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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.