Media Experts

AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES

Alan Kilpatrick, Ph. D., 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., Distinguished 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., Professor of Anthropology, Director of Collections Management

• Baja California
• Phone: (619) 594-4575
• Email: lgamble@mail.sdsu.edu

Ramona L. Perez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology

• 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, Coordinator of Faculty-Student Mentoring Program (FSMP)

• Contemporary Political Activism in Latinos in San Diego
• Phone: (619) 594-1256
• Email: ortiz5@mail.sdsu.edu

ECONOMICS

James Gerber, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Director of 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

ENGLISH AND COMPERATIVE LITERATURE

William A. Nericcio, Ph.D., 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

HISTORY

Paul Ganster, Ph.D., Professor of Historyy

• 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

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., Associate 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

LINGUISTICS AND WRITING STUDIES

Ann Johns, Ph.D., Professor

• The teaching of academic reading and writing
• Phone: 619-594-6517
• E-mail: ajohns@cox.net

POLICY STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION

Dr. Alberto Ochoa, Ed.D., Professor

• 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

Jonathan Graubart, Ph.D., Associate 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

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

SOCIOLOLGY

Norma Ojedo De La Peña, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology

• 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

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

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
• Phone: 619-594-7151
• Email: ilara@mail.sdsu.edu

Last Update: 01-Dec-2008

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