Media Sources
Updated Fall 2004

AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES

Alan Kilpatrick, Ph. D., Associate Professor of American Indian Studies
· Traditional medicine, folklore, ethnography, indigenous rights in Latin America
· Phone: (619) 594-1679
· Email: akilpatr@mail.sdsu.edu

Margaret Field, Ph. D., Associate Professor of American Indian Studies
· Linguistics and American Languages; Indigenous cultures of the Southwest
· Phone: (619) 594-2779
· Email: mfield@mail.sdsu.edu

ANTHROPLOGY

Joseph W. Ball, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
· Conducts funded field research ongoing in central western Campeche (Mexico) that deals with prehistoric through contemporary Maya culture and culture history from approximately 800 B.C. through the present; Ongoing, funded laboratory research activities involving long-term research in western Belize (Central America); the central eastern Petén of Guatemala; and the Mexican states of Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and Tabasco. He is generally (international) regarded as one of the foremost living sources on the archaeology; prehistory; cultural history; and archaeological ceramics of these regions.
· Phone: (619) 594-5658
· Email: jwball@mail.sdsu.edu

Lynn H. Gamble, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director Collections Management
· Baja California
· Phone: (619) 594-4575
Email: lgamble@mail.sdsu.edu

Ramona L. Perez, Ph.D.
· Mexico, Oaxaca, tourism and development, gender and political economy, peri-urban development, ethnicity and national identity, migrant networks and social identity, community policing and Mexican communities, ethnic groups and higher education.
· phone: (619) 594-1155
· Email: perez@mail.sdsu.edu

CHICANA AND CHICANO STUDIES

Isidro Ortiz, Ph.D., Professor of Chicana/o Studies
· Contemporary Political Activism in Latinos in San Diego
· Phone: (619) 594-1256
· Email: ortiz5@mail.sdsu.edu

Norma Ojedo De La Peña, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies
· Family, Reproductive Health; Gender; US-Mexico Border Issues; Latin American Studies
· Phone: (619) 594-1320
· Email: nojeda@mail.sdsu.edu

ECONOMICS

James Gerber, Ph.D., Professor Economics and Director, CLAS
· regional trade agreements (NAFTA, FTAA, CAFTA, EU), the border economy, economic reform in Latin America, financial crisis in Latin America, California integration with Mexico
· Phone: (619) 594-5532 or 619-594-1103
· Email: jgerber@mail.sdsu.edu

Louis Green, Ph.D., Professor of Economics
· The US Rate of Economic Growth and Black Economic Development; The Well-Being of African Americans: An International Comparison
· Phone: (619) 594-5680
· Email: lgreen@mail.sdsu.edu

Ed Balsdon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics
· California Economics; Data on Peru
· Phone: (619) 594-5492
· Email: ebalsdon@mail.sdsu.edu

ENGLISH AND COMPERATIVE LITERATURE

William A. Nericcio, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Literature
· Chicanas/os and Latinas/os in the mass media here and abroad; 20th century Latin
American Literature; visual culture of Latin America (television; film, fine art)
· Phone: (619) 594-1524
· Email: memo@sdsu.edu

GEOGRAPHY

Fernando Bosco, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
· Latin American social movements and their geographic dimensions, in particular the development of transnational networks and the relation between place and identity politics; Human rights movement, with a particular emphasis on the organizations Madres de Plaza de Mayo and HIJOS in Argentina (all relatives of disappeared people); The relations between place and memory, also in relation to the human rights movement and victims of human rights violations. My regional focus is Argentina and the countries of the Southern Cone and my general interests include the political, urban and social geography of Latin American countries.
· Phone: (619) 594-7187
· Email: fbosco@mail.sdsu.edu

John Weeks, Ph.D., Professor of Geography
· Demography of the US-Mexico border region; Demography of crime
· Phone: (619) 594-8040
· Email: jrweeks@mail.sdsu.edu

HISTORY

Paul Ganster, Ph.D., Professor of History
· Issues of the California-Baja California Border Region
· Phone: (619) 594-5423
· Email: pganster@mail.sdsu.edu

Stephen Allyn Colston, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
· Southwestern history; Mesoamerican ethnohistory
· Phone: (619) 594-4716
· Email: colston@mail.sdsu.edu

Clare McKanna, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
· Death penalty in 19th century California, examining the treatment of ethnic defendants; Continuing research on Apache homicides in Arizona
· Phone: (619) 594-1572
· Email: cmckanna@mail.sdsu.edu

Paula de Vos, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
· Colonial Latin American history; colonial Mexico; history of science; Scientific Revolution; science, medicine, pharmacy and public health in colonial Mexico
· Phone: (619) 594-4893
· Email: pdevos@mail.sdsu.edu

Thomas Passananati, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
· History of the Americas; Latin America in World Affairs; World History since 1500
· Phone: (619) 594-2919
· Email: tpassana@mail.sdsu.edu

Hugo Murillo-Jimenez, PhD., Lecturer
· 19th century Central American history and politics
· Phone: (619) 594-1989
· Email: murill2@mail.sdsu.edu

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Steven Laughrin-Sacco, Ph.D., Co-Director for International Business Education, Professor of French
· Designs transnational multiple degree programs with Latin American countries
· Phone: (619) 594-3008
· Email: loughrin@mail.sdsu.edu

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

Elizabeth Maier, Ph.D., Visiting Professor (Women Studies, Human Rights, Latin American Studies)
· Women's and gender studies; sexual and reproductive health; Indigenous women; women and migration; women and environment; gender identity construction; women's sociopolitical participation; women's human rights
· Phone: (01152-664) 631-63-00 ext.3223
Email: emaier@colef.mx

LINGUISTICS AND WRITING STUDIES

Ann Johns, Ph.D., Professor
· The teaching of academic reading and writing http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~annjohns/
· Phone: 619-594-6517
· e-mail: ajohns@cox.net

MUSIC

Marion Liebowitz
· Music performance and pedagogy in Latin America; Fundraising development in the arts in Latin America
· phone: (619) 594-6046
· e-mail: liebowit@mail.sdsu.edu

POLICY STUDYING LANGUAGE AND CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION

Dr. Alberto Ochoa
· Social and Political Factors Contributing to the K-12 Achievement Gap between White and Low Income Students; Biliteracy in K-12 California schools; Demystifying the K to University Process: Parental Leadership
· Phone: (619) 594-6676
· Email: aochoa@mail.sdsu.edu

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Brian Loveman, Ph.D., Professor
· Interamerican politics, US foreign policy, civil-military relations in Latin America, Human Rights, Andean regional security policy, Chilean history and politics, judicial reform and rule of law in Latin America, Latin American politics
· Phone: (619) 594-6233
· Email: loveman@mail.sdsu.edu

Jonathan Graubart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
· NAFTA labor and environmental institutions and on relations between international NGOs and the UN Security Council; international law and politics, transnational activism, and globalization
· Phone: (619) 594-7168
· Email: graubart@mail.sdsu.edu

Dipak Gupta, Ph.D. Professor
· Terrorism and Political Silence
· Phone: 619-594-4067
· Email: dgupta@mail.sdsu.edu

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND URBAN STUDIES

Lawrence A. Herzog, Ph.D., Professor
· Herzog specializes in urban/community planning and environmental design with an emphasis on Mexico, the Mexico-United States border and Latin America
· Phone: (619) 594-6964
· Email: laherzog@mail.sdsu.edu

Glen Sparrow, Ph.D. Professor
· For the past ten years I have been looking at how border regions are governed, with particular attention to the US-Mexico boundary. Also, I am involved in a USAID funded effort which has developed a joint transborder masters degree program involving SDSU and UABC. The program is now halfway through its first cohort of students.
· Phone: (619) 594-4099
· Email: sparrow@sdsu.edu

PUBLIC HEALTH

Rick Gersberg, Ph.D., Professor
· Water quality in the binational Tijuana River Watershed; the fate and effects of water discharge and urban runoff from Mexico an the coastal ocean
· phone: (619) 594-2905
· e-mail: rgersber@mail.sdsu.edu

John P. Elder, Ph.D., Professor and Head of Division of Public Health Promotion
· chronic disease prevention and health promotion in the Latino community
· Phone: (619) 594-2997
· Email: jelder@mail.sdsu.edu

REGIONAL STUDIES

Paul Ganster, Ph.D., Professor
· Issues of the California-Baja California Border Region
· Phone: (619) 594-5423
· Email: pganster@mail.sdsu.edu

SOCIOLOLGY

James Wood
· Higher education; Social movements
· phone: (619) 594-6502
· Email: jwood@mail.sdsu.edu

Norma Ojedo De La Peña, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicana/o Studies
· Family; Reproductive Health; Gender; U.S.-Mexico border issues; and Latin American Studies
· Phone: (619) 594-1320
· Email: nojeda@mail.sdsu.edu

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

Carlos Wilson, Ph.D., Professor
· Afro-Latinos in Latin American History and Literature
· phone: 619-594-4240
· Email: cawilson@mail.sdsu.edu

Nora Strejilevich, Ph.D., Lecturer
· Human Rights; Literature in Contemporary Latin America
· Phone: 619-594-6210
· Email: strejil@mail.sdsu.edu

Gustavo Valenin Segade, Ph. D., Spanish and Portuguese, retired
· Translation Theory
· Phone: 619-594-5172
· Email: gsegade@mail.sdsu.edu

Brett Rosenberg, Ph D.
· Communicative Problems in Telephone Interpreting Currently carrying out an error analysis on data collected from interpreter-mediated telephone conversations. Prescriptivism and Interpreter Training based on the results of student translations of dialogues containing stigmatized elements (code-switching, calques, etc.).
· Phone: 619-594-5406
· Email: brosenbe@mail.sdsu.edu

Claudia V. Angelelli, Ph.D., Associate Professor
· Language, Literacy and Culture: the interpersonal role of the interpreter in a cross- linguistic/ cultural communicative event
· Phone: (619) 594-1678
· Email: claudia.angelelli@sdsu.edu

WOMEN'S STUDIES

Oliva Espin
· Women saints (several of them are Latin American); The roles of Rose of Lima and Mariana of Quito in the development of national identity and on perspectives on women's bodies in Early Colonial Latin America; mental health issues and gender roles of immigrant/refugee women
· Mostly available in the spring, but not exclusively
· phone: (619) 594-3739
· Email: oespin@mail.sdsu.edu

Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke, Ph. D., Professor
· Cross-Cultural Study of Women; Feminist Hermeneutics; Life History and Gender; Matrilineal Systems (focus on gender dynamics, motherhood); Migration and Urbanization; Mythology and Ritual
· Phone: (619) 594-3738
· Email: : mbwatson@mail.sdsu.edu

Irene Lara, PhD, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
· Areas of teaching and research: Chicana and indigenous women's
spirituality and healing practices; Latina health and activism; Latina
cultural production; politics of spirituality in the Américas; La Virgen de Guadalupe-Tonantzin and other Mexican/Chicana/Latina cultural
figures; socialization of women
· ilara@mail.sdsu.edu
· office: 619-594-7151