Faculty
Over 115 faculty and lecturers are associated with the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. They are listed below alphabetically and in three groups, Faculty and Lecturers, Other Associated Faculty, and Emeritus Faculty along with their department and areas of specialization. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to contact faculty members whose research and teaching interests intersect with their own. Additional information is available on the departmental websites, which can be accessed through the University of Kansas homepage.
Professor, Interim Associate Dean for Research in the Arts and Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Assistant Librarian; Librarian for Spanish, Portuguese, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Assistant Professor/Director of Undergraduate Program, Economics, Undergraduate Advisor, Economics
Professor Emeritus, Director, Work Group for Community Health and Development,
Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies &
Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development
Associate Professor, CLAS Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department of Theatre
Program Specialist I, Bureau of Child Research, Associate Director, Community Tool Box Services
Associate Professor, Political Science, Director, Center for Global & International Studies
International & Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Work Group for Community Health and Development, Adjunct Assistant Professor, KU Department of Preventive Medicine, the Department of Applied Behavioral Science, Co-Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
Adjunct Reseacrh Associate, Institute for Policy and Social Research, KU, Professor, American Indian Studies, Haskell Indian Nations University
| Name | Department | Specialization |
|---|---|---|
| Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka | WGSS | |
| John Augelli | Geography | Central America |
| Steven Bozarth | Geography | |
| Robert Casad | School of Law | Civil procedure, conflicts, federal jurisdiction, remedies |
| Vernon Chamberlin | Spanish and Portuguese | |
| Donald Chambers | Social Welfare | |
| Dimitrios Dendrinos | Architecture and Urban Design | |
| Jerome Dobson | Geography | |
| Michael Doudoroff | Spanish and Portuguese | Spanish American modernism and literature |
| Stephen B. Fawcett | Applied Behaivioral Science | |
| Johannes Feddema | Geography | |
| Bryant Freeman | African and African American Studies | Haitian Creole, voodoo, Haitain culture and politics |
| Paul Garcia | Curriculum and Planning | |
| John Garland | School of Business | NAFTA, US-Canada-Mexico trade |
| Malcolm Gibson | School of Journalism | |
| Michael Greenfield | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | |
| Anita Herzfeld | Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Professor & Former Director of Undergraduate Studies | Socio-linguistic inequality, multiculturalism, creole languages of the Caribbean, multilingualism |
| Jill Kleinberg | Business | |
| Jill Kuhnheim | CLACS and Spanish and Portuguese | |
| Judith Leblanc | Life Span Institute | |
| Linda Lee | Journalism | |
| Robert Lichtwardt | Biology | |
| Donna Luckey | Architecture and Urban Planning, Associate Professor | Housing and settlement patterns in Costa Rica, environmental planning |
| Charles Michener | Museum of Entomology | |
| Robert Nunley | Geography | Central American geography, geography of population |
| Fred Rodriguez | Curriculum and Teaching, Office of the Provost | |
| Robert Smith | Museum of Anthropology | |
| Raymond Souza | Spanish and Portuguese | Twentieth-century Spanish American literature, Caribbean literature, Cuban fiction |
| Donald Stull | Anthropology | |
| Vicky Unruh | Spanish and Portuguese | Modern Spanish American narrative and theatre, the literary vanguards in Latin America, and Hispanic Caribbean literature. |
| Arnold Weiss | Spanish and Portuguese | |
| Don Worster | History | |
| Akira Yamamoto | Anthropology |