Berkeley
Berkeley
Aggarwal, Vinod
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Comparative regionalism in Europe, North America,
and Asia. International systems. Multinational corporations
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-2817, 642-6323, 643-1071
Berkeley
Collier, David
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Comparative politics. Latin America. Methodology.
Conceptualization and measurement. Causal assessment and qualitative
research. Regime change and democratization.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-8168, 642-6323
dcollier@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Collier, Ruth
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Comparative politics. Latin America. Regime
change and democratization Mexican politics. Labor politics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-8019, 642-6323
rcollier@socs.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Enríquez, Laura
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Development in Latin America. Rural sociology.
Political sociology. Social movements.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-2502 - 642-4766
enriquez@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Grosfoguel, Ramón
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Caribbean migration. Latinos in the U.S. Global
cities. Political economy of the Caribbean and Latin America
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3037
grosfogu@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Herrera, Rafael
Director - Admissions
Areas of Expertise: Community mental health. Crisis intervention.
Brief psychotherapy. Disaster mental health services.
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-0766 642-4341
rafa@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Hintzen, Percy
Associate Professor - Political Sociology
Areas of Expertise: Social change
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-0393, 642-7084
phintzen@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
La France, Jefrrey
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Food policy.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510- 643-5416
lafrance@are.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
Berkeley
Watts, Michael
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Political economy and ecology. Africa and South
Asia. Development. Peasant societies. Social and cultural theory.
U.S. agriculture. Islam and social movements
Languages: English
Phone:
mwatts@socrates.berkeley.edu
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Davis
Davis
Smith, Michael P.
Professor Human and Community Development
Areas of Expertise: professor of human and community development
at UC Davis and a faculty associate of the California Studies Center
at UC Berkeley. Expertise: Professor Smith has researched and written
extensively on the political economy of urbanization, racial and
ethnic formation, immigration, globalization and transnationalism.
During the past decade, he has been studying the impact of transnational
economic, socio-cultural and political practices of people and networks
that link cities and regions in California to other communities
and regions across the globe. These sites for research include San
Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, Napa, the Silicon Valley and Los
Angeles.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-2243
mpsmith@ucdavis.edu
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Irvine
Irvine
Bedolla, Lisa Garcia
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: American Politics, Chicana/Latina Politics and
Policy
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-9298
lgarciab@uci.edu
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
Irvine
Sereseres, Caesar D.
Associate Professor - Political Science/Associate Dean of Undergraduate
Studies
Areas of Expertise: U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Latin American Relations,
Mexican-American Politics, National Security Issues, Coercive Diplomacy
and Political Violence.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:949-824-6334
cdserese@uci.edu
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Gonzalez, Edward
Professor Emeritus - Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Cuba
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4331
Los Angeles
Rocco, Raymond
Associate Professor - Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Political Science
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-9282
rocco@polisci.ucla.edu
Los Angeles
Sawyer, Mark
Assistant Professor - Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Race, politics, African diaspora, Cuba Recently
organized a conference about the African presence in Latin America.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-6629
msawyer@polisci.ucla.edu
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
Los Angeles
Vigil, James Diego
Professor - Anthropology/Director - Center for the Study of Urban
Poverty
Areas of Expertise: Urban anthropology, psychological anthropology,
sociocultural change, socialization and educational anthropology,
comparative ethnicity; Mexico and United States Southwest Ethnohistory.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4997
vigil@ucla.edu
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Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
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Riverside
Riverside
Pion-Berlin, David
Professor - Political Science
Areas of Expertise: Political repression and human rights, military
rule, military political thought, and civil-military relations,
most notably in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru).
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4606
pion@wizard.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
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
Santa Barbara
Barvosa-Carter, Edwina
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Contemporary, Social and Political Theory, Intellectual
History, and Chicana/o Studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-5546
barvosa@chicst.ucsb.edu
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Alvarez, Sonia E.
Associate Professor - Politics
Areas of Expertise: Latin American politics, the politics of gender,
comparative political development, feminist theory, social movements,
democratization, contemporary democratic theory, civil society.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-2567, 459-2855
soniaa@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Borrego, John G.
Professor - Latin American/Latino Studies
Areas of Expertise: Global political economy, national development,
urban and regional planning, community organizing, social change,
ethnic minorities, Mexico and the Southwest.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-45 9-4430, 459-2855
borrego@cats.ucsc.edu
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
jafox@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Goldfrank, Walter L.
Professor - Sociology
Areas of Expertise: Social change, historical sociology, world systems,
modern Mexico, Chile, social movements and revolution, development
theories, policies and outcomes.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4461, 459-3516
wally@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Goodman, David
Professor - Environmental Studies
Areas of Expertise: Political economy of international environmental
issues, global agri-food systems, technology, North-South relations
and sustainable development, Brazilian economy and society.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4561, 459-3517
hatters@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Jonas, Susanne
Lecturer - Latin American/Latino Studies
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Latin American politics, contemporary
Central America, Latin American immigration and Latino communities
in the U.S., Central American binational organizing, U.S.-Latin
American cross-border issues, U.S. foreign policy in Latin America,
the Left in Latin America, comparative peace processes in Central
America and world wide.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3232, 459-2855
sjonas@cats.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Klahn, Norma
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Latin American literary and cultural studies
(specialization: Mexico), Chicano/Latino literature and culture
from a cross-border perspective, popular culture and the novel,
poetics and politics, fiction and history, nation and narration,
cultural and feminist theories.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-3452
nklahn@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
