LACC Research Advisory Board

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Elizabeth Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Environment

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, AHC5 392

Contact: 305.348.0146 | epanders@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Natural history of tropical freshwaters of Central America, the Andean Amazon, and East Africa, and the effects of human activities on these ecosystems.

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Simone Athayde, Associate Professor, LACC & Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies

Brazilian Studies Program of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, and Associate Professor at Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 353

Contact: 305.348.2894 | sathayde@fiu.edu

Areas of expertise: biodiversity conservation, interdisciplinary research, integrative science, indigenous knowledge systems, ethnobotany and ethnoecology, and participatory research and management of social-ecological systems.

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Melissa Baralt, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages

Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 485B

Contact: 305.348.2851 | mbaralt@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism + second language acquisition, Sociocultural and environmental factors affecting parent-child interaction, classroom/online language learning, language teacher education and cognition, and minority student/foreign language experiences.

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Ana María Bidegain, Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 305B

Contact: 305.348.2186 | anamaria.bidegain@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Christianity in Latin America, women in Latin American religions, and history of religion in Latin America.

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David Bray, Professor, Department of Earth & Environment

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, AHC5 376

Contact: 305.348.3877 | brayd@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Community forest management in Mexico and Central America, and natural resource and ecosystem management in Latin America and globally.

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Jose Miguel Cruz, Director of Research, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 352

Contact: 305.348.2894 | jomcruz@fiu.edu |

Areas of expertise: Criminal violence, gangs, police, democratization and public opinion in Latin America.

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Jorge Duany, Director, Cuban Research Institute

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 446

Contact: 305.348.1991 | joduany@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the United States.

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Leonardo Ferreira, Professor, Department of Journalism and Media

Office: FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, AC1 325

Contact: 305.919.4169 | leferrei@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Study of comparative communication law and ethics, Latin American media history, and journalism for social development including ethnic and community reporting.

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Javier Francisco Ortega, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, OE 242

Contact: 305.348.2080 | ortegaj@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Plant systematics with a focus on using molecular methods to establish phylogenetic relationships among taxa, and conservation genetics.

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Bianca Premo, Professor, Department of History

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, DM 300B1

Contact: 305.348.1862 | premob@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Latin American history, colonial Peru and Mexico and early modern Spain in the fields of legal studies, ethnohistory, gender and family history and Atlantic history.

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Jean Rahier, Professor, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies

Office: FIU Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 328

Contact: 305.348.2247 | Jean.Rahier@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Cultural Anthropology, African Diaspora Studies, Afro-Latin America, Festivity Studies, European Colonialism, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Ediberto Roman, Professor of Law, College of Law

Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, RDB 2040

Contact: 305.348.2444 | romane@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Construction and interpretation of constitutional law and immigration policy, citizenship law, immigration law, public international law, and constitutional law; theoretical perspectives based on classic philosophy, neo-liberal theory, critical race theory, post-colonial studies, diaspora literature, and social theory

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Nelson Varas-Diaz, Professor, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies

Office: Modesto A. Maidique Campus, SIPA 330

Contact: 305.348.2618 | nvarasdi@fiu.edu | Website

Areas of expertise: Social, political and individual level implications of stigmatization.