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Latin American/Latino Studies
202-885-6178
Fax: 202-885-6430
clals@american.edu
4545 42nd Street, Room 308
Armstrong, Ashlee B
Program Coordinator
Robert Albro
,Scholar in Residence
Dr. Robert Albro, a professor of International Communication, is an expert on Latin American social and indigenous movements, transnational civil society, cultural rights frameworks and cultural policy. Additional information about Dr. Albro's work c... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Jorge Ata
,Senior Professorial Lecturer
Jorge Ata, was born in La Paz, Bolivia and raised in Puno, Peru. He developed his interest in Cross-cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, and International Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from George Maso... [More]
CAS - World Languages and Cultures
Rene W. Aubourg
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Aubourg is a quantitative policy analyst with fifteen years of experience in macroeconomic policy management and fiscal issues, cost benefit analysis, and project management. He has substantial managerial experience in central banking having serv... [More]
SPA - Public Admin and Policy
Patricia Aufderheide
,University Professor
Patricia Aufderheide is a full-time professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and co-director with Matthew Nisbet of the Center for Social Media. Her books include Reclaiming Fair Us... [More]
SOC - CSM
Richard Bennett
,Professor
Professor Bennett's research interests include comparative criminology, comparative criminal justice, and police organization and procedures. He has published extensively in the area of cross-national crime, policing and comparative police systems. H... [More]
SPA - Justice, Law and Society
Robert Blecker
,Professor
Professor Blecker’s research interests include international trade, open economy macroeconomics, the value of the dollar and the US trade deficit, economic integration in North America, the Mexican economy, the limits to export-led growth strategies ... [More]
CAS - Economics
Eve Bratman
,Assistant Professor
Eve Bratman is an assistant professor at SIS. Dr. Bratman's research involves sustainable development politics in the Brazilian Amazon. Her major research projects focus on the links between environmental policy, agriculture, and human rights in Braz... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Philip Brenner
,Professor
Dr. Philip Brenner has published widely on U.S./Cuba relations, on contemporary U.S. foreign policy, and on the Cuban Missile Crisis. His most recent book is A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution.
SIS - School of International Service
Robin Broad
,Professor
Dr. Robin Broad, Professor of International Development, established the International Development Program’s unique curricular offerings on economic globalization and development and on environment and development with a focus on social, environmenta... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Carolyn Brown
,Assistant Professor
Carolyn Brown is an Assistant Professor at American University in the School of Communication's Journalism department. Professor’s Brown's area of expertise is Latino immigrant communities, the border, Latino representation in the media and the anti-... [More]
SOC - School of Communication
Charles Call
,Associate Professor
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Call, an associate professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, focuses on post-war peacebuilding, democratization, human rights and policing and justice reform. He has conducted field research in all of Central Ameri... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Marcy Campos
,Director, Center for Community Engagement & Service
Marcy Fink Campos joined AU’s Center for Community Engagement & Service in 2004. As Director, she oversees all office programs and serves as the liaison to the Office of Campus Life, Academic Affairs, and to other campuses involved in community-based... [More]
Center for Community Engagement Services
Miguel Carter
,Scholar in Residence
Dr. Miguel Carter is an expert in international development, democratic governance and elections, poverty and inequality reduction, rural and community development, religion and civil society, human rights, social movements, and Latin America. He i... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Elizabeth Cohn
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Elizabeth Cohn is an Assistant Professor specializing in U.S. foreign policy and Latin America. Her research interests include the U.S. promotion of democracy and Latin America. She is also deeply interested in pedagogies of teaching and is a fre... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Ken Conca
,Professor
Dr. Ken Conca’s research and teaching focus on global environmental governance, environmental peacebuilding in war-torn societies, environmental politics and policy in the United Nations system, water governance, and environmental policy analysis. He... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Carol da Silva
,Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Carol DeShano da Silva’s research is concerned with improving the educational and life opportunities of marginalized children. Her main areas of research are policy and practice in language and literacy and teacher education. She takes an explici... [More]
CAS - Education/Teaching/Health
Maria De Jesus
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Maria De Jesus brings to AU a wealth of research and teaching experiences in the area of health inequalities, with a particular focus on cross-cultural communication and health promotion. While serving as a Yerby post-doctoral fellow at the Harva... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Frank DuBois
,Associate Professor
Professor DuBois is Associate Professor of International Business. His research focus is in global supply chain management, customs facilitation, and social network analysis. His work has appeared in The Journal of International Business Studies, Int... [More]
KSB - International Business
Todd Eisenstadt
,Professor
Professor Eisenstadt's research focuses on the intersection of formal institutions and laws with informal institutions and practices, mostly in democratizing countries. Co-editor of Latin America's Multicultural Movements and the Struggle Between Com... [More]
SPA - Government
Joseph Eldridge
,University Chaplain and Senior Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Joe Eldridge has spent more than twenty-five years working in the public policy arena as an advocate and analyst on international human rights and humanitarian issues. In 1991 he established the Washington Office of the Lawyers Committee for Human Ri... [More]
Kay Spiritual Life Center
Noemi Enchautegui-de-Jesus
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Enchautegui-de-Jesus received her MA and PhD in Community Psychology from New York University. She was a postdoctoral fellow with the NIMH’s Family Research Consortium III at the University of Michigan. Her research revolves around a core interes... [More]
CAS - Psychology
Larry Engel
,Associate Professor
Larry Engel is a full-time professor of Film and Media Arts. With more than 30 years of teaching and filmmaking, his documentaries appear on PBS, the Discovery Channels and National Geographic, among other outlets. Awards include a Daytime Emmy for B... [More]
SOC - School of Communication
Daniel Esser
,Assistant Professor
Dr. Esser has conducted research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Mexico. He studies foreign aid and local governance in the Global South, in particular in conflict cities, as well as global health policy emergence and funding. He also purs... [More]
SIS - School of International Service
Eileen Findlay
,Associate Professor
Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship. Findlay's first book, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 was published with ... [More]
CAS - History
Max Paul Friedman
,Associate Professor
Max Paul Friedman specializes in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations. A graduate of Oberlin College and U.C. Berkeley, he was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow and has taught at Boulder, Tallahassee, and Cologne. His first book, Nazis and Good Nei... [More]
CAS - History