The following faculty members are appointed in cognate units across the university. Their research and teaching focusses on Latin America and Latin American Studies from a range of disciplinary angles. The Latin American Studies Program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto welcomes the participation of our affiliated faculty in our Advisory Committee, our research colloquia, the supervision of undergraduate research initiatives, and other activities that strengthen our Latin American Studies community within and beyond the university.
Updated: April 7, 2021. List is alphabetical by last name.
| Name | Academic Unit | Research Interests | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Abizaid | Geography and School for the Environment | Environment and development; Indigenous and peasant livelihoods and resource use in Latin America; Vulnerability and resilience; Rural poverty; Forest and biodiversity conservation; Social networks; Neotropical forests, mainly Amazonia and Mexico. Co-Principal Investigator on the Peruvian Amazon Rural Livelihoods and Poverty (PARLAP) Project. | Profile in Geography & Planning |
| Andrea Allen | Anthropology and Diaspora Studies | Socio-cultural anthropology; Diaspora and transnationalism; Gender and sexuality; Race; Religion; Queer anthropology; Violence, subjectivity, and embodiment. | Profile in Anthropology |
| Martha Balaguera | Political Science | Collective political struggles in violent contexts, with an emphasis on transborder forms of activism in the Americas from a feminist perspective. | Profile in Political Science - UTM |
| Anne-Emanuelle Birn | International Development and Public Health | History of public health in Latin America (Mexico, Uruguay); Global/international health policy and politics, past and present; Historical demography – infant mortality; Comparative health policy (Latin America); Health and medicine in Cold War Latin America; Extractive industries and health; Primary health care, social justice, and international (health) politics in the 1980s and 1990s. | Profile in Dalla Lana School of Public Health |
| Gustavo J. Bobonis | Economics | Economic development; Labour economics; Political economy; Economic history. | Profile in Economics |
| Kevin P. Coleman | Historical Studies | Modern Latin American History; Visual Culture; History of Capitalism; U.S.-Latin American Relations. | Profile in Historical Studies - UTM |
| Laura Doering | Rotman | Economic sociology; Effects of social psychological processes on economic behaviors in both developing and advanced economies. | Profile in Rotman |
| Jerry Flores | Sociology | Studies of gender and crime; Prison studies; Alternative schools; Ethnographic research methods; Latina/o sociology; Correctional education; Intersectionality and criminology and studies of race and ethnicity. | Profile in Sociology - UTM |
| Bernardo García Domínguez | New College / Caribbean Studies | Sociology of religion; Cuba. | |
| Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández | OISE | Pedagogic theory; Educational theory; Curriculum theory; Cultural production and solidarity. | Profile in OISE |
| Ryan Isakson | Geography & Planning | Political economy of food and agrarian development; Financialization of food and agriculture; Peasant livelihoods and agricultural biodiversity; Land reform and agrarian transformation; Latin America; Political ecology; Critical Development Studies | Profile in Geography & Planning |
| Justin Jennings | Royal Ontario Museum / Anthropology | Archaelogy; Latin America; Peru. | |
| Donald Kingsbury | Political Science | Latin American and North Atlantic comparative political theory; Latin American politics; Developmentalism and neoliberalism; Marxism; Cultural Studies. | Profile in Political Science |
| Teresa Kramarz | School of the Environment | Environmental accountability; Extractivism and resource governance; Renewable energy and just transitions; Ecological justice; Partnerships in environmental governance; International organizations | Profile in School of the Environment |
| Christopher Krupa | Anthropology | Violence; Racial capitalism; (Post)coloniality; State and Para-State complexes; Political affect and embodiment; Plantation systems; Labour, debt and finance; Critical race theory; History and historicity; Primitive accumulation. | Profile in Anthropology |
| Patricia Landolt | Sociology | Global migrations; Refugee-migrant political incorporation; Precarious work and income insecurity; Non-citizenship and precarious legal status; International migration, immigrant incorporation and transnationalism; Ethnicity and racialization. | Profile in Sociology |
| Evonne Levy | Art History | Early Modern art; Baroque art & architecture; Historiography of Art. | Profile in Art History |
| Suzi Lima | Linguistics | Cognitive science; Linguistic theory; Language documentation; Formal semantics; Psycholinguistics; Language acquisition; Brazilian Portuguese; Brazilian indigenous languages. | Profile in Linguistics |
| Pedro Mateo Pedro | Linguistics | Language variation and change; Linguistic theory; Documentation and acquisition of Mayan languages of Guatemala and Mexico; Q'anjob'al, Mam, Ch'ol, Chuj; Development of verb morphology in Q'anjob'al and Chuj. | Profile in Linguistics |
| Sharlene Mollet | Critical Development Studies and Human Geography | Land and natural resource conflicts; Political ecology and feminist political ecology; Latin America, Honduras, Panama; Development geography; Race, gender and property rights; Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant communities; Feminist and postcolonial geographies; Residential tourism. | Profile in Human Geography - UTSC |
| Julie Moreau | Political Science | Transnational queer politics; Social movements; Citizenship; Latin America; Africa | Profile in Political Science |
| Lena Mortensen | Anthropology | Heritage, identity and politics of the past; Tourism, representation, and commodification of Culture; Ethnography of Archaeology; Material culture; Globalization and development. | Profile in Anthropology - UTSC |
| Mariana Mota Prado | Law | Law and development; Corruption and comparative law. | Profile in Law |
| Valentina Napolitano | Anthropology | Political theology; Personhood; Theopolitics and critical Catholic studies; Gender and affects; Religious infrastructures and architecture; Affective histories; Transnational migration; Anthropology of traces; The Vatican; Mexico; Italy; Detroit/Windsor corridor. | Profile in Anthropology |
| Melanie J. Newton | History | Atlantic World; Conflict, violence and genocide; Gender, sex, and sexualities; Latin America and Caribbean; Social. | Profile in History |
| Kevin L. O'Neill | Study of Religion | Christianity; Religion, culture & politics; Religion, ethics & modern thought; Diaspora and transnationalism; Religion in the Americas; History of religions; Ethnographic inquiry. | Profile in Religion |
| Jeff Packman | Music History and Culture | Brazilian music; Popular music of the Americas; Cultural theory; Music and technoculture; Music cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean; Afrodiasporic performance; Race, social class, and cultural politics in relation to professional music making. | Profile in Music |
| Jeffrey M. Pilcher | Historical & Cultural Studies | Food; Latin America and the Caribbean. | Profile in Historical & Cultural Studies - UTSC |
| Luisa Farah Schwartzman | Sociology | Race and ethnicity; Diversity and multiculturalist policies; Relationship between race, ethnicity and the construction of nation-states in the Americas; Brazil. | Profile in Sociology - UTM |
| Edward R. Swenson | Anthropology | Andes; Archaeological method and theory; Ritual, religion and ideology; Power and violence; Emergence of complex society; Pre-industrial city; Landscape history and place-making; Ancient Andes, Mesoamerica, Khmer civilization. | Profile in Anthropology |
| Judith Teichman | Political Science | Politics and Policymaking in Latin America; Inequality, poverty and violence, especially in Mexico; Welfare regimes and social policy in the global south and Latin America. | Profile in Political Science |
| D. Alissa Trotz | Women & Gender Studies and Caribbean Studies | Transnational feminist studies; Caribbean studies with a focus on radical intellectual traditions and feminist political economy; Transnational migration and diaspora; Social movements; Political violence; History, memory and archives. | Profile in Women & Gender Studies |
| Luis van Isschot | History | Modern Latin America; Colombia; Human Rights; Inter-American Human Rights System; Social Movements; Violence; Authoritarianism; Revolutionary Movements. | Profile in History |
| Marcelo Vieta | OISE | Workplace and organizational learning and change; Sociology of work; Alternative work organizations; Workers' control, participation, and self-management/autogestión; Political economy of labour; Social economy studies; Economic democracy, community development, and social justice; Philosophy of technology; Critical theory, with a focus on the Frankfurt School; Class-struggle Marxism; Social movements; Communication studies; Latin America (especially Argentina), Italy, Canada, and the US. | Profile in OISE |