity, and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes (editor, 1993); Quantitative Research in Anthropology: Progress and Prospects (editor, 1987); and numerous articles.
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Ralph Armbuster-Sandoval (Ph.D., Chicano Studies)
Edwina
Barvosa-Carter (Ph.D., Chicano Studies)
Silvia
Bermúdez
(Ph.D., Spanish, University of Southern California, 1991) Twentieth-Century
Peninsular and Latin American poetry and poetics; literary and cultural theory;
popular culture. Author of articles on poetry and popular culture; poetic discourse;
subjectivity and sexuality, including "That Was Then, This is Now: Peruvian
Women Poets of the 1980's" (1995); "Sexing the Bildungsroman: Las
edades de Lulu, Pornography and the Pleasure Principle" (1996); "Music
to My Ears: Conchita Piquer and the (Un)Making of Cultural Nationalism"
(1997); "Rhyming Race: Nicomedes Santa Cruz's Decimas" (1997); Los
mecanismos del deseo: lenguaje y subjetividad en la poesia española contemporanea
(1998). Work-in-progress: book on Blanca Varela's poetry of insight.
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Kathleen Bruhn (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University, 1993) Mexican politics; U.S.-Mexican relations; democratization; political economy of development; party systems and social movements. Author of Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (forthcoming). Recent publications on opposition in Mexico, social spending and support, party-movement ties, and general Mexican politics. Work in progress: problems of political representation in Latin America, such as the representation of women and patterns of linkage between state and society.
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Joao Camilo-dos-Santos (Doctorat d'Etat, Portuguese, University of Haute-Bretagne, 1983) Portuguese and Brazilian literatures of the nineteenth and twentieth century; "neo-realismo"; literary theory; analysis and criticism of narrative, poetry, and drama.. Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies, editor of its publication series, founder and editor of its yearly journal, Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies. Author of criticism: Carlos de Oliveira et le Roman (1987); Os Maleficios da Literatura, do Amor e da Civilizacao - Ensaios sobre Camilo Castelo Branco (1992); novel, Retrato Breve de J.B. (1975); and poetry: Os Filmes Coloridos (1978); O T de Tu (1981); Na Pista, Entre as Linhas (1983); Para a Desconhecida (1983); A Mala dos Marx Brothers (1989); A Mais Nobre das Artes (1991); Nunca Mais se Apagam as Imagens (1996). Numerous articles, poems, and also a few short stories and plays, in books, journals, and literary magazines.
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Jorge Luis Castillo (Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard, 1995) Nineteenth-century Spanish-American and Peninsular literature; Romanticism; Modernismo and the Spanish-American avant-garde; poetry and poetics; history of ideas; contemporary literary theory; contemporary Spanish-American literature. Author of "De la guerra a las sombras: sobre los pasos de Peregrinación de René Marques" (1993); "La lengua del gracioso y el mundo del carnaval en El desdén, con el desdén de Moreto" (1994), "La modernidad en los manifestos de la vanguardia hispanoamericana" (1994); "Herrera y Reissig y el eroticismo" (1996); "El viaje como epistemología en Morsamor y el Persiles" (1996); "El lenguaje y la poesía de Julio Herrera y Reissig" (forthcoming). Work in progress: articles on Sarmiento, Borges, and turn-of-the-century erotic poetry.
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Sarah Cline (Ph.D., History, UCLA, 1981) Mexican and Latin America history; Christianity; colonial and national periods; colonial Mexican ethnohistory. Author of The Testaments of Culhuacan (co-edited with Miguel Leon-Portilla, 1984); Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (1986); The Conquest of New Spain, 1585 Revision by Fray Bernardino de Sahagun (editor, 1989); The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos (with Miguel Leon-Portilla, 1993). Work in progress: Christianity in Latin America from Christopher Columbus to Jimmy Swaggart.
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Martha Swearingen Davis (Ph.D., Linguistics, Stanford University, 1996) Language and culture; descriptive linguistics; Creoles, dialects, multilingualism; African presence in the Americas (Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean). Author of "The Anterior and Object Clitic Placement in Palenquero (in press); "La Particula Verbal BA en Palenquero" (forthcoming). Work in progress: a comparative linguistic study of Afro-American communities.
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Francis A. Dutra (Ph.D., Latin American History, New York University, 1968) Portuguese and Brazilian history. Author of Matias de Albuquerque: Capitao-Mor de Pernambuco e Governador-Geral do Brasil (1976) and A Guide to the History of Brazil, 1500-1822: The Literature in English (1980); co-editor of The Portuguese and the Pacific (1995); and author of three chapters and more than forty articles on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian history. Currently working on the Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis, 1500-1777; and Seafarers and Surgeons in the Portuguese World, 1500-1770.
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John Foran (Ph.D., Sociology, UC Berkeley, 1988) Sociology of development and social change; cultural studies; comparative-historical method; social movements and revolutions. Author of "The Future of Revolutions at the Fin-de-Siecle" (1997), Theorizing Revolutions: "Who Makes Revolutions? Class, Gender, and Race in the Mexican, Cuban, and Nicaraguan Revolutions" (with Linda Klouzal and Jean-Pierre Rivera, 1997); "Reinventing the Mexican Revolution: The Competing Paradigms of Alan Knight and John Mason Hart" (1996); "The Causes of Latin American Social Revolutions: Searching for Patterns in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua" (1994); "A Theory of Third World Social Revolutions: Iran, Nicaragua, and El Salvador Compared" (1992). Currently working on a comparative study of the origins of revolutions in the Third World.
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Victor F. Fuentes (Ph.D., Spanish, New York University, 1965) Nineteenth and Twentieth century Spanish literature; Spanish and Latin American realism, avant-garde, postmodernism, and film; literary and cultural criticism. La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas 1917-1936 (1980); El cantico material y espiritual de Cesar Vallejo (1981); Galdos, republicano y democrata. Escritos políticos 1906-1913 (1982); Bunuel: Cine y literatura (1989); Benjamin Jarnes: Biografía y metaficción (1989); Bunuel en Mexico (1993); editor, La otra cara del 27: la novela social española 1923-1939 (1993); forthcoming: a critical edition of La regenta; numerous articles, chapters, and reviews on Spanish and Hispanic modern and contemporary literature, film, and sociocultural history. Work in progress: "Literatura y cine: de la vanguardia a la posmodernidad;" "Madrid en los años 20 y 30: modernidad, cultura y revolución"; "La literatura de la Bohemia española."
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Edward Funkhouser (Ph.D., Economics, Harvard, 1990) Labor markets in Latin America; causes and consequences of international migration; labor market integration of immigrants in the United States. Author of "Migration, Remittances, and Economic Adjustment: The Case of El Salvador in the 1980s" (1992); "Migration from Nicaragua: Some Recent Evidence" (1992); "The Choice of Migration Destination for Migrants from the Dominican Republic and Cuba" (with Fernando Ramos, 1993); "Remittances from International Migration: A Comparison of El Salvador and Nicaragua" (1995); "Demand and Supply Side Explanation of Labor Market Segmentation in Developing Countries: The Case of Guatemala" (forthcoming); "Mobility and Labor Market Segmentation: The Urban Labor Market in El Salvador" (forthcoming); "Labor Market Adjustment to Political Crisis: Changes in the Labor Market in El Salvador in the 1980s" (forthcoming).
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Mario Garcia (Ph.D. History, UC San Diego, 1975) Chicano history; history and autobiography; race and ethnicity in the American West. Author of Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 (1981); Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 (1989); Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona (1994); Ruben Salazar, Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970 (editor, 1995); The Making of a Mexican American Mayor: Raymond L. Telles of El Paso" (Texas Western Press, 1998); Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman (UC Press, 2000).
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Carl Gutierrez-Jones (Ph.D., English, Cornell, 1990) Chicano studies; contemporary fiction; Pan-American studies; critical legal studies. Author of Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse (1995); articles on contemporary literature, film, and cultural theory, including "Provisional Historicity: Reading through Terra Nostra (1988) and "Legal Rhetoric and Cultural Critique: Notes toward Guerrilla Writing (1990). Work in progress: a book which will treat issues of multiculturalism with an eye to the influence exercised by legal rhetoric.
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Maria Herrera-Sobek (Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literature, UCLA 1975) Chicano/a literature and culture; Latin American literature, especially colonial; Hispanic and Chicano folklore; feminist theory. Author of The Bracero Experience: Elitelore Versus Folklore (1979); The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis (1990); Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song (1993). Editor or co-editor of Beyond Stereotypes: The Critical Analysis of Chicana Literature (1985); Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature (1988, 1996); Gender and Print Culture: New Perspectives on International Ballad Studies (1991); Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage: Hispanic Colonial Literature of the Southwest (1993); Chicana (W)rites: On Word and Film (1995); Culture Across Borders: The Popular Culture of Mexican Immigration to the United States (1998). Work-in- progress: Undocumented Voices; History, Myth, and Metaphor; The Mexican-Chicano Shepherds' Plays; Moral Theory and Chicana Writers.
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Jonathan Inda (Ph.D., Chicano Studies)
Suzanne Jill Levine (Ph.D., Spanish, New York University, 1977) Latin American literature; twentieth century fiction; literary translation and theory; comparative literary studies. Author of El espejo hablado (a study of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Cién años de soledad) (1975), Guía de Bioy Casares (1982), Maestros hispanicos del siglo veinte (co-author, 1977); The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991); numerous articles, chapters, interviews, reviews; numerous translations of Hispanic writers, including Manuel Puig, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Carlos Fuentes, Jose Donoso, Jorge Luis Borges, Severo Sarduy, Cecilia Vicuna, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Silvia Ocampo. Work in progress: a literary biography of Manuel Puig; Alternative Identities, an anthology of Latin American women writers; (co-editor), complete works of Jorge Luis Borges.
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Francisco A. Lomeli (Ph.D., Spanish, University of New Mexico, 1978) Latin American literature, particularly Chilean, Andean, Mexican, and Argentine; testimonial literature; translation; Chicano literature, particularly Southwest literary history, Pre-Chicano literature; literary theory; cultural studies; autobiography; bibliography. Author or co-athor of Chicano Perspectives in Literature: A Critical and Annotated Bibliography (1976), La novelistica de Carlos Droguett (1983), Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the U.S.: Art and Literature (1993), Dictionary of Literary Biography (1989-1992), Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (1989), translator, The Last Testament (1978); author of numerous articles, chapters, interviews of Latin American and Chicano authors (including videotapes), editor of special journal issues on ethnic studies, Latin American topics, and colonial literature.
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Fernando Lopez-Alves (Ph.D., Political Science, UCLA, 1989) Comparative politics. Author of Between the Economy and the Polity in the River Plate: Uruguay 1811-1890 (1993); and a forthcoming volume on the origins of democracy and the formation of the state in Uruguay, Colombia, and Argentina, as well as articles on revolutionary movements and organized labor in Latin America. Work in progress: a comparative study of unionization among immigrant workers, including Latinos in the United States, African immigrants in Spain, and foreign workers in Latin America; the comparative political evolution of Uruguay and Argentina.
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Chris McAuley (Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan, 1993) World systems theory; Black intellectual history; Caribbean and Latin American political economy; American labor history; economic history of the Americas; race and revolution. Author of "Race and Revolution in the Americas" (1997), "Aspects of Disney's Business History, 1937-1955" (1997), "Oliver Cox and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" (forthcoming). Work in progress: a biographical-analytic sketch of Oliver Cox; a book on how Black political economists have conceptualized the development of capitalism.
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Ellen McCracken (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, UC San Diego, 1977) Contemporary Latin American narrative; cultural studies; literary theory; visual and verbal semiotics; U.S. Latino fiction. From Mademoiselle to Ms.: Decoding Women's Magazines (St. Martin's, 1993), articles on postmodern ethnicity as commodity, metaplagiarism, visual and verbal semiosis in retablos, Chicano cultural studies, women and mass culture, Boom writers Vargas Llosa, Cortazar, Puig, Lenero, and Piglia, and U.S. Latina writers Cisneros, Ponce, Mohr, Garcia, and Alvarez in books and journals including PMLA, Melus, and Critica. Work in progress: New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity and co-edited volume Rearticulations: The Practice of Chicano Cultural Studies.
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Timothy
McGovern (Ph.D. UCLA 1997) Spanish and Portuguese
Language and Lower Division
Programs Coordinator. Language Teaching Methodology, CAI, 19th
Century Spanish, Portuguese and Barzilian Literatures.Forthcoming:
Dickens in Galdós (Peter Lang), Using Portuguese
(Cambridge). Articles in Brazilian literature, and Catalan literature.
Cecilia Mendez (Ph.D., History, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1996) Latin American history: nineteenth-century and contemporary Peru, peasantries, nationalism, history and literature, historiography, theory of history. Author of "Incas si, indios no: Notes on Peruvian Creole Nationalism and its Contemporary Crisis" (1996); Pactos sin Tributo: Caudillos y Campesinos en el Nacimiento de la República, Ayacucho, Peru: 1825-1850" (1996); República sin indios: la Comunidad Imaginada del Perú" (1992); Los Campesinos, la Independencia y la Iniciación de la República: El Caso de los Iquichanos Realistas, Ayacucho 1825-1828" (1991); Los Trabajadores Guaneros del Perú: 1840-1879 (1987). Work in progress: "Peasant Justice and State Rule in Huanta, Ayacucho, Perú: 1828-1878."
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Giorgio Perissinotto (Ph.D., Spanish, Columbia University, 1970) Hispanic linguistics: history of the language, dialectology, Mexican Spanish, California Spanish. Author of Fonología del español hablado en la ciudad de México: ensayo de un método sociolinguístico (1975); Reconquista y literatura medieval: cuatro ensayos (1986); Juan Suarez de Peraltad Tratado del descubrimiento de las Yndias y su conquista (1988), Transcription, Preliminary Study and Notes by Giorgio Perissinotto (1990); Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages (co-editor, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1993); numerous articles on topics ranging from Medieval literature and historical linguistics to Mexican and United States Spanish. Current research: Spanish and Mexican beginnings in California; the Spanish of Colonial Mexico. ext. 2851, *3161
Jeanette Peterson (Ph.D., Art and Art History, UCLA, 1985) Pre- and post-Conquest arts of Mexico; postcolonial issues in Latin American art; transculturation of European and indigenous elements; imaging women in the Americas; redefinition of "writing" as sign systems; relationship of text to image. Author of Precolumbian Flora and Fauna: Continuity of Plant and Animal Themes in Mesoamerica (1990); The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco: Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-century Mexico (1993); "The Florentine Codex Imagery and the Colonial Tlacuilo" (1988); "The Virgin of Guadalupe: Symbol of Conquest or Liberation?" (1992); "Lengua o Diosa? The Colonial Imaging of Malinche (1995). ext. 7578, *2417, (619) 756-3409 and in SB, 968-5549
Sara Poot-Herrera (Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, El Colegio de Mexico, 1987) Colonial and nineteenth-century Spanish American literature; twentieth-century Mexican literature. Author of Un giro en espiral: El proyecto literario de Juan Jose Arreola (1992); Y diversa de mi misma entre vuestras plumas ando: Homenaje internacional a Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (editor and co-author, 1993); Sor Juana y su mundo: Una mirada actual (editor and co-author, 1995); "La hija del judio, entre la Inquisición y la imprenta" (1992); and "Cuenta de cuentos" (1993). Work in progress: recent discoveries on the the life and work of Sor Juna Ines de la Cruz; research and editing of El cuento mexicano: Homenaje a Luis Leal. David Rock (Ph.D., Latin American History, Cambridge, 1971) History of Latin America and history of Argentina; late nineteenth and twentieth century.
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David Rock (Ph.D., Latin American History, Cambridge, 1971) History of Latin America and history of Argentina; late nineteenth and twentieth century. Author of Politics in Argentina, 1890-1930 (1974); Argentina 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Raul Alfonsin (1987); Authoritarian Argentina: The National Movement, its History and its Impact (1993); Latin America in the 1940s (editor, 1994). Work in progress: politics, government, and society in the Rio de la Plata, 1860-1916.
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Chela Sandoval (Ph.D., History of Consciousness, U.C. Santa Cruz, 1993) CyberCultural studies, critical, literary, and film theory and methods. Author of "U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World" (1991); "Literary Theory and Feminist Agency" (1995); "Re-Entering CyberSpace: New Sciences of Resistance" (1996); "Mestizaje and Differential Methodology: Feminists of Color/Sliding the Rule of the Canon" (forthcoming). Work-in-progress: a book on U.S. third world feminism, semiotics, and the methodology of the oppressed.
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Katharina Schreiber (Ph.D., Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton, 1978) South American archaeology; rise of civilization; Southwestern archaeology. Author of Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Perú (1992), Los puquios de Nasca: Tecnología Hidráulica del Perú Prehispanico (1996), and various articles regarding prehistoric empires (Wari and Inka), archaeoastronomy, and prehistoric hydraulic technology. Work in progress: field research in Nasca, Perú, aimed at understanding factors involved in the rise of the Nasca civilization.
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Susan Stonich (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Kentucky, 1986) Environmental/ecological/development anthropology; environmental justice; environmental/social movements; agricultural/aquacultural development; anthropological research methods; Central America, Mexico, rural U.S. (Appalachia and California). Author of "I Am Destroying the Land!" The Political Ecology of Poverty and Environmental destruction in Honduras (1993); "Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Tourism Development: The Case of the Bay Islands, Honduras" (1995); "Globalization of the Shrimp Mariculture Industry: Effects on Social Justice and Environmental Quality in Central America" (forthcoming). Work in progress: a book called "Lost Paradise: Tourism and Environment in the Bay Islands;" research on globalization of resistance to the shrimp farming industry; farmworker health and environmental justice in Santa Barbara County.
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Ines Talamantez (Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Ethnopoetics, UC San Diego, 1976) Native American religious studies and philosophies, Native American literature, comparative literature, oral traditions, Chicano/a studies, Mexican culture, women's studies. Author of K'ehogosone: Native American Ritual Texts (1975); Tse'gihi: Navajo Night Chant (1978); The Goddess Within, 'Isanaklesh Gotal: Introducing Apache Girls to the World of Spiritual and Cultural Values (forthcoming). Work in progress: Native American Religions: An Interdisciplinary Approach; Structured Empathy in Qualitative Research; "Since the First Encounters: Native American Resistance to Religious Exploitation."
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