Our People

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William​ 
Acree​

Associate Vice Dean of Graduate Education
Professor of Spanish, American Culture Studies (Affiliate) and Performing Arts (Affiliate) Co-Director, Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures
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Sarah 
Baitzel

​Assistant Professor of Archaeology
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​J. Andrew  
Brown

Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs
Professor of Spanish Professor of Comparative Literature (by courtesy) Biodiversity Fellow, Living Earth Collaborative
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Leopoldo 
Cabassa

Professor
Director, PhD Program in Social Work
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Brian F. 
Crisp

Professor of Political Science
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Ted 
Enamorado

Assistant Professor of Political Science
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René 
Esparza

Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Karma 
Frierson

​Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Performing Arts (Affiliate)
(On sabbatical Fall/Spring '23-'24)
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​Javier 
García-Liendo

​Associate Professor of Spanish
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Bret​ 
Gustafson

Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology
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Steven J. 
Hirsch

Professor of Practice, Global Studies
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​Ignacio 
Infante

​Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish
Co-Director, Center for the Literary Arts Study Abroad Coordinator, Comparative Literature and WU Madrid Abroad Programs (RLL)
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Andrez 
Katz

Associate Professor of Law
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Stephanie 
Kirk

Director of the Center for the Humanities
Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Rita 
Kuehler

Office Manager
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Esther Viola 
Kurtz

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)  Department of African and African-American Studies (Affiliate)  (On leave the entire 2023-24 academic year)
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​Tabea Alexa 
Linhard

Director and Professor of Global Studies
Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature (by courtesy)
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Diana J. 
Montaño

Associate Professor of History​
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​Mabel  
Moraña​

William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences, ​Professor of Spanish
Program Director of Latin American Studies
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John 
Mundell

Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS
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​Christina 
Ramos​

​Assistant Professor of History
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Rodrigo 
Reis

Professor
Associate Dean for Public Health
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Guillermo 
Rosas

Professor of Political Science
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​Ignacio 
Sánchez Prado​

Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Latin American Studies program