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
  • ​Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto
    • Title/Department: Professor, Chair, Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts
    • Geographic Research Area: Latin America, U.S., Spain
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Film theory and aesthetics, Latin American and Spanish cinemas and culture, Hollywood genres
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/cinemastudies/ernesto-acevedo-munoz
  • Aldama, Arturo
    • Title/Department: Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, Associate Professor of Ethnic/Latinx Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: US/Mexico Borderlands, Latinx Studies (Nuyorican, Chicanx), Mexico
    • Research Teaching Focus: Latinx studies, Pop. Culture, film, music Studies, Culture/Gender Studies/Indigeneities/Immigration/Criminalization
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/arturo-aldam
  • Bayard de Volo, Lorraine
    • Title/Department: Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico (Chiapas)
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Gender and war in Latin America; gender and revolution; gender and social movements; women and politics in Latin America
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/wgst/lorraine-bayard-de-volo
  • Goldstein, Donna
    • Title/Department: Professor, Anthropology
    • Geographic Research Area: Brazil, Argentina, Southern Cone
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Research: Pharmaceutical Politics, Science Studies, Cold War, Nuclear Energy, Health, Environment, and Toxicity, Neoliberalism, Globalization, Crime and Violence in Latin America. Teaching: Political Economy and Power, Critical Medical Anthropology, The Anthropology of Latin America, Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil, Southern Cone Dictatorships, Latin American Films
    • Website:https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/donna-m-goldstein
  • 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, LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINX STUDIES CENTER
    • Geographic Research Area:
    • Research/Teaching Focus:
    • Website/Blog: https://dorisloayza.com/
  • Ordaz, Yesika
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor • Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Ethnic Studies
    • Geographic Research Area: US/México
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Chicanx/Latinx history, US/Mexico border studies, radical social movements, migration and migrant politics, labor history, the carceral state, the detention and deportation regime, food justice, and BIPOC veganisms
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/jessica-ordaz
  • Sepúlveda, Enrique
    • Title/Department: Assistant Professor - Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Ethnic Studies
    • Geography Research Area: Northern California, San Salvador, El Salvador, and Madrid, Spain.
    • Research/Teaching Focus: Migration and Border Studies in Global Latinx communities; Social theory, Critical ethnography and Youth participatory action research (YPAR); Education, equity and social justice oriented school reform; Critical literacy and pedagogy
    • Website: https://www.colorado.edu/ethnicstudies/people/core-faculty/enrique-sepulveda