Dr. Daniel James holds the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History. Dr. James is the author of Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1976 (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and Doña Maria's Story: Life History, Memory and Political Identity (Duke University Press, 2000). Daniel James has also written many articles on collective memory and oral history in Latin America, labor and gender history in the Southern Cone, and modern Argentine history. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

Dr. Jeffrey Gould is the James H. Rudy Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies. He has written extensively on Central American oral history, labor history, rural social movements, and ethnicity. His most recent books are To Die This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965, (Duke University Press, 1998) and To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory, El Salvador 1920-32 (co-authored with Aldo Lauria; Duke University Press, 2008). He has co-produced and co-directed a film, "Scars of Memory: El Salvador, 1932," which received the Award of Merit, from the Latin American Studies Association. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.

Dr. Peter Guardino is Professor in the Department of History. His research focuses on peasant movements, nationalism, and popular political culture in eighteenth and nineteenth century Mexico. He is the author of Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State: Guerrero, 1800-1857, (Stanford University Press, 1996) and The Time of Liberty: Popular Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850 (Duke University Press, 2005) as well as various articles. Dr. Guardino is currently working on a cultural history of the 1846-48 Mexican-American War.

Dr. Arlene J. Diaz is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of Latino Studies. She works on gender, social, and legal history in eighteenth to early twentieth century Latin America. She has published articles on the history of Venezuela, the Spanish Caribbean, and Brazil. Her book, Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904 was published by Nebraska University Press in 2004. She is currently researching on the discourse of equality in Venezuela during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and on a creative work on María Antonia Bolívar.

Dr. John Nieto-Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of History and in Latino Studies. He is interested in the varied ways Latinas and Latinos have responded to colonialism, imperialism and shifting boundaries of citizenship. With Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, he co-edited Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends (Univ. New Mexico, 2005). His book, The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880-1940s, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2004. His current book project involves a comparison of twentieth-century "Americanization" campaigns in New Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Dr. Kathleen Myers is Professor of Spanish and Adjunct Professor of History. She is a specialist in colonial and gender history. She has produced three books on colonial Latin American women writers: Word from New Spain: the Spiritual Autobiography of María de San José (1656-1719). (TRAC, Liverpool University Press, 1993); A Wild Country out in the Garden: The Spiritual Journals of a Colonial Mexican Nun (co-authored with Amanda Powell and published by Indiana University Press, 1999) and Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America (Oxford University Press, 2003). She is also the author of Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America: New World, New History (University of Texas Press, 2007).

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Dr. Matthew Pratt Guterl is an Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Director of American Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor in History. He is the author of The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Harvard, 2001), which was named the Best Book of 2001 on the History of Race and Ethnicity by the American Political Science Association, and American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard, 2008), which explores the connections between the South and the Caribbean. He is presently working on a history of Josephine Baker's adoptive family, emphasizing her connections to Latin American history.

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Dr. Lessie Jo Frazier is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor in History, Anthropology, and Cultural Studies. She is the author of Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence and the Nation-State, in Chile, 1890-Present (Duke 2007) and co-editor of Gender’s Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America (Palgrave 2002) and Love-In, Love-Out: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in 1968 (forthcoming with Palgrave). Her research on political cultures of the Americas has focussed on Chile and Mexico. On Chile, she is currently writing Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture. On Mexico, her collaborative research with Dr. Deborah Cohen has resulted in “Defining the space of the movement: “Defining the Space of Mexico 1968: Heroic masculinity in the prison, and women’s participation on the campus and street” (Hispanic American Historical Review 2003) and a book project extending that work on 1968 and its legacies in Mexican political culture.

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Dr. Luis A. González is the Bibliographer for Latin American Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, and Latino Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in History. He has published in the fields of Brazilian agrarian, social, and socio-legal history, and in Latin American Studies librarianship. Selected publications include several articles in the revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, edited by J. Kinsbruner and E. Langer (2008); “Conmemoraciones de la libertad: el 13 de mayo en el discurso varguista." Op. Cit. Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas 16 (2005), and “Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1950,” in Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times, edited by R. Salvatore, C. Aguirre, and G. Joseph (2001).

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Dr. Eden Medina is Assistant Professor of Informatics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History. Her research bridges the history of technology and the history of Latin America and asks how studies of technology can enrich our understanding of broader historical processes. Her current project "Cybernetic Socialism: The Untold Story of the Chilean Revolution," investigates how computers became tools of revolution during the government of Salvador Allende (1970-1973). Her publications include, "Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile," Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006): 571-606, which received the 2007 IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History. She is the recipient of a 2007-2008 Scholar's Award from the National Science Foundation.

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