UF | Center for Latin American Studies - People: Center Faculty

Center-based Faculty & Professional Staff

Director: Philip J. Williams
Executive Director: Hannah Covert

Name	Email	Research Interests and Administrative Duties	Geographic Expertise
Efraín Barradas	email	Caribbean literature, Latino Studies, Mexican culture	Caribbean, Mexico
Richmond F. Brown	email	Academic program management; late colonial and modern Central America, colonial Gulf South	Central America
Emilio M. Bruna	email	Tropical conservation, plant population ecology	Brazil (Amazonia, Cerrado)
Hannah H. Covert	email	Center program management, financial aid, international education	Brazil, Mexico, Amazonia
Jonathan Dain	email	Professional skills training, facilitation, social learning, conflict management	Brazil
Carmen Diana Deere	email	Agricultural development, gender, land policy, rural labor markets	Brazil, Andes, Central America, Cuba, Comparative
Karen Kainer	email	Tropical forest ecology, community forest management	Western Amazon
Sue Legg	email	Assessment and evaluation, eLearning	Brazil, Mexico
Ana Margheritis	email	International political economy, regional governance structures	General
Terry McCoy	email	Latin America business environment, regional trade issues	General
Mary Risner	email	Foreign language for specific purposes (business), culture & language in international business	Brazil, Mexico
Patricia Sampaio	email	Center and TCD program coordination	Brazil, Amazonia, Atlantic Rainforest
Marianne Schmink	email	Tropical conservation and development; gender and development	Brazil, General
John Richard Stepp	email	Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, medical anthropology, visual anthropology	Mesoamerica
Welson Tremura	email	Ethnomusicology, Brazilian jazz, classical and vocal music	Brazil
Pilar Useche	email	Development economics	Colombia, Central America
Philip J. Williams	email	Religion and politics, transnational migration, democratization, social movements, and civil-military relations.	Central America, Peru, Comparative
Charles H. Wood	email	Population & environment, demography, sociology of development, comparative study of race and ethnicity	Brazil

Emeritus Faculty

Cultural anthropology, gender, race, labor

Caribbean

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