Affiliate Faculty Departamental Listing
| Affiliate Department |
Name |
Research Interests |
Geographic Expertise |
| Political advertising, international and cross-cultural advertising |
General |
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Cognitive and affective processing of messages, international advertising |
Mexico |
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Gender and culture in agriculture and natural resource management |
Colombia |
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Climate-based agricultural risk management applications, crop growth modeling |
Brazil |
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Irrigation and water management; plant water requirements |
Central and South America |
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Agricultural cooperatives, international development, decision support systems |
Central America, Cuba |
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Forage plants and grazing livestock |
Jamaica, Mexico |
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| Anthropological methods, literacy |
Mexico |
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Applied anthropology, public health |
Caribbean |
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Visual and applied anthropology |
Mexico, Central America |
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Zooarchaeology |
Peru, Bolivia, Caribbean |
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Archaeology, ethnohistory, social organization |
Mesoamerica |
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Ethnic diparities in health, cultural dimensions of psychosocial stress |
Puerto Rico |
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Medical anthropology |
Mexico |
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African diaspora, social inequality, human rights, political economy |
Caribbean |
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Archeology of non-western cultures of the humid tropics; historical anthropology |
Brazil |
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Transnational migration, gender |
Brazil |
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Archaeology of Andean complex civilizations |
Andean South America |
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Applied anthropology, linguistics, ecology |
Caribbean |
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Cultural anthropology, displaced people, disasters |
Andean South America |
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Archaeology, historical ecology |
Andes, Amazonia |
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Primate evolution, ecology and social behavior |
Suriname |
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Gender and development, entrepreneurs in the global market |
Caribbean |
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| Urban planning |
South America |
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Design |
Cuba, Caribbean |
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Design, history, preservation, theory |
Caribbean |
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Historic preservation |
Central America |
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Art history, conceptual art |
General |
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Graphic design, relationship between design, culture and identity |
General |
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Visual, historical and cultural studies; photography |
Brazil |
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| Tropical medicine, public health |
El Salvador, Nicaragua |
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| Systematics |
General |
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Ecology |
South America |
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Energy transfer |
Argentina |
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Gustavo Moriena |
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Argentina |
Programming languages, transfer of technology |
Costa Rica, Venezuela |
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| International economics, economic development |
General |
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Dennis Mahar |
Economic development, land use management |
Brazil |
Multicultural counseling |
Latino Studies |
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| Assessment and intervention methods for children and youth, school psychology |
Costa Rica |
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| Bilingual education, ESL language and literacy development |
Latino Studies |
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Bilingual education, language policy, and program evaluation |
Latino Studies |
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| Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, feminist theory, feminist art history |
General |
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Anglophone Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies |
Caribbean |
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Evolution of sexual communication in fireflies |
Caribbean, Jamaica |
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| Sustainable agriculture |
Central America |
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Natural resource ethics and policy |
General |
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| International finance and capital markets, international asset pricing |
General |
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| Archaeology, interactions among Native American, Hispanic and African sectors of colonial communities |
Caribbean |
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Paleobotany |
General |
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Environmental archaeology |
Mesoamerica |
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Mirian Hay-Roe |
Chemical ecology |
Peru |
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Archaeology, economic and ecological anthropology, horticultural societies |
Caribbean |
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Vertebrate paleontology |
Bolivia |
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Archaeology, colonial period European-aboriginal relations in the New World |
Caribbean |
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Archaeology, Mayan codices |
Mesoamerica |
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Max Nickerson |
Systematics and ecology of amphibians and reptiles |
Central America |
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Molecular systematics of orchids and euglossine bees |
Panama, South America |
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Population biology and conservation ecology, butterflies and land snails |
General |
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| Marine economics |
General |
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International trade/development, Caribbean agro-economic systems |
Caribbean |
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Environmental economics, regional and urban economics |
Mexico |
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Internatinal trade policy, agro-economics |
Caribbean |
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Econometrics, labor economics, monetary economics |
Mexico |
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Peter Hildebrand |
International development/farming systems, production economics |
General |
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Natural resources and environmental economics |
General |
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International trade |
Caribbean |
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Agricultural finance, agricultural policy, quantitative methods |
Mexico |
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Quantitative methods, citrus marketing and trade |
General |
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Agroforestry |
Caribbean, Central America |
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Land tenure, cadastral and land information systems, GIS |
Central and South America, Caribbean |
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Forest economics and management |
General |
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Mary L. Duryea |
Reforestation, urban forestry |
Brazil, Peru, Ecuador |
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Urban forestry |
Chile |
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Agroforesty, international forestry |
General |
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Forest genetics |
Chile, Brazil |
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Robert Buschbacher |
Tropical ecology |
Brazil |
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Tropical forestry |
Brazil, Peru |
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| GIS and RS applications in environmental systems, landscape dynamics |
South America |
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Cultural and political ecology, land use land cover change |
Mexico |
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Biodiversity and agriculture |
Brazil, Peru |
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Climate change, remote sensing, land use, land cover change |
Honduras, Guatemala |
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Climatology, hurricanes, climate and change |
Caribbean |
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Hydrology, climatology, quantitative methods |
South America |
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Limnology, paleolimnology |
Mesoamerica, Caribbean |
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Factors affecting access and cost of healthcare for vulnerable populations |
Latino Studies |
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| Latin American colonial history |
Spain, Mexico and Colonial Spanish America |
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Colonial American history, Native American history |
Borderlands |
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Colonial Caribben history, slavery |
Caribbean |
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Modern Latin American history, intellectual history |
Brazil |
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Murdo MacLeod |
Colonial Latin American history |
Mesoamerica |
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Modern Latin American history |
Andean South America |
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Tropical Fruits |
Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica |
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Postharvest physiology and technology |
Brazil |
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energy management |
Chile |
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| Architectural and interior design history, environmental behavior |
General |
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Agronomy, agriculture economics |
Andes, Brazil |
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| Photojournalism |
Cuba, General |
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Comprehensive problem solving in natural systems & urban landscapes |
Central America |
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| Paul Losch |
Bibliographic resources for Latin American Studies |
General |
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Richard F. Phillips |
Bibliographic resources for Latin American Studies |
General |
| Environmental law, water law, protection of biological diversity |
Central America |
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International business and trade law, international litigation, comparative law |
Mexico |
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Water law, environmental law, environmentally sensitive ecosystems |
Central America |
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International human rights, issues of gender/race and Latinas/nos in the law |
General |
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Agricultural labor, child labor |
Latino Studies |
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Comparative law, critical race theory, LatCrit theory |
Puerto Rico, Latino Studies |
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Florida constitutional law, environmental law, legislative drafting |
Brazil |
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International human rights |
Ecuador |
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Constitutional law, employment law, race and race relations |
Latino Studies |
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International trade law, dispute settlement, trade and the environment |
General |
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Environmental law |
Costa Rica |
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Environmental law |
Brazil |
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| Descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, Creole studies |
Caribbean |
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Jaqi family of languages, language and culture, language and gender |
Andean South America, Peru, Bolivia, Chile |
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Discourse and pragmatics, second language acquisition and learning, academic literacy |
Mexico |
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Lewis Radonovich |
Occupational and internal medicine |
Brazil |
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Tuberculosis, general pulmonary disease, mycobacterial infections |
Haiti, Dominican Republic |
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| Percussion |
Caribbean |
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Music criticism and analysis |
Brazil |
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Ethnomusicology, music history |
Brazil |
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Popular and classical flute of Latin America |
Ecuador, Chile, Argentina |
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| Biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, wetlands management |
General |
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| International health, sexually transmitted disease prevention and control |
Central and South America |
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Psychiatric and mental health nursing |
Brazil, Latino Studies |
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| Popular politics and citizen empowerment, development of democracy |
Central America, Argentina |
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Religion and politics, democratization, social movements, transnational migration |
Central America, Peru |
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| Communication theory, international and ethnic public relations |
Dominican Republic, Colombian, Latinos |
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Global corporate public relations, public relations practices and education |
Venezuela, General |
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| Christianity in Latin America, social ethics, environmental ethics |
Central America |
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Indigenous religions, ethnohistory, Indian policy |
Brazil |
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Religion in Latin America, theory and method, religion among U.S. Latinos |
Brazil, Central America |
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| Haitian Creole instruction and research |
Haiti |
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| Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian narrative |
Brazil |
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Luso-Brazilian studies and literature |
Brazil |
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| Spanish linguistics |
Mexico |
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Andrés Avellaneda |
Spanish American literature and literary theory |
Argentina |
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Hispanic linguistics, Spanish second language acquisition |
General |
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Spanish language instruction |
General |
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Languages across the curriculum and for the professions |
Mexico |
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Spanish American narrative, Spanish for bilinguals |
Caribbean |
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Romance historical linguistics |
General |
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Martín Sorbille |
19th century Spanish-American literature |
General |
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Gillian Lord |
Second language acquisition, L2 phonetics and phonology, technology in language education |
Mexico |
| Demography, environmental sociology, sociology of development |
Brazil |
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Latino sociology, demography of health and aging in minority populations |
General |
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| Soil fertility |
General |
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Forest soils, root/soil interactions, forest management |
Brazil |
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Land management |
Central America |
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Bruce Chappell |
Caribbean bibliographic resources |
Caribbean, Cuba |
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| Impact of media content on society from cross-cultural perspective |
Mexico, Brazil |
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| Dance ethnography, choreography |
General |
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Musical theatre |
Latino Studies |
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Design, international planning |
Brazil |
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Edipemiology |
Mexico |
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| Conservation biology, behavioral ecology, landscape ecology |
Southern Cone |
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Ecology and conservation of bats |
Costa Rica |
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Human dimensions of natural resource management, environmental education |
General |
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Avian ecology and conservation |
General |
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Ecology, behavior and conservation of mammalian carnivores |
General |
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| Women’s studies, social movements, race and ethnic relations, Latino/as in the U.S. |
Mexico |
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Gender and sexuality, culture and political economy |
Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru |
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Biology of sea turtles |
Caribbean |