Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Web Site: http://rulas.rutgers.edu

Director: Tomás Eloy Martínez, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D. (Honoris Causa), John F. Kennedy (Buenos Aires), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina)

Academic Director: Marcy Schwartz, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Affiliated Faculty:

Robert J. Alexander, Economics (Emeritus); Ph.D., Columbia

Samuel L. Baily, History; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Herman L. Bennett, History; Ph.D., Duke

César Braga-Pinto, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Mary Lee Bretz, Spanish and Portuguese (Emerita); Ph.D., Maryland

Kim D. Butler, Africana Studies; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

José Camacho, Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics; Ph.D., Southern California

Frank Dauster, Spanish and Portuguese (Emeritus); Ph.D., Yale

Nancy G. Diaz, Spanish (Newark); Ph.D., Rutgers

Peter Guarnaccia, Human Ecology; Ph.D., Connecticut

Robert R. Kaufman, Political Science; Ph.D., Harvard

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Spanish and Portuguese, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies; Ph.D., Columbia

Elpidio Laguna-Díaz, Classical and Modern Languages (Newark); Ph.D., CUNY (Graduate Center)

Jorge Marcone, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Texas

Luis Martínez-Fernández, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies; Ph.D., Duke

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Gabriela Mora, Spanish and Portuguese (Emerita); Ph.D., Smith

Carlos Raúl Narváez, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Columbia

Isabel Nazario, Center for Latino Arts and Culture; M.F.A., CUNY (Queens College)

Julio Nazario, Assistant Dean forAcademic Programs, Livingston College; M.F.A., Rutgers (Mason Gross School of the Arts)

Margaret H. Persin, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Indiana

Ana Yolanda Ramos, Anthropology and Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies; Ph.D., Columbia

Geisa Rocha, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Ph.D., CUNY

Asela Rodríguez de Laguna, Classical and Modern Languages (Newark); Ph.D., Illinois

Phillip Rothwell, Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics; Ph.D., Cambridge

Thomas Rudel, Human Ecology; Ph.D., Yale

Liliana Sanchez, Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics; Ph.D., Southern California

Marcy Schwartz, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

Benigno Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Yale

Adolfo Snaidas, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Rutgers

Thomas M. Stephens, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Michigan

Camilla Stevens, Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D., Kansas

Gail Triner-Besosa, History; Ph.D., Columbia

Lourdes Vázquez, Latin America, Africa, and Anthropology Librarian; M.A., New York

Olga J. Wagenheim, History (Newark) (Emerita); Ph.D., Rutgers

Silvio Waisbord, Communications; Ph.D., California (San Diego)

Mark Wasserman, History; Ph.D., Chicago

Carmen T. Whalen, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies; Ph.D., Rutgers

Eugene N. White, Economics; Ph.D., Illinois

The program in Latin American studies of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is dedicated to academic preparation in the areas of literature, political science, social sciences, history, art, and economics. In these domains, the program encourages consideration of philosophies through which Latin America and the United States can maintain a two-way dialogue that contributes to the mutual enrichment of each. Issues of importance include diversity among Latin American countries; the resurgence of violence; and other themes of interest to future intellectuals, politicians, economists, academicians, and specialists in the humanities.