New CLAS affiliated faculty:

Daniel Da Silva

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department: Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Gender, sexuality, race, performance and popular music in the Portuguese-speaking world

https://span-port.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/814-daniel-da-silva

Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello

PROFESSOR

Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology; SEBS

Microbiome development from birth, functions for the host, microbial transmission, microbiota, strategies for restoration, Westernization and environmental microbes and human exposures, urban studies and microbial ecology

https://dbm.rutgers.edu/personnel/maria-gloria-dominguez-bello.html

Priscilla Ferreira

Assistant Professor

Department of Geography/Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies

Afro-Latinx Geographies, Black solidarity economies, urban geography, Afro-Latina feminisms, and decolonial methodologies and pedagogical praxis

https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/918-ferreira-priscilla

Tamara Lee

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, LABOR STUDIES AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS

Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

Political and economic reform in Cuba U.S. labor and employment law

https://smlr.rutgers.edu/faculty-staff/tamara-lee

Pilar Rau

ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

Department: Anthropology

Cultural anthropology; visual arts; media studies; sociolinguistics; religion; aesthetics, visual anthropology, and economic anthropology; Latin America; Peru;

https://www.anthro.rutgers.edu/fac/629-pilar-rau

Robert Ramos

NSTRUCTOR

Latino and Caribbean Studies

Music of the Caribbean; New York Latin Music; Caribbean and Latino Studies; Percussion

Jorge Reina Schement

Distinguished Professor

Department: School of Communication and Information

Inequality History Networks, Digital Inequality, Public Policymaking, Social Justice, Mexico, Tejas

https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/schement-jorge-reina

Kimberly Da Costa Holton

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Music, migration and politics; 20th century Portuguese and Brazilian literature, performance theory, urban festivity, urban ethnography, migration and memory studies, oral history, theories of globalism, nation, diaspora and space.

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/kimberly-dacosta-holton

Isadora Grevan

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department: Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Brazilian literature, Brazilian theater, performance studies, dramaturgy, Latin American theater, Latin American studies, Portuguese world, Lusophone African literature, Comparative Literature, gender studies, cinema

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/isadora-grevan

Melissa Valle

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Sociology and Anthropology

Race & ethnicity ;Urban & spatial sociology; Cultural sociology Economic sociology; The African/Black Diaspora (with a focus on Afrolatinidad in the Americas); Ethnographic and visual method

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/melissa-m-valle-phd

Carla Giaudrone

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

FASC - Foreign Languages

Post-colonial theory, Latin American Modernismo, feminist theory, and gender studiesPersonal\

https://foreignlanguages.camden.rutgers.edu/faculty/carla-giaudrone/

Juan Gonzalez

RICHARD D. HEFFNER PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY AND PROFESSOR OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Journalism & Media Studies, School of Communication and Information

Journalism; mass media history; federal mass communications policy; history of Latinos in the United States; Puerto Rico-U.S. relations; immigration, race and labor relations; the role of dissident movements in social change

https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/gonzalez-juan-d

Rafael Logroño

TEACHING INSTRUCTOR

Journalism & Media Studies, School of Communication and Information

Identity, media, and social justice, with an emphasis on Latinx communities

https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/logrono-rafael

Kevon Rhiney

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Geography

global change, rural agrarian livelihoods, biopolitics, political ecology, environmental justice, postcolonial thought, Caribbean region

https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/471-rhiney-kevon

Hyacinth Miller

INSTRUCTOR AND ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

Department: Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, New Brunswick; African American and African Studies, Newark; Political Science, Newark

Caribbean Studies, Caribbean immigrants in the Diaspora, immigrant women and women of color in elected leadership, immigrant political incorporation and comparative politics

https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/hyacinth-miller

Nicole Burrowes

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department: Department of History

African Diaspora; Modern Caribbean and African American History

https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/56-professors/1212-burrowes-nicole

Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, invites applications for a non-renewable two-year Postdoctoral Associate position in Latin American Studies. We seek applicants with strong multi-regional training in the fields of Anthropology, Geography, History, Politics, or Sociology, with work on migration, race, gender, or urban studies. Specialists on Central America or Mexico whose work engages state policies, migration, borders and mobilities, inequality, violence, social and political movements, environmental themes and indigenous, Afro-descendant communities, are especially encouraged to apply.
 
The Postdoctoral Associate will receive mentorship from the Director and from the Center’s affiliated faculty and support for their conference, research, and publications work, including digital exhibits. The Associate must maintain an agenda of research, teaching, and participation in CLAS. Teaching obligations are three courses yearly and will include an introductory survey and a senior seminar. The Associate is expected to participate in conferences, workshops, and seminars sponsored by CLAS and help organize events in their field. The Associate may also participate in the many rich forums provided by the larger SAS and Rutgers communities including the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Latino Studies Research Initiative, the Center for Cultural Analysis, and many others.  

For further details: Rutgers University Employment Opportunities | Post Doctoral Associate

For details on the CLAS.

The History of Puerto Rico

(LCS 01:595:371/History 01:508:371)

Instructor: Aldo Lauria Santiago

This course will provide students an advanced introduction to the history of Puerto Rico in Caribbean and American contexts. The study of the post-conquest history of Puerto Rico history covers over five centuries. Four hundred years under Spanish rule and over 100 under US rule. Because of this persistent colonial history Puerto Rico is often presented as an exceptional place with a history unlike any other. Puerto Rico presents some unique characteristics because of its hybridity-a self-identified nation that is thoroughly integrated into the United States; a mostly Spanish-speaking country that considers itself part of Latin America and the Caribbean; a diasporic nation with millions of island-born people living on the US mainland.

Weekly Themes:

Week 1: Requirements and Goals; Geography and Demographics

Week 2: Conquests, Settlement and Marginalization in Caribbean and Imperial Context, 16th-17th Centuries

Week 3: The 18th Century: Cows, Enslaved, Plebeians and Forts:

Week 4: Reconquests, Slavery, Peasants, and Commercial Agriculture, 1812-1868

Week 5: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Landlord Economy, 1868-1898

Week 6: Liberation by Invasion: 1898: The Transition to US Rule in Caribbean Context

Week 7: Elite Politics of Negotiation, Adjustment and Accumulation--Colonial Rule 1898-1920s

Week 8: Working Class Life and Politics, 1898-1930s

Week 9: The Depression and Crisis: Elite Crisis, Labor Revolt and Nationalist Insurgency, 1929-1939

Week 10: New Deal, War and Reform Restructure the Colony, 1939-1952

Week 11: Economic Transformation and the Public Sector, 1948-1980

Week 12: Emigration and Diasporic Culture

Week 13: Manufacturing, Construction and Services: Crisis, Recovery and Crisis, 1975-2017

Week 14: The Never Ending Debate: Autonomy and Colonial Rule

Week 15: Transitions from Crisis, 2018+

CLAS Post-Doc Jennifer Trowbridge will be teaching a new course for CLAS in the Spring 2022 Semester

“Introduction to Mexico and Central America”

 This course will provide students with an advanced introduction to Mexico and Central America, including migrations from these countries to the United States. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this course draws on history and anthropology – particularly medical anthropology – to examine the political conditions that shape social movements and social lives in Mexico and Central America. We will begin with a brief history of the region during Spanish colonialism, and of revolutionary movements that were met with authoritarian, US-backed state violence in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mexico (Chiapas) in the late 20th century. We will then turn to contemporary medical anthropology and other ethnographies as a lens through which to explore intersections of race/ethnicity, class, gender and queerness among Mexicans and Central Americans in the region and transnationally. The course will address migrations from Central America and Mexico to the United States, with particular attention to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will examine the Mexico-US “border crisis” as a humanitarian crisis for migrants with severe political, psychological, and medical consequences. Through the course, students will become familiar with social life, social movements, and northward migration among Mexicans and Central Americans, learning from the perspectives of people from those regions.

Keywords: Mexico, Central America, Medical Anthropology, History, migration, social movements, gender, LGBTQ

For more details see our course offerings page.