Berkeley
Berkeley
de Janvry, Alain
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Economic planning. Poverty. Agricultural and
rural development policy
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3348, 642-3345
alain@are.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Economic development. Macroeconomic and agricultural
policies. Quantitative analysis and economic models. Contract theory.
Household and community behavior.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-7225, 642-3345
sadoulet@are.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Saragoza, Alex
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Concentration of wealth and power in Mexico.
Mexican migration Transnational ideology and representation
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2519, 643-0796
alexsara@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Spiller, Pablo
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Industrial organization. Political economy.
Economy of Regulation and Antitrust. Regulatory issues in development
countries.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-1502
spiller@haas.berkeley.edu
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Davis
Davis/Cooperative Extension
Cook, Roberta
Economist
Area of Expertise: Food distribution; fruit and vegetable marketing;
consumer demand, cooperatives
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-1531
rlcook@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Feenstra, Robert
Professor - Economics
Areas of Expertise: His research interests focus on indigenous peoples,
economic and political development, indigenous transnational migration
to the U.S. and California, and critical theory of cultural pluralism
in Mexico and Latin America. Researcher for the National Institute
of Anthropology and History. Director of the Regional Unit of Popular
Cultures. In the late 1990s, under the sponsorship of the International
Fund for Agricultural Development, he co-authored with UC Berkeley's
professor Alain de Janvry a study on the impact of 1992 agricultural
reforms on peasants and indigenous peoples of Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:530-752-0357, 752-3237
svarese@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Lindert, Peter
Professor of Economics
Areas of Expertise: Historical trends in the inequality of income,
wealth and living standards in the United States since the 18th
century, as well as social programs and the welfare state. The director
of the Agricultural History Center at UC Davis, he is co-author
of "American Inequality: A Macroeconomic History," which introduced
improved measures of the quality-of-life changes associated with
industrialization. President of the Economic History Association
for 2001-02, he is writing a book on safety nets and economic growth
since Adam Smith.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-1983
phlindert@ucdavis.edu.
Davis
Martin, Philip
Professor-Agricultural\Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise: Professor Martin is an authority on migration
and labor issues, particularly agricultural labor. He can discuss
labor and migration as they affect U.S. and Mexico relations. He
has published extensively on labor, migration, economic development
and immigration policy issues and has testified before Congress
and state and local agencies on those issues. He recently co-authored
a report urging California policy-makers to develop strategies that
will encourage and hasten the integration of immigrants into the
state's economy and society.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-1530
plmartin@ucdavis.edu
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Irvine
Irvine
Sandholtz, Wayne
Professor - Political Science/Director of the Center for Global
Peace and Conflict Studies
Areas of Expertise: International Relations, Political Corruption,
European Union.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-5726
wsandhol@uci.edu
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles
de la Torre, Jose
Professor - Management
Areas of Expertise: International business. He is the director of
the Center for International Business Education and Research.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4507, 310-206-8518
jose.de.la.torre@anderson.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Edwards, Sebastian
Professor - Economics; Anderson Graduate School of Management
Areas of Expertise: International development
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-206-6797, 310-825-2507
sebastian.edwards@anderson.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Harberger, Arnold C.
Professor - Economics
Areas of Expertise: Public finance, economic development, international
economics, problems of economic policy in developing countries,
analysis of efficiency and incidence effect of taxation, cost-benefit
analysis of investment projects, public policy research.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-7520, 310-825-1011
Los Angeles
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul
Professor - Urban Planning/Founding director of UCLA's North American
and Integration Center
Areas of Expertise: Politics, political economy of regional integration
dynamics in various parts of the world, including debt, trade and
migration and relations between the U.S., Mexico and other Latin
American countries, NAFTA and the World Bank.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-8956, 310-206-4609, 310-206-4611
hinojosa@ucla.edu
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Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
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Riverside
Riverside
González-Rivera, Gloria
Associate Professor - Economics
Areas of Expertise: Econometrics. Professor Gonzalez-Rivera's research
and teaching interests are in Econometrics, Time Series Analysis
(theoretical and applied), Applied Econometrics in Finance and Economic
Development.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5037 x1590
ggonzale@galaxy.ucr.edu
Riverside
Khoury, Sarkis Joseph
Professor - Finance/International Finance
Areas of Expertise: He can answer questions on the effects of the
bombings on the US stock market and specifically on foreign exchange
markets. He has written extensively on international banking issues
and on international investing. He is fluent in Arabic, French and
Spanish, as well as English. He has consulted in the Middle East
and published in "The Middle East Business." He earned his Ph.D.
at the Wharton Graduate Division, University of Pennsylvania. He
also earned a degree with distinction at Centre Belge Beirut, Lebanon.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-3750
sarkis.khoury@ucr.edu
Riverside
Velez-Ibañez, Carlos
Professor - Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Work in urban Mexico, in the Southwestern United
States, and in Puerto Rico. The development of cultural "funds of
knowledge" at different levels: household, community, region, and
in non-physical localities. Questions of adaptation, the distribution
of sadness, the emergence of social networks and language change,
economic and technical shifts within the structure of households,
and the migration of human populations.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-5018
carlos.velez@ucr.edu
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San Diego
San Diego
Feinberg, Richard E.
Professor - International Political Economy
Areas of Expertise: Feinberg is an authority on U.S. foreign policy,
multilateral institutions (IMF, World Bank, NAFTA) and summitry
(APEC, Summitry in the Americas, G-8). He is an expert on trade
and investment, globalization, democratization and non-governmental
organizations. Feinberg can comment on U.S. foreign policy matters,
notably with regard to Latin America and Asia, and business and
economic matters.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-534-7627
rfeinberg@ucsd.edu
San Diego
Hanson, Gordon H.
Areas of Expertise: Hanson is an authority on international investment,
migration, and trade. Current Projects: Hanson's major research
areas are the impact of NAFTA on the U.S. and Mexican economies,
outsourcing in the global economy, and illegal immigration in the
United States.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-822-5087
gohanson@ucsd.edu
San Diego
Shugart, Matthew
Professor - Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Shugart is an authority on issues of constitutional
design and electoral rules.His current research focuses on the interrelations
between political and economic reform and how political institutions
affect the propensity of governments to provide "public goods."
This interest has grown out of his role as an adviser to several
constitutional or electoral-law drafting committees, including those
in Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Eritrea, Estonia and Fiji.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-534-5016
mshugart@ucsd.edu
San Diego
Woodruff, Christopher
Assistant Professor - Graduate School - International Relations/Pacific
Studies (IR/PS)
Areas of Expertise: Woodruff's primary research focuses on the challenges
faced by small and medium sized firms in developing and transition
economies. Woodruff studies how dysfunctional legal systems make
formal contracting impossible, how inadequate financial systems
limit access to financial capital, and how corruption makes retention
of profits difficult. Geographically, his research spans a broad
area of the developing world - Mexico, Vietnam and Eastern Europe.In
one current project, Woodruff examines the sources of financial
capital for small firms in Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:858-534-0590
cwoodruff@ucsd.edu
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San Francisco
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Santa Barbara
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Fox, Jonathan
Professor/Chair - Latin American/Latino Studies
Areas of Expertise: Latin American and Latino politics, democratization,
social movements; transnational civil society coalitions with an
emphasis on social and environmental policy issues in Mexico, Brazil,
Philippines, and Central America.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5897
Santa Cruz
Kletzer, Kenneth
Professor - Economics
Areas of Expertise: International economics, economic theory, economic
development.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3407
kkletzer@cats.ucsc.edu
jafox@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Pastor, Jr., Manuel
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
Areas of Expertise: Macroeconomic stabilization in Latin America;
distribution, democracy, and growth in the developing world; Cuban
economic reform; Mexican economic reform; urban poverty and regional
development; Latinos in the urban U.S.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-5919
mpastor@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Rotkin, Michael
Lecturer - Community Studies
Areas of Expertise: Marxist theory, capitalist system, community
organizing, electoral politics, media, government programs, community
power structure, institutional analysis, affirmative action programs.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4601, 459-3516
openup@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Shapiro, Helen
Associate Professor - Sociology
Areas of Expertise: Political economy, Latin American economic history
and development (with an emphasis on Brazil), industrial policy,
the auto industry, the state and transnational corporations.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3432
hshapiro@cats.ucsc.edu
Cooperative Extension
Cooperative Extension
Billikopf-Encina, Gregorio
Farm Advisor, Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties
Area of Expertise: Labor management in agriculture; employee selection;
pay &
Incentives; negotiation & conflict management; discipline & termination;
supervisory skills training; interpersonal communications on the
job
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (209) 525-6800
gebillikopf@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Fouche, Benny
Farm Advisor, San Joaquin County
Area of Expertise: Small farms operations and specialty crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (209) 468-2085
bfouche@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Gaskell, Mark
Farm Advisor, Santa Barbara County
Area of expertise: Vegetables, specialty crops, small farms, sustainable
agriculture, marketing, small fruits
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 934-6240
mlgaskell@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
González, Refugio A.
CE Specialist, Imperial County
Area of Expertise: Farm marketing; personnel management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 352-9474
ragonzalez@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Larson, Kirk D.
CE Specialist, South Coast Research & Extension Center
Area of Expertise: Commercial strawberry production in California,
Mexico and Latin America; strawberry breeding; environmental factors
regulating growth and development of strawberries; pesticide use
and safety; methyl bromide; soil fumigation; global strawberry
market
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (949) 857-0136
kdlarson@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Lobo, Ramiro
Farm Advisor, San Diego County
Area of Expertise: Farm management, marketing, agricultural economics,
agricultural tourism, small farms, new/specialty crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (858) 694-3666
relobo@ucdavis.edu
