Latin American-Caribbean Studies Faculty

Jason Antrosio

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Areas of expertise:
Economic development, artisan and peasant economies, globalization, Latin America

Virginia Arreola

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ph.D., Indiana University

Areas of expertise:
U.S. Latino/a Literature, Hispanophone Caribbean and Haitian Literature, Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, Identity and National belonging.

Mieko Nishida

Professor of History and Department Chair of History

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Areas of expertise:
Latin America, Brazil, social history

Katherine O'Donnell

Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Indiana University

Areas of expertise:
Mayan Women’s Struggle for Social, Political, and Economic Justice and Democracy in Chiapas, Mexico; Gender and Rural Poverty; Human Rights; Reproductive Freedom; U.S. Women’s Movement; Community-Based Research and Teaching; Community Service Learning; North-South Solidarity; Farm Workers’ Rights; Socio-Linguistics; Participatory Action Research; Critical Ethnography.

Karina Walker

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Ph.D. Candidate, State University of New York at Albany

Areas of expertise:
Golden Age, Twentieth, and Twenty-first-century Peninsular Literature. Baroque and Neo-Baroque aesthetic in contemporary Spanish narrative, film, culture and politics. Nationalism, collective identities, and gender studies. Translation and interpretation theory and practice.

Mark Wolff

Associate Professor of French and Modern Languages Department Chair

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Areas of expertise:
French language and culture (with an emphasis on nineteenth-century literature and canon formation) and digital humanities.