Our People

William​ Acree​

• Vice Dean of Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Innovation
• Co-Director, Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures Professor of Spanish, American Culture Studies (Affiliate) and Performing Arts (Affiliate)

• E-mail: acree@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5145

Sarah Baitzel

• ​Associate Professor of Archaeology

• E-mail: sbaitzel@wustl.edu

​J. Andrew Brown

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

• E-mail: abrown@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-7058

Leopoldo Cabassa

• Professor
• Director, PhD Program in Social Work

Brian F. Crisp

• Professor Emeritus of Political Science

• E-mail: crisp@wustl.edu

Ted Enamorado

• Assistant Professor of Political Science

• E-mail: ted@wustl.edu

René Esparza

• Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• E-mail: r.esparza@wustl.edu

Karma Frierson

• ​Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Performing Arts (Affiliate)

• E-mail: karma.frierson@wustl.edu

​Javier García Liendo

• ​Associate Professor of Spanish
• Director of Graduate Studies in Hispanic Studies

• E-mail: jgarcialiendo@wustl.edu

Bret​ Gustafson

• Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology

• E-mail: gustafson@wustl.edu

Steven J. Hirsch

• Professor of Practice, Global Studies
• Coordinator, Development and International Affairs concentrations

• E-mail: sjhirsch@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4046

​Ignacio Infante

• Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
• Professor of Comparative Literature and Thought and Romance Languages and Literatures - Spanish Co-Director, Center for the Literary Arts

• E-mail: iinfante@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-6764

Andrez Katz

• Associate Professor of Law

Stephanie Kirk

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

• E-mail: skirk@wustl.edu

Esther Viola Kurtz

• Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
• Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)  Department of African and African-American Studies (Affiliate)  Director of Undergraduate Studies

• E-mail: ekurtz@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5581

​Tabea Alexa Linhard

• Director and Professor of Global Studies
• Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature (by courtesy)

• E-mail: tlinhard@wustl.edu

Diana J. Montaño

• Associate Professor of History​

• E-mail: dmontano@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-5459

​Mabel Moraña​

• ​Professor of Spanish
• Program Director of Latin American Studies

• E-mail: moranamabel@gmail.com
• Phone: 314-935-8385

John Mundell

• Postdoctoral Fellow, AFAS

​Christina Ramos​

• ​Assistant Professor of History

• E-mail: christina.ramos@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-3539

Rodrigo Reis

• Professor
• Associate Dean for Public Health

Guillermo Rosas

• Professor of Political Science

• E-mail: grosas@wustl.edu

​Ignacio Sánchez Prado​

• Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies
• Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Latin American Studies program

• E-mail: isanchez@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4957

Ila Sheren

Ila Sheren

• Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology

• E-mail: isheren@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-4487

Elzbieta​ Sklodowska

• E-mail: esklodow@wustl.edu
• Phone: 314-935-7014

Miguel Valerio

• Associate Professor of Spanish
• Performing Arts (Affiliate)

• E-mail: m.a.valerio@wustl.edu

K. Eliza Williamson

• Lecturer in Latin American Studies

• E-mail: eliza.williamson@wustl.edu