Completed Ph.D. Program

Jonnee Alexander, Ph.D. - Class of 2006 - "Troubling the Angry Waters: The Journey from Stokely Carmichael to Kwame Ture"

Solmerina Aponte, Ph.D. - Class of 2010 - "Bilingual Visual Culture in New York: Socially-Engaged Latina Artists and the Discourse of Hybridity"

Carmen Caamaño, Ph.D. - Class of 2007 - "Contending Subjectivity: Costa Rican Migrants Solidarity Networks, Social Capital and the Contstruction of Governmentality in Transnational Spaces"

Jean Carlos Cowan, Ph.D.- Class of 2006 - "Displacement in Medellín: A Global / Transnational Perspective"

Xenobia Delgado, Ph.D. - Class of 2009 - "Creating a National Counter-Narrative: Pathways to a New World in the Literature of Earl Lovelace"

M. Dustin Knepp, Ph.D. - Class of 2010 - “Tamaladas and the Role of Food in Mexican-Immigrant and Mexican-American Cultures in Texas”

Alexander Lamazares, Ph.d. - Class of 2009 - “Cuban Art under Late Socialism: Contested Spaces, Revolutionary Aesthetics, and the Creation of a New Art Market”

Thely Lopes, Ph.D. - Class of 2010 - “Shifting Identities in the Brazilian Restaurants of New York City”

Karen McGovern, Ph.D. - Class of 2006 - "Counterhegemonic Narratives:  Reading Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Identities in Latina Literary Anthologies of the 1980s and 1990s"

Katherine Platt, Ph.D. - Class of 2010 - “"Gringotenango: The U.S. Retirement Migration to Antigua, Guatemala"

Lomarsh Roopnarine, Ph.D. - Class of 2002 - "Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Creating Opportunities Out of Adversity"

Carla Santamaria, Ph.D. - Class of 2010 - “Boricuas isleños y nuyorriqueños: La construcción de identidades puertorriqueñas a través de la poesía de la calle.”

Current Research

Lissette Acosta-Corniel, ABD - "Towards a Theory of Spanish Women in Española: A Research Guide" > Research Interest: Colonial Hispaniola. > Recent Activity: Conference: Spanish Caribbean Conference (Dominican Republic): Towards a field of its own (paper) - "Buscando la Mujer en La Española del Siglo 16; Conference: Human Rights Conference (Washington D.C.): "Celebrating the First Sermon of Human Rights in La Española by Fray Antonio de Motesinos in 1511. Committees: Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference 2012 and the Dominican Studies Association 2012.

Karolina Babic, ABD- "In Memoriam of La Cueca Sola: Dancing to Resist, Dancing to Remember" > Research Interests: Social movements, media, memory, culture, migration, gender, and documentary films.

Ingrid Bircann-Barkey, ABD- "Women do not roll high quality cigars!" Tabaqueras in the shop floor of the Dominian Cigar factory"

Natacha Bolufer-Laurenti, ABD - “Spanish Exiles in New York:  Constructing Identities through the Spanish-Language Press (1930’s-1940’s)”

Ernesto Ebratt - TBA

Karen Ferrer-Muñiz - TBA

Rafael Gomez - TBA

Amaris Guzman - TBA

Jacqueline Hayes - TBA

Guadalupe Morales-Gotsch, ABD - "Economic Remittances to Middle Class Peruvian Families: Origins, Use, and Impact"

Carmen E. Nieves - TBA

Katherine Paarlberg-Kvam - "The Colombian Women's Peace Movement" > Research Interests: The Colombian women's peace movement; gender studies; political economy. > Recent Activity: NECLAS Conference presenter (November 2011).

Luis Paredes - "Perú Negro: Staging, Performing, and Constructing Afro-Peruvian Identity" > Research Interests: Latin American narrtive. Constructions, representation and authenticity of culture and identity through ancestral memory; rhythm performance, choreographic staging and musical-institutionalization of Afro-Peruvian culture. Recent Activity: Conference Paper, "La construcción de la danza y el ritmo: la africanización de 'Perú Negro'." Conferencia Internacional, SEPHIS/Universidad de Cartagena - Colombia, "Equidad, justicia, desarrollo: afrodescendientes en Latinoamerica." > Contact: about.me/paredes.luis.f

Katiuscia Pelerin, ABD - “A Conflict within Blackness:The Complexities of Identity of Haitian Migrants and their Descendants in the Bahamas.”

Yaser Robles, ABD- “En el Aire Escribieron la Historia: Honduran Invisibility in the Central American 1970s/80s Conflicts.”

Raquel Sanmiguel, ABD- "A Postcolonial Comparative Study of Secondary Education and its Ideological Implications for West Indian Communities in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica; Bluefields, Nicaragua; and Old Providence Island, Colombia"

David Uzzell Jr., ABD - “Upgrading, Shared Value, and Competitiveness in the Banana Value Chain in Colombia: The Case of C.I. Uniban S.A.”

Jamielynn Varriale - TBA

Deborah Woeckner-Saavedra, ABD - "Latino/a Artist-Educators and their Role in Creating and Sustaining Innovative Democratic Spaces."

MA Students