CLACS Faculty

Thomas A. Abercrombie
thomas.abercrombie@nyu.edu
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986
Specialties: Cultural history/historical anthropology, colonized societies, postcolonial situations, nationalism, cultural performance, narrative, Gender and Sexuality; Andes, Spain.
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Jorge Castañeda
jorge.castaneda@nyu.edu
Global Distinguished Professor, Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Ph.D., University of Paris, 1978
Specialties: Inter-American relations; Mexican politics; Latin American politics
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Odi Gonzales
Language Lecturer, CLACS and Dept. of Spanish
ABD/Candidate to PhD, University of Maryland (Department of Spanish and Portuguese).
M.A. Latin American Literature. University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
Licenciado in Latin American Literature and Linguistics. Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, Arequipa, Perù, 1985
Specialities: Quechua oral tradition; Interaction between Quechua Orality and Latin American Literature; Study, Transcription and Translation of Quechua oral tradition heritage; Comparative studies about ancient andean myths, tales, songs; Quechua poetry.
Author, Urban Virgins. Pictures and poems. Ana de Orbegoso and Odi Gonzales. Trilingual edition: Quechua, Spanish, English. Lima, Peru,2007; La escuela de Cusco. Textos sobre los pintores indìgenas de Cusco, siglo XVII. Ediciones El Santo Oficio. Lima, Perú, 2005;
Tunupa/Siren’s book(poetry). Co-edition: El Santo Oficio de Lima, Perú, and National Foreign Language Center, USA. Trilingual edition: Spanish, Quechua, English. 2002;
Taki parwa/22 poemas de Kilku Waraka. Study and translation of Andres Alencastres’s Quechua poetry.  Ediciones Municipalidad del Cusco, Perú, 2000; El Quijote en Quechua. Estudio sobre la versiòn Quechua del Ingenioso Hidalgo don Quijote. Primera Revista Latinoamericana. No. 1. New York, Octubre 2007; Sobre Dioses y hombres de Huarochiri, el primer libro quechua de los Andes. Primera Revista Latinoamericana. No. 2. New York, Lima Peru, 2008.

Carmen Medeiros
cm88@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor, CLACS
Ph.D., City University of NY, 2005
Specialities: Andean Studies, critical development theory, indigenous movements, multicultural citizenship, neo-liberal project, post-colonial theory.

Rafael Sanchez
rs193@nyu.edu
Assistant Professor, CLACS
Ph.D., New York University, 2004
Specialities: religion and state, colonial/post-colonial theory, nationalism, media, modernity and Latin American history

Patricio Navia
pdn200@nyu.edu
Master Teacher, General Studies Program, NYU
Ph.D., New York University, 2003
Specialties: Electoral Systems, Democratization and Democratic Institutions
Author: Las Grandes Alamedas: El Chile Post Pinochet (Mondadori, 2004); "The Politics of Second Generation Reforms in Latin America" (with Andrés Velasco) in Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and John Williamson (eds.), After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America (Washington: Institute for International Economics, March 2003); "The Trials of Pinochet", Foreign Policy, May-June 2003; "Democracy, Dictatorship and Infant Mortality Revisited", Journal of Democracy, 14.3 (July), 2003; "From Politics by Individuals to Party Militancy: Socialization, Political Competition and Electoral Growth of the Chilean UDI (1989-2001)" (with Alfredo Joignant), forthcoming in Kay Lawson and Peter Merkl (eds), When Parties Prosper (2002). "Democracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality" [with Thomas D. Zweifel] Journal of Democracy 11.2 (2000) 99-114; "Fair Play at Voting Precincts: A Comparison of Mexican and Chilean Elections" Democratisation, Volume 7.1 (Spring 2000).

George Yúdice
gy2@nyu.edu
Professor, Spanish, Social and Cultural Anaylsis
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1977
Specialties: Latin American literature and culture
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CLACS Staff

Thomas A. Abercrombie
thomas.abercrombie@nyu.edu
Director, CLACS
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1986

Maritza E. Colón
maritza.colon@nyu.edu
Assistant Director and Outreach Coordinator, CLACS
M.A. New York University, 1999

Carolina Fermín Lora
cf62@nyu.edu
Administrative Secretary , CLACS
B.A. Education, Universidad Católica de Santo Domingo, DR

Jeremy S. Tanner
jst293@nyu.edu
Graduate Assistant, CLACS

Maryann Talavera
maryann.talavera@nyu.edu
Graduate Assistant, CLACS

Angela Carreño
amc1@nyu.edu
Latin American Bibliographer, Bobst Library
M.L.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1981;
M.A., History, The Johns Hopkins University, 1983