Steering Committee

Bryan, Joe
 

Title/Department: Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies Center; Associate Professor, Geography

Geographic Research Area: Honduras, Nicaragua

Research/Teaching Focus: Indigenous politics in the Americas; Environment and Development; Critical Cartography

Website:https://www.colorado.edu/geography/joe-bryan-0

 
 
Gomez, Leila
 

Title/Department: Professor, Women and Gender Studies

Geographic Research Area: Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Central America

Research/Teaching Focus: Latin American Literature and Culture in XIX and XX century, Travel Writing.

Website:https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/gomez​

 
 
​​Loayza, Doris
 

​Title/Department: Teaching Assistant Professor, LALSC

Geographic Research Area:

Research/Teaching Focus:

Website/Blog: https://dorisloayza.com

 
 
Ordaz, Jessica
 

Title/Department: Assistant Professor Associate , Ethnic Studies

Geographic Research Area: US/México

Research/Teaching Focus: 

Website: https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jessica-ordaz

 
 
Quan Tracy
 

Title/Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Geographic Research Area: United States, U.S. students studying in Latin America and Spain

Research/Teaching Focus: learning of Spanish as an additional or heritage language; language, identity, and ideology, bi/multilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, Latin Asians, critical pedagogies

Website: https://www.colorado.edu/spanishportuguese/tracy-quan

 
 
Soares Kristi
 

Title/Department: Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Director Queer and Trans Studies

Geographic Research Area: Latinx U.S. and the Caribbean

Research/Teaching Focus: Latinx media studies and music, queer and trans studies

Website: https://www.colorado.edu/lgbtq/kristie-soares