Core Faculty
![Patricia Alvarez Astacio](../images/faculty/alvarez-astacio-patricia.jpg)
Expertise: Visual anthropology, documentary/ethnographic filmmaking, Latin America, indigeneity, capitalism, the senses
![Gregory Childs](../images/faculty/childs-gregory.jpg)
Expertise: African diaspora studies, Latin American and Caribbean history, critical theories (race, social, legal), history of psychiatry, alterity and difference, philosophy of history and historiography, Atlantic world history, graffiti and hip-hop studies
![Gustavo Herrera Diaz](../images/gustavo-diaz.jpeg)
Areas of expertise: Latin American literature and culture, the Hispanic Caribbean, Latin American theater and performance, media studies, race and Afro-diasporic religions in Cuba and Brazil, classical reception.
![Maria Duran](../images/maria-duran.jpg)
Expertise: Latinx literatures and cultures; Latinx theater and performance; women of color feminisms; critical theory and cultural studies; aesthetics
![Elizabeth Emma Ferry](../images/faculty/ferry-elizabeth.jpg)
Expertise: Economic anthropology, mining and resources, anthropology of finance, materiality
![Charles Golden](../images/faculty/golden-charles.jpg)
Expertise: Archaeology of complex societies, modern contexts of archaeological research, Mesoamerica, the Maya
![Camila Maroja](../images/maroja-camila-21.jpg)
Expertise: modern and contemporary art and visual culture from Latin America, exhibition histories, and transnational exchanges.
![Sarah Mayorga](../images/sarah-mayorga.jpg)
Expertise: Sociology of race and racism, urban sociology, Latinx sociology, whiteness studies, qualitative methods
![Lucía Reyes de Deu](../images/faculty/reyesdedeu-lucia.jpg)
Expertise: Latin American literature and culture, specializing in gender studies and feminist analyses of Latin American texts, and literature and culture of Argentina, Uruguay and Chile (1884-1930)
![Fernando Rosenberg](../images/faculty/rosenberg-fernando.jpg)
Expertise: Modern and contemporary Latin American literatures and cultures; comparative literature, film and visual culture
![Faith Lois Smith](https://www.brandeis.edu/aaas/people/images/smith-faith.jpg)
Expertise: African and African American literature, Anglophone Caribbean literature
![Alejandro Trelles](../images/faculty/trelles-alejandro.jpg)
Expertise: Comparative study of public institutions, elections and electoral boundary delimitation in Latin America and the Caribbean
![Javier Urcid](../images/faculty/urcid-javier.jpg)
Expertise: Archaeology, bioarchaeology, complex societies, writing systems, material culture, comparative aesthetics, Mesoamerica
Faculty Emeriti
![Silvia M. Arrom](../images/faculty/arrom-silvia.jpg)
Expertise: Latin America, women's history, social history, specializes in Mexican history. Teaches on Latin American history, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latinos in the United States.
![Donald Hindley](../images/faculty/hindley-donald.jpg)
Expertise: Comparative politics, Southeast Asian and Latin American politics
![Ibrahim Sundiata](../images/faculty/sundiatta-ibrahim.jpg)
Expertise: Africa: social history, slavery, African diaspora, Afro-Brazil