LACS - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literary Studies
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- Author
- Co - Editor ), Rebel Governance in Civil War ( Cambridge University Press )
- Political Science & Director of Graduate Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Ana Arjona (co-author), "Conflict, Violence, and Democracy in Latin America," Introduction to the first bilingual issue of Politica y Gobierno (CIDE, Mexico), Vol. XXIII (1), 2016
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- Associate Director, WCCIAS
Bianca has been at the University since 2006 working with various area studies programs including Asian Studies, International Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, and Middle East & North African Studies. She received her M.A. in Social Sciences with a concentration in Anthropology, from the University of Chicago. As Associate Director she oversees the administration of the center's programs and works with the faculty Directors to advise students, manage curricular development, and provide program management. Prior to joining Northwestern she worked for the Environmental and Conservation Program at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago where she worked closely with a local NGO in Peru, CIMA-Cordillera Azul to protect cultural diversity and land security, and to integrate improved quality of life into the management of Cordillera Azul National Park. While at the Museum, she also worked with the interactive program expeditions@fieldmuseum™, which followed Field Museum scientists as they conduct groundbreaking scientific research around the world and communicate it to a wider audience through dispatches, interactives and photos.
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- Coordinator for Faculty Research Groups & Programming, WCCIAS
Cindy provides administrative support to the faculty research groups in the Center for International and Area Studies. She has worked in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern for over 8 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, having worked both in the Weinberg Dean's office and in the Department of Economics. She's played a key role in Weinberg College's Convocation and has planned and managed a number of special events, lectures, colloquia, and conferences on campus. She's had the opportunity to work with a wide range of faculty members and staff across Weinberg College. She likes learning about different cultures and travelling to experience all things first-hand. She enjoys the outdoors and likes to bike, hike, and sail. In the winter she likes to cross country ski. She also considers herself a "foodie". Stop by the office and tell her an Aggie joke as she is a graduate of Texas A&M.
Contact Cindy for zoom meeting information, event planning, honorariums, flyers and publicity, inquires related to faculty research groups.
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- Associate Professor of Communication Studies
- Author
- Co - Author ), "Habitus and Beyond
- Co - Author ), "the High of Cultural Experience
- Co - Editor ), Social Theory Now ( University of Chicago Press )
Claudio Benzecry (co-author), "Habitus and Beyond: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant Looking at the Seams," in Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu (Oxford Handbooks Online, 2018)
Claudio Benzecry (co-author), "What is political about political ethnography? On the context of discovery and the normalization of an emergent subfield," Theory and Society Vol. 46, No. 3 (July 2017)
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- Editor
- Professor of Anthropology
For Daniela's dissertation project, she examines the ecologies of ancestors through an archaeology of Chachapoya mortuary landscapes and a community-engaged research design in Peru's northeastern Amazonian Andes. In collaboration with local and descendant communities, she combines land-based knowledge with aerial drone photogrammetry, architecture survey and dendro-archaeology to investigate how ancestral monuments mediated the relationship between people and the environment. She is the lead investigator and co-director for the MAPA-SACHA project, "Medio Ambiente, Paisaje y Arquitectura de los Sitios Ancestrales Chachapoya", fellow with the University of Arkansas Spatial Archaeology Residential and Online Institute, 2019-2020 fellow with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern, and affiliate with Northwestern's Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Andean Cultures and Histories programs.
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- Chairman
- Editor
- Associate Professor of French
Associate Professor of French; Chair of the Department of French and Italian
d-garraway@northwestern.edu
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- Associate Professor of Musicology
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Instruction, RTVF
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- Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
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- Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
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- Department of Spanish
- Emeritus Faculty
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- Professor Emeritus of History
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- Professor in the Humanities Professor of Brazilian, Lusophone African and Comparative Literature Chair, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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- Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
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- Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies
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- Co - Author ), "When Geopolitics Becomes Moral Panic
- Co - Author ), the News Media in Puerto Rico
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- Co - Author ), "Critical Event Analysis in Case Study Research, " Sociological Methods & Research ( 2020 )
- Co - Editor ), the Production of Knowledge
- Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor of Political Science
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- Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Block Museum of Art
Janet Dees
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art
janet.dees@northwestern.edu
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- Faculty Research Groups & Programming, WCCIAS
Joel provides administrative support to the faculty research groups in the Center for International and Area Studies.
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- Editor
- Professor of Modern Latin American and Andean Literatures and Cultures
Jorge Coronado (co-editor), Visiones de los Andes. Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región (Plural Editores and Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh)
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- Professor Emeritus of History
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- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
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- Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art History
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- Associate Professor, Anthropology
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- Professor of Latin American Literature & Culture
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- Associate Professor of Performance Studies
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- Program Coordinator of the Weinberg College Center for International
- Program Coordinator, WCCIAS
Margaret Sagan is Program Coordinator of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies, handling the center's events. She joined the center in 2022. She co-authored the report "Responsible Coffee Sourcing: Towards a Living Income for Producers" in 2021, for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). She received her Master of International Affairs degree at Columbia University SIPA, performing field work in Malawi for the Business and Human Rights Clinic. She worked for a decade at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, where she managed visitor services, planned events including Jazz Showcase concerts and film screenings, and wrote the Close-Ups section of the Native Networks website.
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- Co - Author ), "the Political Ecology of Plantations from the Ground Up, " Environmental Archaeology Volume 23, 2018 - Issue 1
- Co - Editor ), Archaeology in Dominica
- Co - Editor ), Islands at the Crossroads
- Co - Editor ), Out of Many, One People
- Director, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program
- Professor
- Professor of Anthropology & Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
- Program Area ( S ) : Atlantic World Archaeology African Diaspora Caribbean
Mark Hauser (co-editor), Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean (University of Alabama Press, 2011)
Mark Hauser is Professor in the Department of Anthropology. He is an historical archaeologist who specializes in materiality, slavery and inequality. These key themes intersect in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Atlantic and Indian Oceans and form a foundation on his research on the African Diaspora and Colonial Contexts. His research uses slavery's archaeological record to map alternative geographies of the 18 th and 19 th-century world. His first book An Archaeology of Black Markets (Florida 2008), maps the informal economies of enslaved people in Jamaica through the utilitarian pottery they made and with which they furnished their houses to trace the cultural and political registers of their everyday lives. His most recent book, Mapping water in Dominica (Washington 2021) examines the archaeological record of water, its management, and everyday uses during the island's short lived ‘sugar revolution,' to map the ecological legacies of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean. His current research on the labor histories and social lives of two communities in the Caribbean and South India, explores a ‘prehistory' of the global south by mapping the movement of people, objects, and ideas between two oceans. You can reach Mark at: mark-hauser@northwestern.edu
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- Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art History
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- Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
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- Professor, Medill School of Journalism
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- the John and Rosemary Croghan Chair, Associate Professor in Catholic Studies, Department of Religious Studies
Michelle Molina
The John and Rosemary Croghan Chair, Associate Professor in Catholic Studies, Department of Religious Studies
molina@northwestern.edu
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- Adjunct Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Latinx Studies
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- Co - Author ), "the Reception of Fake News
- Co - Author ), the Digital Environment
- Professor of Communication Studies & Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media
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- Co - Editor ), Dictablanda
- Co - Editor ), Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico ( University of New Mexico Press )
- Director of Graduate Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
- Professor of History
Paul Gillingham is Professor of History. He specializes in politics, culture and violence in modern Mexico, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on these subjects. His most recent book is Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship (2021). His first book, Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico (2011), was awarded the Conference on Latin American History's Mexican history prize. Gillingham is the co-editor of Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938-1968 (2014), Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico (2018), and the Violence in Latin American History series at the University of California Press. He has translated Oscar Altamirano's monograph on Edgar Allen Poe, Poe: The Trauma of an Era (2017) and is currently writing a history of Mexico since 1511. He directs the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives project (MIDAS), an open access collection of documents from Mexico's security agencies at crl.edu/midas. You can reach Paul at: paul.gillingham@northwestern.edu
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- Associate Professor of History & Donald L. Saunders Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library ( 2020 - 2021 )
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- Associate Professor of Anthropology & Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
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- Associate Professor of Political Science
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- Assistant Professor, Medill School of Journalism and Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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- Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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- Associate Dean of Academics Affairs, School of Professional Studies
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- Associate Professor of African American Studies and History
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- Program Assistant
- Undergraduate and Graduate Coordinator, WCCIAS
Tiffany is a Program Assistant for the Center for International and Area Studies. She supports the International Studies Program, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and Middle East and North African Studies Program. She has been at Northwestern since 2016 and was with the Program of African Studies before joining WCCIAS. She earned her M.A. in Sociology with a concentration in rural community and economic development from Western Illinois University through their graduate program for returned Peace Corps volunteers and worked with the University of Missouri Extension before coming to Northwestern. She did her Peace Corps service in Rwanda and continues to travel internationally each year.