Chair(s)
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Gustavo C. Fares
Fares’ topics of research include Latin American cultural studies, legal studies, visual arts, and border studies. He is the author of five books, among them, Domingo F.
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Jake Frederick
Jake Frederick specializes in colonial Mexican history. He is the author of Riot!
All Faculty
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Jose L. Encarnacion (He/Him/His)
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Gustavo C. Fares
Fares’ topics of research include Latin American cultural studies, legal studies, visual arts, and border studies. He is the author of five books, among them, Domingo F.
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Dylan B. Fitz
I teach courses in development economics, the economics of altruism and effective altruism, economic growth, poverty traps, Latin American economic development, and advanced econometrics.
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Jake Frederick
Jake Frederick specializes in colonial Mexican history. He is the author of Riot!
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Rosa Tapia (she/ella)
Spanish and Latin American film and 20th-century Spanish literature. National Chief Academic Consultant for AP Spanish.
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Timothy X. Troy (he/him)
Timothy X. Troy (playwright & stage director) is the Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama at Lawrence University.