Jennifer Anderson Ph.D. New York University
Associate Professor, History Department
Areas of interest: Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean in the early modern period, exploring the history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, issues of labor, race, and gender, and the rise of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Email: jennifer.l.anderson@stonybrook.edu
Jorge M. Balaguer M.D., University of Buenos Aires Medical School
Associate Professor of Surgery
Email: jorge.balaguer@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Jorge L. Benach Ph.D., Rutgers University
Distinguished Toll Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and Pathology
Email: jorge.benach@stonybrook.edu
Hugo Benítez-SilvaPh.D., Yale University
Associate Professor, Economics
Areas of interest: Labor and Computational Economics; Public Economics; Social Insurance; Health Economics
Email: hugo.benitez-silva@stonybrook.edu
Nerissa Balce Ph.D, University of California-Berkeley
Associate Professor, Asian & Asian American Studies
Areas of interest: Postcolonial theory and the cultures of 1898; race, American visual culture and feminist epistemologies; state violence and Filipino culture; and Asian American literature and culture.
Email: marianerissa.balce-cortes@stonybrook.edu
Lena Burgos-Lafuente Ph.D., New York University
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Caribbean and Latin American literatures, Poetry, Modern transatlantic literatures, Poetics and Literary Politics
Email: lena.burgos-lafuente@stonybrook.edu
Pablo Calvi Ph.D., Columbia University
Associate Professor, School of Journalism
Areas of interest: Latin American narrative journalism; crónica, multimedia journalism; correlation between democratic societies and the free press.
Email: Pablo.calvi@stonybrook.edu
Ritch Calvin Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Areas of interest: Latinas and Latina literature in the U.S., and Mexican women writers, including Rosario Castellanos and Brianda Domecq, and their representations of women and articulations of feminism.
Email: Ritchie.Calvin@stonybrook.edu
Zaida Corniel Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Lecturer, Hispanic Languages and Literature
Areas of interests: Caribbean Literature and tourism narratives; Latino studies, Dominican diaspora; Theater.
Email: zaida.corniel@stonybrook.edu
Liliana Dávalos Ph.D., Columbia University
Associate Professor of Conservation Biology/Ecology and Evolution
Areas of interest: Evolutionary biology; the forces that shape biodiversity in time and space. Her lab focuses on how diversity in species and traits arises, and on helping shape policy to conserve ecosystems today and into the future.
Email: liliana.davalos-alvarez@stonybrook.edu
Elena Davidiak Ph. D., University of Iowa
Lecturer, Hispanic Languages and Literature
Areas of interest: bilingualism and multilingualism, sociolinguistics, code switching, language for special purposes, translation and interpretation techniques.
Joanne Davila Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training
Areas of interest: Adolescent and adult psychopathology and interpersonal functioning; interpersonal causes and consequences of depression and anxiety disorders; risk factors for the early development of romantic relationship dysfunction in adolescents and young adults; the role of attachment representations in interpersonal functioning; well being among LGBT individuals.
Email: joanne.davila@stonybrook.edu
Paul Firbas Ph.D., Princeton University
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature
Areas of interest: Textual culture in early colonial South America, particularly epic poetry, historiography and geography; production and circulation of printed news in transatlantic Lima and colonial Andes; 20th century Peruvian discourses on memory and modernity. Textual scholarship.
Email: paul.firbas@stonybrook.edu
Daniela Flesler Ph.D., Tulane University
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Areas of interest: 20th Century Peninsular Studies; Spanish Cultural Studies, Spain and its Arab past, Immigration in Spain and Post-colonial theory.
Email: daniela.flesler@stonybrook.edu
Lori Flores Ph.D., Stanford University
Associate Professor, History Department
Areas of interest: Latino/a, labor, immigration, and U.S.-Mexico borderlands history.
Email: lori.flores@stonybrook.edu
Georges Fouron Ed.D., Columbia University
Professor, Africana Studies
Areas of interest: Transnationalism and its effects as experienced by Haitians in Haiti and those of the Haitian Diaspora; social studies education; bilingual education; immigrants’ experience in America.
Email: georges.fouron@stonybrook.edu
Barbara Frank Ph.D., Indiana University
Associate Professor, Art History
Areas of interest: Global, colonial and diasporic art; ancient Mesoamerica; West Africa; intersection of technology and social identity in ceramic, textile, leatherwork, blacksmith artistry.
Email: barbara.frank@stonybrook.edu
Nancy Hiemstra Ph.D., Syracuse University
Assistant Professor of Migration Studies, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Areas of interest: Global migration and migration policy-making, immigration deportation and detention, Latin American migration to the U.S., consequences of immigration enforcement policy in migrant origin countries; Ecuador
Email: nancy.hiemstra@stonybrook.edu
Cristina Khan Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Areas of interest: Women of Color Feminism, Race/Ethnic Studies, Latinx Studies, Racialized Sexualities, Sexualities, Queer Theory, Sex Work
Email: cristina.khan@stonybrook.edu
Marci Lobel Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
Professor, Psychology
Areas of interest: Stress, discrimination, and their impact on health, particularly women’s reproductive health; racial and ethnic health disparities
Email: marci.lobel@stonybrook.edu
Sebastian Lopez Vergara Ph.D., University of Washington
Lecturer, Hispanic Languages & Literature
Areas of interest: Latinx and indigenous diaspora, Media studies, Chile, Cultural studies, Critical ethnic studies
Email: sebastian.lopezvergara@stonybrook.edu
Heather Lynch Ph.D., Harvard University
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolution
Areas of interest: Population dynamics and biogeographic distribution of penguins breeding on the Antarctic Peninsula region, with a particular focus on untangling the effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance.
Email: heather.lynch@stonybrook.edu
Valeria Mantilla MoralesPh.D., University of Toronto
Assistant Professor, History
Areas of Interests: Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia, Cultural history, Colonialism, Race, Food, Environment, Cartography
Email: valeria.mantilla@stonybrook.edu
Gabriel Mihalache Ph.D., University of Rochester
Assistant Professor, Economics
Areas of Interest: International Economics, Debt crises and external public debt, Fiscal-Monetary interactions in emerging markets, Inflation Targeting
Email: gabriel.mihalache@stonybrook.edu
Zebulon Vance Miletsky Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
Areas of interest: African-Americans in Boston; Northern freedom movements outside of the South; mixed race history in the U.S. and passing; Afro-Latin diaspora; Hip-Hop Studies.
Email: zebulon.miletsky@stonybrook.edu
Vivian Miranda Ph.D., University of Chicago
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Areas of interest: Astrophysics, theoretical cosmology, dark energy
Email: vivan.miranda@stonybrook.edu
Timothy Moran Ph.D., University of Maryland
Associate Professor, Sociology
Areas of interest: Historical global inequalities, including the distribution of income between and within countries, gender inequality, and socio-economic development.
Email: timothy.p.moran@stonybrook.edu
Francisco Ordóñez Ph.D. Graduate Center of the City of New York
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Areas of interest: Syntax, Dialectology of Spanish, Comparative Linguistics
Email: francisco.ordonez@stonybrook.edu
Oyeronke Oyewumi Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
Professor of Sociology, Africana & Gender Studies
Areas of interest: Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Culture, Comparative Historical-Sociology, Feminist Theory, Transnational Feminisms, Social Theory, Social Inequalities in Local, Regional, and Global systems, African Studies, (Post) Colonial Studies and Modernities
Email: Oyeronke.Oyewumi@stonybrook.edu
Rowan Ricardo Phillips Ph.D. Brown University
Professor, English Department
Areas of interest: African-American and Caribbean literature; Poetry; Poetics
Email: Rowan.Phillips@stonybrook.edu
Joseph Pierce PH.D., University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Areas of interest: Contemporary Southern Cone and Latin American Literatures, Narrative, Autobiographical Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Kinship Studies
Email: joseph.pierce@stonybrook.edu
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism
Areas of interest: News and sports shooting and editing; studio and control room production; Cuba.
Email: richard.ricioppo@stonybrook.edu
Victoriano Roncero-López Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Professor, Hispanic Languages & Literature
Areas of interest: Picaresque Literature, Quevedian Studies, Humanism
Email: victoriano.roncero-lopez@stonybrook.edu
Lilia Delfina Ruiz-Debbe Ph.D., University of Geneva
Coordinator of the Language Program, Hispanic Languages and Literature
Areas of interest: Applied linguistics; second language acquisition; cognitive epistemology of Piaget
Email: lilia.ruiz-debbe@stonybrook.edu
Jeffrey Santa Ana Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor, English
Areas of interest: Critical race studies, postcolonial studies and critical perspectives on empire, transnational American studies, Pacific Islander and Asian North American studies, environmentalism and ecocriticism, migration and diaspora, gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, and memory studies.
Email: jeffrey.santa.ana@stonybrook.edu
David Taylor Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Assistant Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Areas of interest: Sustainability in Cuba; arts and performance
Email: David.j.taylor@stonybrook.edu
Javier Uriarte Ph.D., New York University
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Areas of interest: 19th and 20th century Latin American literature (including Brazil), travel writing, war and State-sponsored violence, theory and politics of time and space, Nation and State making in Latin America.
Email: Javier.Uriarte@stonybrook.edu
Kathleen Vernon Ph.D., University of Chicago
Associate Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature
Areas of interest: Spanish cinema, Latin America, and the U.S. during the "Golden Age" of the 1930s and 1940s.
Email: kathleen.vernon@stonybrook.edu
Tracey Walters Ph.D., Howard University
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
Areas of interest: African American Literature, Caribbean Literature, African Literature, Pan-African Literature, Black British Literature and Culture, 20th century American and British Literature, journalism.
Email: tracey.walters@stonybrook.edu
Kathleen Wilson Ph.D., Yale University
Distinguished Professor, History
Areas of interest: Caribbean history, and especially gender, post-colonial theory, race and the history of performance in the British West Indies.
Email: kathleen.wilson@stonybrook.edu
Karina Yager Ph.D., Yale University
Assistant Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences/Sustainability Studies Program
Areas of interest: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, LCLUC (Land- cover and land-use change), Alpine Ecosystems, Peatlands, Pastoralism, Andes
Email: karina.yager@stonybrook.edu
Eric Zolov Ph.D, University of Chicago
Associate Professor, History
Areas of interest: Modern Latin America; Mexico; US-Latin American relations; popular culture; Global Sixties
Email: eric.zolov@stonybrook.edu